Yep... that is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the reply!

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:51, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Eraldo,
>
> Eraldo Helal <office@eraldo.at> writes:
>
> > I have the following todo states:
> > TODO ACTION WAITING DONE and CANCELED
> > I would like my sequence to be:
> > TODO > ACTION > WAITING > DONE
> > and have WAITING and CANCELED extra somehow.
> >  so that I enter  WAITING and CANCELED with a prefix or so.
> > is there a way to get that with the standard featues?
> > (without lisp programming)
>
> I believe the following will do what you're looking for.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-use-fast-todo-selection t)
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "ACTION(a)" "|" "DONE(d)")
>                          (sequence "WAITING(w)" "|" "CANCELED(c)")))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> There's a short FAQ on fast todo selection:
>
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#select-TODO-keywords-with-tag-like-interface
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>