[Orgmode] Re: Eliminate DONE state?

[Matt Lundin]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:31 PM, PT wrote:
>
>> Is is possible to eliminate the DONE state completely? I'd like a
>> single
>> state TODO and want to switch between TODO and nothing states, but
>>
>>     (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO")))
>>
>> doesn't seem to work, because it always considers the last state as a
>> DONE state.
>>
>> Is it possible to have only a single actionable task state and nothing
>> else, so when I switch then the sequence is nothing-TODO-nothing-
>> TODO-...?
>
>
> Hi PT,
>
> the following seems to work, but  am not sure if it will break
> something.
>
> (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "|")))

That was my first thought, too. But on my machine, it causes TODO items
to be assigned a CLOSED timestamp.

Best,
Matt