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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Use prefix arg to control scope of org-narrow-to-subtree.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:42:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878svyqxwc.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftq7kyvt.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:05:10 -0500")

Hello,

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> My proposal is for each raw prefix arg (each `C-u' prefix) to expand
> the narrowing level outward/upward by one.  So in the above situation:

I suggest to use a numeric argument for that. M-1 for one level, M-2 for
two levels, maybe M-0 equivalent to current behaviour. C-u can be
a shortcut for M-1.

> If you offer too many `C-u's, such that the narrowing would be wider than the current surrounding first-level subtree, then there are two possible ways we could handle it:
>
> 1) Extra `C-u's are ignored -- just narrow to surrounding 1st-level subtree.
>
> 2) Throw an error.
>
> I prefer (1), because it would be the more useful behavior, even
> though (2) would be easier to implement (since `org-back-to-heading'
> already throws the error).  However, I'd welcome others' feedback on
> that question, or on any other aspect of this proposal.

1 sounds good.

I think it is a good idea.

Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-24 19:05 [PROPOSAL] Use prefix arg to control scope of org-narrow-to-subtree Karl Fogel
2019-04-24 21:56 ` Alan L Tyree
2019-04-24 22:02 ` Alan L Tyree
2019-04-25  8:42 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2019-05-31  7:33   ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-01  8:45   ` [PATCH] " Karl Fogel
2019-12-01 13:13     ` Marco Wahl
2019-12-01 15:25       ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-01 15:44         ` Marco Wahl
2019-12-01 15:46           ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-02  8:51     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-12-02 15:15     ` Marco Wahl
2019-12-02 18:06       ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-02 18:56         ` Marco Wahl
2019-12-02 19:17           ` Karl Fogel

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