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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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21 *** Improved behavior of conversion commands =C-c -= and =C-c *=
23 The conversion commands =C-c -= and =C-c *= are now better
24 behaved and therefore more useful, I hope.
26 If there is an active region, these commands will act on the
27 region, otherwise on the current line.
29 - C-c - :: This command turns headings or normal lines into
30 items, or items into normal lines. When there is a
31 region, everything depends on the first line of the
33 - if it is a item, turn all items in the region into
35 - if it is a headline, turn all headlines in the region
37 - if it is a normal line, turn all lines into items.
38 - special case: if there is no active region and the
39 current line is an item, cycle the bullet type of the
41 - C-c * :: This command turns items and normal lines into
42 headings, or headings into normal lines. When there is
43 a region, everything depends on the first line of the
45 - if it is a item, turn all items in the region into
47 - if it is a headline, turn all headlines in the region
49 - if it is a normal line, turn all lines into headlines.
51 *** Table formulas may now reference fields in other tables
53 You may now reference constants, fields and ranges from a
54 different table, either in the current file or even in a
55 different file. The syntax is
57 : remote(NAME-OR-ID,REF)
59 where /NAME/ can be the name of a table in the current file as
60 set by a =#+TBLNAME: NAME= line before the table. It can also be
61 the ID of an entry, even in a different file, and the reference
62 then refers to the first table in that entry. /REF/ is an
63 absolute field or range reference, valid in the referenced table.
64 Note that since there is no "current filed" for the remote table,
65 all row and column references must be absolute, not relative.
67 *** A final hline is imagined in each table, for the sake of references
69 Even if a table does not end with a hline (mine never do because I
70 think it is not pretty), for the sake of references you can
71 assume there is one. So in the following table
80 a reference like =@I$1..@II$2= will now work.
82 *** A tags-todo search can now ignore timestamped items
83 The variables =org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date=,
84 =org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date=, and
85 =org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date= make it possible to
86 exclude TODO entries which have this kind of planning info
87 associated with them. This is most useful for people who
88 schedule everything, and who use the TODO list mainly to find
89 things that are not yet scheduled. Thomas Morgan pointed out
90 that also the tags-todo search may serve exactly this
91 purpose, and that it might be good to have a way to make
92 these variables also apply to the tags-todo search. I can
93 see that, but could not convince myself to make this the
94 default. A new variable must be set to make this happen:
95 =org-agenda-tags-todo-honor-ignore-options=.
97 *** =\par= can be used to force a paragraph break, also in footnotes
99 The LaTeX idiom =\par= will insert a paragraph break at that
100 location. Normally you would simply leave an empty line to get
101 such a break, but this is useful for footnotes whose definitions
102 may not contain empty lines.
105 ** Incompatible changes
107 *** Short examples must have a space after the colon
109 Short literal examples can be created by preceding lines
110 with a colon. Such lines must now have a space after the
111 colon. I believe this is already general practice, but now
112 it must be like this. The only exception are lines what are
113 empty except for the colon.
117 *** Include files can now also process switches
119 The example and src switches like =-n= can now also be added
120 to include file statements:
122 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp -n -r
124 Thanks to Manish for pointing out that this was not yet
127 *** Examples can be exported to HTML as text areas
129 You can now specify a =-t= switch to an example or src block,
130 to make it export to HTML as a text area. To change the
131 defaults for height (number of lines in the example) and
132 width of this area (80), use the =-h= and =-w= switches.
134 Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for driving this development.
136 *** LaTeX_CLASS can be given as a property
138 When exporting a single subtree by selecting it as a region
139 before export, the LaTeX class for the export will be taken
140 from the =LaTeX_CLASS= property of the entry if present.
142 Thanks to Robert Goldman for this request.
144 *** Better handling of inlined images in different backends
146 Two new variables govern which kind of files can be inlined
147 during export. These are
148 =org-export-html-inline-image-extensions= and
149 =org-export-latex-inline-image-extensions=. Remember that
150 links are turned into an inline image if they are a pure link
151 with no description. HTML files can inline /.png/, /.jpg/,
152 and /.gif/ files, while LaTeX files, when processed with
153 /pdflatex/, can inline /.png/, /.jpg/, and /.pdf/ files.
154 These also represent the default settings for the new
155 variables. Note that this means that pure links to /.pdf/
156 files will be inlined - to avoid this for a particular link,
157 make sure that the link has a description part which is not
158 equal to the link part.
160 *** Links by ID now continue to work in HTML exported files
162 If you make links by ID, these links will now still work in
163 HTML exported files, provided that you keep the relative path
164 from link to target file the same.
166 Thanks to Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs for pushing this over
169 *** The relative timer can be paused
171 The new command `C-c C-x ,' will pause the relative timer.
172 When the relative timer is running, its value will be shown
173 in the mode line. To get rid of this display, you need to
174 really stop the timer with `C-u C-c C-x ,'.
176 Thanks to Alan Davis for driving this change.
178 *** The attachment directory may now be chosen by the user
180 Instead of using the automatic, unique directory related to
181 the entry ID, you can also use a chosen directory for the
182 attachments of an entry. This directory is specified by the
183 ATTACH_DIR property. You can use `C-c C-a s' to set this
186 Thanks to Jason Jackson for this proposal.
188 *** You can use a single attachment directory for a subtree
190 By setting the property ATTACH_DIR_INHERIT, you can now tell
191 Org that children of the entry should use the same directory
192 for attachments, unless a child explicitly defines its own
193 directory with the ATTACH_DIR property. You can use the
194 command `C-c C-a i' to set this property in an entry.
201 - Line numbers and references in literal examples
202 - New hooks for export preprocessing
203 - Capture column view into a different file
209 Org-mode now directly supports the creation of footnotes. In
210 contrast to the /footnote.el/ package, Org-mode's footnotes are
211 designed for work on a larger document, not only for one-off
212 documents like emails. The basic syntax is similar to the one
213 used by /footnote.el/, i.e. a footnote is defined in a paragraph
214 that is started by a footnote marker in square brackets in column
215 0, no indentation allowed. The footnote reference is simply the
216 marker in square brackets inside text. For example:
219 The Org homepage[fn:1] now looks a lot better than it used to.
221 [fn:1] The link is: http://orgmode.org
224 Org-mode extends the number-based syntax to /named/ footnotes and
225 optional inline definition. Using plain numbers as markers is
226 supported for backward compatibility, but not encouraged because
227 of possible conflicts with LaTeX syntax. Here are the valid
230 - [1] :: A plain numeric footnote marker.
232 - [fn:name] :: A named footnote reference, where `name' is a
233 unique label word or, for simplicity of automatic creation,
236 - [fn:: This is the inline definition of this footnote] :: A
237 LaTeX-like anonymous footnote where the definition is given
238 directly at the reference point.
240 - [fn:name: a definition] :: An inline definition of a footnote,
241 which also specifies a name for the note. Since Org allows
242 multiple references to the same note, you can then use use
243 `[fn:name]' to create additional references.
245 Footnote labels can be created automatically, or you create names
246 yourself. This is handled by the variable
247 =org-footnote-auto-label= and its corresponding =#+STARTUP=
248 keywords, see the docstring of that variable for details.
250 The following command handles footnotes:
252 - C-c C-x f :: The footnote action command. When the cursor is
253 on a footnote reference, jump to the definition. When it is
254 at a definition, jump to the (first) reference. Otherwise,
255 create a new footnote. Depending on the variable
256 `org-footnote-define-inline' (with associated =#+STARTUP=
257 options =fninline= and =nofninline=), the definitions will
258 be placed right into the text as part of the reference, or
259 separately into the location determined by the variable
260 =org-footnote-section=.
261 When this command is called with a prefix argument, a menu
262 of additional options is offered:
263 - s :: Sort the footnote definitions by reference sequence.
264 During editing, Org makes no effort to sort footnote
265 definitions into a particular sequence. If you want
266 them sorted, use this command, which will also move
267 entries according to =org-footnote-section=.
268 - n :: Normalize the footnotes by collecting all
269 definitions (including inline definitions) into a
270 special section, and then numbering them in
271 sequence. The references will then also be
272 numbers. This is meant to be the final step before
273 finishing a document (e.g. sending off an email).
274 The exporters do this automatically, and so could
275 something like `message-send-hook'.
276 - d :: Delete the footnote at point, and all references to it.
278 - C-c C-c :: If the cursor is on a footnote reference, jump to
279 the definition. If it is a the definition, jump back to the
280 reference. When called with a prefix argument at either
281 location, offer the same menu as `C-u C-c C-x f'.
283 - C-c C-o or mouse-1/2 :: Footnote labels are also links to the
284 corresponding definition/reference, and you can use the
285 usual commands to follow these links.
287 Org-mode's footnote support is designed so that it should also
288 work in buffers that are not in Org-mode, for example in email
289 messages. Just bind =org-footnote-action= to a global key like
292 The main trigger for this development came from a hook function
293 written by Paul Rivier, to implement named footnotes and to
294 convert them to numbered ones before export. Thanks, Paul!
296 Thanks also to Scot Becker for a thoughtful post bringing this
297 subject back onto the discussion table, and to Matt Lundin for
298 the idea of named footnotes and his prompt testing of the new
301 *** Line numbers and references in literal examples
303 Literal examples introduced with =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= or =#+BEGIN_SRC=
304 do now allow optional line numbering in the example.
305 Furthermore, links to specific code lines are supported, greatly
306 increasing Org-mode's utility for writing tutorials and other
309 Code references use special labels embedded directly into the
310 source code. Such labels look like "(ref:name)" and must be
311 unique within a document. Org-mode links with "(name)" in the
312 link part will be correctly interpreted, both while working with
313 an Org file (internal links), and while exporting to the
314 different backends. Line numbering and code references are
315 supported for all three major backends, HTML, LaTeX, and ASCII.
316 In the HTML backend, hovering the mouse over a link to a source
317 line will remote-highlight the referenced code line.
319 The options for the BEGIN lines are:
321 - -n :: Number the lines in the example
322 - +n :: Like -n, but continue numbering from where the previous
324 - -r :: Remove the coderef cookies from the example, and replace
325 links to this reference with line numbers. This option
326 takes only effect if either -n or +n are given as well.
327 If -r is not given, coderefs simply use the label name.
328 - -l "fmt" :: Define a local format for coderef labels, see the
329 variable =org-coderef-label-format= for details. Use this
330 of the default syntax causes conflicts with the code in the
331 code snippet you are using.
336 #+begin_src emacs-lisp -n -r
337 (defmacro org-unmodified (&rest body) (ref:def)
338 "Execute body without changing `buffer-modified-p'."
339 `(set-buffer-modified-p (ref:back)
340 (prog1 (buffer-modified-p) ,@body)))
342 [[(def)][Line (def)]] contains the macro name. Later at line [[(back)]],
346 When exported, this is translated to:
347 #+begin_src emacs-lisp -n -r
348 (defmacro org-unmodified (&rest body) (ref:def)
349 "Execute body without changing `buffer-modified-p'."
350 `(set-buffer-modified-p (ref:back)
351 (prog1 (buffer-modified-p) ,@body)))
353 [[(def)][Line (def)]] contains the macro name. Later at line [[(back)]],
356 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for proposing this feature set. Thanks
357 to Sebastian Rose for the key Javascript element that made the
358 remote highlighting possible.
360 *** New hooks for export preprocessing
361 The export preprocessor now runs more hooks, to allow
362 better-timed tweaking by user functions:
364 - =org-export-preprocess-hook= ::
365 Pretty much the first thing in the preprocessor. But org-mode
366 is already active in the preprocessing buffer.
368 - =org-export-preprocess-after-include-files-hook= ::
369 This is run after the contents of included files have been inserted.
371 - =org-export-preprocess-after-tree-selection-hook= ::
372 This is run after selection of trees to be exported has
373 happened. This selection includes tags-based selection, as
374 well as removal of commented and archived trees.
376 - =org-export-preprocess-before-backend-specifics-hook= ::
377 Hook run before backend-specific functions are called during preprocessing.
379 - =org-export-preprocess-final-hook= ::
380 Hook for preprocessing an export buffer. This is run as the
381 last thing in the preprocessing buffer, just before returning
382 the buffer string to the backend.
384 *** Capture column view into a different file
386 The :id parameter for the dynamic block capturing column view
387 can now truly be an ID that will also be found in a
388 different file. Also, it can be like =file:path/to/file=, to
389 capture the global column view from a different file.
391 Thanks to Francois Lagarde for his report that IDs outside
392 the current file would not work.
395 Cleanup of many small bugs, and one new feature.
399 *** References to last table row with special names
401 Fields in the last row of a table can now be referenced with
402 $LR1, $LR2, etc. These references can appear both on the
403 left hand side and right hand side of a formula.
407 This version reverses the introduction of @0 as a reference to
408 the last rwo in a table, because of a conflict with the use of
409 @0 for the current row.
414 - All known LaTeX export issues fixed
415 - Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
416 - Better implementation for entry IDs
417 - Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
418 - Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
420 ** Incompatible changes
421 *** Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
423 There used to be a syntax for setting link attributes for
424 HTML export by enclosing the attributes into double braces
425 and adding them to the link itself, like
428 [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="an image"}}] ]
431 This syntax is not longer supported, use instead
434 ,#+ATTR_HTML: alt="an image"
440 *** All known LaTeX export issues fixed
442 All the remaining issues with the LaTeX exporter have hopefully
443 been addressed in this release. In particular, this covers
444 quoting of special characters in tables and problems with
445 exporting files where the headline is in the first line, or with
448 *** Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
450 Tables, and Hyperlinks that represent inlined images, can now be
451 equipped with additional information that will be used during
452 export. The information will be taken from the following special
453 lines in the buffer and apply to the first following table or
456 - #+CAPTION: :: The caption of the image or table. This string
457 should be processed according to the export backend, but
458 this is not yet done.
460 - #+LABEL: :: A label to identify the figure/table for cross
461 references. For HTML export, this string will become the
462 ID for the ~<div class="figure">~ element that encapsulates
463 the image tag and the caption. For LaTeX export, this
464 string will be used as the argument of a ~\label{...}~
465 macro. These labels will be available for internal links
466 like ~[[label][Table] ]~.
468 - #+ATTR_HTML: :: Attributes for HTML export of image, to be
469 added as attributes into the ~<img...>~ tag. This string
470 will not be processed, so it should have immediately the
473 - #+ATTR_LaTeX: :: Attributes for LaTeX export of images and
475 For /images/, this string is directly inserted into
476 the optional argument of the ~\includegraphics[...]{file}~
477 command, to specify scaling, clipping and other options.
478 This string will not be processed, so it should have
479 immediately the right format, like =width=5cm,angle=90=.\\
480 For /tables/, this can currently contain the keyword
481 =longtable=, to request typesetting of the table using the
482 longtable package, which automatically distributes the table
483 over several pages if needed. Also, the attributes line may
484 contain an alignment string for the tabular environment, like
485 =longtable,align=l|lrl=
487 For LaTeX export, if either a caption or a label is given, the element
488 will be exported as a float, i.e. wrapped into a figure or table
491 *** Better implementation for entry IDs
493 Unique identifiers for entries can now be used more efficiently.
494 Internally, a hash array has replaced the alist used so far to
495 keep track of the files in which an ID is defined. This makes it
496 quite fast to find an entry by ID.
498 There is a new link type which looks like this:
501 id:GLOBALLY-UNIQUE-IDENTIFIER
504 This link points to a specific entry. When you move the entry to
505 a different file, for example if you move it to an archive
506 file, the link will continue to work.
508 The file /org-id.el/ contains an API that can be used to write
509 code using these identifiers, including creating IDs and finding
510 them wherever they are.
512 Org has its own method to create unique identifiers, but if the system
513 has /uuidgen/ command installed (Mac's and Linux systems generally
514 do), it will be used by default (a change compared to the earlier
515 implmentation, where you explicitdly had to opt for uuidgen). You can
516 also select the method by hand, using the variable =org-id-method=.
518 If the ID system ever gets confused about where a certain ID is, it
519 initiates a global scan of all agenda files with associated archives,
520 all files previously known containing any IDs, and all currently
521 visited Org-mode files to rebuild the hash. You can also initiate
522 this by hand: =M-x org-id-update-id-locations=. Running this command
523 will also dump into the =*Messages*= buffer information about any
524 duplicate IDs. These should not exist, and Org will never /make/ the
525 same ID twice, but if you /copy/ an entry with its properties,
526 duplicate IDs will inevitably be produced. Unfortunately, this is
527 unavoidable in a plain text system that allows you to edit the text in
528 arbitrary ways, and a portion of care on your side is needed to keep
531 The hash is stored in the file =~/.emacs.d/.org-id-locations=.
532 This is also a change from previous versions where the file was
533 =~/.org=id-locations=. Therefore, you can remove this old file
534 if you have it. I am not sure what will happen if the =.emacs.d=
535 directory does not exists in your setup, but in modern Emacsen, I
536 believe it should exist. If you do not want to use IDs across
537 files, you can avoid the overhead with tracking IDs by
538 customizing the variable =org-id-track-globally=. IDs can then
539 still be used for links inside a single file.
541 IDs will also be used when you create a new link to an Org-mode
542 buffer. If you use =org-store-link= (normally at =C-c l=) inside
543 en entry in an Org-mode buffer, and ID property will be created
544 if it does not exist, and the stored link will be an =id:= link.
545 If you prefer the much less secure linking to headline text, you
546 can configure the variable =org-link-to-org-use-id=. The default
547 setting for this variable is =create-if-interactive=, meaning
548 that an ID will be created when you store a link interactively,
549 but not if you happen to be in an Org-mode file while you create
550 a remember note (which usually has a link to the place where you
551 were when starting remember).
553 *** Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
555 You may now use =@0= to reference the last dataline in a table
556 in a stable way. This is useful in particular for automatically
557 generated tables like the ones using /org-collector.el/ by Eric
563 - New relative timer to support timed notes
564 - Special faces can be set for individual tags
565 - The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
566 - Exclude some tags from inheritance.
567 - More special values for time comparisons in property searches
568 - Control for exporting meta data
569 - Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
570 - LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
571 - Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
573 ** Incompatible Changes
575 *** Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
577 Relative row references in tables look like this: "@-4" which
578 means the forth row above this one. These row references are
579 not allowed to cross horizontal separator lines (hlines). So
580 far, when a row reference violates this policy, Org would
581 silently choose the field just next to the hline.
583 Tassilo Horn pointed out that this kind of hidden magic is
584 actually confusing and may cause incorrect formulas, and I do
585 agree. Therefore, trying to cross a hline with a relative
586 reference will now throw an error.
588 If you need the old behavior, customize the variable
589 `org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline'.
593 *** New relative timer to support timed notes
595 Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while
596 watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.
599 Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time
600 you use this, the timer will be started. When called
601 with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.
604 Insert a description list item with the current relative
605 time. With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
608 Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the
609 normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.
612 Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
613 By default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a
614 =C-u= prefix, reset the timer to specific starting
615 offset. The user is prompted for the offset, with a
616 default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this
617 can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the
618 process. When called with a double prefix argument
619 =C-c C-u=, change all timer strings in the active
620 region by a certain amount. This can be used to fix timer
621 strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right
624 Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for
625 contributions to this idea.
627 *** Special faces can be set for individual tags
629 You may now use the variable =org-tag-faces= to define the
630 face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
631 do for TODO keywords.
633 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.
635 *** The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
637 This request has come up often, most recently it was
638 formulated by Tassilo Horn.
640 If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
641 tags, customize the variable =org-agenda-show-inherited-tags=.
643 *** Exclude some tags from inheritance.
645 So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to
646 allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using
647 one of the more complex settings for
648 `org-use-tag-inheritance'. It may actually be better to
649 allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult
650 to achieve with this methodology.
652 A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to
653 specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.
655 *** More special values for time comparisons in property searches
657 In addition to =<now>=, =<today>=, =<yesterday>=, and
658 =<tomorrow>=, there are more special values accepted now in
659 time comparisons in property searches: You may use strings
660 like =<+3d>= or =<-2w>=, with units d, w, m, and y for day,
661 week, month, and year, respectively
663 Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.
665 *** Control for exporting meta data
667 All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the
668 priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from
669 export with appropriate options:
671 | Variable | Publishing property | OPTIONS switch |
672 |-------------------------------+---------------------+----------------|
673 | org-export-with-todo-keywords | :todo-keywords | todo: |
674 | org-export-with-tags | :tags | tags: |
675 | org-export-with-priority | :priority | pri: |
677 *** Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
679 You can now use the key =C-c C-x M-w= in a w3m buffer with
680 HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
681 a special way. When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
682 buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
685 For this to work you need to load the new file /org-w3m.el./
686 Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this
689 Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for
692 *** LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
694 The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
695 export if you configure =org-use-property-inheritance= like
698 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
699 (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))
706 - Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
707 - Support for ido completion
708 - New face for date lines in agenda column view
709 - Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
710 - New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
711 - New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
713 - BBDB links may use regular expressions.
714 - Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
715 - Improved XHTML compliance
719 *** Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
721 The remember buffers created with Org's extensions are in
722 Org-mode, which is nice to prepare snippets that will
723 actually be stored in Org-mode files. However, this makes it
724 hard to configure key bindings without modifying the Org-mode
725 keymap. There is now a minor mode active in these buffers,
726 `org-remember-mode', and its keymap org-remember-mode-map can
727 be used for key bindings. By default, this map only contains
728 the bindings for =C-c C-c= to store the note, and =C-c C-k=
729 to abort it. Use `org-remember-mode-hook' to define your own
732 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
734 'org-remember-mode-hook
736 (define-key org-remember-mode-map
737 "\C-x\C-s" 'org-remember-finalize)))
740 If you wish, you can also use this to free the =C-c C-c=
741 binding (by binding this key to nil in the minor mode map),
742 so that you can use =C-c C-c= again to set tags.
744 This modification is based on a request by Tim O'Callaghan.
746 *** Support for ido completion
748 You can now get the completion interface from /ido.el/ for
749 many of Org's internal completion commands by turning on the
750 variable =org-completion-use-ido=. =ido-mode= must also be
751 active before you can use this.
753 This change is based upon a request by Samuel Wales.
755 *** New face for date lines in agenda column view
757 When column view is active in the agenda, and when you have
758 summarizing properties, the date lines become normal column
759 lines and the separation between different days becomes
760 harder to see. If this bothers you, you can now customize
761 the face =org-agenda-column-dateline=.
763 This is based on a request by George Pearson.
765 *** Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
767 These anchors can be used to jump to a directly with an HTML
768 link, just like the =sec-xxx= IDs. For example, the
769 following will make a http link
770 =//domain/path-to-my-file.html#dummy= work:
777 This is based on a request by Matt Lundin.
779 *** New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
781 This new file implements special export behavior of
782 user-defined blocks. The currently supported blocks are
784 - comment :: Comment blocks with author-specific markup
785 - ditaa :: conversion of ASCII art into pretty png files
786 using Stathis Sideris' /ditaa.jar/ program
787 - dot :: creation of graphs in the /dot/ language
788 - R :: Sweave type exporting using the R program
790 For more details and examples, see the file commentary in
793 Kudos to Eric Schulte for this new functionality, after
794 /org-plot.el/ already his second major contribution. Thanks
795 to Stathis for this excellent program, and for allowing us to
796 bundle it with Org-mode.
798 *** New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
800 This module gives control over execution Emacs Lisp code
801 blocks included in a file.
803 Thanks to Eric Schulte also for this file.
807 You can now configure Org to understand many links created
808 with the Emacs Planner package, so you can cut text from
809 planner pages and paste them into Org-mode files without
810 having to re-write the links. Among other things, this means
811 that the command =org-open-at-point-global= which follows
812 links not only in Org-mode, but in arbitrary files like
813 source code files etc, will work also with links created by
814 planner. The following customization is needed to make all of
817 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
818 (setq org-link-translation-function
819 'org-translate-link-from-planner)
822 I guess an inverse translator could be written and integrated
825 *** BBDB links may use regular expressions.
827 This did work all along, but only now I have documented it.
829 *** =yank-pop= works again after yanking an outline tree
831 Samuel Wales had noticed that =org-yank= did mess up this
832 functionality. Now you can use =yank-pop= again, the only
833 restriction is that the so-yanked text will not be
834 pro/demoted or folded.
836 *** Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
838 Thanks to Steve Purcell for a patch to this effect.
840 *** Improved XHTML compliance
842 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this.
844 *** Many bug fixes again.
849 - A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
850 - Fine-tuning the behavior of `org-yank'
851 - Formulas for clocktables
852 - Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
853 - More languages for HTML export.
857 *** A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
859 With =transient-make-mode= active (=zmacs-regions= under
860 XEmacs), you can now select a region of entries and refile
861 them all with a single =C-c C-w= command.
863 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this useful proposal.
865 *** Fine-tuning the behavior of =org-yank=
867 The behavior of Org's yanking command has been further
868 fine-tuned in order to avoid some of the small annoyances
871 - Calling =org-yank= with a prefix arg will stop any special
872 treatment and directly pass through to the normal =yank=
873 command. Therefore, you can now force a normal yank with
876 - Subtrees will only be folded after a yank if doing so will
877 now swallow any non-white characters after the yanked text.
878 This is, I think a really important change to make the
879 command work more sanely.
881 *** Formulas for clocktables
883 You can now add formulas to a clock table, either by hand, or
884 with a =:formula= parameter. These formulas can be used to
885 create additional columns with further analysis of the
888 Thanks to Jurgen Defurne for triggering this addition.
890 *** Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
892 The footnote export in 6.11 really was not good enough. Now
893 it works fine. If you have customized
894 =footnote-section-tag=, make sure that your customization is
895 matched by =footnote-section-tag-regexp=.
897 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this change.
899 *** More languages for HTML export.
901 More languages are supported during HTML export. This is
902 only relevant for the few special words Org inserts, like
903 "Table of Contents", or "Footnotes". Also the encoding
904 issues with this feature seem to be solved now.
906 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing me to fix the encoding
913 - Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
914 - State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
915 - Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
916 - HTML export now validates again as XHTML
917 - The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
918 - Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
919 - Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app
920 - Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~"
921 - Links to attachment files
922 - Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
923 - Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
927 *** Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
928 When yanking a cut/copied subtree or a series of trees, the
929 normal yank key =C-y= now adjusts the level of the tree to
930 make it fit into the current outline position, without losing
931 its identity, and without swallowing other subtrees.
933 This uses the command =org-past-subtree=. An additional
934 change in that command has been implemented: Normally, this
935 command picks the right outline level from the surrounding
936 *visible* headlines, and uses the smaller one. So if the
937 cursor is between a level 4 and a level 3 headline, the tree
938 will be pasted as level 3. If the cursor is actually *at*
939 the beginning of a headline, the level of that headline will
940 be used. For example, lets say you have a tree like this:
946 ,(2)* Level one again
949 with (1) and (2) indicating possible cursor positions for the
950 insertion. When at (1), the tree will be pasted as level 2.
951 When at (2), it will be pasted as level 1.
953 If you do not want =C-y= to behave like this, configure the
954 variable =org-yank-adjusted-subtrees=.
956 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this idea and a partial implementation.
958 *** State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
960 If you configure the variable =org-agenda-log-mode-items=,
961 you can now request that all logged state changes be included
962 in the agenda when log mode is active. If you find this too
963 much for normal applications, you can also temporarily
964 request the inclusion of state changes by pressing =C-u l= in
967 This was a request by Hsiu-Khuern Tang.
969 You can also press `C-u C-u l' to get *only* log items in the
970 agenda, withour any timestamps/deadlines etc.
972 *** Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
973 Previously, footnotes would be left in the document where
974 they are defined, now they are all collected and put into a
975 special =<div>= at the end of the document.
977 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this request.
979 *** HTML export now validates again as XHTML.
981 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this cleanup.
983 *** The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
985 If the option =org-clock-in-resume= is t, and the first clock
986 line in an entry is unclosed, clocking into that task resumes
987 the clock from that time.
989 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
991 *** Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
993 The data saved include the contents of =org-clock-history=,
994 and the running clock, if there is one.
996 To use this, you will need to add to your .emacs
998 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
999 (setq org-clock-persist t)
1000 (setq org-clock-in-resume t)
1001 (org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
1004 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
1006 *** Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app.
1008 So far you could only bypass your setup in `org-file-apps'
1009 and force opening a file link in Emacs by using a =C-u= prefix arg
1010 with =C-c C-o=. Now you can call =C-u C-u C-c C-o= to force
1011 an external application. Which external application depends
1012 on your system. On Mac OS X and Windows, =open= is used. On
1013 a GNU/Linux system, the mailcap settings are used.
1015 This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.
1017 *** Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~".
1019 Inserting file links with =C-u C-c C-l= was buggy if the
1020 setting of `org-link-file-path-type' was `adaptive' (the
1021 default). Absolute file paths were not abbreviated relative
1022 to the users home directory. This bug has been fixed.
1024 Thanks to Matt Lundin for the report.
1026 *** Links to attachment files
1028 Even though one of the purposes of entry attachments was to
1029 reduce the number of links in an entry, one might still want
1030 to have the occasional link to one of those files. You can
1031 now use link abbreviations to set up a special link type that
1032 points to attachments in the current entry. Note that such
1033 links will only work from within the same entry that has the
1034 attachment, because the directory path is entry specific.
1035 Here is the setup you need:
1037 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
1038 (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("att" . org-attach-expand-link)))
1041 After this, a link like this will work
1044 [[att:some-attached-file.txt]]
1046 This was a proposal by Lindsay Todd.
1048 *** Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
1050 When a repeating task, listed in the daily/weekly agenda under
1051 today's date, is completed from the agenda, it is listed as
1052 DONE in the agenda until the next update happens. After the
1053 next update, the task will have disappeared, of course,
1054 because the new date is no longer today.
1056 *** Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
1058 Buffers that are created during publishing are now deleted
1059 when the publishing is over. At least I hope it works like this.
1065 - Secondary agenda filtering is becoming a killer feature
1066 - Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
1067 - Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
1068 - C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
1069 - Customize org-mouse.el feature set to free up mouse events
1070 - New commands for export all the way to PDF (through LaTeX)
1071 - Some bug fixed for LaTeX export, more bugs remain.
1075 *** Enhancements to secondary agenda filtering
1077 This is, I believe, becoming a killer feature. It allows you
1078 to define fewer and more general custom agenda commands, and
1079 then to do the final narrowing to specific tasks you are
1080 looking for very quickly, much faster than calling a new
1083 If you have not tries this yet, you should!
1085 **** You can now refining the current filter by an additional criterion
1086 When filtering an existing agenda view with =/=, you can
1087 now narrow down the existing selection by an additional
1088 condition. Do do this, use =\= instead of =/= to add the
1089 additional criterion. You can also press =+= or =-= after
1090 =/= to add a positive or negative condition. A condition
1091 can be a TAG, or an effort estimate limit, see below.
1093 **** It is now possible to filter for effort estimates
1094 This means to filter the agenda for the value of the Effort
1095 property. For this you should best set up global allowed
1096 values for effort estimates, with
1098 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
1099 (setq org-global-properties
1100 '(("Effort_ALL" . "0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00")))
1103 You may then select effort limits with single keys in the
1104 filter. It works like this: After =/= or =\=, first select
1105 the operator which you want to use to compare effort
1108 : < Select entries with effort smaller than or equal to the limit
1109 : > Select entries with effort larger than or equal to the limit
1110 : = Select entries with effort equal to the limit
1112 After that, you can press a single digit number which is
1113 used as an index to the allowed effort estimates.
1115 If you do not use digits to fast-select tags, you can even
1116 skip the operator, which will then default to
1117 `org-agenda-filter-effort-default-operator', which is by
1120 Thanks to Manish for the great idea to include fast effort
1121 filtering into the agenda filtering process.
1123 **** The mode line will show the active filter
1124 For example, if there is a filter in place that does select
1125 for HOME tags, against EMAIL tags, and for tasks with an
1126 estimated effort smaller than 30 minutes, the mode-line with
1127 show =+HOME-EMAIL+<0:30=
1129 **** The filter now persists when the agenda view is refreshed
1130 All normal refresh commands, including those that move the
1131 weekly agenda from one week to the next, now keep the
1132 current filter in place.
1134 You need to press =/ /= to turn off the filter. However,
1135 when you run a new agenda command, for example going from
1136 the weekly agenda to the TODO list, the filter will be
1139 *** Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
1141 You can still use =C-c C-c= on a headline, but the new
1142 binding should be considered as the main binding for this
1143 command. The reasons for this change are:
1145 - Using =C-c C-c= for tags is really out of line with other
1148 - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
1149 cannot, because =C-c C-c= exits the buffer :-(
1151 - =C-c C-q= will also work when the cursor is somewhere down
1152 in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
1154 *** Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
1156 The new option =org-todo-state-tags-triggers= can be used to
1157 define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
1158 For example, the setting
1160 : (setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers
1161 : '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil))
1162 : ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
1164 will make sure that any change to any of the DONE states will
1165 remove tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the
1166 "WAITING" state will trigger the tag "Today" to be added.
1168 I use this mostly to get rid of TODAY and NEXT tags which I
1169 apply to select an entry for execution in the near future,
1170 which I often prefer to specific time scheduling.
1172 *** C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
1173 The new headline is inserted after the current subtree.
1175 Thanks to Peter Jones for patches to fine-tune this behavior.
1177 *** Customize org-mouse.el feature set
1178 There is a new variable =org-mouse-features= which gives you
1179 some control about what features of org-mouse you want to
1180 use. Turning off some of the feature will free up the
1181 corresponding mouse events, or will avoid activating special
1182 regions for mouse clicks. By default I have urned off the
1183 feature to use drag mouse events to move or promote/demote
1184 entries. You can of course turn them back on if you wish.
1186 This variable may still change in the future, allowing more
1187 fine-grained control.
1189 *** New commands for export to PDF
1191 This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF
1194 : C-c C-e p process to PDF.
1195 : C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
1198 - \usepackage{graphicx} is now part of the standard class
1200 - Several bugs fixed, but definitely not all of them :-(
1202 *** New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
1204 Set this to =t= if you want state change notes to be inserted
1205 after any initial drawers, i.e drawers the immediately follow
1206 the headline and the planning line (the one with
1207 DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED information).
1211 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular expressions, see [[*%20org%20file%20apps%20now%20uses%20regular%20repressions%20instead%20of%20extensions][below]]
1215 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
1216 Just like in =auto-mode-alist=, car's in the variable
1217 =org-file-apps= that are strings are now interpreted as
1218 regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
1219 instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
1220 sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
1221 be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
1223 There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by
1224 Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then
1225 any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be
1228 *** Changes to the attachment system
1230 - The default method to attach a file is now to copy it
1231 instead of moving it.
1232 - You can modify the default method using the variable
1233 `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want
1234 to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
1235 - The keys =c=, =m=, and =l= specifically select =copy=,
1236 =move=, or =link=, respectively, as the attachment method
1237 for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'.
1238 - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
1239 now use =n= instead of =c=.
1240 - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
1241 itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
1242 keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
1243 customizing the variable =org-attach-file-list-property=.
1247 ** Incompatible changes
1249 - Changes in the structure of IDs, see [[*The%20default%20structure%20of%20IDs%20has%20changed][here]] for details.
1251 - C-c C-a has been redefined, see [[*%20C%20c%20C%20a%20no%20longer%20calls%20show%20all][here]] for details.
1255 *** The default structure of IDs has changed
1257 IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
1258 - By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be
1259 an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
1260 - IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters
1261 anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used
1262 as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not
1263 distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
1264 - The ID string derived from the current time is now
1265 /reversed/ to become an ID. This assures that the first
1266 two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to
1267 split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
1268 - You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems
1271 *** =C-c C-a= no longer calls `show-all'
1273 The reason for this is that =C-c C-a= is now used for the
1274 attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
1275 is needed, use =M-x show-all=, or =C-u C-u C-u TAB=.
1277 *** New attachment system
1279 You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree.
1280 This works by creating special directories based on the ID of
1281 an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can
1282 keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically
1283 committing changes to git. See the manual for more
1286 Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new
1287 concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
1289 *** New remember template escapes
1291 : %^{prop}p to insert a property
1292 : %k the heading of the item currently being clocked
1293 : %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
1295 Also, when you exit remember with =C-2 C-c C-c=, the item
1296 will be filed as a child of the item currently being
1297 clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
1298 think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
1299 added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
1302 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
1304 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
1306 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
1308 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
1310 This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox
1313 Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
1315 *** New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
1317 It can be used to locally set the variable
1318 `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are
1319 allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on
1320 how to use it, see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php][publishing tutorial]].
1326 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
1327 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
1328 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
1329 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
1330 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
1331 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
1332 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
1333 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
1334 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
1335 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
1336 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
1337 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
1338 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
1339 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
1340 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
1341 - It is possible to define filters for column view
1342 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
1343 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
1344 - And tons of bugs fixed.
1347 ** Incompatible changes
1349 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
1351 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
1352 remember process is now interpreted differently:
1354 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
1355 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
1356 : in its new location.
1357 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
1358 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
1360 This was requested by John Wiegley.
1362 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
1364 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
1365 as a tty key replacement.
1367 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1369 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1370 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1371 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1372 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1375 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1379 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
1381 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
1382 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
1383 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
1384 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
1385 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
1386 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
1387 do have the tag will be hidden.
1389 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
1390 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
1391 not require a new search and is very fast.
1393 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
1394 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
1395 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
1396 direct access character.
1398 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
1399 unhiding any hidden lines.
1401 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
1402 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
1403 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
1404 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
1406 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
1408 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
1409 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
1410 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
1411 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
1413 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
1414 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
1415 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
1416 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
1418 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
1419 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
1420 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
1422 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
1425 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
1426 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
1428 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
1430 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
1431 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
1432 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
1433 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
1435 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
1437 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
1439 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
1440 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
1441 behavior is governed by two new variables:
1442 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
1443 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
1444 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
1446 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
1447 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
1448 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
1449 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
1450 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
1451 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
1452 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
1453 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
1456 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
1457 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
1459 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
1462 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
1464 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
1465 remember process is now interpreted differently:
1467 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
1468 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
1469 : in its new location.
1470 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
1471 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
1473 This was requested by John Wiegley.
1475 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
1477 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
1478 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
1479 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
1480 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
1481 you do not like this, customize the variable
1482 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
1484 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
1485 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
1488 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
1490 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
1492 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
1493 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
1494 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
1495 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
1496 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
1499 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
1501 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
1502 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
1504 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1506 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
1508 This was a request by Peter Frings.
1510 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
1512 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
1513 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
1514 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
1516 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
1518 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
1519 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
1520 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
1521 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
1522 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
1523 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
1524 position of the keyword in this sequence.
1526 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
1529 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
1531 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
1533 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
1535 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
1536 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
1538 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
1540 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1542 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1543 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1544 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1545 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1548 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1550 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
1552 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
1553 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
1554 For more information, look at the variable
1555 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
1557 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
1559 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
1561 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1566 For older Changes, see [[file:Changes_old.org]]