* Currently the bullets get painted with background color on occasion.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra">* Overlays are easy to turn on/off. Same might be true for font-lock, I just haven&#39;t figured out a way. </div>

<div class="gmail_extra">* Org-bullets conflict with overlay-heavy modes (ex. org-columns). This probably won&#39;t be the case with font-lock. </div><div class="gmail_extra">* An important point is that in my version every character in text translates to a single character on display. Which makes it easier to work with headlines.</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In any case, I&#39;m open to the possibility that this approach might lead to a better/shorter solution.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra">
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Jambunathan K <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kjambunathan@gmail.com" target="_blank">kjambunathan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I think what the package does can be achieved by the following snippet<br>
or with minor tweaks to it.  Is my understanding correct?<br>
<br>
    (font-lock-add-keywords<br>
     &#39;org-mode `((&quot;\\(?:^\\(?1:\\*+\\)[[:blank:]]\\)&quot;<br>
                  (0 (progn (compose-region<br>
                             (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)<br>
                             (pcase (length (match-string 1))<br>
                               (1 ?\u2219)<br>
                               (2 ?\u2022)<br>
                               (3 ?\u25c9)<br>
                               (_ ?\u25CB)))<br>
                            nil)))))</div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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