Re: [Orgmode] custom sorting of agenda items

[Carsten Dominik]

On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:

> Thanks!   Would things work faster if there was a user-defined hook
> that was called at each agenda entry at the same time
> the 'org-hd-marker property gets stored, so it could store any other
> things it needs from the entry as text properties for later
> use by user-defined entry sorting routine?

Please pull and take a look at the new variable
`org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function'.

Martin, I think you could use this variable also for your
"filtering" application.

- Carsten

> ilya
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Carsten Dominik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
> >
> > > When giving a user-defined function for org-agenda-cmp-user-defined,
> > > the function gets two agenda entries.   Is there a way from an  
> > > agenda
> > > entry
> > > to get to the original org entry?
> >
> > Yes, the marker that points to the original entry is stored in text
> > properties.
> > You can take it and then go to the entry, for example with
> >
> > (org-with-point-at (org-get-at-bol 'org-hd-marker)
> >     ;; do here what you need to do at the location of the entry
> >     )
> >
> > You could do this in org-finalize-agenda-hook for all entries, for  
> > example.
> > Might slow things down, of cause.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > > Best would be if, besides a user-defined sort function, you could  
> > > also
> > > provide
> > > a function that takes the org entry and the agenda item (i.e. is  
> > > run with
> > > point
> > > on the org entry and is passed the agenda item), and can then store
> > > anything
> > > it wants about the org entry as text properties on the agenda item.
> > > The companion user-defined sorting function could then use these  
> > > stored
> > > text properties for ordering the agenda items.   Could you add  
> > > such a
> > > hook?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > ilya
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Bastien  
> > > <address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Ilya,
> > > >
> > > > Ilya Shlyakhter <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I'd like to sort agenda entries in a custom agenda view by the  
> > > > > value
> > > > > of a text property that I put on the headlines.
> > > > > Is there a way to do that?
> > > >
> > > > Well, no.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe playing around with org-map-entries could yield some result.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >  Bastien
> > >
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> > - Carsten

- Carsten