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

> Thank you, Adam -- I didn't know about those.  I had searched for
> something like that before implementing my own, but I think I searched
> using the term "heading" or something instead of "outline",
> unfortunately, so I never found them.

Org is like Emacs in that it has many nooks and crannies that even
experienced users are unfamiliar with.  There's always something more to
discover.

> Now that I know about `org-display-outline-path', the one improvement
> I'd like to make is to enable it to display the headings with
> per-level indentation, and treat the first level specially (with an
> anchoring dot instead of a directional arrow), as my code did.  It's a
> lot more readable that way displayed in the minibuffer.

You might consider adjusting your fontification settings.  The
single-line outline path can be quite readable with the right faces (see
attached example).