Thanks Eric, Michael and Dan, for the assistance. Both options look good (outline-minor-mode and a literate org file).
My first draft of this request for help actually included consideration of a "literate" org file, but I deleted it, since I thought it would be too complex, and your work (Dan) was too far from finished to be usable by someone of Not A Lot of Time. If I can make it work, this does sound even more powerful than the outline-minor-mode solution. I had two reasons for the request: first it was just to have a modular init file without actually making it modular (i.e. by folding it org-like), the second was to make an init file that might be of use to others, especially Emacs beginners, for which an org-rich literate solution would be nice, both for its folding and for links to the full range of things that org supports (or can be made to support). Thanks all for the examples. I'll give it a try. Scot _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode