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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Agenda TODO sorting by date
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:38:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-1L2Q6min7Jyh3wKU=QNQVPpfeM-OQF51A8geT2wcSr5edOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87399pzm9w.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net>

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I am definitely not a programmer, and for sure not the one who could guide
you on writing a sort function.  HOWEVER, emacs has a really nice facility
for doing so, if you decide you want to try that.

I had to write a program to alphabetize a lexical list in Chuukese, in an
arbitrary order other than standard english alphabetical order.  I had to
have guidance, but it was certainly possible, even for me.

Just some encouragement, but it's been many years, and i am unable to offer
more than that.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sorting.html

Alan

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:23 AM, James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:

> At Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:48:42 -0500,
> Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > You could write a custom sorting function that parses out the date from
> > the heading and compares them.  There may be a better way to do this
> > that I'm not aware of for this.
> >
> > Set this function up in org-agenda-cmp-user-defined and
> > org-agenda-sorting-strategy to get the results you want.
>
> OK, thanks. I was starting to think it would come to that. Kind of
> surprising this isn't offered out of the box.
>
> I think I need a bit more guidance, from you or someone else.
>
> > parses out the date from the heading
>
> Is there already an org function to do this? C-h a searches on the
> following yielded nothing that seemed interesting.
>
> org.*date.*
> org.*timestamp.*
>
> > compares them
>
> I was about to make that more complicated, but actually string comparison
> should be fine for this. No worries there.
>
> I have done rather little with emacs-lisp so... this is uphill for me.
> Thanks.
>
> James
>
>
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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03  2:28 Agenda TODO sorting by date James Harkins
2012-03-03  2:48 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-03 16:23   ` James Harkins
2012-03-03 16:38     ` Alan E. Davis [this message]
2012-03-04  1:23       ` James Harkins
2012-03-03 19:03     ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-04  2:59       ` James Harkins
2012-03-04  4:31         ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-04  6:59           ` James Harkins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-01  9:36 James Harkins

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