From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rustom Mody Subject: Re: Org expert mode? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:42:28 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48927 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxffK-00049W-Dj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:12:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxffJ-0001jj-TM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:12:30 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:50896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxffJ-0001jZ-Pk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:12:29 -0500 Received: by iwl42 with SMTP id 42so2059551iwl.0 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:12:28 -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 Bastien wrote: > I've just added the ability to run a custom function for bulk agenda actions (thanks to Puneeth for the patch!) This is clearly for > power users -- or those who are willing to take the time to find functions that we might document in Worg. > So I naturally thought of something like an "Org Expert mode": when turned off, the UI would *not* give access to complex features > and perhaps display more helpful messages on simple ones; when turned on, Org would have a less verbose UI (think of the C-c C-e > window, do we really want to *read* it all the times?) and give access to all the complex features. Org is a large and diverse system and something to help (us perennial :-) newbies is always welcome. But I wonder if there are really too many experts as against users whose patterns of usage are expert in one area and noob in others. For example consider: Using org for: * Brainstorming * GTD, mobile org * Publishing * Literate Programming (via babel) * Statistical analysis (spreadsheet, R) Is it not likely that most people are going to be expert in (at most) a few of these and not really expert in the others?