Re: `C-u 2 S-Tab' with `#+STARTUP: odd'

[Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>]

>> I wonder how the function org-outline-level is intended to work. 
>> Should it show the outline level or count the stars like in 
>> org-version 6.31a and one has to take into account `odd' himself to 
>> get the outline level when implementing own stuff which use e. g. the 
>> function org-shifttab?
> 
> org-outline-level shows the number of stars, independently of 
> org-odd-levels
> 
> Use
> 
>    (org-reduced-level (org-outline-level))
> 
> to get normalized levels.
> 
> Inside org, you need to check which function works with what kind
> of level, this is unfortunately not entirely abstracted.
> 
> HTH
> 
> - Carsten

Thank you, exactly what I have missed. Allow me to mention that I would like this hint to be added to the Help documentation of org-outline-level where I looked before.

There is something more with org-outline-level in org-version 6.31a which I still don't understand because I am not aware of some functions used in its implementation. I drilled down the quite special situation to the following file content. I hope that the indentation of x by three spaces does not get lost in the mailing list archive:

-*- eval: (org-mode) -*-
   x

After opening this file and confirming `eval', org-outline-level reports `3' (changes when changing the indentation of x) but I expect it to report someting like `0', `1000' or `1001' or similar like it does with variations like e. g.

-*- mode: org -*-
   x