Re: [O] Should org-narrow-to-subtree be disabled by default?

[Rasmus]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> one good way to decide could be to ask people here if they ever
>>> accidentally narrowed the view to a subtree -- I never did.
>>
>> No.  But I know the concept of narrowing, which may be unfamiliar to
>> some.  I find narrowing super useful, especially when writing longer
>> documents.
>
> I checked narrow-to-defun, and it is not disabled by default, only
> narrow-to-region and narrow-to-page, which are both accessible in any
> mode.
>
> As org-narrow-to-* functions are only accessible from org-mode buffers
> and not that easily called by accident (I haven't seen any report like
> this in years), I suggest we stick to the current setup.

Fine with me.

>>> Also, I tend to think Emacs is on the paranoid side here, I don't
>>> think newbies can hit C-x n n accidentally...
>>
>> Perhaps an easier way to narrow by accident is through
>> org-speed-commands-default, i.e. speedkey "s".
>
> Yes, but newbies don't use speed commands without knowing what they
> do, do they?

Probably not since org-use-speed-commands is nil by default.

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