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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Breadcrumbs?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:20:52 +0800
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On Tue, Sep 25 2012, Ken Williams wrote:

> Has anyone ever tried implementing a “breadcrumbs”-type feature in
> org-mode?  By that I mean something that would quickly tell you the
> headings up the whole path to the root, to quickly orient yourself
> when you’re deep within a document.  I was originally thinking of
> something always-present shown at the top of the frame, but maybe it
> would be better as something shown on demand in the minibuffer,
> possibly making it taller while shown.

The command `org-display-outline-path' will do this -- you could just
bind it to a key in org-mode-map.

Yours,
Eric

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