Verbosity

- Implemented new verbosity token 'new-id' which controls whether
  newly generated task IDs are reported.

doc/man/taskrc.5.in

@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@ help text.
 .SS MISCELLANEOUS
 
 .TP
-.B edit.verbose=on|off|list...
+.B verbose=on|off|list...
-When set to on (the default), helpful explanatory comments are added to the
+When set to on (the default), helpful explanatory comments are added to all
-edited file when using the "task edit ..." command.  Setting this to off means
+output from Taskwarrior.  Setting this to off means that you would see minimal
-that you would see minimal output, with no help text.
+output.
 
 Alternatively, you can specify a comma-separated list of verbosity tokens that
 control specific occasions when output is generated.  This list may contain:
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ control specific occasions when output is generated.  This list may contain:
     header     Messages that appear before report output
     footnote   Messages that appear after report output
     label      Column labels on tabular reports
+    new-id     Provides feedback of any new task IDs
 
 Note that the "on" setting is equivalent to all the tokens being specified,
 and the "off" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.

src/Config.cpp

@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ std::string Config::defaults =
   "edit.verbose=yes                               # Include comments in files created during task edit\n"
   "\n"
   "# Miscellaneous\n"
-  "verbose=yes                                    # Provide extra feedback\n"
+  "verbose=yes                                    # Provide maximal feedback\n"
   "#verbose=no                                    # Provide minimal feedback\n"
-  "#verbose=list                                  # Comma-separated list.  May contain:\n"
+  "#verbose=list                                  # Comma-separated list.  May contain any subset of:\n"
-  "#verbose=blank,header,footnote,label\n"
+  "#verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id\n"
   "confirmation=yes                               # Confirmation on delete, big changes\n"
   "echo.command=yes                               # Details on command just run\n"
   "annotations=full                               # Level of verbosity for annotations: full, sparse or none\n"

src/commands/CmdAdd.cpp

@@ -72,9 +72,8 @@ int CmdAdd::execute (std::string& output)
   context.tdb.add (task);
 
   // TODO This should be a call in to feedback.cpp.
-#ifdef FEATURE_NEW_ID
+  if (context.verbose ("new-id"))
-  output = format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb.nextId ()) + "\n";
+    output = format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb.nextId ()) + "\n";
-#endif
 
   context.footnote (onProjectChange (task));
 

src/commands/CmdDuplicate.cpp

@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ int CmdDuplicate::execute (std::string& output)
           << "'.\n";
 
     // TODO This should be a call in to feedback.cpp.
-    out << format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb.nextId ()) + "\n";
+    if (context.verbose ("new-id"))
+      out << format (STRING_CMD_ADD_FEEDBACK, context.tdb.nextId ()) + "\n";
 
     context.footnote (onProjectChange (dup));
   }

src/main.h

@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
 #define INCLUDED_MAIN
 #define L10N                                           // Localization complete.
 
-#define FEATURE_NEW_ID       1   // Echoes back new id.
-
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 #include <map>