Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Does taskwarrior-tui show error messages when running shell commands or shortcuts

taskwarrior-tui shows an error prompt for shell if:

1. the subprocess fails
2. the subprocess succeeds but prints to stdout
3. the subprocess is empty

taskwarrior-tui shows an error prompt for shortcuts if:

1. the shortcut fails

If taskwarrior-tui encounters a prompt by the subprocess or the shortcut, taskwarrior-tui will not prompt the user for input again. This means, if you want to run a taskwarrior command as a shell command, you may want to pass rc.confirmation=off in the command. See the following screencast as an example:

task rc.confirmation=off context define test project:work

If you don't add rc.confirmation=off in the shell command, taskwarrior-tui will command the command but it'll fail because it won't receive any prompt.