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

["Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>]

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Hello,

I have solve my 2 problems.


For the first one: All drawers are unfolded when agenda indirect follow
mode show me the selected task.

The solution is simple: By default, when you display the content of an
Org file, everything is unfolded, including the drawers.

Based on the manual [1], this can be managed with the variable
`org-startup-folded` or the buffer setting `#+STARTUP:`. By default, the
variable `org-startup-folded` is set to `showeverything`. Which tell
Org-mode to unfold every headings, drawers, etc.

I misunderstood the default behavior of Org-mode because, when I tested
the add of a property to a new heading, the newly created "properties"
drawer was folded. Same with the "logbook" drawer. But if I save the
buffer to a file, close it and re-open the file, the drawers are
unfolded.

For my usage, I decided to keep the default behavior (unfold
everything). Except for the file that keep my habits. The logbook drawer
of my habits are too long to be unfolded when displayed by Org-agenda
indirect follow.


For the second problem: When a task have to many lines, the window
opened by indirect follow mode is too tall, forcing the agenda
window to be too small to be usable.

Thanks to Karthik Chikmagalur, who tell me that the window behavior of
Org-mode have changed with a commit from may this year, I updated to
Org-mode 9.7. And my problem is solved with this new version.


That it. I hope my summary is not too long and could help someone else
with same problem.


Have a nice day.


[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Initial-visibility.html



Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

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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
>
> -------
> Gendre Sébastien
>
>
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