On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ,--- >> | Note that the code requires that a checkbox statistics >> | cookie be present in order for it to work. >> `--- >> >> I had no idea what that meant and thought it was just reiterating that >> you actually need checkboxes for this to work. Now it makes sense. >> Even inserting "(a statistics cookie is [/] or [%] in the parent todo >> headline)" would make it crystal clear. >> > > The manual refers to them as "cookies": searching the index for either > "statistics" or "cookie" takes you to section 5.6 where they are > described.
Alright, alright... I should have rt[f]m :) > > But you should feel free to add the appropriate words: Worg (as you > know) is editable, and if you found it confusing, somebody else will too > (nudge, nudge). But I beat you to it in this case: thanks for the > suggestion and also for noticing the extra paren as well. OTOH, if you > don't like my verbiage, feel free to change it! > I will do this :) > BTW, I don't agree that this should be default behavior (as Angel, I > believe, suggested): whether an item is done may be a matter of checking > boxes in some cases, but not always - for myself, I would like to > maintain the ultimate authority of declaring something done and not to > relegate it to mere code (is that provocative enough? :-) ) > > In addition, the function slows things down (every time you > check a box, the function runs), it makes a few assumptions about the > environment (todo states, statistics cookies), and I certainly would not > trust it to DTRT all the time: it would need hardening. > I don't use it, so I don't really care, but I get what you're saying. I think it should be opt-in. A todo might have *some* things that you'd like to keep track of with checkboxes, but the task as a whole might have some other requirement and thus shouldn't really be done until the user decides. I'll add a link in the FAQ pointed at the manual section about those this weekend. Thanks, John > Nick >
