On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:44:49 PM UTC-6, Matt Wilkie wrote:
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> Sometimes this can be worked around a little more smoothly by creating a 
> temporary organizer node and putting all the children-to-remain-clones in 
> that before copy org-node and-paste-as-clone. So, 2 or 3 steps instead of 
> n*n steps. 
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Thanks! This is pretty much what I ended up doing.
 

> I'm curious about what produces the want to copy-but-not-clone only the 
> parent in the first place. I don't think I've had encountered that yet. 
> What are you doing that makes this desirable?
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This would be helpful when one wants to have a templete node for multiple 
documents that share majority of contents.

For example, let's say I'm making syllabuses for multiple sections of the 
same course. Then they will share majority of contents, but there will be 
differences such as class information, class meeting time and exam 
schedules, etc. 

With this particular functionality, I can make a templete, with nodes for 
both common and non-common contents, and then make the nodes for the common 
contents clones.
For each class, I can just make a deep copy of the template, and edit 
non-common nodes. 

But it seems currently I cannot do this. So I ended up puttting the common 
contents into one parent node as you said, and manually generate other 
nodes. Which is not ideal because 1) you have to do quite a few 
reorganization of the nodes if you did not plan the structure beforehand, 
and 2) you still have to manually generate non-clone nodes. 

-Joon


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