From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rustom Mody" Subject: structure editing in brainstorming mode Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:28:42 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHB9K-0007Cc-8P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:58:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHB9J-0007CQ-0B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:58:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50755 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHB9I-0007CN-RJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:58:44 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.247]:31218) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LHB9I-00041G-FH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:58:44 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so5357683rvb.6 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:58:42 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org There are certain use-cases that come up -- typically when using org-mode in 'brainstorming mode'. I am sure they are so basic that there must be ways of doing it that I dont know of... 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 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? Thanks Rustom