Hi Alain, > I have a fresh example in mind to illustrate my point: this afternoon, > I was looking for org-blank-before-new-entry. I vaguely remembered it > existed and was searching the manual (from Info) with the regexps > 'blank' and 'list'. Had the variable been mentioned, I would have > found it within seconds; by contrast I can't imagine how much time I > would need using customize-group...
As pointed out by Kyle, try M-x apropos-user-option then enter org-*blank* and you'll be there in seconds. Josiah