Re: Inconsistent usage of "overview"

[Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com>]

I believe my confusion was due to the fact that the docstring of
org-startup-folded is not particularly precise regarding to its
possible values. On the one hand it seems to be a toggle, but its
initial value is nevertheless showeverything and not t. On the other
hand it states that "This can also be configured on a per-file basis
by adding one of the following lines anywhere in your buffer..." but
it's not clear whether these values may also be assigned directly to
the variable. If you do that, then inconsistencies appear: when they
are options in a buffer, showall and nofold are both mapped to nil,
fold and overview are both mapped to t; but when they are directly set
this mapping obviously doesn't take place. Following a suggestion I'd
read elsewhere, I set org-startup-folded to fold (and, later, to
overview), and this is not really calling org-overview but instead
ends up in a catch-all clause that hides drawers. By the same token I
could have set org-startup-folded to foobar.

The point still stands that showall and contents fold drawers but
overview (aka fold) doesn't fold drawers, which seems extremely odd to
me.

Best regards,
Carlos