From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Using '?' as a todo keyword? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:41 -0400 Message-ID: <11245.1334339261@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkbF-0003cr-LO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkbD-00017Z-Po for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:57 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:12502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIkbD-00016S-Kl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from "Filippo A. Salustri" of "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:09:24 EDT." 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: "Filippo A. Salustri" Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list 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