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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 6.07 (in preparation)
20 ** It is now possible to define filters for column view
21 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
22 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
23 For more information, look at the variable
24 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
30 - New, more CSS-like setup for HTML style information
31 - Attributes in hyperlinks, for example alt and title for images
32 - Simplified way to specify file links
33 - Modified behavior of time stamps in iCalendar export
34 - New way to compare times during a property search
35 - New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
36 - New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
37 - New option :index-style for org-publish
38 - New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
40 ** Incompatible changes
42 *** New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
44 The timestamp directory now uses SHA1 hashed versions of the
45 path to each publishing file. This should be a consistent
46 and system-independent way to handle things. The change
47 means that your next publishing command will publish each and
48 every file again, but just once, until new time stamps are in
53 *** New setup for HTML style information
55 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
56 information, the following changes have been made:
57 - The default style has moved to a constant,
58 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
60 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
61 just the empty string. This variable should receive
62 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
63 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
64 be used to establish project-wide settings.
65 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
66 should be used for file-local settings. Org-publish can, if
67 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
69 - When a file is published, the values of
70 - org-export-html-style-default
71 - org-export-html-style
72 - org-export-html-style-extra
73 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
76 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
78 *** Attributes in hyperlinks
80 You can now set attributes in hyperlinks that will be used
81 when publishing to HTML. For example, if you want to use the
82 ALT and TITLE attributes of an inlined image, here is who to
85 : [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="This is image A" title="Image with no action"}}]]
87 Thanks to Charles Chen for this idea.
89 *** Simplified way to specify file links
91 In a link, you can now leave out the "file:" prefix if you
92 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
93 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
94 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
95 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
98 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
99 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
102 [[./A.jpg][./B.jpg] ]
105 *** Changes in iCalendar export
107 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
108 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
111 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
112 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
113 will no longer show up in the calendar.
115 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
116 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
119 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
120 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
123 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
124 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
126 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
127 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
128 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
129 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
130 old behavior or even do something completely different.
132 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
134 *** New way to compare times during a property search
136 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
137 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
140 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
142 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
143 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
146 This is based on a request by Manish.
148 *** New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
150 When set, a link pointing to a directory will actually open
151 the index.org file in that directory. This is a good setting
152 inside a publishing project. When not set, you get a
153 finder/explorer window for that directory, or dired,
154 depending on system and setup.
156 This follows a request by Richard Riley.
158 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
160 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
161 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
164 This follows a proposal by Richard Riley.
166 *** New option :index-style for org-publish
168 This option can be used to switch the style of the index
169 produced by org-publish. Can be `list' (index is just an
170 itemized list of the titles of the files involved) or `tree'
171 (the directory structure of the source files is reflected in
172 the index). The default is `tree'.
174 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for the patch.
176 *** In the Agenda, inclusion of archives can now be toggled
177 - Pressing =v= will toggle inclusion of trees with the
178 ARCHIVE tag, this includes obviously the archive sibling.
179 - Pressing `C-u v' will include trees with ARCHIVE tag, and
180 will also include all archive files that are currently
181 associated with your agenda files.
183 This was triggered by a proposal by Manuel Hermenegildo.
187 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
188 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
189 thanks for all the great ideas.
193 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
194 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
195 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
196 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
197 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
198 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
199 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
200 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
201 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
202 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
204 ** Incompatible changes
206 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
207 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
208 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
211 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
213 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
214 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
215 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
216 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
217 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
218 that led to this development.
220 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
222 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
223 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
224 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
225 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
226 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
227 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
228 the calendar if you prefer that.
230 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
232 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
233 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
234 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
236 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
237 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
238 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
240 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
241 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
242 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
243 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
244 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
246 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
248 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
249 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
250 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
251 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
252 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
256 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
257 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
259 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
260 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
261 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
262 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
265 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
266 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
267 this query will be considered during the iteration.
268 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
271 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
272 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
275 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
276 skipping facilities of the scanner.
279 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
280 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
281 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
282 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
283 trees will be ignored.
285 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
287 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
288 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
291 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
292 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
294 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
295 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
298 *** Changes in Remember templates
300 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
301 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
302 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
305 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
306 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
307 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
308 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
309 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
312 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
313 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
314 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
315 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
316 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
317 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
319 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
320 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
321 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
322 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
323 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
324 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
326 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
328 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
329 Spiers for this proposal.
331 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
333 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
334 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
336 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
338 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
339 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
340 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
341 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
343 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
344 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
345 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
346 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
347 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
349 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
350 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
351 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
352 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
353 *** Fixes and additions for org-publish
354 - the :include and :index-title properties in org-publish
355 work now as advertized
356 - the #+TITLE of a page will be used in the index
357 - new :completion-function property can define a hook to be
358 run after publishing a file.
360 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for a patch to this effect.
366 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
367 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
368 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
369 - New properties for customizing subtree export
371 ** Incompatible changes
373 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
374 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
375 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
377 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
378 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
379 archives still did this wrong.
383 *** Statistics for TODO entries
385 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
386 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
387 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
388 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
389 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
391 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
392 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
393 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
394 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
395 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
396 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
397 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
398 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
399 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
400 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
403 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
404 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
405 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
406 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
407 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
409 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
412 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
414 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
415 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
416 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
417 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
418 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
419 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
420 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
421 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
422 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
423 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
424 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
425 calling this command.
427 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
428 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
431 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
437 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
444 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
448 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
450 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
451 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
452 Org core. If you set the variable
454 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
456 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
457 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
458 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
459 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
462 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
463 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
464 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
466 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
467 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
468 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
469 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
470 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
471 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
472 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
473 the different instances originate.
475 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
477 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
478 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
479 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
480 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
481 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
482 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
483 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
484 and only the options you give in the property will be
485 overwritten. For example:
491 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
492 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
493 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
497 *** New way to define tags for an entire file.
499 Tags that are defined in a line like
500 : #+FILETAGS: work urgent
501 are inherited by all entries in the file.
503 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for this proposal.
509 - Description lists are now supported natively
510 - Block quotes for export
511 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
512 - Include files for export
513 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
514 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
515 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
516 - Completion of structure elements
517 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
518 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
519 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
520 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
522 ** Incompatible changes
524 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
526 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
527 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
528 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
529 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
530 value on a per-file basis with
538 *** Description lists are now supported natively
540 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
541 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
542 separated by " :: ". For example
544 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
545 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
546 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
547 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
548 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
549 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
550 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
551 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
552 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
556 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
557 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
558 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
559 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
560 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
561 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
562 natural constants and units into a buffer.
563 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
564 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
566 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
567 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
569 *** Block quotes for export
571 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
575 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
576 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
583 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
584 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
587 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
589 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
590 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
591 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
595 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
602 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
603 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
604 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
605 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
607 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
613 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
614 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
615 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
616 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
617 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
618 that in the example above.
620 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
621 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
622 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
624 *** Include files for export
628 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
630 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
631 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
632 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
633 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
634 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
635 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
637 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
638 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
640 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
642 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
643 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
644 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
645 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
646 value on a per-file basis with
651 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
653 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
654 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
655 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
656 you write in a buffer
658 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
660 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
661 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
663 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
665 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
666 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
667 other in-buffer keywords.
669 *** Completion of structure elements
670 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
671 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
672 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
673 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
674 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
675 Currently supported templates are:
688 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
689 below under /org-mtags.el/.
691 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
693 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
694 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
695 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
696 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
697 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
698 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
699 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
702 - folded :: Fold the subtree
703 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
704 headlines of all direct children
705 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
707 - all :: Show the entire subtree
709 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
710 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
711 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
712 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
713 currently looks like this:
718 , :VISIBILITY: content
723 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
725 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
726 visibility of the buffer.
728 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
730 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
731 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
733 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
734 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
735 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
736 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
737 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
738 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
739 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
740 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
741 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
744 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
745 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
746 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
747 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
748 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
749 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
750 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
752 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
754 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
755 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
756 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
758 *** New files in the contrib directory
760 Do people think any of these should become core?
762 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
763 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
764 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
765 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]].
766 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
767 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
768 For example, instead of
776 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
777 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
778 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
779 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
780 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]].
782 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
783 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
787 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
793 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
794 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
795 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
796 - New operators for property searches
797 - Search commands can now include archive files.
798 - Clock tables can include the archive files
799 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
803 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
805 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
806 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
807 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
808 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
809 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
810 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
812 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
814 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
815 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
816 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
817 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
818 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
819 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
820 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
821 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
822 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
823 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
824 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
825 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
826 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
829 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
831 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
832 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
833 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
834 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
835 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
836 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
837 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
838 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
839 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
841 *** New operators for property searches
843 Property searches can now choose a number of different
844 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
845 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
847 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
848 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
849 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
851 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
852 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
854 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
855 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
856 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
857 match" or "does not match", respectively.
859 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
861 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
863 If the value of the customization variable
864 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
865 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
866 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
867 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
868 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
871 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
873 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
874 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
875 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
876 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
877 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
879 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
881 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
882 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
883 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
884 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
885 be functions, so that more general transformations are
886 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
887 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
891 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
892 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
893 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
897 - The Org distribution has a new structure
898 - New system for selecting modules to load
899 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
900 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
901 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
902 - Export commands can be done in the background
903 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
904 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
905 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
906 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
907 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
908 - And some more small fixes and improvements
910 ** Incompatible changes
912 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
914 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
915 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
916 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
917 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
918 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
919 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
923 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
925 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
926 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
927 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
928 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
929 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
930 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
934 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
935 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
936 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
937 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
938 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
939 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
940 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
941 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
944 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
946 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
947 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
948 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
949 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
950 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
951 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
952 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
953 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
956 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
957 buffer you can simply use "A".
959 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
961 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
963 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
964 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
965 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
966 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
969 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
970 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
971 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
972 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
973 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
974 visibility both locally and globally.
976 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
977 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
978 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
980 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
982 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
983 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
984 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
985 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
986 JavaScript program is served from
987 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
988 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
989 to be independent of the existence and stability of
990 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
991 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
994 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
996 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
998 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
999 together with org-info.js.
1001 *** Export improvements
1003 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
1004 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
1005 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
1008 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
1009 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
1010 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
1011 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
1012 this less system dependent in the future.
1014 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
1016 *** Improvements to clocktable
1018 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
1019 when trying to specify the time block that should be
1020 considered when constructing the table.
1022 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
1025 | :block | meaning |
1026 |--------------+-----------------------|
1027 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
1028 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
1029 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
1030 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
1032 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
1033 | thisweek | The current week |
1034 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
1035 | thismonth | The current month |
1036 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
1037 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
1040 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
1041 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
1042 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
1043 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
1044 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
1045 will switch to the following week.
1047 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
1048 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
1049 a request from Bernt Hansen.
1051 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
1052 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
1053 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
1054 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
1055 configure the variable
1056 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
1057 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
1058 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
1060 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1062 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
1063 the form =W08= for week 8.
1065 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
1066 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
1067 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
1068 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
1069 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
1070 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
1071 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
1072 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
1073 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
1074 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
1075 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
1077 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
1078 specify an ISO week. For example
1080 : w4 Monday of week 4
1081 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
1082 : w4-5 Same as above
1083 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
1084 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
1086 So far I have not implemented the effect of
1087 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
1088 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
1089 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
1090 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
1091 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
1092 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1095 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1096 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1097 test extensively and report back.
1099 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1101 *** Improvements in Search View
1103 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1104 only in TODO entries.
1106 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1107 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1108 also match in "Nasim's".
1113 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1114 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1115 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1116 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1117 this excellent proposal.
1119 The regexp option is also implemented for
1120 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1121 properties for inheritance my name.
1123 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1124 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1125 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1126 if and only if the setting in
1127 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1130 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1131 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1132 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1133 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1134 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1135 customize them freely.
1137 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1138 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1139 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1140 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1141 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1142 default date, not switch to today.
1144 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1145 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1147 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1148 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1150 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1151 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1152 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1154 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1157 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1158 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1159 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1161 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1162 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1163 initial region if set.
1165 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1168 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1170 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1171 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1172 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1173 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1174 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1175 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1176 format. For example:
1179 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1180 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1183 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1185 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1186 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1187 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1188 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1190 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1197 - New keyword search agenda view
1199 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1201 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1203 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1205 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1207 - New repeaters mechanisms
1209 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1211 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1213 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1217 ** Incompatible changes
1219 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1220 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1225 *** New keyword search agenda view
1227 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1228 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1229 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1230 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1231 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1232 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1233 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1234 example, the search string
1236 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1238 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1239 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1240 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1241 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1242 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1243 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1244 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1245 (possibly sub-) heading.
1247 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1248 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1250 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1251 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1254 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1255 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1256 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1258 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1260 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1261 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1263 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1264 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1265 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1267 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1268 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1269 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1270 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1272 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1274 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1275 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1276 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1277 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1278 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1279 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1280 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1281 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1282 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1285 One possible application for this would be to have several
1286 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1287 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1288 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1289 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1290 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1292 : (setq org-remember-templates
1293 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1294 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1296 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1298 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1300 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1301 + In a table, add a hline as before
1302 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1303 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1304 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1305 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1306 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1307 item markers from all lines.
1309 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1311 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1312 + in a table, recompute, as before
1313 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1314 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1315 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1316 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1317 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1319 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1321 *** Changes related to time stamps
1323 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1324 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1325 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1326 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1327 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1328 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1329 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1330 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1331 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1333 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1335 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1336 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1338 :** TODO Call Father
1339 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1340 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1341 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1342 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1343 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1344 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1345 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1346 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1349 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1351 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1353 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1354 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1357 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1358 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1359 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1360 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1361 the previous content.
1363 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1365 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1366 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1367 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1369 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1373 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1374 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1375 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1376 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1379 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1380 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1381 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1384 - There are three new hooks:
1386 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1387 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1388 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1392 ** Incompatible changes
1394 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1395 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1396 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1400 *** Changes to logging progress
1402 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1403 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1404 sections in the manual. Basically:
1406 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1407 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1408 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1409 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1410 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1411 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1412 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1413 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1415 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1416 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1417 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1418 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1419 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1421 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1422 : Here we not even define a fast access
1423 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1425 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1429 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1430 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1431 of the line) before the current line.
1433 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1434 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1435 create a new line below the current one.
1439 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1440 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1447 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1449 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1450 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1452 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1454 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1455 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1456 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1458 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1460 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1462 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1466 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1468 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1470 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1472 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1474 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1476 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1478 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1480 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1484 ** Incompatible Changes
1486 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1487 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1488 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1492 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1494 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1495 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1497 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1498 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1500 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1501 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1502 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1503 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1504 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1505 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1508 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1509 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1512 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1513 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1514 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1516 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1517 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1518 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1519 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1520 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1521 Possible values are:
1523 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1525 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1526 path to select a location.
1527 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1530 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1531 they are always current.
1533 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1534 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1535 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1536 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1537 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1538 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1539 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1540 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1542 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1543 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1544 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1545 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1546 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1547 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1548 interface. Comments?
1553 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1554 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1555 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1556 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1557 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1559 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1560 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1562 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1563 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1565 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1566 headline up to the tags.
1567 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1569 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1571 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1572 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1573 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1574 request by Austin Frank.
1576 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1577 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1578 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1580 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1581 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1582 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1583 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1585 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1586 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1587 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1588 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1589 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1590 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1591 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1592 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1593 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1594 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1595 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1598 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1599 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1600 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1601 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1609 will file is with the following property
1611 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1613 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1614 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1615 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1617 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1618 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1627 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1629 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1631 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1633 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1635 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1637 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1639 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1641 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1643 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1647 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1648 entries in a subtree. For example
1650 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1652 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1653 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1654 request by Bernt Hansen.
1656 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1657 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1658 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1659 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1660 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1661 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1662 interactively select the filing location (file and
1663 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1664 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1665 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1666 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1667 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1669 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1670 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1671 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1672 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1673 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1676 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1677 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1678 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1679 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1680 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1681 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1682 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1685 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1686 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1687 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1690 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1691 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1692 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1693 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1694 explain here, complex.
1696 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1697 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1698 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1700 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1701 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1702 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1704 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1716 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1717 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1718 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1719 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1720 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1721 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1722 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1723 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1724 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1725 subtree motion commands.
1727 - Plain lists items work the same.
1729 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1730 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1731 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1734 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1735 let me know about any problems.
1739 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1740 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1741 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1742 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1743 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1745 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1746 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1747 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1748 history variable. For example:
1750 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1752 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1753 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1754 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1755 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1756 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1757 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1758 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1759 by Bastien and Adam.
1761 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1762 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1763 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1764 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1768 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1769 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1772 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1773 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1774 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1775 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1776 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1777 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1783 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1785 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1786 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1787 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1788 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1789 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1790 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1791 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1792 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1795 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1796 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1797 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1798 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1800 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1801 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1802 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
1803 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1805 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1806 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1807 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1808 select a new restriction.
1810 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1812 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1814 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1816 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1817 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1819 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1820 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1821 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1824 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1825 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1826 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1828 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1829 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1830 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1831 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1832 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1838 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1839 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1840 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1842 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1843 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1844 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1853 + Remember and related stuff
1854 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1855 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1856 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1857 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1859 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1860 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1861 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1862 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1863 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1864 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1865 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1867 + Properties and Column view
1868 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1869 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1870 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1871 - New currency summary type {$}
1873 + The date/time prompt
1874 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1875 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1876 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1879 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1880 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1883 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1886 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1887 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1888 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1889 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1890 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1892 ** Incompatible changes
1894 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1895 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1896 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1898 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1899 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1900 prompted, like this:
1902 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1904 : (org-remember ?n))
1906 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1907 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1909 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1911 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1913 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1914 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1918 *** Remember and related stuff
1920 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1921 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1922 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1923 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1924 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1925 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1926 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1927 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1928 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1929 definitions. For example:
1931 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1933 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1936 : (setq org-refile-targets
1937 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1939 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1940 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1941 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1942 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1945 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1946 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1948 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1949 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1950 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1951 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1952 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1954 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1955 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1957 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1959 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1960 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1961 : %[..] include file
1963 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1965 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1966 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1967 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1970 : (require 'remember)
1971 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1972 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1973 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1975 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1976 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1977 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1979 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1981 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1983 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1985 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1986 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1987 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1988 the default in Org-mode.
1990 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1991 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1992 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1993 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1995 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1996 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1997 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1998 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1999 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
2001 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
2002 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
2003 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
2004 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
2007 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
2008 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
2009 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
2010 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
2011 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
2013 *** Properties and Column view
2015 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
2016 property names that should be treated with inheritance
2019 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
2020 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
2021 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
2022 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
2023 discussion around this issue.
2025 - Summary type improvements in column view.
2026 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
2027 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
2028 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
2029 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
2030 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
2031 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
2032 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
2034 *** The date/time prompt
2036 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
2039 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
2040 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
2041 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
2042 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
2043 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
2045 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
2046 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
2047 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
2048 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
2049 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
2050 entered month is before the current, for example if you
2051 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
2052 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
2053 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
2055 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
2056 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
2057 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
2058 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
2059 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
2061 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
2063 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
2064 list of newly performed conversions:
2066 | Org | Description | HTML |
2067 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
2068 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
2069 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
2070 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
2071 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
2073 You can turn this globally on or off with
2074 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
2075 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
2076 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
2077 William Henney for relevant inputs.
2079 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
2080 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
2084 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
2085 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
2086 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
2087 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
2088 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
2089 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
2091 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
2093 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
2094 export by setting it either globally
2095 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2096 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2097 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2098 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2099 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2102 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2103 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2104 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2106 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2107 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2109 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2110 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2113 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2114 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2115 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2122 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2123 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2124 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2126 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2127 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2128 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2129 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2130 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2132 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2133 with extension matched by the new variable
2134 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2143 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2144 + All known bugs fixed.
2145 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2146 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2147 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2149 - The agenda dispatcher
2150 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2151 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2153 - Sorting improvements
2154 + User-defined sorting keys.
2155 + Sorting by properties.
2156 + Sorting of plain lists.
2158 - HTML <div> structure
2161 + New variables, several of them.
2162 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2163 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2164 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2165 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2169 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2171 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2172 (at least I hope so...).
2174 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2175 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2177 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2178 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2179 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2181 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2182 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2183 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2187 : :ID: planning-overview
2193 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2197 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2198 be prompted for the ID.
2200 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2201 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2202 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2203 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2204 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2207 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2209 *** The agenda dispatcher
2211 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2212 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2213 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2214 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2215 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2216 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2217 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2218 them to custom commands.
2220 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2221 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2222 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2223 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2225 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2226 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2227 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2228 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2229 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2231 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2232 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2235 *** Sorting improvements
2237 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2238 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2240 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2241 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2243 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2246 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2248 *** HTML <div> structure
2250 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2252 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2253 "table-of-contents".
2255 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2256 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2258 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2259 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2261 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2262 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2264 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2265 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2269 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2270 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2271 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2274 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2276 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2278 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2279 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2280 your properties will not be folded away.
2281 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2283 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2284 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2285 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2287 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2288 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2289 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2290 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2291 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2293 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2294 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2295 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2296 a proposal by Bastien.
2298 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2299 request by Wanrong Lin.
2301 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2302 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2303 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2309 - Remember templates can now have name.
2310 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2311 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2312 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2313 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2314 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2315 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2316 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2317 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2318 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2319 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2321 ** Incompatible Changes
2323 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2327 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2328 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2329 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2330 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2331 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2332 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2334 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2335 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2336 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2338 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2339 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2341 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2342 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2343 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2344 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2346 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2347 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2348 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2350 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2351 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2352 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2353 Wiegley for a patch.
2355 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2356 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2357 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2358 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2359 with full completion support.
2361 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2362 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2363 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2365 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2366 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2369 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2370 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2371 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2372 well tested yet, please check it out.
2380 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2381 - Command to jump to the running clock
2382 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2383 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2384 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2385 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2386 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2387 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2388 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2389 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2390 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2392 ** Incompatible changes
2394 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2395 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2397 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2398 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2399 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2401 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2402 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2405 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2410 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2411 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2414 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2417 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2420 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2421 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2422 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2423 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2424 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2426 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2427 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2428 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2429 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2431 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2432 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2433 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2434 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2435 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2436 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2437 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2438 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2439 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2441 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2442 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2443 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2444 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2445 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2446 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2447 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2448 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2449 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2451 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2452 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2453 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2454 being prompted for a template, like this:
2456 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2458 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2460 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2461 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2462 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2463 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2465 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2466 (also `s' does this).
2468 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2469 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2472 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2473 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2474 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2476 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2477 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2478 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2480 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2481 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2482 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2483 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2491 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2492 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2493 - CSV support when importing a table.
2494 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2495 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2496 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2497 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2498 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2499 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2504 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2505 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2508 : * Tree with special properties
2510 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2511 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2514 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2515 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2516 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2517 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2518 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2519 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2520 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2521 encourage you to stop using them.
2523 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2524 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2525 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2526 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2530 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2531 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2532 | file | the full current buffer |
2533 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2534 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2535 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2536 | agenda | all agenda files |
2538 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2539 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2540 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2541 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2544 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2545 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2546 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2547 basic input it works.
2549 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2550 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2551 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2552 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2554 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2555 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2558 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2559 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2561 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2563 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2564 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2565 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2566 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2567 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2569 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2570 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2571 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2572 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2573 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2576 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2577 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2578 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2579 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2580 the children has that particular property defined, the
2581 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2582 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2583 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2584 is a better way of doing things.
2586 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2587 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2588 testing is appreciated.
2590 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2591 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2592 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2593 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2595 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2596 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2597 links in square or angular brackets.
2605 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2608 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2609 agenda can be configured.
2611 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2613 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2615 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2617 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2619 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2620 inherited from the outline faces.
2622 ** Incompatible Changes
2624 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2625 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2626 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2627 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2628 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2633 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2634 switching to that state. With the setting
2636 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2637 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2639 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2642 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2643 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2644 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2645 own function. Configure the new variable
2646 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2647 this development with a patch.
2649 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2650 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2651 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2652 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2653 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2654 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2655 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2657 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2658 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2659 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2660 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2661 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2662 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2663 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2665 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2666 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2669 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2670 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2671 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2672 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2673 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2674 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2675 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2677 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2678 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2679 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2680 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2681 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2682 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2683 match the current org-mode faces.
2685 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2689 ** Incompatible changes
2691 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2695 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2696 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2697 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2699 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2701 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2702 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2703 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2704 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2705 command fall back to cycling.
2707 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2708 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2709 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2710 interface anyway, set the variable
2711 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2712 others for input on this issue.
2714 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2715 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2716 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2718 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2719 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2721 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2722 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2724 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2726 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2727 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2728 `format-time-string', for example:
2730 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2732 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2733 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2734 included) have changed this.
2736 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2737 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2738 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2739 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2740 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2741 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2742 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2748 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2750 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2752 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2754 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2756 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2758 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2760 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2762 ** Incompatible changes
2764 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2765 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2767 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2771 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2772 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2773 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2775 A Here is a configuration example:
2777 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2778 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2779 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2780 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2783 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2784 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2786 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2787 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2788 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2789 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2790 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2791 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2792 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2793 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2794 states, just like you also do for tags.
2796 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2797 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2799 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2800 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2801 switch the entry to that state.
2803 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2804 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2805 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2808 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2810 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2811 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2812 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2813 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2815 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2816 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2818 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2819 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2820 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2821 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2822 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2824 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2825 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2826 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2829 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2830 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2831 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2832 the file will simply be skipped.
2842 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2843 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2844 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2845 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2846 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2847 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2848 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2849 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2852 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2853 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2854 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2855 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2856 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2857 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2858 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2859 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2860 the special locations.
2862 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2865 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2868 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2869 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2870 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2872 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2873 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2874 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2880 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2882 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2884 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2886 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2888 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2890 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2892 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2894 - Global values for selected properties.
2901 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2902 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2903 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2904 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2905 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2906 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2907 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2908 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2910 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2911 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2912 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2913 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2914 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2915 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2916 currently how to handle the new link types for
2919 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2920 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2921 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2922 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2925 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2926 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2927 The syntax is like this
2929 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2931 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2934 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2936 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2937 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2938 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2940 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2943 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2944 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2945 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2946 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2949 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2950 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2951 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2952 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2953 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2954 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2957 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2958 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2959 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2962 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2963 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2964 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2965 `org-global-properties', like this:
2967 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2969 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2971 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2973 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2974 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2975 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2976 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2977 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2978 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2986 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2987 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2988 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2989 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2991 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2992 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2993 this stuff into the drawer.
2994 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2996 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2997 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2999 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
3000 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
3002 - Lots of minor fixes.
3006 ** Incompatible Changes
3008 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
3009 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
3010 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
3014 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
3015 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
3016 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
3018 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
3019 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
3020 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
3021 know if we need to make this customizable.
3023 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
3024 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
3025 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
3026 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
3027 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
3029 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
3038 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
3041 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
3042 compute their value from the children's values.
3044 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
3045 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
3048 ** Incompatible Changes
3050 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
3051 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
3052 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
3053 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
3058 - Improvements for properties:
3060 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
3061 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
3063 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
3064 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
3065 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
3066 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
3067 typos when entering properties.
3069 - Improvements for column view.
3071 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
3072 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
3075 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
3076 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
3077 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
3078 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
3081 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
3082 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
3085 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
3086 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
3087 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
3089 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
3090 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
3091 beginning of a line. So
3093 : * This is a level 1 headline
3094 : *this is bold text*
3096 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3097 available in orgstruct-mode.
3103 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3104 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3106 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3107 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3108 open if explicitly asked.
3110 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3112 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3113 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3116 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3117 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3120 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3122 ** Incompatible changes
3124 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3125 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3126 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3127 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3128 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3129 that this is the better convention.
3133 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3135 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3136 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3137 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3138 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3139 easily create lists.
3141 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3142 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3143 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3144 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3145 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3146 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3147 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3148 minor modes have assigned to them.
3150 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3151 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3152 the promised implementation.
3156 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3157 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3158 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3159 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3160 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3163 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3165 you can then create drawers like this:
3168 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3169 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3172 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3173 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3175 *** Properties and Column View
3177 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3178 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3179 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3180 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3181 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3182 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3184 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3186 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3187 program using properties, use the functions
3188 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3189 and `org-entry-delete'.
3191 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3194 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3195 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3196 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3197 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3198 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3199 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3201 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3204 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3206 will find entries that
3209 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3210 - are TODO status WAITING.
3212 So here is an entry that will match:
3214 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3219 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3220 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3223 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3225 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3226 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3227 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3228 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3229 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3230 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3231 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3232 can set up different property columns on different levels
3233 of an outline tree. For example:
3237 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3241 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3244 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3246 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3249 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3252 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3253 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3255 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3256 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3257 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3258 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3259 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3260 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3263 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3264 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3266 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3267 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3268 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3269 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3270 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3271 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3273 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3274 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3277 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3279 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3281 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3282 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3283 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3285 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3286 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3287 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3288 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3293 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3294 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3295 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3296 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3297 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3298 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3299 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3302 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3303 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3304 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3305 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3306 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3313 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3315 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3316 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3317 constants can now be set with a line like:
3319 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3323 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3324 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3327 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3329 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3333 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3334 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3335 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3336 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3343 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3344 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3345 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3346 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3348 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3349 See manual section 3.5.3.
3351 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3352 This was a request from Ignotus.
3353 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3355 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3356 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3357 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3361 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3362 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3363 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3364 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3365 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3371 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3372 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3374 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3376 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3378 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3380 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3382 ** Incompatible changes
3384 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3385 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3386 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3387 with the xemacs version. For example:
3389 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3391 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3392 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3393 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3394 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3395 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3399 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3400 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3401 interval on a single day. For example
3403 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3405 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3406 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3407 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3408 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3410 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3413 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3414 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3418 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3420 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3421 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3422 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3423 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3424 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3425 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3426 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3427 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3428 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3429 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3430 stick to the ASCII characters.
3432 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3433 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3434 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3435 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3436 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3438 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3440 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3441 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3442 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3444 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3445 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3446 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3447 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3448 if we can agree on this:
3450 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3451 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3452 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3453 out to a previous level. For example
3461 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3470 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3471 using promotion and demotion functions.
3477 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3478 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3480 ** Incompatible changes
3482 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3486 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3487 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3488 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3489 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3490 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3491 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3492 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3494 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3495 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3496 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3497 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3498 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3499 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3500 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3502 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3503 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3504 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3505 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3506 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3509 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3510 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3511 wherever you want a vertical line:
3513 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3514 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3515 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3517 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3518 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3520 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3521 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3522 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3523 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3524 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3525 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3526 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3527 behavior we had before.
3529 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3531 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3532 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3533 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3534 special characters in other languages as along as your
3535 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3536 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3537 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3543 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3547 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3549 [1]This is a footnote
3551 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3552 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3554 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3556 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3557 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3560 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3566 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3567 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3569 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3570 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3571 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3572 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3574 ** Incompatible Changes
3576 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3577 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3581 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3582 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3584 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3586 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3587 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3588 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3589 collect your credit, let me know!
3591 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3592 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3594 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3595 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3597 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3598 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3599 would in the diary. For example
3601 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3603 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3605 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3606 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3608 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3610 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3611 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3612 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3613 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3614 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3615 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3616 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3617 faster agenda display.
3619 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3620 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3621 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3622 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3623 to Raman for this idea.
3625 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3626 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3627 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3630 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3631 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3632 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3636 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3638 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3639 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3641 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3642 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3643 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3644 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3647 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3648 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3650 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3651 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3652 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3653 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3655 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3656 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3657 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3658 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3660 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3661 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3668 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3669 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3670 further processing in scripts.
3672 ** Incompatible Changes
3674 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3675 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3679 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3680 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3681 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3682 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3685 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3686 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3687 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3688 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3689 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3690 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3691 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3692 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3694 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3695 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3696 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3697 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3699 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3700 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3701 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3703 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3713 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3715 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3717 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3719 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3721 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3723 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3725 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3729 ** Incompatible changes
3731 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3732 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3735 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3736 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3737 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3738 `org-disputed-keys'.
3740 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3741 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3742 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3746 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3747 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3748 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3749 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3750 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3751 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3752 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3753 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3754 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3755 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3756 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3758 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3759 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3760 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3761 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3763 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3764 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3766 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3767 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3768 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3769 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3771 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3772 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3773 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3774 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3775 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3776 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3777 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3778 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3780 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3782 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3783 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3784 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3785 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3786 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3787 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3788 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3791 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3792 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3793 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3794 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3795 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3796 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3799 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3800 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3801 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3802 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3803 indicates a non-stuck project.
3805 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3806 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3807 please let me know if you find problems.
3809 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3810 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3816 ** Incompatible changes
3820 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3821 exported HTML. These are the variables
3822 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3823 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3826 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3827 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3828 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3830 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3831 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3832 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3833 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3834 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3835 that are scanned for the agenda.
3843 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3844 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3845 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3847 ** Incompatible changes
3849 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3853 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3855 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3857 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3859 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3860 list (and which is also works!)
3862 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3863 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3865 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3866 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3867 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3868 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3869 toward using the latter.
3871 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3872 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3873 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3874 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3876 (setq org-todo-keywords
3877 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3878 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3879 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3880 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3883 If your setting has this new structure,
3884 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3885 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3886 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3887 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3889 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3890 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3891 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3892 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3893 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3896 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3897 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3898 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3899 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3900 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3901 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3902 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3904 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3905 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3906 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3907 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3908 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3910 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3911 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3912 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3913 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3914 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3915 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3916 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3917 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3918 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3925 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3927 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3928 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3929 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3930 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3931 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3932 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3935 ** Incompatible changes
3937 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3938 over several lines, like
3941 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3944 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3945 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3946 See below for details.
3948 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3949 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3950 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3951 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3956 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3957 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3960 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3961 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3962 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3964 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3965 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3966 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3967 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3968 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3969 where you want to be.
3971 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3972 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3973 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3976 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3977 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3979 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3980 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3982 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3984 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3985 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3986 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3987 new in-buffer option
3991 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3992 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3993 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3994 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3996 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3997 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3998 can be done by setting the variable
3999 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
4001 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
4007 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
4009 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
4010 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
4011 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
4012 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
4013 terminate all levels of plain list items.
4015 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
4017 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
4018 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
4021 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
4022 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
4023 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
4024 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
4025 are logging all state changes.
4027 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
4032 - Priority handling in the tags view
4033 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
4034 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
4035 - Improvements to the formula editor.
4036 - C-j does better indentation.
4040 - Priority handling in the tags view
4042 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
4043 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
4045 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
4047 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
4048 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
4049 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
4051 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
4053 - Changes in the spreadsheet
4055 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
4056 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
4057 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
4058 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
4059 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
4060 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
4061 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
4063 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
4066 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
4068 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
4070 + There is now a menu with commands.
4072 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
4073 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
4075 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
4076 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
4078 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
4079 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
4083 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
4084 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
4085 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
4087 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
4088 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
4093 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
4094 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4095 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4096 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4098 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4099 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4100 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4110 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4111 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4112 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4114 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4115 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4116 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4117 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4118 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4119 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4120 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4122 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4123 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4124 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4126 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4128 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4129 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4131 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4132 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4134 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4135 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4136 levels. For example:
4138 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4140 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4141 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4142 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4145 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4146 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4147 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4148 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4150 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4151 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4160 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4161 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4162 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4163 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4165 ** Detailed description of changes
4167 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4168 any table in any mode.
4170 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4171 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4172 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4173 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4174 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4175 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4177 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4178 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4179 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4180 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4181 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4183 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4184 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4185 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4186 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4187 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4188 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4189 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4192 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4193 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4194 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4195 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4196 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4197 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4198 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4199 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4200 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4201 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4202 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4203 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4205 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4206 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4207 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4208 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4214 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4215 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4216 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4217 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4218 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4220 ** Detailed description of changes
4222 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4223 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4224 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4226 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4228 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4229 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4231 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4233 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4234 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4235 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4237 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4238 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4239 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4241 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4242 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4243 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4245 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4246 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4248 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4250 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4251 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4252 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4253 remember.el work like this as well).
4254 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4255 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4256 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4257 new template, but the old context information. This is
4258 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4261 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4262 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4263 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4264 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4265 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4266 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4267 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4268 without interaction.
4270 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4271 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4272 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4273 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4274 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4275 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4277 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4278 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4279 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4280 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4282 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4283 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4284 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4285 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4286 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4287 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4293 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4294 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4296 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4297 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4298 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4299 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4300 + Incompatible changes
4301 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4302 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4303 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4304 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4305 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4306 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4307 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4311 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4312 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4313 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4314 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4315 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4316 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4317 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4318 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4322 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4323 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4324 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4325 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4326 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4327 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4328 - Empty entries go full circle.
4329 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4334 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4337 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4338 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4339 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4340 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4341 another, dedicated frame.
4342 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4343 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4346 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4347 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4348 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4349 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4350 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4351 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4352 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4353 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4354 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4355 use regular expressions.
4356 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4357 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4358 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4362 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4363 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4364 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4371 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4372 + show status also in target line.
4373 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4374 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4375 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4379 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4380 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4381 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4382 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4386 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4387 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4392 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4393 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4394 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4398 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4399 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4400 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4401 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4402 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4403 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4404 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4405 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4406 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4407 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4408 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4413 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4414 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4415 - File links can contain environment variables.
4416 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4420 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4421 each block created by a different agenda command.
4422 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4423 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4424 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4425 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4426 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4427 upon the agenda type.
4428 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4429 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4430 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4431 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4432 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4433 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4434 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4435 - More minor bug fixes.
4438 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4439 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4440 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4444 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4445 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4446 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4450 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4453 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4454 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4455 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4463 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4464 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4466 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4467 LaTeX environment and math.
4470 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4472 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4473 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4474 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4478 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4479 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4482 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4483 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4484 and will not lead to conflicts.
4485 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4489 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4490 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4491 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4492 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4493 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4494 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4495 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4501 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4502 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4505 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4506 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4507 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4508 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4509 directories for different export types.
4510 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4511 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4518 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4519 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4520 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4521 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4522 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4523 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4524 relative and absolute paths.
4525 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4526 - Bug and typo fixes.
4530 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4531 contains a description or not.
4532 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4533 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4534 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4535 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4536 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4537 for all available exporters.
4538 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4544 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4545 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4546 end of the HTML file.
4547 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4548 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4549 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4550 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4556 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4557 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4558 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4559 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4569 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4570 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4573 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4574 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4575 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4576 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4577 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4578 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4579 - New structure for the customization tree.
4584 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4588 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4589 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4590 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4591 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4592 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4597 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4598 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4599 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4600 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4604 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4605 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4608 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4609 - Various small bug fixes
4612 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4613 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4614 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4615 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4616 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4617 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4618 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4619 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4620 next buffer change due to editing).
4623 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4624 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4625 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4626 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4629 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4630 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4631 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4632 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4633 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4634 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4635 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4636 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4637 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4638 - support for cascading style sheets.
4639 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4640 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4647 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4651 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4654 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4655 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4656 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4657 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4658 and are not linked to the calendar.
4659 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4660 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4661 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4662 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4665 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4666 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4667 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4668 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4669 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4672 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4673 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4674 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4675 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4678 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4679 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4682 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4683 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4684 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4685 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4686 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4687 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4691 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4692 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4693 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4694 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4695 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4696 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4697 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4698 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4699 - Improved html export of tables.
4700 - Various clean-up changes.
4703 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4707 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4708 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4712 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4713 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4717 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4718 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4719 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4722 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4723 - New startup option `content'.
4724 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4725 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4726 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4729 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4730 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4731 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4732 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4733 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4734 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4737 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4738 table shape when typing in fields.
4739 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4740 into arbitrary major modes.
4741 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4742 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4743 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4746 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4747 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4748 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4750 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4751 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4752 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4753 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4754 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4756 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4757 - Sorting fully configurable.
4758 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4759 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4763 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4764 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4765 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4766 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4767 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4768 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4769 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4772 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4773 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4774 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4775 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4776 - Priorities for TODO items.
4777 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4778 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4779 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4784 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4785 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4786 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4787 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4788 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4789 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4790 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4791 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4792 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4793 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4794 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4795 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4796 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4797 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4798 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4801 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4802 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4803 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4804 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4805 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4806 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4807 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4808 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4809 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4810 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4811 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4812 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4815 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4816 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4817 - Date ranges introduced.
4818 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4819 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4820 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4821 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4822 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4823 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4824 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4827 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4828 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4829 - Fully automatic table editor.
4830 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4831 - Other link system changes
4832 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4833 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4834 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4835 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4836 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4837 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4838 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4840 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4841 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4842 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4843 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4844 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4845 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4847 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4851 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4852 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4853 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4854 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4858 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents