Neil Jerram writes on Thu 5 Jul 2018 11:46: > > What I would like to do is to be able to move a headline with > > everything up to (but not including) its first subheading. > > > > Does anyone know how to do that? > > > > I am also interested in knowing if there are specific (deep?) > > reasons why this seemingly basic operation, which I see as the > > analogous of org-do-promote/demote and perform very often with > > standard (but tedious) emacs editing commands, is not already > > implemented.
> My view/guess: because the subheadings are an integral part of the > content of the containing item. > > Wouldn't you agree? It seems to me like a fairly fundamental > aspect of the Org model. Yes, but couldn't you raise the same argument about org-promote/demote? > That said, perhaps your use case is one where you've realized that > subheadings don't actually belong to the containing item? In that > case, what could make more sense is to promote (or kill and yank > elsewhere) all of the wrongly placed subheadings. You could > promote an individual subheading with M-S-left, or kill and yank it > with C-c C-x C-w and C-c C-x C-y, but I don't know if there's an > easy way to repeat that over all subheadings. > > Another possible approach: what about demoting just the containing > heading with M-left and then killing/yanking that elsewhere? My use case is after I have not too carefully written down many ideas. Then I start thinking and try to order them in a better way. All what you suggest is very sensible but much longer than the command I am looking for. Thanks much for you time. a. -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) IPG (Institut de Physique du Globe) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 106] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | Fax: +33 (0)3 68 85 01 25