Re: [O] Promote/demote an Active Region

[Uwe Koloska]

Am 09.04.2016 um 17:52 schrieb Ron Mitchell:
> In "2.5 Structure Editing" the org info manual says
> 
> "When there is an active region (Transient Mark mode), promotion and
> demotion work on all headlines in the region."
> 
> That doesn't work for me. Only the line at point is pro- or de- moted. 
> 
> Is this a bug, or am I not understanding the manual in some way?  If it is a
> bug, how should I report it?

I don't know wether this is a bug or not.  But I know a way that works:

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5719/how-do-i-demote-promote-selected-subtrees/18216#18216

If you kill the region that you want to promote/demote and then use
org-paste-subtree with the needed number of stars before the paste
target, you get what you want.

Uwe