Filippo A. Salustri <salus...@ryerson.ca> wrote: > I would like to use "?" as a todo keyword, but org-todo-keywords > doesn't seem to recognize something like "?(?)" Is punctuation > verboten in org-todo-keywords? Or do I have to escape the '?' in some > way? Sorry; I checked the doc and couldn't find anything.
> I'm running org v 7.5. > Not sure if things have changed in this area since 7.5, but with latest I can customize org-todo-keywords and insert "?(?)" as a TODO keyword with no problems (in *very* light testing). However, IMO it's a bad idea to use punctuation chars as TODO keywords: if you look at the doc string, there are plenty of them that have special meaning - personally, I don't want to bother figuring out which ones are allowed and which ones are not - so they are all out of bounds AFAIAC. It might be OK to have something like "QUESTION(?)" or even "WTH?(?)" as TODO states and that's probably better than a single punctuation chars. Personally, I've never understood the impetus behind such requests: what does "?(?)" buy you that "QUESTION(?)" does not? And I don't mean this as a rhetorical question: I would like to get an idea of what I'm missing. Thanks, Nick
