From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-c ^ for plain lists? Why not?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:25:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq4srfc6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87626l6n6e.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> (James Harkins's message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:41:45 +0800")
Hello,
James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:
> I've started to like checklists because they are a good way to keep
> account of things that have to be done, without the individual items
> being entered into the agenda (and thus transferred to MobileOrg).
>
> But I'm running into the limitation that plain lists can't be sorted
> *by their checklist status*. You can sort alphabetically, numerically
> or by time or function. So, I guess I have to write a lisp function to
> do it... but I don't have time to do that right now, but I need to
> sort the list now...
>
> Valid feature request?
There are four states: checked box, unchecked box, transitory box and no
box at all. I can't see an order that should be prevalent over others.
As such, I think it is a specific use-case that should be treated by "f"
or "F" sorting key. Such a sorting function could be an interesting Org
Hacks addition.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-08 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-08 14:41 C-c ^ for plain lists? Why not? James Harkins
2012-10-08 18:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2012-10-09 0:06 ` James Harkins
2012-10-09 7:58 ` Carsten Dominik
2012-10-27 7:57 ` Bastien
2012-12-28 3:27 ` James Harkins
2012-12-28 10:02 ` Bastien
2012-12-29 0:59 ` James Harkins
2012-12-29 5:04 ` Bastien
2012-10-11 17:48 ` François Pinard
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