[Orgmode] Re: Question about tracking TODO state changes and M-S-ENTER

[Keith Swartz]

I agree -- now you have choice instead of inconsistency. I like it. I 
mean, as a user, I like it. If I had to maintain this code, I'd hate it. 
So I'm glad it's you and not me. Kudos. :D But seriously, thanks for the 
discussion.

Although if the variable name really is ...-seletion-... and not 
...-selection-... then I'd have to go back to saying it's a bug. :)

Keith

PS: Whoops, I see Bernt already caught that! Man, you people are fast.

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On May 27, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Keith Swartz wrote:
>
> > Actually, that's a good idea. I just went and modified my remember 
> > template to emulate the logbook behavior, so now I can use that 
> > consistently. Should have thought of that.
> >
> > But we still have an inconsistency here. There seems to be a rather 
> > widespread agreement that creating a TODO item shouldn't register a 
> > state change. If there's no objection to that (and there isn't from 
> > me), then changing a regular bullet to the "TODO" state for the first 
> > time shouldn't either. So I think that's kind of a bug.
>
> I am, actually, going the other way here.  I do very much like to have
> state notes when I am really working on stuff.  But setting up state 
> notes
> has the annoying side-effect that I am also prompted for notes when I 
> really
> want to flip through to some initial state, without taking notes.
>
> Therefore, just so that you hate it more (:-) I have also introduced 
> yet another
> variable `org-treat-S-cursor-todo-seletion-as-state-change', and I 
> will set
> it (personally) to nil.  Then I can use S-right to flip through states 
> without taking notes, and C-c C-t to switch to a state with taking a 
> note.
>
> I call this not inconsistency or a bug, I'd call it choice :-)
>
> - Carsten
>
> > I don't think it's worth having a variable to turn it on/off, imho, 
> > since there are other ways to achieve this, but if we want to 
> > preserve that functionality for backwards compatibility for a few 
> > releases, I'd think it's not much work to add one.
> >
> > Thanks for the great ideas.
> >
> > Keith