Sanjoy Mahajan <san...@olin.edu> wrote: > Christian Moe <mail <at> christianmoe.com> writes: > > > The Org manual (2.5 Structure editing) says to use M-S-≤right> > > (org-demote-subtree) for what the submitter wants to do. > > (I am the original reporter of the issue on the Debian BTS.) That is useful > information for me, and I will use those keys. > > I do worry about one point, namely that C-c C-> (outline-demote) should still > work.
That seems like an unreasonable expectation to me. Despite the similarities, it's a completely different function, with different pre- and post- conditions and different assumptions about what the data looks like. [Warning: stupid analogy ahead] When you need to turn a screw, you look at the head and choose the right screwdriver for it. If you use a Philips screwdriver to turn a square-drive screw, you'll damage the screw even if you do manage to turn it a bit. > And it does work in regular outline mode. For example, if I rename my > test file to c.otl and then use C-c C-> on the main heading, all the subtrees > are demoted as I expected. Whereas in org mode the leaf subtree gets a space > instead of a * when it is being demoted. > To continue the analogy: sure, if you replace the square drive screw with a Philips screw, you can turn it with the Philips screwdriver. > So, I wonder whether org mode is somehow messing up outline-demote without > meaning to? I am far from an expert on the org.el lisp code, and maybe the > current org-mode behavior is the intended result. But I worry that it is not > intended and instead is an accidental side effect of something else. > No: orgmode uses a small subset of outline-* functions, mostly to navigate between headings, but it does not use outline-demote at all. Nick
