only highlight "*", not the entire heading line in org-mode, emacs

Question

How can I only highlight the * star, not the entire heading line, to keep texts in same color? In the great emacs org-mode

thanks guys

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excample (replace * by #, for cann't bold * in stack-overflow)

(not below)

# heading text

this is text body

(but below)

# heading text

this is text body

Answer 1

Updated Answer

See the variable org-level-color-stars-only, which contains a doc-string that states: "Non-nil means fontify only the stars in each headline. When nil, the entire headline is fontified. Changing it requires restart of `font-lock-mode' to become effective also in regions already fontified."

USAGE:  (setq org-level-color-stars-only t)

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Previous Answer

You can remove or add stars as you see fit -- this example uses two (2) stars together. If you do just one star, then that would also affect two (2) and three (3) stars together. Maybe one of our forum local regexp experts could please give us the code for one star (but not more than one star) :)

(defvar bumble-bee (make-face 'bumble-bee))

(set-face-attribute 'bumble-bee nil :background "black" :foreground "yellow")

(font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode (list

    (list (concat "\\*\\*")
        '(0 bumble-bee t))

   ))

These control the title of tasks -- you could set them all the same or make them different. Anything you don't want, just set to nil or set to the same color as whatever your regular font is.

(custom-set-faces

  '(org-level-1 ((t (:foreground "orange" :bold t))))

  '(org-level-2 ((t (:foreground "black" :bold t))))

  '(org-level-3 ((t (:foreground "pink" :bold t))))

  '(org-level-4 ((t (:foreground "cyan" :bold t))))

  )

The other components of the first line are usually: org-tag; org-tag-faces; org-todo-keyword-faces; org-priority-faces; and org-warning:

(setq org-todo-keyword-faces '(
  ("Active" . (:foreground "red"))
  ("Next Action" . (:foreground "ForestGreen"))
  ("Reference" . (:foreground "purple"))
  ("Someday" . (:foreground "gray65"))
  ("None" . (:foreground "green"))
  ("Delegated" . (:foreground "cyan")) ))

(setq org-tag-faces '(
  ("TODO" . org-warning)
  ))

(setq org-priority-faces '(
  (?A . (:foreground "firebrick" :weight bold))
  (?B . (:foreground "orange"))
  (?C . (:foreground "green"))
  (?D . (:foreground "purple"))
  (?E . (:foreground "blue")) ))

(custom-set-faces
  '(org-tag ((t (:background "gray97" :foreground "gray50"
    :box (:line-width 1 :color "black") :weight regular))))
  '(org-warning ((t (:foreground "black"))))
  )