[Orgmode] Re: Newbie question on sorting TODO items

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Matt,

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.  With C-c ^ o, I get  
"Invalid sorting type `o'".

I'm using org-mode 5.23a with Aquamacs Emacs 1.8.

Tom

On Jul 4, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

> "Thomas S. Dye" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Aloha all,
> >
> > An article from last year "[PATCH 4/5] Add a new sort option, which
> > sorts items by todo keyword" describes what I'd like to do in my .org
> > files, i.e., sort TODO headlines by the order of the TODO state in  
> > the
> > TODO sequence.   Given:
> > #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) STARTED(s) WAITING(w@/!) APPT(a) DELEGATED(l@) |
> > DONE(d!) CANCELLED(c@) DEFERRED(f@)
> > I'd like to see DONE, CANCELLED, and DEFERRED down at the bottom and
> > TODO, STARTED, WAITING, APPT, and DELEGATED up at the top in sorted
> > order.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> I believe you are looking for org-sort. If you type C-c ^ o org-mode
> will sort your headlines by todos (in the order in which they appear  
> in
> your settings).
>
> If you are interested in sorting by TODO in the agenda, you can add
> "todo-state-up" to your org-agenda-sorting-strategy.
>
> Best,
> Matt