From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sort TODOs in agenda day
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:06:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fweseklw.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58b1290a-d578-477e-b5ad-c9d77cb02a52@CERNFE23.cern.ch> (Jacek Generowicz's message of "Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:24:56 +0100")
Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch> writes:
> At Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:51:59 -0500,
> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>> When I was first experimented with the sorting strategy I used the
>> customize interface to set it for the current session only and looked at
>> the result of my agenda with the new setting.
>
> Yes, setting configurations for current session only is a huge boon
> for trials, but the clunky customize interface for manipulating the
> values is a bit annoying compared to Emacs' built in sexpr
> manipulation. Swapping the order of two sorting strategy entries, for
> example, is very painful compared to C-M-t. Is there some convenient
> way of, say, swapping entries in the customize interface?
I would probably show the current customize setting, paste it to the
scratch buffer and wrap it in a (setq VARIABLE-NAME ...) and then edit
it and C-M-t, then go back to the customize view to tweak other
settings.
The main advantage of customize is it won't break the format. I used
customize almost exclusively for 2 years when I was working with my
org-mode files and have since moved to setq's only since I'm now
comfortable with the elisp sexp settings.
>
>> (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>> (quote ((agenda habit-down time-up user-defined-up priority-down effort-up category-keep)
>> (todo category-up priority-down effort-up)
>> (tags category-up priority-down effort-up)
>> (search category-up))))
>>
>> so for the agenda daily view habits are at the bottom, and timed items
>> are at the top, then my user-defined sorting function sorts what is left
>> for the middle section of the list in the following order:
>
> It's still not entirely clear to me how these options work. Take
> habit-down, at the beginning. What do the '-down' and '-up' mean? I
> infer that they might have one of two meanings: in 'habit-down' the
> '-down' seems to mean that habits should be placed at the bottom,
> while in 'effort-down' I infer that it means that items with an effort
> property should be sorted by decreasing effort, relative to eachother.
>
> There's clearly some confusion in my mind about how these work.
I came up with my current settings with a bunch of trial and error until
it did what I wanted - then I moved on to something else. I'm not sure
I understand all of it either :)
>
>> - items with no schedule/deadline and timestamped for today
>> - deadlines for today
>> - late deadlines
>> - scheduled items for today
>> - late scheduled items
>> - and pending deadlines last
>
> Incidentally, why did you need to create a macro which captures num-a,
> num-b result, for your implementation of bh/agenda-sort? AFAICT,
> functions which return +1,-1 or nil would have been adeqate here. What
> have I missed?
Honestly I can't remember... I was experimenting with macros for the
first time when I wrote this. The function that is called is passed in
as the first argument but if an elisp function can do the job then the
macro probably isn't required.
What I have works now... so I'm not sure I want to try to fix it :)
Regards,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 12:30 Sort TODOs in agenda day Jacek Generowicz
2012-01-31 0:32 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-31 8:03 ` Jacek Generowicz
2012-01-31 17:39 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-02-01 10:02 ` Jacek Generowicz
2012-02-01 12:51 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-02-02 9:24 ` Jacek Generowicz
2012-02-03 2:06 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2012-02-02 18:11 ` Samuel Wales
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