[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: one for the WishList page...

[Sacha Chua]

John S J Anderson <address@hidden> writes:

>   From a visual perspective, it would be nice if I could specify a
>   format string for new tasks -- so that I could arrange for the
>   task id and the planning page link to be over on the right hand
>   side of the line, and have them all line up in the buffer. I'm
>   thinking of something like what Gnus does for
>   gnus-group-line-format, for example.

Hmmm. I'm not sure how to do that right now, as the view of your plan
page is almost exactly the way it's arranged in plain text. This makes
it easy to edit, and it also means less magic is going on. However,
this also means we can't do fancy formatting tricks just yet.

We can probably make a plan browser that formats things nicely. I'll
calendar this in, but feel free to work on it. Some cool things a plan
browser would be able to do are:

- display all the tasks within the next N days

- display a hierarchical view of tasks (if the relevant metadata is
  stored somewhere)

- allow one-key completed/cancelled/whatever

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