Hi Dan, Nicolas and list, In my previous mail I wrote about using (and upgrading it for use with the latest version of org-mode) Nicolas Girard's org-icons package, see: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.emacs.orgmode&article=44834 I've tried to contact Nicolas Girard (via e-mail and a google search). But I have not heard back from him as yet. When I checked the github for org-icons again I discovered that there was a second branch by Dan Davison. https://github.com/ngirard/org-icons/tree/dan Dan, Do you know how I can get in contact with Nicolas? Or do you have access to the github for org-icons, so that it's code can be updated to work with the latest version of org-mode? Did you and Nicolas ever think about including org-icons into org-mode? As for me, I'm happily using org-icons with org-mode 7.7, I've attached a new and updated patch file that works on the latest org.el Copy the patch "org-icons.patch" to the directory where you keep your "org.el" cd to that directory And then apply the patch like this: patch -b org.el org-icons.patch Of-course, if neither of you has the time to work on org-icons... I could make a fork of the git repo, and make the changes myself. However, I do not have much elisp knowledge... Ciao, Renzo On 25 July 2011 12:12, Renzo Been wrote: > Bastien altern.org> writes: >> Hi Philipp, >> Philipp Haselwarter gmx.de> writes: >> > Is there any particular reason for it to be hardcoded? Apart from the >> > fact that /well it just is this way right now/ I mean. >> Nothing carved in stone, but here are the two reasons I see: >> - we don't want users to use arbitrary regexp to match headlines as they >>   are very likely to shoot themselves in the foot (Harven's example of >>   using "-" instead of "*" is a good example of that.) >> - Given this, I am not able to imagine a good way of limiting the number >>   of allowed characters. >> > That'd be useful information for anyone interested in changing it. >> I'd interested in any solution to the problems above. >> > Then >> > you can still just tell them to write a patch if they care that much >> > ('cause even in org-mode-land patches don't write themselves just yet) >> :) >> > [I just had the most awesome idea for a feature request]. >> Please share! >> > If it's "just" about inheriting from a variable in some 300 places it >> > could at least be discussed. >> Yep -- if you have the energy to go through the code and see where it is >> hardcoded while it should not, please do. >> Thanks, > Hi, > I was just thinking... If you want to change the "look" of the > org-headlines. Does one really need to change the code? > I have been using Nicolas Girard's org-icons package for quite a while. And > that makes org-buffers look pretty nice. You can even customise the icons, to > make it look the way you want. > However, some things about the org-icons package... It seems to be a little > outdated.  Are there many org-moders out there still using it?  Were there > ever any plans to include it in the org-distribution? Right now it needs to be > installed by hand, because the patch to org.el is outdated...  Also, I need to > load it two times in my .emacs before the icons work... > Ciao, > Renzo > The org-icons can be found here: > Download from Nicolas Girard's github > http://github.com/ngirard/org-icons > On the Worg site I could only find screenshots, no other information... > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-screenshots.html > The list-message announcement for org-icons > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zl2962um.fsf%40stats.ox.ac.uk%3e > And some list-messages discussing including the org-icons-patch into org-mode > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zlbx3kvf.fsf%40kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ%3e