Hi Christopher, M-right and M-left on item 1.1 will promote / demote it, just as with headings.
http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html#Plain-lists Regards, .j. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 05:49:52PM -0400, Christopher J. White wrote: > I take miscellaneous meeting notes using plain lists. It's usually > a pretty hectic trying to take notes during a meeting, so I'm making > up the structure as I go along. > > I often get to a point where I indented an item wrong: > > - item 1 > - item 1.1 > - item 2 > > I need to get up to item 1.1 and move it as a child of 1. I'd like > [tab] to adjust the indentation. > > I discovered the 'org-cycle-include-plain-lists' variable. The > documentation for the var states: > > If `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' has not been set, <TAB> fixes > the indentation of the current line in a heuristic way. > > That sounds like what I want, but setting to nil doesn't do it, it > just makes <TAB> a nop.