Re: Using '?' as a todo keyword?

["Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>]

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Maybe I'm just being a little compulsive, but all my states are 1 character
long cuz that's all I really need to distinguish states (plus a little
colour), and it frees up more of a line for the actual task.

Thanks for the info.  I will be upgrading my org as soon as I'm done
grading exams, but in the meantime I'll try the "string(?)" form and see if
that helps.

/fas

On 13 April 2012 13:47, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Filippo A. Salustri <salustri@ryerson.ca> 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
>
>
>


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