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 <b...@altern.org> wrote: > Hi Muchenxuan, > > Muchenxuan Tong <demon...@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 >
