vim-plaintasks

vim-plaintasks is a lightweight plugin for Vim and Neovim that offers basic syntax support & task management for the PlainTasks format.

This plugin is a fork of elentok/plaintasks.vim.
The master branch mirrors the original repository (elentok/plaintasks.vim).

The default custom branch provides:

• Auto-detection for the following file extensions:
  *.TODO, TODO, *.todo, *.todolist, *.taskpaper, *.tasks

• Alternative symbols for task states:
  - for tasks, + for completed, x for cancelled.

• Syntax highlighting for tasks, completed tasks, cancelled tasks, tags,
  task comments/descriptions, markdown headers.

• Highlighting for the @spot, @low, @today, @high, @critical tags.

• An improved approach to Archiving functionality (see Notes)

• No default Keybindings. User should set their own.
  Available functions:
  ToggleTask(), ToggleTaskDone(), ToggleTaskCancelled(),
  AddTaskNote(), ArchiveTasks(), TaskSeparator()

GitHub: https://github.com/Gregory-K/vim-plaintasks
Mod : Gregory.K

Notes

• The ArchiveTasks() function now tries to properly handle task descriptions and notes, archiving tasks with their associated notes and sorting them by completion or cancellation date. (WIP)

• vim-plaintasks requires a terminal with support for 256 colours or higher.

Installation

Using vim-plug

REL: vim-plug

Add the following line to vimrc or init.vim:

Plug 'Gregory-K/vim-plaintasks'

Then, install the plugin:

:PlugInstall

Proceed settting-up your keybindings / key-mappings.

Manual Installation

Clone this repository into
.vim / ~/.config/vim / ~/vimfiles (windows) directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config/vim/pack/vendor/start/vim-plaintasks
cd ~/.config/vim/pack/vendor/start/vim-plaintasks
git clone https://github.com/Gregory-K/vim-plaintasks .

Proceed setting-up your keybindings / key-mappings.

Keybindings / Key-Mappings

No default mappings provided. User should define their own in .vimrc.

Available Functions:

• ToggleTask() (toggles the state of line as task or not)
• ToggleTaskDone()
• ToggleTaskCancelled()
• AddTaskNote()
• ArchiveTasks()
• TaskSeparator()

Examples

Using autocommand-based mappings (recommended):

" Plaintasks
" On Unix-like systems, Alt key behavior depends on the terminal emulator
" & shell configuration.
" On Windows, Alt key combinations generally function directly for keybindings.
augroup plaintasks_mappings
  autocmd!
  autocmd FileType plaintasks call s:SetupPlainTasksMappings()
augroup END

function! s:SetupPlainTasksMappings()
  if has('unix')
    nnoremap <silent> <buffer> <Esc>t :call ToggleTask()<CR>
    vnoremap <silent> <buffer> <Esc>t :call ToggleTask()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <Esc>d :call ToggleTaskDone()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <Esc>x :call ToggleTaskCancelled()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <Esc>n :call AddTaskNote()<CR>
    nnoremap <silent> <buffer> <Esc>a :call ArchiveTasks()<CR>
  else  " Windows
    nnoremap <silent> <buffer> <A-t> :call ToggleTask()<CR>
    vnoremap <silent> <buffer> <A-t> :call ToggleTask()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <A-d> :call ToggleTaskDone()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <A-x> :call ToggleTaskCancelled()<CR>
    noremap  <silent> <buffer> <A-n> :call AddTaskNote()<CR>
    nnoremap <silent> <buffer> <A-a> :call ArchiveTasks()<CR>
  endif
  iabbr <buffer> -- <C-R>=TaskSeparator()<CR>
endfunction

Usage

Open any supported file (*.tasks, *.TODO, etc.) in Vim or Neovim to automatically activate syntax highlighting:

vim project.tasks

For details on the PlainTasks format, refer to the PlainTasks documentation.