Feature Request: Syntax Extensions via Hooks

[zaxioms0]

To my knowledge, Task Warrior does not really have a good way to support syntax extensions at the moment. For example, if I currently put a task as due:monday it will make the task as being due the date of the next monday, at 00:00:00. However, one might want to instead have a shorthand for monday at 23:59:59. To resolve this issue, it would be nice to be able to write due:monday-eod or something to that effect. This is currently not possible with Hooks as parsing happens before hooks execute, and monday-eod will fail to parse correctly.

One way to address this, and perhaps the easiest way, would be to allow for hooks before parsing. This way, the syntax extensions could be accomplished by simply find and replacing one's desired syntax with an elaboration. I currently do this via shell scripts, but I would rather have a hook for it.

[felixschurk]

Hei, would that be a like once in a while usage or something you want to have as default?

I mainly ask as for having it as default there is https://github.com/tbabej/task.default-date-time, where you could set a specific default time for having the due time.

I personally have it setup with the default due time and when I need another time, I use simple due:monday+8h or something to set another time. This way pretty much covers my once in a while usages fairly decent and I do not need to do to much math in my head. As e.g. monday-eod would be sunday 00:00:01 if I have it right in my head, which then already would be just due:sunday.