Correcting myself, I paste here another try to the problem at hand. Indeed, moving an item to a list he doesn't directly belong to makes little sense. Thus, the item will be moved at the end of its list.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun ngz-move-item-at-bottom () "Move item at point at the bottom of the list." (interactive) (if (not (org-at-item-p)) (error "Not in a list") (let* ((item (point-at-bol)) (struct (org-list-struct)) (end (org-list-get-item-end item struct)) (bullet (regexp-quote (org-list-get-bullet item struct))) (body (org-trim (buffer-substring (progn (looking-at (concat "[ \t]*" bullet)) (match-end 0)) end))) (prevs (org-list-prevs-alist struct)) (last-item (org-list-get-last-item item struct prevs)) (ins-point (save-excursion (goto-char last-item) (point-at-eol))) (org-M-RET-may-split-line nil)) (if (= item last-item) (error "Item is already at the bottom of the list") (save-excursion (org-list-insert-item ins-point struct prevs nil body)) (delete-region item end) (org-list-repair) (org-update-checkbox-count-maybe))))) #+end_src That function will compute list structure two times (at `org-list-struct' and `org-list-repair' calls), which is bad. It may be interesting to implement an `org-list-delete-item' to solve that problem (it would return structure of the list after deletion, removing the need to recompute it). I'll add it to org-list.el if it proves useful enough (i.e. others use-cases than this function). Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou