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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>,
	Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Insert a heading in every sibling
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:01:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETqyoKhvZu0iGqeenMYn-yy=ARUkc1w4Rafnbv-EVdzmfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFNfHHxCeWqkTJCNVz+jF4-C3azQMknajk4B=1hEPXBAGU0Sgg@mail.gmail.com>

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I worked out some emacs-lisp code that does some of what you want. It was a
little tricky though to avoid some strange recursion loops. See this post:

http://jkitchin.github.io/blog/2013/10/29/Add-subheadings-to-all-headings-in-an-org-file-at-some-level/

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John

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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks,  Seb and Marcin.  I didn't know about cloning.  That will do for
> those parts of the tree that I know about before I start filling in the
> data.  For afterwards, which is more the case I'm thinking about, I'll aim
> to write an Elisp function using org-insert-subheading.  That sample macro
> gives me something to go on. I'll experiment with keyboard macros, too,
> which might be fine for this application.
>
> Thx.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> > Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> >
>> >> I'm using org-mode to keep track of student grades.  How can I easily
>> >> add a bunch of identical headings at a certain level in my tree?
>> >> Specifically,I have a L2 heading for each student, and I want to put
>> >> a node (heading, with some properties) under each L2 student heading
>> >> for that class.
>> >
>> > Personally, I'd just write a small Elisp function to do that.  (It's
>> > easier than you might think - even I could do that;).)  Here's a thing
>> > that is (remotely) similar:
>> >
>> http://mbork.pl/2013-09-23_Automatic_insertion_of_habit_templates_%28en%29
>> >
>> > Or, you could record a keyboard macro, and even save it as Elisp.
>>
>> Other solutions include:
>>
>> - using YASnippets, or
>>
>> - writing a skeleton in the Org document and cloning it N times at once
>> (see
>>   C-c C-x c).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Seb
>>
>> --
>> Sebastien Vauban
>>
>>
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-29 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-28  1:13 Insert a heading in every sibling Scot Becker
2013-10-28  6:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-10-28  8:51   ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-28 16:08     ` Scot Becker
2013-10-29 19:01       ` John Kitchin [this message]
2013-12-21  6:04 ` Yasushi SHOJI

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