From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sort lists by highest level entries
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:05:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876214fr9v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51376744.7020708@online.de> (Rainer Stengele's message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:56:52 +0100")
Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:
> I reread the manual:
>
> C-c ^ (org-sort)
> Sort same-level entries. When there is an active region, all entries
> in the region will be sorted. Otherwise the children of the current
> headline are sorted. The command prompts for the sorting method, which
> can be alphabetically, numerically, by time (first timestamp with active
> preferred, creation time, scheduled time, deadline time), by priority,
> by TODO keyword (in the sequence the keywords have been defined in the
> setup) or by the value of a property. Reverse sorting is possible as
> well. You can also supply your own function to extract the sorting key.
> With a C-u prefix, sorting will be case-sensitive.
>
> I cannot find the hint to have to be on a list item. It looked more
> promising to mark the region.
It is documented in section "2.7. Plain lists".
> How can I begin to help work on the documentation?
If you think something as to be done about it, you can provide a patch
against org.texi (and orgguide.texi). See:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 14:19 sort lists by highest level entries Rainer Stengele
2013-03-06 14:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-06 15:30 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-03-06 15:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-06 15:56 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-03-06 16:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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