Got it. Thanks.


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes.  We are clearly talking past each other.  You need to set the
> "org-hide" text style (or "face") so that it is the same color as your
> background.  Then the stars will appear invisible.
>
> This is explained in the section of the docs I linked to: "The leading
> stars are not truly replaced by whitespace, they are only fontified with
> the face org-hide that uses the background color as font color. If you are
> not using either white or black background, you may have to customize this
> face to get the wanted effect."
>
> Here's one way you might do that.  Do M-x apropos and then search for
> org-hide.  Click "org-hide" and then click "customize this face".  Then set
> the foreground color to be the same as your background color.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Josiah
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure how to customize this. I have tried different variations of
>>
>> #+STARTUP: hidestars
>> #+STARTUP: odd
>> #+STARTUP: oddeven
>>
>> but they don't seem to be working. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But did you try customizing the org-hide face?
>>>
>>> Josiah
>>> On Feb 28, 2014 7:14 PM, "Chris Henderson" <henders254@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've added (setq org-hide-leading-stars t) but still getting the
>>>> leading stars. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You may need to customize the org-hide face.
>>>>>
>>>>> See the section "Hiding Leading Stars" at
>>>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Clean-view.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Josiah
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to setup Org indent mode for cleaner view but the
>>>>>> preceding starts show up dimmed in grey color. How do I make them totally
>>>>>> invisible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've put this at the top of the .emacs:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (setq org-startup-indented t)
>>>>>> (setq org-indent-mode t)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and running emacs version 24.3.1 and org version 8.2.5 from the
>>>>>> command-line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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