Christian is correct. Selecting a region and doing `C-c *` *does* work. Please ignore my earlier email. I mixed up some command in org that did not work over region with `C-c *` :) -- Kaushal Modi On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Manuel Koell wrote: > I know how to do in vim. Select all text and hit I (uppercase i), then > start type. > There is also a way in emacs, but I never tried before: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html%5Fnode/emacs/Rectangles.html > > 2015-09-29 5:30 GMT+02:00 Nick Dokos : > >> Xebar Saram writes: >> >> > Hi all >> > >> > im looking for a simple way to convert a simple list of lines (i can >> > mark it first if needed) each to a orgmode header anyone has such a >> > way? >> > >> >> Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just add asterisks in front >> of each line? Maybe with a keyboard macro? Or even a sed script? >> >> There's a reason that org files are plain text. >> >> Nick >> >> >> >