Sorry, I misspoke.  What I meant to say was that I altered org-get-priority
to keep priority cookies more significant than due dates.


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Actually, I have no complaints about the built-in sorting functions
> themselves.  It's the priority calculation.  I guess priority-down would
> show that problem most clearly.  I have a lot of tasks, so I've altered the
> priority calculation to produce a larger number for each item, like this:
>
> (defun org-get-priority (s)
>   "Find priority cookie and return priority."
>   (save-match-data
>     (if (functionp org-get-priority-function)
>     (funcall org-get-priority-function)
>       (if (not (string-match org-priority-regexp s))
>       (* org-custom-sorting-intensity (- org-lowest-priority
> org-default-priority))
>     (* org-custom-sorting-intensity (- org-lowest-priority
>            (string-to-char (match-string 2 s))))))))
>
> custom-sorting-intensity is usually around 4500, so I get large numbers
> and therefore lots of gradations.  But this is just takes care of the
> priority-cookie part of the calculation.
>
> My issue is that incrementing the calculated priority by 1 for each day
> past due is not dramatic enough when using these large numbers. I'd like it
> to be 100 instead.  Or even, just to get crazy, 100 for each day past
> deadline and 50 for each day past scheduled due date!
>
> I know that I should be doing this as a user-defined-function for
> org-agenda-sorting-strategy, but I don't understand how.  The documentation
> is clear, I'm just not very good with lisp.  So I've copied the function
> from org.el into my .org file and tweaked it a little.  That's why I'm
> looking for the part of org.el or whichever file that increases calculated
> priority according to number of days past deadline.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Inanna
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Inanna,
>>
>> peregrinehill <peregrinehill@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I would like to make deadlines have a larger impact on priority
>> > calculation than scheduled date, but I can't figure out how to
>> > extract how many days before or past deadline from an agenda entry.
>> >  I would also like to extract how many days overdue a task is from
>> > its scheduled date.
>> >
>> > Is there a function that gives me this information easily?
>> >
>> > Alternatively, can anybody point me to where priority is increased by
>> > 1 for each day late?
>>
>> I'm not sure where do you want to get this information from:
>> from an agenda view? from a normal buffer?
>>
>> What value of `org-agenda-sorting-strategy' comes closest to
>> what you are trying to achieve?
>>
>> Let us know,
>>
>> --
>>  Bastien
>>
>
>