Re: Logging state change with timestamp, but without note

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

On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Bastien wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> I am not sure this i a complete enough solution.  If I understand  
>> Wanrong
>> correctly,
>> I think he wants to be able to define the specific states that should
>> record a time.
>
> Yes, my patch was just doing part of the job.  I wanted to check  
> whether
> such a workaround would be hard to implement.
>
>> So I guess a complete solution would be to introduce a character  
>> like "!",
>> similar to the "@" we are already using to denote taking a note.   So
>>
>> #+TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w@) | DELEGATED DONE CANCELED(c!)
>>
>> would record a note when switching to WAITING, and only a time when
>> switching to CANCELED.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Do you want me to work on this?

Well let me do this, I know this code well.  To be honest, I'd much  
rather have you focus on the exporter.... :-)

>
>
> BTW I think letting "%!" in `org-log-note-headings' would still be
> useful.
>
> For example, if someone uses "#+STARTUP: lognotedone", then any switch
> to a DONE state will require a note, no matter whether there is a "@"
> cookie appended at the end of the DONE state or not.  In this case, I
> guess some people would find it useful to put "%!" in the 'done cell  
> of
> `org-log-note-headings'.
>
> What do you think?  Would that be too much or a bit redundant?
>
> -- 
> Bastien