Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Jose Robins wrote: > > I was just thinking today that instead of using "TODO" and "DONE" > keywords in org-mode to denote tasks, > why not use a square box character (like in task manager apps) to denote > a TODO state and a square box > with a tick to denote a completed state... That would make the tasks look > more intuitive... > > Since I'm only superficially familiar with UTF and issues with character > sets, could someone suggest a > method on how to achieve this? I guess, I should be able to copy and > paste this character in a customize > buffer, right? Any issues with this? > > You can use any characters if you also tell the syntax table that these are > word characters.
These characters may be helpful: ☐: U+2610 BALLOT BOX ☑: U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK ☒: U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X How helpful they are probably depends on your font; they look good but small in DejaVu Sans Mono. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada | _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode