Hey,

first of all thanks for porting todo.txt!
I like the concept and plan to write some actions myself but currently I can't get them to run ( I used the master branch).

config script:

# === EDIT FILE LOCATIONS BELOW ===

# Your todo.txt directory
export TODO_DIR="$HOME/.todo"

# Your todo/done/report.txt locations
export TODO_FILE="$TODO_DIR/todo.txt"
export DONE_FILE="$TODO_DIR/done.txt"
export REPORT_FILE="$TODO_DIR/report.txt"
export TMP_FILE="$TODO_DIR/todo.tmp"
export USE_GIT=False  # or 1

# You can customize your actions directory location
#export TODO_ACTIONS_DIR="$HOME/.todo.actions.d"
export TODO_ACTIONS_DIR="$TODO_DIR/.todo.actions.d"

I copied the plug-ins from bash todo.txt into $TODO_DIR/.todo.actions.d and made them
executable. But I can't use them and they don't show up if I run todo.py -h same holds true for your mstave.py. As far as I can tell load_actions() is not executed.

Best,
Immanuel

I use my todo.txt file with the android application. If I complete a task on my phone and then list it in todo.py it shows up with the propper X in front of the line. I don't see a way to archive this with todo.py.

Since optparse (new since 2.3) is deprecated since 2.7 consider rewriting the code for argparse (new in 2.7).

When executing install.sh line 67 and line 69 assume the current directory is the same as the file todo.py resulting in a file not found error.

Proposed changes:

#!/bin/bash
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/bin
ALIAS_FILE=$HOME/.bashrc
THIS_SCRIPT=$(readlink -f $0) # Added to get full path to install.sh
CODE_DIR=$(dirname $THIS_SCRIPT) # Added to get full dirname of install.sh
prog="[""$(basename $THIS_SCRIPT)""] "

and

echo $prog"Copying todo.py to $INSTALL_DIR/todo.py"
if [[ ! -f $INSTALL_DIR/todo.py ]] ; then
    # addition of full path via CODE_DIR variable
    cp ${CODE_DIR}/todo.py $INSTALL_DIR
else
    # addition of full path via CODE_DIR variable
    cp -u ${CODE_DIR}/todo.py $INSTALL_DIR
fi

Thoughts?

the regexp that pulls variable out of config files does not work if there are windows paths, thus preventing proper use of todo.py on windows

strip_re = re.compile('\w+\s([A-Za-z_$="./01]+).*')

as you can see that match group is missing the \ and : characters so windows paths get reduced to the drive letter when they are pulled out.

a fixed line looks like

strip_re = re.compile('\w+\s([A-Za-z_$="./01\\\\:]+).*')

this fix let todo.py work properly for me.

With OptionParser there's an initial setting called add_help_option which can be set to False. Using this we can unify help and -h/--help