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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 6.06 (in preparation)
21 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
22 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
23 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
26 *** New setup for HTML style information
27 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
28 information, the following changes have been made:
29 - The default style has moved to a constant,
30 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
32 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
33 just the empty string. This variable should receive
34 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
35 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
36 be used to establish project-wide settings.
37 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
38 should be used for file-local setings. Org-publish can, if
39 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
41 - When a file is published, the values of
42 - org-export-html-style-default
43 - org-export-html-style
44 - org-export-html-style-extra
45 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
48 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
50 *** A way to compare times during a property search
51 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
52 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
55 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
57 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
58 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
61 This is based on a request by Manish.
63 *** Simplified way to specify file links
65 In a link, you can now leave uout the "file:" prefix if you
66 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
67 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
68 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
69 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
72 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
73 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
79 *** Changes in iCalendar export
80 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
81 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
84 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
85 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
86 will no longer show up in the calendar.
88 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
89 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
92 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
93 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
96 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
97 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
99 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
100 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
101 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
102 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
103 old behavior or even do something completely different.
105 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
109 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
110 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
111 thanks for all the great ideas.
115 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
116 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
117 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
118 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
119 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
120 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
121 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
122 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
123 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
124 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
126 ** Incompatible changes
128 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
129 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
130 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
133 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
135 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
136 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
137 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
138 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
139 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
140 that led to this development.
142 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
144 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
145 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
146 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
147 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
148 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
149 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
150 the calendar if you prefer that.
152 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
154 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
155 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
156 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
158 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
159 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
160 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
162 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
163 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
164 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
165 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
166 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
168 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
170 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
171 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
172 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
173 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
174 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
178 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
179 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
181 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
182 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
183 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
184 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
187 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
188 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
189 this query will be considered during the iteration.
190 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
193 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
194 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
197 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
198 skipping facilities of the scanner.
201 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
202 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
203 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
204 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
205 trees will be ignored.
207 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
209 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
210 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
213 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
214 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
216 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
217 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
220 *** Changes in Remember templates
222 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
223 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
224 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
227 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
228 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
229 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
230 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
231 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
234 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
235 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
236 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
237 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
238 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
239 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
241 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
242 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
243 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
244 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
245 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
246 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
248 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
250 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
251 Spiers for this proposal.
253 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
255 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
256 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
258 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
260 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
261 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
262 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
263 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
265 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
266 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
267 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
268 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
269 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
271 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
272 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
273 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
274 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
279 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
280 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
281 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
282 - New properties for customizing subtree export
284 ** Incompatible changes
286 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
287 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
288 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
290 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
291 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
292 archives still did this wrong.
296 *** Statistics for TODO entries
298 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
299 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
300 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
301 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
302 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
304 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
305 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
306 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
307 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
308 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
309 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
310 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
311 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
312 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
313 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
316 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
317 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
318 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
319 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
320 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
322 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
325 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
327 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
328 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
329 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
330 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
331 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
332 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
333 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
334 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
335 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
336 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
337 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
338 calling this command.
340 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
341 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
344 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
350 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
357 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
361 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
363 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
364 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
365 Org core. If you set the variable
367 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
369 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
370 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
371 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
372 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
375 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
376 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
377 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
379 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
380 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
381 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
382 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
383 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
384 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
385 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
386 the different instances originate.
388 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
390 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
391 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
392 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
393 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
394 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
395 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
396 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
397 and only the options you give in the property will be
398 overwritten. For example:
404 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
405 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
406 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
414 - Description lists are now supported natively
415 - Block quotes for export
416 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
417 - Include files for export
418 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
419 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
420 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
421 - Completion of structure elements
422 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
423 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
424 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
425 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
427 ** Incompatible changes
429 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
431 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
432 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
433 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
434 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
435 value on a per-file basis with
443 *** Description lists are now supported natively
445 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
446 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
447 separated by " :: ". For example
449 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
450 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
451 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
452 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
453 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
454 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
455 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
456 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
457 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
461 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
462 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
463 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
464 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
465 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
466 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
467 natural constants and units into a buffer.
468 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
469 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
471 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
472 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
474 *** Block quotes for export
476 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
480 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
481 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
488 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
489 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
492 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
494 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
495 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
496 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
500 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
507 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
508 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
509 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
510 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
512 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
518 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
519 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
520 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
521 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
522 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
523 that in the example above.
525 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
526 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
527 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
529 *** Include files for export
533 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
535 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
536 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
537 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
538 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
539 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
540 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
542 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
543 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
545 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
547 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
548 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
549 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
550 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
551 value on a per-file basis with
556 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
558 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
559 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
560 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
561 you write in a buffer
563 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
565 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
566 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
568 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
570 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
571 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
572 other in-buffer keywords.
574 *** Completion of structure elements
575 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
576 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
577 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
578 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
579 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
580 Currently supported templates are:
593 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
594 below under /org-mtags.el/.
596 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
598 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
599 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
600 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
601 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
602 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
603 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
604 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
607 - folded :: Fold the subtree
608 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
609 headlines of all direct children
610 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
612 - all :: Show the entire subtree
614 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
615 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
616 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
617 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
618 currently looks like this:
623 , :VISIBILITY: content
628 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
630 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
631 visibility of the buffer.
633 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
635 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
636 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
638 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
639 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
640 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
641 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
642 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
643 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
644 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
645 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
646 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
649 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
650 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
651 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
652 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
653 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
654 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
655 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
657 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
659 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
660 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
661 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
663 *** New files in the contrib directory
665 Do people think any of these should become core?
667 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
668 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
669 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
670 of [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/emacs-wiki.html#Lisp-Tricks][Emacs Wiki]] and [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/muse/Embedded-Lisp.html#Embedded-Lisp][Muse]].
671 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
672 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
673 For example, instead of
681 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
682 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
683 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
684 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
685 in the file [[http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git?a=blob_plain;f=contrib/lisp/org-mtags.el;hb=HEAD][commentary in the file org-mtags.el]].
687 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
688 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
692 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
698 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
699 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
700 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
701 - New operators for property searches
702 - Search commands can now include archive files.
703 - Clock tables can include the archive files
704 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
708 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
710 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
711 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
712 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
713 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
714 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
715 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
717 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
719 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
720 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
721 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
722 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
723 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
724 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
725 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
726 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
727 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
728 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
729 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
730 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
731 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
734 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
736 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
737 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
738 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
739 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
740 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
741 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
742 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
743 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
744 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
746 *** New operators for property searches
748 Property searches can now choose a number of different
749 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
750 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
752 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
753 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
754 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
756 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
757 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
759 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
760 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
761 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
762 match" or "does not match", respectively.
764 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
766 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
768 If the value of the customization variable
769 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
770 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
771 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
772 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
773 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
776 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
778 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
779 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
780 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
781 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
782 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
784 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
786 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
787 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
788 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
789 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
790 be functions, so that more general transformations are
791 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
792 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
796 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
797 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
798 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
802 - The Org distribution has a new structure
803 - New system for selecting modules to load
804 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
805 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
806 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
807 - Export commands can be done in the background
808 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
809 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
810 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
811 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
812 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
813 - And some more small fixes and improvements
815 ** Incompatible changes
817 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
819 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
820 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
821 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
822 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
823 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
824 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
828 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
830 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
831 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
832 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
833 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
834 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
835 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
839 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
840 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
841 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
842 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
843 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
844 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
845 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
846 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
849 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
851 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
852 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
853 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
854 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
855 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
856 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
857 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
858 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
861 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
862 buffer you can simply use "A".
864 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
866 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
868 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
869 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
870 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
871 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
874 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
875 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
876 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
877 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
878 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
879 visibility both locally and globally.
881 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
882 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
883 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
885 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
887 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
888 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
889 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
890 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
891 JavaScript program is served from
892 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
893 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
894 to be independent of the existence and stability of
895 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
896 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
899 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
901 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
903 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
904 together with org-info.js.
906 *** Export improvements
908 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
909 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
910 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
913 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
914 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
915 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
916 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
917 this less system dependent in the future.
919 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
921 *** Improvements to clocktable
923 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
924 when trying to specify the time block that should be
925 considered when constructing the table.
927 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
931 |--------------+-----------------------|
932 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
933 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
934 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
935 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
937 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
938 | thisweek | The current week |
939 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
940 | thismonth | The current month |
941 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
942 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
945 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
946 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
947 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
948 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
949 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
950 will switch to the following week.
952 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
953 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
954 a request from Bernt Hansen.
956 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
957 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
958 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
959 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
960 configure the variable
961 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
962 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
963 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
965 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
967 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
968 the form =W08= for week 8.
970 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
971 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
972 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
973 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
974 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
975 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
976 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
977 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
978 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
979 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
980 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
982 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
983 specify an ISO week. For example
985 : w4 Monday of week 4
986 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
988 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
989 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
991 So far I have not implemented the effect of
992 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
993 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
994 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
995 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
996 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
997 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1000 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1001 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1002 test extensively and report back.
1004 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1006 *** Improvements in Search View
1008 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1009 only in TODO entries.
1011 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1012 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1013 also match in "Nasim's".
1018 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1019 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1020 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1021 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1022 this excellent proposal.
1024 The regexp option is also implemented for
1025 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1026 properties for inheritance my name.
1028 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1029 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1030 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1031 if and only if the setting in
1032 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1035 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1036 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1037 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1038 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1039 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1040 customize them freely.
1042 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1043 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1044 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1045 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1046 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1047 default date, not switch to today.
1049 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1050 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1052 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1053 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1055 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1056 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1057 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1059 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1062 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1063 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1064 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1066 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1067 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1068 initial region if set.
1070 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1073 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1075 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1076 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1077 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1078 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1079 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1080 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1081 format. For example:
1084 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1085 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1088 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1090 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1091 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1092 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1093 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1095 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1102 - New keyword search agenda view
1104 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1106 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1108 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1110 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1112 - New repeaters mechanisms
1114 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1116 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1118 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1122 ** Incompatible changes
1124 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1125 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1130 *** New keyword search agenda view
1132 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1133 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1134 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1135 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1136 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1137 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1138 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1139 example, the search string
1141 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1143 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1144 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1145 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1146 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1147 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1148 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1149 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1150 (possibly sub-) heading.
1152 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1153 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1155 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1156 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1159 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1160 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1161 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1163 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1165 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1166 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1168 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1169 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1170 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1172 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1173 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1174 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1175 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1177 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1179 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1180 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1181 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1182 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1183 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1184 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1185 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1186 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1187 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1190 One possible application for this would be to have several
1191 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1192 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1193 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1194 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1195 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1197 : (setq org-remember-templates
1198 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1199 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1201 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1203 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1205 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1206 + In a table, add a hline as before
1207 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1208 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1209 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1210 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1211 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1212 item markers from all lines.
1214 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1216 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1217 + in a table, recompute, as before
1218 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1219 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1220 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1221 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1222 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1224 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1226 *** Changes related to time stamps
1228 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1229 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1230 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1231 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1232 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1233 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1234 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1235 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1236 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1238 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1240 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1241 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1243 :** TODO Call Father
1244 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1245 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1246 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1247 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1248 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1249 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1250 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1251 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1254 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1256 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1258 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1259 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1262 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1263 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1264 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1265 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1266 the previous content.
1268 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1270 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1271 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1272 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1274 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1278 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1279 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1280 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1281 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1284 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1285 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1286 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1289 - There are three new hooks:
1291 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1292 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1293 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1297 ** Incompatible changes
1299 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1300 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1301 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1305 *** Changes to logging progress
1307 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1308 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1309 sections in the manual. Basically:
1311 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1312 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1313 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1314 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1315 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1316 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1317 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1318 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1320 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1321 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1322 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1323 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1324 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1326 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1327 : Here we not even define a fast access
1328 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1330 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1334 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1335 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1336 of the line) before the current line.
1338 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1339 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1340 create a new line below the current one.
1344 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1345 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1352 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1354 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1355 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1357 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1359 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1360 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1361 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1363 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1365 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1367 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1371 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1373 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1375 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1377 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1379 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1381 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1383 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1385 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1389 ** Incompatible Changes
1391 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1392 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1393 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1397 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1399 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1400 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1402 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1403 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1405 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1406 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1407 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1408 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1409 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1410 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1413 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1414 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1417 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1418 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1419 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1421 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1422 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1423 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1424 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1425 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1426 Possible values are:
1428 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1430 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1431 path to select a location.
1432 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1435 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1436 they are always current.
1438 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1439 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1440 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1441 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1442 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1443 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1444 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1445 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1447 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1448 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1449 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1450 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1451 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1452 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1453 interface. Comments?
1458 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1459 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1460 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1461 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1462 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1464 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1465 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1467 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1468 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1470 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1471 headline up to the tags.
1472 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1474 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1476 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1477 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1478 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1479 request by Austin Frank.
1481 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1482 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1483 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1485 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1486 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1487 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1488 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1490 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1491 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1492 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1493 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1494 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1495 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1496 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1497 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1498 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1499 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1500 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1503 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1504 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1505 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1506 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1514 will file is with the following property
1516 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1518 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1519 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1520 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1522 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1523 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1532 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1534 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1536 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1538 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1540 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1542 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1544 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1546 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1548 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1552 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1553 entries in a subtree. For example
1555 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1557 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1558 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1559 request by Bernt Hansen.
1561 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1562 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1563 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1564 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1565 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1566 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1567 interactively select the filing location (file and
1568 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1569 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1570 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1571 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1572 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1574 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1575 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1576 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1577 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1578 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1581 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1582 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1583 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1584 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1585 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1586 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1587 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1590 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1591 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1592 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1595 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1596 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1597 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1598 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1599 explain here, complex.
1601 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1602 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1603 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1605 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1606 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1607 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1609 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1621 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1622 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1623 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1624 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1625 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1626 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1627 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1628 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1629 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1630 subtree motion commands.
1632 - Plain lists items work the same.
1634 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1635 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1636 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1639 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1640 let me know about any problems.
1644 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1645 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1646 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1647 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1648 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1650 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1651 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1652 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1653 history variable. For example:
1655 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1657 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1658 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1659 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1660 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1661 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1662 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1663 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1664 by Bastien and Adam.
1666 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1667 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1668 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1669 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1673 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1674 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1677 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1678 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1679 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1680 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1681 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1682 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1688 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1690 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1691 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1692 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1693 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1694 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1695 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1696 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1697 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1700 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1701 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1702 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1703 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1705 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1706 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1707 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
1708 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1710 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1711 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1712 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1713 select a new restriction.
1715 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1717 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1719 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1721 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1722 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1724 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1725 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1726 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1729 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1730 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1731 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1733 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1734 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1735 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1736 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1737 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1743 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1744 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1745 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1747 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1748 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1749 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1758 + Remember and related stuff
1759 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1760 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1761 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1762 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1764 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1765 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1766 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1767 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1768 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1769 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1770 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1772 + Properties and Column view
1773 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1774 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1775 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1776 - New currency summary type {$}
1778 + The date/time prompt
1779 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1780 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1781 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1784 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1785 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1788 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1791 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1792 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1793 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1794 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1795 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1797 ** Incompatible changes
1799 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1800 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1801 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1803 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1804 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1805 prompted, like this:
1807 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1809 : (org-remember ?n))
1811 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1812 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1814 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1816 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1818 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1819 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1823 *** Remember and related stuff
1825 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1826 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1827 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1828 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1829 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1830 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1831 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1832 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1833 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1834 definitions. For example:
1836 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1838 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1841 : (setq org-refile-targets
1842 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1844 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1845 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1846 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1847 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1850 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1851 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1853 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1854 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1855 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1856 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1857 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1859 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1860 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1862 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1864 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1865 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1866 : %[..] include file
1868 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1870 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1871 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1872 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1875 : (require 'remember)
1876 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1877 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1878 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1880 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1881 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1882 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1884 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1886 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1888 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1890 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1891 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1892 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1893 the default in Org-mode.
1895 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1896 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1897 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1898 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1900 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1901 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1902 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1903 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1904 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1906 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1907 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1908 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1909 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1912 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1913 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1914 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1915 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1916 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1918 *** Properties and Column view
1920 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1921 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1924 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1925 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1926 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1927 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1928 discussion around this issue.
1930 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1931 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1932 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1933 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1934 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1935 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1936 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1937 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1939 *** The date/time prompt
1941 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1944 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1945 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1946 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1947 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1948 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1950 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1951 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1952 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1953 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1954 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1955 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1956 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1957 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1958 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1960 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1961 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1962 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1963 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1964 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1966 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1968 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1969 list of newly performed conversions:
1971 | Org | Description | HTML |
1972 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1973 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1974 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1975 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1976 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1978 You can turn this globally on or off with
1979 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1980 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1981 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1982 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1984 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1985 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1989 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1990 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1991 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1992 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1993 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1994 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1996 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1998 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1999 export by setting it either globally
2000 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2001 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2002 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2003 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2004 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2007 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2008 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2009 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2011 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2012 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2014 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2015 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2018 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2019 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2020 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2027 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2028 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2029 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2031 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2032 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2033 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2034 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2035 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2037 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2038 with extension matched by the new variable
2039 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2048 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2049 + All known bugs fixed.
2050 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2051 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2052 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2054 - The agenda dispatcher
2055 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2056 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2058 - Sorting improvements
2059 + User-defined sorting keys.
2060 + Sorting by properties.
2061 + Sorting of plain lists.
2063 - HTML <div> structure
2066 + New variables, several of them.
2067 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2068 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2069 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2070 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2074 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2076 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2077 (at least I hope so...).
2079 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2080 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2082 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2083 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2084 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2086 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2087 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2088 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2092 : :ID: planning-overview
2098 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2102 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2103 be prompted for the ID.
2105 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2106 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2107 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2108 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2109 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2112 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2114 *** The agenda dispatcher
2116 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2117 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2118 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2119 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2120 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2121 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2122 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2123 them to custom commands.
2125 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2126 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2127 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2128 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2130 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2131 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2132 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2133 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2134 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2136 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2137 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2140 *** Sorting improvements
2142 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2143 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2145 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2146 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2148 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2151 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2153 *** HTML <div> structure
2155 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2157 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2158 "table-of-contents".
2160 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2161 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2163 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2164 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2166 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2167 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2169 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2170 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2174 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2175 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2176 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2179 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2181 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2183 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2184 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2185 your properties will not be folded away.
2186 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2188 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2189 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2190 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2192 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2193 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2194 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2195 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2196 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2198 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2199 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2200 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2201 a proposal by Bastien.
2203 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2204 request by Wanrong Lin.
2206 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2207 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2208 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2214 - Remember templates can now have name.
2215 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2216 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2217 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2218 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2219 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2220 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2221 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2222 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2223 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2224 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2226 ** Incompatible Changes
2228 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2232 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2233 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2234 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2235 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2236 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2237 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2239 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2240 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2241 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2243 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2244 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2246 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2247 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2248 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2249 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2251 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2252 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2253 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2255 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2256 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2257 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2258 Wiegley for a patch.
2260 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2261 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2262 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2263 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2264 with full completion support.
2266 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2267 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2268 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2270 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2271 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2274 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2275 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2276 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2277 well tested yet, please check it out.
2285 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2286 - Command to jump to the running clock
2287 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2288 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2289 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2290 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2291 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2292 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2293 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2294 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2295 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2297 ** Incompatible changes
2299 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2300 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2302 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2303 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2304 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2306 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2307 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2310 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2315 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2316 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2319 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2322 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2325 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2326 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2327 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2328 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2329 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2331 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2332 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2333 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2334 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2336 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2337 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2338 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2339 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2340 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2341 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2342 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2343 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2344 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2346 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2347 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2348 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2349 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2350 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2351 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2352 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2353 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2354 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2356 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2357 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2358 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2359 being prompted for a template, like this:
2361 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2363 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2365 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2366 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2367 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2368 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2370 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2371 (also `s' does this).
2373 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2374 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2377 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2378 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2379 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2381 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2382 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2383 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2385 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2386 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2387 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2388 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2396 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2397 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2398 - CSV support when importing a table.
2399 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2400 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2401 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2402 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2403 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2404 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2409 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2410 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2413 : * Tree with special properties
2415 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2416 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2419 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2420 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2421 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2422 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2423 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2424 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2425 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2426 encourage you to stop using them.
2428 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2429 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2430 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2431 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2435 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2436 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2437 | file | the full current buffer |
2438 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2439 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2440 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2441 | agenda | all agenda files |
2443 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2444 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2445 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2446 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2449 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2450 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2451 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2452 basic input it works.
2454 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2455 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2456 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2457 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2459 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2460 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2463 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2464 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2466 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2468 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2469 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2470 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2471 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2472 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2474 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2475 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2476 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2477 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2478 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2481 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2482 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2483 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2484 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2485 the children has that particular property defined, the
2486 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2487 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2488 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2489 is a better way of doing things.
2491 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2492 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2493 testing is appreciated.
2495 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2496 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2497 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2498 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2500 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2501 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2502 links in square or angular brackets.
2510 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2513 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2514 agenda can be configured.
2516 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2518 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2520 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2522 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2524 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2525 inherited from the outline faces.
2527 ** Incompatible Changes
2529 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2530 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2531 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2532 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2533 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2538 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2539 switching to that state. With the setting
2541 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2542 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2544 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2547 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2548 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2549 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2550 own function. Configure the new variable
2551 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2552 this development with a patch.
2554 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2555 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2556 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2557 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2558 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2559 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2560 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2562 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2563 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2564 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2565 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2566 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2567 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2568 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2570 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2571 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2574 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2575 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2576 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2577 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2578 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2579 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2580 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2582 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2583 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2584 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2585 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2586 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2587 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2588 match the current org-mode faces.
2590 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2594 ** Incompatible changes
2596 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2600 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2601 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2602 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2604 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2606 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2607 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2608 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2609 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2610 command fall back to cycling.
2612 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2613 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2614 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2615 interface anyway, set the variable
2616 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2617 others for input on this issue.
2619 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2620 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2621 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2623 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2624 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2626 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2627 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2629 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2631 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2632 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2633 `format-time-string', for example:
2635 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2637 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2638 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2639 included) have changed this.
2641 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2642 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2643 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2644 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2645 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2646 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2647 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2653 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2655 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2657 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2659 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2661 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2663 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2665 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2667 ** Incompatible changes
2669 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2670 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2672 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2676 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2677 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2678 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2680 A Here is a configuration example:
2682 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2683 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2684 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2685 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2688 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2689 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2691 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2692 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2693 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2694 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2695 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2696 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2697 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2698 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2699 states, just like you also do for tags.
2701 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2702 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2704 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2705 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2706 switch the entry to that state.
2708 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2709 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2710 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2713 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2715 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2716 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2717 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2718 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2720 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2721 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2723 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2724 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2725 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2726 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2727 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2729 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2730 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2731 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2734 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2735 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2736 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2737 the file will simply be skipped.
2747 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2748 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2749 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2750 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2751 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2752 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2753 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2754 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2757 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2758 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2759 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2760 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2761 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2762 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2763 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2764 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2765 the special locations.
2767 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2770 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2773 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2774 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2775 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2777 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2778 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2779 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2785 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2787 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2789 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2791 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2793 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2795 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2797 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2799 - Global values for selected properties.
2806 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2807 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2808 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2809 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2810 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2811 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2812 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2813 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2815 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2816 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2817 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2818 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2819 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2820 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2821 currently how to handle the new link types for
2824 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2825 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2826 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2827 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2830 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2831 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2832 The syntax is like this
2834 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2836 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2839 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2841 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2842 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2843 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2845 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2848 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2849 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2850 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2851 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2854 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2855 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2856 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2857 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2858 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2859 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2862 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2863 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2864 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2867 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2868 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2869 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2870 `org-global-properties', like this:
2872 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2874 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2876 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2878 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2879 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2880 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2881 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2882 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2883 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2891 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2892 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2893 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2894 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2896 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2897 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2898 this stuff into the drawer.
2899 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2901 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2902 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2904 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2905 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2907 - Lots of minor fixes.
2911 ** Incompatible Changes
2913 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2914 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2915 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2919 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2920 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2921 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2923 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2924 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2925 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2926 know if we need to make this customizable.
2928 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2929 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2930 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2931 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2932 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2934 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2943 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2946 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2947 compute their value from the children's values.
2949 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2950 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2953 ** Incompatible Changes
2955 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2956 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2957 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2958 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2963 - Improvements for properties:
2965 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2966 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2968 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2969 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2970 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2971 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2972 typos when entering properties.
2974 - Improvements for column view.
2976 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2977 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2980 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2981 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2982 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2983 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2986 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2987 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2990 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2991 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2992 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2994 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2995 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2996 beginning of a line. So
2998 : * This is a level 1 headline
2999 : *this is bold text*
3001 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3002 available in orgstruct-mode.
3008 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3009 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3011 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3012 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3013 open if explicitly asked.
3015 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3017 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3018 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3021 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3022 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3025 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3027 ** Incompatible changes
3029 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3030 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3031 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3032 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3033 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3034 that this is the better convention.
3038 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3040 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3041 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3042 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3043 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3044 easily create lists.
3046 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3047 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3048 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3049 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3050 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3051 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3052 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3053 minor modes have assigned to them.
3055 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3056 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3057 the promised implementation.
3061 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3062 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3063 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3064 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3065 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3068 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3070 you can then create drawers like this:
3073 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3074 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3077 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3078 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3080 *** Properties and Column View
3082 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3083 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3084 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3085 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3086 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3087 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3089 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3091 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3092 program using properties, use the functions
3093 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3094 and `org-entry-delete'.
3096 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3099 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3100 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3101 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3102 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3103 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3104 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3106 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3109 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3111 will find entries that
3114 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3115 - are TODO status WAITING.
3117 So here is an entry that will match:
3119 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3124 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3125 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3128 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3130 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3131 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3132 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3133 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3134 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3135 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3136 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3137 can set up different property columns on different levels
3138 of an outline tree. For example:
3142 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3146 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3149 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3151 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3154 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3157 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3158 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3160 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3161 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3162 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3163 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3164 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3165 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3168 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3169 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3171 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3172 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3173 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3174 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3175 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3176 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3178 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3179 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3182 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3184 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3186 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3187 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3188 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3190 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3191 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3192 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3193 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3198 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3199 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3200 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3201 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3202 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3203 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3204 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3207 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3208 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3209 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3210 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3211 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3218 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3220 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3221 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3222 constants can now be set with a line like:
3224 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3228 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3229 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3232 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3234 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3238 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3239 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3240 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3241 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3248 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3249 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3250 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3251 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3253 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3254 See manual section 3.5.3.
3256 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3257 This was a request from Ignotus.
3258 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3260 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3261 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3262 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3266 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3267 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3268 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3269 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3270 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3276 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3277 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3279 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3281 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3283 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3285 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3287 ** Incompatible changes
3289 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3290 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3291 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3292 with the xemacs version. For example:
3294 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3296 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3297 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3298 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3299 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3300 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3304 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3305 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3306 interval on a single day. For example
3308 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3310 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3311 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3312 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3313 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3315 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3318 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3319 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3323 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3325 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3326 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3327 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3328 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3329 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3330 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3331 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3332 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3333 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3334 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3335 stick to the ASCII characters.
3337 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3338 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3339 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3340 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3341 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3343 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3345 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3346 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3347 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3349 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3350 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3351 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3352 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3353 if we can agree on this:
3355 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3356 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3357 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3358 out to a previous level. For example
3366 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3375 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3376 using promotion and demotion functions.
3382 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3383 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3385 ** Incompatible changes
3387 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3391 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3392 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3393 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3394 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3395 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3396 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3397 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3399 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3400 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3401 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3402 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3403 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3404 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3405 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3407 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3408 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3409 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3410 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3411 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3414 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3415 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3416 wherever you want a vertical line:
3418 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3419 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3420 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3422 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3423 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3425 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3426 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3427 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3428 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3429 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3430 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3431 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3432 behavior we had before.
3434 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3436 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3437 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3438 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3439 special characters in other languages as along as your
3440 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3441 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3442 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3448 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3452 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3454 [1]This is a footnote
3456 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3457 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3459 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3461 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3462 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3465 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3471 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3472 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3474 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3475 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3476 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3477 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3479 ** Incompatible Changes
3481 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3482 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3486 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3487 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3489 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3491 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3492 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3493 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3494 collect your credit, let me know!
3496 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3497 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3499 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3500 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3502 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3503 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3504 would in the diary. For example
3506 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3508 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3510 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3511 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3513 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3515 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3516 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3517 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3518 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3519 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3520 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3521 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3522 faster agenda display.
3524 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3525 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3526 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3527 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3528 to Raman for this idea.
3530 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3531 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3532 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3535 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3536 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3537 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3541 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3543 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3544 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3546 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3547 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3548 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3549 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3552 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3553 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3555 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3556 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3557 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3558 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3560 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3561 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3562 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3563 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3565 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3566 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3573 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3574 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3575 further processing in scripts.
3577 ** Incompatible Changes
3579 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3580 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3584 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3585 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3586 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3587 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3590 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3591 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3592 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3593 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3594 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3595 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3596 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3597 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3599 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3600 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3601 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3602 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3604 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3605 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3606 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3608 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3618 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3620 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3622 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3624 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3626 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3628 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3630 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3634 ** Incompatible changes
3636 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3637 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3640 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3641 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3642 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3643 `org-disputed-keys'.
3645 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3646 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3647 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3651 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3652 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3653 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3654 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3655 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3656 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3657 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3658 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3659 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3660 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3661 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3663 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3664 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3665 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3666 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3668 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3669 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3671 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3672 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3673 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3674 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3676 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3677 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3678 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3679 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3680 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3681 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3682 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3683 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3685 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3687 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3688 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3689 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3690 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3691 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3692 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3693 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3696 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3697 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3698 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3699 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3700 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3701 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3704 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3705 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3706 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3707 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3708 indicates a non-stuck project.
3710 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3711 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3712 please let me know if you find problems.
3714 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3715 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3721 ** Incompatible changes
3725 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3726 exported HTML. These are the variables
3727 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3728 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3731 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3732 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3733 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3735 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3736 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3737 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3738 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3739 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3740 that are scanned for the agenda.
3748 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3749 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3750 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3752 ** Incompatible changes
3754 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3758 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3760 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3762 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3764 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3765 list (and which is also works!)
3767 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3768 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3770 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3771 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3772 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3773 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3774 toward using the latter.
3776 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3777 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3778 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3779 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3781 (setq org-todo-keywords
3782 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3783 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3784 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3785 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3788 If your setting has this new structure,
3789 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3790 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3791 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3792 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3794 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3795 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3796 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3797 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3798 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3801 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3802 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3803 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3804 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3805 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3806 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3807 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3809 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3810 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3811 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3812 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3813 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3815 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3816 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3817 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3818 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3819 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3820 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3821 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3822 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3823 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3830 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3832 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3833 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3834 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3835 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3836 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3837 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3840 ** Incompatible changes
3842 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3843 over several lines, like
3846 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3849 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3850 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3851 See below for details.
3853 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3854 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3855 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3856 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3861 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3862 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3865 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3866 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3867 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3869 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3870 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3871 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3872 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3873 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3874 where you want to be.
3876 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3877 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3878 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3881 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3882 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3884 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3885 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3887 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3889 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3890 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3891 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3892 new in-buffer option
3896 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3897 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3898 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3899 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3901 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3902 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3903 can be done by setting the variable
3904 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3906 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3912 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3914 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3915 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3916 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3917 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3918 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3920 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3922 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3923 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3926 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3927 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3928 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3929 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3930 are logging all state changes.
3932 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3937 - Priority handling in the tags view
3938 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3939 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3940 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3941 - C-j does better indentation.
3945 - Priority handling in the tags view
3947 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3948 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3950 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3952 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3953 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3954 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3956 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3958 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3960 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3961 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3962 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3963 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3964 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3965 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3966 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3968 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3971 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3973 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3975 + There is now a menu with commands.
3977 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3978 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3980 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3981 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3983 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3984 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3988 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3989 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3990 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3992 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3993 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3998 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3999 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4000 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4001 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4003 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4004 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4005 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4015 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4016 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4017 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4019 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4020 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4021 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4022 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4023 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4024 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4025 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4027 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4028 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4029 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4031 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4033 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4034 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4036 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4037 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4039 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4040 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4041 levels. For example:
4043 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4045 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4046 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4047 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4050 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4051 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4052 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4053 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4055 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4056 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4065 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4066 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4067 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4068 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4070 ** Detailed description of changes
4072 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4073 any table in any mode.
4075 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4076 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4077 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4078 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4079 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4080 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4082 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4083 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4084 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4085 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4086 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4088 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4089 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4090 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4091 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4092 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4093 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4094 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4097 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4098 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4099 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4100 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4101 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4102 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4103 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4104 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4105 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4106 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4107 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4108 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4110 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4111 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4112 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4113 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4119 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4120 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4121 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4122 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4123 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4125 ** Detailed description of changes
4127 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4128 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4129 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4131 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4133 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4134 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4136 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4138 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4139 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4140 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4142 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4143 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4144 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4146 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4147 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4148 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4150 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4151 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4153 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4155 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4156 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4157 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4158 remember.el work like this as well).
4159 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4160 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4161 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4162 new template, but the old context information. This is
4163 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4166 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4167 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4168 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4169 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4170 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4171 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4172 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4173 without interaction.
4175 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4176 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4177 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4178 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4179 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4180 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4182 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4183 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4184 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4185 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4187 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4188 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4189 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4190 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4191 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4192 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4198 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4199 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4201 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4202 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4203 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4204 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4205 + Incompatible changes
4206 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4207 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4208 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4209 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4210 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4211 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4212 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4216 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4217 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4218 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4219 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4220 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4221 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4222 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4223 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4227 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4228 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4229 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4230 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4231 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4232 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4233 - Empty entries go full circle.
4234 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4239 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4242 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4243 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4244 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4245 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4246 another, dedicated frame.
4247 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4248 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4251 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4252 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4253 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4254 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4255 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4256 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4257 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4258 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4259 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4260 use regular expressions.
4261 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4262 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4263 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4267 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4268 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4269 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4276 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4277 + show status also in target line.
4278 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4279 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4280 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4284 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4285 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4286 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4287 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4291 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4292 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4297 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4298 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4299 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4303 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4304 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4305 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4306 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4307 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4308 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4309 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4310 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4311 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4312 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4313 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4318 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4319 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4320 - File links can contain environment variables.
4321 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4325 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4326 each block created by a different agenda command.
4327 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4328 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4329 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4330 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4331 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4332 upon the agenda type.
4333 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4334 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4335 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4336 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4337 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4338 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4339 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4340 - More minor bug fixes.
4343 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4344 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4345 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4349 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4350 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4351 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4355 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4358 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4359 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4360 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4368 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4369 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4371 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4372 LaTeX environment and math.
4375 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4377 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4378 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4379 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4383 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4384 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4387 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4388 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4389 and will not lead to conflicts.
4390 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4394 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4395 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4396 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4397 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4398 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4399 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4400 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4406 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4407 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4410 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4411 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4412 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4413 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4414 directories for different export types.
4415 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4416 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4423 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4424 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4425 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4426 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4427 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4428 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4429 relative and absolute paths.
4430 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4431 - Bug and typo fixes.
4435 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4436 contains a description or not.
4437 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4438 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4439 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4440 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4441 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4442 for all available exporters.
4443 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4449 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4450 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4451 end of the HTML file.
4452 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4453 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4454 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4455 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4461 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4462 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4463 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4464 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4474 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4475 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4478 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4479 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4480 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4481 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4482 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4483 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4484 - New structure for the customization tree.
4489 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4493 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4494 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4495 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4496 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4497 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4502 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4503 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4504 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4505 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4509 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4510 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4513 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4514 - Various small bug fixes
4517 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4518 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4519 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4520 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4521 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4522 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4523 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4524 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4525 next buffer change due to editing).
4528 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4529 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4530 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4531 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4534 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4535 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4536 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4537 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4538 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4539 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4540 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4541 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4542 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4543 - support for cascading style sheets.
4544 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4545 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4552 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4556 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4559 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4560 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4561 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4562 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4563 and are not linked to the calendar.
4564 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4565 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4566 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4567 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4570 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4571 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4572 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4573 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4574 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4577 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4578 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4579 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4580 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4583 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4584 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4587 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4588 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4589 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4590 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4591 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4592 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4596 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4597 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4598 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4599 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4600 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4601 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4602 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4603 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4604 - Improved html export of tables.
4605 - Various clean-up changes.
4608 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4612 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4613 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4617 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4618 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4622 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4623 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4624 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4627 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4628 - New startup option `content'.
4629 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4630 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4631 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4634 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4635 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4636 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4637 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4638 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4639 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4642 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4643 table shape when typing in fields.
4644 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4645 into arbitrary major modes.
4646 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4647 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4648 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4651 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4652 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4653 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4655 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4656 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4657 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4658 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4659 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4661 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4662 - Sorting fully configurable.
4663 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4664 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4668 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4669 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4670 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4671 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4672 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4673 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4674 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4677 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4678 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4679 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4680 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4681 - Priorities for TODO items.
4682 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4683 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4684 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4689 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4690 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4691 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4692 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4693 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4694 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4695 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4696 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4697 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4698 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4699 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4700 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4701 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4702 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4703 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4706 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4707 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4708 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4709 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4710 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4711 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4712 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4713 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4714 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4715 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4716 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4717 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4720 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4721 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4722 - Date ranges introduced.
4723 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4724 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4725 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4726 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4727 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4728 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4729 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4732 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4733 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4734 - Fully automatic table editor.
4735 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4736 - Other link system changes
4737 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4738 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4739 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4740 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4741 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4742 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4743 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4745 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4746 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4747 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4748 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4749 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4750 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4752 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4756 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4757 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4758 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4759 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4763 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents