Re: Newbie sort question

[Arthur Martinson]

FWIW, I opened up a blank ascii text doc, re-rtyped the info, and NOW the basic

recsel rectodo.rec

works and sorts by the due date. I am sure I'll have future problems
with global options. :-)


On 11/6/21, Arthur Martinson <dcmarti1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to recutils but somewhat familiar with SELECTS in SQL.
>
> I simply cannot get %sort to work.
>
> I have started a TODO d/b with this and it works:
>
> %rec: Todo
> %doc: Stuff I gotta get done.
> %type: Status enum New Open Done Canceled
> %type: Priority enum 3 2 1
> %type: Category enum Home Personal Work
>
> The records will look like this example:
>
> SubmittedOn: 20211106
> Status: New
> DueOn: 20220514
> Priority: 3
> Category: Personal
> Summary: Master recutils
> ClosedOn:
>
> (I'd like to have the dates as int, like YYYYMMDD above. ClosedOn will
> be blank until Done or Canceled.)
>
> I added this at then end of the "record set" (?) portion:
>
> %type: DueOn int
> %sort: DueOn
>
> The shell simply returns "Segmentation fault" if I execute:
>
> recsel rectodo2.rec
>
> I have not used an Id field. (It may get stripped out, but I tried to
> attach rectodo2.rec file.)
>
> Thank you for any guidance.
>
> Marti
>