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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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13 * Version 6.08 (in preparation)
20 *** New remember template escape to add a property
21 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
22 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
23 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
24 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
25 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
34 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
35 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
36 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
37 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
38 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
39 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
40 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
41 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
42 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
43 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
44 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
45 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
46 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
47 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
48 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
49 - It is possible to define filters for column view
50 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
51 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
52 - And tons of bugs fixed.
55 ** Incompatible changes
57 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
59 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
60 remember process is now interpreted differently:
62 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
63 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
64 : in its new location.
65 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
66 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
68 This was requested by John Wiegley.
70 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
72 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
73 as a tty key replacement.
75 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
77 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
78 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
79 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
80 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
83 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
87 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
89 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
90 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
91 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
92 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
93 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
94 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
95 do have the tag will be hidden.
97 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
98 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
99 not require a new search and is very fast.
101 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
102 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
103 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
104 direct access character.
106 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
107 unhiding any hidden lines.
109 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
110 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
111 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
112 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
114 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
116 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
117 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
118 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
119 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
121 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
122 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
123 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
124 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
126 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
127 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
128 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
130 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
133 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
134 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
136 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
138 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
139 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
140 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
141 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
143 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
145 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
147 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
148 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
149 behavior is governed by two new variables:
150 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
151 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
152 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
154 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
155 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
156 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
157 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
158 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
159 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
160 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
161 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
164 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
165 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
167 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
170 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
172 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
173 remember process is now interpreted differently:
175 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
176 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
177 : in its new location.
178 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
179 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
181 This was requested by John Wiegley.
183 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
185 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
186 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
187 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
188 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
189 you do not like this, customize the variable
190 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
192 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
193 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
196 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
198 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
200 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
201 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
202 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
203 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
204 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
207 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
209 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
210 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
212 This was a request by Chris Randle.
214 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
216 This was a request by Peter Frings.
218 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
220 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
221 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
222 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
224 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
226 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
227 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
228 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
229 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
230 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
231 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
232 position of the keyword in this sequence.
234 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
237 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
239 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
241 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
243 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
244 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
246 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
248 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
250 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
251 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
252 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
253 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
256 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
258 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
260 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
261 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
262 For more information, look at the variable
263 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
265 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
267 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
269 This was a request by Chris Randle.
276 - New, more CSS-like setup for HTML style information
277 - Attributes in hyperlinks, for example alt and title for images
278 - Simplified way to specify file links
279 - Modified behavior of time stamps in iCalendar export
280 - New way to compare times during a property search
281 - New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
282 - New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
283 - New option :index-style for org-publish
284 - New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
286 ** Incompatible changes
288 *** New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
290 The timestamp directory now uses SHA1 hashed versions of the
291 path to each publishing file. This should be a consistent
292 and system-independent way to handle things. The change
293 means that your next publishing command will publish each and
294 every file again, but just once, until new time stamps are in
299 *** New setup for HTML style information
301 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
302 information, the following changes have been made:
303 - The default style has moved to a constant,
304 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
306 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
307 just the empty string. This variable should receive
308 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
309 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
310 be used to establish project-wide settings.
311 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
312 should be used for file-local settings. Org-publish can, if
313 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
315 - When a file is published, the values of
316 - org-export-html-style-default
317 - org-export-html-style
318 - org-export-html-style-extra
319 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
322 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
324 *** Attributes in hyperlinks
326 You can now set attributes in hyperlinks that will be used
327 when publishing to HTML. For example, if you want to use the
328 ALT and TITLE attributes of an inlined image, here is who to
331 : [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="This is image A" title="Image with no action"}}]]
333 Thanks to Charles Chen for this idea.
335 *** Simplified way to specify file links
337 In a link, you can now leave out the "file:" prefix if you
338 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
339 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
340 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
341 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
344 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
345 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
348 [[./A.jpg][./B.jpg] ]
351 *** Changes in iCalendar export
353 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
354 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
357 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
358 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
359 will no longer show up in the calendar.
361 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
362 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
365 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
366 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
369 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
370 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
372 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
373 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
374 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
375 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
376 old behavior or even do something completely different.
378 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
380 *** New way to compare times during a property search
382 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
383 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
386 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
388 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
389 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
392 This is based on a request by Manish.
394 *** New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
396 When set, a link pointing to a directory will actually open
397 the index.org file in that directory. This is a good setting
398 inside a publishing project. When not set, you get a
399 finder/explorer window for that directory, or dired,
400 depending on system and setup.
402 This follows a request by Richard Riley.
404 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
406 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
407 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
410 This follows a proposal by Richard Riley.
412 *** New option :index-style for org-publish
414 This option can be used to switch the style of the index
415 produced by org-publish. Can be `list' (index is just an
416 itemized list of the titles of the files involved) or `tree'
417 (the directory structure of the source files is reflected in
418 the index). The default is `tree'.
420 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for the patch.
422 *** In the Agenda, inclusion of archives can now be toggled
423 - Pressing =v= will toggle inclusion of trees with the
424 ARCHIVE tag, this includes obviously the archive sibling.
425 - Pressing `C-u v' will include trees with ARCHIVE tag, and
426 will also include all archive files that are currently
427 associated with your agenda files.
429 This was triggered by a proposal by Manuel Hermenegildo.
433 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
434 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
435 thanks for all the great ideas.
439 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
440 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
441 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
442 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
443 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
444 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
445 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
446 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
447 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
448 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
450 ** Incompatible changes
452 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
453 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
454 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
457 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
459 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
460 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
461 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
462 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
463 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
464 that led to this development.
466 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
468 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
469 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
470 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
471 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
472 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
473 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
474 the calendar if you prefer that.
476 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
478 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
479 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
480 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
482 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
483 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
484 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
486 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
487 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
488 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
489 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
490 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
492 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
494 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
495 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
496 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
497 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
498 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
502 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
503 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
505 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
506 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
507 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
508 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
511 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
512 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
513 this query will be considered during the iteration.
514 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
517 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
518 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
521 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
522 skipping facilities of the scanner.
525 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
526 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
527 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
528 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
529 trees will be ignored.
531 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
533 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
534 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
537 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
538 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
540 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
541 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
544 *** Changes in Remember templates
546 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
547 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
548 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
551 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
552 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
553 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
554 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
555 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
558 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
559 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
560 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
561 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
562 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
563 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
565 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
566 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
567 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
568 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
569 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
570 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
572 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
574 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
575 Spiers for this proposal.
577 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
579 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
580 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
582 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
584 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
585 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
586 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
587 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
589 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
590 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
591 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
592 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
593 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
595 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
596 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
597 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
598 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
599 *** Fixes and additions for org-publish
600 - the :include and :index-title properties in org-publish
601 work now as advertized
602 - the #+TITLE of a page will be used in the index
603 - new :completion-function property can define a hook to be
604 run after publishing a file.
606 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for a patch to this effect.
612 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
613 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
614 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
615 - New properties for customizing subtree export
617 ** Incompatible changes
619 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
620 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
621 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
623 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
624 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
625 archives still did this wrong.
629 *** Statistics for TODO entries
631 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
632 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
633 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
634 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
635 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
637 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
638 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
639 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
640 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
641 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
642 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
643 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
644 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
645 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
646 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
649 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
650 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
651 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
652 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
653 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
655 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
658 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
660 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
661 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
662 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
663 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
664 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
665 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
666 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
667 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
668 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
669 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
670 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
671 calling this command.
673 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
674 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
677 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
683 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
690 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
694 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
696 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
697 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
698 Org core. If you set the variable
700 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
702 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
703 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
704 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
705 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
708 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
709 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
710 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
712 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
713 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
714 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
715 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
716 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
717 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
718 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
719 the different instances originate.
721 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
723 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
724 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
725 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
726 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
727 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
728 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
729 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
730 and only the options you give in the property will be
731 overwritten. For example:
737 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
738 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
739 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
743 *** New way to define tags for an entire file.
745 Tags that are defined in a line like
746 : #+FILETAGS: work urgent
747 are inherited by all entries in the file.
749 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for this proposal.
755 - Description lists are now supported natively
756 - Block quotes for export
757 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
758 - Include files for export
759 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
760 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
761 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
762 - Completion of structure elements
763 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
764 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
765 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
766 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
768 ** Incompatible changes
770 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
772 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
773 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
774 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
775 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
776 value on a per-file basis with
784 *** Description lists are now supported natively
786 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
787 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
788 separated by " :: ". For example
790 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
791 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
792 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
793 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
794 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
795 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
796 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
797 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
798 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
802 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
803 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
804 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
805 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
806 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
807 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
808 natural constants and units into a buffer.
809 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
810 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
812 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
813 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
815 *** Block quotes for export
817 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
821 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
822 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
829 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
830 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
833 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
835 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
836 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
837 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
841 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
848 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
849 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
850 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
851 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
853 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
859 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
860 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
861 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
862 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
863 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
864 that in the example above.
866 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
867 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
868 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
870 *** Include files for export
874 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
876 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
877 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
878 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
879 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
880 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
881 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
883 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
884 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
886 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
888 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
889 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
890 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
891 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
892 value on a per-file basis with
897 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
899 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
900 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
901 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
902 you write in a buffer
904 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
906 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
907 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
909 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
911 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
912 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
913 other in-buffer keywords.
915 *** Completion of structure elements
916 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
917 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
918 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
919 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
920 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
921 Currently supported templates are:
934 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
935 below under /org-mtags.el/.
937 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
939 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
940 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
941 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
942 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
943 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
944 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
945 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
948 - folded :: Fold the subtree
949 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
950 headlines of all direct children
951 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
953 - all :: Show the entire subtree
955 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
956 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
957 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
958 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
959 currently looks like this:
964 , :VISIBILITY: content
969 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
971 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
972 visibility of the buffer.
974 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
976 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
977 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
979 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
980 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
981 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
982 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
983 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
984 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
985 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
986 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
987 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
990 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
991 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
992 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
993 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
994 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
995 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
996 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
998 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
1000 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
1001 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
1002 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
1004 *** New files in the contrib directory
1006 Do people think any of these should become core?
1008 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
1009 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
1010 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
1011 of [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/emacs-wiki.html#Lisp-Tricks][Emacs Wiki]] and [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/muse/Embedded-Lisp.html#Embedded-Lisp][Muse]].
1012 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
1013 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
1014 For example, instead of
1022 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
1023 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
1024 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
1025 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
1026 in the file [[http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git?a=blob_plain;f=contrib/lisp/org-mtags.el;hb=HEAD][commentary in the file org-mtags.el]].
1028 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
1029 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
1033 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
1039 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
1040 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
1041 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
1042 - New operators for property searches
1043 - Search commands can now include archive files.
1044 - Clock tables can include the archive files
1045 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
1049 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
1051 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
1052 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
1053 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
1054 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
1055 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
1056 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
1058 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
1060 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
1061 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
1062 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
1063 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
1064 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
1065 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
1066 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
1067 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
1068 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
1069 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
1070 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
1071 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
1072 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
1075 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
1077 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
1078 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
1079 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
1080 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
1081 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
1082 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
1083 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
1084 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
1085 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
1087 *** New operators for property searches
1089 Property searches can now choose a number of different
1090 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
1091 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
1093 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
1094 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
1095 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
1097 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
1098 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
1100 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
1101 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
1102 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
1103 match" or "does not match", respectively.
1105 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
1107 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
1109 If the value of the customization variable
1110 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
1111 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
1112 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
1113 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
1114 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
1117 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
1119 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
1120 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
1121 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
1122 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
1123 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
1125 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
1127 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
1128 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
1129 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
1130 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
1131 be functions, so that more general transformations are
1132 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
1133 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
1137 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
1138 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
1139 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
1143 - The Org distribution has a new structure
1144 - New system for selecting modules to load
1145 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
1146 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
1147 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
1148 - Export commands can be done in the background
1149 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
1150 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
1151 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1152 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
1153 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
1154 - And some more small fixes and improvements
1156 ** Incompatible changes
1158 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
1160 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
1161 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
1162 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
1163 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
1164 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
1165 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
1169 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
1171 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
1172 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
1173 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
1174 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
1175 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
1176 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
1180 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
1181 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
1182 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
1183 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
1184 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
1185 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
1186 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
1187 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
1190 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
1192 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
1193 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
1194 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
1195 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
1196 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
1197 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
1198 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
1199 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
1202 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
1203 buffer you can simply use "A".
1205 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
1207 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
1209 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
1210 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
1211 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
1212 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
1215 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
1216 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
1217 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
1218 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
1219 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
1220 visibility both locally and globally.
1222 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
1223 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
1224 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
1226 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
1228 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
1229 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
1230 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
1231 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
1232 JavaScript program is served from
1233 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
1234 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
1235 to be independent of the existence and stability of
1236 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
1237 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
1238 using something like
1240 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
1242 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
1244 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
1245 together with org-info.js.
1247 *** Export improvements
1249 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
1250 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
1251 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
1254 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
1255 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
1256 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
1257 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
1258 this less system dependent in the future.
1260 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
1262 *** Improvements to clocktable
1264 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
1265 when trying to specify the time block that should be
1266 considered when constructing the table.
1268 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
1271 | :block | meaning |
1272 |--------------+-----------------------|
1273 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
1274 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
1275 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
1276 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
1278 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
1279 | thisweek | The current week |
1280 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
1281 | thismonth | The current month |
1282 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
1283 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
1286 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
1287 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
1288 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
1289 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
1290 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
1291 will switch to the following week.
1293 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
1294 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
1295 a request from Bernt Hansen.
1297 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
1298 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
1299 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
1300 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
1301 configure the variable
1302 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
1303 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
1304 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
1306 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1308 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
1309 the form =W08= for week 8.
1311 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
1312 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
1313 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
1314 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
1315 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
1316 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
1317 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
1318 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
1319 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
1320 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
1321 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
1323 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
1324 specify an ISO week. For example
1326 : w4 Monday of week 4
1327 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
1328 : w4-5 Same as above
1329 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
1330 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
1332 So far I have not implemented the effect of
1333 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
1334 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
1335 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
1336 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
1337 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
1338 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1341 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1342 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1343 test extensively and report back.
1345 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1347 *** Improvements in Search View
1349 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1350 only in TODO entries.
1352 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1353 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1354 also match in "Nasim's".
1359 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1360 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1361 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1362 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1363 this excellent proposal.
1365 The regexp option is also implemented for
1366 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1367 properties for inheritance my name.
1369 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1370 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1371 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1372 if and only if the setting in
1373 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1376 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1377 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1378 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1379 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1380 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1381 customize them freely.
1383 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1384 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1385 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1386 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1387 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1388 default date, not switch to today.
1390 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1391 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1393 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1394 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1396 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1397 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1398 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1400 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1403 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1404 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1405 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1407 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1408 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1409 initial region if set.
1411 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1414 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1416 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1417 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1418 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1419 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1420 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1421 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1422 format. For example:
1425 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1426 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1429 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1431 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1432 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1433 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1434 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1436 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1443 - New keyword search agenda view
1445 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1447 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1449 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1451 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1453 - New repeaters mechanisms
1455 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1457 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1459 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1463 ** Incompatible changes
1465 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1466 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1471 *** New keyword search agenda view
1473 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1474 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1475 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1476 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1477 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1478 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1479 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1480 example, the search string
1482 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1484 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1485 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1486 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1487 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1488 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1489 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1490 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1491 (possibly sub-) heading.
1493 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1494 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1496 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1497 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1500 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1501 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1502 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1504 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1506 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1507 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1509 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1510 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1511 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1513 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1514 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1515 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1516 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1518 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1520 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1521 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1522 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1523 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1524 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1525 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1526 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1527 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1528 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1531 One possible application for this would be to have several
1532 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1533 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1534 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1535 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1536 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1538 : (setq org-remember-templates
1539 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1540 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1542 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1544 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1546 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1547 + In a table, add a hline as before
1548 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1549 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1550 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1551 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1552 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1553 item markers from all lines.
1555 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1557 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1558 + in a table, recompute, as before
1559 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1560 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1561 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1562 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1563 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1565 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1567 *** Changes related to time stamps
1569 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1570 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1571 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1572 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1573 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1574 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1575 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1576 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1577 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1579 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1581 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1582 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1584 :** TODO Call Father
1585 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1586 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1587 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1588 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1589 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1590 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1591 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1592 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1595 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1597 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1599 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1600 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1603 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1604 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1605 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1606 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1607 the previous content.
1609 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1611 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1612 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1613 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1615 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1619 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1620 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1621 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1622 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1625 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1626 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1627 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1630 - There are three new hooks:
1632 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1633 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1634 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1638 ** Incompatible changes
1640 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1641 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1642 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1646 *** Changes to logging progress
1648 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1649 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1650 sections in the manual. Basically:
1652 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1653 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1654 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1655 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1656 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1657 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1658 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1659 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1661 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1662 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1663 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1664 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1665 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1667 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1668 : Here we not even define a fast access
1669 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1671 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1675 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1676 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1677 of the line) before the current line.
1679 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1680 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1681 create a new line below the current one.
1685 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1686 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1693 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1695 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1696 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1698 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1700 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1701 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1702 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1704 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1706 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1708 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1712 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1714 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1716 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1718 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1720 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1722 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1724 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1726 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1730 ** Incompatible Changes
1732 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1733 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1734 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1738 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1740 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1741 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1743 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1744 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1746 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1747 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1748 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1749 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1750 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1751 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1754 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1755 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1758 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1759 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1760 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1762 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1763 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1764 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1765 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1766 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1767 Possible values are:
1769 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1771 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1772 path to select a location.
1773 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1776 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1777 they are always current.
1779 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1780 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1781 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1782 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1783 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1784 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1785 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1786 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1788 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1789 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1790 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1791 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1792 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1793 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1794 interface. Comments?
1799 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1800 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1801 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1802 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1803 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1805 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1806 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1808 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1809 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1811 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1812 headline up to the tags.
1813 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1815 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1817 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1818 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1819 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1820 request by Austin Frank.
1822 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1823 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1824 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1826 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1827 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1828 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1829 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1831 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1832 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1833 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1834 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1835 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1836 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1837 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1838 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1839 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1840 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1841 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1844 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1845 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1846 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1847 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1855 will file is with the following property
1857 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1859 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1860 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1861 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1863 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1864 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1873 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1875 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1877 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1879 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1881 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1883 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1885 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1887 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1889 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1893 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1894 entries in a subtree. For example
1896 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1898 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1899 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1900 request by Bernt Hansen.
1902 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1903 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1904 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1905 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1906 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1907 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1908 interactively select the filing location (file and
1909 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1910 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1911 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1912 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1913 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1915 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1916 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1917 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1918 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1919 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1922 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1923 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1924 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1925 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1926 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1927 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1928 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1931 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1932 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1933 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1936 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1937 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1938 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1939 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1940 explain here, complex.
1942 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1943 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1944 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1946 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1947 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1948 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1950 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1962 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1963 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1964 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1965 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1966 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1967 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1968 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1969 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1970 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1971 subtree motion commands.
1973 - Plain lists items work the same.
1975 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1976 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1977 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1980 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1981 let me know about any problems.
1985 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1986 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1987 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1988 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1989 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1991 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1992 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1993 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1994 history variable. For example:
1996 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1998 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1999 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
2000 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
2001 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
2002 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
2003 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
2004 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
2005 by Bastien and Adam.
2007 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
2008 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
2009 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
2010 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
2014 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
2015 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
2018 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
2019 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
2020 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
2021 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
2022 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
2023 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
2029 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
2031 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
2032 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
2033 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
2034 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
2035 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
2036 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
2037 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
2038 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
2041 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
2042 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
2043 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
2044 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
2046 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
2047 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
2048 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
2049 and then watch it change in various scopes.
2051 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
2052 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
2053 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
2054 select a new restriction.
2056 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
2058 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
2060 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
2062 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
2063 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
2065 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
2066 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
2067 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
2070 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
2071 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
2072 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
2074 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
2075 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
2076 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
2077 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
2078 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
2084 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
2085 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
2086 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
2088 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
2089 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
2090 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
2099 + Remember and related stuff
2100 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
2101 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
2102 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
2103 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
2105 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
2106 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
2107 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
2108 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
2109 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
2110 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
2111 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
2113 + Properties and Column view
2114 - More control over which properties use inheritance
2115 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
2116 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
2117 - New currency summary type {$}
2119 + The date/time prompt
2120 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
2121 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
2122 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
2125 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
2126 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
2129 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
2132 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
2133 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
2134 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
2135 - Support for pabbrev-mode
2136 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
2138 ** Incompatible changes
2140 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
2141 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
2142 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
2144 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
2145 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
2146 prompted, like this:
2148 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
2150 : (org-remember ?n))
2152 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
2153 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
2155 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
2157 : (org-remember nil ?n))
2159 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
2160 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
2164 *** Remember and related stuff
2166 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
2167 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
2168 application might be to put a note or task captured with
2169 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
2170 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
2171 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
2172 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
2173 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
2174 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
2175 definitions. For example:
2177 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
2179 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
2182 : (setq org-refile-targets
2183 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
2185 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
2186 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
2187 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
2188 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
2191 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
2192 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
2194 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
2195 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
2196 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
2197 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
2198 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
2200 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
2201 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
2203 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
2205 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
2206 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
2207 : %[..] include file
2209 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
2211 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
2212 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
2213 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
2216 : (require 'remember)
2217 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
2218 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
2219 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
2221 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
2222 provide a default for templates without a file, and
2223 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
2225 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
2227 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
2229 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
2231 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
2232 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
2233 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
2234 the default in Org-mode.
2236 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
2237 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
2238 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
2239 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
2241 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
2242 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
2243 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
2244 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
2245 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
2247 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
2248 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
2249 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
2250 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
2253 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
2254 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
2255 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
2256 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
2257 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
2259 *** Properties and Column view
2261 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
2262 property names that should be treated with inheritance
2265 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
2266 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
2267 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
2268 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
2269 discussion around this issue.
2271 - Summary type improvements in column view.
2272 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
2273 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
2274 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
2275 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
2276 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
2277 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
2278 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
2280 *** The date/time prompt
2282 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
2285 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
2286 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
2287 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
2288 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
2289 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
2291 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
2292 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
2293 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
2294 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
2295 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
2296 entered month is before the current, for example if you
2297 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
2298 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
2299 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
2301 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
2302 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
2303 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
2304 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
2305 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
2307 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
2309 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
2310 list of newly performed conversions:
2312 | Org | Description | HTML |
2313 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
2314 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
2315 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
2316 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
2317 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
2319 You can turn this globally on or off with
2320 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
2321 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
2322 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
2323 William Henney for relevant inputs.
2325 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
2326 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
2330 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
2331 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
2332 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
2333 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
2334 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
2335 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
2337 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
2339 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
2340 export by setting it either globally
2341 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2342 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2343 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2344 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2345 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2348 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2349 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2350 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2352 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2353 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2355 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2356 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2359 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2360 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2361 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2368 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2369 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2370 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2372 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2373 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2374 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2375 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2376 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2378 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2379 with extension matched by the new variable
2380 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2389 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2390 + All known bugs fixed.
2391 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2392 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2393 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2395 - The agenda dispatcher
2396 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2397 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2399 - Sorting improvements
2400 + User-defined sorting keys.
2401 + Sorting by properties.
2402 + Sorting of plain lists.
2404 - HTML <div> structure
2407 + New variables, several of them.
2408 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2409 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2410 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2411 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2415 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2417 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2418 (at least I hope so...).
2420 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2421 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2423 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2424 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2425 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2427 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2428 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2429 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2433 : :ID: planning-overview
2439 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2443 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2444 be prompted for the ID.
2446 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2447 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2448 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2449 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2450 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2453 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2455 *** The agenda dispatcher
2457 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2458 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2459 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2460 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2461 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2462 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2463 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2464 them to custom commands.
2466 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2467 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2468 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2469 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2471 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2472 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2473 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2474 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2475 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2477 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2478 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2481 *** Sorting improvements
2483 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2484 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2486 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2487 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2489 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2492 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2494 *** HTML <div> structure
2496 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2498 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2499 "table-of-contents".
2501 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2502 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2504 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2505 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2507 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2508 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2510 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2511 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2515 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2516 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2517 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2520 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2522 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2524 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2525 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2526 your properties will not be folded away.
2527 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2529 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2530 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2531 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2533 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2534 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2535 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2536 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2537 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2539 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2540 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2541 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2542 a proposal by Bastien.
2544 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2545 request by Wanrong Lin.
2547 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2548 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2549 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2555 - Remember templates can now have name.
2556 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2557 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2558 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2559 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2560 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2561 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2562 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2563 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2564 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2565 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2567 ** Incompatible Changes
2569 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2573 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2574 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2575 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2576 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2577 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2578 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2580 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2581 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2582 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2584 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2585 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2587 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2588 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2589 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2590 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2592 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2593 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2594 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2596 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2597 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2598 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2599 Wiegley for a patch.
2601 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2602 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2603 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2604 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2605 with full completion support.
2607 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2608 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2609 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2611 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2612 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2615 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2616 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2617 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2618 well tested yet, please check it out.
2626 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2627 - Command to jump to the running clock
2628 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2629 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2630 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2631 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2632 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2633 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2634 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2635 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2636 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2638 ** Incompatible changes
2640 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2641 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2643 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2644 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2645 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2647 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2648 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2651 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2656 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2657 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2660 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2663 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2666 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2667 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2668 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2669 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2670 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2672 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2673 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2674 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2675 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2677 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2678 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2679 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2680 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2681 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2682 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2683 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2684 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2685 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2687 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2688 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2689 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2690 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2691 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2692 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2693 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2694 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2695 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2697 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2698 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2699 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2700 being prompted for a template, like this:
2702 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2704 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2706 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2707 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2708 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2709 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2711 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2712 (also `s' does this).
2714 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2715 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2718 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2719 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2720 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2722 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2723 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2724 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2726 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2727 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2728 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2729 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2737 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2738 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2739 - CSV support when importing a table.
2740 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2741 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2742 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2743 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2744 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2745 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2750 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2751 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2754 : * Tree with special properties
2756 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2757 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2760 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2761 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2762 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2763 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2764 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2765 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2766 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2767 encourage you to stop using them.
2769 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2770 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2771 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2772 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2776 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2777 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2778 | file | the full current buffer |
2779 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2780 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2781 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2782 | agenda | all agenda files |
2784 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2785 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2786 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2787 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2790 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2791 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2792 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2793 basic input it works.
2795 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2796 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2797 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2798 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2800 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2801 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2804 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2805 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2807 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2809 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2810 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2811 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2812 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2813 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2815 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2816 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2817 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2818 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2819 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2822 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2823 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2824 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2825 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2826 the children has that particular property defined, the
2827 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2828 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2829 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2830 is a better way of doing things.
2832 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2833 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2834 testing is appreciated.
2836 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2837 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2838 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2839 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2841 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2842 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2843 links in square or angular brackets.
2851 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2854 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2855 agenda can be configured.
2857 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2859 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2861 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2863 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2865 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2866 inherited from the outline faces.
2868 ** Incompatible Changes
2870 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2871 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2872 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2873 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2874 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2879 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2880 switching to that state. With the setting
2882 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2883 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2885 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2888 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2889 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2890 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2891 own function. Configure the new variable
2892 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2893 this development with a patch.
2895 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2896 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2897 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2898 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2899 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2900 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2901 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2903 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2904 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2905 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2906 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2907 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2908 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2909 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2911 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2912 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2915 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2916 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2917 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2918 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2919 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2920 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2921 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2923 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2924 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2925 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2926 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2927 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2928 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2929 match the current org-mode faces.
2931 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2935 ** Incompatible changes
2937 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2941 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2942 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2943 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2945 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2947 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2948 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2949 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2950 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2951 command fall back to cycling.
2953 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2954 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2955 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2956 interface anyway, set the variable
2957 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2958 others for input on this issue.
2960 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2961 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2962 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2964 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2965 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2967 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2968 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2970 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2972 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2973 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2974 `format-time-string', for example:
2976 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2978 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2979 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2980 included) have changed this.
2982 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2983 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2984 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2985 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2986 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2987 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2988 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2994 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2996 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2998 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
3000 - Sorting can be done by priority.
3002 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
3004 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
3006 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
3008 ** Incompatible changes
3010 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
3011 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
3013 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
3017 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
3018 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
3019 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
3021 A Here is a configuration example:
3023 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
3024 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
3025 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
3026 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
3029 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
3030 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
3032 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
3033 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
3034 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
3035 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
3036 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
3037 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
3038 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
3039 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
3040 states, just like you also do for tags.
3042 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
3043 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
3045 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
3046 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
3047 switch the entry to that state.
3049 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
3050 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
3051 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
3054 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
3056 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
3057 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
3058 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
3059 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
3061 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
3062 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
3064 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
3065 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
3066 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
3067 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
3068 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
3070 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
3071 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
3072 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
3075 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
3076 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
3077 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
3078 the file will simply be skipped.
3088 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
3089 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
3090 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
3091 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
3092 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
3093 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
3094 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
3095 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
3098 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
3099 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
3100 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
3101 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
3102 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
3103 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
3104 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
3105 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
3106 the special locations.
3108 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
3111 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
3114 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
3115 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
3116 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
3118 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
3119 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
3120 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
3126 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
3128 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
3130 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
3132 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
3134 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
3136 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
3138 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
3140 - Global values for selected properties.
3147 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
3148 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
3149 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
3150 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
3151 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
3152 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
3153 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
3154 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
3156 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
3157 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
3158 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
3159 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
3160 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
3161 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
3162 currently how to handle the new link types for
3165 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
3166 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
3167 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
3168 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
3171 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
3172 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
3173 The syntax is like this
3175 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
3177 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
3180 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
3182 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
3183 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
3184 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
3186 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
3189 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
3190 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
3191 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
3192 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
3195 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
3196 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
3197 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
3198 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
3199 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
3200 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
3203 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
3204 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
3205 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
3208 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
3209 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
3210 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
3211 `org-global-properties', like this:
3213 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
3215 Buffer-local values are set like this:
3217 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
3219 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
3220 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
3221 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
3222 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
3223 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
3224 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
3232 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
3233 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
3234 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
3235 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
3237 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
3238 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
3239 this stuff into the drawer.
3240 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
3242 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
3243 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
3245 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
3246 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
3248 - Lots of minor fixes.
3252 ** Incompatible Changes
3254 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
3255 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
3256 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
3260 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
3261 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
3262 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
3264 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
3265 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
3266 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
3267 know if we need to make this customizable.
3269 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
3270 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
3271 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
3272 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
3273 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
3275 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
3284 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
3287 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
3288 compute their value from the children's values.
3290 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
3291 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
3294 ** Incompatible Changes
3296 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
3297 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
3298 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
3299 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
3304 - Improvements for properties:
3306 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
3307 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
3309 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
3310 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
3311 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
3312 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
3313 typos when entering properties.
3315 - Improvements for column view.
3317 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
3318 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
3321 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
3322 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
3323 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
3324 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
3327 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
3328 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
3331 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
3332 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
3333 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
3335 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
3336 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
3337 beginning of a line. So
3339 : * This is a level 1 headline
3340 : *this is bold text*
3342 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3343 available in orgstruct-mode.
3349 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3350 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3352 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3353 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3354 open if explicitly asked.
3356 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3358 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3359 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3362 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3363 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3366 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3368 ** Incompatible changes
3370 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3371 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3372 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3373 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3374 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3375 that this is the better convention.
3379 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3381 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3382 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3383 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3384 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3385 easily create lists.
3387 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3388 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3389 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3390 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3391 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3392 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3393 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3394 minor modes have assigned to them.
3396 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3397 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3398 the promised implementation.
3402 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3403 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3404 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3405 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3406 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3409 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3411 you can then create drawers like this:
3414 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3415 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3418 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3419 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3421 *** Properties and Column View
3423 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3424 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3425 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3426 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3427 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3428 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3430 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3432 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3433 program using properties, use the functions
3434 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3435 and `org-entry-delete'.
3437 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3440 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3441 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3442 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3443 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3444 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3445 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3447 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3450 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3452 will find entries that
3455 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3456 - are TODO status WAITING.
3458 So here is an entry that will match:
3460 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3465 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3466 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3469 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3471 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3472 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3473 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3474 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3475 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3476 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3477 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3478 can set up different property columns on different levels
3479 of an outline tree. For example:
3483 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3487 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3490 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3492 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3495 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3498 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3499 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3501 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3502 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3503 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3504 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3505 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3506 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3509 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3510 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3512 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3513 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3514 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3515 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3516 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3517 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3519 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3520 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3523 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3525 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3527 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3528 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3529 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3531 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3532 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3533 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3534 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3539 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3540 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3541 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3542 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3543 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3544 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3545 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3548 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3549 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3550 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3551 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3552 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3559 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3561 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3562 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3563 constants can now be set with a line like:
3565 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3569 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3570 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3573 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3575 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3579 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3580 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3581 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3582 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3589 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3590 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3591 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3592 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3594 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3595 See manual section 3.5.3.
3597 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3598 This was a request from Ignotus.
3599 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3601 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3602 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3603 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3607 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3608 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3609 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3610 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3611 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3617 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3618 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3620 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3622 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3624 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3626 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3628 ** Incompatible changes
3630 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3631 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3632 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3633 with the xemacs version. For example:
3635 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3637 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3638 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3639 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3640 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3641 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3645 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3646 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3647 interval on a single day. For example
3649 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3651 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3652 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3653 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3654 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3656 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3659 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3660 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3664 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3666 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3667 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3668 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3669 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3670 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3671 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3672 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3673 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3674 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3675 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3676 stick to the ASCII characters.
3678 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3679 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3680 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3681 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3682 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3684 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3686 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3687 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3688 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3690 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3691 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3692 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3693 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3694 if we can agree on this:
3696 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3697 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3698 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3699 out to a previous level. For example
3707 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3716 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3717 using promotion and demotion functions.
3723 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3724 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3726 ** Incompatible changes
3728 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3732 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3733 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3734 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3735 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3736 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3737 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3738 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3740 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3741 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3742 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3743 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3744 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3745 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3746 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3748 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3749 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3750 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3751 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3752 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3755 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3756 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3757 wherever you want a vertical line:
3759 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3760 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3761 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3763 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3764 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3766 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3767 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3768 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3769 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3770 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3771 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3772 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3773 behavior we had before.
3775 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3777 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3778 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3779 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3780 special characters in other languages as along as your
3781 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3782 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3783 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3789 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3793 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3795 [1]This is a footnote
3797 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3798 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3800 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3802 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3803 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3806 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3812 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3813 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3815 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3816 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3817 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3818 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3820 ** Incompatible Changes
3822 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3823 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3827 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3828 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3830 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3832 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3833 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3834 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3835 collect your credit, let me know!
3837 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3838 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3840 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3841 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3843 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3844 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3845 would in the diary. For example
3847 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3849 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3851 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3852 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3854 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3856 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3857 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3858 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3859 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3860 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3861 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3862 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3863 faster agenda display.
3865 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3866 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3867 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3868 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3869 to Raman for this idea.
3871 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3872 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3873 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3876 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3877 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3878 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3882 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3884 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3885 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3887 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3888 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3889 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3890 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3893 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3894 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3896 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3897 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3898 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3899 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3901 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3902 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3903 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3904 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3906 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3907 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3914 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3915 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3916 further processing in scripts.
3918 ** Incompatible Changes
3920 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3921 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3925 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3926 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3927 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3928 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3931 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3932 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3933 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3934 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3935 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3936 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3937 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3938 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3940 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3941 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3942 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3943 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3945 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3946 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3947 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3949 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3959 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3961 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3963 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3965 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3967 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3969 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3971 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3975 ** Incompatible changes
3977 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3978 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3981 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3982 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3983 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3984 `org-disputed-keys'.
3986 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3987 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3988 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3992 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3993 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3994 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3995 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3996 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3997 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3998 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3999 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
4000 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
4001 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
4002 Scott fro bringing this up again.
4004 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
4005 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
4006 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
4007 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
4009 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
4010 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
4012 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
4013 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
4014 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
4015 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
4017 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
4018 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
4019 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
4020 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
4021 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
4022 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
4023 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
4024 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
4026 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
4028 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
4029 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
4030 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
4031 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
4032 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
4033 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
4034 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
4037 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
4038 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
4039 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
4040 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
4041 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
4042 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
4045 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
4046 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
4047 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
4048 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
4049 indicates a non-stuck project.
4051 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
4052 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
4053 please let me know if you find problems.
4055 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
4056 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
4062 ** Incompatible changes
4066 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
4067 exported HTML. These are the variables
4068 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
4069 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
4072 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
4073 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
4074 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
4076 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
4077 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
4078 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
4079 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
4080 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
4081 that are scanned for the agenda.
4089 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
4090 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
4091 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
4093 ** Incompatible changes
4095 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
4099 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
4101 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
4103 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
4105 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
4106 list (and which is also works!)
4108 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
4109 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
4111 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
4112 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
4113 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
4114 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
4115 toward using the latter.
4117 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
4118 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
4119 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
4120 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
4122 (setq org-todo-keywords
4123 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
4124 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
4125 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
4126 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
4129 If your setting has this new structure,
4130 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
4131 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
4132 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
4133 interpretation from the other variable still works.
4135 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
4136 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
4137 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
4138 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
4139 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
4142 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
4143 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
4144 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
4145 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
4146 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
4147 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
4148 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
4150 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
4151 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
4152 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
4153 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
4154 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
4156 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
4157 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
4158 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
4159 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
4160 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
4161 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
4162 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
4163 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
4164 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
4171 This time the changes affect the following areas:
4173 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
4174 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
4175 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
4176 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
4177 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
4178 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
4181 ** Incompatible changes
4183 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
4184 over several lines, like
4187 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
4190 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
4191 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
4192 See below for details.
4194 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
4195 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
4196 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
4197 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
4202 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
4203 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
4206 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
4207 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
4208 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
4210 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
4211 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
4212 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
4213 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
4214 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
4215 where you want to be.
4217 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
4218 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
4219 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
4222 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
4223 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
4225 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
4226 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
4228 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
4230 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
4231 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
4232 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
4233 new in-buffer option
4237 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
4238 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
4239 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
4240 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
4242 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
4243 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
4244 can be done by setting the variable
4245 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
4247 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
4253 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
4255 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
4256 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
4257 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
4258 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
4259 terminate all levels of plain list items.
4261 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
4263 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
4264 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
4267 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
4268 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
4269 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
4270 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
4271 are logging all state changes.
4273 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
4278 - Priority handling in the tags view
4279 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
4280 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
4281 - Improvements to the formula editor.
4282 - C-j does better indentation.
4286 - Priority handling in the tags view
4288 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
4289 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
4291 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
4293 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
4294 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
4295 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
4297 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
4299 - Changes in the spreadsheet
4301 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
4302 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
4303 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
4304 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
4305 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
4306 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
4307 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
4309 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
4312 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
4314 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
4316 + There is now a menu with commands.
4318 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
4319 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
4321 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
4322 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
4324 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
4325 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
4329 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
4330 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
4331 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
4333 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
4334 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
4339 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
4340 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4341 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4342 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4344 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4345 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4346 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4356 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4357 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4358 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4360 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4361 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4362 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4363 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4364 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4365 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4366 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4368 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4369 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4370 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4372 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4374 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4375 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4377 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4378 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4380 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4381 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4382 levels. For example:
4384 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4386 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4387 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4388 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4391 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4392 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4393 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4394 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4396 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4397 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4406 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4407 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4408 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4409 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4411 ** Detailed description of changes
4413 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4414 any table in any mode.
4416 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4417 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4418 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4419 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4420 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4421 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4423 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4424 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4425 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4426 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4427 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4429 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4430 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4431 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4432 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4433 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4434 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4435 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4438 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4439 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4440 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4441 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4442 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4443 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4444 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4445 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4446 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4447 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4448 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4449 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4451 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4452 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4453 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4454 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4460 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4461 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4462 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4463 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4464 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4466 ** Detailed description of changes
4468 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4469 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4470 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4472 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4474 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4475 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4477 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4479 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4480 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4481 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4483 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4484 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4485 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4487 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4488 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4489 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4491 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4492 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4494 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4496 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4497 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4498 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4499 remember.el work like this as well).
4500 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4501 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4502 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4503 new template, but the old context information. This is
4504 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4507 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4508 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4509 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4510 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4511 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4512 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4513 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4514 without interaction.
4516 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4517 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4518 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4519 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4520 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4521 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4523 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4524 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4525 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4526 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4528 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4529 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4530 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4531 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4532 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4533 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4539 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4540 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4542 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4543 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4544 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4545 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4546 + Incompatible changes
4547 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4548 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4549 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4550 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4551 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4552 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4553 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4557 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4558 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4559 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4560 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4561 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4562 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4563 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4564 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4568 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4569 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4570 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4571 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4572 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4573 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4574 - Empty entries go full circle.
4575 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4580 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4583 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4584 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4585 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4586 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4587 another, dedicated frame.
4588 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4589 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4592 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4593 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4594 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4595 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4596 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4597 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4598 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4599 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4600 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4601 use regular expressions.
4602 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4603 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4604 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4608 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4609 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4610 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4617 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4618 + show status also in target line.
4619 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4620 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4621 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4625 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4626 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4627 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4628 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4632 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4633 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4638 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4639 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4640 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4644 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4645 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4646 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4647 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4648 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4649 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4650 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4651 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4652 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4653 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4654 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4659 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4660 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4661 - File links can contain environment variables.
4662 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4666 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4667 each block created by a different agenda command.
4668 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4669 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4670 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4671 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4672 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4673 upon the agenda type.
4674 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4675 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4676 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4677 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4678 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4679 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4680 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4681 - More minor bug fixes.
4684 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4685 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4686 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4690 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4691 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4692 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4696 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4699 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4700 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4701 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4709 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4710 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4712 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4713 LaTeX environment and math.
4716 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4718 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4719 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4720 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4724 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4725 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4728 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4729 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4730 and will not lead to conflicts.
4731 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4735 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4736 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4737 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4738 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4739 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4740 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4741 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4747 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4748 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4751 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4752 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4753 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4754 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4755 directories for different export types.
4756 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4757 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4764 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4765 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4766 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4767 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4768 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4769 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4770 relative and absolute paths.
4771 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4772 - Bug and typo fixes.
4776 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4777 contains a description or not.
4778 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4779 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4780 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4781 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4782 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4783 for all available exporters.
4784 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4790 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4791 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4792 end of the HTML file.
4793 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4794 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4795 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4796 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4802 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4803 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4804 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4805 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4815 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4816 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4819 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4820 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4821 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4822 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4823 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4824 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4825 - New structure for the customization tree.
4830 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4834 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4835 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4836 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4837 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4838 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4843 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4844 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4845 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4846 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4850 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4851 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4854 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4855 - Various small bug fixes
4858 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4859 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4860 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4861 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4862 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4863 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4864 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4865 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4866 next buffer change due to editing).
4869 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4870 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4871 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4872 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4875 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4876 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4877 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4878 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4879 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4880 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4881 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4882 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4883 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4884 - support for cascading style sheets.
4885 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4886 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4893 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4897 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4900 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4901 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4902 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4903 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4904 and are not linked to the calendar.
4905 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4906 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4907 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4908 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4911 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4912 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4913 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4914 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4915 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4918 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4919 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4920 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4921 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4924 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4925 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4928 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4929 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4930 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4931 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4932 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4933 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4937 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4938 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4939 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4940 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4941 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4942 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4943 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4944 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4945 - Improved html export of tables.
4946 - Various clean-up changes.
4949 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4953 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4954 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4958 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4959 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4963 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4964 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4965 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4968 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4969 - New startup option `content'.
4970 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4971 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4972 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4975 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4976 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4977 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4978 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4979 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4980 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4983 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4984 table shape when typing in fields.
4985 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4986 into arbitrary major modes.
4987 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4988 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4989 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4992 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4993 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4994 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4996 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4997 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4998 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4999 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
5000 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
5002 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
5003 - Sorting fully configurable.
5004 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
5005 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
5009 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
5010 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
5011 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
5012 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
5013 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
5014 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
5015 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
5018 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
5019 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
5020 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
5021 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
5022 - Priorities for TODO items.
5023 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
5024 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
5025 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
5030 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
5031 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
5032 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
5033 `org-todo-interpretation'.
5034 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
5035 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
5036 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
5037 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
5038 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
5039 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
5040 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
5041 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
5042 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
5043 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
5044 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
5047 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
5048 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
5049 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
5050 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
5051 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
5052 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
5053 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
5054 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
5055 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
5056 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
5057 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
5058 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
5061 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
5062 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
5063 - Date ranges introduced.
5064 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
5065 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
5066 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
5067 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
5068 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
5069 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
5070 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
5073 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
5074 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
5075 - Fully automatic table editor.
5076 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
5077 - Other link system changes
5078 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
5079 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
5080 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
5081 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
5082 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
5083 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
5084 Please re-read the manual section about links.
5086 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
5087 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
5088 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
5089 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
5090 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
5091 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
5093 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
5097 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
5098 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
5099 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
5100 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
5104 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents