I do not quite understand. You wrote: "TAB discloses the entry and all
children. It also leaves the entry in an editable state." However, Task2 is
not a child of the entry being disclosed (Task1). Furthermore, by
constructing the sparse tree, I am telling org-mode that I am only
interested to see the sub-trees under the tasks marked as TODO!

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Meir Goldenberg <mgoldenbe@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am using org-mode 8.2.10. Suppose we have this:
> >
> > * TODO Task1 [0/1]
> > SCHEDULED: <2015-08-09 Sun>
> > - [ ] Buy bread
> > * FUTURE Task2
> >
> > Now, if we do C-/ T and give TODO for the keyword, then we correctly get:
> >
> > * TODO Task1 [0/1]...
> >
> > However, if we press Tab on this line, then the whole content, including
> > next headline (the one marked FUTURE) shows up, which seems to be
> > wrong.
>
> This is to be expected. TAB discloses the entry and all children. It
> also leaves the entry in an editable state. What you suggest gives
>
>   * TODO Task1 [0/1]
>   SCHEDULED: <2015-08-09 Sun>
>   - [ ] Buy bread...
>
> which means 1. that you can't reach Task2 easily, 2. that you can't edit
> plain list comfortably.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>