[Orgmode] Re: Eliminate DONE state?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:

> 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.


:-)  Indeed.

Conclusion: this is not supported.

- Carsten
> Best,
> Matt