Subject: Re: bug#64227: Setting of outline levels for custom headings

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:56:41 +0300

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> I am using outline-minor-mode and have changed outline-regexp, outline-heading-alist.
>
> Have seen that for some major modes (e.g. emacs-lisp-mode), with outline-minor-mode-highlight
> set to 'override  nil), one has to call (setq-local outline-level 'outline-level) for the 
> heading faces to take effect.
>
> But without the call to outline-minor-mode-highlight, the headings defined by outline-regexp
> still get recognised, but not the outline levels.
>
> It is not evident at this point, which major modes require a call to (setq-local outline-level 'outline-level).
> There is not enough information in the documentation to get a custom headings setup operational.
>
> Furthermore, although a call to (setq-local outline-level 'outline-level) solved the problem,
> a better approach would be for outline-minor-mode to automatically detect whether a custom heading
> was specified, and thus act accordingly.  It would be quite a struggle for people to perceive the
> need to call (setq-local outline-level 'outline-level), as the change is only needed for certain
> major modes only.

Why are you creating a new bug report instead of replying to the existing?