Re: Feature: Group and limit items in agenda

[Muchenxuan Tong <demon386@gmail.com>]

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Yes I understand your point. However, setting TODO for each category
manually would be laborious in my situation, I have to adjust the
configuration file each time I add/delete the project.

For my implementation, I advice on function 'org-agenda-finalize-entries'
to put lists into different groups, limit them and add separator after the
line '(setq list (mapcar 'org-agenda-highlight-todo list))'

There's a 'org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function' variable. However,
I'm not able to use it for grouping things, because it's used as '(mapcar
org-agenda-before-sorting-filter-function list)'

Would it be useful to add another function here, not used in 'mapcar', but
work directly on the whole list? I don't know whether it is worthy, and I'm
OK if that's not general enough to be added, because I can use defadvice
anyway :)


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hi Muchenxuan,
>
> Muchenxuan Tong <demon386@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My intention is to limit the number of tasks in each category.
>
> Did you check (info "(org)Block Agenda") ?
>
> That's the way I would suggest: define a block agenda listing
> the various categories, then use `org-agenda-max-todos' in each
> of them to limit the number of TODOs.
>
> > For the new proposed 'org-agenda-max-todos', I can only limit the
> > number of TODOs in the whole TODO lists.
> >
> > Maybe for what I want, it's desirable to add a auto-split or
> > auto-group features, where a list of TODOs, can be split further into
> > multiple lists of TODOs, by a certain criteria (tags, category).
> >
> > What do you think about it?
>
> I understand defining block agendas is not as straightforward than the
> solution you envision, but my feeling is that allowing grouping+limits
> will have too much overlap with the block agenda functionality.
>
> Let me know if you find the path to happiness with a combinaison of
> block agendas and the new variables.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>

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