On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Eddward DeVilla wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>  
> wrote:
> "news.gmane.org" <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>
> When I need quick dividers for better visibility, I adopt the approach
> Eric mentions above. E.g.,
>
> * ----section one------
> * Heading one
> * Heading two
> * ----section two------
> * Heading one
> * Heading two
>
> I've considered that myself, but I just don't like the look of it.   
> More than once I've wished  I could use something like the hline  
> markup and get a horizontal line that was scoped with the reset of  
> the outline in the org-buffer and on export.  So something like the  
> following
>
> #################
>
> * foo 1
> * foo 2
>
> -----
>
> * bar 1
> *** bar 1.1
>   -----
> * bar 2
>
> -----
>
> * Baz!
>
> ################
>
> would display as
>
> ################
>
> * foo 1
> * foo2
>
> ------------------    <= buffer or wrap wide, doesn't fold into foo2
>
> * bar 1
> *** bar 1.1
>   --------------    <= buffer or wrap wide, doesn't fold into Bar  
> 1.1 but does fold into Bar 1
>
> * bar 2
>
> ------------------    <= buffer or wrap wide, doesn't fold into foo2
>
> * Baz!
>
> ################
>
>
> I'd guess it might not be too hard with the right but I haven't been  
> annoyed enough to look into it.

It is not too hard to hack this, using org-cycle-hook:

(defun org-cycle-show-hlines (state)
   "Show hlines after visibility changes."
   (let ((re "^-----+$") beg end)
     (save-excursion
       (cond
        ((memq state '(overview contents t))
	(setq beg (point-min) end (point-max)))
        ((memq state '(children folded))
	(setq beg (point) end (org-end-of-subtree t t))))
       (when beg
	(goto-char beg)
	(while (re-search-forward re end t)
	  (outline-flag-region
	   (1- (match-beginning 0))
	   (progn (outline-next-heading) (point))
	   nil))))))

(eval-after-load "org"
   '(add-hook 'org-cycle-hook 'org-cycle-show-hlines 'append))

HTH

- Carsten