Hello,

On Aug 9, 2013 10:57 AM, "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Suppose I want a convenient way to see my most important tasks, the ones
> which:
>
> - are due soon (in the next 7 days), or
> - have a high priority (#A), or
> - are FLAGGED.
>
> If I don't mind having the entries mixed, this is quite simple and short:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
>                '("H" "Hotlist"
>                  tags-todo "DEADLINE<=\"<+1w>\"|PRIORITY=\"A\"|FLAGGED"
>                  ((org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future))) t)
> #+end_src
>
> Though, if I want 3 different blocks (in the above order) with *no
repetition*
> of entries, I need to write such a monster expression:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
>                '("I" "Hotlist"
>                  ((tags-todo "DEADLINE<=\"<+1w>\""
>                              ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Due in next
7 days")))
>                   (tags-todo
"PRIORITY=\"A\"+DEADLINE=\"\"|PRIORITY=\"A\"+DEADLINE>\"<+1w>\""
>                              ((org-agenda-overriding-header "High
priority")))
>                   (tags-todo
"FLAGGED+PRIORITY=\"\"+DEADLINE=\"\"|FLAGGED+PRIORITY=\"\"+DEADLINE>\"<+1w>\"|FLAGGED+PRIORITY<>\"A\"+DEADLINE=\"\"|FLAGGED+PRIORITY<>\"A\"+DEADLINE>\"<+1w>\""
>                              ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Starred"))))
>                  ((org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future))) t)
> #+end_src
>
> Do you see a way to optimize it (make it shorter)?  On the problems
relies in
> the fact that the inverse of
>
>     DEADLINE<="<+1w>"
>
> is
>
>     DEADLINE=""|DEADLINE>"<+1w>"
>
> that is 2 tests to be done.
>
> The same applies for the priorities: the inverse of
>
>     PRIORITY=\"A\"
>
> is
>
>     PRIORITY=""|PRIORITY<>"A"
>
> Hence, an exponential number of checks every time you want to remove
> duplicated entries (which would have been displayed in the previous
block):
> you double the number of subexpressions in the next block...
>
Could you use (org-agenda-skip-regexp "...") combined with
(org-agenda-skip-function (org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches))

Just change the ... in the above to the deadline/priority you want to
exclude in the block.

Sorry if this is at all unclear, sending from my phone so hard to write out
the code blocks.

Regards,
Jon

> Any better idea?
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>