From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Filippo A. Salustri" Subject: Re: Using '?' as a todo keyword? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <11245.1334339261@alphaville> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636c9287706c4f504bd948eab Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SImFy-0004ty-Pm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SImFw-00071i-JH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:06 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.213.169]:39565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SImFw-0006yl-B1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:04 -0400 Received: by yenm8 with SMTP id m8so2215575yen.0 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:34:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <11245.1334339261@alphaville> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list --001636c9287706c4f504bd948eab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 wrote: > Filippo A. Salustri 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 > > > -- \V/_ Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ --001636c9287706c4f504bd948eab Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Maybe I'm just being a little compulsive, but all my states are 1 chara= cter long cuz that's all I really need to distinguish states (plus a li= ttle colour), and it frees up more of a line for the actual task.

Thanks for the info. =A0I will be upgrading my org as soon as I&= #39;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-keyw= ords
> doesn't seem to recognize something like "?(?)" =A0Is pu= nctuation
> verboten in org-todo-keywords? Or do I have to escape the '?' = in some
> way? =A0Sorry; 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 late= st
I can customize org-todo-keywords and insert "?(?)" as a TODO key= word
with no problems (in *very* light testing). However, IMO it's a bad ide= a
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: wha= t
does "?(?)" buy you that "QUESTION(?)" does not? =A0And= I don't mean this
as a rhetorical question: I would like to get an idea of what I'm missi= ng.

Thanks,
Nick





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\V/_
Fil= ippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringRyerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
http://deseng.ryerson= .ca/~fil/

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