Re: `C-u 2 S-Tab' with `#+STARTUP: odd'

[Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>]

>> There is something more with org-outline-level in org-version 6.31a 
>> which I still don't understand because I am not aware of some 
>> functions used in its implementation. I drilled down the quite special 
>> situation to the following file content. I hope that the indentation 
>> of x by three spaces does not get lost in the mailing list archive:
>>
>> -*- eval: (org-mode) -*-
>>  x
>>
>> After opening this file and confirming `eval', org-outline-level 
>> reports `3' (changes when changing the indentation of x) but I expect 
>> it to report someting like `0', `1000' or `1001' or similar like it 
>> does with variations like e. g.
>>
>> -*- mode: org -*-
>>  x
> 
> The function assumes that the cursor is located at the beginning

Ok. I found out that (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (org-outline-level)) can compensate.

> of an outline heading. If it is not, it will return garbage.

Here I am lost and would like some help. I was not able to find out how to determine if the cursor is on a line with an outline heading or not.