Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legoug...@gmail.com> writes: > From the perspective of a heavy outline-minor-mode user, who dreams of > Org "backporting" its great outlining features to outline.el, that's a > bit disheartening, since IIUC this will cause Org and outline.el to > drift further apart?
We already had some subtle (yet important) deviations between Org mode and outline.el, which made using outline-* functions in Org buffers unreliable at times. This patch just makes the already existing trend more prominent. > I realize this question might sound outlandish, but I'll ask it anyway: > would it be feasible (and relevant) to add this new folding backend to > outline.el, so that (1) /both/ Org and outline(-minor)-mode benefit from > it, (2) outline.el functions keep working in Org? > > (Assuming outline.el could be turned into a :core GNU ELPA package, and > Org would tolerate adding this dependency) Sure. I kept this idea in mind when developing the branch. org-fold-core.el is written in such a way that it can be used by an arbitrary major or minor mode: ;; This file contains library to control temporary invisibility ;; (folding and unfolding) of text in buffers. ;; The file implements the following functionality: ;; ;; - Folding/unfolding regions of text ;; - Searching and examining boundaries of folded text ;; - Interactive searching in folded text (via isearch) ;; - Handling edits in folded text ;; - Killing/yanking (copying/pasting) of the folded text ;; - Fontification of the folded text If desired, outline.el can be rather trivially converted to use org-fold-core. > I hope this doesn't come across as negative criticism; the amount of > work that went into this branch is astounding, and as an Org user I'm > indebted to the developers for the energy that goes into maintaining it. > > Lest I let this message end on that sour note: great work, and thanks > for the energy you put into Org! Thanks! Best, Ihor
