From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: structure editing in brainstorming mode
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:51:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fxk76t6r.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f46c52560812282158k1a98264bqf62e34c2d2f9b023@mail.gmail.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Mon\, 29 Dec 2008 11\:28\:42 +0530")
Hi Rustom,
"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. Multiple heading demotion
>
> Lets say I start writing down some points maybe with/without some
> additional text
> * Cat
> * Dog
>
> And now I decide to put all these into a superheading 'My Pets'
> The only way I know is to enter
> * My Pets
> before Cat and then demote each subtree -- if there were not two but
> ten I'd have to do that 10 times
> I tried selecting the whole set that I want to demote and doing M-S-right
> but I get the message
>
> This command is active in special contexts like tables headlines or timestamps
For this, you can use M-<right> and M-<left>, which promote and demote
headlines. (M-S-<right> demotes the entire subtree.)
See this section of the manual a list of commands:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html#Structure-editing
> 2. Converting heading type
>
> Sometimes one assumes that the points are 'small' and so are entered
> as + points. Thus
> * Pets
> + Cat
> + Dog
>
> and then at some point it emerges that the +es had better be changed
> to headings that is (the requisite number of) *s. Any easy way of
> doing that?
>
C-c - or S-<left>/<right> should do the trick.
For more information, see this section of the manual:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html#Plain-lists
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-29 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 5:58 Rustom Mody
2008-12-29 12:51 ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
2008-12-30 23:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 6:04 ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31 8:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 11:36 ` Daniel Clemente
2008-12-31 13:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 13:33 ` Daniel Martins
2009-01-01 6:42 ` Rustom Mody
2009-01-01 8:58 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-01 22:53 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-29 16:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-29 17:15 ` Nick Dokos
2008-12-30 0:50 ` Olaf Dietsche
2008-12-30 14:11 ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31 0:23 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] <200812291702.mBTH2sVD004384@bp34.u.washington.edu>
2008-12-29 19:44 ` Scott Otterson
2008-12-29 20:10 ` Matthew Lundin
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