From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DONE repeating events become TODO, not OTHER
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:30:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876139hly8.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2eghyhuog.fsf@gmail.com
Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2015-09-16 at 17:37, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I have repeating events of type OTHER, as in:
>>>
>>> * OTHER Foo
>>> <2015-09-16 +1w>
>>>
>>> When I have finished the task for today, I mark it done. Because it is
>>> a repeating event, it doesn't actually change to DONE, instead it
>>> changes to TODO and adds a :LAST_REPEAT: item in the :PROPERTIES:
>>> drawer.
>>>
>>> How do I tell this specific item, or all OTHER items in general, that
>>> after completion it should remain OTHER rather than changing to TODO?
>>>
>>
>> Do you *have* to have a TODO state? If not,
>>
>> #+TODO: OTHER | DONE
>>
>> should do the trick.
>
> Yes it does the trick. I had to switch the buffer out of and back into Org mode for it to work, but now it does.
>
The easiest way to get newly added #+ lines to take effect is to C-c C-C on one of
them.
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 21:18 DONE repeating events become TODO, not OTHER Ken Mankoff
2015-09-16 21:37 ` Nick Dokos
2015-09-16 22:21 ` Ken Mankoff
2015-09-17 1:30 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-09-23 17:10 ` Bernt Hansen
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