How do I get an expanded sparse tree?

Question

I want to show all entries with status WAIT along with their parent entries and hide everything else.

#+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAIT(w) | DONE(d) PASS(p)
* Item
  Description.
** TODO Task 1
   Description.
** WAIT Task 2
   Description.
* Item
** WAIT Task 3
   Description.

If I do C-c / m TODO="WAIT" I get

#+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAIT(w) | DONE(d) PASS(p)
* Item...
** WAIT Task 2...
* Item
** WAIT Task 3...

As you can see the entries are collapsed. How do I get an expanded view of the selected entries?

Answer 1

You need to modify the variable, org-show-context-detail. C-h v org-show-context-detail will offer you quite a lot of documentation about the values this variable can take; the pertinent information is that it's an alist of (context-symbol . visibility-symbol). You probably want to set it in your init.el / .emacs.d / other-config-file like so:

(push '(tags-tree . local) org-show-context-detail)

tags-tree is the context symbol for sparse trees (used also for todo statuses); local will show you current headline, entry, and next headline.