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[Orgmode] Converting lists to todo items and back
From: |
Bernt Hansen |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] Converting lists to todo items and back |
Date: |
Tue, 20 May 2008 13:48:11 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Carsten and list!
I'm finding I outline new tasks quickly with lists like this
,----
| * New Task
| - [ ] item 1
| - [ ] item 2
| - [ ] item 3
`----
and then I want to convert it to TODO items like this:
,----
| * New Task
| ** TODO item 1
| ** TODO item 2
| ** TODO item 3
`----
Is there a function to do that? If there is any extra context after the
list it should just become part of the subheading (like this)
,----[ from this ]
| * New Task
| - [ ] item 1
| detail goes here
| - more detail
| - blah
| - [ ] item 2
| More detail here
|
| end of detail
| - [ ] item 3
`----
,----[ to this ]
| * New Task
| ** TODO item 1
| detail goes here
| - more detail
| - blah
| ** TODO item 2
| More detail here
|
| end of detail
| ** TODO item 3
`----
I don't really care about the indentation on conversion since normally
my lists have little or no detail other than the list item which I want
to turn into a TODO subheading
,----[ and back again ]
| * New Task
| - [ ] item 1
| detail goes here
| - more detail
| - blah
| - [ ] item 2
| More detail here
|
| end of detail
| - [ ] item 3
`----
Would something like that be useful?
The use case I had for this was I need to test some new functionality
I'm building and I created the list of things to test as the items were
identified. This was a simple checkbox list. Later when actually
testing I needed to add more detail (SQL output with test results) which
I wanted to archive to hide the gory details so I converted the
checkboxes to TODO subheadings and added the extra detail as testing
continued.
Regards,
Bernt
- [Orgmode] Converting lists to todo items and back,
Bernt Hansen <=