change comment character to -

[holtzermann17]

#7 asks the same basic question, but for Literate Haskell. I'm interested in making changes for compatibility with Lean, where comments are:

-- like this
--- or even like this :-)

What's the best way to make --- the first header level and ---- etc. the next levels after that?

[alphapapa]

Hi,

I don't know. The emacs-lisp-mode code handles headings using strings of semicolons 3-or-more characters long, so you could probably study its code to find out how it works. AFAIK Outshine isn't designed to work that way, as it imitates Org. I doubt it would be simple to make a change like this to Outshine, as its code isn't designed to be flexible in that way. It might be better to try to implement something using outline-minor-mode, hideshow, origami, etc.

Long-term, this might be relevant to #53.

[tj64]

Hi,
as alphapapa says, outshine imitates org (outshine header = outcommented org header, e.g. ## * 1st level), with elisp as one exception since I had to adapt to the coding rules for emacs lisp libraries, no way around that (so outshine.el itself has ;;; 1st level header, otherwise melpa would not have excepted it.

A special case like this is always painful and should rather be avoided for peace of mind.
But I think the asteriks "*" is customizable in outshine (not in org), so you could try to customize it to "-".

But I have my doubt if it works ...

If you use outorg to, there would be a problem. Outorg then should read that outshine custom instead of simply assuming "*" for header levels, coding change needed.

Cheers
Thorsten