From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: [RFC] Change default value for `org-startup-folded'?
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:11:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kt1atzh.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
Hello,
Reading a recent message on Emacs devel list, I stumbled upon this:
I needed to go and look up to figure out how to read the org file
that came with pdf-tools. It isn't that much text, and the annoying
folding that org does for what amounts to a simple README file is
gratuitous at best.
it struck me that our default value for `org-startup-folded', which
t (or `overview') may not be nice for people not used to Org.
It would make sense to make it easier for non-Org users who have to deal
with Org files to set this variable to `showeverything'. This would also
be on par with Outline mode, the major mode used to handle, e.g., NEWS
file.
Even though I think `overview' is a nice value, the logic behind my
suggestion is that it is easier for an Org user to set
`org-startup-folded' once and for all than for a non-Org user to
discover Org folding the hard way.
WDYT?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-30 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 15:11 Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2020-04-30 15:59 ` [RFC] Change default value for `org-startup-folded'? Eric S Fraga
2020-04-30 17:40 ` Marco Wahl
2020-04-30 17:53 ` Amin Bandali
2020-04-30 23:42 ` Tim Cross
2020-05-12 10:34 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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