From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_B=F6cker?= Subject: Re: Is this the best place for noob questions too? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:46:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4BD94769.5080804@jboecker.de> References: <4BD7E34E.8010301@manor-farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7POR-0007Lh-Jr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:46:47 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56028 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7POQ-0007LV-DF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:46:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7POO-0004yZ-Ra for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:46:46 -0400 Received: from mail7.worldserver.net ([217.13.200.27]:44909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7POO-0004y5-Dt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:46:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BD7E34E.8010301@manor-farm.org> 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: lists@manor-farm.org Cc: David Frascone , emacs-orgmode On 28.04.2010 09:27, Ian Barton wrote: > Quite often when browsing the list I > find posts that give me ideas of a new way of doing something, or > introduce me to some feature I wasn't aware of. Same here, that's one of the reasons I read this list. I guess most of us on this list are still a noob regarding some aspects of Org, simply because they have never needed and used them. I do not remember a single instance of a literal "RTFM" response on this list. If you do ask a question that is answered in the documentation somewhere, you tend to get a friendly pointer in the right direction. Besides the Org Manual (which I recommend you to skim from cover to cover to get a general idea of what features are available), the mailing list archives, worg, and google, there is also C-h v (describe-variable). A lot of settings cannot be found in the manual, but are described in detail in the docstrings of their variables. Press "C-h v org- " to get a list of all Org related variables, then switch to the completion window with "C-x o" and use isearch (C-s) to search for a keyword. For example, if I want to change some aspect of the agenda, I might type "C-h v org-agenda- " to get a list of all agenda related settings. (I think I found org-agenda-remove-times-when-in-prefix that way.) Best regards, Jan