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I tried org-mode, and I'm impressed. My org-file for notes is organized like this:

Header 1

Sub header 1

  Foo [ cursor here] 

  Bar

Sub header 2

Currently I use the function org-cycle a lot. It toggles (close or open) the header or the sub header.

But when the cursor is on the text foo, then when I call org-cycle with a key, the subheader will not close. Only when I move the cursor to the sub header 1.

I tried to figure out how I could come with a function, that org-cycle will also work in the text fields under a subheader/header. But I couldn't wrap my head around it...

Any suggestions? It will be appreciated!

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  • <kbd> Shift Tab </kbd> will close / open all subheadings. Is that similar to what you're looking for? – user2699 Apr 18 '15 at 23:42
  • Thanks for your suggestion. But it closes the subheaders too, and jumps to the header. I'm looking for the org-cycle which also works on the text fields under sub headers. But thanks for the suggestion anyway, it's always appreciated. – ReneFroger Apr 18 '15 at 23:48
  • You could use org-backward-heading-same-level, passing in an argument of 0 to move to the heading for the text you're in, then call org-cycle. – user2699 Apr 19 '15 at 0:04
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This functionality is already built in to org mode. You just need to set the following option in your init file:

(setq org-cycle-emulate-tab nil)

With that setting the TAB key should always call org-cycle on the current subtree, wherever your cursor happens to be. There are other possible values for this variable, which give more fine-grained control over when to cycle and when not. See the docs for details.

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  • Sir, you deserve an upvote! My problem is solved, now the text behaves like a subheader, and I can toggle them now. Many, many thanks for your answer! – ReneFroger Apr 20 '15 at 9:32
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Org-mode is built on top of Outline-mode, so you can use all of the latter's functionality at no additional cost. The functions you want specifically are hide-entry and show-entry.

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  • Thanks for the clarifity, but I would have one keybinding for when it's a (sub)heading or a text, to toggle them down. Hide-entry and show-entry are only suitable for text fields, not for headers. So that's why I'm thinking about how wrap this into a function. – ReneFroger Apr 19 '15 at 11:16

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