Org appearance
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This page is about customizing the appearance of Org-mode.
Customizing Org appearance
To customize all aspects of Org appearance use
=M-x customize-group RET org-appearance RET=
Here you will find several options that can be chaged, and a further link to a page for customizing .
Customize Org-mode faces
A "face" is the term emacs uses to refer to the font and colour of some text (as well as other features such as underlining etc).
Customizing Org faces is straightforward:
=M-x customize-group RET org-faces RET=
You can also customize faces on the fly by just calling the
customize-face command with the cursor on the face you want to
customize.
Hiding leading stars
the variable org-hide-leading-stars can be configured so that only one star is shown at the start of each heading. Many people find that this give the org buffer a cleaner appearance. This can be set in the Org Font Lock customize group as explained above in .
Customizing the title, date, author and email lines.
The title, date and author information for an org document are
specified using the special keywords #+TITLE:, #+DATE,
#+AUTHOR, #+EMAIL.
By default, title, author, date and email lines appear in dark blue with the initial keywords greyed out. The title is in a larger font than the others. To change this, customize the faces
- org-document-title
- org-document-info
- org-document-info-keyword
In addition, the variable org-hidden-keywords can be used to make the corresponding keywords disappear.
Using only odd outline levels
The variable org-odd-levels-only can be used so that Org only uses odd-numbered outline levels. Again, some people prefer this, finding that the Org buffer looks less cluttered.
Org-mode ready color-themes
Check out the list of color themes that are aware of org-mode.