henry atts <s...@online.de> writes: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 15.7.2013, at 10:33, henry atts <s...@online.de> wrote: >> >>> I use org-tree-slide-mode by default with >>> >>> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-tree-slide-mode) >>> >>> This works kind of acceptable minus some minor annoyances. But one thing >>> makes it nearly unusuable. tree-slide rigidly expects at least one >>> header. So if I open an org file without heading, or if I create a new >>> one, I get an error message: >>> >>> File mode specification error: (error "before first heading") >>> >>> If I include a setup file with `#+SETUPFILE:', which of course has no >>> headings in it, org-tree-slide stops working at all. >> >> >> Hi Henry, >> >> you could wrap turning on of the mode into a function >> that checks if there is a node, and if not, just add one. >> >> - Carsten > > Okay, but on the one hand this doesn't solve the problem with > `SETUPFILE'. On the other hand what if I want an org file without any > heading on purpose? Or otherwise asked is a file a `real' org file only > if it has headings in it? >
No, I don't think so, but there are bugs (there was a bug in the latex exporter once that required a heading at the beginning). I presume Carsten's suggestion was as a workaround to a bug (although I might have misinterpreted his comment). > You might say if you want some features of orgmode _and_ an org file > without heading you can always use, say, text-mode and load orgstruct as > a minor mode. Which does not solve the problem as well because with the > org-tree-mode hook for orgmode it shows some strange behaviour equally. > > I like org-tree-mode but I think it does not play well with orgmode in > some cases. And as far as I see it even is not in contrib. > Yes, I went looking for it there and did not find it :-) So maybe you can ping the author about the bug - s/he might even fix it, particularly now that the package is being used by at least one other person! Or contribute the fix yourself - if you like the package, then others might too, so it might even end up in contrib at some point. -- Nick