From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Conflict between Org-Mode versions? Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:32 -0400 Message-ID: <6571.1304107112@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <617335.71813.qm@web161902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4433.1303935870@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> <252417.15567.qm@web161903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87zknaej1w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <790495.34626.qm@web161916.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtpj-0006Bk-AX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtpi-0007Gi-1h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:35 -0400 Received: from g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.46]:21914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFtph-0007GY-Rq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:58:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hannon of "Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:32:19 PDT." <790495.34626.qm@web161916.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Michael Hannon Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org-Mode List Michael Hannon wrote: > > > From: Eric S Fraga > > > > [...] > > >> FWIW, in Emacs I typed: > >> > >> C-h v org > >> > >> 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