From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Hsiu-Khuern Tang <hsiu-khuern.tang@hp.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sorting a column of inactive dates
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:53:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A56818D9-C773-406B-8CA7-0DE9863B4DDE@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090203000630.GX28304@hplhtang1>
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Hsiu-Khuern Tang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a table where one column consists of inactive dates, such as
> this:
>
> | Date | OK? |
> |------------------+-----|
> | [2009-01-30 Fri] | x |
> | [2009-01-27 Tue] | x |
> | [2009-01-28 Wed] | x |
>
> I can't sort the table by that column. If I change the dates to
> active, then
> sorting (by time) works fine. Is this behavior intentional?
Yes, intentional, because the same routine also does sorting of
entries and should prefer active time stamps. However, I realize that
we can still look for an inactive time stamp when no active one can be
found. I just pushed this change.
- Carsten
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 0:06 Sorting a column of inactive dates Hsiu-Khuern Tang
2009-02-06 15:53 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-02-06 18:37 ` Hsiu-Khuern Tang
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