Hello Enda,
Enda <enda...@yahoo.com> writes:
> Otherwise is like in vi, the additional stars (like **, opposed to
> <SPACE>*) are too noisy, and since I do not want to see them whether
> it is in org-mode or in vi, etc, so I wondered was there a way to have
> the file like
>
> * first level heading
> * second level heading
> * third level heading
are you looking for org-indent-mode.?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(org-indent-mode 1)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
--
YYR
