When a description list item has a checkbox, face 'org-checkbox
needs to occur before 'org-list-dt in the face list to have visible
effect. The attached patch reorders these two font lock keywords,
which are already applied consecutively.
From badf5e9567e1a6c60b3c2e7df8b495b449e33189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Valk <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 15:49:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure checkboxes are fontified in description list items
* lisp/org.el (org-set-font-lock-defaults): Reorder font lock keywords
to ensure the checkbox face has visible effect inside a definition
list item. Face 'org-checkbox needs priority over 'org-list-dt in the
face list when both are applied.
---
lisp/org.el | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index cb36497f4..818d73de2 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -6169,14 +6169,14 @@ needs to be inserted at a specific position in the font-lock sequence.")
;; Emphasis
;; `org-do-emphasis-faces' prepends faces
(when org-fontify-emphasized-text '(org-do-emphasis-faces))
+ ;; Description list items
+ '("\\(?:^[ \t]*[-+]\\|^[ \t]+[*]\\)[ \t]+\\(.*?[ \t]+::\\)\\([ \t]+\\|$\\)"
+ 1 'org-list-dt prepend)
;; Checkboxes
`(,org-list-full-item-re 3 'org-checkbox prepend lax)
(when (cdr (assq 'checkbox org-list-automatic-rules))
'("\\[\\([0-9]*%\\)\\]\\|\\[\\([0-9]*\\)/\\([0-9]*\\)\\]"
(0 (org-get-checkbox-statistics-face) prepend)))
- ;; Description list items
- '("\\(?:^[ \t]*[-+]\\|^[ \t]+[*]\\)[ \t]+\\(.*?[ \t]+::\\)\\([ \t]+\\|$\\)"
- 1 'org-list-dt prepend)
;; Inline export snippets
'("\\(@@\\)\\([a-z-]+:\\).*?\\(@@\\)"
(1 'font-lock-comment-face prepend)
base-commit: 53cec9e8635970a4fd844800f9a5ba5f85146224
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2.54.0
