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From: Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sort order of TODO entries
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:14:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308191406.4ee1ccb7@vknecht-intel.unibw-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871up3hyze.fsf@norang.ca

On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:52:05 -0500
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Dear ORGers.
> >
> > recently I started to priorize my TODO items.
> > (May be that implies failure of my GTD setup, but I don't want to
> > discuss that ... )
> >
> > I found org sorts TODOs in the following way in my agenda view: 
> >
> > TODO [#A] 
> > TODO [#B]
> > TODO/WAITING
> > TODO [#C]
> >
> > I don't understand the reasoning in putting TODOs without priority or
> > WAITING without priority before priority #C. 
> >
> > Conceptually "no priority" (for me) means "not decided how important or
> > not important at all, but would like to work on it", In contrast "#C"
> > means "must be done, but do #A and #B first". 
> 
> They don't have 'no priority' -- they have the default priority which is
> probably [#C].  You can set the default using variables.
> 
> See:
> org-default-priority
>    The default priority of TODO items.
> org-highest-priority
>    The highest priority of TODO items.  A character like ?A, ?B etc.
> org-lowest-priority
>    The lowest priority of TODO items.  A character like ?A, ?B etc.
> 
> You're free to change the default to Z or something as long as you also 
> set org-lowest-priority appropriately.

Thank you both!

Sorry for not getting it from the fine manual.

56 min from asking a question to two perfect answers! Just great!

Detlef


> 
> Regards,
> Bernt
> 
> 
> >
> > It would IMHO feel much more natural to sort
> >
> > #A, #B, #C, no priority.
> >
> > Is that (easily) possible?
> >
> > SETUP:
> > Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.553.g62a63) 
> > emacs GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) of 2011-02-22 on build34 
> >
> > Thx
> > Detlef
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08 14:56 Sort order of TODO entries Detlef Steuer
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-08 18:14   ` Detlef Steuer [this message]
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Matt Lundin

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