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Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:07:42 +0100


On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Manish wrote:

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 |

Hi Manish, thanks so much for doing this, really appreciate it.
Maybe add a column with the default value, so that we can be sure
that the did not just set the default value?

But this is not important, we can do this automatically when
we mine that data.


- Carsten


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





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