Variable: org-emphasis-alist

org-emphasis-alist is a customizable variable defined in org.el.gz.

Value

(("*" bold)
 ("/" italic)
 ("_" underline)
 ("=" org-verbatim verbatim)
 ("~" org-code verbatim)
 ("+"
  (:strike-through t)))

Documentation

Alist of characters and faces to emphasize text.

Text starting and ending with a special character will be emphasized, for example *bold*, _underlined_ and /italic/. This variable sets the marker characters and the face to be used by font-lock for highlighting in Org buffers.

You need to reload Org or to restart Emacs after customizing this.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Org version
8.0.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/org/org.el.gz
(defcustom org-emphasis-alist
  '(("*" bold)
    ("/" italic)
    ("_" underline)
    ("=" org-verbatim verbatim)
    ("~" org-code verbatim)
    ("+" (:strike-through t)))
  "Alist of characters and faces to emphasize text.
Text starting and ending with a special character will be emphasized,
for example *bold*, _underlined_ and /italic/.  This variable sets the
marker characters and the face to be used by font-lock for highlighting
in Org buffers.

You need to reload Org or to restart Emacs after customizing this."
  :group 'org-appearance
  :set 'org-set-emph-re
  :version "24.4"
  :package-version '(Org . "8.0")
  :type '(repeat
	  (list
	   (string :tag "Marker character")
	   (choice
	    (face :tag "Font-lock-face")
	    (plist :tag "Face property list"))
	   (option (const verbatim)))))