yes, I meant programatically. I was having some issue in selecting contex using commands that grab what is visible. So for things inside a folded section it was not grabbing the right context.
I solved it by doing something similar to what you describe, i.e. a tempbuffer. lentic looks pretty interesting. Phillip Lord writes: > You mean programmatically? Is folding not just implemented with > invisible overlays? If so, why do you need to change this to get > context? > > You can try setting buffer-invisibility-spec temporarily. For example, > run this function in a folded org-mode buffer. > > (defun temp () > (interactive) > (message "invisibility spec stuff") > (let ((buffer-invisibility-spec '())) > (message "sitting") > (sit-for 5)) > (message "done")) > > It unfolds everything but having the display engine ignore all > overlays/text properties. > > If you want to do this interactively, and you will forgive the plug, my > own package, lentic, would enable you to do this. You can open up a > second buffer which has the same text as the first, but could be folded > completely independently of the original. At the moment, you only get > one copy, but I'll expand that to any number at some point. When you're > finished kill the copy, and all the changed folding goes with it. > > Phil > > > John Kitchin <johnrkitc...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am trying to map over a buffer with headlines in various states of >> folded, and get context around certain elements. I find I need to fully >> expand the buffer to get the context in the way I am currently doing it >> (e.g. getting the lines around the element), but I would like to put the >> buffer back to the way it was when I am finished. This is not done with >> the usual macros like save-excursion, save-restriction, etc... Is there >> a way to do this other than a temp buffer? >> >> thanks, >> >> -- >> Professor John Kitchin >> Doherty Hall A207F >> Department of Chemical Engineering >> Carnegie Mellon University >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >> 412-268-7803 >> @johnkitchin >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
