Re: Using org-entities to escape symbols

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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 <drymer@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.
>>


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