From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Davison Subject: Re: POLL: the 40 variables project Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:40:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20090129164038.GA7417@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSZwj-0003nP-83 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:40:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSZwg-0003ip-9d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:40:52 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58572 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSZwg-0003iT-0S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:40:50 -0500 Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:48906) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSZwf-0001sP-Cd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:40:49 -0500 Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n0TGefhv014008 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:40:42 GMT Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org My list is rather pedestrian at the moment... but I think I'm going to benefit from this exercise. (setq org-hide-leading-stars t) (setq org-agenda-files (list dan-org-dir)) (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) (setq org-agenda-ndays 30) (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "STARTED" "|" "DONE" "DEFERRED"))) (setq org-deadline-warning-days 7) (setq org-default-notes-file dan-org-file) (setq org-remember-templates '( ("computing" ?c "* TODO %?\n %i" dan-org-file "computing") ("emacs" ?e "* TODO %?\n %i" dan-org-file "emacs") ("event" ?d "* %?\n%^T\n%i" dan-org-file "events") ("music" ?m "* %?\n %i" dan-org-file "music") ("org" ?o "* TODO %?\n %i" dan-org-file "org") ("reading" ?r "* %?\n %i" dan-org-file "reading") ("task" ?t "* TODO %?\n %i" dan-org-file "tasks") ("work" ?w "* TODO %?\n %i" dan-org-file "projects") )) Dan On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:49:21AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I did this command in my org-mode git repo: > > grep defcustom lisp/*el |wc -l > > and got 378 as an answer. 378 user-customizable variables, > no kidding. > > However, I bet that only about 10% of these are really used > by more that one user :-). So when a new users starts digging > into Org-mode, they simply must be confused by the amount > of variables that can be set. > > So here is the idea: I would like to find out which variables > users actually customize. This could be the basis > for a great article on Worg, describing just these selected > variables. > > In addition, I could make a special customization group which only > contains those variables (Emacs allows to put a variable into several > groups). It would be awesome to have, and a much easier start into > customizing Org. > > So here is my question to all of you. Could you, in reply to this > message, list all the Org-related variables that you have customized, > along with the values you used? > > If you want to do more, I'd also love to see comments on > > - why you set the variable like this > - if you feel that the default value of that variable > should be different > - Any other comments you might what to give. > > Of course, if there is a volunteer who would like to organize > this info into a Worg page, I would even be more happy ... > > Thanks! > > - Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison