Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-12 Thread François Pinard
Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: Ctrl-S being turned into a rectangle is mysterious. Is it the standard way for Emacs to tell about a non-printable character? You can see the tick mark if you follow this link: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52281 Oops, indeed!

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread Reiner Steib
On Wed, Feb 08 2012, François Pinard wrote: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. Could these ([ ], [-] and [X]) be turned into variables? The difficulty might be to

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread Jambunathan K
pin...@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. How about a variation of this #+begin_src emacs-lisp (font-lock-add-keywords

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread Jambunathan K
Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: pin...@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. How about a variation of this

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread Jon Miller
I like the idea... Here is another alternative: (font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode `((\\[X\\] (0 (progn (compose-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0) ☑) nil))) (\\[ \\] (0 (progn

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread François Pinard
Jambunathan K kjambunat...@gmail.com writes: pin...@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: along the lines of http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyLambda Thanks for this pointer, which I saved for later study. I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread François Pinard
Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu writes: On 02/09/2012 11:54 AM, François Pinard wrote: Nicolas Goazioun.goaz...@gmail.com writes: It may be a bit ugly at times, but don't we all feel at home with plain text? We surely do. Yet, now that we all swim within Unicode -- aren't we? Nope. :-).

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-11 Thread Jambunathan K
Ctrl-S being turned into a rectangle is mysterious. Is it the standard way for Emacs to tell about a non-printable character? There is no Ctrl-S character only a tick mark in the compose-region snippet that I shared. You can see the tick mark if you follow this link:

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-10 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 02/09/2012 11:26 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: Hello, pin...@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. Could these ([ ], [-] and [X])

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-09 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, pin...@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. Could these ([ ], [-] and [X]) be turned into variables? The difficulty

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-09 Thread François Pinard
Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes: It may be a bit ugly at times, but don't we all feel at home with plain text? We surely do. Yet, now that we all swim within Unicode -- aren't we? :-) --, ASCII feels a bit constricted. François

[O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-08 Thread François Pinard
Hi, Org people. I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner. Could these ([ ], [-] and [X]) be turned into variables? The difficulty might be to recognize them properly, I guess.

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-08 Thread suvayu ali
Hi François, 2012/2/8 François Pinard pin...@iro.umontreal.ca: Hi, Org people. I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things, which I find both softer and cleaner.  Could these ([ ], [-] and [X]) be turned into

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-08 Thread François Pinard
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: Hi François, Hi, Suvayu (or Ali?) 2012/2/8 François Pinard pin...@iro.umontreal.ca: I notice in org.el that [X] is hard-wired, while I would have liked the possibility of changing it by [✓] in my things One has to draw the line at something.

Re: [O] Changing [X] by something else

2012-02-08 Thread suvayu ali
Hi François, 2012/2/8 François Pinard pin...@iro.umontreal.ca: suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: Hi François, Hi, Suvayu (or Ali?) Which ever comes natural to you, I don't mind either. :) Although I am just a user I feel this falls into the same category as the request from