List-style Paragrah Reordering

List-style Paragrah Reordering

[Laemeur]

In Org-mode, reordering items in a list is a piece of cake with the Meta-Shift-up/down binding: the current list item swaps places with the item above or below, and point keeps its position relative to the current line. I would like to be able to do this with paragraphs/lines of text as well, but Meta-Shift-up/down only works this way on tables, lists, and headings by default.

I would really appreciate any help in configuring Emacs to do this. Hopefully it's a relatively simple thing to do. 

Thanks very kindly,
-L

Re: List-style Paragrah Reordering

[Jambunathan K]

Laemeur <laemeur@gmail.com> writes:

> In Org-mode, reordering items in a list is a piece of cake with the
> Meta-Shift-up/down binding: the current list item swaps places with
> the item above or below, and point keeps its position relative to the
> current line. I would like to be able to do this with paragraphs/lines
> of text as well, but Meta-Shift-up/down only works this way on tables,
> lists, and headings by default.

The specific command for paragraphs is

    M-x org-drag-element-forward
    M-x org-drag-element-backward

They can be invoked with 

      M-up
      M-down

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The specific command for lines is

    M-x org-drag-line-forward
    M-x org-drag-line-backward
    

This can be invoked with

   S-M-down
   S-M-up

>
> I would really appreciate any help in configuring Emacs to do
> this. Hopefully it's a relatively simple thing to do.
>
> Thanks very kindly,
> -L

Re: List-style Paragrah Reordering

[laemeur]

Haha. It looks like I should have spent a bit more time with the documentation, doesn't it?

Thanks a mint, Jambunathan K. I really appreciate it.

-L