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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: POLL: the 40 variables project
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Manish,
>
> what can I say, awesome!

Thanks.

>
> To get the default values, you could do
>
> (get 'org-some-variable 'standard-value)

Nice.  Thanks.

>
> and evaluate this. You can do this with a formula in the table,
> I have successfully tried this:
>
> #+TBLFM: $2='(let ((x (prin1-to-string (get '$1 'standard-value))))
> (org-require-autoloaded-modules) (if (or (string-match "\n" x) (> (length x)
> 40)) "complex" x));L

The formula seems to work but I am getting nil for /all/ variables.
That does not seem right.  There would be some variable with non-nil
standard value, no?

-- 
Manish