From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: How could I mix COMMENT and TODO? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:55:09 +0200 Message-ID: <804nsyjsv6.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <8662demmxr.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Fran=C3=A7ois, Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard wrote: > Hi, Orgers of this world! :-) > > I do not find how to mix COMMENT and TODO in a working way, and I > thought that someone could advise me. > > For ease and simplicity, I try to keep everything related to some topic > in a single file, merely commenting (C-c ;) headers for those parts I do > not want to publish. > > I would also like to keep my TODO entries for this topic in the same > file, and these are usually not to be published either. However, TODO > seems to be ignored whenever it is on or under a COMMENT header. When I > comment a TODO entry, the TODO gets un-highlighted, and the entry > scheduling disappears from the agenda. > > So, until I find something better, I keep these TODO in another file, > which I find an awkward compromise. I could use #+BEGIN_COMMENT and > such within the entry, but the header itself gets published, which I do > not want. So, what is the proper way for fully preventing a working > TODO header from being published? Or else, what is the good approach? Instead of COMMENT'ing entries, I prefer the "tag" version of the same functionality: mark the entries you don't wanna see exported with the `noexport' tag. Best regards, Seb --=20 Sebastien Vauban