1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
8 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:{} *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil
9 #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:1 path:org-info.js tdepth:2 ftoc:t
11 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
18 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
19 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
20 thanks for all the great ideas.
24 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
25 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
26 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
27 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
28 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
29 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
30 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
31 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
32 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
33 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
35 ** Incompatible changes
37 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
38 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
39 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
42 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
44 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
45 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
46 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
47 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
48 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
49 that led to this development.
51 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
53 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
54 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
55 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
56 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
57 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
58 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
59 the calendar if you prefer that.
61 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
63 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
64 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
65 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
67 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
68 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
69 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
71 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
72 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
73 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
74 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
75 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
77 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
79 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
80 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
81 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
82 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
83 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
87 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
88 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
90 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
91 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
92 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
93 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
96 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
97 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
98 this query will be considered during the iteration.
99 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
102 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
103 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
106 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
107 skipping facilities of the scanner.
110 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
111 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
112 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
113 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
114 trees will be ignored.
116 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
118 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
119 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
122 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
123 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
125 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
126 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
129 *** Changes in Remember templates
131 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
132 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
133 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
136 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
137 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
138 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
139 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
140 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
143 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
144 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
145 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
146 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
147 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
148 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
150 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
151 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
152 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
153 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
154 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
155 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
157 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
159 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
160 Spiers for this proposal.
162 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
164 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
165 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
167 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
169 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
170 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
171 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
172 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
174 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
175 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
176 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
177 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
178 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
180 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
181 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
182 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
183 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
188 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
189 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
190 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
191 - New properties for customizing subtree export
193 ** Incompatible changes
195 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
196 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
197 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
199 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
200 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
201 archives still did this wrong.
205 *** Statistics for TODO entries
207 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
208 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
209 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
210 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
211 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
213 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
214 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
215 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
216 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
217 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
218 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
219 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
220 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
221 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
222 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
225 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
226 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
227 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
228 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
229 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
231 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
234 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
236 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
237 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
238 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
239 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
240 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
241 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
242 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
243 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
244 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
245 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
246 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
247 calling this command.
249 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
250 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
253 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
259 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
266 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
270 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
272 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
273 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
274 Org core. If you set the variable
276 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
278 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
279 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
280 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
281 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
284 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
285 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
286 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
288 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
289 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
290 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
291 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
292 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
293 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
294 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
295 the different instances originate.
297 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
299 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
300 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
301 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
302 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
303 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
304 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
305 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
306 and only the options you give in the property will be
307 overwritten. For example:
313 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
314 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
315 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
323 - Description lists are now supported natively
324 - Block quotes for export
325 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
326 - Include files for export
327 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
328 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
329 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
330 - Completion of structure elements
331 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
332 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
333 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
334 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
336 ** Incompatible changes
338 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
340 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
341 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
342 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
343 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
344 value on a per-file basis with
352 *** Description lists are now supported natively
354 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
355 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
356 separated by " :: ". For example
358 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
359 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
360 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
361 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
362 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
363 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
364 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
365 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
366 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
370 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
371 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
372 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
373 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
374 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
375 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
376 natural constants and units into a buffer.
377 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
378 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
380 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
381 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
383 *** Block quotes for export
385 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
389 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
390 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
397 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
398 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
401 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
403 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
404 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
405 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
409 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
416 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
417 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
418 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
419 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
421 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
427 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
428 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
429 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
430 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
431 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
432 that in the example above.
434 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
435 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
436 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
438 *** Include files for export
442 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
444 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
445 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
446 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
447 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
448 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
449 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
451 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
452 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
454 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
456 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
457 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
458 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
459 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
460 value on a per-file basis with
465 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
467 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
468 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
469 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
470 you write in a buffer
472 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
474 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
475 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
477 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
479 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
480 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
481 other in-buffer keywords.
483 *** Completion of structure elements
484 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
485 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
486 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
487 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
488 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
489 Currently supported templates are:
502 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
503 below under /org-mtags.el/.
505 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
507 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
508 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
509 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
510 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
511 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
512 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
513 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
516 - folded :: Fold the subtree
517 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
518 headlines of all direct children
519 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
521 - all :: Show the entire subtree
523 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
524 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
525 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
526 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
527 currently looks like this:
532 , :VISIBILITY: content
537 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
539 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
540 visibility of the buffer.
542 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
544 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
545 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
547 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
548 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
549 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
550 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
551 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
552 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
553 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
554 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
555 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
558 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
559 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
560 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
561 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
562 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
563 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
564 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
566 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
568 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
569 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
570 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
572 *** New files in the contrib directory
574 Do people think any of these should become core?
576 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
577 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
578 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
579 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]].
580 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
581 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
582 For example, instead of
590 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
591 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
592 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
593 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
594 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]].
596 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
597 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
601 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
607 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
608 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
609 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
610 - New operators for property searches
611 - Search commands can now include archive files.
612 - Clock tables can include the archive files
613 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
617 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
619 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
620 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
621 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
622 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
623 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
624 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
626 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
628 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
629 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
630 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
631 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
632 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
633 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
634 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
635 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
636 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
637 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
638 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
639 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
640 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
643 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
645 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
646 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
647 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
648 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
649 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
650 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
651 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
652 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
653 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
655 *** New operators for property searches
657 Property searches can now choose a number of different
658 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
659 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
661 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
662 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
663 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
665 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
666 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
668 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
669 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
670 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
671 match" or "does not match", respectively.
673 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
675 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
677 If the value of the customization variable
678 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
679 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
680 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
681 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
682 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
685 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
687 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
688 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
689 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
690 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
691 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
693 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
695 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
696 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
697 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
698 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
699 be functions, so that more general transformations are
700 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
701 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
705 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
706 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
707 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
711 - The Org distribution has a new structure
712 - New system for selecting modules to load
713 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
714 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
715 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
716 - Export commands can be done in the background
717 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
718 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
719 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
720 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
721 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
722 - And some more small fixes and improvements
724 ** Incompatible changes
726 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
728 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
729 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
730 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
731 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
732 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
733 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
737 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
739 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
740 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
741 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
742 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
743 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
744 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
748 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
749 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
750 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
751 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
752 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
753 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
754 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
755 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
758 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
760 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
761 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
762 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
763 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
764 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
765 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
766 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
767 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
770 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
771 buffer you can simply use "A".
773 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
775 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
777 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
778 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
779 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
780 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
783 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
784 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
785 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
786 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
787 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
788 visibility both locally and globally.
790 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
791 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
792 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
794 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
796 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
797 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
798 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
799 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
800 JavaScript program is served from
801 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
802 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
803 to be independent of the existence and stability of
804 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
805 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
808 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
810 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
812 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
813 together with org-info.js.
815 *** Export improvements
817 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
818 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
819 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
822 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
823 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
824 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
825 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
826 this less system dependent in the future.
828 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
830 *** Improvements to clocktable
832 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
833 when trying to specify the time block that should be
834 considered when constructing the table.
836 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
840 |--------------+-----------------------|
841 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
842 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
843 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
844 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
846 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
847 | thisweek | The current week |
848 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
849 | thismonth | The current month |
850 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
851 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
854 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
855 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
856 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
857 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
858 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
859 will switch to the following week.
861 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
862 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
863 a request from Bernt Hansen.
865 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
866 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
867 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
868 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
869 configure the variable
870 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
871 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
872 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
874 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
876 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
877 the form =W08= for week 8.
879 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
880 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
881 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
882 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
883 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
884 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
885 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
886 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
887 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
888 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
889 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
891 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
892 specify an ISO week. For example
894 : w4 Monday of week 4
895 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
897 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
898 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
900 So far I have not implemented the effect of
901 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
902 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
903 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
904 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
905 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
906 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
909 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
910 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
911 test extensively and report back.
913 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
915 *** Improvements in Search View
917 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
918 only in TODO entries.
920 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
921 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
922 also match in "Nasim's".
927 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
928 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
929 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
930 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
931 this excellent proposal.
933 The regexp option is also implemented for
934 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
935 properties for inheritance my name.
937 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
938 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
939 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
940 if and only if the setting in
941 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
944 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
945 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
946 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
947 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
948 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
949 customize them freely.
951 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
952 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
953 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
954 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
955 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
956 default date, not switch to today.
958 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
959 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
961 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
962 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
964 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
965 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
966 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
968 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
971 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
972 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
973 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
975 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
976 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
977 initial region if set.
979 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
982 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
984 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
985 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
986 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
987 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
988 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
989 file name to which the export should go, and a local
993 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
994 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
997 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
999 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1000 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1001 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1002 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1004 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1011 - New keyword search agenda view
1013 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1015 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1017 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1019 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1021 - New repeaters mechanisms
1023 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1025 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1027 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1031 ** Incompatible changes
1033 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1034 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1039 *** New keyword search agenda view
1041 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1042 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1043 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1044 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1045 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1046 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1047 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1048 example, the search string
1050 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1052 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1053 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1054 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1055 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1056 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1057 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1058 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1059 (possibly sub-) heading.
1061 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1062 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1064 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1065 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1068 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1069 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1070 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1072 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1074 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1075 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1077 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1078 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1079 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1081 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1082 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1083 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1084 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1086 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1088 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1089 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1090 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1091 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1092 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1093 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1094 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1095 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1096 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1099 One possible application for this would be to have several
1100 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1101 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1102 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1103 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1104 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1106 : (setq org-remember-templates
1107 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1108 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1110 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1112 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1114 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1115 + In a table, add a hline as before
1116 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1117 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1118 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1119 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1120 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1121 item markers from all lines.
1123 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1125 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1126 + in a table, recompute, as before
1127 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1128 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1129 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1130 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1131 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1133 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1135 *** Changes related to time stamps
1137 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1138 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1139 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1140 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1141 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1142 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1143 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1144 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1145 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1147 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1149 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1150 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1152 :** TODO Call Father
1153 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1154 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1155 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1156 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1157 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1158 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1159 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1160 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1163 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1165 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1167 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1168 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1171 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1172 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1173 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1174 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1175 the previous content.
1177 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1179 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1180 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1181 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1183 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1187 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1188 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1189 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1190 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1193 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1194 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1195 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1198 - There are three new hooks:
1200 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1201 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1202 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1206 ** Incompatible changes
1208 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1209 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1210 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1214 *** Changes to logging progress
1216 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1217 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1218 sections in the manual. Basically:
1220 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1221 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1222 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1223 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1224 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1225 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1226 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1227 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1229 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1230 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1231 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1232 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1233 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1235 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1236 : Here we not even define a fast access
1237 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1239 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1243 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1244 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1245 of the line) before the current line.
1247 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1248 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1249 create a new line below the current one.
1253 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1254 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1261 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1263 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1264 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1266 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1268 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1269 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1270 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1272 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1274 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1276 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1280 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1282 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1284 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1286 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1288 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1290 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1292 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1294 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1298 ** Incompatible Changes
1300 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1301 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1302 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1306 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1308 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1309 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1311 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1312 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1314 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1315 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1316 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1317 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1318 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1319 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1322 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1323 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1326 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1327 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1328 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1330 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1331 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1332 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1333 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1334 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1335 Possible values are:
1337 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1339 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1340 path to select a location.
1341 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1344 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1345 they are always current.
1347 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1348 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1349 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1350 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1351 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1352 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1353 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1354 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1356 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1357 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1358 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1359 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1360 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1361 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1362 interface. Comments?
1367 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1368 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1369 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1370 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1371 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1373 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1374 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1376 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1377 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1379 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1380 headline up to the tags.
1381 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1383 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1385 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1386 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1387 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1388 request by Austin Frank.
1390 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1391 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1392 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1394 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1395 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1396 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1397 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1399 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1400 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1401 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1402 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1403 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1404 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1405 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1406 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1407 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1408 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1409 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1412 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1413 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1414 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1415 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1423 will file is with the following property
1425 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1427 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1428 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1429 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1431 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1432 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1441 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1443 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1445 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1447 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1449 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1451 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1453 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1455 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1457 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1461 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1462 entries in a subtree. For example
1464 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1466 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1467 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1468 request by Bernt Hansen.
1470 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1471 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1472 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1473 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1474 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1475 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1476 interactively select the filing location (file and
1477 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1478 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1479 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1480 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1481 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1483 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1484 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1485 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1486 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1487 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1490 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1491 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1492 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1493 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1494 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1495 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1496 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1499 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1500 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1501 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1504 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1505 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1506 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1507 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1508 explain here, complex.
1510 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1511 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1512 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1514 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1515 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1516 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1518 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1530 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1531 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1532 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1533 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1534 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1535 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1536 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1537 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1538 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1539 subtree motion commands.
1541 - Plain lists items work the same.
1543 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1544 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1545 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1548 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1549 let me know about any problems.
1553 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1554 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1555 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1556 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1557 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1559 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1560 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1561 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1562 history variable. For example:
1564 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1566 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1567 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1568 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1569 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1570 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1571 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1572 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1573 by Bastien and Adam.
1575 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1576 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1577 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1578 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1582 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1583 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1586 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1587 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1588 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1589 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1590 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1591 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1597 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1599 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1600 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1601 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1602 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1603 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1604 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1605 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1606 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1609 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1610 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1611 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1612 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1614 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1615 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1616 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
1617 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1619 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1620 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1621 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1622 select a new restriction.
1624 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1626 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1628 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1630 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1631 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1633 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1634 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1635 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1638 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1639 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1640 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1642 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1643 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1644 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1645 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1646 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1652 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1653 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1654 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1656 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1657 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1658 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1667 + Remember and related stuff
1668 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1669 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1670 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1671 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1673 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1674 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1675 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1676 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1677 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1678 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1679 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1681 + Properties and Column view
1682 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1683 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1684 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1685 - New currency summary type {$}
1687 + The date/time prompt
1688 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1689 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1690 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1693 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1694 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1697 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1700 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1701 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1702 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1703 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1704 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1706 ** Incompatible changes
1708 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1709 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1710 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1712 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1713 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1714 prompted, like this:
1716 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1718 : (org-remember ?n))
1720 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1721 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1723 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1725 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1727 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1728 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1732 *** Remember and related stuff
1734 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1735 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1736 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1737 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1738 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1739 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1740 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1741 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1742 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1743 definitions. For example:
1745 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1747 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1750 : (setq org-refile-targets
1751 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1753 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1754 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1755 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1756 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1759 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1760 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1762 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1763 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1764 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1765 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1766 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1768 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1769 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1771 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1773 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1774 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1775 : %[..] include file
1777 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1779 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1780 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1781 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1784 : (require 'remember)
1785 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1786 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1787 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1789 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1790 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1791 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1793 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1795 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1797 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1799 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1800 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1801 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1802 the default in Org-mode.
1804 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1805 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1806 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1807 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1809 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1810 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1811 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1812 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1813 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1815 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1816 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1817 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1818 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1821 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1822 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1823 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1824 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1825 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1827 *** Properties and Column view
1829 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1830 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1833 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1834 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1835 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1836 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1837 discussion around this issue.
1839 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1840 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1841 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1842 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1843 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1844 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1845 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1846 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1848 *** The date/time prompt
1850 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1853 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1854 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1855 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1856 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1857 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1859 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1860 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1861 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1862 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1863 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1864 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1865 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1866 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1867 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1869 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1870 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1871 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1872 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1873 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1875 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1877 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1878 list of newly performed conversions:
1880 | Org | Description | HTML |
1881 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1882 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1883 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1884 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1885 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1887 You can turn this globally on or off with
1888 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1889 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1890 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1891 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1893 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1894 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1898 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1899 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1900 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1901 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1902 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1903 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1905 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1907 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1908 export by setting it either globally
1909 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1910 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1911 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1912 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1913 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1916 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1917 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1918 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1920 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1921 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1923 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1924 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1927 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1928 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1929 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1936 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1937 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1938 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1940 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1941 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1942 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1943 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1944 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1946 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1947 with extension matched by the new variable
1948 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1957 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1958 + All known bugs fixed.
1959 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1960 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1961 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1963 - The agenda dispatcher
1964 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1965 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1967 - Sorting improvements
1968 + User-defined sorting keys.
1969 + Sorting by properties.
1970 + Sorting of plain lists.
1972 - HTML <div> structure
1975 + New variables, several of them.
1976 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1977 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1978 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1979 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1983 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1985 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1986 (at least I hope so...).
1988 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1989 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1991 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1992 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1993 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1995 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1996 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1997 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2001 : :ID: planning-overview
2007 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2011 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2012 be prompted for the ID.
2014 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2015 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2016 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2017 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2018 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2021 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2023 *** The agenda dispatcher
2025 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2026 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2027 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2028 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2029 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2030 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2031 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2032 them to custom commands.
2034 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2035 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2036 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2037 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2039 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2040 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2041 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2042 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2043 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2045 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2046 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2049 *** Sorting improvements
2051 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2052 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2054 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2055 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2057 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2060 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2062 *** HTML <div> structure
2064 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2066 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2067 "table-of-contents".
2069 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2070 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2072 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2073 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2075 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2076 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2078 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2079 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2083 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2084 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2085 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2088 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2090 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2092 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2093 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2094 your properties will not be folded away.
2095 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2097 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2098 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2099 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2101 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2102 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2103 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2104 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2105 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2107 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2108 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2109 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2110 a proposal by Bastien.
2112 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2113 request by Wanrong Lin.
2115 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2116 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2117 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2123 - Remember templates can now have name.
2124 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2125 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2126 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2127 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2128 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2129 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2130 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2131 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2132 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2133 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2135 ** Incompatible Changes
2137 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2141 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2142 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2143 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2144 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2145 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2146 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2148 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2149 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2150 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2152 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2153 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2155 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2156 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2157 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2158 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2160 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2161 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2162 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2164 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2165 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2166 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2167 Wiegley for a patch.
2169 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2170 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2171 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2172 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2173 with full completion support.
2175 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2176 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2177 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2179 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2180 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2183 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2184 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2185 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2186 well tested yet, please check it out.
2194 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2195 - Command to jump to the running clock
2196 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2197 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2198 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2199 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2200 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2201 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2202 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2203 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2204 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2206 ** Incompatible changes
2208 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2209 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2211 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2212 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2213 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2215 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2216 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2219 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2224 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2225 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2228 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2231 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2234 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2235 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2236 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2237 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2238 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2240 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2241 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2242 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2243 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2245 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2246 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2247 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2248 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2249 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2250 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2251 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2252 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2253 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2255 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2256 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2257 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2258 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2259 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2260 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2261 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2262 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2263 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2265 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2266 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2267 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2268 being prompted for a template, like this:
2270 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2272 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2274 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2275 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2276 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2277 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2279 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2280 (also `s' does this).
2282 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2283 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2286 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2287 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2288 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2290 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2291 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2292 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2294 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2295 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2296 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2297 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2305 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2306 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2307 - CSV support when importing a table.
2308 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2309 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2310 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2311 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2312 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2313 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2318 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2319 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2322 : * Tree with special properties
2324 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2325 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2328 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2329 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2330 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2331 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2332 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2333 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2334 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2335 encourage you to stop using them.
2337 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2338 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2339 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2340 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2344 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2345 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2346 | file | the full current buffer |
2347 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2348 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2349 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2350 | agenda | all agenda files |
2352 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2353 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2354 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2355 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2358 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2359 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2360 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2361 basic input it works.
2363 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2364 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2365 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2366 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2368 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2369 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2372 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2373 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2375 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2377 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2378 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2379 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2380 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2381 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2383 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2384 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2385 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2386 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2387 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2390 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2391 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2392 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2393 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2394 the children has that particular property defined, the
2395 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2396 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2397 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2398 is a better way of doing things.
2400 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2401 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2402 testing is appreciated.
2404 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2405 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2406 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2407 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2409 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2410 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2411 links in square or angular brackets.
2419 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2422 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2423 agenda can be configured.
2425 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2427 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2429 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2431 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2433 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2434 inherited from the outline faces.
2436 ** Incompatible Changes
2438 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2439 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2440 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2441 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2442 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2447 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2448 switching to that state. With the setting
2450 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2451 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2453 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2456 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2457 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2458 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2459 own function. Configure the new variable
2460 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2461 this development with a patch.
2463 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2464 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2465 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2466 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2467 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2468 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2469 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2471 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2472 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2473 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2474 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2475 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2476 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2477 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2479 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2480 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2483 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2484 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2485 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2486 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2487 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2488 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2489 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2491 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2492 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2493 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2494 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2495 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2496 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2497 match the current org-mode faces.
2499 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2503 ** Incompatible changes
2505 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2509 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2510 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2511 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2513 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2515 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2516 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2517 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2518 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2519 command fall back to cycling.
2521 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2522 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2523 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2524 interface anyway, set the variable
2525 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2526 others for input on this issue.
2528 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2529 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2530 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2532 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2533 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2535 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2536 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2538 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2540 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2541 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2542 `format-time-string', for example:
2544 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2546 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2547 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2548 included) have changed this.
2550 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2551 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2552 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2553 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2554 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2555 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2556 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2562 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2564 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2566 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2568 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2570 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2572 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2574 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2576 ** Incompatible changes
2578 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2579 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2581 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2585 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2586 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2587 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2589 A Here is a configuration example:
2591 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2592 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2593 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2594 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2597 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2598 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2600 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2601 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2602 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2603 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2604 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2605 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2606 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2607 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2608 states, just like you also do for tags.
2610 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2611 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2613 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2614 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2615 switch the entry to that state.
2617 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2618 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2619 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2622 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2624 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2625 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2626 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2627 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2629 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2630 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2632 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2633 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2634 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2635 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2636 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2638 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2639 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2640 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2643 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2644 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2645 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2646 the file will simply be skipped.
2656 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2657 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2658 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2659 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2660 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2661 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2662 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2663 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2666 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2667 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2668 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2669 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2670 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2671 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2672 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2673 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2674 the special locations.
2676 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2679 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2682 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2683 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2684 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2686 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2687 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2688 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2694 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2696 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2698 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2700 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2702 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2704 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2706 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2708 - Global values for selected properties.
2715 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2716 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2717 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2718 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2719 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2720 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2721 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2722 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2724 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2725 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2726 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2727 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2728 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2729 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2730 currently how to handle the new link types for
2733 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2734 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2735 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2736 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2739 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2740 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2741 The syntax is like this
2743 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2745 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2748 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2750 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2751 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2752 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2754 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2757 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2758 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2759 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2760 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2763 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2764 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2765 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2766 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2767 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2768 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2771 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2772 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2773 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2776 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2777 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2778 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2779 `org-global-properties', like this:
2781 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2783 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2785 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2787 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2788 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2789 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2790 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2791 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2792 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2800 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2801 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2802 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2803 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2805 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2806 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2807 this stuff into the drawer.
2808 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2810 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2811 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2813 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2814 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2816 - Lots of minor fixes.
2820 ** Incompatible Changes
2822 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2823 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2824 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2828 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2829 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2830 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2832 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2833 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2834 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2835 know if we need to make this customizable.
2837 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2838 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2839 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2840 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2841 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2843 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2852 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2855 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2856 compute their value from the children's values.
2858 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2859 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2862 ** Incompatible Changes
2864 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2865 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2866 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2867 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2872 - Improvements for properties:
2874 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2875 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2877 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2878 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2879 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2880 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2881 typos when entering properties.
2883 - Improvements for column view.
2885 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2886 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2889 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2890 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2891 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2892 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2895 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2896 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2899 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2900 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2901 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2903 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2904 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2905 beginning of a line. So
2907 : * This is a level 1 headline
2908 : *this is bold text*
2910 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2911 available in orgstruct-mode.
2917 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2918 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2920 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2921 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2922 open if explicitly asked.
2924 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2926 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2927 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2930 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2931 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2934 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2936 ** Incompatible changes
2938 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2939 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2940 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2941 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2942 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2943 that this is the better convention.
2947 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2949 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2950 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2951 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2952 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2953 easily create lists.
2955 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2956 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2957 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2958 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2959 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2960 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2961 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2962 minor modes have assigned to them.
2964 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2965 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2966 the promised implementation.
2970 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2971 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2972 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2973 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2974 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2977 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2979 you can then create drawers like this:
2982 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2983 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2986 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2987 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2989 *** Properties and Column View
2991 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2992 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2993 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2994 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2995 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2996 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2998 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3000 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3001 program using properties, use the functions
3002 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3003 and `org-entry-delete'.
3005 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3008 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3009 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3010 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3011 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3012 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3013 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3015 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3018 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3020 will find entries that
3023 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3024 - are TODO status WAITING.
3026 So here is an entry that will match:
3028 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3033 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3034 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3037 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3039 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3040 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3041 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3042 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3043 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3044 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3045 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3046 can set up different property columns on different levels
3047 of an outline tree. For example:
3051 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3055 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3058 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3060 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3063 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3066 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3067 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3069 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3070 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3071 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3072 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3073 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3074 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3077 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3078 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3080 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3081 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3082 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3083 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3084 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3085 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3087 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3088 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3091 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3093 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3095 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3096 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3097 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3099 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3100 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3101 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3102 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3107 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3108 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3109 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3110 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3111 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3112 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3113 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3116 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3117 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3118 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3119 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3120 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3127 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3129 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3130 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3131 constants can now be set with a line like:
3133 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3137 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3138 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3141 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3143 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3147 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3148 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3149 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3150 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3157 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3158 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3159 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3160 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3162 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3163 See manual section 3.5.3.
3165 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3166 This was a request from Ignotus.
3167 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3169 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3170 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3171 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3175 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3176 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3177 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3178 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3179 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3185 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3186 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3188 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3190 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3192 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3194 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3196 ** Incompatible changes
3198 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3199 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3200 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3201 with the xemacs version. For example:
3203 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3205 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3206 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3207 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3208 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3209 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3213 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3214 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3215 interval on a single day. For example
3217 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3219 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3220 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3221 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3222 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3224 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3227 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3228 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3232 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3234 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3235 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3236 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3237 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3238 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3239 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3240 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3241 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3242 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3243 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3244 stick to the ASCII characters.
3246 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3247 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3248 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3249 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3250 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3252 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3254 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3255 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3256 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3258 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3259 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3260 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3261 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3262 if we can agree on this:
3264 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3265 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3266 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3267 out to a previous level. For example
3275 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3284 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3285 using promotion and demotion functions.
3291 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3292 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3294 ** Incompatible changes
3296 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3300 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3301 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3302 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3303 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3304 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3305 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3306 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3308 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3309 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3310 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3311 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3312 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3313 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3314 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3316 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3317 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3318 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3319 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3320 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3323 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3324 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3325 wherever you want a vertical line:
3327 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3328 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3329 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3331 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3332 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3334 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3335 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3336 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3337 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3338 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3339 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3340 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3341 behavior we had before.
3343 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3345 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3346 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3347 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3348 special characters in other languages as along as your
3349 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3350 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3351 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3357 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3361 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3363 [1]This is a footnote
3365 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3366 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3368 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3370 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3371 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3374 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3380 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3381 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3383 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3384 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3385 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3386 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3388 ** Incompatible Changes
3390 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3391 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3395 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3396 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3398 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3400 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3401 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3402 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3403 collect your credit, let me know!
3405 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3406 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3408 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3409 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3411 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3412 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3413 would in the diary. For example
3415 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3417 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3419 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3420 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3422 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3424 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3425 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3426 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3427 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3428 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3429 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3430 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3431 faster agenda display.
3433 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3434 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3435 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3436 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3437 to Raman for this idea.
3439 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3440 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3441 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3444 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3445 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3446 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3450 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3452 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3453 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3455 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3456 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3457 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3458 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3461 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3462 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3464 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3465 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3466 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3467 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3469 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3470 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3471 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3472 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3474 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3475 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3482 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3483 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3484 further processing in scripts.
3486 ** Incompatible Changes
3488 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3489 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3493 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3494 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3495 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3496 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3499 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3500 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3501 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3502 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3503 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3504 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3505 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3506 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3508 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3509 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3510 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3511 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3513 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3514 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3515 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3517 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3527 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3529 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3531 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3533 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3535 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3537 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3539 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3543 ** Incompatible changes
3545 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3546 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3549 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3550 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3551 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3552 `org-disputed-keys'.
3554 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3555 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3556 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3560 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3561 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3562 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3563 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3564 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3565 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3566 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3567 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3568 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3569 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3570 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3572 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3573 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3574 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3575 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3577 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3578 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3580 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3581 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3582 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3583 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3585 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3586 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3587 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3588 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3589 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3590 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3591 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3592 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3594 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3596 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3597 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3598 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3599 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3600 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3601 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3602 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3605 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3606 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3607 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3608 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3609 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3610 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3613 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3614 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3615 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3616 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3617 indicates a non-stuck project.
3619 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3620 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3621 please let me know if you find problems.
3623 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3624 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3630 ** Incompatible changes
3634 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3635 exported HTML. These are the variables
3636 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3637 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3640 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3641 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3642 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3644 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3645 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3646 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3647 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3648 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3649 that are scanned for the agenda.
3657 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3658 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3659 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3661 ** Incompatible changes
3663 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3667 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3669 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3671 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3673 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3674 list (and which is also works!)
3676 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3677 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3679 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3680 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3681 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3682 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3683 toward using the latter.
3685 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3686 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3687 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3688 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3690 (setq org-todo-keywords
3691 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3692 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3693 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3694 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3697 If your setting has this new structure,
3698 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3699 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3700 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3701 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3703 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3704 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3705 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3706 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3707 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3710 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3711 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3712 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3713 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3714 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3715 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3716 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3718 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3719 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3720 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3721 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3722 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3724 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3725 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3726 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3727 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3728 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3729 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3730 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3731 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3732 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3739 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3741 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3742 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3743 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3744 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3745 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3746 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3749 ** Incompatible changes
3751 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3752 over several lines, like
3755 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3758 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3759 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3760 See below for details.
3762 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3763 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3764 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3765 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3770 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3771 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3774 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3775 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3776 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3778 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3779 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3780 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3781 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3782 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3783 where you want to be.
3785 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3786 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3787 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3790 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3791 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3793 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3794 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3796 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3798 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3799 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3800 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3801 new in-buffer option
3805 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3806 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3807 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3808 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3810 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3811 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3812 can be done by setting the variable
3813 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3815 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3821 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3823 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3824 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3825 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3826 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3827 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3829 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3831 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3832 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3835 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3836 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3837 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3838 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3839 are logging all state changes.
3841 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3846 - Priority handling in the tags view
3847 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3848 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3849 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3850 - C-j does better indentation.
3854 - Priority handling in the tags view
3856 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3857 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3859 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3861 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3862 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3863 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3865 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3867 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3869 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3870 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3871 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3872 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3873 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3874 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3875 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3877 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3880 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3882 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3884 + There is now a menu with commands.
3886 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3887 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3889 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3890 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3892 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3893 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3897 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3898 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3899 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3901 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3902 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3907 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3908 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3909 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3910 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3912 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3913 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3914 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3924 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3925 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3926 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3928 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3929 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3930 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3931 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3932 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3933 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3934 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3936 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3937 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3938 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3940 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3942 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3943 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3945 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3946 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3948 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3949 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3950 levels. For example:
3952 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3954 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3955 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3956 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3959 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3960 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3961 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3962 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3964 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3965 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3974 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3975 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3976 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3977 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3979 ** Detailed description of changes
3981 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3982 any table in any mode.
3984 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3985 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3986 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3987 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3988 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3989 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3991 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3992 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3993 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3994 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3995 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3997 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3998 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3999 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4000 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4001 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4002 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4003 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4006 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4007 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4008 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4009 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4010 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4011 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4012 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4013 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4014 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4015 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4016 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4017 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4019 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4020 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4021 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4022 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4028 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4029 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4030 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4031 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4032 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4034 ** Detailed description of changes
4036 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4037 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4038 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4040 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4042 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4043 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4045 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4047 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4048 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4049 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4051 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4052 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4053 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4055 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4056 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4057 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4059 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4060 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4062 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4064 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4065 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4066 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4067 remember.el work like this as well).
4068 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4069 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4070 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4071 new template, but the old context information. This is
4072 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4075 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4076 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4077 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4078 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4079 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4080 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4081 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4082 without interaction.
4084 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4085 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4086 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4087 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4088 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4089 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4091 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4092 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4093 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4094 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4096 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4097 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4098 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4099 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4100 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4101 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4107 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4108 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4110 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4111 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4112 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4113 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4114 + Incompatible changes
4115 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4116 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4117 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4118 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4119 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4120 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4121 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4125 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4126 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4127 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4128 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4129 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4130 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4131 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4132 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4136 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4137 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4138 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4139 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4140 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4141 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4142 - Empty entries go full circle.
4143 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4148 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4151 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4152 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4153 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4154 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4155 another, dedicated frame.
4156 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4157 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4160 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4161 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4162 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4163 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4164 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4165 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4166 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4167 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4168 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4169 use regular expressions.
4170 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4171 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4172 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4176 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4177 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4178 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4185 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4186 + show status also in target line.
4187 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4188 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4189 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4193 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4194 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4195 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4196 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4200 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4201 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4206 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4207 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4208 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4212 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4213 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4214 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4215 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4216 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4217 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4218 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4219 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4220 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4221 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4222 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4227 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4228 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4229 - File links can contain environment variables.
4230 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4234 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4235 each block created by a different agenda command.
4236 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4237 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4238 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4239 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4240 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4241 upon the agenda type.
4242 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4243 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4244 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4245 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4246 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4247 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4248 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4249 - More minor bug fixes.
4252 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4253 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4254 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4258 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4259 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4260 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4264 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4267 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4268 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4269 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4277 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4278 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4280 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4281 LaTeX environment and math.
4284 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4286 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4287 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4288 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4292 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4293 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4296 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4297 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4298 and will not lead to conflicts.
4299 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4303 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4304 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4305 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4306 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4307 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4308 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4309 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4315 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4316 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4319 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4320 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4321 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4322 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4323 directories for different export types.
4324 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4325 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4332 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4333 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4334 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4335 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4336 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4337 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4338 relative and absolute paths.
4339 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4340 - Bug and typo fixes.
4344 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4345 contains a description or not.
4346 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4347 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4348 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4349 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4350 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4351 for all available exporters.
4352 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4358 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4359 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4360 end of the HTML file.
4361 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4362 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4363 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4364 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4370 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4371 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4372 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4373 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4383 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4384 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4387 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4388 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4389 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4390 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4391 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4392 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4393 - New structure for the customization tree.
4398 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4402 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4403 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4404 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4405 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4406 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4411 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4412 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4413 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4414 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4418 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4419 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4422 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4423 - Various small bug fixes
4426 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4427 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4428 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4429 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4430 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4431 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4432 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4433 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4434 next buffer change due to editing).
4437 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4438 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4439 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4440 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4443 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4444 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4445 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4446 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4447 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4448 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4449 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4450 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4451 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4452 - support for cascading style sheets.
4453 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4454 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4461 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4465 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4468 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4469 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4470 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4471 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4472 and are not linked to the calendar.
4473 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4474 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4475 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4476 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4479 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4480 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4481 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4482 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4483 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4486 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4487 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4488 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4489 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4492 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4493 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4496 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4497 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4498 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4499 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4500 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4501 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4505 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4506 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4507 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4508 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4509 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4510 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4511 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4512 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4513 - Improved html export of tables.
4514 - Various clean-up changes.
4517 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4521 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4522 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4526 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4527 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4531 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4532 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4533 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4536 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4537 - New startup option `content'.
4538 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4539 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4540 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4543 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4544 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4545 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4546 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4547 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4548 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4551 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4552 table shape when typing in fields.
4553 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4554 into arbitrary major modes.
4555 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4556 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4557 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4560 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4561 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4562 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4564 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4565 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4566 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4567 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4568 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4570 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4571 - Sorting fully configurable.
4572 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4573 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4577 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4578 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4579 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4580 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4581 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4582 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4583 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4586 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4587 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4588 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4589 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4590 - Priorities for TODO items.
4591 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4592 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4593 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4598 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4599 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4600 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4601 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4602 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4603 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4604 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4605 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4606 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4607 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4608 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4609 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4610 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4611 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4612 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4615 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4616 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4617 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4618 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4619 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4620 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4621 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4622 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4623 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4624 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4625 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4626 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4629 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4630 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4631 - Date ranges introduced.
4632 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4633 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4634 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4635 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4636 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4637 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4638 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4641 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4642 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4643 - Fully automatic table editor.
4644 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4645 - Other link system changes
4646 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4647 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4648 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4649 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4650 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4651 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4652 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4654 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4655 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4656 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4657 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4658 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4659 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4661 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4665 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4666 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4667 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4668 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4672 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents