Hi - I'm wondering if there's a way to treat a heading more like a block, such that it has begin/end markers that explicitly mark its boundaries. What I frequently find happening is that while I'm editing a heading, I have a need for a subtopic. Easy: C-<RET>, Tab. Now I want to keep editing at the same level that I was, but I don't want to introduce another topic (or a "Stuff, cont'd", etc) I just want to keep typing at the same context level. Ideally, I'd like to just use curly braces to delimit section boundaries. So something like this: -------------- * Top This part of top * A sub heading { stuff in sub all this gets collapsed under 'A sub heading' } More stuff that's part of top. --------------- Right now, when I hit TAB on 'A sub heading', it'll collapse all the rest of the text, as it should. How can I teach it just collapse up to the right brace? Or any other suggestion for getting this fact - I realize this is starting to look more like XML than an outline - but would really like to get this behavior without having to leave orgmode. Any pointers, suggestions - much appreciated! -bertie
Hi bertie, I don't know, but we've discussed this recently. Perhaps it will be possible at some point to insert an inline task and have it behave as you desire. Samuel -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-to-kafka-pandemic-two-forces_9182.html I support the Whittemore-Peterson Institute (WPI) === I want to see the original (pre-hold) Lo et al. 2010 NIH/FDA/Harvard MRV paper.
Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> Hi bertie,
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> I don't know, but we've discussed this recently.
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> Perhaps it will be possible at some point to insert an inline task and
> have it behave as you desire.
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> Samuel
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Thanks, Samuel. I did read up on inline tasks, while they have the begin/end
structure, they're not really part of the structure of the document.
Can you point me to the discussion or thread title about this feature - did a few
searches first but couldn't find anything that looked like what I was talking
about, probably because I'm not describing it in the right terms.
Thanks,
-bertie
bertie <bertie@mailinator.com> writes: > Thanks, Samuel. I did read up on inline tasks, while they have the begin/end > structure, they're not really part of the structure of the document. > > Can you point me to the discussion or thread title about this feature - did a few > searches first but couldn't find anything that looked like what I was talking > about, probably because I'm not describing it in the right terms. I just added an FAQ about this. It contains several links to discussions about closing sections: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#closing-outline-sections HTH, Matt
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, bertie <bertie@mailinator.com> wrote: > Or any other suggestion for getting this fact - I realize this is starting to > look more like XML than an outline - but would really like to get this behavior > without having to leave orgmode. I made a suggestion for a natural org sytax to encompass this functionality here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41203 Basically, use a termination string consisting of a number of asterisks preceded or followed by a '/' character. E.g. ***/ or /*** . But it seems that no one is working to implement anything like it. It would probably require some major surgery on the way org deals with sections.