Re: [O] OrgStruct: start with collapsed view

[Scott Randby]

On 10/30/2014 08:41 AM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > * Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > And now there's another problem: I'd like to have my init file
> > > > collapsed to only headlines on opening.  Since I visit my init file
> > > > through a custom command (which finds it and turns on orgstruct), I
> > > > don't need to use file local variables for that - I just need a
> > > > command to do it.  So:
> > > >
> > > > how do I (programmatically, in elisp) collapse the view of
> > > > an orgstruct .el file?
> > >
> > > Try 'org-overview'. Both, 'org-overview' and 'show-all' work
> > > with outshine too, so they should work with org-struct.
> >
> > I also transformed my 3657 lines of init.el to OrgStruct.
> >
> > Similar to Marcin, I want to see a collapsed view of my headings
> > when I open my init.el file. org-overview gives me a weird view of
> > all lines that start a parenthesis on top level (defun, setq, ...)
> > and not my top level OrgStruct comment lines.
> >
> > Has somebody successfully managed to get a collapsed init.el view
> > when opening the file?
>
> Not a solution, but an alternative (and an interesting experiment):
>
> What if you try navi-mode with your orgstruct init.el? It works with
> outshine and with org-mode, so maybe with orgstruct too?

I found this on http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html.

  "orgstruct currently does NOT work with outorg and navi-mode..."

Scott Randby

> I always have the source file in 'show-all' mode side-by-side with its
> *Navi* buffer that give me the overview (and dozens of other views
> too). Constantly changing visibility in a file is to much action and
> distraction IMO, I rather have a 2nd buffer for the overview.
>
> Let me know if it works, I did not try navi-mode with orgstruct yet.