Question

I started to use the Emacs org-mode for my todo lists.
However, when I save my file all plain text is removed, how do I prevent this from happening?

e.g.

file todo.org:

• thing 1
• thing 2
  Some regular harmless text I would prefer to keep
• thing 3

becomes:

• thing 1
• thing 2
• thing 3

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Okay, I’m silly, I didn’t know org-mode would collapse things. It does indeed say:

• thing 1
• thing 2…
• thing 3

And S-TAB will hide/show all text. Thanks guys!

Answer 1

That’s very odd behaviour. I use org-mode a lot and have never seen this problem. Are you quite sure it doesn’t become;

    * thing 1
    * thing 2...
    * thing 3