From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Changing variable defaults. Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:27:09 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTdI3-0006AT-Rp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:27:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTdI1-00069E-VO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:27:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48793 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTdI1-00069B-P5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:27:13 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:54941) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTdI1-0008Nm-9i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:27:13 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so230669nfi.26 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:27:12 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Org-Mode" Hi, wow, what a treat to read all those customizations everyone has made! This has been extremely interesting for me, reminded me of some customizations I had forgotten, and re-inforced the idea that lots of variables is a good thing. while Manish is digging through and organizing the customizations everyone has sent in (this will be fun to analyze and study!), I have take a quick look with view on changing defaults. Here is what I currently think should change, comments are welcome. - Carsten ;; So many of you use this one, and there s no harm... (setq org-return-follows-link t) ;; The default value 'prefix was from a time when I was ;; not sure if this was a good idea. But since it takes ;; effect only when keys are actually defined, I agree with ;; many of you that this can be turned on by default (setq org-use-fast-todo-selection t) ;; I agree with Manuel that this is a bit too magic, so I am ;; changing the default to nil, even though privately, ;; I will turn it on. (setq org-yank-adjusted-subtrees nil) ;; Most people have at least this setting, and setting te default ;; to t could be a nice way to make new users aware that there is ;; something like logging possible. However, I am not sure I want ;; to turn this on, it may be nice to have the most simple interface ;; for starters. Comments? For now my plans are to leave it at nil, ;; unless I hear good arguments. (setq org-log-done 'time) ;; Manuel comments that the ellipsis dots should be vitible after ;; the tags in a normal width frame - this makes sense, too. (setq org-tags-column -77) ;; Many of you feel that priority sorting is more important than ;; keeping the categories together. I guess my original idea was that ;; one would only have very few categories like "work" and "home", ;; where keeping the categories together makes sense. With many more ;; categories, maybe it s better to put priority first..... (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy '((agenda time-up priority-down category-keep) (todo time-up priority-down category-keep) (tags time-up priority-down category-keep) (search category-keep)))