Re: sort lists by highest level entries

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

> I reread the manual:
>
> C-c ^     (org-sort)
>     Sort same-level entries. When there is an active region, all entries
> in the region will be sorted. Otherwise the children of the current
> headline are sorted. The command prompts for the sorting method, which
> can be alphabetically, numerically, by time (first timestamp with active
> preferred, creation time, scheduled time, deadline time), by priority,
> by TODO keyword (in the sequence the keywords have been defined in the
> setup) or by the value of a property. Reverse sorting is possible as
> well. You can also supply your own function to extract the sorting key.
> With a C-u prefix, sorting will be case-sensitive.
>
> I cannot find the hint to have to be on a list item. It looked more
> promising to mark the region.

It is documented in section "2.7. Plain lists".

> How can I begin to help work on the documentation?

If you think something as to be done about it, you can provide a patch
against org.texi (and orgguide.texi). See:

  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou