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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl>, Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting lists to todo items and back
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:54:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wy3om12.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8BA7691E-D112-44B1-A6BF-15B3F3811526@uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed\, 21 May 2008 14\:03\:52 +0200")

Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl> writes:

> Org has these:
>
> C-c *      can turn an item into a headline.
>
> However, the heading will always be a subheading of the nearest
> heading above,
> so to convert your list, you should start from te end.
>
>
> C-c -      can turn an headline into an item
>
> `C-c -' will also take an active region and turn each line into an item.
>
> My personal solution fo things like this usually is  keyboard macro.
> For example, in this case

Thanks for the feedback :).  I wasn't aware of the C-c - and C-c * key
bindings.  I think I need to review the org-mode manual every quarter or
something - there's so much useful stuff in org-mode!

I ended up using a regexp replacement for converting my lists which
turned out to be pretty easy.

Sorry for the noise.

-Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 17:48 Converting lists to todo items and back Bernt Hansen
2008-05-20 18:04 ` Paul R
2008-05-21 12:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-05-21 12:54   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2008-05-21 13:06     ` Carsten Dominik

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