the shortest way I know of is: highlight the lines, including their newline character,
line1
line2
line3
Then execute M-x org-ctrl-c-minus
(press C-c -
) and you will get
- line1
- line2
- line3
Then run M-x org-shiftright
(press
) twice and you get the desired
1. line1
2. line2
3. line3