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Subject: Re: Automatically move completed TODO items and checkboxes to
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Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>>>>>> Michael Hoffman writes:
> 
>> I've also tried regex-searching for something like "^ - \[ \]" ->
>> "*** TODO" but it's not foolproof since the number of leading spaces
>> doesn't always have something to do with the level of the previous
>> header.
> 
> It looks like you're looking for `org-list-make-subtree' (C-c C-*) and
> then replacing [CBON] with DONE and [CBOFF] with TODO.
> 
> If it's something else, could you explain it with an example?

Try this:

** TODO x
   - [ ] x1
   - [ ] x2
     - [ ] x2.1

Set the region to the checkbox lines, then do C-c C-*. The result is:

** TODO x
*** [ ] x1
*** [ ] x2
*** [ ] x2.1

If you set a macro to do each line individually and move down, you 
instead get:

** TODO x
*** [ ] x1
**** [ ] x2
***** [ ] x2.1

I would regard the correct conversion to be:

** TODO x
*** [ ] x1
*** [ ] x2
**** [ ] x2.1

I'm using Emacs 23.1.3 and org-mode 6.21b.