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 <jamshar...@gmail.com> 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 > >
