Hi Nicolas, I've tried "org-use-property-inheritance", but the property of REPEAT_TO_STATE in the file scoping does not work at all. I wonder if it is a bug in the org-mode or there is another step I have to enable Regards, -Young On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Young-whan writes: > > > My file has like this: > > > > #+TODO: TODO(t/!) REPEAT(r/!) | DONE(d) > > > > * REPEAT Task > > SCHEDULED: <2017-01-01 Wed +1d> > > > > Now, I want to change when the repeat task is done, its state needs to be > > "REPEAT" instead of "TODO". > > > > This can be achieved by REPEAT_TO_STATE property or the variable > > org-todo-repeat-to-state based on the org-mode manual. > > > > When I set it org-todo-repeat-to-state, it works. > > When I set the property in the "Task", it works. > > > > However, when I put it global property working file-wide as it is put as > > > > #+PROPERTY: REPEAT_TO_STATE REPEAT > > > > It doesn't work. > > > > Is there something not right to set up the global property scoping in a > > file? Let me know. > > Yes, there is: see `org-use-property-inheritance'. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou >