Re: Behavior of `org-show-entry'

[Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

[...]

>> Based on how org-show-entry calls it, outline-flag-region shows the text
>> from the current heading to the next.  So it seems to behave as
>> documented: "[s]how the body directly following this heading".
>
> Okay, but I still don't see how this would ever be the desired result.
> You can't get to *any* next visibility state without first wasting a
> <tab>.

Yeah, fair enough.  I can't think of a situation where I would desire
that result either.  But I think org-show-entry probably should behave
this way to be consistent with outline-show-entry.

>>> Which part of this should be tweaked to achieve the desired effect?
>>
>> Perhaps helm could call org-show-children after it calls org-show-entry.
>
> Okay, cool. I guess my main question was: should this be fixed in helm,
> or in org? I'll try clobbering the helm functions for a while and see
> how that goes, then raise this on the helm list.

Hmm, for the reason I gave above, I don't think org-show-entry should
change, but perhaps there should be a separate function that does

    (org-show-entry)
    (org-with-limited-levels (org-show-children))

which is what org-cycle does for the second state listed in its
docstring.  Or maybe there is a better way to accomplish this that I
don't know about.

-- 
Kyle