[Orgmode] Re: POLL: the 40 variables project

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I wanted to point out that, we are fast approaching a situation where
org manual will become the size of the Emacs manual. :-)  For me, I
use org for the core purpose of task tracker, that's it.  As long as
that core is not messed around with, I'd be happy with an infinite
number of customisable vars.

>
> 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.
>

I haven't done any customisation apart from what is required to
recognise org files and the state transitions that I need for various
states of the TODO items.


(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) 
(define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) 
(define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) 
(setq org-log-done t) 
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) ; org-mode buffers only 
(setq org-todo-keywords 
  '((sequence "TODO" "InProgress" "OnHold" "|" "DONE" ))) 
(setq org-agenda-files (list "c:/work/tasks.org"))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
                    (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))

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 sivaram
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