GNU bug report logs - #78343
Org mode Sort region/ children sort order has changed

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From: jl256 <at> homemail.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Org mode Sort region/ children sort order has changed
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 14:30:43 +0200

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jl256 <at> homemail.com
Cc: 78343 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78343: Org mode Sort region/ children sort order has changed
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 10:54:01 +0300

> Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 14:30:43 +0200
> Sensitivity: Normal
> From: jl256--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> 
> In my org file I declare:
> 
> #+PRIORITIES: 0 9 9
> 
> Say I have a list of sub-headings under a parent heading:
> 
> TODO [#0] Bob 
> TODO Tim
> TODO [#1] Percival
> 
> I was until recently using emacs 26.1 with org mode 9.1.9.
> 
> If I did a Sort region/ children C-c ^ [p]riority on the parent heading I would get:
> 
> TODO [#0] Bob 
> TODO [#1] Percival
> TODO Tim
> 
> Which is what I want.
> 
> Now I am using the same file in emacs 29.4 with org mode 9.6.15 and the same sort command gives:
> 
> TODO Tim
> TODO [#0] Bob 
> TODO [#1] Percival
> 
> Which is not what I want and I believe is not how things should work.
> 
> I posted about this a while back at
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/82838/org-mode-sort-region-children-sort-order-has-changed
> 
> and this behaviour was reproduced by someone else and they suggested I report this as a bug.

Thanks, but please report this to the Org developers first.  Org has
its own bug-reporting address.

Message #13 received at 78343-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jl256 <at> homemail.com
Cc: 78343-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78343: Org mode Sort region/ children sort order has changed
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 07:53:44 +0300

> From: jl256 <at> homemail.com
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 01:22:05 +0200
> 
> 
> Sorry about that.
> I have posted to the org-mode address.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing this bug.  We can reopen if the Org
developers tell this is a core Emacs bug and provide more data to
explain that.

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