This plugin is a clone of org-bullets. It replaces the asterisks in org syntax with unicode characters.

This plugin is an extension intended for use with orgmode.nvim

status: experimental

This plugin works by using neovim extmarks, rather than conceal for a few reasons.

• conceal can only have one global highlight see :help hl-Conceal.
• conceal doesn't work when a block is folded.

see below for a simpler conceal-based solution

• neovim 0.5+

use {"akinsho/org-bullets.nvim", config = function()
  require("org-bullets").setup {
    symbols = { "◉", "○", "✸", "✿" }
    -- or a function that receives the defaults and returns a list
    symbols = function(default_list)
      table.insert(default_list, "♥")
      return default_list
    end
  }
end}

A simpler conceal based alternative is:

syntax match OrgHeadlineStar1 /^\*\ze\s/me=e-1 conceal cchar=◉ containedin=OrgHeadlineLevel1 contained
syntax match OrgHeadlineStar2 /^\*\{2}\ze\s/me=e-1 conceal cchar=○ containedin=OrgHeadlineLevel2 contained
syntax match OrgHeadlineStar3 /^\*\{3}\ze\s/me=e-1 conceal cchar=✸ containedin=OrgHeadlineLevel3 contained
syntax match OrgHeadlineStar4 /^\*{4}\ze\s/me=e-1 conceal cchar=✿ containedin=OrgHeadlineLevel4 contained

• Add some degree of concealcursor-like behaviour