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Allow other indentation than four spaces in multi-line descriptions. It is noticeable when the user is typing the description or is incorrectly indented.

Xit added a new task status called In Question:
https://github.com/jotaen/xit/blob/main/Specification.md

As of today (1de6414), the syntax highlighting grammar uses incorrect scope names to color the check boxes. For example, is the scope name storage.type.xit even remotely close to being a correct name for ongoing check boxes? No.

While this works for some themes, it can look really confusing in some themes:

There are however a few things to note, mainly being:

1. No theme is or should be configured to work specifically with xit.
2. Configuring the colors for the rules manually should be avoided because of inconvenience for the user.
3. Colors will look differently in different themes.

Possible solutions would be to:

1. Use semantic highlighting with explicit colors which could be a bad approach for themes that use a light, red, blue, etc. background.
2. Use scopes which can be considered correct and who don't have similar color of different scopes. This can be used in combination with optional user configuration

The issue is open for other solutions

When the user makes a newline on a line with a checkbox, the next line should have a checkbox. If the description was meant to continue on the next line, the user can press tab to remove the checkbox and add four spaces.

Example 1

The user's cursor is at the end of the line...

[ ] item 1

... and inputs a newline and can continue to write a new item.

[ ] item 1
[ ] ...

Example 2

The user's cursor is at the end of the line...

[ ] item 1

... and inputs a newline and a tab, and can continue to write the description on a new line.

[ ] item 1
    ...