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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
