On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, David Maus<maus.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400, > Christopher League wrote: >> >> I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes >> painfully obvious what I have been ignoring. Since org relies on free- >> form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a >> 'creation-time' property. But it doesn't need to be accurate to the >> second; even a script that added that property once every day or so >> might do the trick. > > Well, I'm not a elisp hacker but what comes into my mind is a custom > function that does: > > for all headlines with a TODO keyword > > * check if property "creation-time" exists > > * add propertie creation time with current date & time if such an > propertie does not exist > > and then hook this function into before-save-hook. > > So the question is (a) if there are functions to process all items, > check for existence of a property and create properties (I'm quite > certain there are) and (b) how to use them.
There are property and mapping APIs documented in the manual under section on hacking. -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
