Integrate to-do list with autoformat

[mlewand]

📝 Provide a description of the new feature

Autoformat could also support inserting to-do lists with [ ]  - which would symbolize a checbox.

GitHub, for instance, uses a - [ ]  marker for todo checkbox. This will work out of the box (given #6170 is done) as dash (-) will transform line to a unordered list and subsequent [ ]  will turn it into a to-do item as expected.

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[mlewand]

Adding to a discussion, should there be more combinations that trigger the to-do list rather than - [ ] alone, for example.

I personally typically try to use [ ] - and then I'm always surprised that GH doesn't get it 😄 So in addition to - [ ] I suggest handling [ ] too.

Another thing: should the space between the bracket be mandatory?

[Reinmar]

I always try [ ] text and I'm then pissed that it doesn't work :D

[jodator]

For me PITA is lack of [] support in GH.

In Notion you'd type [] only (OTOH in Notion [ ] doesn't work...).

What should trigger - I think [] or [ ] is enough as `- ` would trigger list (just checked Notion):

1. type -
2. paragraph gets turned into list item
3. type []
4. list item gets turned into todo list item

[mlewand]

• type -
• paragraph gets turned into list item
• type []
• list item gets turned into todo list item

Yes, this might also work 👍

So based on our comments I can see that the best option is to look at beginning that would match following regexp: \s\[\s\]\s:

[ ]
 [ ]
[]
 []