From: Tomas Babej Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:21:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Docs: Update docs about reading .taskrc X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/taskwarrior.git/commitdiff_plain/5e544e3827f5f7390c8329ffa6eed1492e61d188?ds=sidebyside;hp=-c Docs: Update docs about reading .taskrc --- 5e544e3827f5f7390c8329ffa6eed1492e61d188 diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 6b9a6c3..dfddeb0 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ The default location is the same as taskwarrior's:: >>> tw = TaskWarrior(data_location='~/.task', create=True) +The ``TaskWarrior`` instance will also use your .taskrc configuration (so that +it recognizes the same UDAs as your task binary, uses the same configuration, +etc.). To override the location of the .taskrc, use +``taskrc_location=~/some/different/path``. + Creating Tasks -------------- @@ -397,14 +402,14 @@ You can use ``config_override`` keyword argument to specify a dictionary of conf Setting custom configuration values ----------------------------------- -By default, TaskWarrior does not use any of configuration values stored in -your .taskrc. To see what configuration values are passed to each executed +By default, TaskWarrior uses configuration values stored in your .taskrc. +To see what configuration value overrides are passed to each executed task command, have a peek into ``config`` attribute of ``TaskWarrior`` object:: >>> tw.config {'confirmation': 'no', 'data.location': '/home/tbabej/.task'} -To pass your own configuration, you just need to update this dictionary:: +To pass your own configuration overrides, you just need to update this dictionary:: >>> tw.config.update({'hooks': 'off'}) # tasklib will not trigger hooks @@ -458,16 +463,15 @@ version of the task to the returned ``Task`` object. To access the original data Working with UDAs ----------------- -Since TaskWarrior does not read your .taskrc, you need to define any UDAs -in the TaskWarrior's config dictionary, as described above. - -Let us demonstrate this on the same example as in the TaskWarrior's docs:: +Since TaskWarrior does read your .taskrc, you need not to define any UDAs +in the TaskWarrior's config dictionary, as described above. Suppose we have +a estimate UDA in the .taskrc:: - >>> tw = TaskWarrior() - >>> tw.config.update({'uda.estimate.type': 'numeric'}) + uda.estimate.type = numeric -Now we can filter and create tasks using the estimate UDA:: +We can simply filter and create tasks using the estimate UDA out of the box:: + >>> tw = TaskWarrior() >>> task = Task(tw, description="Long task", estimate=1000) >>> task.save() >>> task['id'] @@ -478,7 +482,7 @@ This is saved as UDA in the TaskWarrior:: $ task 1 export {"id":1,"description":"Long task","estimate":1000, ...} -As long as ``TaskWarrior``'s config is updated, we can approach UDAs as built in attributes:: +We can also speficy UDAs as arguments in the TaskFilter:: >>> tw.tasks.filter(estimate=1000) Long task @@ -486,9 +490,16 @@ As long as ``TaskWarrior``'s config is updated, we can approach UDAs as built in Syncing ------- -Syncing is not directly supported by tasklib, but it can be made to work in a similiar way -as the UDAs. First we need to update the ``config`` dictionary by the values required for -sync to work, and then we can run the sync command using the ``execute_command()`` method:: +If you have configurated the needed config variables in your .taskrc, syncing +is as easy as:: + + >>> tw = TaskWarrior() + >>> tw.execute_command(['sync']) + +If you want to use non-standard server/credentials, you'll need to provide configuration +overrides to the ``TaskWarrior`` instance. Update the ``config`` dictionary with the +values you desire to override, and then we can run the sync command using +the ``execute_command()`` method:: >>> tw = TaskWarrior() >>> sync_config = {