todo-mode: Todo Archive Mode
6.2 Todo Archive Mode
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When you visit a Todo archive, the buffer is in Todo Archive mode. It
displays categories just as in Todo mode, except that they only contain
done items. It provides the same sequential navigation commands as Todo
mode: ‘f’ and ‘b’ navigate between the categories of the current
archive, and ‘n’ and ‘p’ navigate between the done items of the current
archive category.
The commands ‘t’ and ‘j’ are also available in Todo Archive mode, and
they work the same as in Todo mode, which means they can only be used to
return to Todo mode: ‘t’ prompt for and switch to a todo file, and with
‘j’ you can only jump to a todo category. These commands exclude
archives because an archive file has the same base name as the
corresponding todo file, and category name completion uses only the base
names, so the commands cannot know which type of file you want to visit.
For this reason, there is a special command in Todo Archive mode for
jumping to another archive category or visiting another archive file:
‘a’
This command (‘todo-jump-to-archive-category’) prompts for a
category in the current archive and jumps to it. Called with a
prefix argument, it prompts for another archive, then for a
category in it and jumps to that category.
None of the Todo mode editing commands are available in Todo Archive
mode, since archives are meant to be static records of accomplished todo
items. Should you, however, archive an item by mistake or simply change
your mind about the archival status of an item, you can “unarchive” it:
‘u’
Restore the done item at point to the top of the done items section
of the corresponding category in the corresponding todo file, i.e.,
an unarchived item remains a done item (‘todo-unarchive-items’).
When the last item in an archive category has been unarchived, the
category is automatically deleted from the archive. If this was
the only category in the archive, the archive file is also
automatically deleted.
Since it is natural to visit an archive from the corresponding todo
file, it would be convenient to easily return to the todo file when you
have finished browsing the archive. If you type ‘q’ to quit Todo
Archive mode, this switches to the corresponding todo file and shows the
todo category corresponding to the archive category you were just
visiting.
The command ‘F k’ (
File Editing) is also available in Todo
Archive mode. It deletes the current archive file and prompts you
whether to delete the corresponding todo file.
Info Catalog
todo-mode: Creating and Visiting Archives
todo-mode: Todo Archives