Thank you, John, for your answer. And no, it’s much too early for me 
to be sure … But C-c n does actually indent each (first) line with 
whitespace according to the number of asterisks in the heading.

The easiest and fastest solution is in fact deleting the leading 
whitespace in every line by replace-regexp (replace ^ + by nothing).



On 12 Jun 2017, at 18:57, John Kitchin wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Birnle <birnle@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> crux-cleanup-buffer-or-region
>>
>
> if that command is what does it, then it is happening outside of 
> org-mode.
> I guess it is a command from here: https://github.com/bbatsov/crux and 
> that
> it is in a hook function somewhere.
>
> However, I am skeptical this command is what is doing it, because I 
> also
> see this happen occasionally. Are you sure it isn't because
> of org-indent-mode?
>
>
>
> John
>
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