i was not intending to talk about that xkcd. there has been confusion about 2 definitions of priority, and your urgent will likely help. if the docs referred to priority cookies, your argument is good. i did not think every reference did incl code.
On 4/2/23, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > >> it is all ok with me, but not everybody has personal test cases for >> sorting sequence, and soembvody might get bitten by a subtle change >> like this which pop up every once in a while. > > What you are describing is https://xkcd.com/1172/ > We have no obligation to preserve backwards compatibility for people > relying on bugs. > > Since the documentation previously told users that > priority-up/priority-down sort by priority, we have no obligation to > care about the fact that Org did not behave as described. > > We just need to preserve the default agenda behaviour described in the > manual, which my patch does. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
