From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: set global visibility set to CONTENTS in a defun?
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 21:24:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec8rj6P8bxdNWhLgYLmrs8XTh_MSd8AWe+g=UK4ftomKeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9hd8ikj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I mostly wanted was to write an interactive defun that would
>> switch to an org buffer and then automatically set the visibility
>> (either the global visibility or the visibility of the active subtree)
>> to an arbitrary desired level.
>
> The only way I see is to set this desired level as a property for
> the entries, then to let your defun act depending on this property.
>
> See the Org manual (2.3 Visibility cycling):
>
> Furthermore, any entries with a 'VISIBILITY' property (*note
> Properties
> and Columns::) will get their visibility adapted accordingly. Allowed
> values for this property are 'folded', 'children', 'content', and
> 'all'.
>
> 'C-u C-u <TAB>' ('org-set-startup-visibility') Switch back to the
> startup visibility of the buffer, i.e., whatever is requested by
> startup options and 'VISIBILITY' properties in individual entries.
>
>> org-cycle does not seem to be a
>> reliable way to do this because you can't just pass the desired
>> visibility level as an argument -- or at least, I an't figure out how
>> to do this. The same is true for org-global-cycle. I'm not sure,
>> does that clarify what I'm asking?
>
> Yes.. but I'm not sure I can think of a solution, manipulating
> visibility states is a bit daunting.
Yes, it seems quite difficult I am working on other solutions...
>
> --
> Bastien
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-03 1:48 set global visibility set to CONTENTS in a defun? Matt Price
2013-11-04 11:21 ` Bastien
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2013-11-08 19:30 ` Fwd: " Matt Price
2013-11-09 19:46 ` Bastien
2013-11-10 2:24 ` Matt Price [this message]
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