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Subject: Re: Re: Automatically insert inactive timestamps
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Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Andrew J. Korty <ajk@iu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > (add-hook 'org-insert-heading-hook 'bh/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp)
> > 
> > Using org-insert-heading-hook is more elegant than my way, but I only
> > want timestamps on TODO entries, so I use
> > 
> 
> I think you should be able to use org-entry-get in the hook to get the
> TODO property of the entry and then conditionally add the timestamp -
> something like this:
> 
>    (if (equal (org-entry-get (point) "TODO") "TODO")
>       add the timestamp

Iirc, the problem is that the entry doesn't yet have a todo keyword at
the time the hook is run.

ajk