On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:31 AM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

> Budiman Snowman writes:
>
> > Suppose I have this document:
> >
> > * topic1                                               :tag1:tag2:tag3:
> > * topic2                                               :tag1:tag2:tag4:
> > * topic3                                               :tag1:tag3:tag4:
> > * topic4                                               :tag2:tag3:tag4:
> > * topic5                                               :tag1:tag2:
> > * topic6                                               :tag1:tag4:
> > * topic7                                               :tag3:tag4:
> > * topic8                                               :tag1:
> >
> > And I turn on org-agenda m, then search for tag1|tag3|tag4. Emacs will
> then
> > show the results (all entries match) in the above order.
>
> org-agenda-sorting-strategy is the main option that controls sorting in
> the agenda.  Going through the values there, I don't see anything
> fitting your description.  But there is a user-defined-{up,down} option
> that lets you implement your own logic via org-agenda-cmp-user-defined.
> Here's an example.  It's probably brittle and inefficient in a number of
> ways (and maybe completely wrong), but hopefully it gives you something
> to start with.
>
<snip>

Thanks! I'll play with it later.

> * topic2                                               :tag1:tag2:tag4:
> > * topic1                                               :tag1:tag2:tag3:
> > * topic3                                               :tag1:tag3:tag4:
> > * topic4                                               :tag2:tag3:tag4:
> > * topic6                                               :tag1:tag4:
> > * topic5                                               :tag1:tag2:
> > * topic7                                               :tag3:tag4:
> > * topic8                                               :tag1:
>
> Hmm, your example query is "tag1|tag3|tag4", so a few of those lines
> seem off.  For example, shouldn't topic 3 be at the top?


Ah yes, I wrote incorrectly, I thought I wrote the query "tag1|tag2|tag4".
You understood my goal perfectly.

Regards,
BS