Re: Agenda TODO sorting by date

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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I am definitely not a programmer, and for sure not the one who could guide
you on writing a sort function.  HOWEVER, emacs has a really nice facility
for doing so, if you decide you want to try that.

I had to write a program to alphabetize a lexical list in Chuukese, in an
arbitrary order other than standard english alphabetical order.  I had to
have guidance, but it was certainly possible, even for me.

Just some encouragement, but it's been many years, and i am unable to offer
more than that.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sorting.html

Alan

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:23 AM, James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:

> At Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:48:42 -0500,
> Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > You could write a custom sorting function that parses out the date from
> > the heading and compares them.  There may be a better way to do this
> > that I'm not aware of for this.
> >
> > Set this function up in org-agenda-cmp-user-defined and
> > org-agenda-sorting-strategy to get the results you want.
>
> OK, thanks. I was starting to think it would come to that. Kind of
> surprising this isn't offered out of the box.
>
> I think I need a bit more guidance, from you or someone else.
>
> > parses out the date from the heading
>
> Is there already an org function to do this? C-h a searches on the
> following yielded nothing that seemed interesting.
>
> org.*date.*
> org.*timestamp.*
>
> > compares them
>
> I was about to make that more complicated, but actually string comparison
> should be fine for this. No worries there.
>
> I have done rather little with emacs-lisp so... this is uphill for me.
> Thanks.
>
> James
>
>
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