From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org-Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Conflict between Org-Mode versions?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6571.1304107112@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> of "Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:32:19 PDT." <790495.34626.qm@web161916.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
>
>
> > [...]
>
> >> FWIW, in Emacs I typed:
> >>
> >> C-h v org<TAB>
> >>
> >> and got no fewer than 931 completions. A lot of knobs to turn!
> >
> > yes, indeed! the info manual is your friend here. it is very difficult
> > to figure out what you need to set from just the list of org- variables.
>
> Heh. Yes, thanks, Eric. I'm not crazy enough to try to bootstrap my way
> through 900+ variables, but that sets the scale of the challenge for me.
>
IIRC, Carsten had run a poll for the nomination of the 50 most-use{d|ful}
variables. The results must be somewhere (Worg? Mailing list?). That
would probably serve as a better starting point than a 931-element list
with no other indicator of importance.
Also, Bernt's document (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html ) probably
contains settings for most (if not all) of the important variables.
After that, you can start looking at more obscure ones. Many of those
were introduced as part of a user-requested feature, so you can probably
get some background information on them by searching the mailing list.
> > The best approach here is to use some of the specific functions (often
> > with already defined key bindings) that are set up for just this type of
> > case: =org-insert-link= in this case. These will insert things with the
> > right formatting automatically!
>
> Very good suggestion! I just used C-c C-l to add a link, and, of course, it
> worked perfectly (as did the manual edit suggested by Nick D.). I note that
> by my count there are no fewer than 1612 "org*" functions ;-)
>
Be ready to explain them all by heart. Quiz tomorrow.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 20:10 Conflict between Org-Mode versions? Michael Hannon
2011-04-27 20:33 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <4433.1303935870@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>
2011-04-27 22:13 ` Michael Hannon
2011-04-27 22:19 ` Jambunathan K
2011-04-28 0:20 ` Michael Hannon
2011-04-28 11:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-29 19:32 ` Michael Hannon
2011-04-29 19:58 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-04-29 20:58 ` Michael Hannon
2011-04-29 21:07 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-29 21:34 ` Michael Hannon
2011-04-29 23:00 ` Memnon Anon
2011-04-30 5:11 ` Jambunathan K
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