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I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode


Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs.The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact ...

I will show you how I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode to sort my reading lists automatically. When I add a paper to my reading list I run org-sort-entries and interactively select to order the entries by the value in the property year. Org-mode did not provide any interposition point for us, there is no thought ahead etension-point or configuration variable we can use to achieve our goal an yet here we are with a sorted buffer.

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