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

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