You probably have Emacs 21 under Linux and Emacs 22 under Windows.
This is a difference in the implementation of `outline-hide-sublevels'
between these versions, and Org-mode simply calls this function.

Thanks Carsten, you're right on. I really like the emacs21 behavior a lot more than that of emacs 22.

I believe you could take the Emacs 21 definition of this function and
overwrite the Emacs 22 one by placing the definition into
outline-mode-hook, but I have not tested this.

I found a hide-sublevels in outline.el but never found any outline-hide-sublevels, so I assume they're they same.

(defun hide-sublevels (levels)
"Hide everything but the top LEVELS levels of headers, in whole buffer."
(interactive "p")
(if (< levels 1)
      (error "Must keep at least one level of headers"))
(setq levels (1- levels))
(let (outline-view-change-hook)
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-min))
      ;; Keep advancing to the next top-level heading.
      (while (or (and (bobp) (outline-on-heading-p))
        (outline-next-heading))
    (let ((end (save-excursion (outline-end-of-subtree) (point))))
    ;; Hide everything under that.
    (outline-flag-region (point) end t)
    ;; Show the first LEVELS levels under that.
    (if (> levels 0)
          (show-children levels))
    ;; Move to the next, since we already found it.
    (goto-char end)))))
(run-hooks 'outline-view-change-hook))

(add-hook 'outline-mode-hook 'hide-sublevels)

I gave this a try but it didn't work automatically, and I don't know where to go from here.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(levels) [A whole bunch of special characters here]
[levels outline-view-change-hook beg end 1 error "Must keep at least one level of headers" nil outline-on-heading-p t outline-next-heading outline-flag-region outline-map-region #[nil " [outline-level levels outline-show-heading] 2] run-hooks] 4 ("c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs/lisp/outline.elc" . 28111) (list (cond (current-prefix-arg (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)) ((save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (looking-at outline-regexp)) (funcall outline-level)) (t 1)))] 0)

Thanks,
Scott

On Apr 19, 2007, at 23:18, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> On Linux I can have org open a file and display it like this:
>
> * Local Settings...
>
> * Projects
> ** Foo
>
> * Something
>
> Notice that it's nice about letting me having blank lines between my
> top level headings, even though they are to some degree compacted. I
> think my setting is "content" for how expanded it should be.
>
> When I open the same file in Emacs on Windows, with the same
> configuration files, I get this:
>
> * Local Settings...
> * Projects
> ** Foo
> * Something
>
> There are no blank lines at all, but if I use S-Tab to expand it all
> out there are plenty of blank lines.
>
> The file does say it's in Unix mode and I suspect this problem is more
> likely caused by a setting I have wrong than a bug. Has anyone seen
> this before or have an idea what is causing this behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
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