Status of org-indent-mode functionality?

[IllustratedMan-code]

Does this feature exist in Emacs orgmode core?

Yes

Orgmode link

https://orgmode.org/manual/Org-Indent-Mode.html

Feature value

No response

Additional context

No response

[IllustratedMan-code]

This was talked about before in another issue, but neovim did not support the required functionality. What needs to occur to get this to work? I'm happy to make issues in the main neovim repository to get this to happen.

[jgollenz]

Are the virtual spaces just used for non-headline text or is the second space for each headline level also virtual?

* foo
  content            <-- two virtual spaces

  ** bar              <-- one virtual space?
    more content     <-- four virtual spaces

[IllustratedMan-code]

without org-indent-mode

* foo
content

** bar
more content

with org-indent-mode

* foo
  content

 ** bar
    more content

[IllustratedMan-code]

I believe all indents are virtual.

[jgollenz]

Ah, it's prepending two virtual spaces to every line, even nested headings.

This

* one
foo
** two
bar
*** three
baz

becomes

[IllustratedMan-code]

org-indent-mode is also configurable with org-indent-indentation-per-level which is my case is set to 2. So the number of virtual spaces prepended should be configurable.

[IllustratedMan-code]

Looks like neovim/neovim#9496 needs to be merged before this functionality will be possible.

[jgollenz]

@kristijanhusak can you please add the neovim-dependency label?

[danilshvalov]

See #561

[kristijanhusak]

This feature is now added as experimental in #627 (comment).

Please give it a test and see how it works.

[PriceHiller]

The following stills remains to be done:
(Checked means done)

• Toggling indent mode on or off in a buffer
• Support #+STARTUP: indent & #+STARTUP: noindent
• Support for org-indent-mode-turns-on-hiding-stars like Emacs

I'll be opening PRs to resolve these as time permits. Probably no later than Sunday 2024-28-01.