Carsten, thanks for your comments. I'll incorporate your suggestions into the code as soon as I can.
Piotr On 26/04/06, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2006, at 14:15, Piotr Zielinski wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Here's a small piece of code that periodically collapses all org nodes > > (trees) which are far away (structurally) from the current cursor > > position. The purpose is to automatically collapse nodes which you > > are no longer working on, thereby preventing uncontrolled growth of > > the visible size of your .org buffer as the day progresses. > > very interesting idea / piece of code. > > One potential problem that I see is that (point) is a property of a > window. Only if a buffer is shown in one or zero windows, then (point) > is unique after a set-buffer operation for this buffer and you can use > it to select which part not to hide. > > So what might happen is that you can have two or more windows on a > buffer (in the same frame, or even on different frames), each looking > at a different section of the outline tree. I often do this when > restructuring a file, while moving stuff from one place in a file to > another. Your code would keep closing some of the visible outlines, > because it only considers (point) in a single window (I don't even know > which one if would actually use in this case, an interesting problem). > To solve this, you would need to check if a buffer is displayed in > several places, make a list of (point) in all these places, and then > check is any of the listed values of point fall in the outline subtree > you are about to close. > > Finally, you are running it on an idle timer with 60 seconds of idle > time required. I would be interesting how this works in pratice, and > if this is the best way to activate this code. For now, I have not > tried it extensively and I don't know. > > - Carsten > > > > -- > Carsten Dominik > Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" > Universiteit van Amsterdam > Kruislaan 403 > NL-1098SJ Amsterdam > phone: +31 20 525 7477 > > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
