Can't figure out how get default notes working with version 2 about taskopen HOT 9 CLOSED

@sdondley Thanks for opening this issue. It seems I made a mistake in the default config. Can you please change the following lines in your .taskopenrc file:

notes.regex = "^Notes\\.(.*)"
notes.command = "editnote ~/Notes/tasknotes/$UUID.$LAST_MATCH \"$TASK_DESCRIPTION\" $UUID"

into

notes.regex = "^Notes(\\..*)?"                                                                                                                                 
notes.command = "editnote ~/Notes/tasknotes/$UUID$LAST_MATCH \"$TASK_DESCRIPTION\" $UUID"

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Changing the notes.regex value to your suggestion didn't actually work but this did:

notes.regex="^Notes$"
notes.command="editnote ~/notes/tasknotes/$UUID$LAST_MATCH \"$TASK_DESCRIPTION\" $UUID"

Thanks for the hand.

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OK, I've been playing around with this a bit more to get a feel for how this might work. I would like the default notes to be recognized as a vimwiki/taskwiki file. So I add the following line to my vimwiki config:

{path = '~/Documents/notes/tasknotes', auto_toc = 1, syntax = 'markdown', ext = '.md', name = 'tasknotes'},

Now, I need the notes to be markdown files with an markdown extension of *.md to be recognized. So from the command line I do:

task 123 annotate Notes.md

To get this to work, I need the following config settings:

notes.regex="^Notes\\.(.*)?"
notes.command="editnote ~/Documents/notes/tasknotes/$UUID.$LAST_MATCH \"$TASK_DESCRIPTION\" $UUID"

So now when I do:

taskopen 123

It opens the file up as a markdown file with a filetype set to vimwiki.

Is this how it's intended to be used?

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Yes, that is the intended use.

With the modified regex that I posted above, it should be possible to omit the extension though. At least it does so on my Linux machine.

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Is that regex used by bash or Nim?

I'm using zsh so maybe that's part of the problem?

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Changing the regex to notes.regex="^Notes\\.?(.*)?" seems to work well. Note the question mark after the first period, making the period optional.

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It's used by Nim. Maybe there is a difference in the PCRE library on Mac.

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I just tried your initial suggestion for the regex again and it worked this time. I must have had a typo in my first attempt.

At any rate, I'm going to default to using .md files. Is there any good reason that I might not want to?

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I just tried your initial suggestion for the regex again and it worked this time. I must have had a typo in my first attempt.

Perfect. Thanks for re-testing.

At any rate, I'm going to default to using .md files. Is there any good reason that I might not want to?

I cannot think of any ;-)

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