From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: sort lists by highest level entries Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:05:00 +0100 Message-ID: <876214fr9v.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87hakofvmz.fsf@gmail.com> <5137611E.5060806@online.de> <87a9qgfrvz.fsf@gmail.com> <51376744.7020708@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDGqB-0005wS-BB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:05:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDGq9-0005d4-Om for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:05:15 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::229]:40965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDGq9-0005cs-IF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:05:13 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id ds1so5075173wgb.2 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:05:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <51376744.7020708@online.de> (Rainer Stengele's message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:56:52 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rainer Stengele Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Rainer Stengele 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