Change subproject delimeter

[trev-dev]

I do a lot of work on websites, and as such, like to enter projects by website domain.

If I run a task projects report, it tends to look a bit ugly because i use : as my project delimiter as opposed to a full stop ..

It ends up looking like this:

Project                 Tasks
(none)                     28
#website                    1
  com:Feature Addons        1

Instead of:

Project                 Tasks
(none)                     28
#website.com                1
  Feature Addons            1

The # is for metadata in a different report that I run with timewarrior, a report that I wrote to have the custom delimiter I am talking about.

I don't use the projects report that often, but this lack of flexibility concerns me if later features are missing flexibility, too.

[smemsh]

I would like to use / for hierarchy delimiters myself instead of ., but it is what it is. In my experience patches are more than welcome though, if you feel like hacking on it to allow definition of delimiter from an rc-defined character.

[trev-dev]

Not a c programmer, but am very close to learning enough to contribute this. Famous last words are "how hard could that be?"

[tbabej]

I suspect it will be relatively non-trivial. The assumption that . is used as a (sub)project delimeter is used in various parts of the code base. Nothing a determined individual wouldn't be able to power through, but I suspect it's far from a "make a change to one place in the code base".

[trev-dev]

Unfortunately for me the path of least resistance was to open up my time/taskwarrior database files and :%s my way out of using a divergent delimiter. I appreciate your input @tbabej, and my task list is already full of burning red at the top ;)