One of the major shortcomings of org-mode as an outliner is the following: 

You cannot have different hoisting or outline visibility settings in two panes of the same file. 

For example, if you want to hide the body text and just view outline headings in one pane, while you work on the body text of a specific entry in the other pane, you cannot do this. 

This prevents flexible restructuring and writing on the fly. It removes much of the usefulness of having multiple panes. 

Is there any way to change this behavior? Or is it something hardcoded into Emacs? 

Thanks
JB

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