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Haskerdeux - A Simple Command Line Client for Teuxdeux in Haskell

Written with the dual purpose of being a learning exercise for Haskell and also because I really wanted a command line tool for Teuxdeux. As it stands this is a bit rough and ready, but it does work.

It used to use Network.Curl, but I can't get that to work anymore so I'm doing straight system calls to curl which means it's not very Haskelly and ultimately a bit of a pointless use of Haskell, but it's for me, so there.

Status

Alive! Official status is "Messy and works for me, unlikely to improve"; It was dead for years because I didn't think it was possible to get the new API to work.

Requirements

You need the following Haskell packages installed:

I also suggest you compile it to use it - it's much faster to use that way. Just do ghc --make haskerdeux.hs. If you don't compile it then replace ./haskerdeux in the examples below with runhaskell haskerdeux.hs.

Features/Commands

Haskerdeux works in the following way:

haskerdeux <date> <command> <optional args>

I.e. the date supplied is the date the commands act on. It understands "today", "tomorrow" and dates in "YYYY-MM-DD" format. All commands recognise and require a date.

It includes the following commands:

Todos

For listing todos only (as that is all I want to see)

haskerdeux today todos haskerdeux tomorrow todos haskerdeux 2017-02-28 todos

This returns a numbered list, like so:

0 - Write README for Haskerdeux
1 - Write Blog post about Haskerdeux
2 - Split development work in different branch
3 - Perhaps do some actual work you are paid to do

You can use those numbers with the PutOff and CrossOff commands, etc.

New

For creating new tasks

haskerdeux today new "<A todo item for today>" haskerdeux tomorrow new "<A todo item for tomorrow>"

PutOff

For putting off a task until the next day.

haskerdeux today putoff <tasknumber from todos list>

E.g:

haskerdeux today putoff 3

MoveTo

For moving a task to another date.

haskerdeux today moveto <tasknumber from todos list> <date in YYYY:MM:DD>

E.g:

haskerdeux today moveto 11 2012-09-01

CrossOff

For marking a task as complete

haskerdeux today crossoff <tasknumber from todos list>

Delete

For completely removing a task

haskerdeux today delete <tasknumber from todos list>

Using .netrc For Storing Username and Password

It's compulsory. It used to support passing username/password as command line args, but no more. The <username> and <password> are read from .netrc. Just add an entry to .netrc as follows:

machine teuxdeux.com
	login superprocrastinator
	password mysecretpassword

Or the single line format:

machine teuxdeux.com loging superprocrastinator password mysecretpassword

It should work ok with either format. It won't work if you have spaces in your password though.

Development

Nope.

Thanks

Some resources that helped me figure this out: