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.