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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: structure editing in brainstorming mode
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:55:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F994805-E7F0-4DCC-A5DD-B256EC029F11@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fxk76t6r.fsf@fastmail.fm>


On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

>
> Hi Rustom,
>
> "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1. Multiple heading demotion
>>
>> Lets say I start writing down some points maybe with/without some
>> additional text
>> * Cat
>> * Dog
>>
>> And now I decide to put all these into a superheading 'My Pets'
>> The only way I know is to enter
>> * My Pets
>> before Cat and then demote each subtree -- if there were not two but
>> ten I'd have to do that 10 times
>> I tried selecting the whole set that I want to demote and doing M-S- 
>> right
>> but I get the message
>>
>> This command is active in special contexts like tables headlines or  
>> timestamps
>
> For this, you can use M-<right> and M-<left>, which promote and demote
> headlines. (M-S-<right> demotes the entire subtree.)

Hi Rustom,

have you seen this part of the reply?  Matt is correct that what you  
are trying (demoting a region of headlines) works with M-right, but  
not with M-S-right.  The reason for this is that a region might  
contain incomplete trees, which would led to a contradiction in which  
headlines should be changed.

- Carsten


>
>
> See this section of the manual a list of commands:
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html#Structure-editing
>
>> 2. Converting heading type
>>
>> Sometimes one assumes that the points are 'small' and so are entered
>> as + points. Thus
>> * Pets
>>  + Cat
>>  + Dog
>>
>> and then at some point it emerges that the +es had better be changed
>> to headings that is (the requisite number of) *s.  Any easy way of
>> doing that?
>>
>
> C-c - or S-<left>/<right> should do the trick.
>
> For more information, see this section of the manual:
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html#Plain-lists
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29  5:58 structure editing in brainstorming mode Rustom Mody
2008-12-29 12:51 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-30 23:55   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-12-31  6:04     ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31  8:07       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 11:36         ` Daniel Clemente
2008-12-31 13:28           ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 13:33             ` Daniel Martins
2009-01-01  6:42             ` Rustom Mody
2009-01-01  8:58               ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-01 22:53         ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-29 16:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-29 17:15   ` Nick Dokos
2008-12-30  0:50 ` Olaf Dietsche
2008-12-30 14:11   ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31  0:23     ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found] <200812291702.mBTH2sVD004384@bp34.u.washington.edu>
2008-12-29 19:44 ` Scott Otterson
2008-12-29 20:10   ` Matthew Lundin

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