Maybe I'm just being a little compulsive, but all my states are 1 character long cuz that's all I really need to distinguish states (plus a little colour), and it frees up more of a line for the actual task.
Thanks for the info. I will be upgrading my org as soon as I'm done grading exams, but in the meantime I'll try the "string(?)" form and see if that helps. /fas On 13 April 2012 13:47, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- \V/_ Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salus...@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
