Re: possible bug with headline visibility cycling and whitespace

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Brian van den Broek <broek@cc.umanitoba.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: possible bug with headline visibility cycling and whitespace
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:24:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc51d225cf2e631db4f4c5d7dfd06d07@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C32DB9.2030701@cc.umanitoba.ca>

Fixed, thanks.

- Carsten

On Aug 15, 2007, at 18:45, Brian van den Broek wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm still new enough to org-mode that the problem might be with my 
> understanding, rather than the code. But, I have a situation where 
> org-mode doesn't behave as I expect.
>
> To reproduce my problem, create the following org-mode file:
>
> <Start of file>
>
> * Heading Level One
>
> ** Heading Level Two
>
> *** TODO Try to unfold this tree
>
>
> * Heading Level One again
>
>
> <End of File>
>
> Everything between the start and end of file marks is needed, 
> including the whitespace included on the lines after the 2nd- and 
> 3rd-level headings. (Note that this is more than just the newline 
> characters; there are space characters on those lines as well.) Do not 
> include the start and end of file marks.
>
> Now, visit this org-mode file; it displays a blank line, the first 
> three headings (with ellipsis), a blank line, and the final heading, 
> as expected. Put the cursor on the first line, and <TAB> cycle so that 
> only the two top-level headings are displayed. So far, so good.
>
> Now, put the cursor on the first top-level heading. Attempt to <TAB> 
> cycle. Observe that nothing happens. What was expected was cycling 
> through the various displays of the subtree. <TAB> cycling on the top 
> of the file still works as expected, as do S-<TAB> and C-u <TAB>.
>
> Edit the file so as to remove all whitespace other than newlines from 
> the various headlines that have them. Now, <TAB> cycling works as 
> expected.
>
> So, it appears that headlines followed only by whitespace where that 
> whitespace includes more than newlines breaks <TAB> cycling. This 
> feels like a bug to me, but again, it might be that I misunderstand 
> how org-mode is intended to work.
>
> I am using GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 on ubuntu 7.04 and have org-mode 5.04 
> (the same behaviour was manifest in 5.03). I have a number of org-mode 
> tweaks in my .emacs, but nothing that I can recognize as related.
>
> Thanks and best,
>
> Brian vdB
>
>
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