From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The reportmode report does not count the running clock
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:33:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739bwuoo8.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vlont7e.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:37:41 +0100")
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> Hi François,
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Note that there is a million variables which are not referred to
>>> in the manual - simply too many to mention them all.
>> A million? You *always* exaggerate! :-)
> Well, I counted more than 1070 variables... describing 5 of them
> per page would take 214 pages. Not something I'd like to read :)
That's why I suggested an appendix. We search in them, more than we
really read them. On the other hand, it would considerably augment the
weight of a printed manual, and so, be more harmful to our forests.
> Wrt documentation, Emacs is its own reference, by letting you access
> everything with C-h v org-*.
Emacs has impressive ways to offer its own documentation. Still a bit
uneasy to use C-h v (or C-h f) on everything. M-x apropos org- RET is
more handy and searchable, yet the documentation is likely limited to
the first line of each docstring (so at least this convention for a
complete sentence in the first line of a docstring).
> Another point: there is a lot to do to improve the current docstrings
> and the manual. This is a matter of 1) pulling from git, 2) modifying
> the file, 3) run `C-x v =' in the buffer, 4) send the patch. [...]
> If you're interested in improving this, please go ahead, I'd be
> interested in getting something working along these lines.
Oh, the problem is surely not the lack of interest, but the sore lack of
free hours in a week, and the quantity of ways to occupy those rare
hours already (something Org mode is tremendously helpful at organizing,
by the way). Surely that given enough free time, I would just love to
contribute. The truth is that I can only offer tiny crumbs. In any
case, I'm saving your message and notes (who knows the future!).
François
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 4:28 The reportmode report does not count the running clock François Pinard
2011-12-13 11:39 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-12-13 14:22 ` François Pinard
2011-12-13 15:30 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-12-13 17:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-12-14 18:10 ` [PATCH] * doc/org.texi (Agenda commands): Document org-clock-report-include-clocking-task Bernt Hansen
2011-12-14 18:15 ` Bastien
2011-12-15 2:41 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-03 21:30 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-01-03 23:18 ` Bastien
2012-01-05 5:10 ` François Pinard
2012-01-04 12:13 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-03 15:50 ` The reportmode report does not count the running clock François Pinard
2012-01-04 1:37 ` Bastien
2012-01-04 3:33 ` François Pinard [this message]
2012-01-04 10:14 ` Bastien
2012-01-04 15:08 ` François Pinard
2012-01-06 1:59 ` François Pinard
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