Hi Nicolas,

Thankyou for your reply. Sorry I didn't explain myself properly. When using
org-cycle (TAB) I often only want to open  an entry (headline) to its
CHILDREN visibility state, look at the subheadings (sub-entry headlines),
and then fold it back into its FOLDED state. Often these sub-entries will
have an appreciable amount of contents in them. So to go from the CHILDREN
state to the FOLDED state I have to press TAB twice which causes a large
amount of content to appear momentarily on screen. This experience is
unpleasant and distracting, so much so that I am actively trying to find a
way to simply org-cycle straight from the CHILDREN state to the FOLDED
state. My patch demonstrates one possible way of realising this.

Cheers,
Matthew Palermo

On Sat., 6 Oct. 2018, 5:01 pm Nicolas Goaziou, <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Matthew Palermo <matt.r.palermo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Org mode list,
> >
> > I find it really distracting when a large SUBTREE is expanded while
> > browsing through an Org document. Does anyone else find this
> > problematic or am I doing something wrong?
>
> I'm not sure to understand the problem you want to solve. Could you
> expound it a bit?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>