what about filtering?

[colinsullivan]

What about the ability to filter arbitrarily, kind of like the todo.sh ls works?

Perhaps a command you run:

:todo.txt-filter @mytag +myProject

Would then re-order the file with all of the tasks matching the query on top, and the rest in a fold below?

I have little insight into how to accomplish this with vim+python and how the folding API works. Any thoughts?

[colinsullivan]

ping

@freitass is this out of scope in your opinion?

[freitass]

Hi @colinsullivan, I didn't have the time to think about it yet. There were some attempts to implement something similar to this but I think your suggestion is the "least invasive" one. Wouldn't just sorting by context/project do the job?

[colinsullivan]

For example,

I want to see all my tasks in the +Next project, that have both contexts @work and @email.

If todo.txt-vim could put them all sorted together that would be good enough for me. My understanding is that this is not possible because todo.txt-vim is choosing an arbitrary method for resolving lines with multiple @contexts (just choosing the first one?)

It's approaching something like this:

https://github.com/AnthonyDiGirolamo/todotxt-machine

I'm not sure if that's where you want to go :)

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Colin

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Hi @colinsullivan https://github.com/colinsullivan, I didn't have the time to think about it yet. There were some attempts to implement something similar to this but I think your suggestion is the "least invasive" one. Wouldn't just sorting by context/project do the job?

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[lgalke]

Hey @colinsullivan , Just to let you know, I recently published gather-todo.txt, an extension to this plugin here. The core functionality is gathering and merging multiple todo.txt files (in a directory tree) in a scratch buffer. Thus, enabling some kind of agenda view in a temporary buffer.

As a nice side-effect, you can easily perform filtering in this scratch buffer with vim's basic functionality:

• v/@interesting/d : Drop any todo items not containing the interesting context
• g/+boringproject/d : Drop any todo items from the boring project.

Maybe this helps. I would be happy to receive some kind of feedback, what further functionality the plugin should provide (dispatching?, caching?).

Best Regards, lgalke

[myrdd]

FYI, I'm currently using Foldsearch for (kind-of) filtering. Works for me for now, still being newbie in terms of both todotxt and vim.

See also these SE questions:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/862966/hide-all-notmatching-lines-in-vim
• https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/8770/how-can-i-hide-blank-lines-in-vim-without-actually-removing-them-from-the-text-i
• https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/5533/hide-certain-lines-completely-not-folding