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From Org Agenda view, I can do several things like reschedule, reprioritize, tag, etc.

How do I edit the headline itself from the org agenda view? Or it can not be done?

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  • Well, the underlying .org file is a <Tab> org-agenda-goto or <Return> org-agenda-switch-to away, the former in the other window, the latter replaces the agenda view. You could do edits with B org-agenda-bulk-action and f but that sounds too far fetched orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-commands.html
    – p_wiersig
    Commented Nov 28, 2017 at 20:36
  • @p_wiersig I agree with TAB or RET. But there is a specific section on Remote Editing here So I thought out-of-the-box it would provide an option to edit the heading itself
    – deshmukh
    Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34
  • I also want this. First: It fits great into my mental model with C-c C-x p editing properties (etc.) and using something like C-c C-x h to edit the heading itself. It is also really nice, if it works regardless(!) if you are in the agenda-view or in the org-file itself. On top, it is nice, if you don't have to move the point and if it can be done within the minibuffer. So I have a few reasons here to add. :-)
    – jonas
    Commented Oct 28 at 11:06

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I wanted the same and I came to the following solution using the org-edit-headline function in org-mode.

What I did: I took the function that let's you edit the properties from the agenda view:

(defun org-agenda-set-property ()
  "Set a property for the current headline."
  (interactive)
  (org-agenda-check-no-diary)
  (org-agenda-maybe-loop
   #'org-agenda-set-property nil nil nil
   (let* ((hdmarker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
            (org-agenda-error)))
      (buffer (marker-buffer hdmarker))
      (pos (marker-position hdmarker))
      (inhibit-read-only t)
      ) ;; newhead
     (org-with-remote-undo buffer
       (with-current-buffer buffer
     (widen)
     (goto-char pos)
     (org-fold-show-context 'agenda)
     (call-interactively 'org-set-property))))))

and replaced the last interactive call with org-edit-headline. That worked already. In a second step I removed the org-agenda-maybe-loop, because I will be editing headlines one by one:

  (defun org-agenda-edit-headline ()
    "Edit the headline for the current headline."
    (interactive)
    (org-agenda-check-no-diary)
    (let* ((hdmarker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
                         (org-agenda-error)))
           (buffer (marker-buffer hdmarker))
           (pos (marker-position hdmarker))
           (inhibit-read-only t)
           ) ;; newhead
      (org-with-remote-undo buffer
        (with-current-buffer buffer
          (widen)
          (goto-char pos)
          (org-fold-show-context 'agenda)
          (call-interactively 'org-edit-headline)))))

Please note, that I basically don't understand the function, but I'm happy that I was able to make it work.

I have it bound to C-c C-x h in org-agenda-mode-map.

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