How do you control sorting in org agenda?

How do you control sorting in org agenda?

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

Dear Experts,

How do you control sorting in org agenda? For example, if I have two
items that have been assigned the same priority level of #A how do I
control how they are sorted?

Thanks,
-Emin

Re: How do you control sorting in org agenda?

[Bernt Hansen]

"Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <emin.shopper@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear Experts,
>
> How do you control sorting in org agenda? For example, if I have two
> items that have been assigned the same priority level of #A how do I
> control how they are sorted?

See the variable org-agenda-sorting-strategy.

-Bernt

Re: How do you control sorting in org agenda?

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> "Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <emin.shopper@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> See the variable org-agenda-sorting-strategy.
>
> -Bernt


Thanks for the pointer. I put the following in my .emacs file and the
I change my prioritized items to things like TODO [#A]-01 foo, TODO
[#A]-02 bar, etc. and things sort as I wanted.


(defun org-cmp-title (a b)
  "Compare the titles of string A and B"
  (cond ((string-lessp a b) -1)
	((string-lessp b a) +1)
	(t nil)))

(setq org-agenda-cmp-user-defined 'org-cmp-title)

(setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
      '((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
	(todo   priority-down user-defined-up category-keep)
	(tags   priority-down category-keep)
	(search category-keep)))

Re: How do you control sorting in org agenda?

[Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper]

It turned out my previous attempt at sorting didn't quite work, here
is an improved version of the hack for anyone else who wants to add
sub-priorities to control sorting of todo items:

(defun org-cmp-sub-priority (a b)
  """Compare the titles of string A and B

This function can be used in the org-agenda-cmp-user-defined variable
and org-agenda-sorting-strategy to compare the sort order of org entries.
It looks for something of the from TODO[<priority>]-<num> where <priority>
is one of #A, #B, #C indicating an org prioity and <num> is a sub-priority
which org doesn't know about but which controls the sorting order. For
example, I have TODO entries like

 TODO [#A]-01 foo
 TODO [#A]-02 bar
 TODO [#A]-03 baz

and use this function to make sure they get sorted properly in the
todo screen of org-agenda.

  """
  (let* ((aa (car (last (split-string (substring-no-properties a) "TODO .#."))))
	(bb (car (last (split-string (substring-no-properties b) "TODO .#."))))
	(use-a (string-match "^.?-[0-9]" aa))
	(use-b (string-match "^.?-[0-9]" bb))
	)
    (cond ((and use-a use-b)  ;; check if both aa and bb have a priority
	   (cond ((string-lessp aa bb) -1) ;; if so, just compare strings
		 ((string-lessp bb aa) +1)
		 (t nil)))
	  (use-a -1) ;; a has priority but not b
	  (use-b +1) ;; b has priority but not a
	  (t nil)) ;; nobody has priority so don't compare
  ))

(setq org-agenda-cmp-user-defined 'org-cmp-sub-priority)

(setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
      '((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
	(todo   priority-down user-defined-up)
	(tags   priority-down category-keep)
	(search category-keep)))

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper
<emin.shopper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>> "Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper" <emin.shopper@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> See the variable org-agenda-sorting-strategy.
>>
>> -Bernt
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I put the following in my .emacs file and the
> I change my prioritized items to things like TODO [#A]-01 foo, TODO
> [#A]-02 bar, etc. and things sort as I wanted.
>
>
> (defun org-cmp-title (a b)
>  "Compare the titles of string A and B"
>  (cond ((string-lessp a b) -1)
>        ((string-lessp b a) +1)
>        (t nil)))
>
> (setq org-agenda-cmp-user-defined 'org-cmp-title)
>
> (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>      '((agenda habit-down time-up priority-down category-keep)
>        (todo   priority-down user-defined-up category-keep)
>        (tags   priority-down category-keep)
>        (search category-keep)))
>