Re: Restore previous folded state of org buffer

[Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>]

User <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't need this feature at the moment, but the problem
> intrigued me, so I came up with a quick implementation.

Great!

> I don't plan to work on it further, since I don't really need it
> yet (I'm a novice org user), but I put it here if someone wants
> to develop the idea.
>
> You simply load the elisp file and from that on folding state is
> automatically saved and restored for org mode files. The folding
> information is saved at the end of the org file itself every time
> the buffer is saved.
>
> It seemed to work pretty well. The only faulty case I discovered
> is when the very last branch is folded in the file, because it
> contains the saved folding info, but this bug is probably easy to
> fix with a little thinking.

Yes, I found this bug.  

One way to work around this limitation and to safely store the folding
information would be to put it in a face property for each headline.  
Perhaps you have time to dig into that direction?

Thanks for this proof-of-concept!

-- 
 Bastien