Highlighting list item bullets

Highlighting list item bullets

[Alex Helfet]

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I wanted syntax highlighting for list item bullets (e.g. '-') in my org
mode setup.

I have a very early prototype working and wanted some feedback about
whether you would be interested in this feature upstream, or perhaps
including it in a package would be a better bet.

The code is in a github gist:
https://gist.github.com/fluffysquirrels/1aaec7cab234893bfd46cdad721dda85

The code is rough but very short and readable. I have some test cases
working, with a screenshot of how they look on my machine.

Thanks!

Alex

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Re: Highlighting list item bullets

[Grant Rettke]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:25 AM Alex Helfet <alex.helfet@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a very early prototype working and wanted some feedback about whether you would be interested in this feature upstream, or perhaps
> including it in a package would be a better bet.

That looks great.

There are already more than a few snippets out there to do something
like that that but they all probably do it differently. For example
mine just because I wanted em-dashes

(font-lock-add-keywords
 'org-mode
 '(("^[[:space:]]*\\(-\\) "
    0 (prog1 () (compose-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1) "—")))))

So you've got my vote for putting it in a package: