From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: POLL: the 40 variables project Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:49:21 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LST1r-00013B-Ca for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:17:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LST1q-00012y-CJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:17:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37117 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LST1q-00012v-8Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:17:42 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.148]:63507) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LST1p-0008GZ-O9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:17:42 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so100402eyg.24 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:17:39 -0800 (PST) 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 org-mode mailing list 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