2.4 Structure Editing

M-RET

Insert new heading with same level as current. If point is in a plain list item, a new item is created (see Plain Lists). When this command is used in the middle of a line, the line is split and the rest of the line becomes the new headline2.

M-S-RET

Insert new TODO entry with same level as current heading.

TAB in new
empty entry

In a new entry with no text yet, TAB cycles through reasonable levels.

M-LEFT
M-RIGHT

Promote or demote current heading by one level.

M-UP
M-DOWN

Move subtree up or down, i.e., swap with previous or next subtree of same level.

C-c C-w

Refile entry or region to a different location. See Refile and Copy.

C-x n s
C-x n w

Narrow buffer to current subtree and widen it again.

When there is an active region (Transient Mark mode), promotion and demotion work on all headlines in the region.


Footnotes

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If you do not want the line to be split, customize the variable org-M-RET-may-split-line.