Indirect follow mode in agenda: Display, edition and how to hide drawers

Indirect follow mode in agenda: Display, edition and how to hide drawers

[Sébastien Gendre]

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Hello,

I have enabled the indirect follow-mode when the agenda start. Now, for
each agenda item, I can see the selected item details and only it. Which
is great.

But I have multiple questions about it.


When a task have drawers, they are shown open. How a can I hide
them in this indirect follow mode ? I didn't enable the opening of
drawers in my config and if I remember they are hidden by default.


The display of a task, with the indirect follow mode, is done bellow the
agenda, and it's window size is adapted to the length of the task
body. But when a task have a lot of text, it's window size take most
of the place and the agenda window is too small. How can I prevent the
task window to take all the place ?


When I want to edit a task and press "TAB", the point is moved to
a window that show all the task. Not into the window opened by the
indirect follow mode. Is it possible to modify this ?



Best regards

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Gendre Sébastien



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Re: Indirect follow mode in agenda: Display, edition and how to hide drawers

[Kristoffer Balintona]

On Tue, Nov 05 2024, Sébastien Gendre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have enabled the indirect follow-mode when the agenda start. Now, for
> each agenda item, I can see the selected item details and only it. Which
> is great.
>
> But I have multiple questions about it.
>
>
> When a task have drawers, they are shown open. How a can I hide
> them in this indirect follow mode ? I didn't enable the opening of
> drawers in my config and if I remember they are hidden by default.
>

If I understand you correctly, you want the drawers shown by
org-agenda-follow-mode to be hidden rather than shown as you move across
agenda items, yet? If so, I'm not sure if there is an option to by
default have drawers hidden (I suppose you can alter the minor mode
yourself...), but calling SPC with C-u shows items but hides their
drawers.

>
> The display of a task, with the indirect follow mode, is done bellow the
> agenda, and it's window size is adapted to the length of the task
> body. But when a task have a lot of text, it's window size take most
> of the place and the agenda window is too small. How can I prevent the
> task window to take all the place ?
>
>
> When I want to edit a task and press "TAB", the point is moved to
> a window that show all the task. Not into the window opened by the
> indirect follow mode. Is it possible to modify this ?
>

This is not the default behavior, I don't think. Have you made
customizations to display-buffer-alist?

>
>
> Best regards
>
> -------
> Gendre Sébastien
>
>

-- 
Best,
Kristoffer

Re: Indirect follow mode in agenda: Display, edition and how to hide drawers

[Karthik Chikmagalur]

>> When a task have drawers, they are shown open. How a can I hide
>> them in this indirect follow mode ? I didn't enable the opening of
>> drawers in my config and if I remember they are hidden by default.
>>
>
> If I understand you correctly, you want the drawers shown by
> org-agenda-follow-mode to be hidden rather than shown as you move across
> agenda items, yet? If so, I'm not sure if there is an option to by
> default have drawers hidden (I suppose you can alter the minor mode
> yourself...), but calling SPC with C-u shows items but hides their
> drawers.

I use this piece of advice to get the desired folding behavior in
`org-agenda-follow-mode':

(advice-add 'org-agenda-do-tree-to-indirect-buffer :after
   (defun my/org-agenda-collapse-indirect-buffer-tree (arg)
     (with-current-buffer org-last-indirect-buffer
       (org-ctrl-c-tab) (org-fold-show-entry 'hide-drawers))))

>> The display of a task, with the indirect follow mode, is done bellow the
>> agenda, and it's window size is adapted to the length of the task
>> body. But when a task have a lot of text, it's window size take most
>> of the place and the agenda window is too small. How can I prevent the
>> task window to take all the place ?
>>
>
> This is not the default behavior, I don't think. Have you made
> customizations to display-buffer-alist?

This used to be the default behavior, and it couldn't be customized as
it didn't obey display-buffer-alist.  The window would always open below
the current one.  In May this year it was changed (in commit
db5478108c063d012432eba50e4ebb71a278c060) to follow
display-buffer-alist.  Chances are Sébastien is using a version of Org
mode that does not have this commit.

Karthik