Hello all, I was talking to someone who was finding the behaviour of `#+startup' confusing, and they managed to work out a table summarising the behaviour.
I think that this would be a good addition to the manual, and help clarify the behaviour --- so I've prepared a little patch to the manual. I notice that there are some `#+cindex' lines lying around but I'm not quite sure what they do. Please let me know if I should add anything like that etc. All the best, *Timothy*
>From 8ff32dfbf2e14419eb542d58ee39c1545f34354b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TEC <t...@tecosaur.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:01:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc/org-manual.org: clarify #+startup behaviour * doc/org-manual.org: clarify the behaviour that each #+startup option implies. --- doc/org-manual.org | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org index e8763ff17..a005cce52 100644 --- a/doc/org-manual.org +++ b/doc/org-manual.org @@ -598,6 +598,19 @@ *** Initial visibility is requested by startup options and =VISIBILITY= properties in individual entries. +A summary of each keyword's behaviour may be seen in the table below. +| #+startup: | org-startup-folded | VISIBILITY | shows headings | shows body | +|---------------------+--------------------+------------+----------------+------------| +| overview (or fold) | t | x | lvl1 | | +| content | 'content | x | all | | +| show2levels | 'show2levels | x | lvl1-2 | | +| ... | 'showNlevels | x | lvl1-N | | +| show5levels | 'show5levels | x | lvl1-5 | | +| showall (or nofold) | nil | x | all | x | +| showeverything | 'showeverything | | all | x | +| <DEFAULT> | 'showeverything | | all | x | + + *** Catching invisible edits :PROPERTIES: :DESCRIPTION: Preventing mistakes when editing invisible parts. -- 2.30.1
