Hiding and Showing

Individual cells, branches, or particular levels in the outline may be hidden or shown. These commands work even when an outline buffer is read-only, e.g. when its file is not checked out of a version control system yet, so that you can get effective views of an outline without editing it. Some of these commands affect the current view spec. See View Specs.

Here are the major commands for showing and hiding Koutline cells.

{C-c C-h}

Hide (collapse) the tree rooted at point.

{C-c C-s}

Show (expand) the tree rooted at point.

{C-c C-a}

Show (expand) all of the cells in the outline. With a prefix arg, also toggle the display of blank lines between cells.

{C-x $}

Show all of the cells down to a particular <level>. You are prompted for the level or a prefix argument may be given.

{C-M-h}

Hide the subtree at point, excluding the root cell.

{M-x kotl-mode:show-subtree}

Show the subtree at point. Use {C-c C-s} to achieve a similar effect; the only difference is that it will additionally expand the root cell.

{C-c C-o}

Show an overview of the outline by showing only the first line of every cell. With a prefix arg, also toggle the display of blank lines between cells.

{C-c C-t}

Show a top-level view of the outline by hiding all cells but those at level 1 and collapsing the visible cells so that only their first lines are visible. With a prefix arg, also toggle the display of blank lines between cells.

A click or a press of the Action Key within a cell’s body, but not on a Hyperbole button, runs the function stored in the variable, kotl-mode:action-key-default-function, which by default does nothing.

In prior Koutliner versions, this would toggle between showing and hiding the tree at point; however,now you can use the Org-style tree visibility cycling on {TAB} instead. If you prefer the prior behavior, uncomment the setting for that variable near the bottom of the Hyperbole man/use-package reference file when you add it to your persnal init file. Note, however, that if hywiki-mode is set to ‘:all’ then when point is on a capitalized word in a Koutline, an Action Key press will create a new HyWiki page, as that has higher priority than this setting.