Re: OrgStruct: start with collapsed view

[Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>]

On 10/30/2014 08:41 AM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> * Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> And now there's another problem: I'd like to have my init file
>>>> collapsed to only headlines on opening.  Since I visit my init file
>>>> through a custom command (which finds it and turns on orgstruct), I
>>>> don't need to use file local variables for that - I just need a
>>>> command to do it.  So:
>>>>
>>>> how do I (programmatically, in elisp) collapse the view of
>>>> an orgstruct .el file?
>>>
>>> Try 'org-overview'. Both, 'org-overview' and 'show-all' work
>>> with outshine too, so they should work with org-struct.
>>
>> I also transformed my 3657 lines of init.el to OrgStruct.
>>
>> Similar to Marcin, I want to see a collapsed view of my headings
>> when I open my init.el file. org-overview gives me a weird view of
>> all lines that start a parenthesis on top level (defun, setq, ...)
>> and not my top level OrgStruct comment lines.
>>
>> Has somebody successfully managed to get a collapsed init.el view
>> when opening the file?
>
> Not a solution, but an alternative (and an interesting experiment):
>
> What if you try navi-mode with your orgstruct init.el? It works with
> outshine and with org-mode, so maybe with orgstruct too?

I found this on http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html.

   "orgstruct currently does NOT work with outorg and navi-mode..."

Scott Randby

>
> I always have the source file in 'show-all' mode side-by-side with its
> *Navi* buffer that give me the overview (and dozens of other views
> too). Constantly changing visibility in a file is to much action and
> distraction IMO, I rather have a 2nd buffer for the overview.
>
> Let me know if it works, I did not try navi-mode with orgstruct yet.
>