Re: Checkboxes in headings - opinions wanted

[Russell Adams]

Arthur,

Could you just use unicode checkbox symbols instead of TODO and DONE?

https://kdr2.com/tech/emacs/1405-orgmode-checkbox-unicode.html

That ought to be just a string, and need no patch.

On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:00:40AM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:

>
> Last night I have been playing with a minor mode to enable a checkbox in
> a heading, or rather to fake a checkbox. To be honest, it was a 10
> minute job. Took me way moare time to figure out avialable key
> combination to use (which I didn't found).
>
> In general, enable mode and use S+up/down to toggle a checkbox. A
> heading with a checkbox is of form [ \t]*\\*+.*? followed by a [ ] or
> [x] before a heading. It means a [ ] can be placed somewhere after the
> leading stars, whitespaces ignored.
>
> This has nothing todo with my previous hacks of todo keywords. This one
> does not uses todo states at all so it can be used with todo states.
>
> It is just a small prototype. I will use something else than
> replace-string later on.
>
> Just wonder if the approach is sane.
>
> There is also a repo on gh for interested one:
>
> https://github.com/amno1/org-heading-checkbox



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