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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: POLL: the 40 variables project
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:07:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA13AF2-AFF7-49D1-97B6-7AF5AF6C1301@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7cdbe30901290956w5b91a07eid5b3b9333338b06e@mail.gmail.com>


On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Manish wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:19 PM, 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.
>
> This is going to be very useful, IMHO.
>
>>
>> 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 ...
>
> I am collating the information in the following format.
>
> | Submitter | Variable | Value | Comment |

Hi Manish, thanks so much for doing this, really appreciate it.
Maybe add a column with the default value, so that we can be sure
that the did not just set the default value?

But this is not important, we can do this automatically when
we mine that data.


- Carsten
>
>
> Further analyses like which were the most commonly customized  
> variables,
> their values etc. can then be derived from the listing (may be using R
> or Excel.)  Ideas on how to better organize this data are welcome.
>
> So far we have 13 responses.
>
> -- 
> Manish

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29  8:49 POLL: the 40 variables project Carsten Dominik
2009-01-29 11:13 ` Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
2009-01-29 13:02   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-29 13:40     ` Dan Griswold
2009-01-29 11:46 ` Womick, Don
2009-01-29 11:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-29 13:37   ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-29 13:30 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-01-29 13:46 ` Chris Leyon
2009-01-29 14:10 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-29 14:49 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-01-29 14:55 ` srandby
2009-01-29 16:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-01-29 16:40 ` Dan Davison
2009-01-29 16:40 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-01-29 17:24 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2009-01-29 17:56 ` Manish
2009-01-29 21:02   ` Dan Davison
2009-01-29 23:07   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-01-30  7:46     ` Manish
2009-01-30  8:18       ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30  8:29         ` Manish
2009-01-30  8:38           ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30  8:52             ` Manish
2009-01-30  9:16               ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30 10:35                 ` Scot Becker
     [not found]                 ` <e7cdbe30902011255y680747e8vb8731a775a73dc73@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-01 22:15                   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-02 10:36                   ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]       ` <87ljstx71e.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
2009-01-30 13:50         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-30 15:27       ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-29 18:02 ` William Henney
2009-01-29 19:07 ` Peter Jones
2009-01-29 19:44 ` Hsiu-Khuern Tang
2009-01-29 22:06 ` Steven E. Harris
2009-01-29 22:43 ` Oliver Charles
2009-01-30  3:32 ` Ross Patterson
2009-01-30 12:13   ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-30  3:44 ` Dennis Groves
2009-01-30  4:12   ` Manish
2009-01-30  4:46 ` Austin Frank
2009-01-30  8:17 ` Ulf Stegemann
2009-01-30 12:26   ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-30  8:26 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-01-30  8:43 ` R: " Giovanni Ridolfi
2009-01-30  9:21   ` Manish
2009-01-30 11:09 ` Shaun Johnson
2009-01-30 12:08 ` Rainer Stengele
2009-01-30 12:48 ` Mikael Fornius
2009-01-30 15:56 ` William Henney
2009-01-30 16:12 ` Christian Egli
2009-01-30 16:34 ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2009-02-01  0:34   ` Samuel Wales
2009-01-30 16:36 ` Eric Schulte
2009-01-31 13:06 ` Martin Stemplinger
2009-02-01 15:18 ` James TD Smith
2009-02-04 15:29 ` Charles Sebold
2009-02-05 14:55   ` Manish
2009-02-04 21:28 ` Mike Newman
2014-01-17 20:55 ` [Orgmode] " Manish
2014-01-19 15:54   ` Bastien
2014-01-20  2:18     ` M
2014-01-20 11:17       ` Bastien
2014-01-20 11:38         ` Rainer M Krug
2014-01-20 11:47           ` Bastien
2014-01-20 17:07           ` Eric S Fraga
2014-01-20  7:05     ` henry atting
2014-01-20 11:16       ` Bastien
2014-04-30 15:29   ` Sungmin
2014-04-30 15:50     ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found] <20090130091800.B54F32868C@mailhost.cs.tu-berlin.de>
2009-01-30 11:33 ` Stephan Schmitt

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