Re: newbie has some questions

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>]

Hi Carsten,


Carsten Dominik schrieb am 05/20/2007 09:56 PM:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> On May 20, 2007, at 22:45, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>     it's me again ... are my questions to stupid or does
>>     nobobdy have an idea?
> 
> neither nor - we are just too lazy or too busy.

No problem ...

> 
>> * Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>     I am a new user of org-mode; so far I am pretty
>>>     expressed...
>>>     I spread my todos into about 6 different main
>>>     categories, each in an own file. So far it works pretty
>>>     good, but I am kind of curious, when the lists get
>>>     bigger...
>>>
>>>     For the dayly use I have some questios:
>>>     - can I use different colors for the keywords TODO,
>>>     FEEDBACK, VERIFY, CANCEL and DONE in every buffer (agenda too)
> 
> No, this is currently not supported.  You could hack it in
> using font-lock-add-keywords, but there is currently no
> support for this in Org-mode.

That is probably a good work-around; thanks.

> 
>>>     - how can I sort the agenda todo list according to the
>>>     priority
> 
> It is sorted according to priority - but only within categories.
> If you want it to ignore categories and sort by priority only,
> you need to configure `org-agenda-sorting-strategy' to something
> like this (this is the default setting, but with the part for the
> todo list modified):
> 
> (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>        '((agenda time-up category-keep priority-down)
>          (todo priority-down)
>          (tags category-keep priority-down))
> 

Thanks, works well.
> 
>>>     - can I add priority 'd' to the list
> 
> Yes:
> 
> (setq org-lowest-priority ?D)

This too :-)
> 
> Try `M-x org-customize RET' to find out more about the many
> options.
> 
>>>     - when you use the multiple file approach, do you use a
>>>     lot of tags, or is it more usefull for a single file
>>>     approach
> 
> This is a matter of taste, and different people use different
> approaches.  See the org-mode homepage for links to
> some of the discussions that happened here on this list.
> 
>>>     - can somebody explain the 43 folder approach
> 
> Google is your friend
> 
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/13200
> 
>>>  and how it
>>>     is used with org-mode
> 
> Org-mode has no direct support for a 43 folders
> setup - anyway, 43folders is, I thknk, mostly useful
> as structure in real paper, not on a computer.
> 
> Hope this helps.

It helped; thanks a lot!

Greetings!
Fabian