Re: [O] modifying/deleting ovelrays; also, un-sparsifying tree?

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:

Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:

> In my gradesheets I use overlays to display the grade property in headlines
> -- that way I can see at a glance approximately how my students are doing:
>
> ;; still imperfect, but good enough for me.
> (defun org-grading-overlay-headings ()

Why don't you use column view instead?

um.  because...  um.... I guess I had some reason a year ago when I designed this system. Looking at it again today, column view looks great...

> An unrelated simple question: if I make a sparse tree (e.g. by searching
> for all subtrees with a "GRADE" property of "0" or "FAIL",), can i
> un-sparsify hte buffer afterwards? I didn't immediately find that option in
> the manual.

See `org-reveal' or `org-cycle'.

org-reveal is what I'm looking for, thank you!

Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou