By default, if used within ordinary paragraphs in org mode, M-up and M-down
transpose *lines* (not sentences). This was not useful to me. The following
code makes these keys transpose paragraphs, keeping the point at the start
of the moved paragraph. Behaviour in tables and headings is unaffected. It
would be easy to modify this to transpose sentences.
(defun org-transpose-paragraphs (arg)
(interactive)
(when (and (not (or (org-at-table-p) (org-on-heading-p) (org-at-item-p)))
(thing-at-point 'sentence))
(transpose-paragraphs arg)
(backward-paragraph)
(re-search-forward "[[:graph:]]")
(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
t))
(add-to-list 'org-metaup-hook
(lambda () (interactive) (org-transpose-paragraphs -1)))
(add-to-list 'org-metadown-hook
(lambda () (interactive) (org-transpose-paragraphs 1)))
