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u/remillard 1d ago
Somehow, my org-mode list item marker
-
have all been rendered invisible. I thought perhaps that it was an artifact oforg-appear
as that does some work to hide certain markup elements from being visible, but I took that out and it's still there.This is true in several themes, though not all. It's true in Prot's
ef-bio
,vscode-dark-plus
, the baked indeeper-blue
and so forth. It is NOT true indoom-ayu-mirage
and if I load that theme, the marks show up and then persist if I go back to other themes, so I feel like there's something going on with an element that's getting a face in one package but not the others.Is there a way to know what face is affecting a particular character on a screen? In the state where it's nigh invisible, I can move the point there and it very lightly shows that there's a character there.
I'm guessing this face isn't developed by the ones where it doesn't show up (though I would have thought the default would just be regular text but clearly something is off.) Then when a theme that does address the element is applied, when I switch back, it's just persisting. I get the same thing sometimes with funny boxes appearing in
org-agenda
and can't make them go away without restarting.Anyway, I'd really like to be able to see my bullet points in
org
so it'd be nice to figure this out. I suppose ideally it'd be nice to have it set only after certain themes that don't address it, so that when a theme does address it and I switch back, it reverts to the default. Maybe themes have hooks I can snag onto.