From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kenneth Jacker Subject: Re: Using Multiple TODO Keywords Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:59:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87mwl9fi9z.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> References: <87hacy1oj9.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <87siv9aeja.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: khj@cs.appstate.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgLBz-0007g7-Sm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:08:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgLBr-0001lF-1T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:08:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87siv9aeja.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:41:13 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bastien Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org bzg> Hi Kenneth, Hello, Bastien! Sorry to have taken so long to reply ... >> When I use `t' or "C-c C-t", the keywords change from TODO, to PENDING, >> to CANCELED, and then repeat *only those three states*. >> >> Shouldn't I be able to use the above to mark the this week's task as DONE? bzg> If you use fast TODO selection like this bzg> #+SEQ_TODO: TODO PENDING | CANCELED DONE(d) bzg> (note the (d) after DONE) then you'll be able to set the task DONE, Great minds think alike? ;-) That's what I ended up using soon after my ML posting. bzg> but the presence of the repeater will still let the TODO state bzg> switch to the next one, namely "TODO". Yes. I'm still a bit baffled by the behavior of "repeaters" ... bzg> Maybe we should introduce a way to ignore the repeater -- is anyone bzg> missing this too? Not that important to me ... at least for now ... still trying to learn how to use the more basic (viz., task scheduling) elements within Org. Thanks for taking the time to reply, -Kenneth