Re: [ feature request ] colourful timestamps

[Phil Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk>]

Bastien,

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Phil Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Something I thought might be nice is highlighting of timestamps
>> according to there relativity to time().

[...]

> I like the general idea of having feedback about the proximity of a
> deadline or time-stamp.  But I think doing this interactively is better,
> since the values like "<2h" "<10m" (in your example) are very likely to
> change quite often, no?

I can't see why it would change, I would expect the map to remain
largely static. Only the colours of the links would change. The idea is
that one would become used to scanning the colours and be able to 'sort'
tasks visually. Am I making any sense?

> In the same spirit, I've written this, which let you check for deadlines
> or scheduled items before a date (strings like "+2d" are okay):

That's brilliant, thanks for the effort. I'm putting this into my config
straight away. Is there a chance of your patch making trunk?

Cheers,
Phil