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From: Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting lists to todo items and back
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:06:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F38A8126-A184-445B-A2D0-347E15FBA2C7@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wy3om12.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>


On May 21, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> 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.

Yes, for people who can use regexps this is clearly a fast option.

- Carsten

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 13:25 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
2008-05-21 13:06     ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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