Re: [Orgmode] Moving headlines and content.

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 8, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Paul Holcomb wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:28:24PM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote:
> > Not that I know of.
> >
> > It might be possible, however, to (1) make a command that tags each
> > entry with :MARK: (similar to marking in dired -- you don't need  
> > this,
> > but would add completeness) (2) make a command that tags /matching/
> > items (you need this) and (3) make a command that moves all marked
> > entries (using org-refile).
> >
> > Thus, it could be a generic marking mechanism like dired, and it  
> > could
> > work for the outline in addition to the agenda.
> >
> > Not that that helps you :).
>
> Both of these would be killer features IMHO.  This type of UI in mutt
> (tagging messages) is great for dealing with large amounts of items.
>
> I tried to figure out the best way to do this a couple months ago,
> but it was a little over my head for my level of elisp proficiency.
> Ideally, I wanted to show all of the data about to be moved in a
> separate frame, as there is totally the possibility of destroying a
> large amount of data in this way.

Bulk action is now implemented in the agenda (org-mode 6.28,
jeleased a few minutes ago).  I don't think we need it in the
outline - if you go through to mark many entries with a tag
or so, you can then use an agenda search to find the marked
entries and execute the bulk action from the agenda.

- Carsten