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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checkbox difficulties
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:57:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y5x3xgay.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5x3jjcl.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:15:22 +0200")


on Sun Oct 02 2011, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> I'm having two problems with checkboxes:
>>
>> 1. They're hard to navigate to.  I have a task with 4 checkboxed
>>    sub-items, and it's very fiddly getting my cursor in position to
>>    check them off.  Is there a trick for this?
>
> No. I use C-s to navigate to the check-boxes, like any other text.
> Also, you can use S-up and S-down once you have reached an item. I don't
> use these, though.

Thanks.  Since I realized it will work anywhere in the list item (and
not just in between the `[ ]'s, I don't have too much to complain about.

>> 2. When I have a repeating TODO item with checkbox dependencies, the
>>    boxes remain checked even when the TODO->DONE auto-rescheduling event
>>    happens.  Is there a way to get tehm unchecked?
>
> You may have a look to org-checklist.el in contrib directory.  It
> exactly does that.

Wow, that's awesome... we're *so* close... but how do I get it to
automatically mark the item DONE when the last box is checked?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-02 19:06 Checkbox difficulties Dave Abrahams
2011-10-02 19:11 ` John Hendy
2011-10-02 19:15 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-02 20:57   ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-10-02 21:02     ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-02 22:04       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-03  5:50     ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-03 14:50       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-03 14:55       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-03 22:32         ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-06 21:25           ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-11 14:08             ` Dave Abrahams

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