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

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Sacha, 

Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I think he means when the format when the task is originally created.

However, parsing such a formatting string may be a lot of work.  I
took a quick look to see if planner-create-task would allow such a
thing easily, and it looks complicated.  The problem is compounded
because task-ids are a hook, rather then part of the integral task
creation.  Maybe when tasks get reworked with additional
functionality?

> 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

Sounds cool!  I'd like to see it pop up the calendar, maybe a list of
favourites.  My only issue with this is the way emacs handles windows
makes the browser a bit of a mess pretty quickly.

Cheers,  Jody

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