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From: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: commenting out a SCHEDULED line does not remove todo from
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:49:24 -0800
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Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Imagine you have a todo like this:
>
> ***** TODO a task
>       SCHEDULED: <2013-01-16 Mi +2m>
>
> Now suppose you want to put that todo on hold. In order to no more see
> the scheduled date in the agenda I comment out the "SCHEDULED" line.
> I do not want to delete it because I maybe need it later again:
>
>
> ***** TODO a task
>       # SCHEDULED: <2013-01-16 Mi +2m>
>
> The todo still appears in the agenda.
> Is this not counterintuitive?

No, not IMHO.  You commented out the date on which you were scheduled to
start working on the task, but the task remains TODO.

What about changing the TODO state from TODO to WAITING?

Markus