Is there an alternative to TAB when I want to work only with the sparse
tree and all the other entries only distract me? If not, can I somehow open
the sparse tree in a separate buffer?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Meir Goldenberg <mgoldenbe@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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).
>
> I explained why hiding Task2 leaves entry in an uncomfortable state,
> where you could edit near ellipsis.
>
> > 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!
>
> TAB ignores you want to keep a sparse tree. Note that it is also used to
> get out of parse trees, i.e., get a normal view again.
>
>
> Regards,
>