Emanuel Berg via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes:
> Can I tell Org mode to don't change editing back and > forth, also don't collapse items in and out, i.e. > virtually text mode I did not test it to every detail, but the following two settings may be a good starting point: #+begin_src elisp (setq org-startup-folded 'showeverything) (setq org-link-descriptive nil) #+end_src Also have a look at all the ~org-toggle-*~ commands like ~org-toggle-link-display~ and ~org-toggle-pretty-entities~ (the source of these commands should reveal the associated variable that can be set globally to the desired start value). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.