Sorry, I wasn't clear what I meant by "fixed state."  I want to avoid globally changing the repeat-to-state and flexibly return to the current state.  Thanks for the suggestion though

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:
Grant Schissler wrote:
> I am trying to change the behavior of marking a repeated task as DONE.  I
> would like the task to return to the current TODO state rather than the
> first in the TODO sequence or a fixed state.  For example,
>
> ** APPT Lunch with Mallorie
> <2014-12-04 Thu 12:00 +1w>
>
> Should return to APPT, not TODO or some other predefined state as in the
> current behavior:
>
> TODO Lunch with Mallorie
> - State "DONE"       from "APPT"       [2014-11-21 Fri 10:56]
> <2014-12-11 Thu 12:00 +1w>
>
> I am sure that customizing the org-todo-repeat-to-state will do the trick,
> but sadly, I have had the time to learn elisp well enough to perform this.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.  Please let me know if you have
> questions.

  ;; TODO state to which a repeater should return the repeating task.
  (setq org-todo-repeat-to-state "APPT")

Best regards,
  Seb

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GIDP Statistics, University of Arizona
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