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.
Since this package adjusts text styling, it depends on your font settings. You
should ensure that your variable-pitch and fixed-pitch 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 inspired by 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 GNU ELPA and MELPA. You can install the package with
package-install. 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.
;; Option 1: Per buffer
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-modern-mode)
(add-hook 'org-agenda-finalize-hook #'org-modern-agenda)
;; Option 2: Globally
(global-org-modern-mode)Try the following more extensive setup in emacs -Q to reproduce 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 "Iosevka")
;; (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "Iosevka Aile")
;; (set-face-attribute 'org-modern-symbol nil :family "Iosevka")
;; 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))
(setq
;; Edit settings
org-auto-align-tags nil
org-tags-column 0
org-catch-invisible-edits 'show-and-error
org-special-ctrl-a/e t
org-insert-heading-respect-content t
;; Org styling, hide markup etc.
org-hide-emphasis-markers t
org-pretty-entities t
org-ellipsis "…"
;; Agenda styling
org-agenda-tags-column 0
org-agenda-block-separator ?─
org-agenda-time-grid
'((daily today require-timed)
(800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000)
" ┄┄┄┄┄ " "┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄")
org-agenda-current-time-string
"⭠ now ─────────────────────────────────────────────────")
(global-org-modern-mode)Since this package is part of GNU ELPA contributions require a copyright assignment to the FSF.