From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas S. Dye" Subject: Newbie question on sorting TODO items Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 08:00:03 -1000 Message-ID: <2212CE18-A3F3-4B36-8734-81176640B286@tsdye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MN9X4-0003Ar-SL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MN9X0-0003Af-AK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38955 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MN9X0-0003Ac-2n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:10 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-02.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.12]:48371) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MN9Wz-0007GR-HT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:09 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-161-159-72.hawaii.res.rr.com ([24.161.159.72] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by box472.bluehost.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MN9Wv-00062W-0q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:05 -0600 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Aloha all, An article from last year "[PATCH 4/5] Add a new sort option, which sorts items by todo keyword" describes what I'd like to do in my .org files, i.e., sort TODO headlines by the order of the TODO state in the TODO sequence. Given: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) STARTED(s) WAITING(w@/!) APPT(a) DELEGATED(l@) | DONE(d!) CANCELLED(c@) DEFERRED(f@) I'd like to see DONE, CANCELLED, and DEFERRED down at the bottom and TODO, STARTED, WAITING, APPT, and DELEGATED up at the top in sorted order. Is this possible? All the best, Tom