Re: Org expert mode?

[Matthew Sauer <improv.philosophy@gmail.com>]

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So maybe different custom functions that are developed to allow people to
use ORG in different ways.  Some with more help for basic features, some for
GTD, some for publishing, some for advanced features or programming.   All
of the features would always be available but maybe the suggest order for
auto-completion or help functions would be different?

Matthew

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Bastien wrote:
> >> I've just added the ability to run a custom function for bulk agenda
> actions (thanks to Puneeth for the patch!)  This is clearly for
> >> power users -- or those who are willing to take the time to find
> functions that we might document in Worg.
> >
> >> So I naturally thought of something like an "Org Expert mode": when
> turned off, the UI would *not* give access to complex features
> >> and perhaps display more helpful messages on simple ones; when turned
> on, Org would have a less verbose UI (think of the C-c C-e
> >> window, do we really want to *read* it all the times?) and give access
> to all the complex features.
> >
> > Org is a large and diverse system and something to help (us perennial
> > :-) newbies is always welcome.
> >
> > But I wonder if there are really too many experts as against users
> > whose patterns of usage are expert in one area and noob in others.
> > For example consider: Using org for:
> > * Brainstorming
> > * GTD, mobile org
> > * Publishing
> > * Literate Programming (via babel)
> > * Statistical analysis (spreadsheet, R)
> >
> > Is it not likely that most people are going to be expert in (at most)
> > a few of these and not really expert in the others?
>
> I completely agree - and that is the direction my suggestion is aiming at.
> Somebody using org mode for literate programming might be an expert in
> literal programming with R, but no idea (yet?) about GTD and mobile
> org.
> So a system which provides usage pattern specific menues and enabled /
> disabled functions, would be from my point of view the perfect
> solutions.
> And if this could be set on a file basis, that would even be better.
>
> Rainer
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> >
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