Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Autocollapse of outline nodes

[Piotr Zielinski]

Carsten, thanks for your comments. I'll incorporate your suggestions
into the code as soon as I can.

Piotr

On 26/04/06, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 24, 2006, at 14:15, Piotr Zielinski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a small piece of code that periodically collapses all org nodes
> > (trees) which are far away (structurally) from the current cursor
> > position.  The purpose is to automatically collapse nodes which you
> > are no longer working on, thereby preventing uncontrolled growth of
> > the visible size of your .org buffer as the day progresses.
>
> very interesting idea / piece of code.
>
> One potential problem that I see is that (point) is a property of a
> window.  Only if a buffer is shown in one or zero windows, then (point)
> is unique after a set-buffer operation for this buffer and you can use
> it to select which part not to hide.
>
> So what might happen is that you can have two or more windows on a
> buffer (in the same frame, or even on different frames), each looking
> at a different section of the outline tree.  I often do this when
> restructuring a file, while moving stuff from one place in a file to
> another.  Your code would keep closing some of the visible outlines,
> because it only considers (point) in a single window (I don't even know
> which one if would actually use in this case, an interesting problem).
> To solve this, you would need to check if a buffer is displayed in
> several places, make a list of (point) in all these places, and then
> check is any of the listed values of point fall in the outline subtree
> you are about to close.
>
> Finally, you are running it on an idle timer with 60 seconds of idle
> time required.  I would be interesting how this works in pratice, and
> if this is the best way to activate this code.  For now, I have not
> tried it extensively and I don't know.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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