I would love to find a way to left-align text so that paragraphs line up like in FoldingText, for example:
* Headline number 1
** Headline number 2 [0/2]
Here is some text before our
first unordered list:
- List item 1
- List item 2
And here is a checklist:
- [ ] Do this first
- [ ] Do this next
** Headline number 4
Any ideas? Is there a minor mode that can get this done, perhaps?
Thanks!
This doesn't do exactly what you want, but you can add indent option to your org file:
#+STARTUP: indent
In your .org file. Once you refresh your buffer, texts will be indented according to their headline levels (the right column of the example below):
* Top level headline | * Top level headline
** Second level | * Second level
*** 3rd level | * 3rd level
some text | some text
*** 3rd level | * 3rd level
more text | more text
* Another top level headline | * Another top level headline
The example is from http://orgmode.org/manual/Clean-view.html. There are more stuff about changing outline views in the manual as well.
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I'm creating README.md file for my Repo in github, but i cant indent the code blocks as much as my list items has indent from the left, I'm trying as bottom and i want this block of code to start with indention of list items.
* list
* Item one
* ``` codes here..```
also it didn't worked :( don't know why.
Skip a line and indent eight spaces. Eight spaces will trigger the code block.
List
Item one
This is
a code block
I had to manually indent these lines
Item three
The above is the output of
* List
* Item one
* ```
This is
a code block
I had to manually indent these lines
```
* Item three
Does this help?
You need to add blank lines to make it work with the 8 spaces. Now because your item one is already 4 spaces in you need to add 12 spaces (4 + 8 = 12) like so
* list
* item one
codes here..
Which will then look like:
list
item one
codes here..
* Parent
Some text under this level
** Headline below parent
** Another Headline at the same level
I don't want this text to be a headline but be indented same as the text under the parent level without being a headline. Cannot do this.
I just cannot re-indent this text just below the parent level here
* Another top-level headline
Is there any way in org-mode to re-indent plain text back to the same indent level as the plain text just under the parent level but below several headlines under the parent?
I am trying to do something like this:
* A Section
Introductory text.....
** Subsection 1
** Subsection 2
Further Reading
Now, that "Further Reading" is not a headline, I don't want it to be one. However, I cannot "get out of" Subsection 2: Anything I type below it is a part of it. Perhaps I need to structure this some other way such as using lists instead of headlines.
There is no way to do this in org, currently - there is no syntax that ends a subheader to return you to the previous level. But you could add a subsection at the same level - e.g. in your example,
* A Section
Introductory text.....
** Subsection 1
Subsection 1 text
** Subsection 2
Subsection 2 text
** Further Reading
Some further reading
It might be nice if org had some syntax, like **-, that would end a subsection, but I'm not sure how involved a change that would be - probably pretty extensive.
In org-mode < 8 M-RET at the beginning of non-headline text will make that text into a headline with the same level as the one above.
Example:
* Headline
Text
If the cursor is in the beginning of 'Text' then M-RET will produce:
* Headline
* Text
In org-mode > 8 this behavior has changed. The same action will produce:
* Headline
*
Text
What would be a way to easily make text into a headline like in the < 8 versions of org-mode?
(C-* comes close but will produce a headline one level below the above:
* Headline
** Text
)
(NB: It isn't the same as this issue which I guess has been fixed. Anyways I'm not getting that in org-mode 8.2.5h-dist)
M-RETruns org-meta-returnin my old org-mode. And according to the docs that runs org-insert-heading. You could perhaps try that command or have a look at the code for it.
A simple org-mode document, a * header line, a - Q: line with an intended A: line.
After exporting to html, why are Q: and A: in the same line?
* Header line
- Q: questions
A: answers
According to the manual:
Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line. If you need to
enforce a line break within a paragraph, use ‘\’ at the end of a
line.
Hence you should write
* Header line
- Q: questions\\
A: answers
which exports, as intended, to
<ul>
<li>Q: questions<br/>
A: answers
</li>
</ul>
In my opinion Emacs / org-mode is inconsistent here and at times it drives me mad. Compare header lines and items:
* Header line
Text
is exported as header and body, so 2 paragraphs.
* item1
Text
is exported as one paragraph, one line.
* item1\\
Text
is exported as one paragraph with a line-break (htmltag 'br') in the middle.
* item1
Text
is exported as 2 paragraphs. So this should be your prefered way to code questions and answers.
But if you now code all your lists with blank lines between Text and items and use the collapsed view your emacs view looks ugly.
* item1
Text
* item2
* item3
In the collapsed view Emacs adds a blank line before '* item2' but not before '* item 3', so it is not as collapsed as it could be:
* item1...
* item2
* item3
Emacs doesn't display a blank line it if you leave one before a '* Header line'.
BTW: if you add any formatting on the next line after an item (':', '#+BEGIN_QUOTE' or similar), you get 2 paragraphs.
Say I am in org-mode in a document with the following structure:
* First headline
* Second headline
** Section A
Here is one line
Here is another line
blah, blah
** Section B
Say the cursor is on the line that reads Here is another line. I would like to collapse ** Section A from this location with a keyboard shortcut.
If I press <TAB> it does not collapse ** Section A, as I would need the cursor to be on the stars for this to work.
If I press <Shift-TAB> it collapses all outlines, and not the current one.
Is there any way to cycle through the collapsing of the outline in scope (i.e. the "current outline")?
You can customize the behaviour of the org-cycle command (which is bound to <TAB>) by changing the value of org-cycle-emulate-tab.
To get it to collapse ** Section A when your cursor is on Here is another line add the following line to your .emacs file:
(setq org-cycle-emulate-tab 'white)
The white will allow you to still use <TAB> to indent in empty lines. From org-mode Github:
org-cycle-emulate-tab's value is t
Documentation:
Where should `org-cycle' emulate TAB.
nil Never
white Only in completely white lines
whitestart Only at the beginning of lines, before the first non-white char
t Everywhere except in headlines
exc-hl-bol Everywhere except at the start of a headline
If you don't mind doing this in two steps:
C-c C-p: move the cursor to the previous heading (** Section A in your example)
TAB: fold the section
This method doesn't require any configuration, as long as you get used to it.