Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
At Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:31:47 -0500, Bernt Hansen wrote: > >> (defun bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date (a b) > >> "Sorting strategy for agenda items. > >> Late deadlines first, then scheduled, then non-late deadlines" > > Oops... this description is all wrong - since I gutted my existing > sorting function to try this... I'll let you fix that :) :) I wondered about that. There are non-timestamped TODO items in my org files, so I needed to hack a little further. The version below is working beautifully. Thanks for all the help! I doubt I would have figured this out very quickly. James (defun bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date (a b) "Sorting strategy for agenda items. Timestamped entries first (ascending order), then non-timestamped" ;(message "Heading a: <%s>" a) ;(message "Heading b: <%s>" b) (let* ((date-regexp "\\(\\<[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\\) ") date-a date-b) (if (string-match date-regexp a) (setq date-a (match-string 1 a)) (setq date-a "ZZ") ; clunko workaround to push dateless entries last ) (if (string-match date-regexp b) (setq date-b (match-string 1 b)) (setq date-b "ZZ") ) (cond ((string< date-a date-b) -1) ((string< date-b date-a) +1) ;((t nil)) ))) -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
James Harkins writes: > At Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:03:05 -0500, > Bernt Hansen wrote: >> I think this works >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> >> (defun bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date (a b) >> "Sorting strategy for agenda items. >> Late deadlines first, then scheduled, then non-late deadlines" Oops... this description is all wrong - since I gutted my existing sorting function to try this... I'll let you fix that :) Regards, Bernt > >> . > > Oops :) that's what I get for answering e-mail before updating from IMAP. > > Thanks for this, will try later. "string-match" -- amazing that none > of the pages I found by searching for things like "lisp regular > expression" mentioned this function *at all* ?? I guess a lot of > programming language or software documentation is like this -- it's > easy to find what something is called when you already know what it's > called. Heh. Anyway, learned something, that's good. > > Thanks again!! > > James
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
At Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:03:05 -0500, Bernt Hansen wrote: > I think this works > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > > (defun bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date (a b) > "Sorting strategy for agenda items. > Late deadlines first, then scheduled, then non-late deadlines" > . Oops :) that's what I get for answering e-mail before updating from IMAP. Thanks for this, will try later. "string-match" -- amazing that none of the pages I found by searching for things like "lisp regular expression" mentioned this function *at all* ?? I guess a lot of programming language or software documentation is like this -- it's easy to find what something is called when you already know what it's called. Heh. Anyway, learned something, that's good. Thanks again!! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
At Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:38:32 -0800, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am definitely not a programmer, and for sure not the one who could guide > you on writing a sort > function. HOWEVER, emacs has a really nice facility for doing so, if you > decide you want to try > that. > > I had to write a program to alphabetize a lexical list in Chuukese, in an > arbitrary order other > than standard english alphabetical order. I had to have guidance, but it was > certainly possible, > even for me. > > Just some encouragement, but it's been many years, and i am unable to offer > more than that. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sorting.html Hm, these would sort lines of the buffer after the agenda is created (is there a hook in org to do so?), but the idea is to tell org how to sort before putting the stuff in the agenda buffer. I'm looking for a function that will do this -- given: ** DONE PUSH onFailure arg for waitForBoot <2012-01-31 Tue> and the regexp "<[^>]+>" -- return <2012-01-31 Tue>. I can find emacs lisp functions for regexp search within a buffer (nope), but the point is not to look in a buffer. It's to pass in the source string. Did several google searches, and couldn't find the magic words (search terms). Thanks, James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
James Harkins writes:
> 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.
I think this works
--8<---cut here---start->8---
(defun bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date (a b)
"Sorting strategy for agenda items.
Late deadlines first, then scheduled, then non-late deadlines"
(message "Heading a: <%s>" a)
(message "Heading b: <%s>" b)
(let* ((date-regexp "\\(\\<[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\\) ")
date-a date-b)
(string-match date-regexp a)
(setq date-a (match-string 1 a))
(string-match date-regexp b)
(setq date-b (match-string 1 b))
(cond ((string< date-a date-b) -1)
((string< date-b date-a) +1)
((t nil)
nil)
;;
;; Agenda sorting functions
;;
(setq org-agenda-cmp-user-defined 'bh/agenda-sort-by-heading-date)
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
(quote (("x" "Tasks" tags-todo ""
((org-agenda-overriding-header "Tasks sorted by date")
(org-agenda-sorting-strategy
'(user-defined-up)))
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Then C-c a < x Tag RET
gives
,
| Tasks sorted by date
| scratch:TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed>
:Tag:
| scratch:TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu>
:Tag:
| scratch:TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri>
:Tag:
| scratch:TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat>
:Tag:
`
HTH,
Bernt
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
I am definitely not a programmer, and for sure not the one who could guide you on writing a sort function. HOWEVER, emacs has a really nice facility for doing so, if you decide you want to try that. I had to write a program to alphabetize a lexical list in Chuukese, in an arbitrary order other than standard english alphabetical order. I had to have guidance, but it was certainly possible, even for me. Just some encouragement, but it's been many years, and i am unable to offer more than that. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sorting.html Alan On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:23 AM, James Harkins 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. > > James > > > -- > James Harkins /// dewdrop world > jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net > http://www.dewdrop-world.net > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words > audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio > more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks > >
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
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. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
James Harkins writes: > Given this: > > * Category 1 > ** TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> :Tag: > ** TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu> :Tag: > * Category 2 > ** TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> :Tag: > ** TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat> :Tag: > > I do C-c a < M Tag and get: > > Headlines with TAGS match: Tag > Press `C-u r' to search again with new search string > todo_sort: TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat> > :Tag: > > I want to configure a custom agenda command so that I get: > > Headlines with TAGS match: Tag > Press `C-u r' to search again with new search string > todo_sort: TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> > :Tag: > todo_sort: TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat> > :Tag: > > How do I do this? 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. HTH, Bernt
[O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
Given this: * Category 1 ** TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> :Tag: ** TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu>:Tag: * Category 2 ** TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> :Tag: ** TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat>:Tag: I do C-c a < M Tag and get: Headlines with TAGS match: Tag Press `C-u r' to search again with new search string todo_sort: TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> :Tag: todo_sort: TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu>:Tag: todo_sort: TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> :Tag: todo_sort: TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat>:Tag: I want to configure a custom agenda command so that I get: Headlines with TAGS match: Tag Press `C-u r' to search again with new search string todo_sort: TODO Third todo in file <2012-03-28 Wed> :Tag: todo_sort: TODO Second todo in file <2012-03-29 Thu>:Tag: todo_sort: TODO First todo in file <2012-03-30 Fri> :Tag: todo_sort: TODO Fourth todo in file <2012-03-31 Sat>:Tag: How do I do this? James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
[O] Agenda TODO sorting by date
I'm still poking around, trying to figure out how to sort my TODO tag search the way that I want. Initially I thought org-agenda-sorting-strategy would do it, but only just found the variable's documentation: "Sorting structure for the agenda items of a single day." Since I want to sort the TODO entries *by day* (across multiple days), obviously this won't do it. So I still have the question. Given this (omitting tags): * Audio Class ** Audio session 03 *** TODO Write next week's assignment <2012-03-04> * Lessons ** Audio 2010 *** TODO Listen and critique <2012-03-03> ** TODO (something else, not time stamped) How do I get a tags-search (to-do only) like this? *** TODO Listen and critique <2012-03-03> *** TODO Write next week's assignment <2012-03-04> ** TODO (something else, not time stamped) Currently, I get *** TODO Write next week's assignment <2012-03-04> *** TODO Listen and critique <2012-03-03> *** TODO (something else, not time stamped) because that's the order in which they appear in the file. So I have to scan the whole list to find what's for today, what's for tomorrow etc. I keep thinking, orgmode can already practically make me a grilled cheese sandwich, so there must be a way to do this. Just can't find it. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
