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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using [/] or [%]
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:18:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mya995o2.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dffa35e0904211200m42b2c86at892bf8a9cba2b6d0@mail.gmail.com> (David Ellis's message of "Tue\, 21 Apr 2009 14\:00\:43 -0500")

David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com> writes:

> The manual includes the following:
>
> To keep the overview over the fraction of subtasks that are already completed, insert either ‘[/]’ or ‘[%]’ anywhere in the
> headline. These cookies will be updates each time the todo status of a child changes. For example:
>
>      * Organize Party [33%]
>      ** TODO Call people [1/2]
>      *** TODO Peter
>      *** DONE Sarah
>      ** TODO Buy food
>      ** DONE Talk to neighbor
>
> This seems to mean that if I enter the following into an org file:
> ** TODO test3 [/]
> *** TODO test 1
> *** TODO test 2
> *** TODO test 3
> the [/] should be updated as I mark the sub tasks done. This doesn't work for me.
>
> I can get [/] and [%] to work with checkboxes. Is there some variable that I need to set to get this to work?

This works out of the box for me with no special setup.

,----[ x.org ]
| ** TODO test3 [1/3]
| *** TODO test 1
| *** DONE test 2
| *** TODO test 3
`----

-Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 19:00 Using [/] or [%] David Ellis
2009-04-21 19:18 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-04-21 19:36   ` Nick Dokos

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