you might find this approach helpful: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/11/21/Insert-org-entities-into-org-mode-with-helm/
drymer writes: > Hi > I didn't explain myself. It inserts four *, as it didn't find the > entity. I'm using emacs 24.5.3 and org-mode 8.34, which is the maint > branch. I've also tried with plain emacs without configuration. > > Kaushal Modi: >>> >>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:28 PM drymer <dry...@autistici.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I evaluated the >>>> functions, and supposedly it should something like \ast when executing >>>> C-u *, but it doesn't happen. >>>> >>> >> I reread your initial email.. so look like you see nothing getting inserted >> when in do "C-u *"? That is odd. >> >> Can you do the following and see if things work as intended? If they do, >> then there's something conflicting with your config: >> >> 1. Launch emacs -Q >> 2. Paste the whole code block from >> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/16746/115 to the *scratch* buffer and >> evaluate it. >> 3. Do C-x b something.org >> 4. M-x org-mode >> 5. Hit "C-u *" >> 6. You should see an asterisk being displayed, which is actually a >> prettified version of "\ast{}" which is what actually got inserted. >> >> Also, please report your emacs and org-mode versions. I am using the latest >> build of emacs-25 branch from git and the latest build of org-mode master >> branch git. >> -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
