From 8572080677c2bd96a781a8d20351f74b16c4ac49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Beckingham Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:22:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation - With Charles permission, lifted an excellent description of task from a forum message to include in the main man page. Thanks to T. Charles Yun. --- ChangeLog | 1 + doc/man/task.1 | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5a7171704..d7ad3ce27 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ 'task config' is now only used to set new configuration values. + Added feature #298, supporting a configurable number of future recurring tasks that are generated. + + Improvements to the man pages (thanks to T. Charles Yun). + Fixed bug #406 so that task now includes command aliases in the _commands helper command used by shell completion scripts. + Fixed bug #211 - it was unclear which commands modify a task description. diff --git a/doc/man/task.1 b/doc/man/task.1 index eedb3e8eb..f9f0546ba 100644 --- a/doc/man/task.1 +++ b/doc/man/task.1 @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ Task is a command line todo list manager. It maintains a list of tasks that you want to do, allowing you to add/remove, and otherwise manipulate them. Task has a rich list of subcommands that allow you to do various things with it. +At the core, task is a list processing program. You add text and additional +related parameters and task redisplays the information in a nice way. It turns +into a todo list program when you add due dates and recurrence. It turns into an +organized todo list program when you add priorities, tags (one word descriptors), +project groups, etc. Task turns into an organized to do list program when you +modify the configuration file to have the output displayed the way you want to +see it. + .SH SUBCOMMANDS .TP @@ -499,6 +507,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2006 \- 2010 P. Beckingham This man page was originally written by P.C. Shyamshankar, and has been modified and supplemented by Federico Hernandez. +Thank also to T. Charles Yun. + task is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt for more information.