Re: Fwd: set global visibility set to CONTENTS in a defun?

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I mostly wanted was to write an interactive defun that would
>> switch to an org buffer and then automatically set the visibility
>> (either the global visibility or the visibility of the active subtree)
>> to an arbitrary desired level.
>
> The only way I see is to set this desired level as a property for
> the entries, then to let your defun act depending on this property.
>
> See the Org manual (2.3 Visibility cycling):
>
>   Furthermore, any entries with a 'VISIBILITY' property (*note
>   Properties
>   and Columns::) will get their visibility adapted accordingly.  Allowed
>   values for this property are 'folded', 'children', 'content', and
>   'all'.
>
>   'C-u C-u <TAB>' ('org-set-startup-visibility') Switch back to the
>   startup visibility of the buffer, i.e., whatever is requested by
>   startup options and 'VISIBILITY' properties in individual entries.
>
>> org-cycle does not seem to be a
>> reliable way to do this because you can't just pass the desired
>> visibility level as an argument -- or at least, I an't figure out how
>> to do this.  The same is true for org-global-cycle.  I'm not sure,
>> does that clarify what I'm asking?
>
> Yes.. but I'm not sure I can think of a solution, manipulating
> visibility states is a bit daunting.

Yes, it seems quite difficult  I am working on other solutions...
>
> --
>  Bastien