Re: Reveal Problem

[srandby@gmail.com]

Hi Carsten,

I understand and appreciate your point, but in my case there is no 
danger of accidentally typing in invisible text. The reason I don't want 
to display the next headline is that I wish to fold the headlined region 
I'm working in and return everything to the state it was when I first 
did the search. However, I've resolved the issue by placing a blank 
headline between tagged headlines as follows:

* Grades
** Student 1
*** Exams  :exams:
     Exam scores
***
*** Homework  :homework:
     Homework scores

This way the blank headline is displayed instead of the tagged headline 
and everything looks nice when I refold headlined regions. (I hope I'm 
using correct terminology here.)

Many thanks for your help.

Scott Randby

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> this is supposed to be a *feature*.  The problem is, if you show the 
> text below such a headline in a sparse tree, then the next heading is 
> still attached to the last line of the text made visible, and that 
> causes problems when editing.  You can try this by going to one of those
> headline revealed by the sparse tree command and typing
> 
>   M-s show-entry
> 
> Then the last line of the text made visible contains ellipses.  Suppose 
> you now start editing this text, move the cursor directly before the 3 
> points and type a few characters.  Strange things will happen and when 
> you later make the whole buffer visible with `C-c C-a' you wil see that 
> you typed somewhere in invisible text, but not where you intended to.
> 
> Therefore, when making the text under a headline visible, I also force 
> the next headline to be visibile so that editing is safe, assuming that 
> you are intending to edit that text.
> 
> Why does it bother you so much?
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Jul 27, 2008, at 9:20 PM, srandby@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> I upgraded my org-mode to 6.06b which took care of the problem of 
>> showing undesired headlines after a search, but a new issue has arisen.
>>
>> Say I have the following text:
>>
>> * Grades
>> ** Student 1
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>>    Exam scores
>> *** Homework  :homework:
>>    Homework scores
>> ** Student 2
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>>    Exam scores
>> *** Homework  :homework:
>>    Homework scores
>>
>> If I do 'C-c \ exams' I get the following:
>>
>> * Grades
>> ** Student 1
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>> ** Student 2
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>>
>> If I now hit <TAB> with the cursor on the third line down, I get this:
>>
>> * Grades
>> ** Student 1
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>>    Exam scores
>> *** Homework  :homework:
>> ** Student 2
>> *** Exams  :exams:
>>
>> The problem is that I don't want the '*** Homework :homework:' line to 
>> be displayed. I've played around with the org-reveal-location 
>> customizations, but I can't find any way to stop the display of the 
>> unwanted headline. Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> Scott Randby
>>
>>
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