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Re: [O] Sibling visibility when accessing an item from the agenda
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James Harkins |
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Re: [O] Sibling visibility when accessing an item from the agenda |
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Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:50:52 +0800 |
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Sorry, I had meant to attach a screenshot. Here it is.
James
---- On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:47:45 +0800 James Harkins <address@hidden> wrote
----
> Hi,
>
> What is the setting to control the visibility of the 4th-level siblings here?
>
> How I got to this point:
>
> - All headings collapsed (only top-level visible)
>
> - Go to the agenda week view
>
> - Put the cursor on the entry for "Elec. 2a 01" and hit return.
>
> The catch is... my school requires me to take notes on every class session.
> That means I need to type plain text underneath this heading. But, org has
> "helpfully" marked this area to be invisible. If I put the cursor on the
> flush-left ellipsis and hit return to open up some space, I don't see the
> open space. Same if I put the cursor after the ellipsis for the properties
> drawer.
>
> That is, org thinks accessing an item from the agenda is a read-only
> operation, but I need to write into it -- org's assumption is invalid.
>
> So the only way I currently know to enter the text is to go up to the parent
> level, collapse it, and expand it to show all the siblings... for 14 class
> sessions every week. That is going to get really old.
>
> There must be a way to get org to show the sibling headings of the one that
> was selected from the agenda.
>
> Thanks,
> hjh
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