Re: Preventing inadvertent global modifications

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> Yesterday, when I was going to commit changes after editing several 
> headings in different places of an Org file, I was surprised by huge 
> diff with hundreds of chunks. Tags spread across the whole file were 
> adjusted by one or tow spaces. Probably I just accidentally hit C-u 
> before setting a tag to a new heading by C-c C-q. Of course, I did not 
> noticed it immediately. I managed to create a commit with real changes 
> without noise due to tags realignment. However I would like to prevent 
> similar issues in future.

You can set `org-auto-align-tags' to nil.

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