how to change levels of chunks in outline mode?

how to change levels of chunks in outline mode?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  is there an easy way to shift an entire chunk of a file
that i'm looking at in outline mode either up or down a level
of depth?

  that is, if i have a number of consecutive chapters that
are at level one, and i decide that they really should be
all sections in a more all-encompassing chapter, can i shift
all level 1 headings to level 2, the internal level 2s to level
3, and so on?

rday

Re: how to change levels of chunks in outline mode?

[Alan Wehmann]

Since the outline level is determined by the length of the match to
the regular expression that looks for outline headers, I should think
you could interactively change the headers so that the length of the
match changes--in the chunk where you want to make changes.  For
example, by using "query-replace-regexp".  You could use narrowing to
control where you make such changes.

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:

>   is there an easy way to shift an entire chunk of a file
> that i'm looking at in outline mode either up or down a level
> of depth?
> 
>   that is, if i have a number of consecutive chapters that
> are at level one, and i decide that they really should be
> all sections in a more all-encompassing chapter, can i shift
> all level 1 headings to level 2, the internal level 2s to level
> 3, and so on?
> 
> rday
> 
> 
> 

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Alan Wehmann
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