Additional Task Bullets

[l4ci]

Hey there, love the plugin so far, but can you add some additional bullet options?

I'd love to use:

"open_tasks_bullet": "[ ]", 
"done_tasks_bullet": "[x]", 
"cancelled_tasks_bullet": "[-]", 

which works basically - but only to some extend: tags seem to be broken with it, so thats why I guess you show us the options we can use as bullets.

Just a small addition ;)

[vovkkk]

The main point of bullets (or rather the fact that one has to use only specific bullets) is that syntax highlighting in ST happens due regexes.
You cannot just put arbitrary character, especially if that character is already in use.
So namely

1. Whitespace is used for indentation, and if line has no leading bullet character it'll be consider as a note. I.e. we can’t use it as bullet unless we decide to eliminate the difference between pending task and note (for me personally it’s no-no).
2. x is used for cancelled tasks, we probably could make it work due tags, but since it’s possible to use PT w/o done tags at all and the fact that we already added similar functionality (I mean same bullet for different types) for TaskPaper support, it seems questionably (I don’t see a reason to increase complexity of regexes which are already quite complex).
3. Same as 2.

BTW, in case you’re wondering highlighting is not only ‘fancy colours’, it is more, e.g. currently notes are archiving just by the fact that they are notes… um… I mean, if you look at the script you’ll see that code checks the scope of the line and scope comes from highlighting. In fact, I’m going only increase the use of scopes in script, for instance it’ll be useful to make acceptable multiple bullet types at the same time (currently PT become confuse if bullet in document and in settings are different) and maybe something else, so it’s important to keep scopes solid stable.

[l4ci]

Ah okay, I understand. Thanks for explaining 👍

[vovkkk]

Sorry, I’m silly, initially I’ve missed square brackets, so actually these bullets can be added w/o problems.
Man, never send message before you finish your coffee.

So it’s orgmode style, right? and GitHub markdown supports these, yea let’s add them.

[l4ci]

haha, happens ;) yea github todos work that way - awesome!