Re: Categories

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Oct 13, 2007, at 14:22, Richard G Riley wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Oct 12, 2007, at 19:20, Richard G Riley wrote:
>>> I have a possible bug here (5.12). When embedding the CATEGORY as a
>>> property e.g in my org file
>>
>> Yes, logging state changes is broken in 5.12, *#$&*&#&$.
>>
>> Fixed in 5.12c, thanks.
>>
>>> ,----
>>> |  '(org-agenda-custom-commands
>>> |    (quote (
>>> | 	   ("d" org-todo "DELEGATED" nil)
>>> |            ("c" org-todo "DONE|DEFERRED|CANCELLED" nil)
>>> |            ("w" org-todo "WAITING" nil)
>>> | 	   ("W" agenda ""
>>> `----
>
> I took this from a tutorial out there in google land.
>
>>
>>
>> What an innovative way of totally misusing org-agenda-custom-commands.
>> `C-c a d' will indeed change a TODO state, something
>> org-agenda-custom-commands
>> was not designed for (and which I do not recommend...)!
>>
>> But "c" will not work, the symbol for creating a TODO list is
>> `alltodo', not `org-todo'.
>
> I'm not sure I understand, but I will remove this regardless. Why are
> you mentioning creating a TODO list?

All the commands in org-agenda-custom-commands are intended to
create some kind of list, either an agenda view, or a sparse tree.
But, since in the end they call a function, someone has used this
to create commands to directly jump to a state.

>  The commands above are "jumpt to
> state commands - not create commands. So, if the code I cribbed above 
> is
> not correct, how is the best way to add commands to agenda mode - its
> not obvious how to jump straight to a state as opposed to cycling to it
> manually with all the note prompts that come with that flow.

The recommended way is to set up keys for the TODO keywords like this:

#+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d)

(you can also do this in lisp customization)

If you then call C-c C-t with a prefix arg (i.e. C-c C-c C-t)
you can directly jump to any state.  If you like that a lot,
you can even get this interface without the prefix argument, by
setting the variable org-use-fast-todo-selection to t.

- Carsten