Subject: bug#41198: bug#41130: bug#41198: 27.0.60; [PATCH] heading cycling command for outline

From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:27:33 -0400

> On Oct 16, 2020, at 4:20 AM, Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>>> Now finally org keys are available in etc/NEWS, nice!
>>> But typing S-TAB at the beginning of etc/NEWS signals the error:
>>> 
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Before first heading")
>>>   signal(error ("Before first heading"))
>>> 
>>> This is not how org-mode works - S-TAB doesn't fail before first heading
>>> in org-mode.
>> 
>> Do you suggest to change it to a user-error? Or just be silent?
> 
> To imitate org-mode, maybe outline-mode could temporarily (i.e. by
> using save-excursion) navigate to the first heading before running
> the rest of outline-cycle-buffer when it's before first heading?

This patch should make outline behaves like org: S-TAB always cycle the whole buffer, regardless where is the point. TAB cycles a heading, and does nothing if point is before the first heading.

Yuan