Re: outline: how to hide the subheadings?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Hi Xah,

There is a new minor mode named foldit-mode in latest nXhtml beta
1.94. Could you perhaps test it with outline-magic?




On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 4:41 am, JackPhil <jack.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If a heading have subheadings，the subheadings will always be shown. I
>> want them to be hidden, not only the body of subheadings. How TO?
>
> i just learned outline-mode this month, due to reading emacs 23's NEWs
> file.
>
> in outline mode, type Alt+x describe-mode, and it'll spit out its
> inline doc. Then you can read all about the shortcuts for hiding
> header or text etc.
>
> Quote:
>
> Commands:
> C-c C-n   outline-next-visible-heading      move by visible headings
> C-c C-p   outline-previous-visible-heading
> C-c C-f   outline-forward-same-level        similar but skip
> subheadings
> C-c C-b   outline-backward-same-level
> C-c C-u   outline-up-heading                move from subheading to heading
>
> C-c C-t make all text invisible (not headings).
> C-c C-a make everything in buffer visible.
> C-c C-q  make only the first N levels of headers visible.
>
> however, the keys are exceedingly complex and their logic cumbersome,
> especially if you have cua-mode on, or if you also have your own
> keyboard customizations.
>
> So, i went to emacswiki for some read up.
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OutlineMode
>
> which gives a very good intro about outline mode.
>
> Then, i found out about outline-magic package by Carsten Dominik,
> which provides much better shortcuts and commands, so you simply use
> arrow keys to do various expanding/hiding of the headers, or just
> press tab to cycle thru the common pattern of toggling thru showing/
> hiding sub sections.
>
> The name Carsten Dominik sounds familiar, and indeed, he's the author
> of org-mode, which i never used but did spend some time on in the past
> to vaguely recall it's outgrowth of outline-mode.
>
> So, i did a hour of study or 2. Basically, my quick conclusion is that
> org-mode completely supplants outline-mode in features and quality.
>
> just set your mode to org-mode, then just type tab key to hide/show
> headers or subsections. org-mode is robust and well maintained, so
> it's good to bet on. :D
>
> you could put:
> (defalias 'outline-mode 'org-mode)
>
> hope this helps. :D
>
>  Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
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