Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-02-04 Thread Charles Sebold
On 29 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote: 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? Hopefully this isn't too late. Using customize, here is what I have:

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-02-04 Thread Mike Newman
Please find below my org related customisation (if it is still of interest). I have to admit that I can't remember what some of it does or why I put it that way. A few comments might be useful: This is my work configuration on Windows XP, using a recent emacs 23 from emacs w32. I am set up

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-02-02 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi everyone, I want to do more with these results, but for now I have put Manish' analysis and the raw data table on the web at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-customization-survey.php - Carsten On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Manish wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-02-01 Thread Carsten Dominik
Wow, thanks to Manish for a hard job well done. Now is the time for data mining! Enjoy! - Carsten On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Manish wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: [snip: table formula help (22 lines)] Anyhow, I will try and add additional results to the

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-31 Thread Samuel Wales
That toggling of category in agenda is very nice. ___ 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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Manish, what can I say, awesome! To get the default values, you could do (get 'org-some-variable 'standard-value) 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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Here's my list of variables. I think all my org-mode settings have been done via customize, which I've just realised doesn't indent things very tidily. I've tried to fix it, but I'm not really used to elisp style. '(org-agenda-custom-commands (quote ((d todo DELEGATED nil)

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Manish
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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Manish wrote: 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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Manish
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: [snip] You need to change $2 and $1 to the relevant columns in your table, maybe this is the problem? Yes, I had changed only one of them. Thanks. I made this formula on one of your extracted tables where the variable was in column

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Manish wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: [snip] You need to change $2 and $1 to the relevant columns in your table, maybe this is the problem? Yes, I had changed only one of them. Thanks. I made this formula on one of your

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Manish wrote: 20 people responsed within the first day reporting about 479 customizations including 187 unique variables (49.6% !, assuming total 377 variables.) This is actually a very surprising and positive result! - Carsten

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread William Henney
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl wrote: 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? I had forgotten the per-file customizations.

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Schulte
Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes: 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? Great idea, I am interested to see the compiled results! Cheers -- Eric

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
Hiho! Carsten Dominik schrieb: yesterday I did this command in my org-mode git repo: grep defcustom lisp/*el |wc -l btw. there's git-grep. and got 378 as an answer. 378 user-customizable variables, no kidding. You make this sound as if it was a bad thing... ;) In addition, I could

RE: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Womick, Don
Hi Carsten, My org setup and usage at this point is fairly simple (I'm waiting for James Smith's Remember rewrite to get more ambitious). Here are the variables I use: org-use-fast-todo-selection org-agenda-files org-remember-templates org-default-notes-file --Don Womick -Original

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Friedrich, On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote: Hiho! [...] and got 378 as an answer. 378 user-customizable variables, no kidding. You make this sound as if it was a bad thing... ;) Not at all. I am just surprized that it sooo many. In addition, I

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Leyon
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl wrote: list all the Org-related variables that you have customized, along with the values you used? Here are my settings: (setq org-directory (file-name-as-directory

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Lundin
Hi Carsten, 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. Yes, I'm afraid I've used a fair number of those myself at one point or another. I've attached my list of

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
My list is rather pedestrian at the moment... but I think I'm going to benefit from this exercise. (setq org-hide-leading-stars t) (setq org-agenda-files (list dan-org-dir)) (setq org-agenda-start-on-weekday nil) (setq org-agenda-ndays 30) (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence TODO STARTED | DONE

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread William Henney
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl wrote: 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? Here goes... Cheers Will (add-to-list

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Hsiu-Khuern Tang
* On Thu 08:49AM +, 29 Jan 2009, Carsten Dominik (domi...@science.uva.nl) 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%

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Dan Davison
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:26:37PM +0530, Manish wrote: ... 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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Oliver Charles
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:49:21AM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: 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? ,[ org-mode custom settings ] | (custom-set-variables |

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Carsten Dominik
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

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Groves
I am one of those confused 'newbs' - I use emacs exclusively for org- mode. (but it is growing on me) I don't know where or how to customize it - so I use it just like it is. (not that I wouldn't like to tweek stuff.) Dennis On 29 Jan 2009, at 08:49, Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi, yesterday I

Re: [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project

2009-01-29 Thread Manish
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Dennis Groves wrote: I am one of those confused 'newbs' - I use emacs exclusively for org-mode. (but it is growing on me) The first hit is free! ;-) Org-mode (like Planner) can pull people into using Emacs (however scary and intimidating it might seem in the