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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Susan Cragin <susancragin@earthlink.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One-keystroke command to move blocks of text up and down
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:16:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0955390C-1431-4D94-8E0B-83515A46666F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29798528.1361721216310.JavaMail.root@elwamui-muscovy.atl.sa.earthlink.net>


On 24.2.2013, at 16:53, Susan Cragin <susancragin@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I use Meta-up-arrow and Meta-down-arrow to move headings in org and entries in spreadsheets. 
> Would like to be able to use the same or similar command to move blocks of text up or down. 
> The current solution--highlight then kill/yank--is just too slow.
> Suggestions?

Hi Susan,

what do you mean by "blocks".  A paragraph?  Does the command

M-x mark-paragraph

select the right amount of text?  If so, you could try the command transpose-paragraphs.

- Carsten

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-24 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-24 15:53 One-keystroke command to move blocks of text up and down Susan Cragin
2013-02-24 16:16 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-02-24 16:21   ` Nicolas Goaziou
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-24 16:48 Susan Cragin
2013-02-24 18:16 ` Nick Dokos
2013-02-24 18:19 ` Bastien
2013-02-24 17:13 Susan Cragin
2013-02-24 18:09 ` Bastien
2013-02-24 19:10 Susan Cragin
2013-02-24 20:23 ` Bastien

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