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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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13 * Version 6.17 (in preparation)
17 *** Capture column view into a different file.
19 The :id parameter for the dynamic block capturing column view
20 can now truly be an ID that will also be found in a
21 different file. Also, it can be like =file:path/to/file=, to
22 capture the global column view from a different file.
24 Thanks to Francois Lagarde for his report that IDs outside
25 the current file would not work.
31 Cleanup of many small bugs, and one new feature.
35 *** References to last table row with special names
37 Fields in the last row of a table can now be referenced with
38 $LR1, $LR2, etc. These references can appear both on the
39 left hand side and right hand side of a formula.
43 This version reverses the introduction of @0 as a reference to
44 the last rwo in a table, because of a conflict with the use of
45 @0 for the current row.
50 - All known LaTeX export issues fixed
51 - Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
52 - Better implementation for entry IDs
53 - Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
54 - Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
56 ** Incompatible changes
57 *** Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
59 There used to be a syntax for setting link attributes for
60 HTML export by enclosing the attributes into double braces
61 and adding them to the link itself, like
64 [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="an image"}}] ]
67 This syntax is not longer supported, use instead
70 ,#+ATTR_HTML: alt="an image"
76 *** All known LaTeX export issues fixed
78 All the remaining issues with the LaTeX exporter have hopefully
79 been addressed in this release. In particular, this covers
80 quoting of special characters in tables and problems with
81 exporting files where the headline is in the first line, or with
84 *** Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
86 Tables, and Hyperlinks that represent inlined images, can now be
87 equipped with additional information that will be used during
88 export. The information will be taken from the following special
89 lines in the buffer and apply to the first following table or
92 - #+CAPTION: :: The caption of the image or table. This string
93 should be processed according to the export backend, but
96 - #+LABEL: :: A label to identify the figure/table for cross
97 references. For HTML export, this string will become the
98 ID for the ~<div class="figure">~ element that encapsulates
99 the image tag and the caption. For LaTeX export, this
100 string will be used as the argument of a ~\label{...}~
101 macro. These labels will be available for internal links
102 like ~[[label][Table] ]~.
104 - #+ATTR_HTML: :: Attributes for HTML export of image, to be
105 added as attributes into the ~<img...>~ tag. This string
106 will not be processed, so it should have immediately the
109 - #+ATTR_LaTeX: :: Attributes for LaTeX export of images and
111 For /images/, this string is directly inserted into
112 the optional argument of the ~\includegraphics[...]{file}~
113 command, to specify scaling, clipping and other options.
114 This string will not be processed, so it should have
115 immediately the right format, like =width=5cm,angle=90=.\\
116 For /tables/, this can currently contain the keyword
117 =longtable=, to request typesetting of the table using the
118 longtable package, which automatically distributes the table
119 over several pages if needed. Also, the attributes line may
120 contain an alignment string for the tabular environment, like
121 =longtable,align=l|lrl=
123 For LaTeX export, if either a caption or a label is given, the element
124 will be exported as a float, i.e. wrapped into a figure or table
127 *** Better implementation for entry IDs
129 Unique identifiers for entries can now be used more efficiently.
130 Internally, a hash array has replaced the alist used so far to
131 keep track of the files in which an ID is defined. This makes it
132 quite fast to find an entry by ID.
134 There is a new link type which looks like this:
137 id:GLOBALLY-UNIQUE-IDENTIFIER
140 This link points to a specific entry. When you move the entry to
141 a different file, for example if you move it to an archive
142 file, the link will continue to work.
144 The file /org-id.el/ contains an API that can be used to write
145 code using these identifiers, including creating IDs and finding
146 them wherever they are.
148 Org has its own method to create unique identifiers, but if the system
149 has /uuidgen/ command installed (Mac's and Linux systems generally
150 do), it will be used by default (a change compared to the earlier
151 implmentation, where you explicitdly had to opt for uuidgen). You can
152 also select the method by hand, using the variable =org-id-method=.
154 If the ID system ever gets confused about where a certain ID is, it
155 initiates a global scan of all agenda files with associated archives,
156 all files previously known containing any IDs, and all currently
157 visited Org-mode files to rebuild the hash. You can also initiate
158 this by hand: =M-x org-id-update-id-locations=. Running this command
159 will also dump into the =*Messages*= buffer information about any
160 duplicate IDs. These should not exist, and Org will never /make/ the
161 same ID twice, but if you /copy/ an entry with its properties,
162 duplicate IDs will inevitably be produced. Unfortunately, this is
163 unavoidable in a plain text system that allows you to edit the text in
164 arbitrary ways, and a portion of care on your side is needed to keep
167 The hash is stored in the file =~/.emacs.d/.org-id-locations=.
168 This is also a change from previous versions where the file was
169 =~/.org=id-locations=. Therefore, you can remove this old file
170 if you have it. I am not sure what will happen if the =.emacs.d=
171 directory does not exists in your setup, but in modern Emacsen, I
172 believe it should exist. If you do not want to use IDs across
173 files, you can avoid the overhead with tracking IDs by
174 customizing the variable =org-id-track-globally=. IDs can then
175 still be used for links inside a single file.
177 IDs will also be used when you create a new link to an Org-mode
178 buffer. If you use =org-store-link= (normally at =C-c l=) inside
179 en entry in an Org-mode buffer, and ID property will be created
180 if it does not exist, and the stored link will be an =id:= link.
181 If you prefer the much less secure linking to headline text, you
182 can configure the variable =org-link-to-org-use-id=. The default
183 setting for this variable is =create-if-interactive=, meaning
184 that an ID will be created when you store a link interactively,
185 but not if you happen to be in an Org-mode file while you create
186 a remember note (which usually has a link to the place where you
187 were when starting remember).
189 *** Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
191 You may now use =@0= to reference the last dataline in a table
192 in a stable way. This is useful in particular for automatically
193 generated tables like the ones using /org-collector.el/ by Eric
199 - New relative timer to support timed notes
200 - Special faces can be set for individual tags
201 - The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
202 - Exclude some tags from inheritance.
203 - More special values for time comparisons in property searches
204 - Control for exporting meta data
205 - Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
206 - LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
207 - Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
209 ** Incompatible Changes
211 *** Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
213 Relative row references in tables look like this: "@-4" which
214 means the forth row above this one. These row references are
215 not allowed to cross horizontal separator lines (hlines). So
216 far, when a row reference violates this policy, Org would
217 silently choose the field just next to the hline.
219 Tassilo Horn pointed out that this kind of hidden magic is
220 actually confusing and may cause incorrect formulas, and I do
221 agree. Therefore, trying to cross a hline with a relative
222 reference will now throw an error.
224 If you need the old behavior, customize the variable
225 `org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline'.
229 *** New relative timer to support timed notes
231 Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while
232 watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.
235 Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time
236 you use this, the timer will be started. When called
237 with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.
240 Insert a description list item with the current relative
241 time. With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
244 Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the
245 normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.
248 Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
249 By default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a
250 =C-u= prefix, reset the timer to specific starting
251 offset. The user is prompted for the offset, with a
252 default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this
253 can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the
254 process. When called with a double prefix argument
255 =C-c C-u=, change all timer strings in the active
256 region by a certain amount. This can be used to fix timer
257 strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right
260 Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for
261 contributions to this idea.
263 *** Special faces can be set for individual tags
265 You may now use the variable =org-tag-faces= to define the
266 face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
267 do for TODO keywords.
269 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.
271 *** The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
273 This request has come up often, most recently it was
274 formulated by Tassilo Horn.
276 If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
277 tags, customize the variable =org-agenda-show-inherited-tags=.
279 *** Exclude some tags from inheritance.
281 So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to
282 allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using
283 one of the more complex settings for
284 `org-use-tag-inheritance'. It may actually be better to
285 allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult
286 to achieve with this methodology.
288 A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to
289 specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.
291 *** More special values for time comparisons in property searches
293 In addition to =<now>=, =<today>=, =<yesterday>=, and
294 =<tomorrow>=, there are more special values accepted now in
295 time comparisons in property searches: You may use strings
296 like =<+3d>= or =<-2w>=, with units d, w, m, and y for day,
297 week, month, and year, respectively
299 Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.
301 *** Control for exporting meta data
303 All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the
304 priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from
305 export with appropriate options:
307 | Variable | Publishing property | OPTIONS switch |
308 |-------------------------------+---------------------+----------------|
309 | org-export-with-todo-keywords | :todo-keywords | todo: |
310 | org-export-with-tags | :tags | tags: |
311 | org-export-with-priority | :priority | pri: |
313 *** Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
315 You can now use the key =C-c C-x M-w= in a w3m buffer with
316 HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
317 a special way. When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
318 buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
321 For this to work you need to load the new file /org-w3m.el./
322 Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this
325 Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for
328 *** LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
330 The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
331 export if you configure =org-use-property-inheritance= like
334 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
335 (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))
342 - Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
343 - Support for ido completion
344 - New face for date lines in agenda column view
345 - Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
346 - New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
347 - New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
349 - BBDB links may use regular expressions.
350 - Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
351 - Improved XHTML compliance
355 *** Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
357 The remember buffers created with Org's extensions are in
358 Org-mode, which is nice to prepare snippets that will
359 actually be stored in Org-mode files. However, this makes it
360 hard to configure key bindings without modifying the Org-mode
361 keymap. There is now a minor mode active in these buffers,
362 `org-remember-mode', and its keymap org-remember-mode-map can
363 be used for key bindings. By default, this map only contains
364 the bindings for =C-c C-c= to store the note, and =C-c C-k=
365 to abort it. Use `org-remember-mode-hook' to define your own
368 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
370 'org-remember-mode-hook
372 (define-key org-remember-mode-map
373 "\C-x\C-s" 'org-remember-finalize)))
376 If you wish, you can also use this to free the =C-c C-c=
377 binding (by binding this key to nil in the minor mode map),
378 so that you can use =C-c C-c= again to set tags.
380 This modification is based on a request by Tim O'Callaghan.
382 *** Support for ido completion
384 You can now get the completion interface from /ido.el/ for
385 many of Org's internal completion commands by turning on the
386 variable =org-completion-use-ido=. =ido-mode= must also be
387 active before you can use this.
389 This change is based upon a request by Samuel Wales.
391 *** New face for date lines in agenda column view
393 When column view is active in the agenda, and when you have
394 summarizing properties, the date lines become normal column
395 lines and the separation between different days becomes
396 harder to see. If this bothers you, you can now customize
397 the face =org-agenda-column-dateline=.
399 This is based on a request by George Pearson.
401 *** Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
403 These anchors can be used to jump to a directly with an HTML
404 link, just like the =sec-xxx= IDs. For example, the
405 following will make a http link
406 =//domain/path-to-my-file.html#dummy= work:
413 This is based on a request by Matt Lundin.
415 *** New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
417 This new file implements special export behavior of
418 user-defined blocks. The currently supported blocks are
420 - comment :: Comment blocks with author-specific markup
421 - ditaa :: conversion of ASCII art into pretty png files
422 using Stathis Sideris' /ditaa.jar/ program
423 - dot :: creation of graphs in the /dot/ language
424 - R :: Sweave type exporting using the R program
426 For more details and examples, see the file commentary in
429 Kudos to Eric Schulte for this new functionality, after
430 /org-plot.el/ already his second major contribution. Thanks
431 to Stathis for this excellent program, and for allowing us to
432 bundle it with Org-mode.
434 *** New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
436 This module gives control over execution Emacs Lisp code
437 blocks included in a file.
439 Thanks to Eric Schulte also for this file.
443 You can now configure Org to understand many links created
444 with the Emacs Planner package, so you can cut text from
445 planner pages and paste them into Org-mode files without
446 having to re-write the links. Among other things, this means
447 that the command =org-open-at-point-global= which follows
448 links not only in Org-mode, but in arbitrary files like
449 source code files etc, will work also with links created by
450 planner. The following customization is needed to make all of
453 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
454 (setq org-link-translation-function
455 'org-translate-link-from-planner)
458 I guess an inverse translator could be written and integrated
461 *** BBDB links may use regular expressions.
463 This did work all along, but only now I have documented it.
465 *** =yank-pop= works again after yanking an outline tree
467 Samuel Wales had noticed that =org-yank= did mess up this
468 functionality. Now you can use =yank-pop= again, the only
469 restriction is that the so-yanked text will not be
470 pro/demoted or folded.
472 *** Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
474 Thanks to Steve Purcell for a patch to this effect.
476 *** Improved XHTML compliance
478 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this.
480 *** Many bug fixes again.
485 - A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
486 - Fine-tuning the behavior of `org-yank'
487 - Formulas for clocktables
488 - Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
489 - More languages for HTML export.
493 *** A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
495 With =transient-make-mode= active (=zmacs-regions= under
496 XEmacs), you can now select a region of entries and refile
497 them all with a single =C-c C-w= command.
499 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this useful proposal.
501 *** Fine-tuning the behavior of =org-yank=
503 The behavior of Org's yanking command has been further
504 fine-tuned in order to avoid some of the small annoyances
507 - Calling =org-yank= with a prefix arg will stop any special
508 treatment and directly pass through to the normal =yank=
509 command. Therefore, you can now force a normal yank with
512 - Subtrees will only be folded after a yank if doing so will
513 now swallow any non-white characters after the yanked text.
514 This is, I think a really important change to make the
515 command work more sanely.
517 *** Formulas for clocktables
519 You can now add formulas to a clock table, either by hand, or
520 with a =:formula= parameter. These formulas can be used to
521 create additional columns with further analysis of the
524 Thanks to Jurgen Defurne for triggering this addition.
526 *** Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
528 The footnote export in 6.11 really was not good enough. Now
529 it works fine. If you have customized
530 =footnote-section-tag=, make sure that your customization is
531 matched by =footnote-section-tag-regexp=.
533 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this change.
535 *** More languages for HTML export.
537 More languages are supported during HTML export. This is
538 only relevant for the few special words Org inserts, like
539 "Table of Contents", or "Footnotes". Also the encoding
540 issues with this feature seem to be solved now.
542 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing me to fix the encoding
549 - Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
550 - State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
551 - Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
552 - HTML export now validates again as XHTML
553 - The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
554 - Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
555 - Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app
556 - Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~"
557 - Links to attachment files
558 - Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
559 - Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
563 *** Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
564 When yanking a cut/copied subtree or a series of trees, the
565 normal yank key =C-y= now adjusts the level of the tree to
566 make it fit into the current outline position, without losing
567 its identity, and without swallowing other subtrees.
569 This uses the command =org-past-subtree=. An additional
570 change in that command has been implemented: Normally, this
571 command picks the right outline level from the surrounding
572 *visible* headlines, and uses the smaller one. So if the
573 cursor is between a level 4 and a level 3 headline, the tree
574 will be pasted as level 3. If the cursor is actually *at*
575 the beginning of a headline, the level of that headline will
576 be used. For example, lets say you have a tree like this:
582 ,(2)* Level one again
585 with (1) and (2) indicating possible cursor positions for the
586 insertion. When at (1), the tree will be pasted as level 2.
587 When at (2), it will be pasted as level 1.
589 If you do not want =C-y= to behave like this, configure the
590 variable =org-yank-adjusted-subtrees=.
592 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this idea and a partial implementation.
594 *** State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
596 If you configure the variable =org-agenda-log-mode-items=,
597 you can now request that all logged state changes be included
598 in the agenda when log mode is active. If you find this too
599 much for normal applications, you can also temporarily
600 request the inclusion of state changes by pressing =C-u l= in
603 This was a request by Hsiu-Khuern Tang.
605 You can also press `C-u C-u l' to get *only* log items in the
606 agenda, withour any timestamps/deadlines etc.
608 *** Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
609 Previously, footnotes would be left in the document where
610 they are defined, now they are all collected and put into a
611 special =<div>= at the end of the document.
613 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this request.
615 *** HTML export now validates again as XHTML.
617 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this cleanup.
619 *** The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
621 If the option =org-clock-in-resume= is t, and the first clock
622 line in an entry is unclosed, clocking into that task resumes
623 the clock from that time.
625 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
627 *** Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
629 The data saved include the contents of =org-clock-history=,
630 and the running clock, if there is one.
632 To use this, you will need to add to your .emacs
634 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
635 (setq org-clock-persist t)
636 (setq org-clock-in-resume t)
637 (org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
640 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
642 *** Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app.
644 So far you could only bypass your setup in `org-file-apps'
645 and force opening a file link in Emacs by using a =C-u= prefix arg
646 with =C-c C-o=. Now you can call =C-u C-u C-c C-o= to force
647 an external application. Which external application depends
648 on your system. On Mac OS X and Windows, =open= is used. On
649 a GNU/Linux system, the mailcap settings are used.
651 This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.
653 *** Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~".
655 Inserting file links with =C-u C-c C-l= was buggy if the
656 setting of `org-link-file-path-type' was `adaptive' (the
657 default). Absolute file paths were not abbreviated relative
658 to the users home directory. This bug has been fixed.
660 Thanks to Matt Lundin for the report.
662 *** Links to attachment files
664 Even though one of the purposes of entry attachments was to
665 reduce the number of links in an entry, one might still want
666 to have the occasional link to one of those files. You can
667 now use link abbreviations to set up a special link type that
668 points to attachments in the current entry. Note that such
669 links will only work from within the same entry that has the
670 attachment, because the directory path is entry specific.
671 Here is the setup you need:
673 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
674 (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("att" . org-attach-expand-link)))
677 After this, a link like this will work
679 : [[att:some-attached-file.txt]]
681 This was a proposal by Lindsay Todd.
683 *** Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
685 When a repeating task, listed in the daily/weekly agenda under
686 today's date, is completed from the agenda, it is listed as
687 DONE in the agenda until the next update happens. After the
688 next update, the task will have disappeared, of course,
689 because the new date is no longer today.
691 *** Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
693 Buffers that are created during publishing are now deleted
694 when the publishing is over. At least I hope it works like this.
700 - Secondary agenda filtering is becoming a killer feature
701 - Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
702 - Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
703 - C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
704 - Customize org-mouse.el feature set to free up mouse events
705 - New commands for export all the way to PDF (through LaTeX)
706 - Some bug fixed for LaTeX export, more bugs remain.
710 *** Enhancements to secondary agenda filtering
712 This is, I believe, becoming a killer feature. It allows you
713 to define fewer and more general custom agenda commands, and
714 then to do the final narrowing to specific tasks you are
715 looking for very quickly, much faster than calling a new
718 If you have not tries this yet, you should!
720 **** You can now refining the current filter by an additional criterion
721 When filtering an existing agenda view with =/=, you can
722 now narrow down the existing selection by an additional
723 condition. Do do this, use =\= instead of =/= to add the
724 additional criterion. You can also press =+= or =-= after
725 =/= to add a positive or negative condition. A condition
726 can be a TAG, or an effort estimate limit, see below.
728 **** It is now possible to filter for effort estimates
729 This means to filter the agenda for the value of the Effort
730 property. For this you should best set up global allowed
731 values for effort estimates, with
733 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
734 (setq org-global-properties
735 '(("Effort_ALL" . "0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00")))
738 You may then select effort limits with single keys in the
739 filter. It works like this: After =/= or =\=, first select
740 the operator which you want to use to compare effort
743 : < Select entries with effort smaller than or equal to the limit
744 : > Select entries with effort larger than or equal to the limit
745 : = Select entries with effort equal to the limit
747 After that, you can press a single digit number which is
748 used as an index to the allowed effort estimates.
750 If you do not use digits to fast-select tags, you can even
751 skip the operator, which will then default to
752 `org-agenda-filter-effort-default-operator', which is by
755 Thanks to Manish for the great idea to include fast effort
756 filtering into the agenda filtering process.
758 **** The mode line will show the active filter
759 For example, if there is a filter in place that does select
760 for HOME tags, against EMAIL tags, and for tasks with an
761 estimated effort smaller than 30 minutes, the mode-line with
762 show =+HOME-EMAIL+<0:30=
764 **** The filter now persists when the agenda view is refreshed
765 All normal refresh commands, including those that move the
766 weekly agenda from one week to the next, now keep the
767 current filter in place.
769 You need to press =/ /= to turn off the filter. However,
770 when you run a new agenda command, for example going from
771 the weekly agenda to the TODO list, the filter will be
774 *** Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
776 You can still use =C-c C-c= on a headline, but the new
777 binding should be considered as the main binding for this
778 command. The reasons for this change are:
780 - Using =C-c C-c= for tags is really out of line with other
783 - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
784 cannot, because =C-c C-c= exits the buffer :-(
786 - =C-c C-q= will also work when the cursor is somewhere down
787 in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
789 *** Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
791 The new option =org-todo-state-tags-triggers= can be used to
792 define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
793 For example, the setting
795 : (setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers
796 : '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil))
797 : ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
799 will make sure that any change to any of the DONE states will
800 remove tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the
801 "WAITING" state will trigger the tag "Today" to be added.
803 I use this mostly to get rid of TODAY and NEXT tags which I
804 apply to select an entry for execution in the near future,
805 which I often prefer to specific time scheduling.
807 *** C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
808 The new headline is inserted after the current subtree.
810 Thanks to Peter Jones for patches to fine-tune this behavior.
812 *** Customize org-mouse.el feature set
813 There is a new variable =org-mouse-features= which gives you
814 some control about what features of org-mouse you want to
815 use. Turning off some of the feature will free up the
816 corresponding mouse events, or will avoid activating special
817 regions for mouse clicks. By default I have urned off the
818 feature to use drag mouse events to move or promote/demote
819 entries. You can of course turn them back on if you wish.
821 This variable may still change in the future, allowing more
822 fine-grained control.
824 *** New commands for export to PDF
826 This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF
829 : C-c C-e p process to PDF.
830 : C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
833 - \usepackage{graphicx} is now part of the standard class
835 - Several bugs fixed, but definitely not all of them :-(
837 *** New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
839 Set this to =t= if you want state change notes to be inserted
840 after any initial drawers, i.e drawers the immediately follow
841 the headline and the planning line (the one with
842 DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED information).
846 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular expressions, see [[*%20org%20file%20apps%20now%20uses%20regular%20repressions%20instead%20of%20extensions][below]]
850 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
851 Just like in =auto-mode-alist=, car's in the variable
852 =org-file-apps= that are strings are now interpreted as
853 regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
854 instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
855 sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
856 be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
858 There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by
859 Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then
860 any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be
863 *** Changes to the attachment system
865 - The default method to attach a file is now to copy it
866 instead of moving it.
867 - You can modify the default method using the variable
868 `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want
869 to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
870 - The keys =c=, =m=, and =l= specifically select =copy=,
871 =move=, or =link=, respectively, as the attachment method
872 for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'.
873 - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
874 now use =n= instead of =c=.
875 - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
876 itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
877 keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
878 customizing the variable =org-attach-file-list-property=.
882 ** Incompatible changes
884 - Changes in the structure of IDs, see [[*The%20default%20structure%20of%20IDs%20has%20changed][here]] for details.
886 - C-c C-a has been redefined, see [[*%20C%20c%20C%20a%20no%20longer%20calls%20show%20all][here]] for details.
890 *** The default structure of IDs has changed
892 IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
893 - By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be
894 an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
895 - IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters
896 anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used
897 as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not
898 distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
899 - The ID string derived from the current time is now
900 /reversed/ to become an ID. This assures that the first
901 two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to
902 split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
903 - You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems
906 *** =C-c C-a= no longer calls `show-all'
908 The reason for this is that =C-c C-a= is now used for the
909 attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
910 is needed, use =M-x show-all=, or =C-u C-u C-u TAB=.
912 *** New attachment system
914 You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree.
915 This works by creating special directories based on the ID of
916 an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can
917 keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically
918 committing changes to git. See the manual for more
921 Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new
922 concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
924 *** New remember template escapes
926 : %^{prop}p to insert a property
927 : %k the heading of the item currently being clocked
928 : %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
930 Also, when you exit remember with =C-2 C-c C-c=, the item
931 will be filed as a child of the item currently being
932 clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
933 think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
934 added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
937 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
939 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
941 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
943 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
945 This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox
948 Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
950 *** New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
952 It can be used to locally set the variable
953 `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are
954 allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on
955 how to use it, see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php][publishing tutorial]].
961 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
962 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
963 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
964 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
965 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
966 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
967 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
968 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
969 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
970 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
971 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
972 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
973 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
974 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
975 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
976 - It is possible to define filters for column view
977 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
978 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
979 - And tons of bugs fixed.
982 ** Incompatible changes
984 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
986 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
987 remember process is now interpreted differently:
989 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
990 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
991 : in its new location.
992 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
993 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
995 This was requested by John Wiegley.
997 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
999 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
1000 as a tty key replacement.
1002 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1004 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1005 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1006 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1007 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1010 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1014 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
1016 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
1017 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
1018 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
1019 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
1020 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
1021 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
1022 do have the tag will be hidden.
1024 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
1025 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
1026 not require a new search and is very fast.
1028 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
1029 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
1030 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
1031 direct access character.
1033 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
1034 unhiding any hidden lines.
1036 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
1037 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
1038 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
1039 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
1041 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
1043 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
1044 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
1045 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
1046 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
1048 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
1049 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
1050 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
1051 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
1053 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
1054 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
1055 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
1057 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
1060 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
1061 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
1063 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
1065 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
1066 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
1067 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
1068 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
1070 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
1072 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
1074 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
1075 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
1076 behavior is governed by two new variables:
1077 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
1078 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
1079 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
1081 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
1082 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
1083 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
1084 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
1085 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
1086 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
1087 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
1088 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
1091 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
1092 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
1094 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
1097 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
1099 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
1100 remember process is now interpreted differently:
1102 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
1103 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
1104 : in its new location.
1105 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
1106 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
1108 This was requested by John Wiegley.
1110 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
1112 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
1113 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
1114 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
1115 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
1116 you do not like this, customize the variable
1117 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
1119 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
1120 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
1123 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
1125 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
1127 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
1128 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
1129 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
1130 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
1131 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
1134 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
1136 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
1137 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
1139 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1141 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
1143 This was a request by Peter Frings.
1145 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
1147 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
1148 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
1149 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
1151 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
1153 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
1154 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
1155 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
1156 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
1157 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
1158 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
1159 position of the keyword in this sequence.
1161 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
1164 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
1166 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
1168 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
1170 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
1171 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
1173 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
1175 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1177 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1178 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1179 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1180 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1183 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1185 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
1187 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
1188 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
1189 For more information, look at the variable
1190 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
1192 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
1194 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
1196 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1201 For older Changes, see [[file:Changes_old.org]]