From: peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Altering effect of deadline on priority calculation
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:36:01 -0400 [thread overview]
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Sorry, I misspoke. What I meant to say was that I altered org-get-priority
to keep priority cookies more significant than due dates.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Actually, I have no complaints about the built-in sorting functions
> themselves. It's the priority calculation. I guess priority-down would
> show that problem most clearly. I have a lot of tasks, so I've altered the
> priority calculation to produce a larger number for each item, like this:
>
> (defun org-get-priority (s)
> "Find priority cookie and return priority."
> (save-match-data
> (if (functionp org-get-priority-function)
> (funcall org-get-priority-function)
> (if (not (string-match org-priority-regexp s))
> (* org-custom-sorting-intensity (- org-lowest-priority
> org-default-priority))
> (* org-custom-sorting-intensity (- org-lowest-priority
> (string-to-char (match-string 2 s))))))))
>
> custom-sorting-intensity is usually around 4500, so I get large numbers
> and therefore lots of gradations. But this is just takes care of the
> priority-cookie part of the calculation.
>
> My issue is that incrementing the calculated priority by 1 for each day
> past due is not dramatic enough when using these large numbers. I'd like it
> to be 100 instead. Or even, just to get crazy, 100 for each day past
> deadline and 50 for each day past scheduled due date!
>
> I know that I should be doing this as a user-defined-function for
> org-agenda-sorting-strategy, but I don't understand how. The documentation
> is clear, I'm just not very good with lisp. So I've copied the function
> from org.el into my .org file and tweaked it a little. That's why I'm
> looking for the part of org.el or whichever file that increases calculated
> priority according to number of days past deadline.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Inanna
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Inanna,
>>
>> peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I would like to make deadlines have a larger impact on priority
>> > calculation than scheduled date, but I can't figure out how to
>> > extract how many days before or past deadline from an agenda entry.
>> > I would also like to extract how many days overdue a task is from
>> > its scheduled date.
>> >
>> > Is there a function that gives me this information easily?
>> >
>> > Alternatively, can anybody point me to where priority is increased by
>> > 1 for each day late?
>>
>> I'm not sure where do you want to get this information from:
>> from an agenda view? from a normal buffer?
>>
>> What value of `org-agenda-sorting-strategy' comes closest to
>> what you are trying to achieve?
>>
>> Let us know,
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-07 22:43 Altering effect of deadline on priority calculation peregrinehill
2014-04-17 18:59 ` Bastien
2014-04-27 13:24 ` peregrinehill
2014-04-27 13:36 ` peregrinehill [this message]
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