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/ j John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Scot Becker 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 > wrote: > >> Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> > Scot Becker 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 >> >> >> >