Re: Counting number of children under heading

[Sebastien Vauban <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Sacha,

Sacha Chua wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban 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?

Yes, I almost remembered what you wrote in
http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/01/outlining-your-notes-with-org/,
section "Getting a Sense of Progress". Still, it is about counting
headlines, but with a special cookie you add.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban