[Orgmode] Re: a small idea for repeating tasks

[Charles Cave]

Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com> writes:

> When you try to mark a repeating task done, org appears to
> change it to the first item in org-todo-keywords.  Many
> people have "TODO" there.  This appears to conflict with other uses of
> that variable, as it also determines sort order and cycle order.

I noticed this as well.  My configuration has:

#+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) STARTED(s) REPEAT(r) WAITING(w) APPT(a) | DONE(d)
CANCELLED(c) DEFERRED(f)

I set up repeating tasks with a keyword of REPEAT (to exclude from
TODO lists) but as you observed, changing to done resets the keyword
to REPEAT.

Perhaps the functionality of changing to DONE needs to remember
what the state was before changing to DONE?

Charles