From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: custom sorting of agenda items Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:35:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4ADBC455-8259-4929-8D2C-C4DC63AB03A8@gmail.com> References: <87r5ie2dpx.fsf@gnu.org> <693E7971-E33F-4354-B947-A07FA3D873A6@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36269 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Om9bG-0001Ky-0y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:12:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Om9bE-0007z6-RN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:12:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:39346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Om9bE-0007vB-LW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:12:24 -0400 Received: by mail-ey0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 7so1609483eyg.0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:12:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Ilya Shlyakhter Cc: Martin Pohlack , emacs-orgmode Mode , Bastien Guerry On Aug 17, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: > Thanks Carsten, org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function does what > I need. > > It would be better if it was called with the point already on the > corresponding headline in the corresponding buffer. > This would also be faster as you could call it for all entries in one > buffer at a time, avoiding a separate excursion for each entry. The problem here is that I would have to insert a call to the hook in many different places as there are many different functions that collect entries for the agenda. > > It seems that _appending_ text to the agenda line should be safe. Is > that correct? It might be, but there is a possibility that updating the line after say a TODO state change will not work exactly like you wanted. - Carsten > > thanks, > > ilya > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Carsten Dominik > wrote: >> >> On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: >> >>> Thanks! Would things work faster if there was a user-defined hook >>> that was called at each agenda entry at the same time >>> the 'org-hd-marker property gets stored, so it could store any other >>> things it needs from the entry as text properties for later >>> use by user-defined entry sorting routine? >> >> Please pull and take a look at the new variable >> `org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function'. >> >> Martin, I think you could use this variable also for your >> "filtering" application. >> >> - Carsten >> >>> >>> ilya >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Carsten Dominik >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote: >>>> >>>>> When giving a user-defined function for org-agenda-cmp-user- >>>>> defined, >>>>> the function gets two agenda entries. Is there a way from an >>>>> agenda >>>>> entry >>>>> to get to the original org entry? >>>> >>>> Yes, the marker that points to the original entry is stored in text >>>> properties. >>>> You can take it and then go to the entry, for example with >>>> >>>> (org-with-point-at (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker) >>>> ;; do here what you need to do at the location of the entry >>>> ) >>>> >>>> You could do this in org-finalize-agenda-hook for all entries, for >>>> example. >>>> Might slow things down, of cause. >>>> >>>> HTH >>>> >>>> - Carsten >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best would be if, besides a user-defined sort function, you >>>>> could also >>>>> provide >>>>> a function that takes the org entry and the agenda item (i.e. is >>>>> run >>>>> with >>>>> point >>>>> on the org entry and is passed the agenda item), and can then >>>>> store >>>>> anything >>>>> it wants about the org entry as text properties on the agenda >>>>> item. >>>>> The companion user-defined sorting function could then use these >>>>> stored >>>>> text properties for ordering the agenda items. Could you add >>>>> such a >>>>> hook? >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> >>>>> ilya >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Bastien >>>> > >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Ilya, >>>>>> >>>>>> Ilya Shlyakhter writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to sort agenda entries in a custom agenda view by the >>>>>>> value >>>>>>> of a text property that I put on the headlines. >>>>>>> Is there a way to do that? >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, no. >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe playing around with org-map-entries could yield some >>>>>> result. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Bastien >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>>>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>>>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >>>> >>>> - Carsten >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> - Carsten >> >> >> >> - Carsten