> On Oct 16, 2020, at 4:20 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Now finally org keys are available in etc/NEWS, nice!
>>> But typing S-TAB at the beginning of etc/NEWS signals the error:
>>> 
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Before first heading")
>>>   signal(error ("Before first heading"))
>>> 
>>> This is not how org-mode works - S-TAB doesn't fail before first heading
>>> in org-mode.
>> 
>> Do you suggest to change it to a user-error? Or just be silent?
> 
> To imitate org-mode, maybe outline-mode could temporarily (i.e. by
> using save-excursion) navigate to the first heading before running
> the rest of outline-cycle-buffer when it's before first heading?


This patch should make outline behaves like org: S-TAB always cycle the whole buffer, regardless where is the point. TAB cycles a heading, and does nothing if point is before the first heading.

Yuan