From: Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to move up/down a headline but not the subtree?
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 13:28:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23358.220.12819.903256@frac.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgaq0xke.fsf@ossau.homelinux.net>
Neil Jerram writes on Thu 5 Jul 2018 11:46:
> > What I would like to do is to be able to move a headline with
> > everything up to (but not including) its first subheading.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do that?
> >
> > I am also interested in knowing if there are specific (deep?)
> > reasons why this seemingly basic operation, which I see as the
> > analogous of org-do-promote/demote and perform very often with
> > standard (but tedious) emacs editing commands, is not already
> > implemented.
> My view/guess: because the subheadings are an integral part of the
> content of the containing item.
>
> Wouldn't you agree? It seems to me like a fairly fundamental
> aspect of the Org model.
Yes, but couldn't you raise the same argument about
org-promote/demote?
> That said, perhaps your use case is one where you've realized that
> subheadings don't actually belong to the containing item? In that
> case, what could make more sense is to promote (or kill and yank
> elsewhere) all of the wrongly placed subheadings. You could
> promote an individual subheading with M-S-left, or kill and yank it
> with C-c C-x C-w and C-c C-x C-y, but I don't know if there's an
> easy way to repeat that over all subheadings.
>
> Another possible approach: what about demoting just the containing
> heading with M-left and then killing/yanking that elsewhere?
My use case is after I have not too carefully written down many ideas.
Then I start thinking and try to order them in a better way. All what
you suggest is very sensible but much longer than the command I am
looking for.
Thanks much for you time.
a.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-05 9:40 How to move up/down a headline but not the subtree? Alain.Cochard
2018-07-05 9:44 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-05 10:38 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-07-05 10:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-05 12:07 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-07-05 13:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-05 10:46 ` Neil Jerram
2018-07-05 11:28 ` Alain.Cochard [this message]
2018-07-05 12:53 ` Neil Jerram
2018-07-06 12:45 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-07-10 17:51 ` Bernt Hansen
2018-07-05 10:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-07-06 11:59 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-07-07 8:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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