This package implements a “modern” style for your Org buffers using font locking
and text properties. The package styles headlines, keywords, tables and source
blocks. The styling is configurable, you can enable, disable or modify the style
of each syntax element individually via the org-modern
customization group.
The screenshots shows example.org with org-modern-mode
turned on and off. The
elegant theme featured in the screenshot is modus-operandi.
This package is still early in its development, so expect bugs and issues in
particular due to unfortunate interactions of the variable-pitch
and fixed-pitch
fonts. You should ensure that your fonts combine harmonically and have
approximately the same height. org-modern-mode
tries to adjust the tag label
display based on the value of line-spacing
. This looks best if line-spacing
has
a value between 0.1 and 0.4 in the Org buffer. Note that org-indent-mode
interferes with some of the style elements applied by org-modern-mode
, e.g., the
block brackets in the fringe.
Bug reports, improvement or style proposals are welcome! Maybe some more Org elements deserve styling or alternative stylings should be offered?
The tag style of org-modern
is a poor Emacsien’s ripoff from Nicholas Rougier’s
beautiful svg-tag-mode. In contrast to svg-tag-mode
, this package avoids images
and uses cheap and fast Emacs box text properties. By only styling the text via
text properties, the styled text, e.g., dates or tags stay editable and are easy
to interact with.
On the downside, this restricts our flexibility and may lead to font-dependent
issues. We do our best, but for example there is no way we can get round
corners. Combining org-modern-mode
with svg-tag-mode
is possible. You can use
SVG tags and use the table and block styling from org-modern
. If you are
interested in further tweaks, Emacs comes with the builtin prettify-symbols-mode
which can be used for individual styling of custom keywords.
Another popular alternative is org-superstar, which has a more restricted
feature set and mainly adjusts headlines and lists. org-superstar
relies on
character composition, while org-modern
uses text properties, which are
considered more future-proof.
The package is available on MELPA. You can install it with package-install
if
you have the MELPA package repository activated. Then org-modern
can be enabled
manually in an Org buffer by invoking M-x org-modern-mode
. In order to enable
org-modern
for all your Org buffers, add org-modern-mode
to the Org mode hooks.
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-modern-mode)
Try the following minimal setup in emacs -Q
to emulate the looks of the
screenshot above.
;; Minimal UI
(package-initialize)
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode -1)
(scroll-bar-mode -1)
(modus-themes-load-operandi)
;; Choose some fonts
;; (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "???" :height)
;; (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "???" :height)
;; Add frame borders and window dividers
(modify-all-frames-parameters
'((right-divider-width . 40)
(internal-border-width . 40)))
(dolist (face '(window-divider
window-divider-first-pixel
window-divider-last-pixel))
(face-spec-reset-face face)
(set-face-foreground face (face-attribute 'default :background)))
(set-face-background 'fringe (face-attribute 'default :background))
;; Org settings
(setq org-hide-emphasis-markers t
org-pretty-entities t
org-ellipsis "…"
org-catch-invisible-edits 'show-and-error
org-special-ctrl-a/e t
org-insert-heading-respect-content t)
;; Enable org-modern-mode
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-modern-mode)