Re: in-buffer settings for priorities

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On May 21, 2007, at 15:11, Dmitri Minaev wrote:

> copying to the list:
>
> Thank you. I thought about using sorting strategy to sort by tags, but
> the requirement that the score must be the last tag has stopped me. I
> like the approach you describe, but it still has some deficiencies.
> First, any tag not included in the set of the pre-defined tags breaks
> the order of tags making the score to appear before this tag. Second,
> I would say that it's more visually pleasing to have the rating in a
> fixed place, separate from tags. The idea of priorities itself fits
> the task better, IMHO.

You can certainly use priorities, even though for now it is letters.
I am not sure yet about the changes you propose, will need more time
to think about this.

> BTW, after upgrade to 4.74, I noticed a couple of things:
>
> 1. When the state of an item changes from nothing to the first in the
> TODO sequence, no note is taken and the state change is not logged. Is
> this by design?

Yes.

>
> 2. When I run org-tags-sparse-tree with a regexp like {score[X-Y]},
> the resulting tree includes one and only one item with the score less
> than X. I simplified the tree and .emacs as much as possible and even
> the example as simple as the one below still demonstrates this
> behaviour:
>
> * qwer
> ** qwer                                         :score9:
> ** asdf                                         :score7:
> ** zxcv                                         :score5:
> ** nmkj                                         :score7:
> ** poi                                          :score4:


Check out the variable org-show-following-heading, and its companions 
org-show-hierarchy-above and org-show-siblings.