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

[Carsten Dominik]

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