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From: Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can you sort an Org clock table?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:23:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Y+446P75L0hy_HXg1zkxeLQcPiqc6Xbx-3LA=z0mX=3uVz0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738hyleoa.fsf@gmail.com>

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Okay thanks. If anyone else does know, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! :)


On 31 March 2014 14:45, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>
> > Ah yes, I see that I have to move the point into the table cell. I was
> > trying with the table header. Slightly odd that. Means that it only
> > works on tables that aggregate clock times across multiple files,
> > where the times are put in the same cell. Can you replicate? If you do
> > a clocktable with the scope set to that file, then there's no way to
> > order the cells.
> >
> > How hard would it be to modify org-dblock-write do you think? In hours
> > work for someone familiar with elisp, but not the org codebase.
> >
>
> No idea - I have never used clocktables.
>
> > On 31 March 2014 03:06, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
> >
> >     > Yeah, tried that. Doesn't work! :(
> >     >
> >
> >     AFAICT, it works fine on your first stackoverflow example.
> >
> >     There is probably no hope of getting this method to work the way you
> >     want on your second example though: org-sort does not know anything
> >     about the substructure of the table.  The only way I can think of is
> to
> >     make the dynblock function that produces the table
> >     (org-dblock-write:clocktable) do the sorting.
> >
> >     > On 30 March 2014 23:24, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
> >     >
> >     >     > I posted a question on StackOverflow:
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22749704/how-can-you-sort-an-org-clock-table
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Summary is: how do I sort an clock table by the % column?
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Is there anything "out there" I can use to get this working?
> If not,
> >     >     > how complex a job would it be to write something that did
> this?
> >     >     >
> >     >     > If you point me in the right direction, I'll see what I can
> come up with.
> >     >     >
> >     >
> >     >     Never tried on a clock table, but the following works on a
> generic
> >     >     table, so I assume that it will work on a clock table too: put
> point
> >     >     in the column by which you want to sort the table (in the body
> of the
> >     >     table, not in the header) and say M-x org-sort RET n (I assume
> you
> >     >     want numeric sorting, but org-sort provides several kinds).
> org-sort
> >     >     is normally bound to C-c ^ too, so
> >     >
> >     >         C-c ^ n
> >     >
> >     >     should be all that's needed.
> >     >     --
> >     >     Nick
> >     >
> >
> >     --
> >     Nick
> >
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-30 21:00 How can you sort an Org clock table? Noah Slater
2014-03-30 21:24 ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-30 22:25   ` Noah Slater
2014-03-31  1:06     ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-31 10:18       ` Noah Slater
2014-03-31 12:45         ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-31 13:23           ` Noah Slater [this message]
2014-04-16 16:26         ` Bastien
2014-04-16 17:01           ` Noah Slater
2014-04-20  9:41           ` Noah Slater
2014-04-20 10:22             ` Bastien
2014-05-24 18:33               ` Noah Slater
2014-05-24 22:39                 ` Bastien

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