RFE: taskopen -S

[linuxcaffe]

-S as in Show

Where taskopen listings now display ("description"), the -S option would replace that with the first line of the annotation file. This might only work for text-based annotations, but it would be especially handy in viewing listings of Notes files.

[jschlatow]

What about

./taskopen.pl -x "head -n1" -b -t text

or '-n' instead of '-t text'?

[linuxcaffe]

-x "head -n1" -b

is really interesting, and sort of the idea, although the output can be an incoherent mashup. It begs for the visual context of the "description" and/or "annot" and/or "label" and/or ID to make it useful/ meaningful.

[jschlatow]

Then I guess a -S [cmd] would be a more general approach, with "cmd" be taken from taskopenrc if omitted. "cmd" will then be executed for each annotation and its output shown in the list.

[linuxcaffe]

On 27 January 2013 04:54, Johannes S. notifications@github.com wrote:

Then I guess a -s [cmd] would be a more general approach, with "cmd" be taken from taskopenrc if omitted. "cmd" will then be executed for each annotation and its output shown in the list.

I'm a bit confused, and hoping the above is a typo that should read -x [cmd] Even if it IS such a typo, I'm still confused ;-)

I've found that since the recent addition of "-b", "-x [cmd]" now requires the "batch" flag and "y/n" confirmation before executing. I liked it before, although I can see why it was a bit dangerous.

I have a couple of ideas about that :) djp

[linuxcaffe]

maybe, if "-T" is released from issue #34 (-E as in Entry (formerly -T as in Timestamp)) "Text" might be a better mnemonic here ??

[jschlatow]

No, I really meant "-S" which does almost the same as "-b -x" but shows the output interleaved with the usual output and still allows to use "-x", e.g.:

taskopen -s 'echo -n "    lines: " && wc -l' -x 'rm' -n

Can then be used for selective removing of (empy) notes files, like:

Please select an annotation: 1) Notes ("task1") -- 1 lines: 42 2) Notes ("task2") -- 2 lines: 0 Type number(s):