On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:39 PM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:23:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM David Steele <ste...@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Are people using /usr/bin/todo in script or Makefile ?
> > >> Are they likely to still work with the alternatives ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'd say no. It is an interactive end-user command.
> > >
> > > This gives flexibility in what they are interacting with.
> > >
> >
> > This is no more of a stretch than "vi" implementing "editor".
>
> Note that even in this case there is a minimal common interface required
> so that programms can call '/usr/bin/editor file' to let the user edit
> 'file'.
>

With devtodo added to the providers, the core "todo" capability will always
give you a
list of current tasks. Devtodo uses different endpoints to go beyond that
capability.

https://www.mankier.com/1/devtodo

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