Re: Checkbox difficulties

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Sun Oct 02 2011, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:

> on Sun Oct 02 2011, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm having two problems with checkboxes:
>>>
>>> 1. They're hard to navigate to.  I have a task with 4 checkboxed
>>>    sub-items, and it's very fiddly getting my cursor in position to
>>>    check them off.  Is there a trick for this?
>>
>> No. I use C-s to navigate to the check-boxes, like any other text.
>> Also, you can use S-up and S-down once you have reached an item. I don't
>> use these, though.
>
> Thanks.  Since I realized it will work anywhere in the list item (and
> not just in between the `[ ]'s, I don't have too much to complain
> about.

Actually I just realized `C-M-n' and `C-M-p' effectively do just what I
want, jumping quickly among checkboxes.

>> You may have a look to org-checklist.el in contrib directory.  It
>> exactly does that.
>
> Wow, that's awesome... we're *so* close... but how do I get it to
> automatically mark the item DONE when the last box is checked?
^^^^^^^^^^
Still want that one.

Cheers,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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