Re: Sorting problem

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Harald Weis wrote:

> Sorry, Dominik, for the finger trouble. I meant to reply to
> the list only.
>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:23:26AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Harald Weis wrote:
>>>
>>> The error message is invariably the following:
>>>
>>> Wrong number of arguments: etc
>>
>> Does it literally say "etc", or is this a place holder for
>> something else?
>
> It's a place holder. I couldn't get the (5-line) error message
> into the mouse in order to copy it. Whenever I try, it disappears.
> And I'm just finding out that the message is fortunately kept
> in the *Messages* buffer, although with lots of white space
> and other funny symbols. Annoying. Here it is:
>
> <paste>
> Sort children: [a]lpha [n]umeric [t]ime [p]riority p[r]operty  
> [f]unc  A/N/T/P/F means reversed:
> Sorting entries...
> org-sort-entries-or-items: Wrong number of arguments: #[(reverse  
> nextrecfun endrecfun &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)  
> "deZŽÆV\x18žŸŽª\bžŸŽ£\x0fŽÇŽÈ!žŸŽšŽÉ	


You seem to be using a version of Emacs in which the command
`sort-subr' does not yet allow the `predicate' argument as the 6th
argument to the call.  Apparently this is the case in Emacs 21
that you are using - unfortunately I don't anymore have emacs 21
on my system.....

Is there a reason why you are not yet using Emacs 22?

The "funny symbols" are there because the Lisp code is compliled, read  
the
Feedback section of the Org-mode manual to see to to improve on this.
>
> Apart from the fact that I cannot get sorting work, I wonder why the
> content of the children is unfolded if I only want the children
> headlines sorted ?

This is because Emacs is cutting and then re-inserting all the tree
nodes, and that would mess up the hiding anyway.

- Carsten