Re: custom sorting of agenda items

From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Re: custom sorting of agenda items
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:59:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=FJOtGC=sRzhEq2FSaXqXrgpK=CDORfomSS-Hr@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <693E7971-E33F-4354-B947-A07FA3D873A6@gmail.com>

Thanks!   Would things work faster if there was a user-defined hook
that was called at each agenda entry at the same time
the 'org-hd-marker property gets stored, so it could store any other
things it needs from the entry as text properties for later
use by user-defined entry sorting routine?

ilya

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
>
>> When giving a user-defined function for org-agenda-cmp-user-defined,
>> the function gets two agenda entries.   Is there a way from an agenda
>> entry
>> to get to the original org entry?
>
> Yes, the marker that points to the original entry is stored in text
> properties.
> You can take it and then go to the entry, for example with
>
> (org-with-point-at (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
>     ;; do here what you need to do at the location of the entry
>     )
>
> You could do this in org-finalize-agenda-hook for all entries, for example.
> Might slow things down, of cause.
>
> HTH
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> Best would be if, besides a user-defined sort function, you could also
>> provide
>> a function that takes the org entry and the agenda item (i.e. is run with
>> point
>> on the org entry and is passed the agenda item), and can then store
>> anything
>> it wants about the org entry as text properties on the agenda item.
>> The companion user-defined sorting function could then use these stored
>> text properties for ordering the agenda items.   Could you add such a
>> hook?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> ilya
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ilya,
>>>
>>> Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to sort agenda entries in a custom agenda view by the value
>>>> of a text property that I put on the headlines.
>>>> Is there a way to do that?
>>>
>>> Well, no.
>>>
>>> Maybe playing around with org-map-entries could yield some result.
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Bastien
>>>
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> - Carsten
>
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