Hi Paul, Paul Stansell <paulstans...@gmail.com> writes:
> Today I came across org-catch-invisible-edits, but I'm struggling to > get it to work. Since I've never had it working it's possible that > I'm misunderstanding it or doing something wrong, or maybe it's > broken. > > In my .emacs file I put > > (setq org-catch-invisible-edits 'show) > > but both 'M-x query-replace' and 'M-x replace-string' still replace > hidden strings in folded sections of an org file. The name of the option is a bit misleading: your setup will catch *insertions* not editions. To put it simply, it's only active when inserting a character, not when using general-purpose editing commands like replace-string. I'm not sure it's worth using another name, though. -- Bastien