todo-mode: Navigation
4 Navigation
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The navigation commands are for making another todo file, category, or
item the current one by moving point to it.(1) Since these commands are
likely to be used frequently and repetitively, it is convenient for
their key bindings to be single lower case keys, even for navigation
commands applying to categories and files.
Mode Entry Points:::
‘t’
Display another todo file in the selected window (‘todo-show’).
When you invoke this command in Todo mode, it prompts for a file
name, which you can choose via minibuffer completion (like invoking
‘todo-show’ with a prefix argument outside of Todo mode). If a
buffer is already visiting that file, it displays its current
category; if invoking ‘t’ opens the file, it display its first
category (by default; see the option ‘todo-show-first’ for other
possibilities).
‘j’
Display another todo category in the selected window
(‘todo-jump-to-category’). When you invoke this command, it
prompts for a category name, which you can choose via minibuffer
completion. The candidates for completion include the categories
in the current todo file as well as those in the files listed in
the option ‘todo-category-completions-files’. If you type <RET>
without choosing a category, the current category of the current
todo file is automatically selected (this can be a useful shortcut
when you invoke ‘todo-jump-to-category’ outside of Todo mode). If
you type the name of a non-existing category, you can add this to
the file as a new category and jump to it. If you invoke this
command with a prefix argument, it first you prompts for which todo
file to jump to (which you can also choose with minibuffer
completion) and then for which category from that file; in this
case, completion is only against the categories in the selected
file.
It is also convenient to navigate back and forth sequentially between
the categories of a single todo file. The categories of a todo file are
numbered consecutively starting with ‘1’.(2) The current category’s
number and name appear in the mode line.
‘f’
Move point to the first item of the category numerically directly
following the current category (‘todo-forward-category’).
‘b’
Move point to the first item of the category numerically directly
preceding the current category (‘todo-backward-category’).
With ‘f’ and ‘b’ you can cycle through the categories, so for
example, if the last category is current and you type ‘f’, then the
first category becomes current.
You can also navigate between the items in the current category:
‘n’
Move point down to the next item below the current one (i.e., to
the item with the next lower priority) (‘todo-next-item’).
‘p’
Move point up to the item directly above the current one (i.e., to
the item with the next higher priority) (‘todo-previous-item’).
These commands also accept a positive numeric prefix argument; e.g.,
typing ‘5 n’ or ‘5 p’ navigates in one step to the item five items lower
or higher than the current one.
Navigation to other types of Todo files is discussed in the relevant
sections below.
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(1) Many editing commands can also do this by side effect, but since
that is not their main function, they are not included in this section.
(2) A category’s number is automatically assigned when the category
is created: the category is appended to the end of the file, so its
number is simply the highest until another category is added. There is
no command in Todo mode to reorder the numbering of the categories in a
todo file, but this is possible from the file’s table of categories;
Todo Categories Mode.
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