Re: [O] Exclude all TODO keywords from refile targets

[Bernt Hansen]

Jason Dunsmore <address@hidden> writes:

> I found a bit of code to exclude DONE keywords from refile targets
> here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-2-3
>
> Since I try to keep all headings with keywords as end nodes, I wanted
> to exclude all TODO (and DONE) keywords.  However, the member function
> doesn't work on a sequence data type, so I couldn't use
> org-todo-keywords the same way the org-hacks code used
> org-done-keywords.  Furthermore, org-todo-keywords contains extraneous
> characters in parenthesis that define "selection characters".  I ended
> up creating a new variable, org-todo-keywords-list, and converting the
> data from org-todo-keywords into a similar format as
> org-done-keywords.
>
> Perhaps a org-todo-keywords-list variable would be a useful addition
> to org-mode.  Here's the code I'm using:
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "DELEGATE(l)"
> "STARTED(s@)" "WAITING(w@)" "|" "DONE(d)" "CANCELLED(c)"
> "DELEGATED(e@)" "POSTPONED(p@)")))
>

You should be able to use org-todo-keywords-1 which contains a list of
todo keywords for the current org file.

HTH,
Bernt

> ;; define a new variable
> (defvar org-todo-keywords-list nil
>   "A list version of org-todo-keywords, without the selection characters
> in parenthesis.")
>
> ;; create org-todo-keywords-list from org-todo-keywords-list, using a
> ;; similar format to org-done-keywords
> (dolist (keyword (first org-todo-keywords))
>   (when (and (stringp keyword)
>              (not (equal keyword "|")))
>     (add-to-list 'org-todo-keywords-list
>                  (replace-regexp-in-string "(.*)" "" keyword))))
>
> (defun jbd-verify-refile-target ()
>   "Exclude todo keywords with a done state from refile targets"
>   (not (member (nth 2 (org-heading-components)) org-todo-keywords-list)))
>
> (setq org-refile-target-verify-function 'jbd-verify-refile-target)