Am 04.12.2013 09:25, schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > Hello, > > Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@online.de> writes: > >> last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) >> org file. >> 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. >> WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the >> corrupted structures. >> Most "*" items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore >> now became headlines. >> I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason >> somehow. >> Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from >> subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. >> >> This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent >> mode. >> Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure >> all is running well. >> >> Maybe someone has an idea. >> >> I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. > For the sake of correctness, `org-indent-mode' cannot corrupt a file. It > only modifies two text properties, `line-prefix' and `wrap-prefix', > never the contents of the file. > > Something else corrupted that file. `org-indent-mode' possibly made it > harder to notice, but you're looking after the wrong culprit. > > > Regards, > Good to know. But the indent-mode made it quite easy to mess up most of the file. I think I tried somehow to delete the now no more needed whitespace and messed things up without noticing it. I am afraid there is no easy way to "convert" a non org-indent-mode to a nice formatted org-indent-file. For smaller files I went through them page by page and left shifted lists and items manually. As far as I remember even Bernt Hansen did the work manually after switching. Maybe someone has a suggestion.
Regards, Rainer
