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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Eliminate DONE state?
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:23:00 +0100
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On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:31 PM, PT wrote:
>>
>>> Is is possible to eliminate the DONE state completely? I'd like a
>>> single
>>> state TODO and want to switch between TODO and nothing states, but
>>>
>>>    (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO")))
>>>
>>> doesn't seem to work, because it always considers the last state  
>>> as a
>>> DONE state.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have only a single actionable task state and  
>>> nothing
>>> else, so when I switch then the sequence is nothing-TODO-nothing-
>>> TODO-...?
>>
>>
>> Hi PT,
>>
>> the following seems to work, but  am not sure if it will break
>> something.
>>
>> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "|")))
>
> That was my first thought, too. But on my machine, it causes TODO  
> items
> to be assigned a CLOSED timestamp.


:-)  Indeed.

Conclusion: this is not supported.

- Carsten
>
> Best,
> Matt