Re: Support showing stars as pretty bullets

[Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>]

On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 13:47, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've written this patch that makes use of prettify-symbols-mode to show
>> the stars in org headings as nice UTF bullets. There's already
>> org-bullet-mode[1] but that seems to have been abandoned, plus it isn't
>> included in org mode itself.
>
> Is it abandoned, or simply complete? Org lists haven't changed for
> a while.

Seems abandoned. The author hasn't had any activity on github since May
2015. Several issues and PR's have accumulated. Mind you, it still works
well overall. Looking more into this, there's already been some
discussion about it: https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets/issues/18

> In any case, I don't think this belongs to "org.el" proper.

Why not, if you don't mind me asking? Other major modes (python, elisp,
and latex off the top of my head) setup prettify-symbols themselves.

> It could go into some "org-art.el" library (along with Org bullet mode,
> or something that would auto-number headlines) within the code base, or
> simply in GNU ELPA.

I'm fine putting it into org-XXX.el if you want. I didn't for now since
it's only a few lines of code.

Thanks for the comments!
Alex