[Orgmode] Re: Bug with org-startup-folded?

[Wanrong Lin]

Update on my own investigation/confusion on this problem:

I have two lines like this in my org mode configuration
(setq org-agenda-file-regexp "\\.org\\'")
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist `(,org-agenda-file-regexp . org-mode))

By inserting some "message" statements (that is how far I can go on 
debugging elisp code)  in org-mode function, I found that when I visit a 
".org" file for the fist time, "org-mode" function is not called at all! 
But the file does open as an normal org-mode file (with "Org" appearing 
in the mode-line), except the text is not folded. If I kill the buffer 
and open the fine again, "org-mode" function is invoked and hence text 
is folded.

I can certainly work around this problem by forcing org-mode to be 
called every time I open an org file. But can somebody help me out here? 
Why org-mode is not called at all when the file is opened for the first 
time? Who is keeping track whether the file is opened the first time or 
not? Thanks a lot.

Wanrong

Wanrong Lin wrote:
> Just an update on the problem:
>
> I found that if I add the per-file option like this, the "overview" 
> mode is always on when I visit an org file, whether it is the first 
> time or not.
> #+STARTUP: fold
>
> But the global option does not work fully as I described before.
>
> Wanrong
>
> Wanrong Lin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I like to have newly opened org-mode files in overview (folded) mode. 
> > With org-startup-folded set to t, this seems to only work partially. 
> > That is, when I firstly open an file, say xyz.org file, the file is 
> > unfolded. But if I kill the buffer, and open the same file again, it 
> > will be folded. At first I thought this is because the interference 
> > from the "session" package. But I removed that package and nothing 
> > changed. I am using the latest (5.15) org-mode.
> >
> > Thanks if someone can look into this.
> >
> > Wanrong