Nicolas, I understand the dilemma. But then I must ask for a format enhancment. Before crying out loud please read my argumentation. Why did I create my own "fancy" markers? Because there is no default way to recreate the "Textmarker-Experience" - or at least I couldn't find any. All default emphasis markers recreate what I would call the "Ballpoint-Experience". This puzzles me because marking text on a piece of paper is one of the most basic things. Do I have a point here or not?
I just opened my pen-drawer and took out the text-markers. I found (the typical) neon-yellow, neon-green, neon-pink and neon-blue. How about adding four markers using something like "org-emphasis-colours-alist" and let the users be able to define the colours? Just one final remark: Tobias, the guy on stackexchange who helped me out here gave me a working solution, so I can live with that but currently I still think the "Textmarker-Experience" is missing in org-mode and should be inside it without any user defined functions. With kind regards, Jens Lange 2017-09-22 23:38 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr>: > Hello, > > Jens Lange <jens.lange...@gmail.com> writes: > > > "If they don't want items added to org-emphasis-alist they shouldn't use > > the repeat customization type which allows insertion and deletion. > > Furthermore, they should add a note about this restriction in the doc > > string of org-emphasis-alist. Maybe, you can give a follow-up in the > > bug-report about that." > > Indeed, the customize type needs to be fixed. Patch welcome! > > > So I did what he requested. He also provided me with a working solution. > > Even with that said I might ask if you could consider supporting adding > new > > emphasis definitions in the future? > > I'm not even sure about what you are talking about. > > Allowing to extend `org-emphasis-alist' with any marker means there is > not anymore a single Org format. Any one can define its own with fancy > markers. This is not portable.Besides, having syntax you cannot control > is asking for trouble. I'm totally against this idea. > > Org already provides 6 emphasis markers, which is enough in my book. > > On the other hand, you may be only interested in marking some text with > a special face in a buffer. Both Org and Emacs provide ways to do that > without messing with Org syntax. As pointed out in the thread, > `org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook' is one of them. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou > -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / With kind regards: Jens Lange
