On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> A couple of sorting-related issues, under a different subject header
> so as not to get confused with the issues in the previous one.
>
> 1.
>
> It looks like "priority" means both priority /letter/ and
> priority /as calculated/.

This is correct, and indeed not clearly distinguished
in the manual.  Calculated means, there are additions to
the priority depending on how close an entry is to its deadline
or scheduled date.

> I got confused by this at first
> when I wanted to sort using priority-down to mean sorting by
> letter.
>
> Is there a way to sort by priority-letter-down in the
> agenda?

Not currently, no.

>
> This might create an order that is more stable over time,
> thus allowing you to know where to look for an item.
>
> 2.
>
> Is it possible to allow a user-definable sorting strategy
> member for the agenda?  i.e. user-definable-down.

It is now, I just pushed this change.

Search for the variabel org-agenda-cmp-user-defined, and then
use user-defined-up and user-defined-down in your sorting strategy.

- Carsten


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