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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using '?' as a todo keyword?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11245.1334339261@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> of "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:09:24 EDT." <CAEKxqciPFFvRQ4_MTDPtDYTGnOCWcOvx4+DHBouAvfHDAzh5Zg@mail.gmail.com>

Filippo A. Salustri <salustri@ryerson.ca> wrote:

> I would like to use "?" as a todo keyword, but org-todo-keywords
> doesn't seem to recognize something like "?(?)"  Is punctuation
> verboten in org-todo-keywords? Or do I have to escape the '?' in some
> way?  Sorry; I checked the doc and couldn't find anything.

> I'm running org v 7.5.
> 

Not sure if things have changed in this area since 7.5, but with latest
I can customize org-todo-keywords and insert "?(?)" as a TODO keyword
with no problems (in *very* light testing). However, IMO it's a bad idea
to use punctuation chars as TODO keywords: if you look at the doc
string, there are plenty of them that have special meaning - personally,
I don't want to bother figuring out which ones are allowed and which
ones are not - so they are all out of bounds AFAIAC. It might be OK to
have something like "QUESTION(?)" or even "WTH?(?)" as TODO states and
that's probably better than a single punctuation chars.

Personally, I've never understood the impetus behind such requests: what
does "?(?)" buy you that "QUESTION(?)" does not?  And I don't mean this
as a rhetorical question: I would like to get an idea of what I'm missing.

Thanks,
Nick

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-13 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-13 15:09 Using '?' as a todo keyword? Filippo A. Salustri
2012-04-13 17:47 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-04-13 19:34   ` Filippo A. Salustri
2012-04-13 20:22     ` Nick Dokos
2012-04-13 20:28       ` Filippo A. Salustri
2012-04-14 23:34         ` suvayu ali
2012-04-15  1:59           ` Filippo A. Salustri
2012-04-14 23:09   ` Samuel Wales

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