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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can you sort an Org clock table?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:45:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738hyleoa.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+Y+4467vf+6s7n1y6-K9eWjbF_E23Bmo0Wi+EasiPhqVZ48cw@mail.gmail.com

Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:

> Ah yes, I see that I have to move the point into the table cell. I was
> trying with the table header. Slightly odd that. Means that it only
> works on tables that aggregate clock times across multiple files,
> where the times are put in the same cell. Can you replicate? If you do
> a clocktable with the scope set to that file, then there's no way to
> order the cells.
>
> How hard would it be to modify org-dblock-write do you think? In hours
> work for someone familiar with elisp, but not the org codebase.
>

No idea - I have never used clocktables.

> On 31 March 2014 03:06, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>    
>     > Yeah, tried that. Doesn't work! :(
>     >
>    
>     AFAICT, it works fine on your first stackoverflow example.
>    
>     There is probably no hope of getting this method to work the way you
>     want on your second example though: org-sort does not know anything
>     about the substructure of the table.  The only way I can think of is to
>     make the dynblock function that produces the table
>     (org-dblock-write:clocktable) do the sorting.
>
>     > On 30 March 2014 23:24, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>     >
>     >     > I posted a question on StackOverflow:
>     >     >
>     >     > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22749704/how-can-you-sort-an-org-clock-table
>     >     >
>     >     > Summary is: how do I sort an clock table by the % column?
>     >     >
>     >     > Is there anything "out there" I can use to get this working? If not,
>     >     > how complex a job would it be to write something that did this?
>     >     >
>     >     > If you point me in the right direction, I'll see what I can come up with.
>     >     >
>     >
>     >     Never tried on a clock table, but the following works on a generic
>     >     table, so I assume that it will work on a clock table too: put point
>     >     in the column by which you want to sort the table (in the body of the
>     >     table, not in the header) and say M-x org-sort RET n (I assume you
>     >     want numeric sorting, but org-sort provides several kinds). org-sort
>     >     is normally bound to C-c ^ too, so
>     >
>     >         C-c ^ n
>     >
>     >     should be all that's needed.
>     >     --
>     >     Nick
>     >
>    
>     --
>     Nick
>

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-30 21:00 How can you sort an Org clock table? Noah Slater
2014-03-30 21:24 ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-30 22:25   ` Noah Slater
2014-03-31  1:06     ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-31 10:18       ` Noah Slater
2014-03-31 12:45         ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-03-31 13:23           ` Noah Slater
2014-04-16 16:26         ` Bastien
2014-04-16 17:01           ` Noah Slater
2014-04-20  9:41           ` Noah Slater
2014-04-20 10:22             ` Bastien
2014-05-24 18:33               ` Noah Slater
2014-05-24 22:39                 ` Bastien

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