From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Sorting TODOs with time-up Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:15:13 +0200 Message-ID: <2A75F1B6-E167-4260-B6D1-D8166C9DFE9E@gmail.com> References: <0FCA0437-9513-4C9F-BBFC-6B51A5E8E704@gmail.com> <87iqlqzpsu.fsf@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) 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 1LoOpG-0007db-0L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:15:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoOpB-0007Xc-Gc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:15:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoOpA-0007XC-Vf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:15:17 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f160.google.com ([209.85.219.160]:34831) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoOpA-0008Rc-FF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:15:16 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so2377052ewy.42 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:15:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87iqlqzpsu.fsf@arcor.de> 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: David Engster Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:03 PM, David Engster wrote: > Carsten Dominik writes: >> On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:46 PM, David Engster wrote: >>> Thanks for the clarification. This is a bit confusing, since sorting >>> by priority works in the todo list, but sorting with date does >>> not. Also, since I call the function 'org-agenda', it is a bit >>> unexpected that when I press 't' afterwards I don't really get an >>> agenda but a TODO list, which seems to behave differently in some >>> aspects from the normal agenda view I get when pressing 'a'. >> >> Yes, this is bad terminology, which evolved historically. >> >> "org-agenda" is a dispatcher for the different views that we call >> "agenda views". >> >> One of the "agenda views" is the global todo list (on `t'), another >> one is the "daily/weekly agenda" (on `'a), which is a list of what is >> due today or this week. >> I always try to call it explicitly >> "daily/weekly agenda" to avoid some of that confusion, but I agree, >> if >> I'd get a chance to start again I would use better terms. Now these >> are so engrained in our mailing list culture and into tutorials etc >> that I do not dare to change them anymore. > > Thank you for the explanation. Maybe this situation could be cleared > up > a bit in the manual. While browsing through chapter 10, I got the > impression that the different views are just different filters, but > that > I'm always dealing with the same agenda mode, where each entry carries > the same information. Actually, I think this is so, entries always do carry the same information in all these views. remember that, a Matt said, time-up is time-of-day only. > > Maybe one could explicitly mention which commands and sorting > strategies > only apply to the daily/weekly agenda? I'd also say that the doc- > string > of org-agenda-sorting-strategy does not make this point clear enough. I will see what I can do. - Carsten > >> Yes can use the text property on a, `org-hd-marker', which is a >> marker >> pointing to the original location of the item. You can make your >> function go back to get this information. >> >> For example with >> (org-entry-get (get-text-property 0 'org-hd-marker a) "SCHEDULED") > > I will try that. Thank you for your help! > > -David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode