[Orgmode] Re: Copying and Pasting (and Selecting)

[David Frascone]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Matt Lundin <address@hidden> wrote:

David Frascone <address@hidden> writes:

> **** Copying and Pasting
> This could just be me fighting with Aquamacs (Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-etc
> mac keys). But, the cutting, copying, and pasting do not seem very
> intuitive.  I am used to (from old emacs days) using C-w and C-y, but,
> i usually did that over regions.  Shift-Arrows to select, etc.  When I
> shift arrow over a subtree it mucks with priority.  I know that's by
> design, but I find it annoying.  Doing the alternative (cutting a
> subtree) does NOT seem intuitive to me.  (Well, the C-w at the end of
> the command (C-c C-x C-w) does).  But, I'm not trying to report a bug
> -- I'm actually asking a question:  How do you guys typically select a
> region and move it, assuming that you can't just move the subtree with
> M-S-<Arrows>

1. I use C-[SPACE] together with transient-mark-mode to select a region
  and then type C-w to kill it and C-y to yank it.

2. I often kill folded subtrees with a simple C-k (org-kill-line).

3. I make frequent use of org-refile.

I didn't like org-refile.  It didn't seem to want to refile under anything but a top level (or maybe I was refiling a level 2) . . . I'll try to play with it some more, but it didn't make my cheat sheet of cool tricks :)

 I need to get used to using the transient mark.  I use C-@ instead of C-Space, though . . . works better across a ssh session :)