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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Christophe Schockaert <R3vLibre@citadels.eu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggested Syntax for cancelled checkboxes: [-] as non-blocking dependency
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:59:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmfvud6y.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d386db549167ac3a2d9f20ba8079ab5@citadels.eu>

Christophe Schockaert <R3vLibre@citadels.eu> writes:

> (my wish would be to have a robust way to handle multilines formating, 
> but that’s on another topic going on ^^)
>
> I don’t know what’s the usual process : can’t we file an issue to track 
> it, and write down the options we have, then decide the outcome of it 
> (either development, or documenting options and ideas) ?

Just drop an email with appropriate subject.

> Regarding the checkbox state, I wanted to have the impression of 
> maintainers, but I felt that choosing the character would not be easy to 
> handle not only for development, but even for reading documents from 
> different sources (custom TODO states have a meaning that we can infer, 
> but a single letter seems harder).
>
> As an after thought, about the "[C]" proposal, I wonder if it would not 
> be better to have a symbol, as "[X]" is not used for the letter, but for 
> the cross, same for the "space" and the "dash" which express "halfway 
> through". I didn’t have any idea the other day, but meanwhile, I have 
> come first with "[~]" which sounds like a wave and thus is not firm, and 
> is also a bitwise NOT in some programming languages. Or, thinking about 
> the "NOT", I thought about "[!]" which is a NOT (not done) and also 
> quite expressive. The only thing is that it is quite catching attention, 
> like if we need to pay attention for something that was probably not 
> that important since we cancelled it :) I could not find many other 
> options, as I feel we need to stick to ASCII for a solution.
>
>
> WDYT ?

I think that choosing a character is of a secondary importance. It can be
easily adjusted once we have a working code. Getting the working code is
much harder though. Someone™ will need to submit a patch first.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-12 12:40 Suggested Syntax for cancelled checkboxes: [-] as non-blocking dependency Karl Voit
2022-09-13  2:24 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-13  8:07   ` Karl Voit
2022-09-13 10:44     ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-09-13 11:07     ` Christophe Schockaert
2022-09-13 15:52       ` Karl Voit
2022-09-14 12:43         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-15 11:48           ` Christophe Schockaert
2022-09-16  4:59             ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-09-19 11:10             ` Karl Voit
2022-09-14 18:18     ` Daniel Fleischer
2022-09-22 15:03       ` Bastien
2022-09-22 17:19         ` Milan Zamazal
2022-09-22 23:19         ` Tim Cross
2022-09-23  2:46           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-25  2:59             ` Bastien
2022-09-24  8:09           ` Milan Zamazal

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