Re: Re: miscellaneous prefix keywords like "TODO"

[Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
> > On the orgmode web site there's a todo page.  There are a bunch of prefix
> words: TODO, IDEA, WISH, QUESTION, DECLINED, DONE
> >
> > I hope I'm not asking the obvious: how can I implement that aside from a
> list of alternative states?   Then have them show up in agendas?
> >
> >
>  Maybe I have asked the obvious.
>  I found a note in the org manual about this variable:
>
>  (setq org-todo-keywords '((type "Fred" "Sara" "Lucy" "|" "DONE")))
>
>
>  Also, I have found and installed the following in a file:
>
>  #+TYP_TODO: TODO MAYBE WAITING NEXT DONE ONGOING
>
>  How can I use both?  Does the file variable override the variable in
> .emacs.el?
>  Perhaps I should have done more research, but I still would very much
> appreciate comments.  I admit I am somewhat confused, and my implementation
> is not well developed.
>

IMHO, you should start with tutorials page[1], get a little used to of
it (org-mode) and work out how you would like to setup, read the
manual, try, try again and then come back with problems you face in
detail.

-- Manish
1. http://orgmode.org/#sec-5.3