From: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using '?' as a todo keyword?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEKxqci3UBODtjRknxrgL4Q9Fg+67KNPgmsp4PUfqumFSai-ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11245.1334339261@alphaville>
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Maybe I'm just being a little compulsive, but all my states are 1 character
long cuz that's all I really need to distinguish states (plus a little
colour), and it frees up more of a line for the actual task.
Thanks for the info. I will be upgrading my org as soon as I'm done
grading exams, but in the meantime I'll try the "string(?)" form and see if
that helps.
/fas
On 13 April 2012 13:47, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
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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
2012-04-13 19:34 ` Filippo A. Salustri [this message]
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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