Hi.

Anyone can freely use any code I post here for any purpose, unless I
specifically say otherwise for a particular piece of code (I can't think of
any reason why  would do this, though).

I've included the code for org-sort-multi below. Carsten is correct, it is
not an interactive function. In fact, it isn't really meant to be used
directly at all in its current form. I use it for defining specific custom
sort functions, of which I have also given an example below.

(defun org-sort-multi (&rest sort-types)
  "Sort successively by a list of criteria.
For example, sort first by TODO status, then by priority, then by date, then
alphabetically, case-sensitive.
Each criterion is either a character or a cons pair (BOOL . CHAR), where
BOOL is whether or not to sort case-sensitively, and CHAR is one of the
characters defined in ``org-sort-entries-or-items''.
So, the example above could be accomplished with:
 (org-sort-multi ?o ?p ?t (t . ?a))"
  (mapc #'(lambda (sort-type)
            (org-sort-entries-or-items
             (car-safe sort-type)
             (or (cdr-safe sort-type) sort-type)))
        (reverse sort-types)))

(defun org-sort-custom ()
  "Sort children of node by todo status and by priority, so the * TODO [#A]
items go to the top. Then fold it the way I like it."
  (interactive)
  (org-sort-multi ?o ?p ?T)
  (dotimes (x 2) (org-cycle)))


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> org-sort-multi is a utility function written by Ryan Thompson.
> So far it has not made it into Org-mode.  I seem to
> remember that I did not have a convenient interactive
> interface for it, but I am not sure if I remember correctly.
>
> Another issue is that I am not sure if Ryan has signed the
> papers with the FSF, which would be required for this
> non-trivial change to Org.
>
> Why don't you take Ryan's function and play with it, check
> if it works for you, and if yes, try to convince me
> to add it to Org-mode..?
>
> Ryan, would you be willing to sign the papers with the FSF?
> Did I ask you that before?
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:49 PM, David A. Gershman wrote:
>
>
>> Hello Again,
>>
>> I'm looking to sort my outline (headlines, top level) by multi criteria
>> (2 really).  I see online references to 'org-sort-multi' as recently as
>> August 2009.  But my emacs can't find it.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> David A. Gershman
>> gershman@dagertech.net
>> http://dagertech.net/gershman/
>> "It's all about the path!" --d. gershman
>>
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>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>