Hi Bastien, Thanks for that info on org-catch-invisible-edits. It wasn't clear to me as the documentation implies that it helps when you "inadvertently edit an invisible part of the buffer", but it seems that the edits have to be results of key presses (not yanks or replaces, etc).
I'm not sure how useful I would find the function. I'd like a way to stop any edits (including yanks etc.) on invisible parts of a buffer. I experimented with org-catch-invisible-edits by typing and deleting characters in folded sections of a simple org file. It seem to work well if the insertions or deletions occur at one hidden level down. In this case it opens the folded section and shows the edit after a short delay. But if I edit or delete two hidden sections down it doesn't seem to work properly as it only open the first hidden section and so the edit, which is another level down, is not shown. For example, for the org file below, editing the line "level 2" when both "Section 1" and "Section 2" are folded (hidden) causes only "Section 1" to be unfolded with "Section 2" still folded inside it. Thus, the edits are not visible. * section 1 level 1 ** section 2 level 2 Kind regards, Paul On 13 March 2014 14:24, Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Stansell <paulstans...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Today I came across org-catch-invisible-edits, but I'm struggling to > > get it to work. Since I've never had it working it's possible that > > I'm misunderstanding it or doing something wrong, or maybe it's > > broken. > > > > In my .emacs file I put > > > > (setq org-catch-invisible-edits 'show) > > > > but both 'M-x query-replace' and 'M-x replace-string' still replace > > hidden strings in folded sections of an org file. > > The name of the option is a bit misleading: your setup will catch > *insertions* not editions. To put it simply, it's only active when > inserting a character, not when using general-purpose editing commands > like replace-string. > > I'm not sure it's worth using another name, though. > > -- > Bastien >
