Thanks both. Just to confirm that I would definitely need to be able to un-highlight stuff (i.e. with Control/H)... so all-in-all not worth it.
Ingenious though... :) J On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 9:52:00 AM UTC, pottster wrote: > > That's ingenious Dwight! The whole idea of extending parsing functionality > through the use of flag is intriguing. Do you mind if I use the idea for my > upcoming video about flags? > > The downside of what you suggest is that using Automatic Formatting > precludes use of the Ctrl+h toggle since the highlighting will remain in > place. It's the ad hoc nature of highlighting and the use of this keyboard > shortcut that I find most useful. It might also be confusing when multiple > selecting highlighted tasks some of which are custom formatted and others > auto-formatted. Finally, the use of a flag for highlighting precludes the > use of a flag for something else. All in all, personally, I would reconcile > to just using Custom Formatting instead of a parsing switch. > > As an aside, it might be worth reminding new (and not so new) MLO users > that there is a hierarchy of formatting with Custom Formatting at the top, > then Automatic Formatting, then Themes. In the event of a conflict the > higher type of formatting will over-ride the lower. I always remember this > with the acronym CAT. > > On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 22:53:26 UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: >> >> "highlight" isn't an attribute of a task, and therefore is not >> represented by any of the RTE switches. >> >> Highlight is something that's displayed based on the autoformat rules. So >> what you want is to find an attribute that you can set via RTE and create >> an autoformat rule that highlights tasks with that same attribute. >> >> I would suggest creating a flag named HL, setting it in RTE via -flHL and >> then write an autoformat rule to highlight tasks with the HL flag set. >> >> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 8:16:43 AM UTC-5, J Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Is there a parsing switch for use in the RTE box that puts a task in >>> pre-highlighted? >>> >>> I couldn't find anything relevant in the MLO instructions. >>> >>> J >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/e35edae2-f897-4061-b3cb-5a98402690b6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
