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Subject: Re: Feature: Group and limit items in agenda
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:42:13 +0100
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To: Muchenxuan Tong <demon386@gmail.com>
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Hi Muchenxuan,

Muchenxuan Tong <demon386@gmail.com> writes:

> My intention is to limit the number of tasks in each category. 

Did you check (info "(org)Block Agenda") ?

That's the way I would suggest: define a block agenda listing 
the various categories, then use `org-agenda-max-todos' in each
of them to limit the number of TODOs.

> For the new proposed 'org-agenda-max-todos', I can only limit the
> number of TODOs in the whole TODO lists.
>
> Maybe for what I want, it's desirable to add a auto-split or
> auto-group features, where a list of TODOs, can be split further into
> multiple lists of TODOs, by a certain criteria (tags, category).
>
> What do you think about it?

I understand defining block agendas is not as straightforward than the
solution you envision, but my feeling is that allowing grouping+limits
will have too much overlap with the block agenda functionality.

Let me know if you find the path to happiness with a combinaison of
block agendas and the new variables.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien