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Subject: Re: Feature: Group and limit items in agenda
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:50:38 +0100
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To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
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Hi Samuel,

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> One other use here is to show a small random sample of your tasks
> without affecting speed.
>
> In before sorting filter function, set a pseudorandom number (biased
> according to a distribution of your choice) on a text property.  You
> can set some to appear always.
>
> In the mapcar function, use user-defined sorting to sort according to
> the numbers and limit to just the first 5.

Yes, this is a nice use of `org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function'.

> Can defadvice be relied on to keep working in future versions of Org?

As much as possible, yes.

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 Bastien