> Hi 42 (what's your other name?)

John is my real first name.

. . .

As for the rest, I didn't see some of the other replies, because the
org-mode mailing list moves a little two fast for my mailbox, and I prefer
to read selectively from the gmane archive.

That said, it is my responsibility to check that website before responding
to (some) of the messages that get forwarded to my e-mail address in a
thread I started.

Anyway, checking out some of the other solutions, since many were provided.
Thanks for the technical background on how headlines work in the code.

2013/2/5 Bastien <bzg@altern.org>

> Hi 42 (what's your other name?)
>
> 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Maybe you could point me in the right direction; somewhere in the
> > code, org-mode must be aware of the number of nested headlines in
> > order for show-branches and show-children to work. Or maybe it is
> > not.
>
> It is not.  Long story short: folding a headline works by adding a
> text overlay with the invisible property, and finding the end of the
> overlay works by finding another headline of the same level.  So there
> is no nothing of "jumping" by N subtrees.
>
> Still, you can fetch the number of invisible headline in a folded
> subtree *afterwards* -- I assumed this is what François' code does.
>
> > In any case, I'd try and adapt the code to display a number
> > indicating (1) position in the hierarchy; and (2) number of
> > headlines at that / those position(s).
>
> This could end up in a minor mode or simply a feature that people
> could turn on and off.  But beware of the efficiency: with many
> headlines, the folding features of Org combined with this feature
> could become quite slow.
>
> > Apologies if the original message was poorly articulated.
>
> No problem, that's part of the game.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>