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3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of User-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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12 *** Improvements to clocktable
14 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
15 when trying to specify the time block that should be
16 considered when constructing the table.
18 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
22 |--------------+-----------------------|
23 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
24 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
25 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
26 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
28 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
29 | thisweek | The current week |
30 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
31 | thismonth | The current month |
32 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
33 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
36 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
37 keys while the cursor is on the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line
38 and the the time block around. If the current block is
39 =today=, =S-left= with switch to yesterday. If the current
40 block is =2008-W14=, =S-right= will switch to the following
43 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
44 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
45 a request from Bernt Hansen.
47 *** Selective tag inheritance
49 Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
50 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
51 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to select
52 the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for this
55 The regexp option is also implemented for
56 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
57 properties for inheritance my name.
59 *** Changes to property API
61 The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
62 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
63 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance if
64 and only if the setting in =org-use-property-inheritance=
65 selects the property for inheritance.
67 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
69 Dates in the agenda now show the ISO week an day
70 specification, in the form =W08 2=, meaning Tuesday of
73 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
74 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
75 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
76 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
77 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
78 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
79 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
80 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
81 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
82 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
83 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
85 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
86 specify an ISO week. For example
89 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
91 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
92 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
94 So far I have not implemented the effect of
95 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
96 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
97 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
98 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
99 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
100 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
103 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
104 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
105 test extensively and report back.
107 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
111 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
112 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
113 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
114 lists modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in this
115 way part of Emacs), as well as contributed packages that will
116 only be available when you have installed them properly (most
117 likely by downloading the distribution and adding
118 CONTRIB/lisp to your load path.
120 *** Improvements in Search View
122 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
123 only in TODO entries.
125 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
126 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
127 also match in "Nasim's".
131 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
132 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
133 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
134 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
135 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
136 default date, not switch to today.
138 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
139 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
141 - File names in remember templates can be relative, they will
142 be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
148 - New keyword search agenda view
150 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
152 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
154 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
156 - Granularity while editing time stamps
158 - New repeaters mechanisms
160 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
162 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
164 - =M-RET= splits lines again
168 ** Incompatible changes
170 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
171 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
176 *** New keyword search agenda view
178 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
179 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
180 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
181 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
182 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
183 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
184 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
185 example, the search string
187 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
189 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
190 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
191 which are also not matched by the regular expression
192 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
193 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
194 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
195 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
196 (possibly sub-) heading.
198 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
199 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
201 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
202 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
205 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
206 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
207 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
209 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
211 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
212 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
214 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
215 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
216 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
218 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
219 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
220 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
221 to cover contributed extensions as well.
223 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
225 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
226 last element defines the contexts in which the template
227 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
228 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
229 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
230 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
231 function, the template will be offered only if the function
232 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
233 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
236 One possible application for this would be to have several
237 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
238 the right one based on context. For example, think of
239 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
240 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
241 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
243 : (setq org-remember-templates
244 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
245 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
247 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
249 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
251 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
252 + In a table, add a hline as before
253 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
254 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
255 + In a headline, turn it into an item
256 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
257 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
258 item markers from all lines.
260 Based on proposals by Bastien.
262 - `C-c *' has now more functions
263 + in a table, recompute, as before
264 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
265 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
266 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
267 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
268 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
270 Based on proposals by Bastien.
272 *** Changes related to time stamps
274 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
275 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
276 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
277 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
278 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
279 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
280 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
281 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
282 specify the number of minutes to shift.
284 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
286 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
287 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
290 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
291 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
292 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
293 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
294 : and marked it done on Saturday.
295 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
296 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
297 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
300 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
302 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
304 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
305 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
308 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
309 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
310 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
311 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
312 the previous content.
314 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
316 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
317 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
318 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
320 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
324 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
325 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
326 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
327 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
330 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
331 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
332 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
335 - There are three new hooks:
337 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
338 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
339 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
343 ** Incompatible changes
345 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
346 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
347 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
351 *** Changes to logging progress
353 There is now more control over which state changes are being
354 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
355 sections in the manual. Basically:
357 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
358 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
359 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
360 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
361 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
362 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
363 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
364 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
366 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
367 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
368 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
369 : when leaving this state. This is great for
370 : getting a record when switching *back* from
372 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
373 : Here we not even define a fast access
374 : character, but just the logging stuff.
376 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
380 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
381 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
382 of the line) before the current line.
384 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
385 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
386 create a new line below the current one.
390 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
391 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
398 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
400 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
401 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
403 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
405 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
406 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
407 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
409 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
411 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
413 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
417 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
419 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
421 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
423 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
425 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
427 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
429 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
431 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
435 ** Incompatible Changes
437 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
438 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
439 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
443 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
445 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
446 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
448 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
449 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
451 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
452 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
453 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
454 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
455 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
456 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
459 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
460 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
463 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
464 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
465 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
467 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
468 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
469 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
470 variable does select the interface that is used to select
471 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
474 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
476 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
477 path to select a location.
478 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
481 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
482 they are always current.
484 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
485 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
486 special also because it only matches in headline. This
487 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
488 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
489 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
490 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
491 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
493 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
494 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
495 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
496 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
497 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
498 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
504 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
505 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
506 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
507 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
508 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
510 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
511 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
513 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
514 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
516 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
517 headline up to the tags.
518 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
520 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
522 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
523 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
524 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
525 request by Austin Frank.
527 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
528 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
529 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
531 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
532 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
533 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
534 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
536 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
537 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
538 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
539 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
540 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
541 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
542 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
543 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
544 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
545 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
546 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
549 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
550 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
551 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
552 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
560 will file is with the following property
562 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
564 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
565 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
566 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
568 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
569 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
578 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
580 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
582 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
584 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
586 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
588 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
590 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
592 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
594 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
598 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
599 entries in a subtree. For example
601 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
603 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
604 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
605 request by Bernt Hansen.
607 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
608 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
609 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
610 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
611 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
612 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
613 interactively select the filing location (file and
614 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
615 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
616 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
617 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
618 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
620 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
621 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
622 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
623 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
624 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
627 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
628 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
629 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
630 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
631 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
632 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
633 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
636 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
637 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
638 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
641 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
642 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
643 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
644 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
645 explain here, complex.
647 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
648 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
649 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
651 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
652 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
653 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
655 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
667 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
668 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
669 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
670 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
671 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
672 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
673 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
674 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
675 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
676 subtree motion commands.
678 - Plain lists items work the same.
680 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
681 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
682 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
685 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
686 let me know about any problems.
690 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
691 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
692 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
693 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
694 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
696 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
697 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
698 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
699 history variable. For example:
701 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
703 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
704 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
705 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
706 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
707 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
708 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
709 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
712 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
713 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
714 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
715 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
719 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
720 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
723 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
724 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
725 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
726 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
727 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
728 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
734 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
736 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
737 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
738 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
739 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
740 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
741 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
742 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
743 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
746 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
747 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
748 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
749 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
751 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
752 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
753 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
754 and then watch it change in various scopes.
756 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
757 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
758 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
759 select a new restriction.
761 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
763 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
765 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
767 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
768 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
770 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
771 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
772 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
775 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
776 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
777 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
779 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
780 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
781 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
782 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
783 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
789 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
790 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
791 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
793 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
794 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
795 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
804 + Remember and related stuff
805 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
806 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
807 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
808 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
810 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
811 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
812 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
813 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
814 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
815 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
816 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
818 + Properties and Column view
819 - More control over which properties use inheritance
820 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
821 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
822 - New currency summary type {$}
824 + The date/time prompt
825 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
826 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
827 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
830 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
831 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
834 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
837 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
838 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
839 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
840 - Support for pabbrev-mode
841 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
843 ** Incompatible changes
845 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
846 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
847 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
849 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
850 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
853 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
857 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
858 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
860 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
862 : (org-remember nil ?n))
864 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
865 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
869 *** Remember and related stuff
871 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
872 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
873 application might be to put a note or task captured with
874 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
875 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
876 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
877 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
878 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
879 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
880 definitions. For example:
882 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
884 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
887 : (setq org-refile-targets
888 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
890 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
891 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
892 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
893 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
896 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
897 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
899 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
900 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
901 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
902 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
903 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
905 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
906 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
908 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
910 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
911 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
914 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
916 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
917 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
918 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
921 : (require 'remember)
922 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
923 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
924 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
926 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
927 provide a default for templates without a file, and
928 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
930 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
932 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
934 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
936 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
937 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
938 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
939 the default in Org-mode.
941 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
942 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
943 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
944 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
946 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
947 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
948 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
949 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
950 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
952 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
953 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
954 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
955 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
958 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
959 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
960 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
961 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
962 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
964 *** Properties and Column view
966 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
967 property names that should be treated with inheritance
970 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
971 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
972 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
973 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
974 discussion around this issue.
976 - Summary type improvements in column view.
977 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
978 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
979 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
980 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
981 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
982 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
983 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
985 *** The date/time prompt
987 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
990 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
991 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
992 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
993 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
994 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
996 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
997 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
998 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
999 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1000 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1001 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1002 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1003 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1004 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1006 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1007 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1008 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1009 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1010 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1012 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1014 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1015 list of newly performed conversions:
1017 | Org | Description | HTML |
1018 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1019 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1020 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1021 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1022 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1024 You can turn this globally on or off with
1025 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1026 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1027 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1028 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1030 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1031 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1035 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1036 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1037 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1038 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1039 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1040 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1042 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1044 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1045 export by setting it either globally
1046 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1047 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1048 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1049 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1050 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1053 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1054 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1055 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1057 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1058 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1060 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1061 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1064 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1065 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1066 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1073 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1074 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1075 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1077 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1078 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1079 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1080 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1081 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1083 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1084 with extension matched by the new variable
1085 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1094 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1095 + All known bugs fixed.
1096 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1097 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1098 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1100 - The agenda dispatcher
1101 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1102 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1104 - Sorting improvements
1105 + User-defined sorting keys.
1106 + Sorting by properties.
1107 + Sorting of plain lists.
1109 - HTML <div> structure
1112 + New variables, several of them.
1113 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1114 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1115 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1116 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1120 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1122 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1123 (at least I hope so...).
1125 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1126 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1128 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1129 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1130 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1132 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1133 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1134 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1138 : :ID: planning-overview
1144 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1148 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1149 be prompted for the ID.
1151 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1152 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1153 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1154 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1155 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1158 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1160 *** The agenda dispatcher
1162 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1163 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1164 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1165 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1166 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1167 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1168 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1169 them to custom commands.
1171 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1172 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1173 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1174 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1176 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1177 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1178 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1179 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1180 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1182 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1183 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1186 *** Sorting improvements
1188 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1189 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1191 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1192 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1194 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1197 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1199 *** HTML <div> structure
1201 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1203 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1204 "table-of-contents".
1206 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1207 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1209 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1210 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1212 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1213 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1215 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1216 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1220 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1221 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1222 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1225 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1227 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1229 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1230 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1231 your properties will not be folded away.
1232 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1234 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1235 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1236 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1238 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1239 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1240 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1241 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1242 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1244 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1245 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1246 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1247 a proposal by Bastien.
1249 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1250 request by Wanrong Lin.
1252 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1253 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1254 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1260 - Remember templates can now have name.
1261 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1262 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1263 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1264 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1265 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1266 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1267 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1268 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1269 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1270 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1272 ** Incompatible Changes
1274 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1278 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1279 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1280 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1281 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1282 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1283 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1285 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1286 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1287 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1289 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1290 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1292 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1293 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1294 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1295 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1297 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1298 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1299 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1301 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1302 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1303 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1304 Wiegley for a patch.
1306 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1307 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1308 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1309 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1310 with full completion support.
1312 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1313 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1314 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1316 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1317 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1320 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1321 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1322 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1323 well tested yet, please check it out.
1331 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1332 - Command to jump to the running clock
1333 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1334 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1335 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1336 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1337 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1338 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1339 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1340 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1341 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1343 ** Incompatible changes
1345 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1346 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1348 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1349 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1350 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1352 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1353 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1356 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1361 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1362 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1365 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1368 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1371 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1372 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1373 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1374 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1375 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1377 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1378 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1379 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1380 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1382 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1383 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1384 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1385 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1386 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1387 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1388 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1389 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1390 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1392 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1393 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1394 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1395 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1396 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1397 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1398 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1399 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1400 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1402 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1403 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1404 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1405 being prompted for a template, like this:
1407 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1409 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1411 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1412 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1413 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1414 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1416 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1417 (also `s' does this).
1419 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1420 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1423 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1424 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1425 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1427 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1428 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1429 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1431 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1432 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1433 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1434 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1442 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1443 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1444 - CSV support when importing a table.
1445 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1446 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1447 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1448 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1449 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1450 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1455 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1456 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1459 : * Tree with special properties
1461 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1462 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1465 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1466 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1467 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1468 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1469 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1470 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1471 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1472 encourage you to stop using them.
1474 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1475 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1476 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1477 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1481 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1482 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1483 | file | the full current buffer |
1484 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1485 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1486 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1487 | agenda | all agenda files |
1489 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1490 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1491 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1492 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1495 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1496 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1497 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1498 basic input it works.
1500 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1501 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1502 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1503 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1505 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1506 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1509 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1510 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1512 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1514 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1515 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1516 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1517 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1518 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1520 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1521 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1522 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1523 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1524 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1527 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1528 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1529 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1530 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1531 the children has that particular property defined, the
1532 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1533 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1534 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1535 is a better way of doing things.
1537 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1538 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1539 testing is appreciated.
1541 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1542 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1543 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1544 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1546 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1547 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1548 links in square or angular brackets.
1556 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1559 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1560 agenda can be configured.
1562 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1564 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1566 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1568 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1570 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1571 inherited from the outline faces.
1573 ** Incompatible Changes
1575 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1576 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1577 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1578 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1579 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1584 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1585 switching to that state. With the setting
1587 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1588 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1590 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1593 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1594 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1595 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1596 own function. Configure the new variable
1597 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1598 this development with a patch.
1600 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1601 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1602 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1603 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1604 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1605 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1606 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1608 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1609 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1610 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1611 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1612 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1613 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1614 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1616 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1617 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1620 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1621 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1622 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1623 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1624 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1625 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1626 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1628 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1629 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1630 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1631 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1632 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1633 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1634 match the current org-mode faces.
1636 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1640 ** Incompatible changes
1642 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1646 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1647 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1648 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1650 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1652 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1653 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1654 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1655 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1656 command fall back to cycling.
1658 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1659 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1660 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1661 interface anyway, set the variable
1662 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1663 others for input on this issue.
1665 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1666 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1667 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1669 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1670 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1672 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1673 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
1675 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
1677 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
1678 use a format string that will be interpreted by
1679 `format-time-string', for example:
1681 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
1683 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
1684 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
1685 included) have changed this.
1687 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
1688 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
1689 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
1690 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
1691 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
1692 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
1693 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
1699 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
1701 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
1703 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
1705 - Sorting can be done by priority.
1707 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
1709 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1711 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
1713 ** Incompatible changes
1715 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
1716 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
1718 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1722 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
1723 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
1724 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
1726 A Here is a configuration example:
1728 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
1729 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
1730 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
1731 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
1734 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
1735 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
1737 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
1738 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
1739 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
1740 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
1741 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
1742 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
1743 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
1744 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
1745 states, just like you also do for tags.
1747 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
1748 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
1750 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
1751 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
1752 switch the entry to that state.
1754 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
1755 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
1756 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
1759 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
1761 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
1762 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
1763 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
1764 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
1766 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
1767 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
1769 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
1770 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
1771 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
1772 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
1773 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
1775 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
1776 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
1777 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
1780 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
1781 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
1782 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
1783 the file will simply be skipped.
1793 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
1794 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
1795 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
1796 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
1797 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
1798 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
1799 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
1800 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
1803 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
1804 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
1805 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
1806 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
1807 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
1808 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
1809 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
1810 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
1811 the special locations.
1813 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
1816 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
1819 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
1820 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
1821 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
1823 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
1824 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
1825 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
1831 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
1833 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
1835 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
1837 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
1839 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
1841 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
1843 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
1845 - Global values for selected properties.
1852 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
1853 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
1854 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
1855 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
1856 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
1857 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
1858 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
1859 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
1861 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
1862 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
1863 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
1864 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
1865 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
1866 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
1867 currently how to handle the new link types for
1870 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
1871 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
1872 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
1873 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
1876 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
1877 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
1878 The syntax is like this
1880 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
1882 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
1885 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
1887 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
1888 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
1889 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
1891 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
1894 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
1895 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
1896 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
1897 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
1900 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
1901 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
1902 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
1903 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
1904 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
1905 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
1908 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
1909 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
1910 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
1913 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
1914 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
1915 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
1916 `org-global-properties', like this:
1918 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
1920 Buffer-local values are set like this:
1922 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
1924 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
1925 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
1926 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
1927 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
1928 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
1929 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
1937 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
1938 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
1939 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
1940 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
1942 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
1943 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
1944 this stuff into the drawer.
1945 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1947 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
1948 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
1950 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
1951 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
1953 - Lots of minor fixes.
1957 ** Incompatible Changes
1959 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
1960 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
1961 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
1965 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
1966 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
1967 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
1969 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
1970 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
1971 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
1972 know if we need to make this customizable.
1974 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
1975 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
1976 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
1977 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
1978 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
1980 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
1989 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
1992 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
1993 compute their value from the children's values.
1995 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
1996 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
1999 ** Incompatible Changes
2001 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2002 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2003 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2004 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2009 - Improvements for properties:
2011 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2012 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2014 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2015 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2016 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2017 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2018 typos when entering properties.
2020 - Improvements for column view.
2022 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2023 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2026 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2027 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2028 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2029 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2032 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2033 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2036 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2037 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2038 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2040 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2041 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2042 beginning of a line. So
2044 : * This is a level 1 headline
2045 : *this is bold text*
2047 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2048 available in orgstruct-mode.
2054 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2055 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2057 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2058 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2059 open if explicitly asked.
2061 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2063 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2064 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2067 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2068 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2071 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2073 ** Incompatible changes
2075 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2076 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2077 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2078 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2079 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2080 that this is the better convention.
2084 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2086 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2087 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2088 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2089 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2090 easily create lists.
2092 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2093 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2094 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2095 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2096 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2097 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2098 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2099 minor modes have assigned to them.
2101 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2102 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2103 the promised implementation.
2107 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2108 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2109 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2110 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2111 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2114 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2116 you can then create drawers like this:
2119 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2120 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2123 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2124 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2126 *** Properties and Column View
2128 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2129 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2130 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2131 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2132 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2133 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2135 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2137 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2138 program using properties, use the functions
2139 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2140 and `org-entry-delete'.
2142 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2145 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2146 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2147 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2148 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2149 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2150 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2152 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2155 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2157 will find entries that
2160 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2161 - are TODO status WAITING.
2163 So here is an entry that will match:
2165 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2170 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2171 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2174 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2176 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2177 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2178 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2179 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2180 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2181 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2182 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2183 can set up different property columns on different levels
2184 of an outline tree. For example:
2188 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2192 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2195 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2197 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2200 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2203 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2204 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2206 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2207 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2208 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2209 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2210 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2211 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2214 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2215 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2217 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2218 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2219 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2220 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2221 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2222 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2224 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2225 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2228 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2230 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2232 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2233 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2234 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2236 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2237 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2238 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2239 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2244 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2245 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2246 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2247 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2248 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2249 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2250 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2253 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2254 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2255 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2256 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2257 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2264 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2266 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2267 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2268 constants can now be set with a line like:
2270 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2274 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2275 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2278 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2280 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2284 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2285 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2286 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2287 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2294 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2295 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2296 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2297 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2299 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2300 See manual section 3.5.3.
2302 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2303 This was a request from Ignotus.
2304 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2306 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2307 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2308 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2312 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2313 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2314 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2315 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2316 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2322 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2323 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2325 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2327 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2329 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2331 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2333 ** Incompatible changes
2335 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2336 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2337 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2338 with the xemacs version. For example:
2340 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2342 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2343 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2344 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2345 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2346 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2350 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2351 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2352 interval on a single day. For example
2354 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2356 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2357 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2358 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2359 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2361 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2364 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2365 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2369 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2371 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2372 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2373 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2374 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2375 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2376 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2377 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2378 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2379 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2380 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2381 stick to the ASCII characters.
2383 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2384 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2385 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2386 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2387 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2389 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2391 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2392 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2393 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2395 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2396 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2397 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2398 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2399 if we can agree on this:
2401 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2402 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2403 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2404 out to a previous level. For example
2412 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2421 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2422 using promotion and demotion functions.
2428 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2429 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2431 ** Incompatible changes
2433 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2437 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2438 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2439 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2440 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2441 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2442 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2443 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2445 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2446 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2447 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2448 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2449 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2450 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2451 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2453 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2454 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2455 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2456 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2457 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2460 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2461 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2462 wherever you want a vertical line:
2464 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2465 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2466 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2468 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2469 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2471 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2472 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2473 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2474 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2475 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2476 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2477 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2478 behavior we had before.
2480 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2482 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2483 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2484 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2485 special characters in other languages as along as your
2486 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2487 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2488 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2494 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2498 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2500 [1]This is a footnote
2502 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2503 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2505 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2507 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2508 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2511 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2517 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2518 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2520 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2521 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2522 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2523 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2525 ** Incompatible Changes
2527 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2528 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2532 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2533 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2535 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2537 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2538 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2539 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2540 collect your credit, let me know!
2542 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2543 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2545 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2546 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2548 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2549 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2550 would in the diary. For example
2552 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2554 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2556 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2557 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2559 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2561 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2562 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2563 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2564 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2565 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2566 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2567 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2568 faster agenda display.
2570 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2571 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2572 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2573 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2574 to Raman for this idea.
2576 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2577 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2578 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2581 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2582 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2583 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2587 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2589 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2590 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2592 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2593 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2594 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2595 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2598 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2599 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2601 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2602 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2603 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2604 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2606 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2607 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2608 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2609 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2611 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2612 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2619 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2620 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2621 further processing in scripts.
2623 ** Incompatible Changes
2625 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2626 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2630 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2631 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2632 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2633 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2636 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2637 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2638 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2639 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2640 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2641 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2642 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2643 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2645 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2646 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2647 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2648 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2650 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2651 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2652 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2654 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2664 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2666 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2668 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2670 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2672 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
2674 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
2676 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
2680 ** Incompatible changes
2682 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
2683 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
2686 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
2687 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
2688 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
2689 `org-disputed-keys'.
2691 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
2692 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
2693 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
2697 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
2698 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
2699 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
2700 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
2701 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
2702 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
2703 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
2704 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
2705 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
2706 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
2707 Scott fro bringing this up again.
2709 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
2710 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
2711 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
2712 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
2714 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
2715 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
2717 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
2718 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
2719 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
2720 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
2722 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
2723 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
2724 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
2725 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
2726 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
2727 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
2728 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
2729 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
2731 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
2733 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
2734 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
2735 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
2736 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
2737 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
2738 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
2739 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
2742 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
2743 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
2744 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
2745 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
2746 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
2747 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
2750 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
2751 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
2752 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
2753 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
2754 indicates a non-stuck project.
2756 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
2757 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
2758 please let me know if you find problems.
2760 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
2761 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
2767 ** Incompatible changes
2771 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
2772 exported HTML. These are the variables
2773 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
2774 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
2777 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
2778 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
2779 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
2781 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
2782 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
2783 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
2784 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
2785 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
2786 that are scanned for the agenda.
2794 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
2795 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
2796 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
2798 ** Incompatible changes
2800 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
2804 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
2806 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
2808 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
2810 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
2811 list (and which is also works!)
2813 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
2814 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
2816 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
2817 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
2818 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
2819 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
2820 toward using the latter.
2822 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
2823 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
2824 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
2825 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
2827 (setq org-todo-keywords
2828 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
2829 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
2830 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
2831 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
2834 If your setting has this new structure,
2835 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
2836 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
2837 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
2838 interpretation from the other variable still works.
2840 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
2841 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
2842 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
2843 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
2844 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
2847 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
2848 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
2849 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
2850 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
2851 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
2852 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
2853 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
2855 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
2856 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
2857 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
2858 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
2859 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
2861 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
2862 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
2863 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
2864 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
2865 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
2866 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
2867 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
2868 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
2869 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
2876 This time the changes affect the following areas:
2878 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
2879 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
2880 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
2881 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
2882 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
2883 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
2886 ** Incompatible changes
2888 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
2889 over several lines, like
2892 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
2895 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
2896 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
2897 See below for details.
2899 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
2900 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
2901 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
2902 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
2907 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
2908 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
2911 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
2912 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
2913 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
2915 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
2916 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
2917 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
2918 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
2919 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
2920 where you want to be.
2922 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
2923 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
2924 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
2927 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
2928 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
2930 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
2931 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
2933 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
2935 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
2936 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
2937 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
2938 new in-buffer option
2942 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
2943 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
2944 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
2945 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
2947 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
2948 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
2949 can be done by setting the variable
2950 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
2952 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
2958 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
2960 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
2961 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
2962 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
2963 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
2964 terminate all levels of plain list items.
2966 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
2968 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
2969 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
2972 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
2973 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
2974 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
2975 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
2976 are logging all state changes.
2978 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
2983 - Priority handling in the tags view
2984 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
2985 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
2986 - Improvements to the formula editor.
2987 - C-j does better indentation.
2991 - Priority handling in the tags view
2993 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
2994 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
2996 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
2998 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
2999 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3000 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3002 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3004 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3006 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3007 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3008 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3009 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3010 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3011 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3012 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3014 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3017 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3019 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3021 + There is now a menu with commands.
3023 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3024 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3026 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3027 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3029 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3030 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3034 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3035 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3036 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3038 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3039 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3044 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3045 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3046 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3047 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3049 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3050 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3051 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3061 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3062 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3063 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3065 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3066 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3067 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3068 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3069 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3070 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3071 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3073 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3074 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3075 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3077 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3079 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3080 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3082 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3083 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3085 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3086 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3087 levels. For example:
3089 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3091 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3092 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3093 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3096 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3097 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3098 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3099 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3101 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3102 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3111 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3112 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3113 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3114 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3116 ** Detailed description of changes
3118 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3119 any table in any mode.
3121 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3122 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3123 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3124 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3125 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3126 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3128 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3129 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3130 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3131 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3132 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3134 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3135 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3136 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3137 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3138 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3139 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3140 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3143 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3144 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3145 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3146 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3147 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3148 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3149 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3150 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3151 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3152 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3153 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3154 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3156 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3157 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3158 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3159 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3165 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3166 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3167 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3168 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3169 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3171 ** Detailed description of changes
3173 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3174 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3175 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3177 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3179 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3180 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3182 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3184 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3185 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3186 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3188 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3189 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3190 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3192 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3193 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3194 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3196 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3197 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3199 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3201 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3202 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3203 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3204 remember.el work like this as well).
3205 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3206 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3207 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3208 new template, but the old context information. This is
3209 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3212 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3213 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3214 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3215 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3216 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3217 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3218 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3219 without interaction.
3221 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3222 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3223 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3224 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3225 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3226 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3228 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3229 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3230 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3231 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3233 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3234 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3235 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3236 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3237 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3238 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3244 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3245 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3247 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3248 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3249 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3250 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3251 + Incompatible changes
3252 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3253 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3254 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3255 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3256 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3257 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3258 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3262 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3263 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3264 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3265 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3266 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3267 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3268 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3269 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3273 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3274 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3275 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3276 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3277 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3278 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3279 - Empty entries go full circle.
3280 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3285 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3288 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3289 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3290 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3291 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3292 another, dedicated frame.
3293 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3294 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3297 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3298 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3299 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3300 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3301 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3302 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3303 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3304 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3305 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3306 use regular expressions.
3307 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3308 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3309 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3313 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3314 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3315 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3322 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3323 + show status also in target line.
3324 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3325 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3326 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3330 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3331 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3332 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3333 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3337 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3338 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3343 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3344 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3345 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3349 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3350 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3351 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3352 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3353 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3354 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3355 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3356 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3357 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3358 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3359 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3364 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3365 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3366 - File links can contain environment variables.
3367 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3371 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3372 each block created by a different agenda command.
3373 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3374 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3375 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3376 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3377 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3378 upon the agenda type.
3379 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3380 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3381 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3382 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3383 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3384 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3385 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3386 - More minor bug fixes.
3389 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3390 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3391 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3395 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3396 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3397 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3401 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3404 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3405 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3406 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3414 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3415 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3417 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3418 LaTeX environment and math.
3421 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3423 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3424 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3425 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3429 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3430 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3433 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3434 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3435 and will not lead to conflicts.
3436 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3440 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3441 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3442 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3443 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3444 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3445 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3446 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3452 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3453 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3456 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3457 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3458 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3459 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3460 directories for different export types.
3461 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3462 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3469 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3470 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3471 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3472 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3473 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3474 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3475 relative and absolute paths.
3476 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3477 - Bug and typo fixes.
3481 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3482 contains a description or not.
3483 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3484 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3485 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3486 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3487 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3488 for all available exporters.
3489 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3495 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3496 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3497 end of the HTML file.
3498 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3499 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3500 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3501 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3507 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3508 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3509 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3510 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3520 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3521 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3524 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3525 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3526 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3527 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3528 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3529 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3530 - New structure for the customization tree.
3535 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3539 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3540 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3541 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3542 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3543 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3548 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3549 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3550 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3551 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3555 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3556 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3559 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3560 - Various small bug fixes
3563 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3564 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3565 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3566 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3567 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3568 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3569 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3570 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3571 next buffer change due to editing).
3574 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3575 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3576 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3577 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3580 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3581 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3582 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3583 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3584 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3585 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3586 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3587 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3588 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3589 - support for cascading style sheets.
3590 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3591 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3598 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3602 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3605 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3606 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3607 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3608 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3609 and are not linked to the calendar.
3610 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3611 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3612 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3613 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3616 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3617 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3618 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3619 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3620 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3623 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3624 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3625 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3626 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3629 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3630 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3633 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3634 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3635 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3636 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3637 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3638 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3642 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3643 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3644 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3645 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3646 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3647 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3648 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3649 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3650 - Improved html export of tables.
3651 - Various clean-up changes.
3654 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3658 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3659 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3663 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3664 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3668 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3669 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3670 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3673 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
3674 - New startup option `content'.
3675 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
3676 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
3677 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
3680 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
3681 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
3682 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
3683 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
3684 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
3685 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
3688 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
3689 table shape when typing in fields.
3690 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
3691 into arbitrary major modes.
3692 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
3693 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
3694 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
3697 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
3698 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
3699 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
3701 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
3702 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
3703 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
3704 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
3705 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
3707 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
3708 - Sorting fully configurable.
3709 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
3710 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
3714 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
3715 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
3716 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
3717 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
3718 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
3719 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
3720 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
3723 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
3724 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
3725 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
3726 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
3727 - Priorities for TODO items.
3728 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
3729 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
3730 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
3735 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
3736 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
3737 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
3738 `org-todo-interpretation'.
3739 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
3740 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
3741 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
3742 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
3743 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
3744 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
3745 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
3746 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
3747 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
3748 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
3749 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
3752 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
3753 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
3754 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
3755 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
3756 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
3757 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
3758 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
3759 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
3760 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
3761 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
3762 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
3763 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
3766 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
3767 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
3768 - Date ranges introduced.
3769 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
3770 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
3771 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
3772 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
3773 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
3774 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
3775 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
3778 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
3779 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
3780 - Fully automatic table editor.
3781 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
3782 - Other link system changes
3783 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
3784 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
3785 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
3786 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
3787 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
3788 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
3789 Please re-read the manual section about links.
3791 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
3792 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
3793 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
3794 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
3795 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
3796 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
3798 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
3802 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
3803 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
3804 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
3805 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
3809 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents