Hm looks like an interesting approach, to let the user configure what symbols to use for what kind of markup. However, using a bunch of regexes reminds me of painful regex writing for Atom, Sublime and GEdit (or was it Geany?) syntax highlighting. It was never really easy to make it work correctly, without disregarding some edge cases. For most users it will probably mean to use a popular config and that's it.
EDIT: From the readme:
> Let's be real here, org and markdown have several flaws - ambiguity (tons of it), ugly syntax and the requirement for complex parsers.
Aside from the fact, that I do not think org has ugly syntax, I think an actual parser is way better than having to rely on putting everything into regexes. It makes the code easier to maintain.
EDIT: From the readme:
> Let's be real here, org and markdown have several flaws - ambiguity (tons of it), ugly syntax and the requirement for complex parsers.
Aside from the fact, that I do not think org has ugly syntax, I think an actual parser is way better than having to rely on putting everything into regexes. It makes the code easier to maintain.