Re: Conflict between Org-Mode versions?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.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