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