Ihor,

Awesome, thanks for the tip. Using your code, the following config (inside the code from https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html) produces a display with the backticks instead of begin/end_src:

      (defun yant/str-to-glyph (str)

        "Transform string into glyph, displayed correctly."

        (let ((composition nil))

          (dolist (char (string-to-list str)

                        (nreverse (cdr composition)))

            (push char composition)

            (push '(Br . Bl) composition))))

      (defun rasmus/org-prettify-symbols ()

        (mapc (apply-partially 'add-to-list 'prettify-symbols-alist)

              (cl-reduce 'append

                         (mapcar (lambda (x) (list x (cons (upcase (car x)) (cdr x))))

                                 `(("#+begin_src" . ,(yant/str-to-glyph "```")) ;; ⎡ ➤ 🖝 ➟ ➤ ✎

                                   ("#+end_src"   . ,(yant/str-to-glyph "```")) ;; ⎣ ✐

                                   ("#+header:" . ,rasmus/ob-header-symbol)

                                   ("#+begin_quote" . ?«)

                                   ("#+end_quote" . ?»)))))

        (turn-on-prettify-symbols-mode)

        (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'rasmus/org-prettify-src t t))

It looks like this in my config (the bars hide the header arguments):

--Diego

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:19 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> I did a quick test, and it seems
> that =prettify-symbols-alist= (which is what this code uses) can only
> replace for a single character, so I was not able to make it display
> the three backticks, but there might be other techniques that can be
> used.

Yes, there is another technique.
See part of my config below:


  (defun yant/str-to-glyph (str)
    "Transform string into glyph, displayed correctly."
    (let ((composition nil))
      (dolist (char (string-to-list str)
                    (nreverse (cdr composition)))
        (push char composition)
        (push '(Br . Bl) composition))))

  (append pretty-symbol-patterns
        `(((yant/str-to-glyph " ") org-specific ,(format  "^\\(\\*\\{%d,%d\\}\\)\\*[^*]" (1- org-inlinetask-min-level) (1- org-inlinetask-max-level)) (org-mode) 1)
          ((yant/str-to-glyph "⇒⇒⇒") org-specific ,(format  "^\\(\\*\\{%d,%d\\}\\)\\(\\*\\)[^*]" (1- org-inlinetask-min-level) (1- org-inlinetask-max-level)) (org-mode) 2)
          (?╭ org-specific "^[ ]*#[+]NAME" (org-mode))
          (?╭ org-specific "^[ ]*#[+]name" (org-mode))
          (?├ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]begin_src" (org-mode))
          (?├ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]BEGIN_SRC" (org-mode))
          (?╰ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]end_src" (org-mode))
          (?╰ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]END_SRC" (org-mode))
          ((yant/str-to-glyph "📁📁📁") org-specific ":\\(ATTACH\\):" (org-mode) 1)
          ((yant/str-to-glyph "☠D") org-specific "\\<DEADLINE:" (org-mode))
          ((yant/str-to-glyph "◴S") org-specific "\\<SCHEDULED:" (org-mode))))

Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:

> Hi Daryl,
>
> If it's for display purposes only, you might be able to simply use
> display substitutions for things to appear the way you want. For
> example, I use the technique described here:
> https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html to replace the
> begin/end_src strings with symbols. I did a quick test, and it seems
> that =prettify-symbols-alist= (which is what this code uses) can only
> replace for a single character, so I was not able to make it display
> the three backticks, but there might be other techniques that can be
> used.
>
> --Diego
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:24 PM Daryl Manning <dwm+orgmode@wakatara.com> wrote:
>>
>> While using C-c C-, is easy enough for insertion and such, I was wondering if there was any way of having org-mode honour markdown conventions for things like code fences and quotes.
>>
>> ``` elisp
>> #+begin_src
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+begin_quote
>> #+end_quote
>> ```
>>
>> being a bit nicer to read with
>>
>> ``` go
>> code block
>> ```
>> as well as
>>
>> > And gentlemen in England now-a-bed.
>> > Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
>> > And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks.
>> > That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
>>
>> Just curious as to whether that's possible. YMMV before you start debating on whether you think this is a good idea or not... =]
>>
>> Of course, I'd want the code highlighting especially to work that way, though... =]  Less concerned with whether it works in export modes for the moment, more about display atm.
>>
>> thanks!
>> Daryl.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

--
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg