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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sort order of TODO entries
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:52:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871up3hyze.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120308155637.42844cf7@vknecht-intel.unibw-hamburg.de> (Detlef Steuer's message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:56:37 +0100")

Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de> writes:

> Dear ORGers.
>
> recently I started to priorize my TODO items.
> (May be that implies failure of my GTD setup, but I don't want to
> discuss that ... )
>
> I found org sorts TODOs in the following way in my agenda view: 
>
> TODO [#A] 
> TODO [#B]
> TODO/WAITING
> TODO [#C]
>
> I don't understand the reasoning in putting TODOs without priority or
> WAITING without priority before priority #C. 
>
> Conceptually "no priority" (for me) means "not decided how important or
> not important at all, but would like to work on it", In contrast "#C"
> means "must be done, but do #A and #B first". 

They don't have 'no priority' -- they have the default priority which is
probably [#C].  You can set the default using variables.

See:
org-default-priority
   The default priority of TODO items.
org-highest-priority
   The highest priority of TODO items.  A character like ?A, ?B etc.
org-lowest-priority
   The lowest priority of TODO items.  A character like ?A, ?B etc.

You're free to change the default to Z or something as long as you also 
set org-lowest-priority appropriately.

Regards,
Bernt


>
> It would IMHO feel much more natural to sort
>
> #A, #B, #C, no priority.
>
> Is that (easily) possible?
>
> SETUP:
> Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.553.g62a63) 
> emacs GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) of 2011-02-22 on build34 
>
> Thx
> Detlef

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08 14:56 Sort order of TODO entries Detlef Steuer
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2012-03-08 18:14   ` Detlef Steuer
2012-03-08 15:52 ` Matt Lundin

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