Re: [O] Agenda TODO sorting by date

[James Harkins]

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


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