Re: block folding - should this work?
Robert Nikander writes: > I started reading about “blocks" in the manual. I wanted a chunk of text that > I could hide, so I tried this: > > * Test > Some text > #+BEGIN > Hide this > #+END > > Hitting TAB on the BEGIN line does nothing. But if I add a blank line before > it, > then hitting TAB hides and shows the block. Is that a bug? Or am I doing it > wrong? Seems like it should work without the blank line. > > * Test > Some text > > #+BEGIN > Hide this > #+END > > M-x org-version => 9.5.1. The problem here is that your blocks are not correctly specified. If you run M-x org-lint on your example, it will tell you the blocks may not be correctly specified. You need to tell org what sort of block it is. Org supports a number of different block types, such as source code blocks (#+begin_src/#+end_src), example blocks (#+begin_example/#+end_example), centred blocks (#+begin_center/#+end_center) etc. You can use C-c C-, to run the command org-insert-structured-template to select the block type. If you first highlight the region, it will be wrapped in the block you select.
Re: block folding - should this work?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Robert Nikander wrote: > I started reading about “blocks" in the manual. I wanted a chunk of text that > I could hide, so I tried this: > > * Test > Some text > #+BEGIN > Hide this > #+END > > Hitting TAB on the BEGIN line does nothing. But if I add a blank line before > it, then hitting TAB hides and shows the block. Is that a bug? Or am I doing > it wrong? Seems like it should work without the blank line. > > * Test > Some text > > #+BEGIN > Hide this > #+END > > M-x org-version => 9.5.1. Ah. You have to decide on a concrete /kind/ of block. So try: #+begin_example This is a small example with two lines #+end_example (BTW. I seem to remember that Org prefers to spell those things in lower case these days, as in my example). There are some block kinds which Org "knows about" and treats specially, like _example, _quote, _center, _src and so on. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
block folding - should this work?
I started reading about “blocks" in the manual. I wanted a chunk of text that I could hide, so I tried this: * Test Some text #+BEGIN Hide this #+END Hitting TAB on the BEGIN line does nothing. But if I add a blank line before it, then hitting TAB hides and shows the block. Is that a bug? Or am I doing it wrong? Seems like it should work without the blank line. * Test Some text #+BEGIN Hide this #+END M-x org-version => 9.5.1.