Re: Broken plain list check boxes?

[James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>]

Hi Chris,

On 2009-01-29 14:05:27(-0000), Chris Randle wrote:
> Hi Carsten
>
> Just updated to 6.20e. Before, on 6.18c, if I had a plain list like
> this:
>
> * Test
>   - [ ] A
>   - [ ] B
>   - [ ] C
>
> With the cursor on the test line, typing `c-c c-x c-b' would check all
> the boxes, and repeating would uncheck them. Now it doesn't seem to
> toggle, only check.
>
> I hope this isn't a permanent change, or that there's another way to
> turn them all off because I use lists of check boxes 20 or 30 items long
> to mark off the little bits & pieces I like to get done every day. It'd
> be a bit tedious to have to manually set them all unchecked at the
> beginning of each day, even with a macro.

Have you looked at org-checklist.el in contrib? I wrote that to handle this kind
of thing.

Make sure org-checklist.el is in your load path, and add
(require 'org-checklist)
 to your .emacs. You can then set up your daily task like so:

,----[ test.org ]
| * TODO test
|   SCHEDULED: <2009-01-29 Thu + 1d>
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :RESET_CHECKBOXES: t
|   :END:
|   - [ ] Task 1
|   - [ ] Task 2
|   - [ ] Task 3
`----

and when you mark it done all the checkboxes will be cleared.

James

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