Emacs -Q With org-mode, hs-minor-mode: hs-show-all has no effect, but"Showing all blocks ... done" is messaged. BTW M-x show-all RET works as expected. See also attached png. In GNU Emacs 25.1.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2017-01-02 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES Important settings: value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Org Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t hs-minor-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Hs minor mode enabled in current buffer You can run the command ‘hs-minor-mode’ with M-x h-mi RET Hs minor mode enabled in current buffer Showing all blocks ... done You can run the command ‘hs-show-all’ with C-c @ C-M-s Showing all blocks ... done Quit [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode mail-prsvr mail-utils hideshow org-element org-rmail org-mhe org-irc org-info org-gnus gnus-util org-docview doc-view subr-x jka-compr image-mode dired cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib org-bibtex bibtex org-bbdb org-w3m org org-macro org-footnote org-pcomplete pcomplete org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline easy-mmode org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob-exp org-src ob-keys ob-comint comint ansi-color ring ob-core ob-eval org-compat org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu easymenu calendar cal-loaddefs time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 213298 12008) (symbols 24 44887 0) (miscs 20 90 204) (strings 16 72650 6667) (string-bytes 1 1431280) (vectors 8 18599) (vector-slots 4 529123 7854) (floats 8 212 87) (intervals 28 279 0) (buffers 520 18) (heap 1024 41653 932))