Re: sort habits by priority

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Jesse Johnson <holocronweaver@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to sort habits by priority, such that priority overrides all
> other criteria (schedule, deadline, consistency, etc.).
>
> In attempting to implement this I discovered that
> org-habit-get-priority is an inline function and thus cannot be
> overridden by the user. There seems to be no straightforward way to
> accomplish my goal without editing the org source code directly.
>
> I am not the only one to run into this problem:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37200762/sort-todays-habits-by-priority-in-main-agenda-view
>
> I think the best solution is either to make org-habit-get-priority
> a regular function (assuming this doesn't cause a serious performance
> degradation) or to add user-customizable variable(s) which can
> configure how habits are prioritized.
>
> Thoughts?

You can implement your own sorting strategy. See
`org-agenda-cmp-user-defined'. So you don't need to change or override
this function.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou