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* Hotlist agenda view: how to simplify its expression?
@ 2013-08-09 14:56 Sebastien Vauban
  2013-08-09 15:54 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sebastien Vauban @ 2013-08-09 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ

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...

Any better idea?

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

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