Re: Display parent in agenda mode

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew M. Nuxoll" <nuxoll@up.edu>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display parent in agenda mode
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:38:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96F0A983-25FF-41D9-9571-13E751A0DDC6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9C1814.2090107@up.edu>

On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Andrew M. Nuxoll wrote:

> When I'm viewing an agenda (using my custom agenda command), I like  
> to hit 'f' to put it in follow mode so I can see the context of the  
> entry I'm viewing.  However, in many cases there are enough entries  
> under a given heading that the heading has scrolled off the screen.   
> Is there a way to have follow mode condense the view it shows to  
> only show the parents and children but not the siblings?  Otherwise  
> I have to tab over to the .org file and page up which gets old  
> pretty fast.
>
> (I did read the manual but didn't see a solution.  I'm sorry if I  
> missed it.)

Hi Andrew,

no, there i nothing in Org to do this by default.

However, you can hack it like this:

(defun my-compact-follow ()
   (ignore-errors
     (save-excursion
       (while (org-up-heading-safe))
       (hide-subtree)))
   (let ((org-show-siblings nil)
	(org-show-hierarchy-above t))
     (org-reveal))
   (save-excursion
     (org-back-to-heading t)
     (show-children)))

(add-hook 'org-agenda-after-show-hook 'my-compact-follow)

Hope this helps

- Carsten

>
> Thanks,
> :AMN:
>
>
>
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