Re: toc on one side, contents on the other ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Jun 7, 2020, at 5:34, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
>>> I'm trying to keep an org file TOC in one window and send narrowed buffers to
>>> another window, but I can't seem to find how to do that with vanilla
>>> org/emacs.
>> 
>> Maybe `narrow-indirect.el' will help - dunno.
>> 
>> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NarrowIndirect
>> 
>> You may also need to fiddle with `display-buffer-alist'
>> or whatever, to get buffers shown where you want them - dunno.
> 
> Or the org-toc package seems to do this, or almost this. I don't know
> if it counts as "vanilla", but it's part of the org-plus-contrib
> package.

Thank you. I tried it. It was basically what I was looking for.

But, (rant) I just don't like the liberties developers take with the windows layout, which may be based *in part* on the emacs infrastructure.

The way windows popup randomly all over the place and the original layout is never restored is a major annoyance in emacs and this package is no exception.

> It doesn't seem to do a narrowing thing by default, but I'll bet it
> wouldn't be hard to add.

But it refers to the correct header, so that's good enough.


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