;; todomode.el -- major mode for editing TODO list files ;; $Id: todomode.el,v 1.9 1997/08/06 08:12:03 os10000 Exp os10000 $ ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Copyright (C) 1997 Oliver Seidel ;; Keywords: todo-mode ;; todomode.el is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; todomode.el is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; Quickstart Installation: ;; ======================== ;; ;; To get this to work, make emacs execute the line ;; ;; (require 'todomode) ;; load the TODO package ;; ;; I would also recommend executing the following commands ;; so as to extend the bindings in your global keymap: ;; ;; (global-set-key "\C-ct" 'todo-show) ;; switch to TODO buffer ;; (global-set-key "\C-ci" 'todo-cmd-inst) ;; insert new item ;; ;; ;; ;; Description: ;; ============ ;; ;; TODO is a major mode for EMACS which offers functionality to treat ;; most lines in one buffer as a list of items one has to do. There ;; are facilities to add new items, which are categorised, to edit or ;; even delete items from the buffer. The buffer contents are currently ;; compatible with the diary, so that the list of todo-items will show ;; up in the FANCY diary mode. ;; ;; Notice: Besides the major mode, this file also exports the function ;; "todo-show" which will change to the one specific TODO file that has ;; been specified in the todo-file-do variable. If this file does not ;; conform to the TODO mode conventions, the todo-show function will add ;; the appropriate header and footer. I don't anticipate this to cause ;; much grief, but be warned, in case you attempt to read a plain text file. ;; ;; ;; ;; Operation: ;; ========== ;; ;; You will have the following facilities available: ;; ;; M-x todo-show will enter the todo list screen, here type ;; ;; + to go to next category ;; - to go to previous category ;; e to edit the current entry ;; f to file the current entry, including a ;; comment and timestamp ;; i to insert a new entry ;; k to kill the current entry ;; l lower the current entry's priority ;; n for the next entry ;; p for the previous entry ;; q to save the list and exit the buffer ;; r raise current entryk's priority ;; s to save the list ;; ;; When you add a new entry, you are asked for the text and then for the ;; category. I for example have categories for things that I want to do ;; in the office (like mail my mum), that I want to do in town (like buy ;; cornflakes) and things I want to do at home (move my suitcases). The ;; categories can be selected with the cursor keys and if you type in the ;; name of a category which didn't exist before, an empty category of the ;; desired name will be added and filled with the new entry. ;; ;; ;; ;; Configuration: ;; ============== ;; ;; --- todo-prefix ;; ;; I would like to recommend that you use the prefix "*/*" (by ;; leaving the variable 'todo-prefix' untouched) so that the diary ;; displays each entry every day. ;; ;; To understand what I mean, please read the documentation that goes ;; with the calendar since that will tell you how you can set up the ;; fancy diary display and use the #include command to include your ;; todo list file as part of your diary. ;; ;; ;; --- todo-file-do ;; ;; This variable is fairly self-explanatory. You have to store your TODO ;; list somewhere. This variable tells the package where to go and find ;; this file. ;; ;; ;; --- todo-file-done ;; ;; Even when you're done, you may wish to retain the entries. Given ;; that they're timestamped and you are offered to add a comment, this ;; can make a useful diary of past events. It will even blend in with ;; the EMACS diary package. So anyway, this variable holds the name ;; of the file for the filed todo-items. ;; ;; ;; --- todo-mode-hook ;; ;; Just like other modes, too, this mode offers to call your functions ;; before it goes about its business. This variable will be inspected ;; for any functions you may wish to have called once the other TODO ;; mode preparations have been completed. ;; ;; ;; --- todo-ins-thresh ;; ;; Another nifty feature is the insertion accuracy. If you have 8 items ;; in your TODO list, then you may get asked 4 questions by the binary ;; insertion algorithm. However, you may not really have a need for such ;; accurate priorities amongst your TODO items. If you now think about ;; the binary insertion halfing the size of the window each time, then ;; the threshhold is the window size at which it will stop. If you set ;; the threshhold to zero, the upper and lower bound will coincide at the ;; end of the loop and you will insert your item just before that point. ;; If you set the threshhold to i.e. 8, it will stop as soon as the window ;; size drops below that amount and will insert the item in the approximate ;; centre of that window. I got the idea for this feature after reading ;; a very helpful e-mail reply from Trey Jackson ;; who corrected some of my awful coding and pointed me towards some good ;; reading. Thanks Trey! ;; ;; ;; ;; History and Gossip: ;; =================== ;; ;; Just for the case that you are wondering about the ugly name of this ;; package: I am one of those unfortunate people who have DOS, LINUX and ;; OS/2 on one of their computers, so part of my home-filespace is shared ;; and stored on a DOS partition, which is accessible to all systems. If ;; you wish, you can of course rename the name of the file (and the "provide" ;; command near the end of this package) to something more aisthetically ;; (please don't argue about this spelling ...) pleasing, like i.e. todo-mode. ;; ;; Enjoy this package and express your gratitude by sending valuables ;; to my parents' address as listed above!!! ;; ;; Oliver Seidel ;; ;; ;; ;; Contact information: ;; ==================== ;; ;; address ....: O Seidel, Lessingstr 8, Eschborn, FRG ;; e-mail .....: Oliver.Seidel@cl.cam.ac.uk (was valid on 2 Aug 1997) ;; ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; $Log: todomode.el,v $ ;; Revision 1.9 1997/08/06 08:12:03 os10000 ;; Improved documentation. Broke some lines to comply with ;; Richard Stallman's email to please keep in sync with the ;; rest of the Emacs distribution files. ;; ;; Revision 1.8 1997/08/05 22:39:04 os10000 ;; Made todomode.el available under GPL. ;; ;; Revision 1.7 1997/08/05 22:34:14 os10000 ;; Fixed insertion routine with help from Trey Jackson ;; ; added todo-ins-thresh; ;; fixed keyboard layout to remove unwanted keys. ;; ;; Revision 1.6 1997/08/05 16:47:01 os10000 ;; Incorporated menus for XEmacs from Allan.Cochrane@soton.sc.philips.com, ;; fixed TYPO, fixed todo-file-cmd, cleaned up rcs history. ;; ;; Revision 1.5 1997/08/05 14:43:39 os10000 ;; Added improvements from Ron Gut . ;; Added category management. ;; ;; Revision 1.4 1997/08/04 16:18:45 os10000 ;; Added Raise/Lower item. ;; ;; Revision 1.3 1997/08/03 12:47:26 os10000 ;; Cleaned up variables, prefix and cursor position. ;; ;; Revision 1.2 1997/08/03 12:15:28 os10000 ;; It appears to work. ;; ;; Revision 1.1 1997/08/03 12:15:13 os10000 ;; Initial revision ;; ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; User-configurable variables: (defvar todo-prefix "*/*" "TODO mode prefix when creating entries") (defvar todo-file-do "~/.todo-do" "TODO mode filename of list file") (defvar todo-file-done "~/.todo-done" "TODO mode filename of archive file") (defvar todo-mode-hook nil "Hooks invoked when the TODO mode is entered.") (defvar todo-ins-thresh 0 "TODO mode insertion accuracy.") ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (require 'time-stamp) (defvar todo-mode-map nil "TODO mode keymap. See `todo-mode'") (if todo-mode-map nil (let ((map (make-keymap))) (suppress-keymap map t) (define-key map "+" 'todo-cmd-forw) (define-key map "-" 'todo-cmd-back) (define-key map "e" 'todo-cmd-edit) (define-key map "f" 'todo-cmd-file) (define-key map "i" 'todo-cmd-inst) (define-key map "k" 'todo-cmd-kill) (define-key map "l" 'todo-cmd-lowr) (define-key map "n" 'todo-cmd-next) (define-key map "p" 'todo-cmd-prev) (define-key map "q" 'todo-cmd-done) (define-key map "r" 'todo-cmd-rais) (define-key map "s" 'todo-cmd-save) (setq todo-mode-map map))) (defun todo-cat-slct () (let ((todo-category-name (nth todo-category-number todo-cats))) (setq mode-line-buffer-identification (concat "Category: " todo-category-name)) (widen) (goto-char (point-min)) (search-forward (concat "--- " todo-category-name)) (setq begin (+ (point-at-eol) 1)) (search-forward "--- End") (narrow-to-region begin (point-at-bol)) (goto-char (point-min)) ) ) (defun todo-cmd-forw () "Go forward to TODO list of next category." (interactive) (let ((todo-cat-cnt (- (length todo-cats) 1))) (setq todo-category-number (if (< todo-category-number todo-cat-cnt) (+ todo-category-number 1) 0)) (todo-cat-slct) ) ) (defun todo-cmd-back () "Go back to TODO list of previous category." (interactive) (let ((todo-cat-cnt (- (length todo-cats) 1))) (setq todo-category-number (if (> todo-category-number 0) (- todo-category-number 1) todo-cat-cnt)) (todo-cat-slct) ) ) (defun todo-cmd-prev () "Select previous entry of TODO list." (interactive) (forward-line -1) (beginning-of-line nil) (message "") ) (defun todo-cmd-next () "Select next entry of TODO list." (interactive) (forward-line 1) (beginning-of-line nil) (message "") ) (defun todo-cmd-save () "Save the TODO list." (interactive) (save-buffer) ) (defun todo-cmd-done () "Done with TODO list for now." (interactive) (widen) (save-buffer) (beginning-of-line nil) (message "") (bury-buffer) ) (defun todo-line () "Find current line in buffer." (buffer-substring (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol))) (defun todo-cmd-edit () "Edit current TODO list entry." (interactive) (let ((todo-entry (read-from-minibuffer "Edit: " (todo-line)))) (delete-region (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol)) (insert todo-entry) (beginning-of-line nil) (message ""))) (defvar todo-prv-lne 0 "previous line that I asked about.") (defvar todo-prv-ans 0 "previous answer that I got.") (defun todo-add-category (cat) "Add a new category to the TODO list." (interactive) (save-window-excursion (setq todo-cats (cons cat todo-cats)) (find-file todo-file-do) (widen) (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((posn (search-forward "-*- mode: todo; " 17 t))) (if (not (null posn)) (goto-char posn)) (if (equal posn nil) (progn (insert "-*- mode: todo; \n") (forward-char -1)) (kill-line))) (insert (format "todo-cats: %S; -*-" todo-cats)) (forward-char 1) (insert (format "%s --- %s\n--- End\n%s %s\n" todo-prefix cat todo-prefix (make-string 75 ?-))) ) 0 ) (defun todo-cmd-inst () "Insert new TODO list entry." (interactive) (beginning-of-line nil) (let* ((todo-entry (concat todo-prefix " " (read-from-minibuffer "New TODO entry: "))) (temp-catgs todo-cats) (todo-hstry (cons 'temp-catgs (+ todo-category-number 1)))) (save-window-excursion (setq todo-category (read-from-minibuffer "Category: " (nth todo-category-number todo-cats) nil nil todo-hstry)) (let ((cat-exists (member todo-category todo-cats))) (setq todo-category-number (if cat-exists (- (length todo-cats) (length cat-exists)) (todo-add-category todo-category)))) (todo-show) (setq todo-prv-lne 0) (let ((todo-fst 1) (todo-lst (+ 1 (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))))) (while (> (- todo-lst todo-fst) todo-ins-thresh) (let* ((todo-cur (/ (+ todo-fst todo-lst) 2)) (todo-ans (if (< todo-cur todo-lst) (todo-ask todo-cur) nil))) (if todo-ans (setq todo-lst todo-cur) (setq todo-fst (+ todo-cur 1))))) (setq todo-fst (/ (+ todo-fst todo-lst) 2)) ;; goto-line doesn't have the desired behavior in a narrowed buffer (goto-char (point-min)) (message (format "todo-fst=%d" todo-fst)) (forward-line (- todo-fst 1))) (insert (concat todo-entry "\n")) (forward-line -1)) (beginning-of-line nil) (message ""))) (defun todo-ask (lne) "Ask whether entry is more important than at LNE." (if (not (equal todo-prv-lne lne)) (progn (setq todo-prv-lne lne) (goto-char (point-min)) (forward-line (- todo-prv-lne 1)) (setq todo-prv-ans (y-or-n-p (concat "More important than '" (todo-line) "'? "))))) todo-prv-ans) (defun todo-cmd-kill () "Delete current TODO list entry." (interactive) (if (> (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) 0) (progn (let* ((todo-entry (todo-line)) (todo-answer (y-or-n-p (concat "Permanently remove '" todo-entry "'? ")))) (if todo-answer (progn (delete-region (point-at-bol) (+ 1 (point-at-eol))) (forward-line -1) ) ) ) (message "") ) (message "No TODO list entry to delete.") ) (beginning-of-line nil) ) (defun todo-cmd-rais () "Raise priority of current entry." (interactive) (if (> (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) 0) (progn (setq todo-entry (todo-line)) (delete-region (point-at-bol) (+ 1 (point-at-eol))) (forward-line -1) (insert (concat todo-entry "\n")) (forward-line -1) (message "") ) (message "No TODO list entry to raise.") ) (beginning-of-line nil) ) (defun todo-cmd-lowr () "Lower priority of current entry." (interactive) (if (> (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) 0) (progn (setq todo-entry (todo-line)) (delete-region (point-at-bol) (+ 1 (point-at-eol))) (forward-line 1) (insert (concat todo-entry "\n")) (forward-line -1) (message "") ) (message "No TODO list entry to raise.") ) (beginning-of-line nil) ) (defun todo-cmd-file () "File away the current TODO list entry." (interactive) (if (> (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) 0) (progn (let ((time-stamp-format "%3b %2d, %y, %02I:%02M%p")) (beginning-of-line nil) (delete-region (point-at-bol) (search-forward todo-prefix)) (insert (time-stamp-string)) (end-of-line nil) (insert (concat " (" (read-from-minibuffer "Comment: ") ")")) (append-to-file (point-at-bol) (+ 1 (point-at-eol)) todo-file-done) (delete-region (point-at-bol) (+ 1 (point-at-eol))) (forward-line -1) ) (message "") ) (message "No TODO list entry to delete.") ) (beginning-of-line nil) ) ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; utility functions: These are available in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 19.34 (if (not (fboundp 'point-at-bol)) (defun point-at-bol () (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point)))) (if (not (fboundp 'point-at-eol)) (defun point-at-eol () (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))) ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (defvar todo-mode-popup-menu (purecopy '("Todo Mode Menu" ["Forward item" todo-cmd-forw t] ["Backward item" todo-cmd-back t] "---" ["Edit item" todo-cmd-edit t] ["File item" todo-cmd-file t] ["Insert new item" todo-cmd-inst t] ["Kill item" todo-cmd-kill t] "---" ["Lower item priority" todo-cmd-lowr t] ["Raise item priority" todo-cmd-rais t] "---" ["Next item" todo-cmd-next t] ["Previous item" todo-cmd-prev t] "---" ["Save" todo-cmd-save t] "---" ["Quit" todo-cmd-done t] ) ) ) (defvar todo-cats nil "TODO categories.") (defvar todo-category-number 0 "TODO category number.") (defun todo-mode () "Major mode for editing TODO lists.\n\n\\{todo-mode-map}" (interactive) (setq major-mode 'todo-mode) (setq mode-name "TODO") (use-local-map todo-mode-map) (setq mode-popup-menu todo-mode-popup-menu) (run-hooks 'todo-mode-hook) ) (defun todo-show () "Show TODO list." (interactive) (find-file todo-file-do) (if (null todo-cats) (progn (todo-add-category "Todo") (goto-char (point-min)) (goto-char (search-forward "--- End")) (let ((bol (point-at-bol))) (forward-line 1) (let* ((eol (+ (point-at-eol) 1)) (mrkr (buffer-substring bol eol))) (delete-region bol eol) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert mrkr) ) ) (save-buffer) (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) (find-file todo-file-do) ) ) (beginning-of-line nil) (todo-cat-slct) ) (provide 'todomode) ;; --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; todomode.el ends here ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------