From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Karl Voit <news2042@Karl-Voit.at>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggested Syntax for cancelled checkboxes: [-] as non-blocking dependency
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:24:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfkwt3j4.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2022-09-12T14-35-24@devnull.Karl-Voit.at>
Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
> I was using list checkboxes like that:
>
> - [ ] open task
> - [X] closed task
> - [-] cancelled task
>
> The latter one is supported via C-u C-u C-c C-c.
From the manual (5.6 Checkboxes):
‘C-c C-x C-b’ (‘org-toggle-checkbox’)
Toggle checkbox status or—with prefix argument—checkbox presence at
point. With double prefix argument, set it to ‘[-]’, which is
considered to be an intermediate state.
[-] is not considered done by our conventions
Here is an example of a checkbox list.
* TODO Organize party [2/4]
- [-] call people [1/3]
- [ ] Peter
- [X] Sarah
- [ ] Sam
- [X] order food
- [ ] think about what music to play
- [X] talk to the neighbors
> However, when I'm using:
>
> (setq org-enforce-todo-checkbox-dependencies t)
>
> ... any [-] checkbox will be regarded as non-finished contrary to
> the behavior of TODO/DONE/CANCELLED heading states.
>
> As a workaround, I may use:
>
> - +[ ]+ cancelled task
>
> ... but this is tedious.
>
> Therefore I'm asking if this might be a viable syntax change:
> handling [-] list items similar to CANCELLED headings as
> non-blocking when used with org-enforce-todo-checkbox-dependencies.
As you can see, we already have conflicting convention, and we cannot
change it without breaking backwards compatibility.
`org-block-todo-from-checkboxes', currently uses
(org-list-search-forward
(concat (org-item-beginning-re)
"\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?\\([0-9]+\\|[A-Za-z]\\)\\][ \t]*\\)?"
"\\[[- ]\\]")
end t)
as a condition that some list items are marked incomplete.
So, you can use something like
- [C] cancelled task
But beware that this is an internal implementation detail that might be
changed in future unless we decide to document the existing behaviour.
--
Ihor Radchenko,
Org mode contributor,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-13 2:24 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 [this message]
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
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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