About

A small hack to reduce clutter in my init file, but can be potentially used elsewhere too. It will hide source code block markers by changing their ‘invisible’ text property.

This is not a package. I don’t think it is robust enough and thus not of good quality, so I have no plans to submit this as a package to neither Elpa nor Melpa. Maybe I will rework it one day, but for now I don’t have such plans.

Installation

Either clone this repo or just download ‘ob-hide-markers.el’. From there you have option to either M-x package-install-file RET ob-hide-markers.el RET or just put the file somewhere where Emacs can find it and do appropriate autoload or require.

Usage

M-x org-babel-hide-markers-mode to turn it on/off.

There is also an additional command: org-babel-refresh-markers. It can be used to hide markers if font-lock has re-drawn markers for some reason, or you added new ones etc.

Issues

Due to how font-lock mechanism in Emacs works, if fontification is triggered after the markers were hidden, the properties will be removed and markers revealed. For this to work this mode has to run after the font-lock has done it’s processing, so it calls font-lock-ensure before it does it’s work, which might be costly (double-work).

Screenshots

License

GPL v3. For details, see the atached license file.