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To display the buffer in the indented view, activate Org Indent minor mode, using M-x org-indent-mode. Text lines that are not headlines are prefixed with virtual spaces to vertically align with the headline text146.
To make more horizontal space, the headlines are shifted by two
characters. Configure org-indent-indentation-per-level
variable for
a different number. Only one star on each headline is visible, the
rest are masked with the same font color as the background147.
To globally turn on Org Indent mode for all files, customize the
variable org-startup-indented
. To control it for individual files,
use ‘STARTUP’ keyword as follows:
#+STARTUP: indent #+STARTUP: noindent
Org Indent mode also sets wrap-prefix
correctly for
indenting and wrapping long lines of headlines or text. This minor
mode also handles Visual Line mode and directly applied settings
through word-wrap
.
Note that turning on Org Indent mode sets
org-hide-leading-stars
to t
and org-adapt-indentation
to nil
.