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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] loop over headlines in active region
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On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:58 PM, David Maus wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
> 
> At Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:13:21 +0200,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> I am wondering, why did you choose to skip invisible headlines?
>> I would worry that this introduces inconsistent behavior and also
>> makes it hard to use this feature in a programmatic way.
> 
> Good points. I though of skipping invisible headlines as a way to
> control which headlines are 'looped over' but if this is inconsistent
> with already present behaviour of Org mode or Emacs in general we can
> scratch that idea.

Yes, let's do that.

> 
> What brings up the question: What is the current behavior of Org mode
> with regards to operations in a region?

I think almost everything that iterates over a number of
headlines will also do the invisible ones.  Exceptions are
exporting/copying the visible headlines, and probably something else I
am not remembering.

- Carsten