Re: Agenda TODO sorting by date

[James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>]

At Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:38:32 -0800,
Alan E. Davis wrote:
> 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

Hm, these would sort lines of the buffer after the agenda is created (is there a hook in org to do so?), but the idea is to tell org how to sort before putting the stuff in the agenda buffer.

I'm looking for a function that will do this -- given:

** DONE PUSH onFailure arg for waitForBoot <2012-01-31 Tue>

and the regexp "<[^>]+>" -- return <2012-01-31 Tue>.

I can find emacs lisp functions for regexp search within a buffer (nope), but the point is not to look in a buffer. It's to pass in the source string.

Did several google searches, and couldn't find the magic words (search terms).

Thanks,
James


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