From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion: converting plain lists to subtrees
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:09:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz15zz5a.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4b11f87e0907211021n524f5e78vec070528f3a9092b@mail.gmail.com
Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> A suggestion for a simple but useful command: convert a plain list to
> a full-blown org subtree.
Have you seen org-toggle-heading? (C-c * when not in a table).
However, it seems that it doesn't preserve any list hierarchical
structure when converting to headlines.
Bastien -- I think C-c * could do with a mention in the manual section
on Plain Lists. Here's a patch which just copies the section on C-c *
from the Structure Editing section.
Dan
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 3dc329e..75d9c79 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -1435,6 +1435,15 @@ region when calling this, all lines will be converted to list items. If the
first line already was a list item, any item markers will be removed from the
list. Finally, even without an active region, a normal line will be
converted into a list item.
+@kindex C-c *
+@item C-c *
+Turn a normal line or plain list item into a headline (so that it
+becomes a subheading at its location). Also turn a headline into a
+normal line by removing the stars. If there is an active region, turn
+all lines in the region into headlines. If the first line in the
+region was an item, turn only the item lines into headlines. Finally,
+if the first line is a headline, remove the stars from all headlines
+in the region.
@kindex S-@key{left}
@kindex S-@key{right}
@item S-@key{left}/@key{right}
> Sometimes I start with a plain list and later realize that it is
> getting complex and a full-fledged hierarchy is needed.
> Converting by hand is a pain. It would be great if this could be automated.
> Thanks,
> ilya
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 17:21 suggestion: converting plain lists to subtrees Ilya Shlyakhter
2009-07-21 18:09 ` Dan Davison [this message]
2009-07-21 20:23 ` Bastien
2009-07-24 8:03 ` Christian Egli
2009-07-25 11:57 ` Bastien
2009-07-25 22:12 ` Bastien
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