Re: suggestion: converting plain lists to subtrees

[Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch>]

Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> writes:

>> Bastien -- I think C-c * could do with a mention in the manual section
>> on Plain Lists. Here's a patch which just copies the section on C-c *
>> from the Structure Editing section.
>
> Applied, thanks!

I'm not such a big fan of code or documentation duplication. Here's a
patch that removes this duplication and simply refers to the original
section on C-c *.

Thanks
Christian

diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 8a65f1a..37cad40 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -1437,13 +1437,8 @@ list.  Finally, even without an active region, a normal line will be
 converted into a list item.
 @kindex C-c *
 @item C-c *
-Turn a normal line or plain list item into a headline (so that it
-becomes a subheading at its location). Also turn a headline into a
-normal line by removing the stars. If there is an active region, turn
-all lines in the region into headlines. If the first line in the
-region was an item, turn only the item lines into headlines. Finally,
-if the first line is a headline, remove the stars from all headlines
-in the region.
+Turn a plain list item into a headline (so that it becomes a subheading at
+its location). @xref{Structure editing}, for a detailed explanation.
 @kindex S-@key{left}
 @kindex S-@key{right}
 @item S-@key{left}/@key{right}