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13 ** Incompatible changes
15 *** Variables relative to clocksum duration are obsolete
17 ~org-time-clocksum-format~, ~org-time-clocksum-use-fractional~ and
18 ~org-time-clocksum-fractional-format~ are obsolete. If you changed
19 them, consider modifying ~org-duration-format~ instead.
21 Variable ~org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations~ is also obsolete.
22 Consider setting ~org-duration-units~ instead.
24 *** ~org-capture-templates~ no longer accepts S-expressions as file names
26 Since functions are allowed there, a straightforward way to migrate
33 : (file (lambda () (sexp)))
35 *** Deleted contributed packages
37 =org-ebib.el, =org-bullets.el= and =org-mime.el= have been deleted
38 from the contrib/ directory.
40 You can now find them here :
42 - https://github.com/joostkremers/ebib
43 - https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
44 - https://github.com/org-mime/org-mime
46 *** Removal of ~:sitemap-sans-extension~
48 The publishing property is no longer recognized, as a consequence of
49 changes to site-map generation.
51 You can get the same functionality by setting ~:sitemap-format-entry~
55 (lambda (entry style project)
56 (cond ((not (directory-name-p entry))
57 (format "[[file:%s][%s]]"
58 (file-name-sans-extension entry)
59 (org-publish-find-title entry project)))
60 ((eq style 'tree) (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name entry)))
64 *** Change signature for ~:sitemap-function~
66 ~:sitemap-function~ now expects to be called with two arguments. See
67 ~org-publish-project-alist~ for details.
69 *** Change signature for some properties in ~org-list-to-generic~
71 ~:istart~, ~:icount~, ~:iend~ and ~:isep~ now expect the type of the
72 list as their first argument.
74 *** Change signature for ~org-get-repeater~
75 The optional argument is now a string to extract the repeater from.
76 See docstring for details.
79 *** New Org duration library
80 This new library implements tools to read and print time durations in
81 various formats (e.g., "H:MM", or "1d 2h 3min"...).
83 See ~org-duration-to-minutes~ and ~org-duration-from-minutes~
87 **** New variable : ~org-agenda-show-future-repeats~
88 **** New variable : ~org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat~
89 **** Binding C-c C-x < for ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda~
90 *** New value for ~org-publish-sitemap-sort-folders~
92 The new ~ignore~ value effectively allows toggling inclusion of
93 directories in published site-maps.
97 **** Clojure: new setting ~org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout~
99 Creation of a new setting to specify the Cider timeout. By setting
100 the =org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout= setting option. The value
101 is in seconds and if set to =nil= then no timeout will occur.
102 **** Clojure: new header ~:show-process~
104 A new block code header has been created for Org Babel that enables
105 developers to output the process of an ongoing process into a new
108 You can tell Org Babel to output the process of a running code block.
110 To show that output you only have to specify the =:show-process=
111 option in the code block's header like this:
114 ,#+BEGIN_SRC clojure :results output :show-process t
121 If =:show-process= is specified that way, then when you will run the
122 code using =C-c C-c= a new window will open in Emacs. Everything that
123 is output by the REPL will immediately be added to that new window.
125 When the processing of the code is finished, then the window and its
126 buffer will be closed and the results will be reported in the
129 Note that the =:results= parameter's behavior is *not* changed. If
130 =silent= is specified, then no result will be displayed. If =output=
131 is specified then all the output from the window will appears in the
132 results section. If =value= is specified, then only the last returned
133 value of the code will be displayed in the results section.
135 **** Maxima: new headers ~:prologue~ and ~:epilogue~
136 Babel options ~:prologue~ and ~:epilogue~ have been implemented for
137 Maxima src blocks which prepend and append, respectively, the given
138 code strings. This can be useful for specifying formatting settings
139 which would add clutter to exported code. For instance, you can use
140 this ~:prologue "fpprintprec: 2; linel: 50;"~ for presenting Maxima
141 results in a beamer presentation.
142 **** PlantUML: add support for header arguments
144 [[http://plantuml.com/][Plantuml]] source blocks now support the [[http://orgmode.org/manual/prologue.html#prologue][~:prologue~]], [[http://orgmode.org/manual/epilogue.html#epilogue][~:epilogue~]] and
145 [[http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var][~:var~]] header arguments.
147 **** SQL: new engine added ~sqsh~
149 A new engine was added to support ~sqsh~ command line utility for use
150 against Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase SQL server.
152 More information on ~sqsh~ can be found here: [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/][sourceforge/sqsh]]
154 To use ~sqsh~ in an *sql* =SRC_BLK= set the =:engine= like this:
157 ,#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine sqsh :dbhost my_host :dbuser master :dbpassword pass :database support
163 **** Add Slovanian translations
164 **** Implement ~org-export-insert-image-links~
165 This new function is meant to be used in back-ends supporting images
166 as descriptions of links, a.k.a. image links. See its docstring for
168 **** Add global macros through ~org-export-global-macros~
169 With this variable, one can define macros available for all documents.
170 **** New keyword ~#+EXPORT_FILE_NAME~
171 Simiralry to ~:EXPORT_FILE_NAME:~ property, this keyword allows the
172 user to specify the name of the output file upon exporting the
173 document. This also has an effect on publishing.
174 **** Horizontal rules are no longer ignored in LaTeX table math mode
175 **** Use ~special-mode~ for compilation output
177 *** ~org-edit-special~ can edit LaTeX environments
179 Using ~C-c '~ on a LaTeX environment opens a sub-editing buffer. By
180 default, major mode in that buffer is ~latex-mode~, but it can be
181 changed by configuring ~org-src-lang-modes~.
183 *** ~org-list-to-generic~ includes a new property: ~:ifmt~
185 ~:ifmt~ is a function to be called on the body of each item. See
186 ~org-list-to-generic~ documentation for details.
188 *** New variable : ~org-bibtex-headline-format-function~
189 This allow to use a different title than entry title.
195 This feature has been removed. Use a custom agenda view, possibly
196 narrowed to current buffer to achieve a similar functionality.
198 *** ~org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches~ is obsolete
200 Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
202 *** ~org-agenda-skip-subtree-when-regexp-matches~ is obsolete
204 Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
206 *** ~org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches-in-subtree~ is obsolete
208 Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
210 *** ~org-minutes-to-clocksum-string~ is obsolete
212 Use ~org-duration-from-minutes~ instead.
214 *** ~org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes~ is obsolete
216 Use ~org-duration-to-minutes~ instead.
218 *** ~org-duration-string-to-minutes~ is obsolete
220 Use ~org-duration-to-minutes~ instead.
224 *** ~org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all~ is removed.
226 For an equivalent to a ~nil~ value, set
227 ~org-agenda-show-future-repeats~ to nil and
228 ~org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat~ to ~t~.
230 *** ~org-publish-sitemap-file-entry-format~ is deprecated
232 One can provide new ~:sitemap-format-entry~ property for a function
233 equivalent to the removed format string.
237 *** ~org-publish-find-property~
239 This function can be used as a tool to format entries in a site-map,
240 in addition to ~org-publish-find-title~ and ~org-publish-find-date~.
242 *** ~org-list-to-org~
244 It is the reciprocal of ~org-list-to-lisp~, which see.
246 *** ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda~
248 Call ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock~ from the agenda.
252 *** Computed dates in tables appear as inactive time stamps
254 *** Save point before opening a file with an unknown search option
256 When following a file link with a search option (e.g., =::#custom-id=)
257 that doesn't exist in the target file, save positon before raising an
258 error. As a consequence, it is possible to jump back to the original
259 document with ~org-mark-ring-goto~ (default binding =C-c &=).
261 *** ~org-get-heading~ accepts two more optional arguments
263 See docstring for details.
265 *** New option ~org-babel-uppercase-example-markers~
267 This variable is a ~defcustom~ and replaces the variable
268 ~org-babel-capitalize-example-region-markers~, which is a ~defvar~ and
273 ** Incompatible changes
275 *** Emacs 23 support has been dropped
277 From now on, Org expects at least Emacs 24.3, although Emacs 24.4 or
280 *** XEmacs support has been dropped
282 Incomplete compatibility layer with XEmacs has been removed. If you
283 want to take over maintainance of this compatibility, please contact
286 *** New syntax for export blocks
288 Export blocks are explicitly marked as such at the syntax level to
289 disambiguate their parsing from special blocks. The new syntax is
292 ,#+BEGIN_EXPORT backend
305 As a consequence, =INCLUDE= keywords syntax is modified, e.g.,
308 ,#+INCLUDE: "file.org" HTML
314 ,#+INCLUDE: "file.org" export html
317 The following function repairs export blocks and =INCLUDE= keywords
318 using previous syntax:
320 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
321 (defun org-repair-export-blocks ()
322 "Repair export blocks and INCLUDE keywords in current buffer."
324 (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
325 (let ((case-fold-search t)
326 (back-end-re (regexp-opt
327 '("HTML" "ASCII" "LATEX" "ODT" "MARKDOWN" "MD" "ORG"
328 "MAN" "BEAMER" "TEXINFO" "GROFF" "KOMA-LETTER")
330 (org-with-wide-buffer
331 (goto-char (point-min))
332 (let ((block-re (concat "^[ \t]*#\\+BEGIN_" back-end-re)))
334 (while (re-search-forward block-re nil t)
335 (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point))))
336 (when (eq (org-element-type element) 'special-block)
338 (goto-char (org-element-property :end element))
339 (save-match-data (search-backward "_"))
342 (delete-region (point) (line-end-position)))
343 (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1))))))
345 (format "^[ \t]*#\\+INCLUDE: .*?%s[ \t]*$" back-end-re)))
346 (while (re-search-forward include-re nil t)
347 (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point))))
348 (when (and (eq (org-element-type element) 'keyword)
349 (string= (org-element-property :key element) "INCLUDE"))
350 (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1)))))))))
353 Moreover, ~:export-block~ keyword used in ~org-export-define-backend~ and
354 ~org-export-define-derived-backend~ is no longer used and needs to be
359 **** [1]-like constructs are not valid footnotes
361 Using =[1]= as a footnote was already discouraged in the manual, since
362 it introduced too many false-positives in many Org documents. These
363 constructs are now unsupported.
365 If you used =[N]= in some of your documents, consider turning them into
368 **** /Org Footnote/ library doesn't handle non-Org buffers
370 Commands for footnotes in an Org document no longer try to do
371 something in non-Org ones. If you need to have footnotes there,
372 consider using the =footnote.el= library, shipped with Emacs.
374 In particular, ~org-footnote-tag-for-non-org-mode-files~ no longer
377 *** ~org-file-apps~ no longer accepts S-expressions as commands
379 The variable now accepts functions of two arguments instead of plain
380 S-expressions. Replacing a S-expresion with an appropriate function
381 is straightforward. For example
387 : ("pdf" . (lambda (file link) (foo)))
389 *** The ~{{{modification-time}}}~ macro can get time via =vc=
391 The modification time will be determined via =vc.el= if the second
392 argument is non-nil. See the manual for details.
394 *** Preparation and completion functions in publishing projects change signature
396 Preparation and completion functions are now called with an argument,
397 which is the project property list. It used to be dynamically scoped
398 through the ~project-plist~ variable.
400 *** Old Babel header properties are no longer supported
402 Using header arguments as property names is no longer possible. As
414 should be written instead
419 :header-args: :exports code
420 :header-args: :var a=1 b=2
421 :header-args+: :var c=3
425 Please note that, however, old properties were defined at the source
426 block definition. Current ones are defined where the block is called.
430 *** ~org-eww~ has been moved into core
431 *** New org-protocol key=value syntax
433 Org-protocol can now handle query-style parameters such as:
436 org-protocol://store-link?url=http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html&title=The%20title
437 org-protocol://capture?template=x&title=Hello&body=World&url=http:%2F%2Fexample.com
440 Old-style links such as
441 : org-protocol://store-link:/http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html/The%20title
442 continue to be supported.
444 If you have defined your own handler functions for
445 ~org-protocol-protocol-alist~, change them to accept either a property
446 list (for new-style links) or a string (for old-style links). Use
447 ~org-protocol-parse-parameters~ to convert old-style links into property
450 *** New Org linter library
452 ~org-lint~ can check syntax and report common issues in Org documents.
454 *** New option ~date-tree-last~ for ~org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy~
456 When ~org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy~ is set to ~date-tree-last~, diary
457 entries are added to last in the date tree.
459 *** New ~vbar~ entity
461 ~\vbar~ or ~\vbar{}~ will be exported unconditionnally as a =|=,
462 unlike to existing ~\vert~, which is expanded as ~|~ when using
463 a HTML derived export back-end.
467 **** New =#+latex_compiler= keyword to set LaTeX compiler.
469 PDFLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaLaTeX are supported. See the manual for
472 **** New option ~org-export-with-broken-links~
474 This option tells the export process how to behave when encountering
475 a broken internal link. See its docstring for more information.
477 **** Attributes support in custom language environments for LaTeX export
479 Custom language environments for LaTeX export can now define the
480 string to be inserted during export, using attributes to indicate the
481 position of the elements. See variable ~org-latex-custom-lang-environments~
484 **** New Texinfo ~options~ attribute on special blocks
486 Using ~:options~ as a Texinfo attribute, it is possible to add
487 information to custom environments. See manual for details.
489 **** New HTML ~id~ attributes on special, example and quote blocks
491 If the block has a =#+NAME:= attribute assigned, then the HTML element
492 will have an ~id~ attribute with that name in the HTML export. This
493 enables one to create links to these elements in other places, e.g.,
494 ~<a href="#name">text</a>~.
496 **** Listings with captions are now numbered in HTML export
498 The class associated to the numbering is "listing-number". If you
499 don't want these blocks to be numbered, as it was the case until now,
500 You may want to add ~.listing-number { display: none; }~ to the CSS
503 **** Line Numbering in SRC/EXAMPLE blocks support arbitrary start number
505 The ~-n~ option to ~SRC~ and ~EXAMPLE~ blocks can now take a numeric
506 argument to specify the staring line number for the source or example
507 block. The ~+n~ option can now take a numeric argument that will be
508 added to the last line number from the previous block as the starting
509 point for the SRC/EXAMPLE block.
512 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp -n 20
513 ;; this will export with line number 20
514 (message "This is line 21")
516 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp +n 10
517 ;; This will be listed as line 31
518 (message "This is line 32")
522 **** Allow toggling center for images in LaTeX export
524 With the global variable ~org-latex-images-centered~ or the local
525 attribute ~:center~ it is now possible to center an image in LaTeX
528 **** Default CSS class ~org-svg~ for SVG images in HTML export
530 SVG images exported in HTML are now by default assigned a CSS class
531 ~org-svg~ if no CSS class is specified with the ~:class~ attribute. By
532 default, the CSS styling of class ~org-svg~ specifies an image width of
533 90\thinsp{}% of the container the image.
535 **** Markdown footnote export customization
537 Variables ~org-md-footnotes-section~ and ~org-md-footnote-format~
538 introduced for =ox-md.el=. Both new variables define template strings
539 which can be used to customize the format of the exported footnotes
540 section and individual footnotes, respectively.
544 **** Blocks with coderefs labels can now be evaluated
546 The labels are removed prior to evaluating the block.
548 **** Support for Lua language
549 **** Support for SLY in Lisp blocks
551 See ~org-babel-lisp-eval-fn~ to activate it.
553 **** Support for Stan language
555 New ob-stan.el library.
557 Evaluating a Stan block can produce two different results.
559 1. Dump the source code contents to a file.
561 This file can then be used as a variable in other blocks, which
562 allows interfaces like RStan to use the model.
564 2. Compile the contents to a model file.
566 This provides access to the CmdStan interface. To use this, set
567 ~org-babel-stan-cmdstan-directory~ and provide a ~:file~ argument
568 that does not end in ".stan".
570 For more information and usage examples, visit
571 http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-stan.html
573 **** Support for Oracle databases via ~sqlplus~
575 =ob-sql= library supports running SQL blocks against an Oracle
576 database using ~sqlplus~. Use with properties like this (all
588 **** Improved support to Microsoft SQL Server via ~sqlcmd~
590 =ob-sql= library removes support to the ~msosql~ engine which uses the
591 deprecated ~osql~ command line tool, and replaces it with ~mssql~
592 engine which uses the ~sqlcmd~ command line tool. Use with properties
603 If you want to use the *trusted connection* feature, omit *both* the
604 =dbuser= and =dbpassword= properties and add =cmdline -E= to the properties.
606 If your Emacs is running in a Cygwin environment, the =ob-sql= library
607 can pass the converted path to the =sqlcmd= tool.
609 **** Improved support of header arguments for postgresql
611 The postgresql engine in a sql code block supports now ~:dbport~ nd
612 ~:dbpassword~ as header arguments.
614 **** Support for additional plantuml output formats
616 The support for output formats of [[http://plantuml.com/][plantuml]] has been extended to now
626 - utxt :: ASCII art using unicode characters
635 The output formats are determined by the file extension specified
636 using the :file property, e.g.:
638 #+begin_src plantuml :file diagram.png
640 Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request
641 Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response
643 Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request
644 Alice <-- Bob: another authentication Response
648 Please note that *pdf* *does not work out of the box* and needs additional
649 setup in addition to plantuml. See [[http://plantuml.com/pdf.html]] for
650 details and setup information.
652 *** Rewrite of radio lists
654 Radio lists, i.e, Org plain lists in foreign buffers, have been
655 rewritten to be on par with Radio tables. You can use a large set of
656 parameters to control how a given list should be rendered. See manual
659 *** org-bbdb-anniversaries-future
661 Used like ~org-bbdb-anniversaries~, it provides a few days warning for
662 upcoming anniversaries (default: 7 days).
664 *** Clear non-repeated SCHEDULED upon repeating a task
666 If the task is repeated, and therefore done at least one, scheduling
667 information is no longer relevant. It is therefore removed.
669 See [[git:481719fbd5751aaa9c672b762cb43aea8ee986b0][commit message]] for more information.
671 *** Support for ISO week trees
673 ISO week trees are an alternative date tree format that orders entries
674 by ISO week and not by month.
681 : *** 2015-08-31 Monday
683 They are supported in org-capture via ~file+weektree~ and
684 ~file+weektree+prompt~ target specifications.
686 *** Accept ~:indent~ parameter when capturing column view
688 When defining a "columnview" dynamic block, it is now possible to add
689 an :indent parameter, much like the one in the clock table.
691 On the other hand, stars no longer appear in an ITEM field.
695 **** ~org-columns~ accepts a prefix argument
697 When called with a prefix argument, ~org-columns~ apply to the whole
698 buffer unconditionally.
700 **** New variable : ~org-agenda-view-columns-initially~
702 The variable used to be a ~defvar~, it is now a ~defcustom~.
704 **** Allow custom summaries
706 It is now possible to add new summary types, or override those
707 provided by Org by customizing ~org-columns-summary-types~, which see.
709 **** Allow multiple summaries for any property
711 Columns can now summarize the same property using different summary
714 *** Preview LaTeX snippets in buffers not visiting files
715 *** New option ~org-attach-commit~
717 When non-nil, commit attachments with git, assuming the document is in
720 *** Allow conditional case-fold searches in ~org-occur~
722 When set to ~smart~, the new variable ~org-occur-case-fold-search~ allows
723 to mimic =isearch.el=: if the regexp searched contains any upper case
724 character (or character class), the search is case sensitive.
725 Otherwise, it is case insensitive.
727 *** More robust repeated =ox-latex= footnote handling
729 Repeated footnotes are now numbered by referring to a label in the
732 *** The ~org-block~ face is inherited by ~src-blocks~
734 This works also when =org-src-fontify-natively= is non-nil. It is also
735 possible to specify per-languages faces. See =org-src-block-faces= and
736 the manual for details.
738 *** Links are now customizable
740 Links can now have custom colors, tooltips, keymaps, display behavior,
741 etc. Links are now centralized in ~org-link-parameters~.
745 *** ~org-next-line-empty-p~
747 It replaces the deprecated ~next~ argument to ~org-previous-line-empty-p~.
749 *** ~org-show-children~
751 It is a faster implementation of ~outline-show-children~.
755 *** ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag-refine~ has been removed.
757 Use ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag~ instead.
759 *** ~org-agenda-todayp~ is deprecated.
761 Use ~org-agenda-today-p~ instead.
763 *** ~org-babel-get-header~ is removed.
765 Use ~org-babel--get-vars~ or ~assq~ instead, as applicable.
767 *** ~org-babel-trim~ is deprecated.
769 Use ~org-trim~ instead.
771 *** ~org-element-remove-indentation~ is deprecated.
773 Use ~org-remove-indentation~ instead.
775 *** ~org-image-file-name-regexp~ is deprecated
777 Use ~image-file-name-regexp~ instead.
778 The never-used-in-core ~extensions~ argument has been dropped.
780 *** ~org-list-parse-list~ is deprecated
782 Use ~org-list-to-lisp~ instead.
784 *** ~org-on-heading-p~ is deprecated
786 A comment to this effect was in the source code since 7.8.03, but
787 now a byte-compiler warning will be generated as well.
789 *** ~org-table-p~ is deprecated
791 Use ~org-at-table-p~ instead.
793 *** ~org-table-recognize-table.el~ is deprecated
795 It was not called by any org code since 2010.
797 *** Various reimplementations of cl-lib functions are deprecated
799 The affected functions are:
802 - ~org-remove-if-not~
807 Additionally, ~org-sublist~ is deprecated in favor of ~cl-subseq~. Note
808 the differences in indexing conventions: ~org-sublist~ is 1-based and
809 end-inclusive; ~cl-subseq~ is 0-based and end-exclusive.
813 *** Remove all options related to ~ido~ or ~iswitchb~
815 This includes ~org-completion-use-iswitchb~ and ~org-completion-use-ido~.
816 Instead Org uses regular functions, e.g., ~completion-read~ so as to
817 let those libraries operate.
819 *** Remove ~org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists~
821 Two consecutive blank lines always terminate all levels of current
824 *** ~fixltx2e~ is removed from ~org-latex-default-packages-alist~
826 fixltx2e is obsolete, see LaTeX News 22.
829 *** Add Icelandic smart quotes
830 *** Allow multiple receiver locations in radio tables and lists
831 *** Allow angular links within link descriptions
833 It is now allowed to write, e.g.,
834 ~[[http:orgmode.org][<file:unicorn.png>]]~ as an equivalent to
835 ~[[http:orgmode.org][file:unicorn.png]]~. The advantage of the former
836 is that spaces are allowed within the path.
838 *** Beamer export back-ends uses ~org-latex-prefer-user-labels~
839 *** ~:preparation-function~ called earlier during publishing
841 Functions in this list are called before any file is associated to the
842 current projet. Thus, they can be used to generate to be published
845 *** Function ~org-remove-indentation~ changes.
847 The new algorithm doesn't remove TAB characters not used for
850 *** Secure placeholders in capture templates
852 Placeholders in capture templates are no longer expanded recursively.
853 However, ~%(...)~ constructs are expanded very late, so you can fill
854 the contents of the S-exp with the replacement text of non-interactive
855 placeholders. As before, interactive ones are still expanded as the
856 very last step, so the previous statement doesn't apply to them.
858 Note that only ~%(...)~ placeholders initially present in the
859 template, or introduced using a file placeholder, i.e., ~%[...]~ are
860 expanded. This prevents evaluating potentially malicious code when
861 another placeholder, e.g., ~%i~ expands to a S-exp.
863 *** Links stored by ~org-gnus-store-link~ in nnir groups
865 Since gnus nnir groups are temporary, ~org-gnus-store-link~ now refers
866 to the article's original group.
868 *** ~org-babel-check-confirm-evaluate~ is now a function instead of a macro
870 The calling convention has changed.
872 *** HTML export table row customization changes
874 Variable ~org-html-table-row-tags~ has been split into
875 ~org-html-table-row-open-tag~ and ~org-html-table-row-close-tag~.
876 Both new variables can be either a string or a function which will be
877 called with 6 parameters.
879 *** =ITEM= special property returns headline without stars
880 *** Rename ~org-insert-columns-dblock~ into ~org-columns-insert-dblock~
882 The previous name is, for the time being, kept as an obsolete alias.
884 *** ~org-trim~ can preserve leading indentation.
886 When setting a new optional argument to a non-nil value, ~org-trim~
887 preserves leading indentation while removing blank lines at the
888 beginning of the string. The behavior is identical for white space at
889 the end of the string.
891 *** Function ~org-info-export~ changes.
893 HTML links created from certain info links now point to =gnu.org= URL's rather
894 than just to local files. For example info links such as =info:emacs#List
895 Buffers= used to be converted to HTML links like this:
897 : <a href="emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
899 where local file =emacs.html= is referenced.
900 For most folks this file does not exist.
901 Thus the new behavior is to generate this HTML link instead:
903 : <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
905 All emacs related info links are similarly translated plus few other
908 *** Repeaters with a ~++~ interval and a time can be shifted to later today
910 Previously, if a recurring task had a timestamp of
911 ~<2016-01-01 Fri 20:00 ++1d>~ and was completed on =2016-01-02= at
912 =08:00=, the task would skip =2016-01-02= and would be rescheduled for
913 =2016-01-03=. Timestamps with ~++~ cookies and a specific time will
914 now shift to the first possible future occurrence, even if the
915 occurrence is later the same day the task is completed. (Timestamps
916 already in the future are still shifted one time further into the
919 *** ~org-mobile-action-alist~ is now a defconst
921 It used to be a defcustom, with a warning that it shouldn't be
924 *** ~file+emacs~ and ~file+sys~ link types are deprecated
926 They are still supported in Org 9.0 but will eventually be removed in
927 a later release. Use ~file~ link type along with universal arguments
928 to force opening it in either Emacs or with system application.
930 *** New defcustom ~org-babel-J-command~ stores the j command
931 *** New defalias ~org-babel-execute:j~
933 Allows J source blocks be indicated by letter j. Previously the
934 indication letter was solely J.
936 *** ~org-open-line~ ignores tables at the very beginning of the buffer
938 When ~org-special-ctrl-o~ is non-nil, it is impractical to create
939 a blank line above a table at the beginning of the document. Now, as
940 a special case, ~org-open-line~ behaves normally in this situation.
942 *** ~org-babel-hash-show-time~ is now customizable
944 The experimental variable used to be more or less confidential, as
947 *** New ~:format~ property to parsed links
949 It defines the format of the original link. Possible values are:
950 ~plain~, ~bracket~ and ~angle~.
954 ** Incompatible changes
956 *** Properties drawers syntax changes
958 Properties drawers are now required to be located right after a
959 headline and its planning line, when applicable.
961 It will break some documents as TODO states changes were sometimes
962 logged before the property drawer.
964 The following function will repair them:
966 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
967 (defun org-repair-property-drawers ()
968 "Fix properties drawers in current buffer.
969 Ignore non Org buffers."
970 (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
971 (org-with-wide-buffer
972 (goto-char (point-min))
973 (let ((case-fold-search t)
974 (inline-re (and (featurep 'org-inlinetask)
975 (concat (org-inlinetask-outline-regexp)
979 (unless (and inline-re (org-looking-at-p inline-re))
981 (let ((end (save-excursion (outline-next-heading) (point))))
983 (when (org-looking-at-p org-planning-line-re) (forward-line))
984 (when (and (< (point) end)
985 (not (org-looking-at-p org-property-drawer-re))
987 (and (re-search-forward org-property-drawer-re end t)
988 (eq (org-element-type
989 (save-match-data (org-element-at-point)))
991 (insert (delete-and-extract-region
993 (min (1+ (match-end 0)) end)))
994 (unless (bolp) (insert "\n"))))))))))))
997 *** Using "COMMENT" is now equivalent to commenting with "#"
999 If you used "COMMENT" in headlines to prevent a subtree from being
1000 exported, you can still do it but all information within the subtree
1001 is now commented out, i.e. no #+OPTIONS line will be parsed or taken
1002 into account when exporting.
1004 If you want to exclude a headline from export while using its contents
1005 for setting options, use =:noexport:= (see =org-export-exclude-tags=.)
1007 *** =#+CATEGORY= keywords no longer apply partially to document
1009 It was possible to use several such keywords and have them apply to
1010 the text below until the next one, but strongly deprecated since Org
1013 =#+CATEGORY= keywords are now global to the document. You can use node
1014 properties to set category for a subtree, e.g.,
1019 :CATEGORY: some category
1023 *** New variable to control visibility when revealing a location
1025 ~org-show-following-heading~, ~org-show-siblings~, ~org-show-entry-below~
1026 and ~org-show-hierarchy-above~ no longer exist. Instead, visibility is
1027 controlled through a single variable: ~org-show-context-detail~, which
1030 *** Replace disputed keys again when reading a date
1032 ~org-replace-disputed-keys~ has been ignored when reading date since
1033 version 8.1, but the former behavior is restored again.
1035 Keybinding for reading date can be customized with a new variable
1036 ~org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map~.
1038 *** No default title is provided when =TITLE= keyword is missing
1040 Skipping =TITLE= keyword no longer provides the current file name, or
1041 buffer name, as the title. Instead, simply ignore the title.
1043 *** Default bindings of =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= changed
1045 The key sequences =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= are now bound to
1046 ~org-next-visible-heading~ and ~org-previous-visible-heading~
1047 respectively, rather than the =outline-mode= versions of these
1048 functions. The Org version of these functions skips over inline tasks
1049 (and even-level headlines when ~org-odd-levels-only~ is set).
1051 *** ~org-element-context~ no longer return objects in keywords
1053 ~org-element-context~ used to return objects on some keywords, i.e.,
1054 =TITLE=, =DATE= and =AUTHOR=. It now returns only the keyword.
1056 *** ~org-timer-default-timer~ type changed from number to string
1058 If you have, in your configuration, something like =(setq
1059 org-timer-default-timer 10)= replace it with =(setq
1060 org-timer-default-timer "10")=.
1062 *** Functions signature changes
1064 The following functions require an additional argument. See their
1065 docstring for more information.
1067 - ~org-export-collect-footnote-definitions~
1068 - ~org-html-format-headline-function~
1069 - ~org-html-format-inlinetask-function~
1070 - ~org-latex-format-headline-function~
1071 - ~org-latex-format-inlinetask-function~
1076 *** Default lexical evaluation of emacs-lisp src blocks
1078 Emacs-lisp src blocks in babel are now evaluated using lexical
1079 scoping. There is a new header to control this behavior.
1081 The default results in an eval with lexical scoping.
1084 This turns lexical scoping off in the eval (the former behavior).
1087 This uses the lexical environment with x=42 in the eval.
1088 :lexical '((x . 42))
1090 *** Behavior of ~org-return~ changed
1092 If point is before or after the headline title, insert a new line
1093 without changing the headline.
1095 *** Hierarchies of tags
1097 The functionality of nesting tags in hierarchies is added to org-mode.
1098 This is the generalization of what was previously called "Tag groups"
1099 in the manual. That term is now changed to "Tag hierarchy".
1101 The following in-buffer definition:
1104 ,#+TAGS: [ Group : SubOne SubTwo ]
1105 ,#+TAGS: [ SubOne : SubOne1 SubOne2 ]
1106 ,#+TAGS: [ SubTwo : SubTwo1 SubTwo2 ]
1109 Should be seen as the following tree of tags:
1119 Searching for "Group" should return all tags defined above. Filtering
1120 on SubOne filters also it's sub-tags. Etc.
1122 There is no limit on the depth for the tag hierarchy.
1124 *** Additional syntax for non-unique grouptags
1126 Additional syntax is defined for grouptags if the tags in the group
1127 don't have to be distinct on a heading.
1129 Grouptags had to previously be defined with { }. This syntax is
1130 already used for exclusive tags and Grouptags need their own,
1131 non-exclusive syntax. This behaviour is achieved with [ ]. Note: { }
1132 can still be used also for Grouptags but then only one of the given
1133 tags can be used on the headline at the same time. Example:
1135 [ group : sub1 sub2 ]
1141 This is a more general case than the already existing syntax for
1144 *** Define regular expression patterns as tags
1146 Tags can be defined as grouptags with regular expressions as
1149 The regular expressions in the group must be marked up within { }.
1152 : #+TAGS: [ Project : {P@.+} ]
1154 Searching for the tag Project will now list all tags also including
1155 regular expression matches for P@.+. This is good for example for
1156 projects tagged with a common identifier, i.e. P@2014_OrgTags.
1158 *** Filtering in the agenda on grouptags (Tag hierarchies)
1160 Filtering in the agenda on grouptags filters all of the related tags.
1161 Except if a filter is applied with a (double) prefix-argument.
1163 Filtering in the agenda on subcategories does not filter the "above"
1166 If a grouptag contains a regular expression the regular expression
1167 is also used as a filter.
1169 *** Minor refactoring of ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag~
1171 Now uses the argument ARG and optional argument exclude instead of
1172 strip and narrow. ARG because the argument has multiple purposes and
1173 makes more sense than strip now. The term "narrowing" is changed to
1176 The main purpose is for the function to make more logical sense when
1177 filtering on tags now when tags can be structured in hierarchies.
1179 *** Babel: support for sed scripts
1181 Thanks to Bjarte Johansen for this feature.
1183 *** Babel: support for Processing language
1185 New ob-processing.el library.
1187 This library implements necessary functions for implementing editing
1188 of Processing code blocks, viewing the resulting sketches in an
1189 external viewer, and HTML export of the sketches.
1191 Check the documentation for more details.
1193 Thanks to Jarmo Hurri for this feature.
1195 *** New behaviour for ~org-toggle-latex-fragment~
1197 The new behaviour is the following:
1199 - With a double prefix argument or with a single prefix argument when
1200 point is before the first headline, toggle overlays in the whole
1203 - With a single prefix argument, toggle overlays in the current
1206 - On latex code, toggle overlay at point;
1208 - Otherwise, toggle overlays in the current section.
1210 *** Additional markup with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
1212 The content of the included file can now be optionally marked up, for
1213 instance as HTML. See the documentation for details.
1215 *** File links with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
1217 Objects can be extracted via =#+INCLUDE= using file links. It is
1218 possible to include only the contents of the object. See manual for
1221 *** Drawers do not need anymore to be referenced in =#+DRAWERS=
1223 One can use a drawer without listing it in the =#+DRAWERS= keyword,
1224 which is now obsolete. As a consequence, this change also deprecates
1225 ~org-drawers~ variable.
1227 *** ~org-edit-special~ can edit export blocks
1229 Using C-c ' on an export block now opens a sub-editing buffer. Major
1230 mode in that buffer is determined by export backend name (e.g.,
1231 "latex" \to "latex-mode"). You can define exceptions to this rule by
1232 configuring ~org-src-lang-modes~, which see.
1234 *** Additional =:hline= processing to ob-shell
1236 If the argument =:hlines yes= is present in a babel call, an optional
1237 argument =:hlines-string= can be used to define a string to use as a
1238 representation for the lisp symbol ='hline= in the shell program. The
1241 *** Markdown export supports switches in source blocks
1243 For example, it is now possible to number lines using the =-n= switch in
1246 *** New option in ASCII export
1248 Plain lists can have an extra margin by setting ~org-ascii-list-margin~
1249 variable to an appopriate integer.
1251 *** New blocks in ASCII export
1253 ASCII export now supports =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYRIGHT= and =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYLEFT=
1254 blocks. See documentation for details.
1256 *** More back-end specific publishing options
1258 The number of publishing options specific to each back-end has been
1259 increased. See manual for details.
1261 *** Export inline source blocks
1263 Inline source code was used to be removed upon exporting. They are
1264 now handled as standard code blocks, i.e., the source code can appear
1265 in the output, depending on the parameters.
1267 *** Extend ~org-export-first-sibling-p~ and ~org-export-last-sibling-p~
1269 These functions now support any element or object, not only headlines.
1271 *** New function: ~org-export-table-row-in-header-p~
1273 *** New function: ~org-export-get-reference~
1275 *** New function: ~org-element-lineage~
1277 This function deprecates ~org-export-get-genealogy~. It also provides
1278 more features. See docstring for details.
1280 *** New function: ~org-element-copy~
1282 *** New filter: ~org-export-filter-body-functions~
1284 Functions in this filter are applied on the body of the exported
1285 document, befor wrapping it within the template.
1287 *** New :environment parameter when exporting example blocks to LaTeX
1289 : #+ATTR_LATEX: :environment myverbatim
1291 : This sentence is false.
1294 will be exported using =@samp(myverbatim)= instead of =@samp(verbatim)=.
1296 *** Various improvements on radio tables
1298 Radio tables feature now relies on Org's export framework ("ox.el").
1299 ~:no-escape~ parameter no longer exists, but additional global
1300 parameters are now supported: ~:raw~, ~:backend~. Moreover, there are new
1301 parameters specific to some pre-defined translators, e.g.,
1302 ~:environment~ and ~:booktabs~ for ~orgtbl-to-latex~. See translators
1303 docstrings (including ~orgtbl-to-generic~) for details.
1305 *** Non-floating minted listings in Latex export
1307 It is not possible to specify =#+attr_latex: :float nil= in conjunction
1308 with source blocks exported by the minted package.
1310 *** Field formulas can now create columns as needed
1312 Previously, evaluating formulas that referenced out-of-bounds columns
1313 would throw an error. A new variable ~org-table-formula-create-columns~
1314 was added to adjust this behavior. It is now possible to silently add
1315 new columns, to do so with a warning or to explicitly ask the user
1320 Ability to plot values in a column through ASCII-art bars. See manual
1323 *** New hook: ~org-archive-hook~
1325 This hook is called after successfully archiving a subtree, with point
1326 on the original subtree, not yet deleted.
1328 *** New option: ~org-attach-archive-delete~
1330 When non-nil, attachments from archived subtrees are removed.
1332 *** New option: ~org-latex-caption-above~
1334 This variable generalizes ~org-latex-table-caption-above~, which is now
1335 deprecated. In addition to tables, it applies to source blocks,
1336 special blocks and images. See docstring for more information.
1338 *** New option: ~org-latex-prefer-user-labels~
1340 See the docstring for more information.
1342 *** Export unnumbered headlines
1344 Headlines, for which the property ~UNNUMBERED~ is non-nil, are now
1345 exported without section numbers irrespective of their levels. The
1346 property is inherited by children.
1348 *** Tables can be sorted with an arbitrary function
1350 It is now possible to specify a function, both programatically,
1351 through a new optional argument, and interactively with ~f~ or ~F~ keys,
1354 *** Table of contents can be local to a section
1356 The ~TOC~ keywords now accepts an optional ~local~ parameter. See manual
1359 *** Countdown timers can now be paused
1361 ~org-timer-pause-time~ now pauses and restarts both relative and
1364 *** New option ~only-window~ for ~org-agenda-window-setup~
1366 When ~org-agenda-window-setup~ is set to ~only-window~, the agenda is
1367 displayed as the sole window of the current frame.
1369 *** ~{{{date}}}~ macro supports optional formatting argument
1371 It is now possible to supply and optional formatting argument to
1372 ~{{{date}}}~. See manual for details.
1374 *** ~{{{property}}}~ macro supports optional search argument
1376 It is now possible to supply an optional search option to
1377 ~{{{property}}}~ in order to retrieve remote properties optional. See
1380 *** New option ~org-export-with-title~
1382 It is possible to suppress the title insertion with ~#+OPTIONS:
1383 title:nil~ or globally using the variable ~org-export-with-title~.
1385 *** New entities family: "\_ "
1387 "\_ " are used to insert up to 20 contiguous spaces in various
1388 back-ends. In particular, this family can be used to introduce
1389 leading spaces within table cells.
1391 *** New MathJax configuration options
1393 Org uses the MathJax CDN by default. See the manual and the docstring
1394 of ~org-html-mathjax-options~ for details.
1396 *** New behaviour in `org-export-options-alist'
1398 When defining a back-end, it is now possible to specify to give
1399 `parse' behaviour on a keyword. It is equivalent to call
1400 `org-element-parse-secondary-string' on the value.
1402 However, parsed =KEYWORD= is automatically associated to an
1403 =:EXPORT_KEYWORD:= property, which can be used to override the keyword
1404 value during a subtree export. Moreover, macros are expanded in such
1405 keywords and properties.
1407 *** Viewport support in html export
1409 Viewport for mobile-optimized website is now automatically inserted
1410 when exporting to html. See ~org-html-viewport~ for details.
1412 *** New ~#+SUBTITLE~ export keyword
1414 Org can typeset a subtitle in some export backends. See the manual
1417 *** Remotely edit a footnote definition
1419 Calling ~org-edit-footnote-reference~ (C-c ') on a footnote reference
1420 allows to edit its definition, as long as it is not anonymous, in a
1421 dedicated buffer. It works even if buffer is currently narrowed.
1423 *** New function ~org-delete-indentation~ bound to ~M-^~
1425 Work as ~delete-indentation~ unless at heading, in which case text is
1426 added to headline text.
1428 *** Support for images in Texinfo export
1430 ~Texinfo~ back-end now handles images. See the manual for details.
1432 *** Support for captions in Texinfo export
1434 Tables and source blocks can now have captions. Additionally, lists
1435 of tables and lists of listings can be inserted in the document with
1438 *** Countdown timer support hh:mm:ss format
1440 In addition to setting countdown timers in minutes, they can also be
1441 set using the hh:mm:ss format.
1443 *** Extend ~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~
1445 ~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~ now accepts 0 as an argument for the
1446 number of clones, which removes the repeater from the original subtree
1447 and creates one shifted, repeating clone.
1449 *** New time block for clock tables: ~untilnow~
1451 It encompasses all past closed clocks.
1453 *** Support for the ~polyglossia~ LaTeX package
1455 See the docstring of ~org-latex-classes~ and
1456 ~org-latex-guess-polyglossia-language~ for details.
1458 *** None-floating tables, graphics and blocks can have captions
1460 *** `org-insert-heading' can be forced to insert top-level headline
1462 ** Removed functions
1464 *** Removed function ~org-translate-time~
1466 Use ~org-timestamp-translate~ instead.
1468 *** Removed function ~org-beamer-insert-options-template~
1470 This function inserted a Beamer specific template at point or in
1471 current subtree. Use ~org-export-insert-default-template~ instead, as
1472 it provides more features and covers all export back-ends. It is also
1473 accessible from the export dispatcher.
1475 *** Removed function ~org-timer-cancel-timer~
1477 ~org-timer-stop~ now stops both relative and countdown timers.
1479 *** Removed function ~org-export-solidify-link-text~
1481 This function, being non-bijective, introduced bug in internal
1482 references. Use ~org-export-get-reference~ instead.
1484 *** Removed function ~org-end-of-meta-data-and-drawers~
1486 The function is superseded by ~org-end-of-meta-data~, called with an
1489 *** Removed functions ~org-table-colgroup-line-p~, ~org-table-cookie-line-p~
1491 These functions were left-over from pre 8.0 era. They are not correct
1492 anymore. Since they are not needed, they have no replacement.
1496 *** ~org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists~ is deprecated
1498 It will be kept in code base until next release, for backward
1501 If you need to separate consecutive lists with blank lines, always use
1502 two of them, as if this option was nil (default value).
1504 *** ~org-export-with-creator~ is a boolean
1506 Special ~comment~ value is no longer allowed. It is possible to use a
1507 body filter to add comments about the creator at the end of the
1510 *** Removed option =org-html-use-unicode-chars=
1512 Setting this to non-nil was problematic as it converted characters
1513 everywhere in the buffer, possibly corrupting URLs.
1515 *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-command=
1517 This undocumented option defaulted to the value of =shell-file-name= at
1518 the time of loading =ob-shell=. The new behaviour is to use the value
1519 of =shell-file-name= directly when the shell langage is =shell=. To chose
1520 a different shell, either customize =shell-file-name= or bind this
1523 *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt=
1525 This undocumented option was supposed to provide different quoting
1526 styles when changing the shell type. Changing the shell type can now
1527 be done directly from the source block and the quoting style has to be
1528 compatible across all shells, so a customization doesn't make sense
1529 anymore. The chosen hard coded quoting style conforms to POSIX.
1531 *** Removed option ~org-insert-labeled-timestamps-at-point~
1533 Setting this option to anything else that the default value (nil)
1534 would create invalid planning info. This dangerous option is now
1537 *** Removed option ~org-koma-letter-use-title~
1539 Use org-export-with-title instead. See also below.
1541 *** Removed option ~org-entities-ascii-explanatory~
1543 This variable has no effect since Org 8.0.
1545 *** Removed option ~org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline~
1547 This variable has no effect since August 2009.
1549 *** Removed MathML-related options from ~org-html-mathjax-options~
1551 MathJax automatically chooses the best display technology based on the
1552 end-users browser. You may force initial usage of MathML via
1553 ~org-html-mathjax-template~ or by setting the ~path~ property of
1554 ~org-html-mathjax-options~.
1556 *** Removed comment-related filters
1558 ~org-export-filter-comment-functions~ and
1559 ~org-export-filter-comment-block-functions~ variables do not exist
1564 *** Strip all meta data from ITEM special property
1566 ITEM special property does not contain TODO, priority or tags anymore.
1568 *** File names in links accept are now compatible with URI syntax
1570 Absolute file names can now start with =///= in addition to =/=. E.g.,
1571 =[[file:///home/me/unicorn.jpg]]=.
1573 *** Footnotes in included files are now local to the file
1575 As a consequence, it is possible to include multiple Org files with
1576 footnotes in a master document without being concerned about footnote
1579 *** Mailto links now use regular URI syntax
1581 This change deprecates old Org syntax for mailto links:
1582 =mailto:user@domain::Subject=.
1584 *** =QUOTE= keywords do not exist anymore
1586 =QUOTE= keywords have been deprecated since Org 8.2.
1588 *** Select tests to perform with the build system
1590 The build system has been enhanced to allow test selection with a
1591 regular expression by defining =BTEST_RE= during the test invocation.
1592 This is especially useful during bisection to find just when a
1593 particular test failure was introduced.
1595 *** Exact heading search for external links ignore spaces and cookies
1597 Exact heading search for links now ignore spaces and cookies. This is
1598 the case for links of the form ~file:projects.org::*task title~, as well
1599 as links of the form ~file:projects.org::some words~ when
1600 ~org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline~ is not nil.
1602 *** ~org-latex-hyperref-template~, ~org-latex-title-command~ formatting
1604 New formatting keys are supported. See the respective docstrings.
1605 Note, ~org-latex-hyperref-template~ has a new default value.
1607 *** ~float, wasysym, marvosym~ are removed from ~org-latex-default-packages-alist~
1609 If you require any of these package add them to your preamble via
1610 ~org-latex-packages-alist~. Org also uses default LaTeX ~\tolerance~ now.
1612 *** When exporting, throw an error on unresolved id/fuzzy links and code refs
1614 This helps spotting wrong links.
1618 ** Incompatible changes
1619 *** =ob-sh.el= renamed to =ob-shell=
1620 This may require two changes in user config.
1622 1. In =org-babel-do-load-languages=, change =(sh . t)= to =(shell . t)=.
1623 2. Edit =local.mk= files to change the value of =BTEST_OB_LANGUAGES=
1624 to remove "sh" and include "shell".
1626 *** Combine org-mac-message.el and org-mac-link-grabber into org-mac-link.el
1628 Please remove calls to =(require 'org-mac-message)= and =(require
1629 'org-mac-link-grabber)= in your =.emacs= initialization file. All you
1630 need now is =(require 'org-mac-link)=.
1632 Additionally, replace any calls to =ogml-grab-link= to
1633 =org-mac-grab-link=. For example, replace this line:
1635 : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'omgl-grab-link)
1639 : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-grab-link)
1641 *** HTML export: Replace =HTML_HTML5_FANCY= by =:html-html5-fancy= (...)
1643 Some of the HTML specific export options in Org <8.1 are either nil or
1644 t, like =#+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=. We replaced these binary options with
1645 option keywords like :html-include-style.
1647 So you need to replace
1649 : #+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE: t
1653 : #+OPTIONS: :html-include-style t
1655 Options affected by this change: =HTML5_FANCY=, =HTML_INCLUDE_SCRIPTS=
1656 and =HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=.
1658 *** Add an argument to ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-buffer~
1660 ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-file~ can run in a different
1661 process when provided a non-nil =ASYNC= optional argument, without
1662 relying on ~org-export-async-start~ macro.
1664 Since =ASYNC= is the first of optional arguments, you have to shift
1665 the other optional arguments accordingly.
1667 *** Export back-ends are now structures
1669 Export back-ends are now structures, and stored as such in the
1670 communication channel during an export process. In other words, from
1671 now on, ~(plist-get info :back-end)~ will return a structure instead
1674 Arguments in hooks and in filters are still symbols, though.
1676 ** Important bugfixes
1678 *** [[doc:org-insert-heading][org-insert-heading]] has been rewritten and bugs are now fixed
1679 *** The replacement of disputed keys is now turned of when reading a date
1681 *** Match string for sparse trees can now contain a slash in a property value
1683 You can now have searches like SOMEPROP="aaa/bbb". Until now,
1684 this would break because the slash would be interpreted as the
1685 separator starting a TOTO match string.
1688 *** =C-c ^ x= will now sort checklist items by their checked status
1690 See [[doc:org-sort-list][org-sort-list]]: hitting =C-c ^ x= will put checked items at the end
1692 *** Various LaTeX export enhancements
1694 - Support SVG images
1695 - Support for .pgf files
1696 - LaTeX Babel blocks can now be exported as =.tikz= files
1697 - Allow =latexmk= as an option for [[doc:org-latex-pdf-process][org-latex-pdf-process]]
1698 - When using =\usepackage[AUTO]{babel}=, AUTO will automatically be
1699 replaced with a value compatible with ~org-export-default-language~
1700 or ~LANGUAGE~ keyword.
1701 - The dependency on the =latexsym= LaTeX package has been removed, we
1702 now use =amssymb= symbols by default instead.
1704 *** New functions for paragraph motion
1706 The commands =C-down= and =C-up= now invoke special commands
1707 that use knowledge from the org-elements parser to move the cursor
1708 in a paragraph-like way.
1710 *** New entities in =org-entities.el=
1712 Add support for ell, imath, jmath, varphi, varpi, aleph, gimel, beth,
1713 dalet, cdots, S (§), dag, ddag, colon, therefore, because, triangleq,
1714 leq, geq, lessgtr, lesseqgtr, ll, lll, gg, ggg, prec, preceq,
1715 preccurlyeq, succ, succeq, succurlyeq, setminus, nexist(s), mho,
1716 check, frown, diamond. Changes loz, vert, checkmark, smile and tilde.
1718 *** Anonymous export back-ends
1720 ~org-export-create-backend~ can create anonymous export back-ends,
1721 which can then be passed to export functions like
1722 ~org-export-to-file~, ~org-export-to-buffer~ or ~org-export-as~.
1724 It allows for quick translation of Org syntax without the overhead of
1725 registering a new back-end.
1727 *** New agenda fortnight view
1729 The agenda has not, in addition to day, week, month, and year
1730 views, also a fortnight view covering 14 days.
1733 *** New option [[doc:org-bookmark-names-plist][org-bookmark-names-plist]]
1735 This allows to specify the names of automatic bookmarks.
1736 *** New option [[doc:org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties][org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties]]
1738 This allows more flexibility when optimizing the agenda generation.
1739 See http://orgmode.org/worg/agenda-optimization.html for details.
1740 *** New option: [[doc:org-html-link-use-abs-url][org-html-link-use-abs-url]] to force using absolute URLs
1742 This is an export/publishing option, and should be used either within
1743 the =#+OPTIONS= line(s) or within a [[doc:org-publish-project-alist][org-publish-project-alist]].
1745 Setting this option to =t= is needed when the HTML output does not
1746 allow relative URLs. For example, the =contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el=
1747 library produces a RSS feed, and RSS feeds need to use absolute URLs,
1748 so a combination of =:html-link-home "..." and :html-link-use-abs-url
1749 t= is required---see the configuration example in the comment section
1752 *** New option [[doc:org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd][org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd]]
1754 This makes java executable configurable for ditaa blocks.
1756 *** New options [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex][org-babel-latex-htlatex]] and [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages][org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages]]
1758 This enables SVG generation from latex code blocks.
1760 *** New option: [[doc:org-habit-show-done-always-green][org-habit-show-done-always-green]]
1762 See [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg00214.html][this message]] from Max Mikhanosha.
1764 *** New option: [[doc:org-babel-inline-result-wrap][org-babel-inline-result-wrap]]
1766 If you set this to the following
1768 : (setq org-babel-inline-result-wrap "$%s$")
1770 then inline code snippets will be wrapped into the formatting string.
1772 *** New option: [[doc:org-special-ctrl-o][org-special-ctrl-o]]
1774 This variable can be used to turn off the special behavior of
1776 ** New contributed packages
1778 - =ox-bibtex.el= by Nicolas Goaziou :: an utility to handle BibTeX
1779 export to both LaTeX and HTML exports. It uses the [[http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/][bibtex2html]]
1782 - =org-screenshot.el= by Max Mikhanosha :: an utility to handle
1783 screenshots easily from Org, using the external tool [[http://freecode.com/projects/scrot][scrot]].
1787 *** "QUOTE" keywords in headlines are deprecated
1789 "QUOTE" keywords are an undocumented feature in Org. When a headline
1790 starts with the keyword "QUOTE", its contents are parsed as
1791 a ~quote-section~ and treated as an example block. You can achieve
1792 the same with example blocks.
1794 This feature is deprecated and will be removed in the next Org
1801 Installation instructions have been updated and simplified.
1803 If you have troubles installing or updating Org, focus on these
1806 - when updating via a =.zip/.tar.gz= file, you only need to set the
1807 =load-path= in your =.emacs=. Set it before any other Org
1808 customization that would call autoloaded Org functions.
1810 - when updating by pulling Org's Git repository, make sure to create the
1811 correct autoloads. You can do this by running =~$ make autoloads= (to
1812 only create the autoloads) or by running =~$ make= (to also compile
1813 the Emacs lisp files.) =~$ make help= and =~$ make helpall= gives you
1814 detailed explanations.
1816 - when updating through ELPA (either from GNU ELPA or from Org ELPA),
1817 you have to install Org's ELPA package in a session where no Org
1818 function has been called already.
1820 When in doubt, run =M-x org-version RET= and see if you have a mixed-up
1823 See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
1825 ** Incompatible changes
1827 Org 8.0 is the most disruptive major version of Org.
1829 If you configured export options, you will have to update some of them.
1831 If you used =#+ATTR_*= keywords, the syntax of the attributes changed and
1832 you will have to update them.
1834 Below is a list of changes for which you need to take action.
1836 See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html for the most recent version of
1837 this list and for detailed instructions on how to migrate.
1839 **** New export engine
1841 Org 8.0 comes with a new export engine written by Nicolas Goaziou. This
1842 export engine relies on ~org-element.el~ (Org's syntax parser), which was
1843 already in Org's core. This new export engine triggered the rewriting of
1844 /all/ export back-ends.
1846 The most visible change is the export dispatcher, accessible through the
1847 keybinding =C-c C-e=. By default, this menu only shows some of the
1848 built-in export formats, but you can add more formats by loading them
1849 directly (e.g., =(require 'ox-texinfo)= or by configuring the option
1850 [[doc:org-export-backends][org-export-backends]].
1852 More contributed back-ends are available from the =contrib/= directory, the
1853 corresponding files start with the =ox-= prefix.
1855 If you customized an export back-end (like HTML or LaTeX), you will need to
1856 rename some options so that your customization is not lost. Typically, an
1857 option starting with =org-export-html-= is now named =org-html-=. See the
1858 manual for details and check [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html][this Worg page]] for directions.
1860 **** New syntax for #+ATTR_HTML/LaTeX/... options
1862 : #+ATTR_HTML width="200px"
1864 should now be written
1866 : #+ATTR_HTML :width 200px
1868 Keywords like =#+ATTR_HTML= and =#+ATTR_LaTeX= are defined in their
1869 respective back-ends, and the list of supported parameters depends on
1870 each backend. See Org's manual for details.
1872 **** ~org-remember.el~ has been removed
1874 You cannot use =remember.el= anymore to capture notes.
1876 Support for remember templates has been obsoleted since long, it is
1879 Use =M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET= to import your
1880 remember templates into capture templates.
1882 **** ~org-jsinfo.el~ has been merged into ~ox-html.el~
1884 If you were requiring ~ox-jsinfo.el~ in your ~.emacs.el~ file, you
1885 will have to remove this requirement from your initialization file.
1887 **** Note for third-party developers
1889 The name of the files for export back-end have changed: we now use the
1890 prefix =ox-= for those files (like we use the =ob-= prefix for Babel
1891 files.) For example ~org-html.el~ is now ~ox-html.el~.
1893 If your code relies on these files, please update the names in your
1896 **** Packages moved from core to contrib
1898 Since packages in Org's core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we try
1899 to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For 8.0, we
1900 moved some contributions into the =contrib/= directory.
1902 The rationale for deciding that these files should live in =contrib/=
1903 is either because they rely on third-party software that is not
1904 included in Emacs, or because they are not targeting a significant
1907 - org-colview-xemacs.el
1908 - org-mac-message.el
1914 Note that ~ox-freedmind.el~ has been rewritten by Jambunathan,
1915 ~org-mew.el~ has been enhanced by Tokuya Kameshima and
1916 ~ox-taskjuggler.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and others.
1918 Also, the Taskjuggler exporter now uses TJ3 by default. John Hendy
1919 wrote [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler3.html][a tutorial on Worg]] for the TJ3 export.
1921 ** New packages in core
1923 *** ~ob-makefile.el~ by Eric Schulte and Thomas S. Dye
1925 =ob-makefile.el= implements Org Babel support for Makefile tangling.
1927 *** ~ox-man.el~ by Luis Anaya
1929 =ox-man.el= allows you to export Org files to =man= pages.
1931 *** ~ox-md.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou
1933 =ox-md.el= allows you to export Org files to Markdown files, using the
1934 vanilla [[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/][Markdown syntax]].
1936 *** ~ox-texinfo.el~ by Jonathan Leech-Pepin
1938 =ox-texinfo.el= allows you to export Org files to [[http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] files.
1940 ** New packages in contrib
1942 *** ~ob-julia.el~ by G. Jay Kerns
1944 [[http://julialang.org/][Julia]] is a new programming language.
1946 =ob-julia.el= provides Org Babel support for evaluating Julia source
1949 *** ~ob-mathomatic.el~ by Luis Anaya
1951 [[http://www.mathomatic.org/][mathomatic]] a portable, command-line, educational CAS and calculator
1952 software, written entirely in the C programming language.
1954 ~ob-mathomatic.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating mathomatic
1957 *** ~ob-tcl.el~ by Luis Anaya
1959 ~ob-tcl.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating [[http://www.tcl.tk/][Tcl]] source code.
1961 *** ~org-bullets.el~ by Evgeni Sabof
1963 Display bullets instead of stars for headlines.
1965 Also see [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-8-12][this updated FAQ]] on how to display another character than "*"
1966 for starting headlines.
1968 *** ~org-favtable.el~ by Marc-Oliver Ihm
1970 ~org-favtable.el~ helps you to create and update a table of favorite
1971 locations in org, keeping the most frequently visited lines right at
1972 the top. This table is called "favtable". See the documentation on
1973 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-favtable.html][Worg]].
1975 *** ~ox-confluence.el~ by Sébastien Delafond
1977 ~ox-confluence.el~ lets you convert Org files to [[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence%2BWiki%2BMarkup][Confluence Wiki]] files.
1979 *** ~ox-deck.el~ and ~ox-s5.el~ by Rick Frankel
1981 [[http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/][deck.js]] is a javascript library for displaying HTML ages as
1982 presentations. ~ox-deck.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
1985 [[http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/][s5]] is a set of scripts which also allows to display HTML pages as
1986 presentations. ~ox-s5.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
1989 *** ~ox-groff.el~ by Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou
1991 The [[http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/][groff]] (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads
1992 plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted
1995 Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou implemented ~ox-groff.el~ to allow
1996 conversion from Org files to groff.
1998 *** ~ox-koma-letter.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and Alan Schmitt
2000 This back-end allow to export Org pages to the =KOMA Scrlttr2= format.
2002 *** ~ox-rss.el~ by Bastien
2004 This back-end lets you export Org pages to RSS 2.0 feeds. Combined
2005 with the HTML publishing feature, this allows you to build a blog
2012 **** New export generic options
2014 If you use Org exporter, we advise you to re-read [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Exporting][the manual section about
2015 it]]. It has been updated and includes new options.
2017 Among the new/updated export options, three are of particular importance:
2019 - [[doc:org-export-allow-bind-keywords][org-export-allow-bind-keywords]] :: This option replaces the old option
2020 =org-export-allow-BIND= and the default value is =nil=, not =confirm=.
2021 You will need to explicitly set this to =t= in your initialization
2022 file if you want to allow =#+BIND= keywords.
2024 - [[doc:org-export-with-planning][org-export-with-planning]] :: This new option controls the export of
2025 =SCHEDULED:, DEADLINE:, CLOSED:= lines, and planning information is
2026 now skipped by default during export. This use to be the job of
2027 [[doc:org-export-with-timestamps][org-export-with-timestamps]], but this latter option has been given a
2028 new role: it controls the export of /standalone time-stamps/. When
2029 set to =nil=, Org will not export active and inactive time-stamps
2030 standing on a line by themselves or within a paragraph that only
2031 contains time-stamps.
2033 To check if an option has been introduced or its default value changed in
2034 Org 8.0, do =C-h v [option] RET= and check if the documentation says that
2035 the variable has been introduced (or changed) in version 24.4 of Emacs.
2037 **** Enhanced default stylesheet for the HTML exporter
2039 See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-style-default][org-html-style-default]].
2041 **** New tags, classes and ids for the HTML exporter
2043 See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-divs][org-html-divs]].
2045 **** Support for tikz pictures in LaTeX export
2046 **** ~org-man.el~: New export function for "man" links
2047 **** ~org-docview.el~: New export function for docview links
2048 *** Structure editing
2050 **** =C-u C-u M-RET= inserts a heading at the end of the parent subtree
2051 **** Cycling to the =CONTENTS= view keeps inline tasks folded
2053 [[doc:org-cycle-hook][org-cycle-hook]] as a new function [[doc:org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks][org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks]] which
2054 prevents the display of inline tasks when showing the content of a subtree.
2056 **** =C-c -= in a region makes a list item for each line
2058 This is the opposite of the previous behavior, where =C-c -= on a region
2059 would create one item for the whole region, and where =C-u C-c -= would
2060 create an item for each line. Now =C-c -= on the selected region creates
2061 an item per line, and =C-u C-c -= creates a single item for the whole
2064 **** When transposing words, markup characters are now part of the words
2066 In Emacs, you can transpose words with =M-t=. Transposing =*these*
2067 _words__= will preserve markup.
2069 **** New command [[doc:org-set-property-and-value][org-set-property-and-value]] bound to =C-c C-x P=
2071 This command allows you to quickly add both the property and its value. It
2072 is useful in buffers where there are many properties and where =C-c C-x p=
2073 can slow down the flow of editing too much.
2075 **** New commands [[doc:org-next-block][org-next-block]] and [[doc:org-previous-block][org-previous-block]]
2077 These commands allow you to go to the previous block (=C-c M-b= or the
2078 speedy key =B=) or to the next block (=C-c M-f= or the speedy key =F=.)
2080 **** New commands [[doc:org-drag-line-forward][org-drag-line-forward]] and [[doc:org-drag-line-backward][org-drag-line-backward]]
2082 These commands emulate the old behavior of =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= but are
2083 now bound to =S-M-<down>= and =S-M-<up>= respectively, since =M-<down>= and
2084 =M-<up>= now drag the whole element at point (a paragraph, a table, etc.)
2085 forward and backward.
2087 **** When a list item has a checkbox, inserting a new item uses a checkbox too
2088 **** When sorting entries/items, only the description of links is considered
2090 Now Org will sort this list
2092 : - [[http://abc.org][B]]
2093 : - [[http://def.org][A]]
2097 : - [[http://def.org][A]]
2098 : - [[http://abc.org][B]]
2100 by comparing the descriptions, not the links.
2101 Same when sorting headlines instead of list items.
2102 **** New option =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp=
2104 For example, setting this option to "^;;; " in Emacs lisp files and using
2105 =orgstruct-mode= in those files will allow you to cycle through visibility
2106 states as if lines starting with ";;; *..." where headlines.
2108 In general, you want to set =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp= as a file
2111 **** New behavior of [[doc:org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift][org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift]]
2113 The default is now to ask for a time-shift only when there is a time-stamp.
2114 When called with a universal prefix argument =C-u=, it will not ask for a
2115 time-shift even if there is a time-stamp.
2117 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree][org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree]]
2119 This defaults to =t= so that the whole subtree is highlighted when you
2120 restrict the agenda view to it with =C-c C-x <= (or the speed command =<=).
2121 The default setting helps ensuring that you are not adding tasks after the
2122 restricted region. If you find this highlighting too intrusive, set this
2124 **** New option [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]]
2126 When switching back from a =DONE= keyword to a =TODO= keyword, Org now
2127 removes the =CLOSED= planning information, if any. It also removes this
2128 information when going back to a non-TODO state (e.g., with =C-c C-t SPC=).
2129 If you want to keep the =CLOSED= planning information when removing the
2130 TODO keyword, set [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]] to =t=.
2132 **** New option [[doc:org-image-actual-width][org-image-actual-width]]
2134 This option allows you to change the width of in-buffer displayed images.
2135 The default is to use the actual width of the image, but you can use a
2136 fixed value for all images, or fall back on an attribute like
2138 : #+attr_html: :width 300px
2139 *** Scheduled/deadline
2141 **** Implement "delay" cookies for scheduled items
2143 If you want to delay the display of a scheduled task in the agenda, you can
2144 now use a delay cookie like this: =SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>=. The
2145 task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear in your agenda starting
2146 from two days later (i.e. from March 27th.)
2148 Imagine for example that your co-workers are not done in due time and tell
2149 you "we need two more days". In that case, you may want to delay the
2150 display of the task in your agenda by two days, but you still want the task
2151 to appear as scheduled on March 25th.
2153 In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all
2154 occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled
2155 occurrence of the task, use =--2d= instead. See [[doc:org-scheduled-delay-days][org-scheduled-delay-days]]
2156 and [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline]] for details on how to
2157 control this globally or per agenda.
2159 **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-s= will insert a delay cookie for scheduled tasks
2161 See the previous section for why delay cookies may be useful.
2163 **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-d= will insert a warning delay for deadline tasks
2165 =C-u C-u C-c C-d= now inserts a warning delay to deadlines.
2166 *** Calendar, diary and appts
2168 **** New variable [[doc:org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map][org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map]]
2170 By default, this new local map uses "." to go to today's date, like in the
2171 normal =M-x calendar RET=. If you want to deactivate this and to reassign
2172 the "@" key to =calendar-goto-today=, use this:
2174 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
2175 ;; Unbind "." in Org's calendar:
2176 (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd ".") nil)
2178 ;; Bind "@" to `calendar-goto-today':
2179 (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
2181 (lambda () (interactive) (org-eval-in-calendar '(calendar-goto-today))))
2184 **** In Org's calendar, =!= displays diary entries of the date at point
2186 This is useful when you want to check if you don't already have an
2187 appointment when setting new ones with =C-c .= or =C-c s=. =!= will
2188 call =diary-view-entries= and display the diary in a separate buffer.
2190 **** [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]]: only keep the descriptions of links
2192 [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]] returns diary information from Org files, but it returns it
2193 in a diary buffer, not in an Org mode buffer. When links are displayed,
2194 only show their description, not the full links.
2197 **** New agenda type =agenda*= and entry types =:scheduled* :deadline*=
2199 When defining agenda custom commands, you can now use =agenda*=: this will
2200 list entries that have both a date and a time. This is useful when you
2201 want to build a list of appointments.
2203 You can also set [[doc:org-agenda-entry-types][org-agenda-entry-types]] either globally or locally in
2204 each agenda custom command and use =:timestamp*= and/or =:deadline*= there.
2206 Another place where this is useful is your =.diary= file:
2208 : %%(org-diary :scheduled*) ~/org/rdv.org
2210 This will list only entries from =~/org/rdv.org= that are scheduled with a
2211 time value (i.e. appointments).
2213 **** New agenda sorting strategies
2215 [[doc:org-agenda-sorting-strategy][org-agenda-sorting-strategy]] allows these new sorting strategies:
2217 | Strategy | Explanations |
2218 |----------------+------------------------------------------|
2219 | timestamp-up | Sort by any timestamp, early first |
2220 | timestamp-down | Sort by any timestamp, late first |
2221 | scheduled-up | Sort by scheduled timestamp, early first |
2222 | scheduled-down | Sort by scheduled timestamp, late first |
2223 | deadline-up | Sort by deadline timestamp, early first |
2224 | deadline-down | Sort by deadline timestamp, late first |
2225 | ts-up | Sort by active timestamp, early first |
2226 | ts-down | Sort by active timestamp, late first |
2227 | tsia-up | Sort by inactive timestamp, early first |
2228 | tsia-down | Sort by inactive timestamp, late first |
2230 **** New options to limit the number of agenda entries
2232 You can now limit the number of entries in an agenda view. This is
2233 different from filters: filters only /hide/ the entries in the agenda,
2234 while limits are set while generating the list of agenda entries.
2236 These new options are available:
2238 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-entries][org-agenda-max-entries]] :: limit by number of entries.
2239 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] :: limit by number of TODOs.
2240 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-tags][org-agenda-max-tags]] :: limit by number of tagged entries.
2241 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-effort][org-agenda-max-effort]] :: limit by effort (minutes).
2243 For example, if you locally set [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] to 3 in an agenda
2244 view, the agenda will be limited to the first three todos. Other entries
2245 without a TODO keyword or beyond the third TODO headline will be ignored.
2247 When setting a limit (e.g. about an effort's sum), the default behavior is
2248 to exclude entries that cannot be checked against (e.g. entries that have
2249 no effort property.) To include other entries too, you can set the limit
2250 to a negative number. For example =(setq org-agenda-max-tags -3)= will not
2251 show the fourth tagged headline (and beyond), but it will also show
2252 non-tagged headlines.
2254 **** =~= in agenda view sets temporary limits
2256 You can hit =~= in the agenda to temporarily set limits: this will
2257 regenerate the agenda as if the limits were set. This is useful for
2258 example when you want to only see a list of =N= tasks, or a list of tasks
2259 that take only =N= minutes.
2261 **** "=" in agenda view filters by regular expressions
2263 You can now filter agenda entries by regular expressions using ~=~. =C-u
2264 == will filter entries out. Regexp filters are cumulative. You can set
2265 [[doc:org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset][org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset]] to suit your needs in each agenda view.
2267 **** =|= in agenda view resets all filters
2269 Since it's common to combine tag filters, category filters, and now regexp
2270 filters, there is a new command =|= to reset all filters at once.
2272 **** Allow writing an agenda to an =.org= file
2274 You can now write an agenda view to an =.org= file. It copies the
2275 headlines and their content (but not subheadings) into the new file.
2277 This is useful when you want to quickly share an agenda containing the full
2280 **** New commands to drag an agenda line forward (=M-<down>=) or backward (=M-<up>=)
2282 It sometimes handy to move agenda lines around, just to quickly reorganize
2283 your tasks, or maybe before saving the agenda to a file. Now you can use
2284 =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= to move the line forward or backward.
2286 This does not persist after a refresh of the agenda, and this does not
2287 change the =.org= files who contribute to the agenda.
2289 **** Use =%b= for displaying "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view
2291 [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] now allows to use a =%b= formatter to tell Org
2292 to display "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view.
2294 This is useful when you want to display the task hierarchy in your agenda.
2296 **** Use =%l= for displaying the headline's level in the agenda view
2298 [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] allows to use a =%l= formatter to tell Org to
2299 display entries with additional spaces corresponding to their level in the
2302 **** [[doc:org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] will ask before overwriting an existing file
2304 =M-x org-agenda-write RET= (or =C-c C-w= from an agenda buffer) used to
2305 overwrite preexisting file with the same name without confirmation. It now
2306 asks for a confirmation.
2308 **** New commands =M-m= and =M-*= to toggle (all) mark(s) for bulk action
2310 - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle][org-agenda-bulk-toggle]] :: this command is bound to =M-m= and toggles
2311 the mark of the entry at point.
2313 - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all][org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all]] :: this command is bound to =M-*= and
2314 toggles all the marks in the current agenda.
2316 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level][org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level]]
2318 This option sets the maximum outline level to display in search view.
2319 E.g. when this is set to 1, the search view will only show headlines of
2322 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds][org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds]]
2324 This allows to compare times using seconds instead of days when honoring
2325 options like =org-agenda-todo-ignore-*= in the agenda display.
2327 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-entry-text-leaders][org-agenda-entry-text-leaders]]
2329 This allows you to get rid of the ">" character that gets added in front of
2330 entries excerpts when hitting =E= in the agenda view.
2332 **** New formatting string for past deadlines in [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]
2334 The default formatting for past deadlines is ="%2d d. ago: "=, which makes
2335 it explicit that the deadline is in the past. You can configure this via
2336 [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]. Note that the width of the formatting
2337 string is important to keep the agenda alignment clean.
2339 **** New allowed value =repeated-after-deadline= for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]]
2341 When [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]] is set to
2342 =repeated-after-deadline=, the agenda will skip scheduled items if they are
2343 repeated beyond the current deadline.
2345 **** New option for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled][org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled]]
2347 This variable may be set to nil, t, the symbol `pre-scheduled', or a number
2348 which will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when the
2349 prewarnings should resume. The symbol `pre-scheduled' eliminates the
2350 deadline prewarning only prior to the scheduled date.
2352 Read the full docstring for details.
2354 **** [[doc:org-class][org-class]] now supports holiday strings in the skip-weeks parameter
2356 For example, this task will now be skipped only on new year's day:
2359 : <%%(org-class 2012 1 1 2013 12 12 2 "New Year's Day")>
2362 **** Allow =C-1= as a prefix for [[doc:org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] and [[doc:org-capture][org-capture]]
2364 With a =C-1= prefix, the capture mechanism will use the =HH:MM= value at
2365 point (if any) or the current =HH:MM= time as the default time for the
2368 **** Expand keywords within %(sexp) placeholder in capture templates
2370 If you use a =%:keyword= construct within a =%(sexp)= construct, Org will
2371 expand the keywords before expanding the =%(sexp)=.
2373 **** Allow to contextualize capture (and agenda) commands by checking the name of the buffer
2375 [[doc:org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]] and [[doc:org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
2376 allow you to define what capture templates and what agenda commands should
2377 be available in various contexts. It is now possible for the context to
2378 check against the name of the buffer.
2381 Using =#+TAGS: { Tag1 : Tag2 Tag3 }= will define =Tag1= as a /group tag/
2382 (note the colon after =Tag1=). If you search for =Tag1=, it will return
2383 headlines containing either =Tag1=, =Tag2= or =Tag3= (or any combination
2386 You can use group tags for sparse tree in an Org buffer, for creating
2387 agenda views, and for filtering.
2389 See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Tag-groups for details.
2393 **** =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= will ignore non-core link functions
2395 Org knows how to store links from Org buffers, from info files and from
2396 other Emacs buffers. Org can be taught how to store links from any buffer
2397 through new link protocols (see [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Adding-hyperlink-types]["Adding hyperlink types"]] in the manual.)
2399 Sometimes you want Org to ignore added link protocols and store the link
2400 as if the protocol was not known.
2402 You can now do this with =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET=.
2404 **** =C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= on an active region will store links for each lines
2406 Imagine for example that you want to store a link for every message in a
2407 Gnus summary buffer. In that case =C-x h C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link
2408 RET= will store a link for every line (i.e. message) if the region is
2411 **** =C-c C-M-l= will add a default description for links which don't have one
2413 =C-c C-M-l= inserts all stored links. If a link does not have a
2414 description, this command now adds a default one, so that we are not mixing
2415 with-description and without-description links when inserting them.
2417 **** No curly braces to bracket links within internal links
2419 When storing a link to a headline like
2421 : * See [[http://orgmode.org][Org website]]
2423 [[doc:org-store-link][org-store-link]] used to convert the square brackets into curly brackets.
2424 It does not anymore, taking the link description or the link path, when
2425 there is no description.
2428 **** Switching between #+TBLFM lines
2430 If you have several =#+TBLFM= lines below a table, =C-c C-c= on a line will
2431 apply the formulas from this line, and =C-c C-c= on another line will apply
2432 those other formulas.
2434 **** You now use "nan" for empty fields in Calc formulas
2436 If empty fields are of interest, it is recommended to reread the section
2437 [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Formula-syntax-for-Calc][3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc]] of the manual because the description for the
2438 mode strings has been clarified and new examples have been added towards
2441 **** Handle localized time-stamps in formulas evaluation
2443 If your =LOCALE= is set so that Org time-stamps use another language than
2444 english, and if you make time computations in Org's table, it now works by
2445 internally converting the time-stamps with a temporary =LOCALE=C= before
2448 **** New lookup functions
2450 There are now three lookup functions:
2452 - [[doc:org-loopup-first][org-loopup-first]]
2453 - [[doc:org-loopup-last][org-loopup-last]]
2454 - [[doc:org-loopup-all][org-loopup-all]]
2456 See [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Lookup-functions][the manual]] for details.
2457 *** Startup keywords
2459 These new startup keywords are now available:
2461 | Startup keyword | Option |
2462 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
2463 | =#+STARTUP: logdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer t)= |
2464 | =#+STARTUP: nologdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer nil)= |
2465 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
2466 | =#+STARTUP: logstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed t)= |
2467 | =#+STARTUP: nologstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed nil)= |
2468 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
2469 | =#+STARTUP: latexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview t)= |
2470 | =#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview nil)= |
2474 **** New option [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]]
2476 E.g. if [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]] is set to 5, time is 14:47 and you
2477 clock in: then the clock starts at 14:45. If you clock out within the next
2478 5 minutes, the clock line will be removed; if you clock out 8 minutes after
2479 your clocked in, the clock out time will be 14:50.
2481 **** New option [[doc:org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations][org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations]]
2483 When non-nil, =C-c C-x C-d= uses effort durations. E.g., by default, one
2484 day is considered to be a 8 hours effort, so a task that has been clocked
2485 for 16 hours will be displayed as during 2 days in the clock display or in
2488 See [[doc:org-effort-durations][org-effort-durations]] on how to set effort durations and
2489 [[doc:org-time-clocksum-format][org-time-clocksum-format]] for more on time clock formats.
2491 **** New option [[doc:org-clock-x11idle-program-name][org-clock-x11idle-program-name]]
2493 This allows to set the name of the program which prints X11 idle time in
2494 milliseconds. The default is to use =x11idle=.
2496 **** New option [[doc:org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time][org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time]]
2498 When non-nil, use the last clock out time for [[doc:org-todo][org-todo]]. Note that this
2499 option has precedence over the combined use of [[doc:org-use-effective-time][org-use-effective-time]] and
2500 [[doc:org-extend-today-until][org-extend-today-until]].
2502 **** =S-<left/right>= on a clocksum column will update the sum by updating the last clock
2503 **** =C-u 3 C-S-<up/down>= will update clock timestamps synchronously by 3 units
2504 **** New parameter =:wstart= for clocktables to define the week start day
2505 **** New parameter =:mstart= to state the starting day of the month
2506 **** Allow relative times in clocktable tstart and tend options
2507 **** The clocktable summary is now a caption
2508 **** =:tstart= and =:tend= and friends allow relative times like "<-1w>" or "<now>"
2511 **** You can now use =C-c C-k= for [[doc:org-edit-src-abort][org-edit-src-abort]]
2513 This allows you to quickly cancel editing a source block.
2515 **** =C-u C-u M-x org-babel-tangle RET= tangles by the target file of the block at point
2517 This is handy if you want to tangle all source code blocks that have the
2518 same target than the block at point.
2520 **** New options for auto-saving the base buffer or the source block editing buffer
2522 When [[doc:org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save][org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save]] is set to =t=, editing a source block
2523 in a new window will turn on =auto-save-mode= and save the code in a new
2524 file under the same directory than the base Org file.
2526 When [[doc:org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay][org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay]] is set to a number of minutes =N=,
2527 the base Org buffer will be saved after this number of minutes of idle
2530 **** New =:post= header argument post-processes results
2532 This header argument may be used to pass the results of the current
2533 code block through another code block for post-processing. See the
2534 manual for a usage example.
2536 **** Commented out heading are ignored when collecting blocks for tangling
2538 If you comment out a heading (with =C-c ;= anywhere on the heading or in
2539 the subtree), code blocks from within this heading are now ignored when
2540 collecting blocks for tangling.
2542 **** New option [[doc:org-babel-hash-show-time][org-babel-hash-show-time]] to show a time-stamp in the result hash
2543 **** Do not ask for confirmation if cached value is current
2545 Do not run [[doc:org-babel-confirm-evaluate][org-babel-confirm-evaluate]] if source block has a cache and the
2546 cache value is current as there is no evaluation involved in this case.
2547 **** =ob-sql.el= and =ob-python.el= have been improved.
2548 **** New Babel files only need to =(require 'ob)=
2550 When writing a new Babel file, you now only need to use =(require 'ob)=
2551 instead of requiring each Babel library one by one.
2554 - Org now fontifies radio link targets by default
2555 - In the agenda, use [[doc:org-todo-keyword-faces][org-todo-keyword-faces]] to highlight selected TODO keywords
2556 - New face [[doc:org-priority][org-priority]], enhanced fontification of priority cookies in agenda
2557 - New face [[doc:org-tag-group][org-tag-group]] for group tags
2561 - New speedy key =s= pour [[doc:org-narrow-to-subtree][org-narrow-to-subtree]]
2562 - Handling of [[doc:org-html-table-row][org-html-table-row]] has been updated (incompatible change)
2563 - [[doc:org-export-html-table-tag][org-export-html-table-tag]] is replaced by [[doc:org-html-table-default-attributes][org-html-table-default-attributes]]
2564 - Support using =git-annex= with Org attachments
2565 - org-protocol: Pass optional value using query in url to capture from protocol
2566 - When the refile history is empty, use the current filename as default
2567 - When you cannot change the TODO state of a task, Org displays the blocking task
2568 - New option [[doc:org-mobile-allpriorities][org-mobile-allpriorities]]
2569 - org-bibtex.el now use =visual-line-mode= instead of the deprecated =longlines-mode=
2570 - [[doc:org-format-latex-options][org-format-latex-options]] allows to set the foreground/background colors automatically
2571 - New option [[doc:org-archive-file-header-format][org-archive-file-header-format]]
2572 - New "neg" entity in [[doc:org-entities][org-entities]]
2573 - New function [[doc:org-docview-export][org-docview-export]] to export docview links
2574 - New =:eps= header argument for ditaa code blocks
2575 - New option [[doc:org-gnus-no-server][org-gnus-no-server]] to start Gnus with =gnus-no-server=
2576 - Org is now distributed with =htmlize.el= version 1.43
2577 - ~org-drill.el~ has been updated to version 2.3.7
2578 - ~org-mac-iCal.el~ now supports MacOSX version up to 10.8
2579 - Various improvements to ~org-contacts.el~ and =orgpan.el=
2583 *** Spanish translation of the Org guide by David Arroyo Menéndez
2585 David (and others) translated the Org compact guide in spanish:
2587 You can read the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/orgguide/orgguide.es.pdf][PDF guide]].
2589 *** ~poporg.el~ and ~outorg.el~
2591 Two new libraries (~poporg.el~ by François Pinard and ~outorg.el~ by
2592 Thorsten Jolitz) now enable editing of comment-sections from source-code
2593 buffers in temporary Org-mode buffers, making the full editing power of
2594 Org-mode available. ~outorg.el~ comes together with ~outshine.el~ and
2595 ~navi-mode.el~, two more libraries by Thorsten Jolitz with the goal to give
2596 source-code buffers the /look & feel/ of Org-mode buffers while greatly
2597 improving navigation and structure editing. A detailed description can be
2598 found here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
2600 Here are two screencasts demonstrating Thorsten's tools:
2602 - [[http://youtu.be/nqE6YxlY0rw]["Modern conventions for Emacs Lisp files"]]
2603 - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DII-xYw5VGFM][Exploring Bernt Hansen's Org-mode tutorial with 'navi-mode']]
2605 *** MobileOrg for iOS
2607 MobileOrg for iOS back in the App Store The 1.6.0 release was focused on
2608 the new Dropbox API and minor bug fixes but also includes a new ability to
2609 launch in Capture mode. Track development and contribute [[https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg/issues][on github]].
2613 ** New option [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]]
2615 [[doc::org-use-tag-inheritance][org-use-tag-inheritance]] controls whether tags are inherited when
2616 org-tags-view is called (either in =tags=, =tags-tree= or =tags-todo=
2619 When generating other agenda types such as =agenda=, =todo= and
2620 =todo-tree=, tags inheritance is not used when selecting the entries
2621 to display. Still, you might want to have all tag information correct
2622 in the agenda buffer, e.g. for tag filtering. In that case, add the
2623 agenda type to this variable.
2625 Setting this variable to nil should considerably speeds up the agenda
2628 Note that the default was to display inherited tags in the agenda
2629 lines even if `org-use-tag-inheritance' was nil. The default is now
2630 to *never* display inherited tags in agenda lines, but to /know/ about
2631 them when the agenda type is listed in [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]].
2633 ** New default value nil for [[doc::org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks][org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks]]
2635 Using `nil' as the default value speeds up the agenda generation. You
2636 can hit `#' (or `C-u #') in agenda buffers to temporarily dim (or turn
2637 invisible) blocked tasks.
2639 ** New speedy keys for [[doc::org-speed-commands-default][org-speed-commands-default]]
2641 You can now use `:' (instead of `;') for setting tags---this is
2642 consistent with using the `:' key in agenda view.
2644 You can now use `=' for [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]].
2646 ** =org-float= is now obsolete, use =diary-float= instead
2647 ** No GPL manual anymore
2649 There used to be a GPL version of the Org manual, but this is not the
2650 case anymore, the Free Software Foundation does not permit this.
2652 The GNU FDL license is now included in the manual directly.
2654 ** Enhanced compatibility with Emacs 22 and XEmacs
2656 Thanks to Achim for his work on enhancing Org's compatibility with
2657 various Emacsen. Things may not be perfect, but Org should work okay
2658 in most environments.
2662 ** New ELPA repository for Org packages
2664 You can now add the Org ELPA repository like this:
2666 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
2667 (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
2670 It contains both the =org-*.tar= package (the core Org distribution, also
2671 available through http://elpa.gnu.org) and the =org-plus*.tar= package (the
2672 extended Org distribution, with non-GNU packages from the =contrib/=
2675 See http://orgmode.org/elpa/
2677 ** Overview of the new keybindings
2679 | Keybinding | Speedy | Command |
2680 |-----------------+--------+-----------------------------|
2681 | =C-c C-x C-z= | | [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]] |
2682 | =C-c C-x C-q= | | [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]] |
2683 | =C-c C-x C-x= | | [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] |
2684 | =M-h= | | [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] |
2685 | =*= | | [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] |
2686 | =C-c C-M-l= | | [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]] |
2687 | =C-c C-x C-M-v= | | [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]] |
2688 | =C-c C-x E= | =E= | [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]] |
2689 | | =#= | [[doc::org-toggle-comment][org-toggle-comment]] |
2690 | | =:= | [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]] |
2691 | | =W= | Set =APPT_WARNTIME= |
2692 | =k= | | [[doc::org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] |
2693 | C-c , | , | [[doc::org-priority][org-priority]] |
2695 ** New package and Babel language
2697 *** =org-eshell.el= by Konrad Hinsen is now in Org
2699 =org-eshell.el= allows you to create links from [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/index.html][Eshell]].
2701 *** Support for execution of Scala code blocks (see ob-scala.el)
2702 *** Support for execution of IO code blocks (see ob-io.el)
2704 ** Incompatible changes
2706 - If your code relies on =org-write-agenda=, please use
2707 [[doc::org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] from now on.
2709 - If your code relies on =org-make-link=, please use =concat=
2712 - =org-link-to-org-use-id= has been renamed to
2713 =org-id-link-to-org-use-id= and its default value is nil. The
2714 previous default was =create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id=.
2716 ** New features and user-visible changes
2720 =org-element.el= is a toolbox for parsing and analyzing "elements"
2721 in an Org-mode buffer. This has been written by Nicolas Goaziou
2722 and has been tested for quite some time. It is now part of Org's
2723 core and many core functions rely on this package.
2725 Two functions might be particularly handy for users:
2726 =org-element-at-point= and =org-element-context=.
2728 See the docstrings for more details.
2730 Below is a list of editing and navigating commands that now rely
2731 on =org-element.el=.
2733 **** [[doc::org-fill-paragraph][org-fill-paragraph]] has been completely rewritten
2735 The filling mechanisms now rely on org-element, trying to do the
2736 right thing on each element in various contexts. E.g. filling in
2737 a list item will preserve indentation; filling in message-mode
2738 will fall back on the relevant filling functions; etc.
2740 **** [[doc::org-metaup][org-metaup]] and [[doc::org-metadown][org-metadown]] will drag the element backward/forward
2742 If you want to get the old behavior (i.e. moving a line up and
2743 down), you can first select the line as an active region, then
2744 =org-metaup= or =org-metadown= to move the region backward or
2745 forward. This also works with regions bigger than just one line.
2747 **** [[doc::org-up-element][org-up-element]] and [[doc::org-down-element][org-down-element]] (respectively =C-c C-^= and =C-c C-_=)
2749 This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements.
2751 **** [[doc::org-backward-element][org-backward-element]] and [[doc::org-forward-element][org-forward-element]] (respectively =M-{= and =M-}=)
2753 This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of
2756 **** [[doc::org-narrow-to-element][org-narrow-to-element]] will narrow to the element at point
2757 **** [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] will mark the element at point
2759 This command is bound to =M-h= and will mark the element at
2760 point. If the point is at a paragraph, it will mark the
2761 paragraph. If the point is at a list item, it will mark the list
2764 Note that if point is at the beginning of a list, it will mark
2767 To mark a subtree, you can either use =M-h= on the headline
2768 (since there is no ambiguity about the element you're at) or
2769 [[doc::org-mark-subtree][org-mark-subtree]] (=C-c @=) anywhere in the subtree.
2771 Invoking [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] repeatedly will try to mark the next
2772 element on top of the previous one(s). E.g. hitting =M-h= twice
2773 on a headline will mark the current subtree and the next one on
2778 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]]
2780 There is a new option =org-agenda-sticky= which enables "sticky"
2781 agendas. Sticky agendas remain opened in the background so that
2782 you don't need to regenerate them each time you hit the
2783 corresponding keystroke. This is a big time saver.
2785 When [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is =non-nil=, the agenda buffer will be
2786 named using the agenda key and its description. In sticky
2787 agendas, the =q= key will just bury the agenda buffers and
2788 further agenda commands will show existing buffer instead of
2789 generating new ones.
2791 If [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is set to =nil=, =q= will kill the single
2794 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
2796 Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
2797 agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set
2800 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
2801 (setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts
2802 '(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt"))))
2805 then the =p= agenda command will only be available from buffers
2806 visiting *.txt files. See the docstring and the manual for more
2807 details on how to use this.
2809 **** Changes in bulk actions
2811 The set of commands starting with =k ...= as been deleted and the
2812 features have been merged into the "bulk action" feature.
2814 After you marked some entries in the agenda, if you call =B s=,
2815 the agenda entries will be rescheduled using the date at point if
2816 on a date header. If you are on an entry with a timestamp, you
2817 will be prompted for a date to reschedule your marked entries to,
2818 using the timestamp at point as the default prompt.
2820 You can now use =k= to capture the marked entry and use the date
2821 at point as an overriding date for the capture template.
2823 To bind this behavior to =M-x org-capture RET= (or its
2824 keybinding), set the new option [[doc::org-capture-use-agenda-date][org-capture-use-agenda-date]] to
2827 **** =N= and =P= in the agenda will move to the next/previous item
2829 **** New command [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] to mark all items
2831 This new command is bound to =*= in agenda mode.
2833 There is also a new option [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-char][org-agenda-bulk-mark-char]] to set the
2834 character to use as a mark for bulk actions.
2836 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-persistent-marks][org-agenda-persistent-marks]]
2838 When set to =non-nil=, marks will remain visible after a bulk
2839 action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressing =p= when
2840 invoking [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-action][org-agenda-bulk-action]]. Marks are deleted if your
2841 rebuild the agenda buffer or move to another date/span (e.g. with
2844 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown]]
2846 =Non-nil= means skip timestamp line if same entry shows because
2849 In the agenda of today, an entry can show up multiple times
2850 because it has both a plain timestamp and has a nearby deadline.
2851 When this variable is t, then only the deadline is shown and the
2852 fact that the entry has a timestamp for or including today is not
2853 shown. When this variable is =nil=, the entry will be shown
2856 **** New =todo-unblocked= and =nottodo-unblocked= skip conditions
2858 See the [[http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f426da][git commit]] for more explanations.
2860 **** Allow category filtering in the agenda
2862 You can now filter the agenda by category. Pressing "<" will
2863 filter by the category of the item on the current line, and
2864 pressing "<" again will remove the filter. You can combine tag
2865 filters and category filters.
2867 You can use =org-agenda-category-filter= in your custom agenda
2868 views and =org-agenda-category-filter-preset= in your main
2871 See also the new command [[doc::org-agenda-filter-by-top-category][org-agenda-filter-by-top-category]]:
2872 hitting =^= will filter by "Top" category: only show entries that
2873 are of the same category than the Top category of the entry at
2878 **** Inserting links
2880 When inserting links through [[doc::org-insert-link][org-insert-link]], the description is
2881 now displayed first, followed by the literal link, as the
2882 description is often more useful when you look for the link you
2885 Completion now complete both literal links and description. If
2886 you complete a description, the literal link and its description
2887 will be inserted directly, whereas when you complete the literal
2888 link, you will be prompted for a description (as with Org 7.8.)
2890 In the completion buffer, links to the current buffer are now
2893 **** New templates =%h= and =%(sexp)= for abbreviated links
2895 On top of =%s= template, which is replaced by the link tag in
2896 abbreviated links, you can now use =%h= (which does the same than =%s=
2897 but does not hexify the tag) and =%(sexp)= (which can run a function
2898 that takes the tag as its own argument.)
2900 **** New link type =help=
2902 You can now create links from =help= buffers.
2904 For example, if you request help for the command [[doc::org-agenda][org-agenda]] with
2905 =C-h f org-agenda RET=, creating a link from this buffer will let
2906 you go back to the same buffer.
2908 **** New command [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]]
2910 This will insert all links as list items. With a universal
2911 prefix argument, links will not be deleted from the variable
2914 This new command is bound to =C-c C-M-l=.
2916 **** New option [[doc::org-url-hexify-p][org-url-hexify-p]]
2918 When set to =nil=, the =URL= part of a link will not be hexified.
2920 **** Org can now open multiple shell links
2922 **** New option [[doc::org-doi-server-url][org-doi-server-url]] to specify an alternate DOI server
2924 **** RET now follows time stamps links
2928 **** [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] and =org-archive-*= can now loop in the active region
2930 When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, using
2931 [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] or =org-archive-*= commands in the active region will
2932 loop over headlines. This is handy if you want to set the TODO
2933 keyword for several items, or archive them quickly.
2935 **** You can now set tags for headlines in a region
2937 If [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, then
2938 selecting the region and hitting =C-c C-q= will set the tags for
2939 all headlines in the region.
2941 **** New command [[doc::org-insert-drawer][org-insert-drawer]] to insert a drawer interactively
2943 **** Comments start with "^[ \t]*# " anywhere on a line
2945 Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments
2946 with "^#+" are not supported anymore.
2948 **** New speed key =#= to toggle the COMMENT cookie on a headline
2950 **** =indent-region-function= is now set to [[doc::org-indent-region][org-indent-region]]
2952 =C-M-\= should now produce useful results.
2954 You can unindent the buffer with [[doc::org-unindent-buffer][org-unindent-buffer]].
2956 **** New option [[doc::org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree][org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree]]
2958 When =non-nil=, =S-M-<left>= will promote level-1 subtrees
2959 containing other subtrees. The level-1 headline will be
2960 commented out. You can revert to the previous state with =M-x
2965 **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-z= for [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]]
2967 **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-q= for [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]]
2969 **** New command [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] to clock in the last clocked item
2971 This command is bound to =C-c C-x C-x= and will clock in the last
2972 clocked entry, if any.
2974 **** =C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-out][org-clock-out]] =RET= now prompts for a state to switch to
2976 **** =S-M-<up/down>= on a clock timestamps adjusts the previous/next clock
2978 **** New option [[doc::org-clock-continuously][org-clock-continuously]]
2980 When set to =nil=, clocking in a task will first try to find the
2981 last clocked out task and restart from when that task was clocked
2984 You can temporarily activate continuous clocking with =C-u C-u
2985 C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-in][org-clock-in]] =RET= (three universal prefix arguments)
2986 and =C-u C-u M-x= [[org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] =RET= (two universal prefix
2990 **** New option [[doc::org-clock-frame-title-format][org-clock-frame-title-format]]
2992 This option sets the value of =frame-title-format= when clocking
2995 **** New options for controlling the clockreport display
2997 [[doc::org-clock-file-time-cell-format][org-clock-file-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the file time
2998 cells in clockreport.
3000 [[doc::org-clock-total-time-cell-format][org-clock-total-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the total
3001 time cells in clockreport.
3004 **** New options for controlling the clock/timer display
3006 [[doc::org-clock-clocked-in-display][org-clock-clocked-in-display]]: control whether the current clock
3007 is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
3009 [[doc::org-timer-display][org-timer-display]]: control whether the current timer is displayed
3010 in the mode line and/or frame title.
3012 This allows the clock and timer to be displayed in the frame
3013 title instead of, or as well as, the mode line. This is useful
3014 for people with limited space in the mode line but with ample
3015 space in the frame title.
3019 **** New option [[doc::org-custom-properties][org-custom-properties]]
3021 The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn
3022 on/off with [[doc::org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility][org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility]]. This might
3023 be useful for properties used by third-part tools or that you
3024 don't want to see temporarily.
3026 **** New command [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]]
3028 This will redisplay all images. It is bound to =C-c C-x C-M-v=.
3030 **** New entities in =org-entities.el=
3032 There are these new entities:
3034 : ("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "˜" "~" "~" "~")
3035 : ("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/")
3036 : ("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+")
3037 : ("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_")
3038 : ("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=")
3039 : ("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^")
3041 **** New face =org-list-dt= for definition terms
3042 **** New face =org-date-selected= for the selected calendar day
3043 **** New face value for =org-document-title=
3045 The face is back to a normal height.
3049 **** New speed command =:= to activate the column view
3050 **** New special property =CLOCKSUM_T= to display today's clocked time
3052 You can use =CLOCKSUM_T= the same way you use =CLOCKSUM=. It
3053 will display the time spent on tasks for today only.
3055 **** Use the =:COLUMNS:= property in columnview dynamic blocks
3057 If the =:COLUMNS:= is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic
3058 block will use its value as the column format.
3060 **** Consider inline tasks when computing a sum
3062 *** Org Dates and Time Stamps
3064 **** Enhanced [[doc::org-sparse-tree][org-sparse-tree]]
3066 =C-c /= can now check for time ranges.
3068 When checking for dates with =C-c /= it is useful to change the
3069 type of dates that you are interested in. You can now do this
3070 interactively with =c= after =C-c /= and/or by setting
3071 [[doc::org-sparse-tree-default-date-type][org-sparse-tree-default-date-type]] to the default value you want.
3073 **** Support for hourly repeat cookies
3077 : SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h>
3079 if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry.
3081 **** =C-u C-u C-c .= inserts a time-stamp with no prompt
3083 **** When (setq [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] 'time), accept days in the prompt
3085 "8am Wed" and "Wed 8am" are now acceptable values when entering a
3086 date from the prompt. If [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] is set to
3087 =time=, this will produce the expected prompt indication.
3089 **** New option [[doc::org-datetree-add-timestamp][org-datetree-add-timestamp]]
3091 When set to =non-nil=, datetree entries will also have a
3092 timestamp. This is useful if you want to see these entries in a
3093 sparse tree with =C-c /=.
3097 **** New command [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]]
3099 M-x [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]] RET will prompt for a string and a capture
3100 template. The string will be used as an annotation for the
3101 template. This is useful when capturing in batch mode as it lets
3102 you define the content of the template without being in Emacs.
3104 **** New option [[doc::org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]]
3106 Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
3107 capture templates should be available from. For example, when
3110 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
3111 (setq org-capture-templates-contexts
3112 '(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode"))))
3115 then the =c= capture template will only be available from
3116 =message-mode= buffers. See the docstring and the manual for
3117 more details on how to use this.
3119 **** New =%l= template to insert the literal link
3120 **** New option [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]]
3122 Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note.
3123 You can now turn this on by setting [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]] to
3126 **** Expand =%<num>= escape sequences into text entered for <num>'th =%^{PROMPT}= escape
3128 See the manual for more explanations.
3130 **** More control over empty lines
3132 You can use =:empty-lines-before= and =:empty-lines-after= to
3133 control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more
3136 **** New hook [[doc::org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook][org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook]]
3138 This new hook runs before the finalization process starts.
3142 **** New functions =orgtbl-to-table.el= and =orgtbl-to-unicode=
3144 =orgtbl-to-table.el= convert the table to a =table.el= table, and
3145 =orgtbl-to-unicode= will use =ascii-art-to-unicode.el= (when
3146 available) to print beautiful tables.
3148 **** [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]] now a bit clever about the target format
3150 When you specify a file name like =table.csv=, [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]]
3151 will now suggest =orgtbl-to-csv= the default method for exporting
3154 **** New option [[doc::org-export-date-timestamp-format][org-export-date-timestamp-format]]
3156 The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps
3157 in the #+DATE option.
3159 **** LaTeX: New options for exporting table rules :tstart, :hline and :tend
3161 See [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-hline][org-export-latex-tables-hline]] and [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-tend][org-export-latex-tables-tend]].
3163 **** LaTeX: You can now set =:hfmt= from =#+ATTR_LaTeX=
3164 **** Beamer: Add support and keybinding for the =exampleblock= environment
3166 Add support for these languages in [[doc::org-export-language-setup][org-export-language-setup]].
3167 More languages are always welcome.
3169 **** Beamer: New option [[doc::org-beamer-inherited-properties][org-beamer-inherited-properties]]
3171 This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties.
3172 Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
3174 **** ODT: Add support for ODT export in org-bbdb.el
3175 **** ODT: Add support for indented tables (see [[http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=e9fd33][this commit]] for details)
3176 **** ODT: Improve the conversion from ODT to other formats
3177 **** ASCII: Swap the level-1/level-2 characters to underline the headlines
3178 **** Support for Chinese, simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese
3179 **** HTML: New option [[doc::org-export-html-date-format-string][org-export-html-date-format-string]]
3181 Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks
3182 to Sébastien Vauban for this patch.
3186 **** New =:results drawer= parameter
3188 =:results drawer= replaces =:results wrap=, which is deprecated but still
3191 **** =:results org= now put results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block
3193 =:results org= used to put results in a =#+BEGIN_ORG= block but it now puts
3194 results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block, with comma-escaped lines.
3196 =#+BEGIN_ORG= blocks are obsolete.
3198 **** Exporting =#+BEGIN_SRC org= blocks exports the code
3200 It used to exports the results of the code.
3204 **** New menu entry for [[doc::org-refile][org-refile]]
3205 **** Allow capturing to encrypted entries
3207 If you capture to an encrypted entry, it will be decrypted before
3208 inserting the template then re-encrypted after finalizing the capture.
3210 **** Inactive timestamps are now handled in tables
3212 Calc can do computation on active time-stamps like <2012-09-29 sat.>.
3213 Inactive time-stamps in a table's cell are now internally deactivated so
3214 that Calc formulas can operate on them.
3216 **** [[doc::org-table-number-regexp][org-table-number-regexp]] can now accept comma as decimal mark
3217 **** Org allows a new property =APPT_WARNTIME=
3219 You can set it with the =W= speedy key or set it manually. When
3220 set, exporting to iCalendar and [[doc::org-agenda-to-appt][org-agenda-to-appt]] will use the
3221 value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning
3224 **** New command [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]]
3226 This will increment the effort value.
3228 It is bound to =C-c C-x E= and to =E= as a speedy command.
3230 **** Attach: Add support for creating symbolic links
3232 =org-attach-method= now supports a new method =lns=, allowing to
3233 attach symbolic links.
3235 **** Archive: you can now archive to a datetree
3237 **** New option [[doc::org-inlinetask-show-first-star][org-inlinetask-show-first-star]]
3239 =Non-nil= means display the first star of an inline task as
3240 additional marker. When =nil=, the first star is not shown.
3242 **** New option [[doc::org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory][org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory]]
3244 This lets you define the path for the =ltxpng/= directory.
3246 **** You can now use imagemagick instead of dvipng to preview LaTeX fragments
3247 **** You can now turn off [[doc::orgstruct++-mode][orgstruct++-mode]] safely
3248 **** =C-u C-c C-c= on list items to add check boxes
3250 =C-u C-c C-c= will add an empty check box on a list item.
3252 When hit from the top of the list, it will add check boxes for
3253 all top level list items.
3255 **** =org-list-ending-method= and =org-list-end-regexp= are now obsolete
3257 Fall back on using =org-list-end-re= only, which see.
3259 **** org-feed.el now expands =%(sexp)= templates
3260 **** New option [[doc::org-protocol-data-separator][org-protocol-data-separator]]
3262 **** New option [[doc::org-ditaa-jar-option][org-ditaa-jar-option]] to specify the ditaa jar file
3264 **** New possible value for [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]]
3266 When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is set to
3267 =start-level=, the command will loop over the active region but
3268 will only act upon entries that are of the same level than the
3269 first headline in the region.
3271 **** New option [[doc::org-habit-show-all-today][org-habit-show-all-today]]
3273 When set to =t=, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today's
3276 ** Important bug fixes
3278 *** M-TAB on options keywords perform completion correctly again
3280 If you hit =M-TAB= on keywords like =#+TITLE=, Org will try to
3281 perform completion with meaningful values.
3283 *** Add licenses to javascript embedded and external code snippets
3285 Embedded javascript code produced when exporting an Org file to
3286 HTML is now licensed under GPLv3 (or later), and the copyright is
3287 owned by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3289 The javascript code for embedding MathJax in the browser mentions
3290 the MathJax copyright and the Apache 2.0 license.
3292 The javascript code for embedding =org-injo.js= in the browser
3293 mentions the copyright of Sebastian Rose and the GPLv3 (or later)
3296 =org-export-html-scripts= is now a variable, so that you can adapt
3297 the code and the license to your needs.
3299 See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for
3300 explanations on why these changes were necessary.
3304 ** Incompatible changes
3306 *** Emacs 21 support has been dropped
3308 Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use [[http://orgmode.org/org-6.36c.zip][version 6.36c]] instead.
3310 *** XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version
3312 To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer
3313 version of XEmacs. We were about to drop XEmacs support entirely,
3314 but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that
3315 made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this
3318 *** New keys for TODO sparse trees
3320 The key =C-c C-v= is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO
3321 sparse trees can still be made with =C-c / t= (all not-done
3322 states) and =C-c / T= (specific states).
3324 *** The Agenda =org-agenda-ndays= is now obsolete
3326 The variable =org-agenda-ndays= is obsolete - please use
3327 =org-agenda-span= instead.
3329 Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
3331 *** Changes to the intended use of =org-export-latex-classes=
3333 So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header
3334 of the LaTeX document, including all the =\usepackage= calls
3335 necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to
3336 maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call,
3337 for example for the special symbol support it needs.
3339 First of all, you can *opt out of this change* in the following
3340 way: You can say: /I want to have full control over headers, and I
3341 will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs/. If
3342 that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip the
3343 rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the
3344 =[EXTRA]= place holder):
3346 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
3347 (setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
3348 org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)
3351 /Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified
3354 There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX
3355 packages that need to be included in all classes. The header
3356 definition in =org-export-latex-classes= should then not contain
3357 the corresponding =\usepackage= calls (see below).
3359 The two new variables are:
3361 1. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist= :: This is the
3362 variable where Org-mode itself puts the packages it needs.
3363 Normally you should not change this variable. The only
3364 reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages
3365 causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then
3366 you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using
3367 Org-mode functionality that needs it.
3369 2. =org-export-latex-packages-alist= :: This is the variable where
3370 you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all
3373 The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX
3376 1. Header from =org-export-latex-classes=
3377 2. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=
3378 3. =org-export-latex-packages-alist=
3379 4. Buffer-specific things set with =#+LaTeX_HEADER:=
3381 If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or
3382 if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the
3383 header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can
3384 put the following macro-like place holders into the header:
3387 [DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages
3388 [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages
3389 [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages
3390 [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages
3391 [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER
3392 [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff
3395 If you have currently customized =org-export-latex-classes=, you
3396 should revise that customization and remove any package calls that
3397 are covered by =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. This
3398 applies to the following packages:
3416 If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package
3417 you are using, you can remove it from
3418 =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. But then you risk that
3419 some of the advertised export features of Org will not work
3422 You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes
3423 to =org-export-latex-packages-alist=. If necessary, put the place
3424 holders so that the packages get loaded in the right sequence. As
3425 said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit the place
3426 holders, all the variables will dump their content at the end of
3429 *** The constant =org-html-entities= is obsolete
3431 Its content is now part of the new constant =org-entities=, which
3432 is defined in the file org-entities.el. =org-html-entities= was
3433 an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did write
3436 *** =org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist= has changed
3438 Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
3440 *** Deleted =org-mode-p=
3442 This function has been deleted: please update your code.
3444 ** Important new features
3446 *** New Org to ODT exporter
3448 Jambunathan's Org to ODT exporter is now part of Org.
3450 To use it, it `C-c C-e o' in an Org file. See the documentation
3451 for more information on how to customize it.
3453 *** org-capture.el is now the default capture system
3455 This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only
3456 describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to
3457 use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual
3458 section [[http://orgmode.org/org-remember.pdf][chapter about remember]].
3460 The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more
3461 possibilities for capturing different types of data. See
3462 [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/26441/focus%3D26441][Carsten's announcement]] for more details.
3464 To switch over to the new system:
3468 : M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
3470 to get a translated version of your remember templates into the
3471 new variable =org-capture-templates=. This will "mostly" work,
3472 but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good
3473 place to modify your templates. After running this command,
3474 enter the customize buffer for this variable with
3476 : M-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET
3478 and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the
3481 2. Bind the command =org-capture= to a key, similar to what you did
3484 : (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
3486 If your fingers prefer =C-c r=, you can also use this key once
3487 you have decided to move over completely to the new
3488 implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong
3489 with using both system in parallel.
3493 *** New Org libraries
3494 **** org-eshell.el (Konrad Hinsen)
3496 Implement links to eshell buffers.
3498 **** org-special-blocks (Carsten Dominik)
3500 This package generalizes the #+begin_foo and #+end_foo tokens.
3502 To use, put the following in your init file:
3505 (require 'org-special-blocks)
3508 The tokens #+begin_center, #+begin_verse, etc. existed
3509 previously. This package generalizes them (at least for the
3510 LaTeX and html exporters). When a #+begin_foo token is
3511 encountered by the LaTeX exporter, it is expanded
3512 into \begin{foo}. The text inside the environment is not
3513 protected, as text inside environments generally is.
3514 When #+begin_foo is encountered by the html exporter, a div with
3515 class foo is inserted into the HTML file. It is up to the user
3516 to add this class to his or her stylesheet if this div is to mean
3519 **** org-taskjuggler.el (Christian Egli)
3521 Christian Egli's /org-taskjuggler.el/ module is now part of Org.
3522 He also wrote a [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.php][tutorial]] for it.
3524 **** org-ctags.el (Paul Sexton)
3526 Targets like =<<my target>>= can now be found by Emacs' etag
3527 functionality, and Org-mode links can be used to to link to
3528 etags, also in non-Org-mode files. For details, see the file
3531 This feature uses a new hook =org-open-link-functions= which will
3532 call function to do something special with text links.
3534 Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution.
3536 **** org-docview.el (Jan Böcker)
3538 This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where
3539 Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point
3540 to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the
3543 : [[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org-Mode Manual]]
3545 Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution.
3547 *** New Babel libraries
3549 - ob-picolisp.el (Thorsten Jolitz)
3550 - ob-fortran.el (Sergey Litvinov)
3551 - ob-shen.el (Eric Schulte)
3552 - ob-maxima.el (Eric S Fraga)
3553 - ob-java.el (Eric Schulte)
3554 - ob-lilypond.el (Martyn Jago)
3555 - ob-awk.el (Eric Schulte)
3557 ** Other new features and various enhancements
3561 **** Org-Bibtex -- major improvements
3563 Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references
3564 data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a
3565 single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is
3566 stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline
3567 free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all
3568 standard bibtex reference types and fields.
3570 The key new functions are
3572 - org-bibtex-check :: queries the user to flesh out all required
3573 (and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available
3574 for the specific reference =type= of the current headline.
3576 - org-bibtex-create :: Create a new entry at the given level,
3577 using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields.
3579 - org-bibtex-yank :: Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a
3580 formatted Org-mode headline into the current buffer
3582 - org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring :: Export the current headline
3583 to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry.
3585 **** org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages
3587 You can now create links from messages. This is particularly
3588 useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for
3589 later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
3591 **** Modified link escaping
3593 David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888][his message]]:
3595 : Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters
3596 : in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets
3597 : in link target oder description) or are not allowed to appear in
3598 : a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http:
3601 : With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and
3602 : unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters.
3603 : Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning
3604 : percent escaped links are solved.
3606 Thanks a lot to David for this work.
3608 **** Make =org-store-link= point to directory in a dired buffer
3610 When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a
3611 file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory.
3613 Patch by Stephen Eglen.
3615 **** Allow regexps in =org-file-apps= to capture link parameters
3617 The way extension regexps in =org-file-apps= are handled has
3618 changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps
3619 are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping
3620 to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command
3621 string to be executed.
3623 For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
3624 =file:/doc.pdf::<page number>=, you can add the following entry
3628 Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
3629 Command: evince "%s" -p %1
3632 Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
3636 **** Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline
3638 You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w"
3639 when calling =org-schedule= or =org-deadline=: it will schedule
3640 (or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before
3641 today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any.
3643 You can use this programmatically: =(org-schedule nil "+2d")=
3644 will work on the current entry.
3646 You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and
3647 (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda.
3649 Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this!
3651 **** American-style dates are now understood by =org-read-date=
3653 So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
3656 2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05
3657 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
3662 **** =org-agenda-custom-commands= has a default value
3664 This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default
3665 value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for
3666 details. Thanks to Carsten for this.
3668 **** Improved filtering through =org-agenda-to-appt=
3670 The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries
3671 to pass to =org-agenda-get-day-entries= and allows to filter out
3672 entries using a function.
3674 Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to
3675 Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for
3676 [[git:68ffb7a7][fixing a small bug]] in the final implementation.
3678 **** Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid
3680 Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See
3681 the new variable =org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm=. Thanks to
3682 C. A. Webber for a patch to this effect.
3684 **** Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command
3686 =B S= in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a
3687 random number of days into the future, with 7 as the default.
3688 This is useful if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today,
3689 you realize you'll never deal with them all, and you just want
3690 them to be distributed across the next N days. When called with
3691 a prefix arg, rescheduling will avoid weekend days.
3693 Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
3697 **** Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble
3699 When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring
3700 the =org-export-email/author/creator-info= variables.
3702 When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the
3703 docstring of these variable for details about available
3706 You can set =:html-preamble= in publishing project in the same
3707 way: `t' means to honor =:email/creator/author-info=, and a
3708 formatting string will insert a string.
3710 **** New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8
3712 While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to
3713 improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide
3714 representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all
3715 of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich
3716 in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new
3717 exporters can be reached with the commands =C-c C-e n= and =C-c
3718 C-e u=, respectively.
3720 When there is no representation for a given symbol in the
3721 targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like
3722 representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For
3723 example, =\simeq= could be represented as "[approx. equal to]".
3724 Please use the variable =org-entities-ascii-explanatory= to state
3727 **** HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property
3729 The =HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS= property can now be used to add a
3730 class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export.
3732 **** Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails
3734 This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
3735 =org-format-latex-signal-error=.
3737 **** Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org-mode documents
3739 Org-mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in
3740 to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple
3741 presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some
3742 support to make richer presentations as well. See the [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export][BEAMER
3743 section]] in the manual for more details.
3745 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about
3746 BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example
3747 for how this community can achieve a much better result than any
3752 **** Refile targets can now be cached
3754 You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable
3755 =org-refile-use-cache=. This should speed up refiling if you
3756 have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update
3757 the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still
3758 offers a deleted one, press =C-0 C-c C-w=.
3760 **** New logging support for refiling
3762 Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be
3763 added to this entry. For details, see the new option
3766 Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea.
3770 **** In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegley's pcomplete.el
3772 Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code.
3776 **** New command =org-table-transpose-table-at-point=
3778 See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of
3779 Org's core. Thanks to Juan!
3781 **** Display field's coordinates when editing it with =C-c `=
3783 When editing a field with =C-c `=, the field's coordinate will
3784 the displayed in the buffer.
3786 Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect.
3788 **** Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values
3790 If you want to compute time values use the =T= flag, either in
3791 Calc formulas or Elisp formulas:
3793 | Task 1 | Task 2 | Total |
3794 |--------+--------+---------|
3795 | 35:00 | 35:00 | 1:10:00 |
3796 #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T
3798 Values must be of the form =[HH:]MM:SS=, where hours are
3801 Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and
3804 **** Implement formulas applying to field ranges
3806 Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas.
3808 : A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define
3809 : row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows
3816 : as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that
3817 : is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a
3820 Thanks a lot to Carsten for this.
3822 **** Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed
3824 Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also,
3825 there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent.
3827 Thanks to Seweryn Kokot.
3831 **** Improved handling of lists
3833 Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
3835 1. Indentation of text determines again end of items in
3836 lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item
3837 doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more
3840 2. Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the
3841 variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical
3842 counters like [@c] or [@W].
3844 3. Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various
3845 blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are
3846 controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and
3847 `org-list-export-context'.
3849 4. Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will
3850 keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text
3851 and make paragraphs and still not break the list.
3853 5. Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with
3854 standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a
3855 prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and
3856 make every line in region an item. It permits to easily
3857 integrate paragraphs inside a list.
3859 6. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be
3860 used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no
3861 blank line around, without breaking list structure.
3863 Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this!
3865 *** Inline display of linked images
3867 Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does
3868 toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links
3869 that have no description part will be inlined.
3871 *** Implement offsets for ordered lists
3873 If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different
3874 from 1, you can now do it like this:
3876 : 1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12
3878 *** Babel: code block body expansion for table and preview
3880 In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the
3881 code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents,
3882 augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to
3883 variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and
3884 also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes
3885 into account all header arguments, and variables.
3887 A new keybinding `C-c M-b p' bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block'
3888 can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its
3889 expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging).
3892 The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable
3893 values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or
3894 stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this
3895 is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization
3896 to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc...) in headline
3897 properties or in tables.
3899 Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default
3900 behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column
3901 names, and rownames across all languages.
3903 *** Editing Convenience and Appearance
3905 **** New command =org-copy-visible= (=C-c C-x v=)
3907 This command will copy the visible text in the region into the
3908 kill ring. Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to
3909 Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it!
3911 **** Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by =C-k=
3913 See the new variable =org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree=. This was a
3914 request by Scott Otterson.
3916 **** Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts.
3918 The command =C-c C-x \= toggles the display of Org's special
3919 entities like =\alpha= as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub
3920 and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower
3921 display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and
3922 superscripts, see the variable
3923 =org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts=.
3925 Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible.
3927 **** New faces for title, date, author and email address lines
3929 The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is
3930 displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for
3931 author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the
3932 following new faces:
3934 =org-document-title=
3936 =org-document-info-keyword=
3938 In addition, the variable =org-hidden-keywords= can be used to
3939 make the corresponding keywords disappear.
3941 Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
3943 **** Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords
3945 The variables =org-todo-keyword-faces=, =org-tag-faces=, and
3946 =org-priority-faces= now accept simple color names as
3947 specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or
3948 background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the
3949 variable =org-faces-easy-properties=, which governs which face
3950 property is affected by this setting.
3952 This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces.
3953 The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson.
3955 **** <N> in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width
3957 Requested by Michael Brand.
3959 **** Better level cycling function
3961 =TAB= in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline
3962 through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved
3963 version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly
3964 this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement.
3966 **** Adaptive filling
3968 For paragraph text, =org-adaptive-fill-function= did not handle
3969 the base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is
3970 now fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">"
3971 comments to be filled correctly.
3973 Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch.
3975 **** `org-reveal' (=C-c C-r=) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el)
3977 Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
3979 **** Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords
3981 When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now
3982 assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords.
3984 Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch.
3988 **** Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log
3990 Using =S-M-<up/down>= on CLOCK log timestamps will
3991 increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that
3992 duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be
3993 slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.
3995 Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
3997 **** Localized clock tables
3999 Clock tables now support a new new =:lang= parameter, allowing
4000 the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See
4001 the variable =org-clock-clocktable-language-setup= which controls
4002 available translated strings.
4004 **** Show clock overruns in mode line
4006 When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the
4007 planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example
4008 using the new face =org-mode-line-clock-overrun=, or by adding an
4009 extra string given by =org-task-overrun-text=.
4011 Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect.
4013 **** Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock
4015 If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls
4016 into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent
4017 can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting
4018 of =org-clock-report-include-clocking-task=. The default is
4021 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition.
4025 **** Improvements with inline tasks and indentation
4027 There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks.
4028 See the new variable =org-inlinetask-export-templates=.
4030 Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes.
4032 **** A property value of "nil" now means to unset a property
4034 This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if
4035 some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it
4036 would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a
4039 Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this
4042 **** New helper functions in org-table.el
4044 There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field.
4045 This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
4050 org-table-current-line
4054 **** Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node
4056 The new option =org-archive-reversed-order= allows to have
4057 archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target
4060 This was requested by Tom.
4062 **** Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent
4064 This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for
4065 example by viewing from the agenda.
4067 This was a request by Matt Lundin.
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