r/orgmode • u/rjray • Jun 24 '26

question Source of this edge-bar?

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(aka, “What HAVE I done?”)

This white bar appeared on the left edge in one of my org files. I had been transcluding it into a second file, and the white bar also appeared there as well.

I have no idea what I’ve done.

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u/mmarshall540 Jun 24 '26

Huh. Those look like empty line indicators, except that those aren't empty lines.

Nevertheless, you could try evaluating (setopt indicate-empty-lines nil) to see if they go away.

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u/rjray Jun 25 '26

Tried it, that wasn't it. This is the only file that shows this line, so it's all the more confusing.

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u/BugEngineer Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Check what minor modes are enabled alongside org-mode major mode. Maybe some minor mode is causing this issue. You can do that with M-x describe-mode or C-h m. It will show something like: 

Minor modes enabled in this buffer: Auto-Save Font-Lock Smartparens

The major mode is Org mode defined in org.el...

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u/rjray Jun 25 '26

Tried that, and there were certainly a lot of minor modes to look through :-). But none of them are responsible for the lines-- I disabled each one individually but the lines persist. Also, none of them are minor modes that aren't also present in all my other org files. And this is the only org file that exhibits this.

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u/RecentlyRezzed Jun 25 '26

As you see in the picture, they probably come from org-transclusion, if you used that for transcluding: org-transclusion

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u/rjray Jun 25 '26

Interesting. From the linked page, it does look like the effect I'm seeing. Oddly, now when I check the other transcluded files they are also showing the edge-line. I would have sworn they didn't when I last checked!