From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: POLL: the 40 variables project Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:26:37 +0530 Message-ID: References: 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 1LSb86-0002TV-Ia for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSb85-0002TE-Bj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57367 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSb85-0002TB-8f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:41 -0500 Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.156]:57279) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSb84-0004Lx-MF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:41 -0500 Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id c31so60325poi.1 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:56:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list 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 | 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