Yep... that is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the reply!

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:51, Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

Hi Eraldo,

Eraldo Helal <office@eraldo.at> writes:

> I have the following todo states:
> TODO ACTION WAITING DONE and CANCELED
> I would like my sequence to be:
> TODO > ACTION > WAITING > DONE
> and have WAITING and CANCELED extra somehow.
>  so that I enter  WAITING and CANCELED with a prefix or so.
> is there a way to get that with the standard featues?
> (without lisp programming)

I believe the following will do what you're looking for.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-use-fast-todo-selection t)

(setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "ACTION(a)" "|" "DONE(d)")
                         (sequence "WAITING(w)" "|" "CANCELED(c)")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

There's a short FAQ on fast todo selection:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#select-TODO-keywords-with-tag-like-interface

Regards,

Matt