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Is it possible to do code folding like feature but for reST/sphinx documents in emacs
I am switching from org-mode to writing docs/notes etc. in restructured text. I was wondering if in emacs we can achieve section/subsection level code folding. An outline-mode in a separate buffer ...
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clickable buttons on headings
Emacs shows clickable buttons when visiting NEWS (C-h n):
This is controlled by outline-minor-mode-use-buttons.
How to make Org do the same thing?
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Making outline-regexp recognise heading titles
I want to change the outline heading levels from being composed of a series of semicolons, to only three semicolons followed by HN or MN, where N is the corresponding level.
Hence
;;; H1 Title Level 1
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Changing highlight colours of headings when using outline-minor-mode
I would like to change the highlight colours of headings when using outline-minor-mode.
Have composed the following which is giving wrong-number-of-arguments
for outline-map-region. I have included ...
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Printing outline-regexp and outline-heading-alist
I have a minor mode that changes the values of outline-regexp and outline-heading-alist. And want a way for the minor mode to display the value on request by the user, without forcing the user to ...
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Changing the definitions of outline-minor-mode headings
I would like to change the pattern for heading in outline-minor-mode. Have came up with the following implementation for emacs-lisp-mode that uses a minor-mode called taxocask-minor-mode.
(defvar ...
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Changing highlighting of headings interactively
I would like to have the ability to interactively change the highlighting settings using a single function (named outline-activate). How can I adapt it for the task described?
(defun outline-activate ...
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Replace org-mode drawer ellipsis with part of the folded content
Consider the following org document where all the PROPERTIES drawers are unfolded :
* Books
** Book 1
:PROPERTIES:
:year: 1987
:author: Author 1
:publisher: Publisher 1
:END:
** Book 2
:PROPERTIES:
:...
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Controlling Placement of Ellipses in Outline Mode: At End of Line or On Separate Line?
I have the following file opened in outline mode:
* Heading 1
body
** Sub-heading 1
body
*** Child 1
body
*** Child 2
body
**** Buried Deep
body
** Sub-heading 2
body
*** Child 1
body
When I ...
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Is there a way to display the number of lines in a fold?
I have tons of nested headings in Org-mode files, usually collapsed, and I'd like to have a quick look at how many lines are under each of collapsed headings (mostly top-level but sometimes not). ...
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Bulk convert text under heading to individual sub-headings?
I have this in an org-mode buffer
* Synonyms
culture
discipline
improvement
information
learning
literacy
scholarship
and would like to simply highlight this list starting with culture and ending ...
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Reverting back to higher heading
Here is a sample text to illustrate my difficulty:
* H1
L1 Some introductory text for H1
** H2
L2 Some text relating to H2
L3 This is part of H2. But I would like it to be part of H1 only, not part of ...
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How to convert an org-mode outline into a Microsoft Word outline?
The title of this post says it all: I have an outline in an org-mode file, and I want to convert it to a Microsoft Word document that I can open in "outline view"1.
Unfortunately, the ...
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Unfold org subtree containing a special keyword
Consider the following org file:
* Heading 1
** Subheading 1.1
** Subheading 1.2 containing Keyword
bar
*** foo
foo
*** bar
**** foo
** Subheading 1.3
* Heading 2
** Subheading 2.1
** Subheading 2.2
* ...
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How to hide/fold parts of messages in notmuch
I've been trying various combinations of folding modes for Emacs, trying to get them to work with notmuch-show-mode, but to no avail:
Given two messages like this:
Summary: Some Guy <someguy@...
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outshine mode changes outline-regexp from markdown's
patient StackExchange,
I am learning org-mode and liking its header-folding capacities, which seem much easier than outline-minor-mode. Most of my work is done in markdown mode, though, so I am ...
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Org is implemented on top of Outline mode
Org manual states in its beginning
Org is implemented on top of Outline mode, which makes it possible to
keep the content of large files well structured.
I referenced 'outline-mode' by C-h f ...
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Why doesn't the window begin and end update after `outline-show-all`?
I'm using this test code.
(defun +outline~show-all (orig-fn &rest args)
"Show all."
(let ((beg1 (window-start))
(end1 (window-end))
(beg2) (end2))
(apply orig-fn args)
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bookmark-jump to a hidden part of a buffer
In elisp buffers, I use outline-mode in order to manage headings similarly as in org-mode. But when I jump to a bookmark which points to a hidden part of a buffer (because it is below a folded heading)...
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Keybinding for adding a new heading under a list item in org-mode [closed]
Lets say you are working in an org-mode structure like this:
* First level heading…
** Second level heading
*** Third level heading
- list item one
- list item two
After list item two you want to ...
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Meaning of plus in org mode documents
Sometimes I see folks using "+" to structure their org document.
What is the appropriate use case for plus.
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Add another level to org-mode visibility cycling
The way S-TAB (org-global-cycle) switches between "top headline -> all headlines -> all content" is great for showing an outline and provide overview, but acts on the full document. Using TAB (org-...
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Can I have org-mode export outline numbers as letters and/or roman numerals?
Supposing I have a document structure like:
* Heading 1
** Heading a
** Heading b
** Heading c
*** Heading i
*** Heading ii
When I do, say, M-xorg-export-as-html-and-open, I'd get HTML that shows ...
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Prevent org-mode from unfolding pasted outlines
When I copy an outline into an org-mode buffer, Emacs automatically unfolds it. How can I prevent it from doing so?
I always want the outlines I paste in to be fully folded.
Here's an example:
If ...
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How to determine if a buffer will respond to outline-mode commands
I'm hacking together an extension which will display a sidebar with an outline of whatever document you're working on. It was initially written to support writing in markdown-mode, but the technique I'...
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How to change the face of org-display-outline-path in echo area?
In org-mode, I set all the outlines to be displayed in one face size (regardless of their hierarchy) by setting (setq org-level-color-stars-only t).
However, when I select an outline, org-mode ...
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How to show all contents of current subtree and fold all the other subtrees?
When using org build subtree navigation functions to move around, I want to show all the content of current one recursively, and hide any other subtrees that having a higher or same level of the ...
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How to use outline-minor-mode to hide some exam class exercises in auctex
I use the exam document class in auctex to write exams for my students. I want to use the features provided by the outline-minor-mode to hide all the exercises I have finished and only show the one I ...
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Outline editing, like org-mode, for JSON
I am trying to edit a Swagger JSON file in emacs. It contains large nested JSON objects, so I want to collapse and hide some of them.
I have tried origami-mode, configured as origami-c-style-parser ...
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Hide all header contents in Org mode
outline-show-all reveals the contents of all headers in org-mode. How can I do the opposite? There's no outline-hide-all command.
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orgstruct-mode error: S- must prefix a single character, not ISO-leftTAB
I am trying out orgstruct-mode with python-mode (but I've also tried go-mode with the same result). If I enable orgstruct-mode and press S-TAB I get the error S- must prefix a single character, not ...
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Changing the appearance of org-mode “hidden contents” ellipsis
In org-mode, when the contents of a subtree are hidden you see something like
* Some tree
:PROPERTIES:...
** Another One...
Is there a way to change those ... to something else? I'd like to use ...
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Counting sub-headings in org-mode using elisp
I'm wondering if there is a good method of counting subheadings of a particular heading in org-mode. For example, with the following, return 4 (non-recursively) or 7 (recursively). Note that I don't ...
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Enable any outline mode for markdown
First of all, from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AllOut:
Allout outline mode is part of GnuEmacs.
Allout outline mode provides extensive outline formatting and
manipulation beyond standard ...
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Collapse sections in markdown
I use markdown-mode (in conjunction with writeroom-mode) for writing in Emacs. My markdown files generally gets quite large, and I would like to be able to focus on a particular section for extended ...
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The old "how to fold XML" question
I'm doing quite a bit of manual XML editing (the source definition of some code generation I'm doing is a custom XML format) and of course prefer to use Emacs over any special purpose (usually ugly) ...
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