Re: [Patch] Sort agenda items by todo-state

From: "Carsten Dominik" <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Egli Christian (KIRO 41)" <christian.egli@credit-suisse.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Sort agenda items by todo-state
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:35:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acf852aa0711212335s480866a2s1a0ef598e0970fdc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D89C75FEE9444E8D9C016E3730098306CE6B@chsa1036.share.beluni.net>

I for one do like the patch, so please clean it up and I would be
happy to take it
(if you have signed the papers with the FSF, that is :-(

- Carsten

On Nov 21, 2007 1:13 PM, Egli Christian (KIRO 41)
<christian.egli@credit-suisse.com> wrote:
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> * Introduction
>   I live in my org agenda view and I schedule all my tasks to the
>   day that I want to do them. I also would like to see my
>   achievements so I keep the TODOs that are done in the agenda
>   view. However I would like them to get out of the way so that I
>   can better see the tasks that are still open. That is why for a
>   long time I've been wanting to sort the agenda items by todo
>   state.
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> * Patch
>   I finally looked at the code and realized that this was not very
>   hard to do. The following patch (against 5.13i) implements a new
>   org-agenda-sorting-strategy that allows you to sort agenda items
>   by todo-state.
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> * Notes
>   The patch is basically a "works-for-me" implementation. It only
>   sorts todo and scheduled items. It should probably do the same
>   for deadlines. Maybe even for timestamps?
>
>   The doc strings need to be updated.
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>   Carsten at one time talked about implementing this feature by
>   using priorities, i.e. factoring the todo-state into the priority
>   (which uses the actual priority plus some calculation based on
>   how many days the task is overdue). This patch takes a different
>   route.
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>   The sorting is done by comparing the todo-state of the items. It
>   first orders them by done state, i.e. all done items come after
>   (or before) the items that are not done. After that it compares
>   the todo-states with a string compare. This should probably use
>   some kind of ordering information from the relevant
>   org-todo-keywords sequence.
>
> * Conclusion
>   So the basic question is: Should I clean up this patch to get it
>   included? Is the proposed route (of not taking the priorities)
>   ok? And finally: How do I sort taking the sequence order into
>   consideration?
>
> Christian
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