Re: Should we obsolete org-emphasis-alist? (was: [PATCH v5] org.el: Warning for unsupported markers in `org-set-emphasis-alist')

[Max Nikulin]

On 07/02/2023 17:47, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Upon looking closer, `org-set-emph-re' is not affected by the value of
> `org-emphasis-alist' with a single exception when the value is nil.

You are right, it is result of the following commit:

9fb2e047d 2016-12-08 09:44:26 +0100 Nicolas Goaziou: Split `org-emph-re' 
and `org-verbatim-re'

> I think that we should simply obsolete `org-emphasis-alist' and
> introduce individual faces for emphasis.

I agree with your conclusions and proposal.

If you are close to merging fontification based on org-element then we 
may just discard this patch. Otherwise it may be merged with minimal 
modifications:
- Do not add the watcher
- Instead of `org-set-emph-re' use a lambda calling new 
`org-emphasis-alist--check-value` as the :set attribute of `defcustom'.
- Fix description of verbatim tag.