Trying to understand 'fold' vs 'replace'

[rusimody]

Thanks for writing org-modern

Im having a bit of an obstacle understanding the key customize options

• org-modern-star : one of (fold replace nil)
• org-modern-replace-star : Starts "◉○◈◇✳"
• org-modern-fold-stars : Starts (("▶" . "▼") ("▷" . "▽") ("⯈" . "⯆") ("▹" . "▿") ("▸" . "▾"))

I guess my question is how do I understand the word 'replace' when folding is afterall the premier usecase why we use org mode at all. So what exactly is replace replacing?

My experiments tell me that setting org-modern-star to replace gives me the symbols in org-modern-replace-star as in good ol' org but with the ASCII * replaced with those successive symbols

I guess my other question is how does this all interact with org-indent-mode given that in places in the docs it seems to suggest dont use indent mode. And in a couple of places suggests to use org-modern-indent-mode instead?

[jdtsmith]

Org-modern-indent is fairly orthogonal to org-modern; it makes indented block highlighting work.