Re: Can't turn off hide-stars

[Ag Ibragimov <agzam.ibragimov@gmail.com>]

Have you tried tweaking org-hide face? Maybe the problem is with the font you use, is it monospaced?

On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 22:40, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have searched high and low through my init/config and I can't find where
> orgmode is suppressing the display of leading asterisks of headings. I've
> got org-hide-leading-stars set to nil -- but it turns itself back on
> whenever I open an org file. I can start a clean, blank org file (no
> #+STARTUP hidestars/showstars) and create a few headings -- to see, once
> again, the leading stars suppressed. My org-bullets is commented out in
> init-land. I try an emacs -Q and of course I have leading stars on
> sub-headings, however deep. Yes, it's something in my init/config, but I
> just can't find what's suppressing leading stars.
>
> The whole reason I'm trying to do this is I'm tinkering with babel SML and
> whenever I have a code block under a heading -- depending on the depth of
> the heading -- the SML code block can be mis-justified. And if I
> promote/demote the heading around with M-<right/left arrow> the SML code
> alignment dances around depending on the depth. I can do C-c ' and the
> alignment is perfect; but come back the org file and it's wonky. So if I
> set up an SML babel environment in an emacs -Q environment -- with leading
> starts -- no problem.
>
> This is maddening, to say the least. I need to turn off suppression or
> figure out why suppressed stars and babel SML blocks don't mix.
>
> LB