Re: [Orgmode] outline-agenda sorting consistency

[Samuel Wales]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 04:53, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> you can now et faces for each priority, using the variable
> org-priority-faces, in a way similar to the todo-keyword faces,
> and the tag faces.  Just note that the car in this alist must be
> a character, not a string.

This is much better, thanks.  Makes it easier to distinguish
and I can use C now.

>> Here is how I might do it, were the facility to exist:
>>
>>  - done-ish and unimportant stuff at the bottom, important
>>   stuff at the top, and uncategorized nodes (i.e. blank
>>   todo state, no priority, no urgency) in the middle.
>>  - alphabetical order for nodes with the same weight
>>  - to calculate the weight of a node:
>>   1) priority a is worth +1000
>>   2) urgent tag gets +1000
>>   3) now tag gets +500
>>   4) todo-ish states (todo, next) get +100
>>   5) /blank todo state/ gets 0
>>   6) zombie states (wait etc.) get -100
>>   7) someday tag gets -500
>>   8) priority c gets -1000
>>   9) done-ish states (done, moot) get -3000
>>  - example: an urgent todo would have a weight of 1100.
>>   when it is marked done, it would have a weight of -2000.
>
> Outline sorting can be done using a user-defined function,
> so in principle this should be possible.....  It is on my list,
> but not with high priority....

OK.  Thanks for thinking about it.

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