1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
6 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:{} *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil
7 #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:1 path:org-info.js
9 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
15 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
17 If the value of the customization variable
18 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
19 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
20 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
21 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
22 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
25 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
27 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
28 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
29 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
30 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
31 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
33 *** New operators for property searches
35 Property searches can now choose a number of different
36 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
37 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
39 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
40 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
41 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
43 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
44 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
46 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
47 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
48 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
49 match" or "does not match", respectively.
51 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
53 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
55 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
56 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
57 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
58 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
59 be functions, so that more general transformations are
60 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
61 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
63 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
65 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
66 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
67 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
68 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
69 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
70 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
72 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
74 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
75 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
76 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
77 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
78 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
79 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
80 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
81 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
82 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
83 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
84 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
85 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
86 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
89 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
91 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
92 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
93 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
94 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
95 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
96 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
97 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
98 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
99 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
103 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
104 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
105 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
109 - The Org distribution has a new structure
110 - New system for selecting modules to load
111 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
112 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
113 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
114 - Export commands can be done in the background
115 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
116 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
117 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
118 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
119 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
120 - And some more small fixes and improvements
122 ** Incompatible changes
124 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
126 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
127 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
128 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
129 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
130 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
131 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
135 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
137 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
138 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
139 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
140 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
141 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
142 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
146 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
147 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
148 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
149 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
150 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
151 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
152 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
153 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
156 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
158 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
159 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
160 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
161 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
162 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
163 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
164 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
165 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
168 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
169 buffer you can simply use "A".
171 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
173 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
175 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
176 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
177 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
178 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
181 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
182 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
183 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
184 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
185 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
186 visibility both locally and globally.
188 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
189 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
190 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
192 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
194 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
195 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
196 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
197 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
198 JavaScript program is served from
199 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
200 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
201 to be independent of the existence and stability of
202 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
203 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
206 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
208 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
210 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
211 together with org-info.js.
213 *** Export improvements
215 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
216 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
217 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
220 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
221 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
222 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
223 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
224 this less system dependent in the future.
226 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
228 *** Improvements to clocktable
230 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
231 when trying to specify the time block that should be
232 considered when constructing the table.
234 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
238 |--------------+-----------------------|
239 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
240 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
241 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
242 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
244 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
245 | thisweek | The current week |
246 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
247 | thismonth | The current month |
248 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
249 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
252 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
253 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
254 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
255 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
256 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
257 will switch to the following week.
259 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
260 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
261 a request from Bernt Hansen.
263 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
264 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
265 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
266 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
267 configure the variable
268 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
269 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
270 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
272 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
274 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
275 the form =W08= for week 8.
277 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
278 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
279 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
280 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
281 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
282 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
283 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
284 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
285 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
286 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
287 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
289 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
290 specify an ISO week. For example
292 : w4 Monday of week 4
293 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
295 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
296 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
298 So far I have not implemented the effect of
299 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
300 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
301 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
302 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
303 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
304 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
307 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
308 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
309 test extensively and report back.
311 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
313 *** Improvements in Search View
315 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
316 only in TODO entries.
318 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
319 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
320 also match in "Nasim's".
325 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
326 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
327 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
328 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
329 this excellent proposal.
331 The regexp option is also implemented for
332 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
333 properties for inheritance my name.
335 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
336 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
337 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
338 if and only if the setting in
339 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
342 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
343 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
344 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
345 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
346 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
347 customize them freely.
349 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
350 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
351 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
352 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
353 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
354 default date, not switch to today.
356 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
357 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
359 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
360 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
362 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
363 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
364 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
366 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
369 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
370 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
371 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
373 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
374 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
375 initial region if set.
377 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
380 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
382 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
383 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
384 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
385 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
386 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
387 file name to which the export should go, and a local
391 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
392 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
395 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
397 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
398 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
399 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
400 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
402 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
409 - New keyword search agenda view
411 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
413 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
415 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
417 - Granularity while editing time stamps
419 - New repeaters mechanisms
421 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
423 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
425 - =M-RET= splits lines again
429 ** Incompatible changes
431 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
432 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
437 *** New keyword search agenda view
439 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
440 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
441 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
442 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
443 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
444 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
445 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
446 example, the search string
448 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
450 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
451 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
452 which are also not matched by the regular expression
453 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
454 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
455 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
456 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
457 (possibly sub-) heading.
459 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
460 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
462 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
463 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
466 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
467 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
468 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
470 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
472 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
473 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
475 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
476 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
477 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
479 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
480 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
481 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
482 to cover contributed extensions as well.
484 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
486 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
487 last element defines the contexts in which the template
488 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
489 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
490 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
491 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
492 function, the template will be offered only if the function
493 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
494 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
497 One possible application for this would be to have several
498 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
499 the right one based on context. For example, think of
500 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
501 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
502 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
504 : (setq org-remember-templates
505 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
506 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
508 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
510 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
512 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
513 + In a table, add a hline as before
514 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
515 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
516 + In a headline, turn it into an item
517 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
518 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
519 item markers from all lines.
521 Based on proposals by Bastien.
523 - `C-c *' has now more functions
524 + in a table, recompute, as before
525 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
526 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
527 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
528 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
529 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
531 Based on proposals by Bastien.
533 *** Changes related to time stamps
535 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
536 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
537 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
538 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
539 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
540 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
541 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
542 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
543 specify the number of minutes to shift.
545 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
547 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
548 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
551 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
552 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
553 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
554 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
555 : and marked it done on Saturday.
556 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
557 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
558 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
561 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
563 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
565 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
566 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
569 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
570 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
571 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
572 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
573 the previous content.
575 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
577 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
578 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
579 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
581 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
585 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
586 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
587 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
588 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
591 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
592 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
593 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
596 - There are three new hooks:
598 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
599 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
600 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
604 ** Incompatible changes
606 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
607 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
608 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
612 *** Changes to logging progress
614 There is now more control over which state changes are being
615 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
616 sections in the manual. Basically:
618 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
619 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
620 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
621 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
622 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
623 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
624 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
625 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
627 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
628 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
629 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
630 : when leaving this state. This is great for
631 : getting a record when switching *back* from
633 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
634 : Here we not even define a fast access
635 : character, but just the logging stuff.
637 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
641 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
642 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
643 of the line) before the current line.
645 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
646 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
647 create a new line below the current one.
651 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
652 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
659 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
661 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
662 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
664 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
666 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
667 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
668 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
670 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
672 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
674 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
678 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
680 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
682 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
684 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
686 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
688 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
690 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
692 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
696 ** Incompatible Changes
698 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
699 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
700 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
704 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
706 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
707 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
709 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
710 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
712 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
713 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
714 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
715 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
716 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
717 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
720 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
721 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
724 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
725 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
726 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
728 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
729 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
730 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
731 variable does select the interface that is used to select
732 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
735 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
737 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
738 path to select a location.
739 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
742 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
743 they are always current.
745 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
746 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
747 special also because it only matches in headline. This
748 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
749 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
750 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
751 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
752 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
754 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
755 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
756 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
757 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
758 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
759 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
765 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
766 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
767 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
768 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
769 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
771 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
772 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
774 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
775 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
777 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
778 headline up to the tags.
779 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
781 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
783 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
784 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
785 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
786 request by Austin Frank.
788 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
789 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
790 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
792 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
793 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
794 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
795 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
797 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
798 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
799 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
800 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
801 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
802 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
803 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
804 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
805 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
806 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
807 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
810 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
811 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
812 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
813 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
821 will file is with the following property
823 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
825 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
826 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
827 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
829 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
830 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
839 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
841 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
843 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
845 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
847 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
849 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
851 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
853 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
855 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
859 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
860 entries in a subtree. For example
862 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
864 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
865 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
866 request by Bernt Hansen.
868 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
869 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
870 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
871 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
872 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
873 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
874 interactively select the filing location (file and
875 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
876 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
877 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
878 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
879 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
881 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
882 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
883 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
884 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
885 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
888 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
889 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
890 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
891 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
892 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
893 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
894 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
897 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
898 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
899 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
902 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
903 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
904 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
905 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
906 explain here, complex.
908 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
909 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
910 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
912 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
913 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
914 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
916 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
928 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
929 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
930 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
931 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
932 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
933 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
934 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
935 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
936 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
937 subtree motion commands.
939 - Plain lists items work the same.
941 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
942 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
943 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
946 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
947 let me know about any problems.
951 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
952 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
953 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
954 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
955 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
957 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
958 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
959 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
960 history variable. For example:
962 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
964 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
965 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
966 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
967 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
968 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
969 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
970 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
973 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
974 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
975 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
976 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
980 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
981 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
984 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
985 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
986 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
987 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
988 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
989 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
995 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
997 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
998 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
999 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1000 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1001 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1002 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1003 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1004 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1007 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1008 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1009 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1010 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1012 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1013 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1014 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
1015 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1017 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1018 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1019 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1020 select a new restriction.
1022 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1024 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1026 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1028 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1029 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1031 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1032 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1033 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1036 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1037 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1038 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1040 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1041 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1042 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1043 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1044 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1050 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1051 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1052 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1054 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1055 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1056 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1065 + Remember and related stuff
1066 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1067 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1068 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1069 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1071 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1072 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1073 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1074 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1075 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1076 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1077 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1079 + Properties and Column view
1080 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1081 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1082 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1083 - New currency summary type {$}
1085 + The date/time prompt
1086 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1087 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1088 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1091 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1092 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1095 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1098 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1099 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1100 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1101 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1102 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1104 ** Incompatible changes
1106 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1107 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1108 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1110 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1111 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1112 prompted, like this:
1114 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1116 : (org-remember ?n))
1118 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1119 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1121 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1123 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1125 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1126 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1130 *** Remember and related stuff
1132 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1133 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1134 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1135 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1136 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1137 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1138 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1139 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1140 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1141 definitions. For example:
1143 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1145 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1148 : (setq org-refile-targets
1149 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1151 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1152 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1153 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1154 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1157 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1158 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1160 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1161 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1162 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1163 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1164 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1166 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1167 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1169 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1171 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1172 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1173 : %[..] include file
1175 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1177 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1178 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1179 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1182 : (require 'remember)
1183 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1184 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1185 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1187 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1188 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1189 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1191 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1193 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1195 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1197 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1198 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1199 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1200 the default in Org-mode.
1202 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1203 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1204 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1205 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1207 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1208 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1209 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1210 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1211 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1213 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1214 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1215 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1216 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1219 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1220 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1221 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1222 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1223 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1225 *** Properties and Column view
1227 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1228 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1231 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1232 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1233 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1234 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1235 discussion around this issue.
1237 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1238 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1239 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1240 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1241 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1242 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1243 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1244 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1246 *** The date/time prompt
1248 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1251 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1252 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1253 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1254 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1255 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1257 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1258 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1259 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1260 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1261 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1262 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1263 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1264 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1265 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1267 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1268 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1269 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1270 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1271 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1273 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1275 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1276 list of newly performed conversions:
1278 | Org | Description | HTML |
1279 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1280 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1281 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1282 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1283 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1285 You can turn this globally on or off with
1286 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1287 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1288 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1289 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1291 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1292 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1296 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1297 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1298 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1299 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1300 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1301 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1303 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1305 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1306 export by setting it either globally
1307 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1308 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1309 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1310 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1311 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1314 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1315 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1316 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1318 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1319 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1321 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1322 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1325 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1326 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1327 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1334 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1335 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1336 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1338 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1339 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1340 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1341 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1342 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1344 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1345 with extension matched by the new variable
1346 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1355 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1356 + All known bugs fixed.
1357 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1358 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1359 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1361 - The agenda dispatcher
1362 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1363 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1365 - Sorting improvements
1366 + User-defined sorting keys.
1367 + Sorting by properties.
1368 + Sorting of plain lists.
1370 - HTML <div> structure
1373 + New variables, several of them.
1374 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1375 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1376 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1377 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1381 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1383 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1384 (at least I hope so...).
1386 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1387 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1389 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1390 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1391 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1393 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1394 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1395 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1399 : :ID: planning-overview
1405 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1409 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1410 be prompted for the ID.
1412 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1413 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1414 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1415 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1416 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1419 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1421 *** The agenda dispatcher
1423 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1424 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1425 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1426 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1427 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1428 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1429 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1430 them to custom commands.
1432 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1433 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1434 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1435 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1437 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1438 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1439 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1440 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1441 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1443 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1444 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1447 *** Sorting improvements
1449 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1450 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1452 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1453 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1455 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1458 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1460 *** HTML <div> structure
1462 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1464 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1465 "table-of-contents".
1467 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1468 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1470 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1471 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1473 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1474 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1476 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1477 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1481 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1482 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1483 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1486 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1488 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1490 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1491 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1492 your properties will not be folded away.
1493 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1495 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1496 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1497 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1499 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1500 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1501 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1502 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1503 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1505 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1506 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1507 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1508 a proposal by Bastien.
1510 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1511 request by Wanrong Lin.
1513 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1514 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1515 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1521 - Remember templates can now have name.
1522 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1523 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1524 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1525 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1526 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1527 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1528 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1529 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1530 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1531 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1533 ** Incompatible Changes
1535 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1539 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1540 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1541 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1542 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1543 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1544 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1546 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1547 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1548 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1550 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1551 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1553 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1554 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1555 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1556 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1558 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1559 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1560 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1562 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1563 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1564 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1565 Wiegley for a patch.
1567 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1568 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1569 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1570 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1571 with full completion support.
1573 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1574 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1575 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1577 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1578 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1581 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1582 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1583 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1584 well tested yet, please check it out.
1592 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1593 - Command to jump to the running clock
1594 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1595 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1596 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1597 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1598 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1599 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1600 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1601 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1602 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1604 ** Incompatible changes
1606 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1607 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1609 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1610 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1611 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1613 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1614 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1617 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1622 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1623 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1626 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1629 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1632 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1633 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1634 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1635 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1636 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1638 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1639 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1640 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1641 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1643 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1644 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1645 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1646 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1647 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1648 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1649 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1650 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1651 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1653 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1654 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1655 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1656 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1657 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1658 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1659 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1660 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1661 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1663 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1664 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1665 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1666 being prompted for a template, like this:
1668 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1670 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1672 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1673 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1674 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1675 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1677 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1678 (also `s' does this).
1680 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1681 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1684 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1685 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1686 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1688 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1689 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1690 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1692 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1693 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1694 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1695 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1703 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1704 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1705 - CSV support when importing a table.
1706 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1707 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1708 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1709 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1710 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1711 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1716 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1717 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1720 : * Tree with special properties
1722 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1723 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1726 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1727 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1728 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1729 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1730 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1731 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1732 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1733 encourage you to stop using them.
1735 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1736 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1737 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1738 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1742 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1743 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1744 | file | the full current buffer |
1745 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1746 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1747 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1748 | agenda | all agenda files |
1750 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1751 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1752 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1753 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1756 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1757 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1758 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1759 basic input it works.
1761 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1762 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1763 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1764 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1766 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1767 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1770 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1771 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1773 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1775 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1776 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1777 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1778 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1779 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1781 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1782 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1783 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1784 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1785 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1788 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1789 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1790 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1791 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1792 the children has that particular property defined, the
1793 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1794 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1795 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1796 is a better way of doing things.
1798 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1799 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1800 testing is appreciated.
1802 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1803 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1804 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1805 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1807 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1808 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1809 links in square or angular brackets.
1817 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1820 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1821 agenda can be configured.
1823 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1825 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1827 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1829 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1831 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1832 inherited from the outline faces.
1834 ** Incompatible Changes
1836 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1837 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1838 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1839 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1840 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1845 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1846 switching to that state. With the setting
1848 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1849 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1851 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1854 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1855 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1856 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1857 own function. Configure the new variable
1858 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1859 this development with a patch.
1861 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1862 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1863 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1864 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1865 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1866 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1867 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1869 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1870 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1871 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1872 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1873 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1874 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1875 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1877 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1878 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1881 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1882 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1883 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1884 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1885 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1886 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1887 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1889 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1890 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1891 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1892 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1893 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1894 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1895 match the current org-mode faces.
1897 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1901 ** Incompatible changes
1903 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1907 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1908 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1909 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1911 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1913 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1914 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1915 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1916 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1917 command fall back to cycling.
1919 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1920 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1921 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1922 interface anyway, set the variable
1923 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1924 others for input on this issue.
1926 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1927 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1928 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1930 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1931 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1933 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1934 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
1936 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
1938 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
1939 use a format string that will be interpreted by
1940 `format-time-string', for example:
1942 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
1944 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
1945 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
1946 included) have changed this.
1948 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
1949 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
1950 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
1951 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
1952 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
1953 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
1954 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
1960 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
1962 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
1964 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
1966 - Sorting can be done by priority.
1968 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
1970 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1972 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
1974 ** Incompatible changes
1976 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
1977 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
1979 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1983 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
1984 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
1985 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
1987 A Here is a configuration example:
1989 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
1990 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
1991 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
1992 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
1995 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
1996 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
1998 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
1999 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2000 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2001 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2002 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2003 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2004 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2005 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2006 states, just like you also do for tags.
2008 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2009 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2011 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2012 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2013 switch the entry to that state.
2015 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2016 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2017 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2020 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2022 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2023 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2024 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2025 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2027 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2028 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2030 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2031 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2032 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2033 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2034 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2036 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2037 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2038 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2041 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2042 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2043 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2044 the file will simply be skipped.
2054 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2055 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2056 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2057 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2058 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2059 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2060 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2061 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2064 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2065 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2066 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2067 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2068 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2069 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2070 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2071 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2072 the special locations.
2074 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2077 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2080 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2081 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2082 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2084 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2085 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2086 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2092 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2094 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2096 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2098 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2100 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2102 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2104 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2106 - Global values for selected properties.
2113 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2114 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2115 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2116 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2117 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2118 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2119 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2120 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2122 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2123 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2124 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2125 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2126 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2127 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2128 currently how to handle the new link types for
2131 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2132 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2133 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2134 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2137 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2138 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2139 The syntax is like this
2141 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2143 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2146 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2148 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2149 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2150 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2152 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2155 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2156 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2157 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2158 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2161 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2162 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2163 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2164 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2165 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2166 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2169 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2170 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2171 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2174 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2175 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2176 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2177 `org-global-properties', like this:
2179 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2181 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2183 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2185 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2186 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2187 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2188 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2189 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2190 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2198 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2199 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2200 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2201 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2203 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2204 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2205 this stuff into the drawer.
2206 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2208 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2209 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2211 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2212 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2214 - Lots of minor fixes.
2218 ** Incompatible Changes
2220 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2221 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2222 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2226 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2227 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2228 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2230 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2231 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2232 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2233 know if we need to make this customizable.
2235 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2236 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2237 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2238 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2239 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2241 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2250 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2253 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2254 compute their value from the children's values.
2256 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2257 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2260 ** Incompatible Changes
2262 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2263 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2264 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2265 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2270 - Improvements for properties:
2272 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2273 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2275 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2276 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2277 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2278 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2279 typos when entering properties.
2281 - Improvements for column view.
2283 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2284 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2287 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2288 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2289 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2290 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2293 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2294 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2297 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2298 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2299 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2301 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2302 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2303 beginning of a line. So
2305 : * This is a level 1 headline
2306 : *this is bold text*
2308 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2309 available in orgstruct-mode.
2315 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2316 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2318 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2319 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2320 open if explicitly asked.
2322 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2324 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2325 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2328 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2329 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2332 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2334 ** Incompatible changes
2336 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2337 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2338 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2339 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2340 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2341 that this is the better convention.
2345 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2347 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2348 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2349 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2350 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2351 easily create lists.
2353 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2354 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2355 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2356 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2357 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2358 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2359 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2360 minor modes have assigned to them.
2362 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2363 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2364 the promised implementation.
2368 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2369 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2370 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2371 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2372 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2375 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2377 you can then create drawers like this:
2380 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2381 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2384 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2385 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2387 *** Properties and Column View
2389 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2390 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2391 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2392 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2393 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2394 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2396 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2398 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2399 program using properties, use the functions
2400 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2401 and `org-entry-delete'.
2403 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2406 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2407 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2408 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2409 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2410 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2411 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2413 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2416 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2418 will find entries that
2421 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2422 - are TODO status WAITING.
2424 So here is an entry that will match:
2426 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2431 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2432 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2435 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2437 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2438 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2439 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2440 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2441 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2442 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2443 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2444 can set up different property columns on different levels
2445 of an outline tree. For example:
2449 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2453 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2456 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2458 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2461 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2464 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2465 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2467 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2468 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2469 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2470 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2471 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2472 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2475 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2476 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2478 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2479 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2480 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2481 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2482 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2483 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2485 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2486 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2489 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2491 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2493 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2494 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2495 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2497 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2498 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2499 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2500 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2505 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2506 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2507 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2508 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2509 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2510 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2511 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2514 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2515 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2516 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2517 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2518 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2525 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2527 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2528 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2529 constants can now be set with a line like:
2531 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2535 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2536 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2539 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2541 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2545 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2546 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2547 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2548 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2555 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2556 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2557 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2558 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2560 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2561 See manual section 3.5.3.
2563 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2564 This was a request from Ignotus.
2565 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2567 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2568 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2569 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2573 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2574 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2575 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2576 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2577 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2583 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2584 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2586 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2588 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2590 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2592 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2594 ** Incompatible changes
2596 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2597 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2598 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2599 with the xemacs version. For example:
2601 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2603 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2604 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2605 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2606 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2607 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2611 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2612 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2613 interval on a single day. For example
2615 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2617 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2618 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2619 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2620 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2622 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2625 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2626 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2630 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2632 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2633 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2634 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2635 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2636 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2637 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2638 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2639 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2640 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2641 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2642 stick to the ASCII characters.
2644 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2645 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2646 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2647 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2648 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2650 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2652 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2653 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2654 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2656 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2657 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2658 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2659 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2660 if we can agree on this:
2662 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2663 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2664 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2665 out to a previous level. For example
2673 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2682 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2683 using promotion and demotion functions.
2689 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2690 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2692 ** Incompatible changes
2694 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2698 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2699 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2700 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2701 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2702 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2703 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2704 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2706 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2707 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2708 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2709 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2710 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2711 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2712 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2714 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2715 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2716 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2717 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2718 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2721 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2722 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2723 wherever you want a vertical line:
2725 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2726 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2727 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2729 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2730 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2732 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2733 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2734 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2735 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2736 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2737 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2738 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2739 behavior we had before.
2741 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2743 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2744 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2745 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2746 special characters in other languages as along as your
2747 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2748 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2749 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2755 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2759 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2761 [1]This is a footnote
2763 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2764 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2766 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2768 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2769 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2772 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2778 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2779 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2781 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2782 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2783 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2784 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2786 ** Incompatible Changes
2788 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2789 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2793 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2794 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2796 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2798 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2799 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2800 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2801 collect your credit, let me know!
2803 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2804 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2806 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2807 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2809 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2810 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2811 would in the diary. For example
2813 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2815 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2817 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2818 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2820 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2822 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2823 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2824 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2825 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2826 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2827 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2828 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2829 faster agenda display.
2831 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2832 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2833 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2834 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2835 to Raman for this idea.
2837 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2838 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2839 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2842 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2843 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2844 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2848 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2850 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2851 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2853 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2854 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2855 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2856 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2859 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2860 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2862 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2863 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2864 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2865 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2867 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2868 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2869 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2870 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2872 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2873 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2880 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2881 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2882 further processing in scripts.
2884 ** Incompatible Changes
2886 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2887 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2891 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2892 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2893 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2894 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2897 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2898 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2899 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2900 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2901 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2902 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2903 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2904 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2906 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2907 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2908 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2909 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2911 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2912 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2913 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2915 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2925 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2927 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2929 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2931 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2933 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
2935 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
2937 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
2941 ** Incompatible changes
2943 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
2944 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
2947 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
2948 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
2949 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
2950 `org-disputed-keys'.
2952 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
2953 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
2954 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
2958 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
2959 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
2960 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
2961 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
2962 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
2963 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
2964 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
2965 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
2966 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
2967 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
2968 Scott fro bringing this up again.
2970 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
2971 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
2972 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
2973 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
2975 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
2976 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
2978 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
2979 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
2980 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
2981 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
2983 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
2984 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
2985 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
2986 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
2987 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
2988 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
2989 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
2990 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
2992 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
2994 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
2995 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
2996 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
2997 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
2998 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
2999 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3000 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3003 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3004 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3005 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3006 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3007 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3008 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3011 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3012 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3013 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3014 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3015 indicates a non-stuck project.
3017 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3018 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3019 please let me know if you find problems.
3021 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3022 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3028 ** Incompatible changes
3032 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3033 exported HTML. These are the variables
3034 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3035 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3038 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3039 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3040 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3042 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3043 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3044 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3045 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3046 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3047 that are scanned for the agenda.
3055 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3056 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3057 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3059 ** Incompatible changes
3061 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3065 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3067 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3069 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3071 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3072 list (and which is also works!)
3074 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3075 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3077 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3078 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3079 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3080 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3081 toward using the latter.
3083 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3084 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3085 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3086 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3088 (setq org-todo-keywords
3089 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3090 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3091 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3092 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3095 If your setting has this new structure,
3096 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3097 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3098 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3099 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3101 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3102 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3103 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3104 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3105 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3108 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3109 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3110 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3111 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3112 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3113 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3114 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3116 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3117 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3118 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3119 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3120 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3122 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3123 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3124 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3125 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3126 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3127 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3128 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3129 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3130 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3137 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3139 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3140 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3141 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3142 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3143 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3144 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3147 ** Incompatible changes
3149 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3150 over several lines, like
3153 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3156 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3157 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3158 See below for details.
3160 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3161 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3162 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3163 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3168 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3169 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3172 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3173 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3174 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3176 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3177 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3178 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3179 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3180 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3181 where you want to be.
3183 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3184 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3185 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3188 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3189 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3191 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3192 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3194 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3196 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3197 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3198 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3199 new in-buffer option
3203 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3204 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3205 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3206 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3208 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3209 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3210 can be done by setting the variable
3211 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3213 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3219 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3221 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3222 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3223 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3224 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3225 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3227 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3229 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3230 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3233 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3234 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3235 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3236 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3237 are logging all state changes.
3239 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3244 - Priority handling in the tags view
3245 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3246 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3247 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3248 - C-j does better indentation.
3252 - Priority handling in the tags view
3254 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3255 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3257 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3259 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3260 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3261 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3263 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3265 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3267 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3268 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3269 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3270 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3271 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3272 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3273 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3275 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3278 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3280 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3282 + There is now a menu with commands.
3284 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3285 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3287 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3288 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3290 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3291 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3295 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3296 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3297 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3299 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3300 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3305 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3306 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3307 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3308 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3310 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3311 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3312 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3322 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3323 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3324 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3326 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3327 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3328 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3329 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3330 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3331 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3332 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3334 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3335 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3336 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3338 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3340 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3341 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3343 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3344 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3346 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3347 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3348 levels. For example:
3350 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3352 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3353 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3354 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3357 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3358 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3359 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3360 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3362 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3363 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3372 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3373 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3374 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3375 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3377 ** Detailed description of changes
3379 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3380 any table in any mode.
3382 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3383 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3384 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3385 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3386 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3387 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3389 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3390 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3391 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3392 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3393 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3395 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3396 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3397 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3398 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3399 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3400 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3401 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3404 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3405 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3406 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3407 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3408 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3409 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3410 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3411 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3412 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3413 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3414 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3415 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3417 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3418 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3419 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3420 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3426 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3427 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3428 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3429 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3430 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3432 ** Detailed description of changes
3434 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3435 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3436 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3438 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3440 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3441 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3443 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3445 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3446 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3447 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3449 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3450 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3451 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3453 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3454 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3455 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3457 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3458 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3460 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3462 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3463 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3464 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3465 remember.el work like this as well).
3466 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3467 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3468 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3469 new template, but the old context information. This is
3470 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3473 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3474 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3475 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3476 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3477 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3478 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3479 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3480 without interaction.
3482 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3483 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3484 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3485 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3486 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3487 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3489 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3490 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3491 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3492 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3494 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3495 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3496 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3497 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3498 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3499 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3505 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3506 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3508 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3509 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3510 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3511 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3512 + Incompatible changes
3513 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3514 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3515 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3516 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3517 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3518 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3519 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3523 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3524 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3525 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3526 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3527 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3528 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3529 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3530 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3534 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3535 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3536 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3537 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3538 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3539 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3540 - Empty entries go full circle.
3541 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3546 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3549 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3550 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3551 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3552 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3553 another, dedicated frame.
3554 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3555 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3558 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3559 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3560 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3561 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3562 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3563 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3564 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3565 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3566 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3567 use regular expressions.
3568 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3569 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3570 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3574 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3575 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3576 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3583 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3584 + show status also in target line.
3585 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3586 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3587 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3591 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3592 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3593 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3594 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3598 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3599 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3604 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3605 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3606 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3610 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3611 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3612 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3613 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3614 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3615 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3616 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3617 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3618 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3619 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3620 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3625 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3626 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3627 - File links can contain environment variables.
3628 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3632 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3633 each block created by a different agenda command.
3634 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3635 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3636 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3637 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3638 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3639 upon the agenda type.
3640 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3641 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3642 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3643 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3644 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3645 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3646 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3647 - More minor bug fixes.
3650 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3651 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3652 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3656 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3657 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3658 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3662 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3665 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3666 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3667 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3675 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3676 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3678 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3679 LaTeX environment and math.
3682 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3684 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3685 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3686 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3690 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3691 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3694 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3695 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3696 and will not lead to conflicts.
3697 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3701 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3702 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3703 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3704 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3705 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3706 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3707 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3713 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3714 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3717 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3718 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3719 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3720 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3721 directories for different export types.
3722 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3723 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3730 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3731 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3732 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3733 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3734 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3735 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3736 relative and absolute paths.
3737 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3738 - Bug and typo fixes.
3742 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3743 contains a description or not.
3744 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3745 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3746 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3747 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3748 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3749 for all available exporters.
3750 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3756 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3757 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3758 end of the HTML file.
3759 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3760 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3761 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3762 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3768 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3769 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3770 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3771 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3781 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3782 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3785 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3786 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3787 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3788 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3789 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3790 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3791 - New structure for the customization tree.
3796 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3800 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3801 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3802 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3803 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3804 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3809 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3810 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3811 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3812 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3816 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3817 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3820 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3821 - Various small bug fixes
3824 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3825 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3826 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3827 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3828 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3829 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3830 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3831 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3832 next buffer change due to editing).
3835 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3836 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3837 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3838 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3841 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3842 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3843 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3844 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3845 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3846 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3847 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3848 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3849 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3850 - support for cascading style sheets.
3851 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3852 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3859 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3863 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3866 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3867 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3868 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3869 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3870 and are not linked to the calendar.
3871 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3872 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3873 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3874 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3877 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3878 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3879 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3880 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3881 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3884 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3885 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3886 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3887 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3890 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3891 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3894 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3895 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3896 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3897 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3898 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3899 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3903 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3904 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3905 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3906 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3907 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3908 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3909 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3910 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3911 - Improved html export of tables.
3912 - Various clean-up changes.
3915 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3919 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3920 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3924 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3925 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3929 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3930 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3931 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3934 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
3935 - New startup option `content'.
3936 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
3937 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
3938 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
3941 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
3942 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
3943 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
3944 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
3945 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
3946 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
3949 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
3950 table shape when typing in fields.
3951 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
3952 into arbitrary major modes.
3953 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
3954 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
3955 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
3958 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
3959 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
3960 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
3962 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
3963 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
3964 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
3965 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
3966 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
3968 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
3969 - Sorting fully configurable.
3970 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
3971 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
3975 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
3976 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
3977 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
3978 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
3979 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
3980 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
3981 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
3984 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
3985 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
3986 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
3987 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
3988 - Priorities for TODO items.
3989 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
3990 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
3991 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
3996 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
3997 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
3998 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
3999 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4000 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4001 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4002 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4003 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4004 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4005 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4006 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4007 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4008 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4009 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4010 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4013 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4014 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4015 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4016 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4017 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4018 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4019 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4020 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4021 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4022 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4023 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4024 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4027 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4028 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4029 - Date ranges introduced.
4030 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4031 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4032 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4033 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4034 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4035 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4036 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4039 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4040 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4041 - Fully automatic table editor.
4042 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4043 - Other link system changes
4044 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4045 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4046 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4047 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4048 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4049 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4050 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4052 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4053 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4054 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4055 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4056 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4057 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4059 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4063 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4064 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4065 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4066 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4070 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents