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On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> So my feeling is that switching from one not-done state to
> another not-done state should not be blocked at all.
> In fact, I feel the same for the straight TODO dependencies.
>
> I have now adapted John's mechanism in the following way:
>
> - You are free to change between the different non-done states
>
> - Entries that cannot be switched to DONE will be greyed in
>  the agenda, but you can still use the agenda to switch them
>  between not-done states.
>
> - If you call `C-c C-t' (or `t' in the agenda) with a
>  tripple C-u prefix, any blocking will be circumvented
>  for the upcoming state change.  This is good if you
>  want to cancel such a tree, before all subitems are done.
>
> I think this is good, and I hope that John agrees.

Very much so, that's a great extension.  I use checkboxes like Rainer  
does constantly, for "lightweight dependent" tasks.  I'll make use of  
this extension a great deal.

John