When you say “however, colors work magic for reading code for me”, do you mean having most text in the same color, say purple, or do you mean having a variety of colors? Because the article specifically complains that “everything is purple” in elixir-ts-mode instead of having a wider variety of color.

If I understood correctly, the problem turned out to be caused by evil but the post doesn’t mention evil anywhere! Always mention evil, and, more generally, explain how to reproduce the problem.

You skipped a newline between points 2 and 3 and that screwed up the numbering of the remaining points.

What I’ve learned from this thread is that Google Chrome on my cheap Android phone is better than Safari on an iPad or iPhone. :)

Maybe in Org buffers Hyperbole’s M-RET simply defers to org-open-at-point?