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From: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>
Subject: Visual distinctiveness of todo states (was: No Brackets in TODO
 keywords?)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:30:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi Marcus,

Marcus Klemm <marcus.klemm@googlemail.com> writes:

> For visual reasons I'd like to have TODO keywords in brackets, like
> [TODO], [DONE] etc. 

not sure about the brackets, but to add some visual distinctiveness, I
use this:

(setq org-todo-keyword-faces 
 '(("PROJ" :background "blue" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("TODO" :background "red1" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("NEXT" :background "red1" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("STRT" :background "orange" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("WAIT" :background "yellow" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("APPT" :background "red1" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("DONE" :background "forest green" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ("CNCL" :background "lime green" :weight bold :box (:line-width 2 :style released-button))
   ))

Great on X, less so on tty.
Give it a try ;).

hth
Memnon