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From: Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com>
Subject: Re: Counting number of children under heading
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:50:24 -0400
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Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

>>> I would like to automatically count the number of children under a
>>> given heading. For example, I would like to have
>>> * Cars (2)
>>> ** BMW
>>> ** Escort
>> There is no such feature in Org, but I seem to remember someone
>> hack something similar -- maybe someone else with a better memory
>> can tell.
> IIRC, Sacha Chua had made such a hack -- must be found on her impressive
> blog.

I don't remember doing something like that - I tend to use [X] for
automatically counted cookies...

Do you need the number of children to be part of the text, or is it okay
for that to be temporarily displayed? 

Sacha