Re: heading structure ramblie

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> i sometimes need to know when a folded heading has children,
> and also possibly go to them.  maybe it swallowed a heading
> without my intention.  creating new headings with c-c *
> seems to create children, when i want a sibling.  (so maybe i need a
> command like c-c * that creates a sibling.  but i also want to show and
> navigate heading structure.)

Children are created when you use C-c * on a list.
When used on non-list, with C-u C-u prefix argument, siblings will be
created.

> i'd also like to know without linting the whole file if
> anything is awry locally, such as twice or more indented
> (*******) or half-indented (****), when org-odd-levels-only
> t.
>
> ...
> this could be solved by showing a view similar to canonical
> visibility, but only headings perhaps as an org-cycle state.
>
> i THINK this is supposed to be possible with c-u:

What about `org-shifttab'?

> or perhaps simpler, is there a command that will go to the
> next heading even if it is invisible, and unfold?  there
> seems to be no org-next-heading, but there is one for
> visible headings.

Try C-c C-r (org-reveal). With one or two prefix arguments depending on
your needs.

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