From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Subject: Re: bug? org does not seem to sort by prioritiy #A, #B, #C, #D
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:38:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F29449C8-CB3F-4E95-9C4F-E371E38BC669@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmiiq0vd8gd.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>>
>>> My guessing is that a naive user (like me ...) does expect any
>>> defined priority (like #D in this case) to have a higher priority
>>> than a "non" priority item.
>>
>> I see how that makes sense. However, the other use case is this:
>>
>> Use #A to make something higher priority. Use #C to make it lower
>> than any normal stuff. All the rest mingles in #B.
>>
>> So your proposal makes the assumption that any priority means more
>> than no priority.
>
> The default aBc settings were easily understandable to me and I use
> A to
> mark things high and C low and leave most things in the middle.
>
> So maybe all that's needed is a "You might expect tasks with an
> explicit
> priority to all be considered higher priority than tasks without an
> explicit priority, but in fact unlabeled tasks inherit the default
> priority." Or maybe that's redundant.
I just re-read the manual section. As far as I can see, all necessary
information is there.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 7:01 bug? org does not seem to sort by prioritiy #A,#B,#C,#D Rainer Stengele
2010-10-21 7:07 ` bug? org does not seem to sort by prioritiy #A, #B, #C, #D Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 7:12 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-10-21 7:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 7:30 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-10-21 7:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 8:52 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-10-21 9:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 9:38 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-10-21 18:07 ` Samuel Wales
2010-10-21 20:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 12:41 ` Greg Troxel
2010-10-21 17:38 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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