auto-expand heading is showing children

[jwiegley]

In my Org-mode file, I tried use :auto-expand: heading, but it shows me both the heading and the headings of the children. If I use :auto-expand: body, then I don't see the children (but presumably I would see the body text if there was any).

Here is my sample file that shows this:

:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       271A6B80-BEC5-485E-A5CA-F514EB4857D0
:CREATED:  [2024-07-18 Thu 13:35]
:SLUG:     todo
:TAGS_ALL: LINK FILE ARCHIVE
:VERB_ALL: Reply Blog
:END:
#+archive: archive/archive.org::
#+filetags: :todo:
#+tags: Foo Bar Baz
#+title: Example

* Headline1
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       D9041A65-12D8-4638-ABA6-2CEACC82E8B9
:CREATED:  [2023-03-27 Mon 17:07]
:CATEGORY: Foo
:auto-expand: headline
:END:
** TODO Headline2                                                                    :Home:Foo:
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       8B3041D5-6B7A-43FB-95B6-74E08AA0DD9C
:CREATED:  [2020-06-09 Tue 09:40]
:LAST_REVIEW: 2024-09-13 Fri
:NEXT_REVIEW: 2024-09-16 Mon
:END:
- Note taken on [2020-11-06 Fri 15:31] \\
  I need to authorize access with Foo by calling Fidelity.
** TODO Headline3                                                                    :LINK:Foo:
SCHEDULED: <2024-11-06 Wed .+3m>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       AB1E8711-E840-4443-988B-450E9331F291
:CREATED:  [2020-11-07 Sat 16:23]
:LAST_REPEAT: [2024-08-06 Tue 14:33]
:REPEAT_TO_STATE: TODO
:LOG_INTO_DRAWER: t
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2024-08-06 Tue 14:33]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2023-03-21 Tue 23:16]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2022-05-07 Sat 12:51]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-10-10 Sun 11:11]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-05-24 Mon 16:51]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-02-09 Tue 10:48]
:END:
** TODO [#C] Headline4                                                                    :Foo:
SCHEDULED: <2024-11-03 Sun .+3m>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       E12A84E3-1B6A-4C97-B990-2556567FEC96
:CREATED:  [2022-04-13 Wed 08:21]
:REPEAT_TO_STATE: TODO
:LOG_INTO_DRAWER: t
:LAST_REPEAT: [2024-08-03 Sat 10:28]
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2024-08-03 Sat 10:28] \\
  Blah
- State "DONE"       from "WAIT"       [2024-04-21 Sun 02:46] \\
  Blah
- State "WAIT"       from "DOING"      [2024-04-19 Fri 17:08] \\
  Blah
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2023-12-27 Wed 14:53]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2022-05-03 Tue 18:22]
:END:
** TODO [#C] Headline5
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       F134E541-2375-44ED-A29C-BB85FB9A3F92
:CREATED:  [2024-06-30 Sun 17:24]
:LAST_REVIEW: 2024-09-13 Fri
:NEXT_REVIEW: 2024-09-16 Mon
:END:

[alphapapa]

Hi John,

I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm testing in a clean Emacs config (using with-emacs.sh), Org 9.7.12, and the version of org-auto-expand that's on MELPA now.

I noticed that in that file, under Headline1, the property is :auto-expand: headline, but it should be :auto-expand: heading. But that's probably not what you want, because it's a top-level heading, so it's visible by default, so :auto-expand: heading should be a no-op.

I modified the file slightly:

:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       271A6B80-BEC5-485E-A5CA-F514EB4857D0
:CREATED:  [2024-07-18 Thu 13:35]
:SLUG:     todo
:TAGS_ALL: LINK FILE ARCHIVE
:VERB_ALL: Reply Blog
:END:
#+archive: archive/archive.org::
#+filetags: :todo:
#+tags: Foo Bar Baz
#+title: Example
#+STARTUP: fold

* Headline1
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       D9041A65-12D8-4638-ABA6-2CEACC82E8B9
:CREATED:  [2023-03-27 Mon 17:07]
:CATEGORY: Foo

:END:
** TODO Headline2                                                                    :Home:Foo:
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       8B3041D5-6B7A-43FB-95B6-74E08AA0DD9C
:CREATED:  [2020-06-09 Tue 09:40]
:LAST_REVIEW: 2024-09-13 Fri
:NEXT_REVIEW: 2024-09-16 Mon
:auto-expand: heading
:END:
- Note taken on [2020-11-06 Fri 15:31] \\
  I need to authorize access with Foo by calling Fidelity.
** TODO Headline3                                                                    :LINK:Foo:
SCHEDULED: <2024-11-06 Wed .+3m>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       AB1E8711-E840-4443-988B-450E9331F291
:CREATED:  [2020-11-07 Sat 16:23]
:LAST_REPEAT: [2024-08-06 Tue 14:33]
:REPEAT_TO_STATE: TODO
:LOG_INTO_DRAWER: t
:auto-expand: body
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2024-08-06 Tue 14:33]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2023-03-21 Tue 23:16]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2022-05-07 Sat 12:51]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-10-10 Sun 11:11]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-05-24 Mon 16:51]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2021-02-09 Tue 10:48]
:END:
** TODO [#C] Headline4                                                                    :Foo:
SCHEDULED: <2024-11-03 Sun .+3m>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       E12A84E3-1B6A-4C97-B990-2556567FEC96
:CREATED:  [2022-04-13 Wed 08:21]
:REPEAT_TO_STATE: TODO
:LOG_INTO_DRAWER: t
:LAST_REPEAT: [2024-08-03 Sat 10:28]
:END:
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2024-08-03 Sat 10:28] \\
  Blah
- State "DONE"       from "WAIT"       [2024-04-21 Sun 02:46] \\
  Blah
- State "WAIT"       from "DOING"      [2024-04-19 Fri 17:08] \\
  Blah
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2023-12-27 Wed 14:53]
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2022-05-03 Tue 18:22]
:END:
** TODO [#C] Headline5
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       F134E541-2375-44ED-A29C-BB85FB9A3F92
:CREATED:  [2024-06-30 Sun 17:24]
:LAST_REVIEW: 2024-09-13 Fri
:NEXT_REVIEW: 2024-09-16 Mon
:END:

Then, after reverting the buffer, and then calling org-auto-expand, I see this:

As far as I can tell, it's behaving correctly, but maybe I'm missing something.

[jwiegley]

Interesting, changing to :auto-expand: heading does not have an effect. I wonder if it is something else in my configuration. Btw, I'm using 29.4 with Org-mode 9.6.30.

[alphapapa]

I don't know if anything fold-related changed between Org 9.6.30 and 9.7.12, but it's possible. Regardless, Org 9.6 is supposed to work, and the cycling/folding API in Org is somewhat challenging, so there could be a bug here.

If you have time to step through the code, any bug would probably be in the function org-auto-expand-node. If it doesn't do what's expected, maybe it needs to behave differently on certain Org versions.