org: Structure editing
2.5 Structure editing
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‘M-<RET>’ (‘org-insert-heading’)
Insert a new heading/item with the same level than the one at
point. If the cursor is in a plain list item, a new item is
created (
Plain lists). To prevent this behavior in lists,
call the command with a prefix argument. When this command is used
in the middle of a line, the line is split and the rest of the line
becomes the new item or headline(1). If the command is used at the
_beginning_ of a headline, the new headline is created before the
current line. If the command is used at the _end_ of a folded
subtree (i.e., behind the ellipses at the end of a headline), then
a headline will be inserted after the end of the subtree. Calling
this command with ‘C-u C-u’ will unconditionally respect the
headline’s content and create a new item at the end of the parent
subtree.
‘C-<RET>’ (‘org-insert-heading-respect-content’)
Just like ‘M-<RET>’, except when adding a new heading below the
current heading, the new heading is placed after the body instead
of before it. This command works from anywhere in the entry.
‘M-S-<RET>’ (‘org-insert-todo-heading’)
Insert new TODO entry with same level as current heading. See also
the variable ‘org-treat-insert-todo-heading-as-state-change’.
‘C-S-<RET>’ (‘org-insert-todo-heading-respect-content’)
Insert new TODO entry with same level as current heading. Like
‘C-<RET>’, the new headline will be inserted after the current
subtree.
‘<TAB>’ (‘org-cycle’)
In a new entry with no text yet, the first <TAB> demotes the entry
to become a child of the previous one. The next <TAB> makes it a
parent, and so on, all the way to top level. Yet another <TAB>,
and you are back to the initial level.
‘M-<left>’ (‘org-do-promote’)
Promote current heading by one level.
‘M-<right>’ (‘org-do-demote’)
Demote current heading by one level.
‘M-S-<left>’ (‘org-promote-subtree’)
Promote the current subtree by one level.
‘M-S-<right>’ (‘org-demote-subtree’)
Demote the current subtree by one level.
‘M-S-<up>’ (‘org-move-subtree-up’)
Move subtree up (swap with previous subtree of same level).
‘M-S-<down>’ (‘org-move-subtree-down’)
Move subtree down (swap with next subtree of same level).
‘M-h’ (‘org-mark-element’)
Mark the element at point. Hitting repeatedly will mark subsequent
elements of the one just marked. E.g., hitting <M-h> on a
paragraph will mark it, hitting <M-h> immediately again will mark
the next one.
‘C-c @’ (‘org-mark-subtree’)
Mark the subtree at point. Hitting repeatedly will mark subsequent
subtrees of the same level than the marked subtree.
‘C-c C-x C-w’ (‘org-cut-subtree’)
Kill subtree, i.e., remove it from buffer but save in kill ring.
With a numeric prefix argument N, kill N sequential subtrees.
‘C-c C-x M-w’ (‘org-copy-subtree’)
Copy subtree to kill ring. With a numeric prefix argument N, copy
the N sequential subtrees.
‘C-c C-x C-y’ (‘org-paste-subtree’)
Yank subtree from kill ring. This does modify the level of the
subtree to make sure the tree fits in nicely at the yank position.
The yank level can also be specified with a numeric prefix
argument, or by yanking after a headline marker like ‘****’.
‘C-y’ (‘org-yank’)
Depending on the options ‘org-yank-adjusted-subtrees’ and
‘org-yank-folded-subtrees’, Org’s internal ‘yank’ command will
paste subtrees folded and in a clever way, using the same command
as ‘C-c C-x C-y’. With the default settings, no level adjustment
will take place, but the yanked tree will be folded unless doing so
would swallow text previously visible. Any prefix argument to this
command will force a normal ‘yank’ to be executed, with the prefix
passed along. A good way to force a normal yank is ‘C-u C-y’. If
you use ‘yank-pop’ after a yank, it will yank previous kill items
plainly, without adjustment and folding.
‘C-c C-x c’ (‘org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift’)
Clone a subtree by making a number of sibling copies of it. You
will be prompted for the number of copies to make, and you can also
specify if any timestamps in the entry should be shifted. This can
be useful, for example, to create a number of tasks related to a
series of lectures to prepare. For more details, see the docstring
of the command ‘org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift’.
‘C-c C-w’ (‘org-refile’)
Refile entry or region to a different location. Refile and
copy.
‘C-c ^’ (‘org-sort’)
Sort same-level entries. When there is an active region, all
entries in the region will be sorted. Otherwise the children of
the current headline are sorted. The command prompts for the
sorting method, which can be alphabetically, numerically, by time
(first timestamp with active preferred, creation time, scheduled
time, deadline time), by priority, by TODO keyword (in the sequence
the keywords have been defined in the setup) or by the value of a
property. Reverse sorting is possible as well. You can also
supply your own function to extract the sorting key. With a ‘C-u’
prefix, sorting will be case-sensitive.
‘C-x n s’ (‘org-narrow-to-subtree’)
Narrow buffer to current subtree.
‘C-x n b’ (‘org-narrow-to-block’)
Narrow buffer to current block.
‘C-x n w’ (‘widen’)
Widen buffer to remove narrowing.
‘C-c *’ (‘org-toggle-heading’)
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.
When there is an active region (Transient Mark mode), promotion and
demotion work on all headlines in the region. To select a region of
headlines, it is best to place both point and mark at the beginning of a
line, mark at the beginning of the first headline, and point at the line
just after the last headline to change. Note that when the cursor is
inside a table (Tables), the Meta-Cursor keys have different
functionality.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) If you do not want the line to be split, customize the variable
‘org-M-RET-may-split-line’.
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