Bastien writes: > Hi Arthur, > > Arthur Miller writes: > >> Last night I have been playing with a minor mode to enable a checkbox in >> a heading, or rather to fake a checkbox. > > Interesting, thanks. > > For now you can use statistics cookies in headline: > https://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html > > What would perhaps make sense would be to support [ ]/[X] on top of > the already supported [0%]/[100%] and [0/n]/[n/n]. > > What do you think? (I tried your mode and unless I didn't try it > correctly, it does not seem to do that.) Indeed, it does not do that :). It was explicitly designed to work independently of TODO tasks/progress, so I can use it side by side with TODO labels. With other words I just needed a plain old GUI-style checkbox to indicate on/off value. As I understand stats checkboxes are displaying progress based on TODO tasks and list checkboxes, so they can not be used independently of TODO states. Maybe I am wrong, I never used them to be honest, so I am not sure how much and what is possible there. Anyway, I am not sure how interesting is this to a wider org-mode community. Org-mode seems to be geared mostly toward process tracking which is of course great for project and tasks tracking. However, I see lots of useful things in org-mode outside of project tracking for some other strucutured data. Example can be seen in attached screenshot from my init file where I use org headings to form a list of packages to install, and checkboxes to indicate if a package configuration is used or not. I was able to re-purpose TODO keywords to act as checkboxes, the other day, and it worked very well, I can "switch on/off states" with S-left/right arrows, and I was able to disable initial and done states, so arrows just shift between [x] and [ ] states. But that locks todo states to this particular sequence. If I would like to be able to use TODO states in their normal context, I can't. I needed a more "general purpose" checkbox, so I wrote that small minor mode. The biggest problem is, I am not sure how to connect a function per checkbox in some convenient and simple to use way yet, I am still thinking what would be the easiest way to add programmability, and I am not sure why empty checkbox losses fontification.