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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 17:37:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp1irqov.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fv2ehxl7.fsf@gmail.com

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. Or you could use multiple
sets:

#+TODO: TODO INPROGRESS | DONE
#+TODO: OTHER | COMPLETED

In the latter case, the keywords all have to be different.
See

   (info "(org) TODO items")

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16 21:37 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 [this message]
2015-09-16 22:21   ` Ken Mankoff
2015-09-17  1:30     ` Nick Dokos
2015-09-23 17:10   ` Bernt Hansen

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