Re: Customizing org-todo-repeat-to-state to return to the current TODO state

[Grant Schissler <grant.schissler@gmail.com>]

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That is a nice workaround, but does anyone have any ideas that I could
continue to use my main org file?  Also, what is meant by "the previous
state in TYPO_TYP set"?  Thank you very much for the suggestion.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> writes:
>
> > 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")
> >
>
> That may not be the best solution however: it would change it globally,
> so *every* repeater would go back to APPT.
>
> C-h v org-todo-repeat-to-state RET says:
>
> ,----
> | The TODO state to which a repeater should return the repeating task.
> | By default this is the first task in a TODO sequence, or the previous
> state
> | in a TODO_TYP set.  But you can specify another task here.
> | alternatively, set the :REPEAT_TO_STATE: property of the entry.
> `----
>
> so setting the property of the entry might be better.
>
> Personally, I have my appointments in a separate file with its own
> TODO sequence:
>
> #+TODO: APPT | DONE
>
> Nick
>
>
>


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A. Grant Schissler, M.S
GIDP Statistics, University of Arizona
Research Assistant, Lussier Lab

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