todo-mode: Table of Item Counts
8.1 Table of Item Counts
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Above each column of the table is a labeled button you can press by
clicking with the mouse or by typing <RET> on it. Pressing an item
count button sorts the table alternately in ascending or descending
order according to the type of count. Pressing the category button
alternates between the initial numerical order of the categories and
alphabetical order. In numerical order the column of category names is
preceded by a column containing the corresponding category numbers; this
column is not displayed in the alphabetical listing. Instead of
pressing the buttons, you can also sort the table by typing the
following keys:
• ‘c’ to sort by category numerically or alphabetically;
• ‘t’ to sort by todo item counts;
• ‘y’ to sort by diary item counts;
• ‘d’ to sort by done item counts;
• ‘a’ to sort by archived item counts.
Each row of the table is also buttonized; pressing one of these exits
the buffer (killing it), returns to the buffer of the file from which
you had invoked ‘F c’, and displays the category that was named in the
row button you pressed (i.e., pressing this button jumps to that
category). However, if the category named in the row is in a todo file
and all of its items have been archived, and you have enabled the option
‘todo-skip-archived-categories’, then pressing the button jumps to the
archive category instead of the empty todo category. You can recognize
such categories by their items counts in the table—all columns but the
archived one have counts of zero—and in addition, their lines in the
table are also distinguished from the others by a different face (
Faces).
You can navigate around the table:
‘n’
‘<TAB>’
Advance point to the next button.
‘p’
‘S-<TAB>’
Put point on the previous button.
These commands are cyclic, e.g., when point is on the last button,
pressing ‘n’ moves it to the first button.
Typing ‘q’ exits Todo Categories mode, killing the buffer and
returning to the current category in the Todo mode or Todo Archive mode
buffer from which you had invoked ‘F c’.