From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Task list like Eclipse's that can keep track of TODOs in multiple source files Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:22:12 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87tzktkuor.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201876015 11880 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2008 14:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:26:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 15:27:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKwrH-0001II-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:27:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKwqp-0005Eo-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:26:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pFr13vqlY4Op6c8e/vqlEZtGUIM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 28 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155776 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:22:36 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51156 Archived-At: Michael Hoffman writes: > Is there a task list mode that will find tags like TODO/XXX/FIXME in source > files in a directory, make them into tasks and allow me to edit > them/reorder them in the task list? > > I understand that Eclipse and Visual Studio can provide at least some of > the functionality listed above. The best I can do thus far is the use of > M-x multi-occur, which is useful but does not allow me to simply > reorder/sort/edit. > I don't know of one, but it sounds like a useful tool! What I do is keep my 'todo' stuff in an .org file using remember mode. This is quite useful as you get all the benefits of org mode (now bundled with emacs 22) and using remember mode means you have links to the document the todo refers to. The only downside is that the todo is not actually in the file it is associated with (though you might be able to make remember mode do this with some hacking). Org mode provides some useful reporting tools that may provide the sorting/presentation aspects you would like. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au