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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Jose Robins <jorobins@yahoo.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using a Square box character for "TODO" and "DONE" states in org?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:16:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF7F7B2A-1530-44F7-BA60-5EB7060B85BD@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4880CF6F.6020009@yahoo.com>


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On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Jose Robins wrote:

> I was just thinking today that instead of using "TODO" and "DONE"  
> keywords in org-mode to denote tasks, why not use a square box  
> character (like in task manager apps) to denote a TODO state and a  
> square box with a tick to denote a completed state... That would  
> make the tasks look more intuitive...
>
> Since I'm only superficially familiar with UTF and issues with  
> character sets, could someone suggest a method on how to achieve  
> this? I guess, I should be able to copy and paste this character in  
> a customize buffer, right? Any issues with this?

You can use any characters if you also tell the syntax table that  
these are word characters.

- Carsten


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-18 17:14 Using a Square box character for "TODO" and "DONE" states in org? Jose Robins
2008-07-18 17:16 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-07-18 21:01   ` Jason F. McBrayer

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