Sorry, I wasn't clear what I meant by "fixed state." I want to avoid globally changing the repeat-to-state and flexibly return to the current state. Thanks for the suggestion though On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Grant Schissler wrote: > > I am trying to change the behavior of marking a repeated task as DONE. I > > would like the task to return to the current TODO state rather than the > > first in the TODO sequence or a fixed state. For example, > > > > ** APPT Lunch with Mallorie > > <2014-12-04 Thu 12:00 +1w> > > > > Should return to APPT, not TODO or some other predefined state as in the > > current behavior: > > > > TODO Lunch with Mallorie > > - State "DONE" from "APPT" [2014-11-21 Fri 10:56] > > <2014-12-11 Thu 12:00 +1w> > > > > I am sure that customizing the org-todo-repeat-to-state will do the > trick, > > but sadly, I have had the time to learn elisp well enough to perform > this. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. Please let me know if you have > > questions. > > ;; TODO state to which a repeater should return the repeating task. > (setq org-todo-repeat-to-state "APPT") > > Best regards, > Seb > > -- > Sebastien Vauban > > > -- A. Grant Schissler, M.S GIDP Statistics, University of Arizona Research Assistant, Lussier Lab