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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] sort TODO entries more usefully
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 13:33:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738fyctic.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)

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For some reason I've been sorting lots of TODOs recently, and found the
default behavior of org-sort-entries a little odd. It sorts according to
the order found in org-todo-keywords-1, which apparently just comes from
the order the keywords were scanned during setup. I don't think that's
all that useful, so the attached patch sorts first by
org-not-done-keywords vs org-done-keywords, then alphabetically.
Headings with no keywords sort "big".

I'm not very experienced at logical tricks like sorting strategies, and
I'd be very curious to see if anyone had a more concise way of
expressing the comp function.

Eric

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From d19c86e720feb65e0aef7a1fff9bf19bd75dbcf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 12:18:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Sort TODO entries more usefully

lisp/org.el (org-sort-entries, org-compare-todos-subr): Change the
       sort routine for TODO entries so that they are first sorted by
       keyword time (done or not done) and then
       alphabetically. Entries with no TODO keyword at all are sorted
       "big".
---
 lisp/org.el | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 9f14c44..2400ddf 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -8703,6 +8703,15 @@ Optional argument WITH-CASE means sort case-sensitively."
     (setq s (substring st 1 -1)))
   s)
 
+(defun org-compare-todos-subr (a b)
+  (if (or (and (member a org-not-done-keywords)
+	       (member b org-not-done-keywords))
+	  (and (member a org-done-keywords)
+	       (member b org-done-keywords)))
+      (string< a b)
+    (or (member a org-done-keywords)
+	(consp a))))
+
 (defvar org-priority-regexp) ; defined later in the file
 
 (defvar org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook nil
@@ -8904,8 +8913,8 @@ When sorting is done, call `org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook'."
 	     (or (org-entry-get nil property) ""))
 	    ((= dcst ?o)
 	     (if (looking-at org-complex-heading-regexp)
-		 (- 9999 (length (member (match-string 2)
-					 org-todo-keywords-1)))))
+		 (car (member (match-string 2)
+				org-todo-keywords-1))))
 	    ((= dcst ?f)
 	     (if getkey-func
 		 (progn
@@ -8918,6 +8927,7 @@ When sorting is done, call `org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook'."
          (cond
           ((= dcst ?a) 'string<)
           ((= dcst ?f) compare-func)
+	  ((= dcst ?o) 'org-compare-todos-subr)
           ((member dcst '(?p ?t ?s ?d ?c ?k)) '<)))))
     (run-hooks 'org-after-sorting-entries-or-items-hook)
     ;; Reset the clock marker if needed
-- 
1.9.3


             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-25  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-25  5:33 Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-05-25  6:32 ` [PATCH] sort TODO entries more usefully Bastien
2014-05-25 11:51   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-26  5:10     ` Bastien

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