Re: Support showing stars as pretty bullets

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:

> The issue I see with putting it into org-art.el is that users won't be
> able to just call M-x prettify-symbols-mode in an org buffer. They'll
> have to do something like
>
> (require 'org-art)
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-art-prettify)

I don't think users should call M-x prettify-symbols-mode. Instead, they
could call `org-art-prettify-buffer', an autoloaded function, which
would properly initialize `prettify-symbols-mode' and so on. What
mechanism is behind prettification is not important.

BTW, we could have a defcustom listings all eye candy
`org-art-prettify-buffer' -- or simply `org-prettify-buffer' if the
library is called "org-prettify" -- could do (e.g., headlines,
bullets...).

> prettify-symbols-alist isn't, so I don't think this should be either.

Of course. But Org users may want to control what symbol is used.
Anyway, I don't have a strong opinion about it.

>>> +(defun org-pretty-compose-p (start end match)
>>> +  "Return t if the symbol should be prettified.
>>
>> "Non-nil if symbol between START and END should be prettified.
>> MATCH is ..."
>
> Sure thing

Actually, I was mistaken: this is a function, not a variable. So, it
should be more like:

  Return non-nil when symbol between START and END is to be prettified.

>> Can it be tested somehow?
>
> I'll look into it

Thank you.

Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738