indented please?

[tomByrer]

This project looks neat!
Do you support indentation? Helps with subtasks

• add indentation
  • find GitHub's Markdown repo
  • snag their code
  • build & test inside todo-md
  • PR code & doc change
  • tell the world!

[Hypercubed]

Yes, it is partially there. If you are adding a new line it is indented using the previous line's white-space. This obviously only works if you manually added white space outside of todo-md. I need to add a way to manually set the indent level from the command line. Coming soon! Thank you.

[tomByrer]

cool thanks!

[Hypercubed]

Any suggestion on the cli format. I implemented todo add "New task" --indent 2 but it feels ugly. I've been thinking of adding controls into the task description itself. Something like todo add "+New task" to indent and todo add "New task +done" to mark as done.

[tomByrer]

Thanks for asking for feedback. Oh, for some reason I assumed you were just going to indent 2 spaces as if you were entering in normal GFM:
todo add " New task"
Your "+New task" is close.
Or maybe
todo add "New task" sub
So you can then do:
todo add "New task" sub "Parent Task"

[Hypercubed]

I guess todo add "New task" sub is nearly the same as todo add "New task" --indent. As it is it would not work because sub would be assumed to be the index of where to add. With --indent we can do --indent 2 etc.

Using the prefixed spaces as the indent level could work as well but how do you indicate unindent? I was thinking "-New task".

The todo add "New task" sub "Parent Task" type of nesting will come when I add tags. I was thinking of something like todo add "New task" @parent but I need to think more. Until then this the same as todo add "New task" [parent_index] --indent.

I plan to implement todo indent [range] and todo unindent [range] so we can indent and unindent a whole ranges of tasks.

[tomByrer]

Yes, there are many paths, & you have alot of good ideas.
Either road you take, I hope there is harmony in flags.
Eg this is disharmonious: --indent vs @parent (should be --parent)
This is more harmonious: +new & -new; since - un-indenting my space-indention is confusing.

Indenting & unindenting ranges is interesting, but for me at that point I'd just open an editor. Though perhaps would like it.