Re: `C-u 2 S-Tab' with `#+STARTUP: odd'

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

>>> I wonder how the function org-outline-level is intended to work.  
>>> Should it show the outline level or count the stars like in org- 
>>> version 6.31a and one has to take into account `odd' himself to  
>>> get the outline level when implementing own stuff which use e. g.  
>>> the function org-shifttab?
>> org-outline-level shows the number of stars, independently of org- 
>> odd-levels
>> Use
>>   (org-reduced-level (org-outline-level))
>> to get normalized levels.
>> Inside org, you need to check which function works with what kind
>> of level, this is unfortunately not entirely abstracted.
>> HTH
>> - Carsten
>
> Thank you, exactly what I have missed. Allow me to mention that I  
> would like this hint to be added to the Help documentation of org- 
> outline-level where I looked before.

Done.

>
> There is something more with org-outline-level in org-version 6.31a  
> which I still don't understand because I am not aware of some  
> functions used in its implementation. I drilled down the quite  
> special situation to the following file content. I hope that the  
> indentation of x by three spaces does not get lost in the mailing  
> list archive:
>
> -*- eval: (org-mode) -*-
>  x
>
> After opening this file and confirming `eval', org-outline-level  
> reports `3' (changes when changing the indentation of x) but I  
> expect it to report someting like `0', `1000' or `1001' or similar  
> like it does with variations like e. g.
>
> -*- mode: org -*-
>  x

The function assumes that the cursor is located at the beginning
of an outline heading.  If it is not, it will return garbage.

HTH

- Carsten




- Carsten