How to keep indentation with Emacs + org-mode + visual-line-mode?

Question

Emacs + org-mode + visual-line-mode + window resizing produce this kind of view :

* My list
  * Some thing this is longer
back to line which is really
anoying
  *         


        

Answer 1

Activate org-indent-mode. One way is to add a hook

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (org-indent-mode t))
          t)

but the easier way is to customize org-startup-indented to be non-nil.

Note that even when org-indent-mode is non-nil, headlines still don't enjoy auto-fill treatment. It's only the body of an entry that will be both filled and indented left-justified against its parent heading's left column.

Answer 2

For a new enough version of org-mode, M-x customize-variable org-indent-mode should do. There's a recent fix reconciliating org-indent-mode with visual-line-mode.