> Hi 42 (what's your other name?) John is my real first name.
. . . As for the rest, I didn't see some of the other replies, because the org-mode mailing list moves a little two fast for my mailbox, and I prefer to read selectively from the gmane archive. That said, it is my responsibility to check that website before responding to (some) of the messages that get forwarded to my e-mail address in a thread I started. Anyway, checking out some of the other solutions, since many were provided. Thanks for the technical background on how headlines work in the code. 2013/2/5 Bastien <b...@altern.org> > Hi 42 (what's your other name?) > > 42 147 <aeus...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Maybe you could point me in the right direction; somewhere in the > > code, org-mode must be aware of the number of nested headlines in > > order for show-branches and show-children to work. Or maybe it is > > not. > > It is not. Long story short: folding a headline works by adding a > text overlay with the invisible property, and finding the end of the > overlay works by finding another headline of the same level. So there > is no nothing of "jumping" by N subtrees. > > Still, you can fetch the number of invisible headline in a folded > subtree *afterwards* -- I assumed this is what François' code does. > > > In any case, I'd try and adapt the code to display a number > > indicating (1) position in the hierarchy; and (2) number of > > headlines at that / those position(s). > > This could end up in a minor mode or simply a feature that people > could turn on and off. But beware of the efficiency: with many > headlines, the folding features of Org combined with this feature > could become quite slow. > > > Apologies if the original message was poorly articulated. > > No problem, that's part of the game. > > Thanks, > > -- > Bastien >
