Re: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

> last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file.
> 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted.
> WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures.
> Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines.
> I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow.
> Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from
> subversion and insert the changes since the corruption.
>
> This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode.
> Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well.
>
> Maybe someone has an idea.
>
> I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful.

For the sake of correctness, `org-indent-mode' cannot corrupt a file. It
only modifies two text properties, `line-prefix' and `wrap-prefix',
never the contents of the file.

Something else corrupted that file. `org-indent-mode' possibly made it
harder to notice, but you're looking after the wrong culprit.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou