remove uid functionality: cards themselves are unique enough!

enhance config reporting, and some cosmetics

clikan.sh

@@ -3,25 +3,24 @@
 # 2017-06-20 Y.Bonetti
 
 conf="${CLIKANCONF:-$HOME/.clikanconf}"
-defkanban="$HOME/mykanban.txt"
+defkanban="$HOME/clikanban.txt"
 editor="${CLIKANEDIT:-$VISUAL}"
 editor="${editor:-$EDITOR}"
-editor="${editor:-/bin/ed}"
-echo editor=$editor
+editor="${editor:-ed}"
 tmpf=$HOME/.clikan.tmp
 
 if test ! -f "$conf"
 then echo generating default config file $conf
  cat <<EOT >"$conf"
 # automatically generated by $0 at `date`
-prompt ck>
+prompt |<
 kanban $defkanban
 EOT
  echo initializing default kanban file $defkanban
  cat <<EOT >"$defkanban"
 # my kanban file
-* 12345 learn to use clikan
-- 23456 improve clikan
+* learn to use clikan
+- improve clikan
 EOT
 fi
 
@@ -36,20 +35,15 @@ getlines(){
  }
 }
 
-# display selection, and put selection list in tempfile
-#  input through stdin, with lines "key explanation", where "key" is stored
-#  in tmpf together with index number, and "explanation" is displayed
-#  (or "key", if "explanation" is empty)
+# display selection, and put selection list in tempfile,
+#  input through stdin, with lines prepended with index number, TAB and arg1
 showselect(){
  local i
- : >$tmpf
  i=1
- while read j e
- do if test "$e" = ""
-  then e=$j
-  fi
-  echo $i: $e
-  echo "$i	$j" >>$tmpf
+ : >$tmpf
+ while read l
+ do echo $i: $l
+  echo "$i	$1$l" >>$tmpf
   i=$(( $i+1 ))
  done
 }
@@ -91,12 +85,7 @@ showall(){
  esac
  echo
  echo "   $1"
- cat "$kbs" | getlines "$f" | showselect
-}
-
-# get first complete card with pattern
-getfirst(){
- cat "$kbs" | grep "$1" | head -n 1
+ cat "$kbs" | getlines "$f" | showselect "$f "
 }
 
 # replace lines (in any kanban) containing some ed pattern
@@ -129,8 +118,12 @@ to show configuration, enter 'c'
 EOH
 read k
 case $k in
- c*) echo "configfile=$conf // CLIKANCONF=$CLIKANCONF"
-  echo "configfile contents:"
+ c*) cat <<EOT
+ CLIKANCONF=$CLIKANCONF
+ configfile=$conf
+ editor=$editor
+ configfile contents:
+EOT
   sed -e 's/^/    /' $conf
   ;;
  *) cat <<EOH
@@ -149,7 +142,6 @@ EOH
 esac
 }
 
-echo this is $0
 showall doing
 showprompt
 
@@ -157,7 +149,7 @@ while read com coa1 coa2 coa3 coar
 do case $com in
 q*) break ;;
 d) showall doing ;;
-w) showall waiting/todo ;;
+w) showall waiting/todo/backlog ;;
 a) showall archived/done ;;
 do|wait|done) if test "$coa1" = ""
   then echo "card number?"
@@ -170,11 +162,11 @@ do|wait|done) if test "$coa1" = ""
    wait) coa2='-' ;;
    *) coa2='*' ;;
    esac
-   coa3=`getfirst "^.[ 	] *$coa1" <$tmpf | sed -e "s/^./$coa2/"`
+   coa3=`echo "$coa1" | sed -e "s/^./$coa2/"`
 #echo coa1=$coa1
 #echo coa2=$coa2
 #echo coa3=$coa3
-   repline "^.[ 	] *$coa1" "$coa3"
+   repline "$coa1" "$coa3"
   fi
   showall doing
   ;;
@@ -185,18 +177,15 @@ k) echo "$kbs" | showselect
 n) echo enter new card for target $currkan :
   read newc
   if test "$newc" != ""
-  then uid=`date +%s`
-   echo '-' $uid "$newc" >>$currkan
+  then echo '-' "$newc" >>$currkan
   fi
   showall doing
   ;;
 ec) echo calling "$editor $conf" ...
   "$editor" "$conf"
   echo please quit and restart to reload config ;;
-ek) echo "$kbs" | showselect
-  f=`getselect`
-  echo calling "$editor $f" ...
-  "$editor" "$f"
+ek) echo calling "$editor $currkan" ...
+  "$editor" "$currkan"
   echo welcome back ;;
 *) showhelp
   showall doing ;;
@@ -204,4 +193,5 @@ esac
 showprompt
 done
 
+echo
 #/bin/rm -f $tmpf