Hi Bastien,
On 4/10/13, Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Changing a doneified entry to blank todo state leaves a
>> closed ts.
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC org
>> ,* DONE doneify
>> CLOSED: [2013-04-09 Tue 14:11]
>> ,* now change to blank todo kw -- notice the closed ts
>> CLOSED: [2013-04-09 Tue 14:11]
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> Perhaps it would be more intuitive for newcomers, and safer
>> for expiry searches like "+CLOSED<\"<-1m>\"" where not
>> everybody thinks to try to match all done todo keywords (not
>> even sure what the convention is for that), to remove the
>> ts.
>
> I'm not sure about this one. Seems logical to keep the CLOSED
> information for tasks that have been done once and that do not
> have (new) active TODO keywords yet.
I think it depends on how you look at it.
For a different use case from yours:
I view blank entries as just another todo state. To me, I want the
same behavior (deleting the closed timestamp because I *reversed* the
doneification) for switching to blank as switching to any other todo
state. This keeps things orthogonal and therefore predictable.
The closed timestamp is not a notation (that is what state logs are
for), but a semantic indication of closedness that is useful for
expiry. Reversing the done should in my use case (but not yours) undo
the closedness.
I wanted to to expire closed entries, and did this:
("ne" "clean up by expired CLOSED"
tags "+CLOSED<\"<-1m>\""
((org-tags-match-list-sublevels nil)
(org-agenda-sorting-strategy
'(category-up user-defined-up))))
This will expire blank entries also. I thought closed = doneish
because I prefer the orthogonal approach. I think some other users
will also.
Of course the user can try to figure out how to say TODO=done& (or
something), but might not think to do so at first.
I have never changed doneish to blank without having to delete the
timestamp. I thought that was a bug and did not realize that you had
a use case for making blank entries different from other todo states.
FWIW.
Samuel
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