Todo.sh Changelog

Todo.sh CHANGELOG

• 5/11/2009 v 2.4
  • Cleanup: removing annoying trailing space on pri tasks
  • Cleanup: Don’t set colors in default todo.cfg.
  • Cleanup: Don’t set sort command in default todo.cfg.
  • Added support for TODOTXT_FINAL_FILTER to provide a final custom list filter (a67d0de6254bed5f066e21f1cdcef5bbd8c34ec4)
  • Added support for custom sorting (can set in todo.cfg)
  • Added parameterize for .todo.actions.d directory
  • Bugfix: listcon and listproj now work correctly on Mac OS X 10.5
  • Bugfix: pri accepted priorities of more than a single letter
  • Bugfix: support commands combination for TODOTXT_SORT_COMMAND; e.g. piped commands can be used: export TODOTXT_SORT_COMMAND=" env LC_COLLATE=C sort -f -k2 – | grep -m 10 .")
  • Bugfix: Replace now echoes old item AND new item, like it used to
  • Bugfix: Depri no longer wipes out tasks with more than just the priority in parentheses
  • Bugfix: Now throws an error if you try to prioritize with more than one letter, ie, todo.sh pri AA doesn’t work any more.
  • Tests: Several regression tests added.

• 4/2/2009 v 2.3
  • Separated _list function for reuse by various versions of list command to reduce duplicate code
  • Added Hide priority, context, and projects options now enabled -P, -@ and -+
  • Exported variables for use in add-ons
  • Enabled recursive call of todo.sh from add-ons
  • Set ls as the default action
  • Added -vv option for debugging output
  • Various cleanup
  • Added short usage statement (that fits on one screen) with -h
  • Added Makefile dist infrastructure for versioned releases in Downloads area on GitHub

• 3/2009 v 2.2 — NO VERSION LISTED IN SCRIPT
  • For awhile here during the GitHub transition, we stripped the version # from todo.sh and updated it kind of willy-nilly, so we’re back-versioning all unversioned copies v 2.2.

• 2/23/2009 v 2.1
  • NEW FEATURE: Added “pluggability” with ~/.todo.actions.d/ support (tx Tammy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/todotxt/message/1739 and Ed for pointing it out)
  • NEW FEATURE: Added -t param, off by default. When specified, it automatically prepends the current date to new todo’s on add
  • NEW FEATURE: Searches for more Unix-y ~/.todo.cfg if ~/todo.cfg doesn’t exist (tx Ed http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/todotxt/message/1767)
  • BUG FIX: Corrected “ambiguous redirect” bug with done file (tx Jeff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/todotxt/message/1764)
  • BUG FIX: Corrected usage and help message with new params
  • BUG FIX: Corrected config file miscomment about colors

• 2/17/2009, v 2.0.1
  • BUG FIX: Restored -d parameter functionality broken in 2.0 (d’oh, thanks Jason, you made the changelog! )

• 2/17/2009, v 2.0
  • NEW COMMAND addto [DEST] “Text to add” will append text to any file in the todo directory, like ideas.txt or maybelater.txt.
  • NEW COMMAND mv # [DEST] will move a task from todo.txt to another file [DEST] in the todo directory, like if you decide your “Learn French” task should go into your maybelater.txt file.
  • NEW COMMAND depri # removes priority from a task.
  • NEW COMMAND rm/del # [TERM] will delete just the [TERM] from the task on line # in todo.txt.
  • NEW COMMAND: listfile | lf [SRC] [TERM] will list the contents of any text file in the todo directory, and filter by keyword [TERM].
  • NEW COMMAND: listcon | lsc and listproj | lsprj lists contexts and projects, respectively, that appear in todo.txt. (Requires gawk.)
  • NEW OPTION: On task deletion, line number preservation is on by default (known issue, leaves blank lines). Optional, can be turned off with -n option.
  • NEW OPTION: Autoarchive on task completion is now on by default; can be turned off with -a parameter.
  • FIX: Better error handling throughout for all commands.
  • FIX: Archive now defrags the file (removes blank lines; see line preservation option.)
  • FIX: using /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh
  • EASE OF USE CHANGE: Separated config file into a non hidden dot file.

• 7/29/2006, v 1.7.3
  • Update: Added short action aliases – add/a, list/ls, listpri/lsp, listall/lsa, prepend/prep, append/app, del/rm
• 7/28/2006, v 1.7.2
  • Update: do action removes priority from task automatically
  • Update: actions are now case-insensitive (ie, todo.sh Add will work)
  • Update: listpri automatically capitalizes lowercase priorities
  • Update: listpri now displays friendly error message, and the # of tasks returned in verbose mode
• 7/21/2006, v 1.7.1
  • I’m a big dummy and didn’t keep track of what I fixed here. Sorry!
• 7/19/2006, v 1.7
  • New Feature: Interactive add, append, prepend and replace (tx, Ben!)
  • New Feature: Option -f forces delete action and disables interactive input (for todobot.pl)
  • New Feature: Action listall displays tasks from both todo.txt and done.txt
  • New Feature: Option -h displays full help message.
  • Update: A very short version of usage message displays by default instead of the long version.
  • Update: -q option deprecated; Use -v to turn on verbose mode
  • Bug fix: No colors display for done tasks (tx, Tanja!)
  • Bug fix: Sort is now case-insensitive (tx, Lonnie!)
  • Style: Comment in info about .todo file being required
• 7/6/2006, v 1.6.3
  • New feature: Line numbers now padded (up to 100) (thanks, Tanja!)
• 7/5/2006, v 1.6.2
  • Bug fix: Windows config files with spaces now work (tx Ron)
• 7/5/2006, v 1.6.1
  • Bug fix: No colors mode (-p) now works as expected
  • Change: The default location of your .todo file is now $HOME/.todo
• 7/4/2006, v 1.6
  • New feature: New action prepend adds text to an item at the beginning of the line
  • New feature: Configuration file is now separated from script into .todo file
  • New feature: Specify a config file other than .todo using the -d option
  • New feature: New option -q quiets todo.sh’s chattiness.
  • New feature: New option -V shows version and license information.
  • Change: The option to turn off colors is now -p (no longer -nc as in 1.5.2)
• 6/26/2006, v 1.5.2
  • Bug fix: Items that start with "x " (no quotes, notice space after x) are archived now to avoid lines that start with a word like ‘xander’ from being archived. (tx, Tannie!)
  • Bug fix: report now only archives items that start with "x " as well.
• 6/26/2006, v 1.5.1
  • Bug fix: Items with an x in them at all were being deleted on archive with 1.5; all fixed now.
• 6/24/2006, v 1.5
  • Bug fix: Colors show in OS/X 10.4 (tx SETH & misha)
  • New feature: Option to turn off colors (to avoid characters in piped text files or IM bot), ie todo -nc listpri
  • New feature: A date is added to a completed todo, ie x 2006-06-24 (tx SETH)
  • New feature: remdup action added which removes exact duplicate lines from todo.txt (tx Tannie)
  • New feature: del action now removes any blank lines from todo.txt (tx Tannie)
  • Style: Using sed -i instead of copying tmp file (tx Tannie)
• 6/17/2006, v 1.4
  • New feature: Tasks are color-coded by priority in Cygwin (Thanks, Abraham, Manuel and Luis!)
  • Bug fix: If you replace/do/append to a non-existent task, your todo.txt is no longer overwritten and the error is handled gracefully. (Thanks, Scott!)
  • Style: Switched endless if-then’s to a case statement, and tightened up wc -l regex. (Thanks, Sash!)
• 5/29/2006, v 1.3
  • Bug fix: Todo’s are now sorted alphabetically when listed by a term, ie, todo list flowers
  • New feature: Displays the number of newly added todo (Thanks, Amy!)
  • New feature: Confirms whether or not you really want to delete a todo
  • New feature: Displays success messages and confirmations on append, replace, do, etc.
  • Style: Alphabetized command workflow in if/then construction
  • Style: Tightened up sed commands, removed unnecessary grep’s and cat’s (Thanks, Sash!)
  • Style: Added licensing information in comments – (GPL, baby!)
  • Style: Stripped whitespace around number lines from wc results
  • Change: Removed filenames from report.txt format (for easier graphing or Excel imports)
• 5/15/2006, v 1.2
  • todo list matches multiple TERMs, ie, todo list mac offline will match all lines that contain the words “mac” and “offline”
  • list is case insenstive, ie, todo list Mac will match lines with “mac” and “Mac” in them
  • repri and pri actions combined into pri action (Thanks Mike!)
  • quotes no longer required with add and replace (Thanks Karl!)
  • any priority added to a todo must be uppercase to preserve sort order, enforced now, ie todo pri 1 a will return a usage error.
  • file “sanity checks” and cleanup function, test script and various fantastic stylistic improvements added. Extra big thanks to Karl!
• 5/12/2006, v 1.1.
  Supports file paths with spaces (ie “C:\Documents and Settings\gina\todo.txt”
• 5/11/2006, v 1.0.
  Consolidated into one master script with usage notes and released.