Re: Confusing interaction when typing leading * for headings when org-hide-emphasis-markers is on

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:

> I've got =(setq org-hide-emphasis-markers t)= in my config, and it's
> mostly great but it does confuse me when I manually start sub-sub
> headings. (Which perhaps is a silly thing to do, but getting over
> muscle memory is hard to change.) After typing the third =*= (and on
> any subsequent ones typed) the first and last asterisks are hidden and
> the remaining appear bolded, until I type a space when what I'm typing
> is suddenly recognised as a heading and snaps back to displaying all
> the typed asterisks as expected.
>
> I couldn't figure out how to post a video, so visually, here is what
> I see. One character typed on each line (comments after =;=):
>
> : *
> : **
> : *      ; this is in bold
> : **     ; this is in bold
> : ****   ; asterisks no longer bold after typing a space
>
> I tried adding an asterisks to the BORDER characters in
> org-emphasis-regexp-components, but that didn't seem to help.

It is something to be expected with a non-nil
`org-hide-emphasis-markers'. "***" at the beginning of the line is
really a bold asterisk, whereas "*** " is a headline.

I suggest to use M-RET to circumvent the problem. You will quickly get
used to it.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou