Add support for editing and printing categories. about todoman HOT 6 OPEN

The internal model already supports categories (we can even filter by them!).

Mostly, we need to add this to show, edit, new and to the UI. In the UI, they can be comma-separated (since categories can't have commas anyway).

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hello!! I want to work on this issue..should it require test case?

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Hello @Sakshisaraswat, yes, please add a testcase as well. The checklist for this issue looks very similar to #11 (comment), except for adding support for LOCATION, we add support for CATEGORIES.

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@Sakshisaraswat I can see you have some code towards this issue. Are you still working on this? What is the state of the code?

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I have reworked the original patch and rebased it on master. Using this code
https://github.com/christf/todoman/tree/category I can create and edit categories.

Unfortunately when saving multiple categories into the same task, the "," is masked by a backslash.
This results in a line like:

CATEGORIES:cat1\,cat2

This works from the todoman perspective tough I do not think this is properly formated.
I would appreciate help, feedback and comments on the existing code. I have not worked with python until now, please be even more constructive than you usually would be.
I am willing to continue to work on this until the feature can be merged.

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@christf Would you mind opening a PR to discuss code details for this patch there?

master...christf:category

Regarding the commas issue, it looks like using t.set_inline('category', ['foo','bar']) sets them properly (and also escapes commas INSIDE categories properly).

I also think we might be able to use the multiple options feature here, so category names can actually contain commas (which would actually be escaped). This would slightly change usage to:

todo new blah --category foo --category bar

I think this is slightly tidier than forcing people to comma-separate.

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