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Documentation Update
- Added example of using DeMorgan's theorem when constructing multi-term filters to task-faq.5 (thanks to Rich Mintz).
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unbounded with use, but that one isn't accessed as much, so it doesn't matter as
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much. So in all, the ID number resequencing is about efficiency.
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.TP
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.B Q: How do I list tasks that are either priority 'H' or 'M', but not 'L'?
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Task's filters are all combined with and implicit logical AND operator, so if
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you were to try this:
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$ task list priority:H priority:M
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There would be no results, because the priority could not simultaneously be 'H'
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AND 'M'. What is required is some way to use OR instead of an AND operator. The
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solution is to invert the filter in this way:
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$ task list priority.not:L priority.any:
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This filter states that the priority must not be 'L', AND there must be a
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priority assigned. This filter then properly lists tasks that are 'H' or 'M',
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because the two logical restrictions are not mutually exclusive as in the
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original filter.
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Some of you may be familiar with DeMorgan's laws of formal logic that relate
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the AND and OR operators in terms of each other via negation, which can be used
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to construct task filters.
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.SH "CREDITS & COPYRIGHTS"
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task was written by P. Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>.
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