Nicolas, Upgraded to org 8.3.4, made no difference.
But I have just now realised what the problem is! I have been using org-demote-subtree, not org-demote , Meta-Shift-Right, not Meta-Right. And org-demote does indeed work on an active region for me. I suppose you could argue that org-demote-subtree ought to do the same, but (a) there's no need and (b) there might be a question about what is meant by 'subtrees' in a region. Doh! Thanks for your help. Regards, Ron ----- Original message ----- From: Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> To: Ron Mitchell <r...@ronmitchell.co.uk> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: Promote/demote an Active Region Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:03:02 +0200 Hello, Ron Mitchell <r...@ronmitchell.co.uk> writes: > In "2.5 Structure Editing" the org info manual says > > "When there is an active region (Transient Mark mode), promotion and > demotion work on all headlines in the region." > > That doesn't work for me. Only the line at point is pro- or de- moted. I cannot reproduce it. E.g., in the following document, where region boundaries are marked with |, |* H1 ** H11| * H2 using M-Right gives ** H1 *** H11 * H2 Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
