Re: switching between todo groups

[Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Will it be possible to have same state names in different groups at
>> some stage? e.g Most "Subsequence" (to use a word from the info file)
>> would have a Done state I would think.
>
> Actually, you can already switch between sets of keywords if their
> *first* element is different.
>
> But imagine this:
>
> Seq1: k1 k2 k3 | k0
> Seq2: ka k1 kb kc | k0
>
> If a headline starts with k1, how Org would know what should be the next
> logical keyword?  k2 or kb?  For now, it uses k2, ignoring Seq2.

Occam's razor. Simplest solution. The first one unless the user selects
the second group and this is "remembered" in memory for the duration of
the session or the user changes it again. Certainly better than showing
two groups but only allowing selection of first group.

>
> This problem is not *that* fundamental when two sequences share the same
> k0 state, because it's more likely that this state won't change.