I would really like my tab key to cycle a closed heading when I am on the ellipsis. Looking at org.el where org-cycle is defined, I see that it does this: (save-excursion (beginning-of-line 1) (looking-at org-outline-regexp))) So, if it were on the ellipsis, it seems like it ought to come to the beginning of the line before check whether it is on a heading, but apparently it doesn't. So, I am thinking that I'm not actually on the same line that contains the heading. My C-a key is mapped to org-beginning-of-line, which takes me from the end of the line, starting on the ellipsis to the beginning. So, I'm wondering if the code from org-cycle should call org-beginning-of-line instead of beginning-of-line to give me the functionality I would like.