1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
6 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:{} *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil
7 #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:1 path:org-info.js
9 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
15 *** Blockquotes for export
17 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
20 : Everything shound be made as simple as possible,
21 : but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
24 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
26 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
27 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
29 - `C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u C-u I' from the agenda) will
30 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
31 - `C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u I' from the agenda) will offer a
32 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
33 for selection. `d' selects the default task, `i' selects
34 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
35 being clocked. `1',... selects a recent task. When you
36 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
38 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
39 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
40 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
41 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
42 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
43 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
44 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
46 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
48 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
49 fontified in an emacs buffer, and export the result to HTML.
50 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
53 : #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
54 : (defun org-xor (a b)
59 The string after the BEGIN_SRC is the name of the major emacs
60 mode that should be used to fontify the code example.
62 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
63 /htmlize.el/ package. For other backends, such structures are
70 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
71 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
72 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
73 - New operators for property searches
74 - Search commands can now include archive files.
75 - Clock tables can include the archive files
76 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
80 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
82 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
83 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
84 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
85 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
86 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
87 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
89 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
91 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
92 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
93 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
94 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
95 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
96 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
97 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
98 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
99 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
100 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
101 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
102 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
103 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
106 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
108 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
109 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
110 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
111 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
112 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
113 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
114 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
115 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
116 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
118 *** New operators for property searches
120 Property searches can now choose a number of different
121 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
122 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
124 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
125 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
126 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
128 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
129 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
131 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
132 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
133 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
134 match" or "does not match", respectively.
136 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
138 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
140 If the value of the customization variable
141 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
142 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
143 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
144 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
145 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
148 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
150 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
151 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
152 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
153 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
154 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
156 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
158 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
159 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
160 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
161 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
162 be functions, so that more general transformations are
163 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
164 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
168 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
169 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
170 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
174 - The Org distribution has a new structure
175 - New system for selecting modules to load
176 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
177 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
178 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
179 - Export commands can be done in the background
180 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
181 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
182 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
183 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
184 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
185 - And some more small fixes and improvements
187 ** Incompatible changes
189 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
191 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
192 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
193 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
194 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
195 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
196 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
200 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
202 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
203 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
204 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
205 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
206 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
207 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
211 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
212 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
213 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
214 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
215 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
216 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
217 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
218 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
221 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
223 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
224 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
225 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
226 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
227 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
228 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
229 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
230 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
233 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
234 buffer you can simply use "A".
236 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
238 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
240 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
241 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
242 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
243 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
246 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
247 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
248 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
249 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
250 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
251 visibility both locally and globally.
253 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
254 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
255 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
257 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
259 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
260 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
261 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
262 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
263 JavaScript program is served from
264 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
265 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
266 to be independent of the existence and stability of
267 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
268 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
271 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
273 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
275 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
276 together with org-info.js.
278 *** Export improvements
280 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
281 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
282 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
285 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
286 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
287 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
288 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
289 this less system dependent in the future.
291 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
293 *** Improvements to clocktable
295 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
296 when trying to specify the time block that should be
297 considered when constructing the table.
299 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
303 |--------------+-----------------------|
304 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
305 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
306 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
307 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
309 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
310 | thisweek | The current week |
311 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
312 | thismonth | The current month |
313 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
314 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
317 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
318 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
319 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
320 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
321 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
322 will switch to the following week.
324 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
325 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
326 a request from Bernt Hansen.
328 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
329 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
330 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
331 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
332 configure the variable
333 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
334 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
335 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
337 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
339 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
340 the form =W08= for week 8.
342 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
343 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
344 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
345 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
346 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
347 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
348 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
349 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
350 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
351 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
352 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
354 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
355 specify an ISO week. For example
357 : w4 Monday of week 4
358 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
360 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
361 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
363 So far I have not implemented the effect of
364 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
365 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
366 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
367 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
368 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
369 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
372 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
373 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
374 test extensively and report back.
376 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
378 *** Improvements in Search View
380 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
381 only in TODO entries.
383 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
384 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
385 also match in "Nasim's".
390 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
391 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
392 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
393 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
394 this excellent proposal.
396 The regexp option is also implemented for
397 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
398 properties for inheritance my name.
400 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
401 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
402 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
403 if and only if the setting in
404 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
407 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
408 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
409 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
410 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
411 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
412 customize them freely.
414 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
415 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
416 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
417 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
418 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
419 default date, not switch to today.
421 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
422 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
424 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
425 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
427 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
428 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
429 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
431 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
434 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
435 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
436 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
438 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
439 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
440 initial region if set.
442 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
445 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
447 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
448 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
449 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
450 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
451 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
452 file name to which the export should go, and a local
456 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
457 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
460 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
462 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
463 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
464 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
465 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
467 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
474 - New keyword search agenda view
476 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
478 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
480 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
482 - Granularity while editing time stamps
484 - New repeaters mechanisms
486 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
488 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
490 - =M-RET= splits lines again
494 ** Incompatible changes
496 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
497 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
502 *** New keyword search agenda view
504 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
505 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
506 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
507 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
508 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
509 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
510 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
511 example, the search string
513 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
515 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
516 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
517 which are also not matched by the regular expression
518 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
519 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
520 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
521 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
522 (possibly sub-) heading.
524 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
525 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
527 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
528 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
531 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
532 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
533 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
535 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
537 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
538 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
540 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
541 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
542 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
544 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
545 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
546 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
547 to cover contributed extensions as well.
549 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
551 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
552 last element defines the contexts in which the template
553 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
554 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
555 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
556 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
557 function, the template will be offered only if the function
558 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
559 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
562 One possible application for this would be to have several
563 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
564 the right one based on context. For example, think of
565 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
566 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
567 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
569 : (setq org-remember-templates
570 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
571 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
573 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
575 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
577 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
578 + In a table, add a hline as before
579 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
580 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
581 + In a headline, turn it into an item
582 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
583 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
584 item markers from all lines.
586 Based on proposals by Bastien.
588 - `C-c *' has now more functions
589 + in a table, recompute, as before
590 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
591 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
592 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
593 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
594 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
596 Based on proposals by Bastien.
598 *** Changes related to time stamps
600 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
601 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
602 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
603 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
604 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
605 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
606 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
607 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
608 specify the number of minutes to shift.
610 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
612 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
613 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
616 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
617 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
618 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
619 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
620 : and marked it done on Saturday.
621 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
622 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
623 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
626 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
628 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
630 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
631 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
634 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
635 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
636 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
637 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
638 the previous content.
640 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
642 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
643 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
644 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
646 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
650 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
651 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
652 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
653 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
656 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
657 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
658 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
661 - There are three new hooks:
663 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
664 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
665 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
669 ** Incompatible changes
671 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
672 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
673 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
677 *** Changes to logging progress
679 There is now more control over which state changes are being
680 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
681 sections in the manual. Basically:
683 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
684 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
685 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
686 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
687 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
688 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
689 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
690 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
692 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
693 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
694 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
695 : when leaving this state. This is great for
696 : getting a record when switching *back* from
698 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
699 : Here we not even define a fast access
700 : character, but just the logging stuff.
702 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
706 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
707 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
708 of the line) before the current line.
710 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
711 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
712 create a new line below the current one.
716 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
717 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
724 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
726 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
727 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
729 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
731 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
732 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
733 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
735 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
737 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
739 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
743 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
745 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
747 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
749 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
751 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
753 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
755 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
757 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
761 ** Incompatible Changes
763 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
764 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
765 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
769 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
771 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
772 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
774 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
775 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
777 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
778 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
779 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
780 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
781 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
782 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
785 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
786 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
789 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
790 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
791 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
793 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
794 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
795 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
796 variable does select the interface that is used to select
797 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
800 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
802 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
803 path to select a location.
804 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
807 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
808 they are always current.
810 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
811 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
812 special also because it only matches in headline. This
813 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
814 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
815 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
816 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
817 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
819 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
820 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
821 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
822 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
823 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
824 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
830 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
831 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
832 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
833 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
834 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
836 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
837 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
839 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
840 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
842 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
843 headline up to the tags.
844 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
846 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
848 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
849 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
850 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
851 request by Austin Frank.
853 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
854 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
855 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
857 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
858 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
859 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
860 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
862 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
863 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
864 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
865 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
866 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
867 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
868 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
869 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
870 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
871 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
872 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
875 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
876 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
877 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
878 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
886 will file is with the following property
888 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
890 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
891 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
892 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
894 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
895 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
904 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
906 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
908 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
910 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
912 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
914 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
916 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
918 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
920 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
924 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
925 entries in a subtree. For example
927 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
929 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
930 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
931 request by Bernt Hansen.
933 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
934 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
935 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
936 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
937 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
938 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
939 interactively select the filing location (file and
940 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
941 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
942 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
943 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
944 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
946 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
947 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
948 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
949 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
950 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
953 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
954 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
955 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
956 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
957 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
958 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
959 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
962 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
963 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
964 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
967 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
968 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
969 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
970 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
971 explain here, complex.
973 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
974 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
975 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
977 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
978 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
979 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
981 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
993 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
994 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
995 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
996 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
997 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
998 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
999 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1000 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1001 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1002 subtree motion commands.
1004 - Plain lists items work the same.
1006 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1007 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1008 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1011 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1012 let me know about any problems.
1016 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1017 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1018 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1019 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1020 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1022 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1023 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1024 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1025 history variable. For example:
1027 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1029 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1030 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1031 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1032 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1033 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1034 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1035 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1036 by Bastien and Adam.
1038 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1039 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1040 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1041 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1045 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1046 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1049 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1050 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1051 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1052 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1053 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1054 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1060 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1062 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1063 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1064 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1065 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1066 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1067 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1068 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1069 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1072 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1073 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1074 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1075 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1077 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1078 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1079 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
1080 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1082 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1083 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1084 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1085 select a new restriction.
1087 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1089 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1091 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1093 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1094 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1096 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1097 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1098 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1101 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1102 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1103 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1105 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1106 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1107 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1108 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1109 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1115 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1116 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1117 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1119 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1120 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1121 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1130 + Remember and related stuff
1131 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1132 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1133 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1134 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1136 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1137 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1138 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1139 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1140 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1141 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1142 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1144 + Properties and Column view
1145 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1146 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1147 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1148 - New currency summary type {$}
1150 + The date/time prompt
1151 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1152 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1153 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1156 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1157 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1160 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1163 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1164 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1165 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1166 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1167 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1169 ** Incompatible changes
1171 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1172 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1173 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1175 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1176 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1177 prompted, like this:
1179 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1181 : (org-remember ?n))
1183 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1184 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1186 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1188 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1190 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1191 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1195 *** Remember and related stuff
1197 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1198 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1199 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1200 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1201 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1202 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1203 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1204 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1205 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1206 definitions. For example:
1208 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1210 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1213 : (setq org-refile-targets
1214 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1216 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1217 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1218 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1219 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1222 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1223 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1225 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1226 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1227 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1228 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1229 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1231 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1232 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1234 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1236 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1237 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1238 : %[..] include file
1240 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1242 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1243 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1244 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1247 : (require 'remember)
1248 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1249 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1250 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1252 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1253 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1254 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1256 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1258 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1260 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1262 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1263 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1264 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1265 the default in Org-mode.
1267 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1268 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1269 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1270 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1272 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1273 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1274 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1275 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1276 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1278 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1279 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1280 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1281 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1284 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1285 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1286 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1287 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1288 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1290 *** Properties and Column view
1292 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1293 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1296 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1297 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1298 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1299 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1300 discussion around this issue.
1302 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1303 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1304 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1305 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1306 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1307 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1308 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1309 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1311 *** The date/time prompt
1313 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1316 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1317 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1318 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1319 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1320 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1322 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1323 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1324 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1325 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1326 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1327 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1328 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1329 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1330 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1332 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1333 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1334 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1335 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1336 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1338 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1340 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1341 list of newly performed conversions:
1343 | Org | Description | HTML |
1344 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1345 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1346 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1347 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1348 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1350 You can turn this globally on or off with
1351 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1352 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1353 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1354 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1356 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1357 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1361 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1362 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1363 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1364 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1365 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1366 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1368 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1370 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1371 export by setting it either globally
1372 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1373 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1374 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1375 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1376 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1379 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1380 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1381 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1383 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1384 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1386 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1387 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1390 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1391 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1392 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1399 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1400 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1401 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1403 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1404 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1405 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1406 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1407 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1409 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1410 with extension matched by the new variable
1411 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1420 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1421 + All known bugs fixed.
1422 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1423 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1424 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1426 - The agenda dispatcher
1427 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1428 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1430 - Sorting improvements
1431 + User-defined sorting keys.
1432 + Sorting by properties.
1433 + Sorting of plain lists.
1435 - HTML <div> structure
1438 + New variables, several of them.
1439 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1440 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1441 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1442 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1446 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1448 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1449 (at least I hope so...).
1451 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1452 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1454 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1455 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1456 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1458 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1459 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1460 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1464 : :ID: planning-overview
1470 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1474 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1475 be prompted for the ID.
1477 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1478 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1479 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1480 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1481 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1484 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1486 *** The agenda dispatcher
1488 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1489 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1490 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1491 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1492 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1493 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1494 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1495 them to custom commands.
1497 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1498 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1499 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1500 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1502 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1503 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1504 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1505 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1506 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1508 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1509 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1512 *** Sorting improvements
1514 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1515 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1517 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1518 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1520 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1523 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1525 *** HTML <div> structure
1527 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1529 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1530 "table-of-contents".
1532 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1533 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1535 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1536 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1538 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1539 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1541 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1542 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1546 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1547 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1548 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1551 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1553 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1555 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1556 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1557 your properties will not be folded away.
1558 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1560 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1561 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1562 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1564 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1565 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1566 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1567 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1568 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1570 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1571 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1572 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1573 a proposal by Bastien.
1575 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1576 request by Wanrong Lin.
1578 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1579 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1580 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1586 - Remember templates can now have name.
1587 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1588 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1589 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1590 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1591 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1592 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1593 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1594 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1595 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1596 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1598 ** Incompatible Changes
1600 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1604 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1605 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1606 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1607 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1608 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1609 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1611 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1612 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1613 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1615 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1616 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1618 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1619 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1620 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1621 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1623 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1624 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1625 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1627 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1628 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1629 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1630 Wiegley for a patch.
1632 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1633 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1634 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1635 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1636 with full completion support.
1638 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1639 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1640 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1642 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1643 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1646 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1647 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1648 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1649 well tested yet, please check it out.
1657 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1658 - Command to jump to the running clock
1659 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1660 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1661 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1662 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1663 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1664 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1665 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1666 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1667 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1669 ** Incompatible changes
1671 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1672 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1674 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1675 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1676 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1678 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1679 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1682 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1687 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1688 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1691 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1694 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1697 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1698 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1699 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1700 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1701 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1703 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1704 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1705 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1706 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1708 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1709 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1710 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1711 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1712 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1713 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1714 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1715 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1716 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1718 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1719 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1720 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1721 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1722 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1723 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1724 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1725 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1726 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1728 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1729 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1730 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1731 being prompted for a template, like this:
1733 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1735 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1737 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1738 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1739 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1740 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1742 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1743 (also `s' does this).
1745 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1746 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1749 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1750 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1751 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1753 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1754 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1755 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1757 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1758 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1759 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1760 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1768 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1769 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1770 - CSV support when importing a table.
1771 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1772 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1773 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1774 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1775 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1776 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1781 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1782 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1785 : * Tree with special properties
1787 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1788 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1791 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1792 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1793 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1794 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1795 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1796 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1797 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1798 encourage you to stop using them.
1800 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1801 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1802 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1803 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1807 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1808 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1809 | file | the full current buffer |
1810 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1811 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1812 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1813 | agenda | all agenda files |
1815 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1816 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1817 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1818 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1821 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1822 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1823 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1824 basic input it works.
1826 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1827 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1828 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1829 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1831 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1832 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1835 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1836 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1838 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1840 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1841 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1842 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1843 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1844 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1846 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1847 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1848 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1849 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1850 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1853 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1854 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1855 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1856 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1857 the children has that particular property defined, the
1858 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1859 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1860 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1861 is a better way of doing things.
1863 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1864 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1865 testing is appreciated.
1867 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1868 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1869 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1870 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1872 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1873 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1874 links in square or angular brackets.
1882 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1885 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1886 agenda can be configured.
1888 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1890 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1892 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1894 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1896 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1897 inherited from the outline faces.
1899 ** Incompatible Changes
1901 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1902 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1903 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1904 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1905 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1910 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1911 switching to that state. With the setting
1913 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1914 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1916 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1919 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1920 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1921 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1922 own function. Configure the new variable
1923 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1924 this development with a patch.
1926 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1927 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1928 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1929 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1930 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1931 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1932 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1934 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1935 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1936 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1937 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1938 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1939 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1940 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1942 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1943 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1946 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1947 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1948 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1949 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1950 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1951 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1952 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1954 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1955 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1956 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1957 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1958 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1959 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1960 match the current org-mode faces.
1962 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1966 ** Incompatible changes
1968 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1972 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1973 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1974 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1976 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1978 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1979 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1980 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1981 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1982 command fall back to cycling.
1984 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1985 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1986 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1987 interface anyway, set the variable
1988 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1989 others for input on this issue.
1991 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1992 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1993 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1995 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1996 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1998 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1999 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2001 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2003 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2004 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2005 `format-time-string', for example:
2007 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2009 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2010 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2011 included) have changed this.
2013 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2014 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2015 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2016 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2017 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2018 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2019 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2025 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2027 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2029 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2031 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2033 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2035 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2037 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2039 ** Incompatible changes
2041 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2042 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2044 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2048 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2049 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2050 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2052 A Here is a configuration example:
2054 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2055 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2056 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2057 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2060 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2061 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2063 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2064 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2065 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2066 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2067 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2068 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2069 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2070 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2071 states, just like you also do for tags.
2073 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2074 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2076 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2077 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2078 switch the entry to that state.
2080 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2081 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2082 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2085 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2087 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2088 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2089 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2090 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2092 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2093 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2095 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2096 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2097 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2098 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2099 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2101 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2102 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2103 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2106 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2107 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2108 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2109 the file will simply be skipped.
2119 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2120 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2121 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2122 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2123 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2124 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2125 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2126 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2129 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2130 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2131 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2132 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2133 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2134 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2135 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2136 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2137 the special locations.
2139 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2142 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2145 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2146 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2147 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2149 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2150 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2151 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2157 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2159 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2161 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2163 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2165 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2167 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2169 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2171 - Global values for selected properties.
2178 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2179 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2180 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2181 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2182 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2183 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2184 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2185 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2187 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2188 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2189 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2190 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2191 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2192 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2193 currently how to handle the new link types for
2196 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2197 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2198 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2199 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2202 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2203 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2204 The syntax is like this
2206 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2208 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2211 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2213 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2214 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2215 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2217 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2220 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2221 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2222 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2223 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2226 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2227 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2228 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2229 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2230 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2231 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2234 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2235 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2236 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2239 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2240 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2241 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2242 `org-global-properties', like this:
2244 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2246 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2248 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2250 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2251 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2252 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2253 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2254 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2255 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2263 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2264 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2265 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2266 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2268 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2269 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2270 this stuff into the drawer.
2271 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2273 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2274 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2276 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2277 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2279 - Lots of minor fixes.
2283 ** Incompatible Changes
2285 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2286 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2287 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2291 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2292 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2293 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2295 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2296 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2297 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2298 know if we need to make this customizable.
2300 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2301 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2302 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2303 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2304 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2306 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2315 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2318 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2319 compute their value from the children's values.
2321 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2322 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2325 ** Incompatible Changes
2327 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2328 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2329 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2330 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2335 - Improvements for properties:
2337 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2338 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2340 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2341 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2342 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2343 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2344 typos when entering properties.
2346 - Improvements for column view.
2348 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2349 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2352 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2353 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2354 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2355 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2358 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2359 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2362 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2363 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2364 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2366 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2367 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2368 beginning of a line. So
2370 : * This is a level 1 headline
2371 : *this is bold text*
2373 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2374 available in orgstruct-mode.
2380 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2381 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2383 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2384 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2385 open if explicitly asked.
2387 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2389 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2390 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2393 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2394 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2397 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2399 ** Incompatible changes
2401 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2402 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2403 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2404 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2405 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2406 that this is the better convention.
2410 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2412 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2413 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2414 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2415 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2416 easily create lists.
2418 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2419 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2420 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2421 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2422 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2423 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2424 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2425 minor modes have assigned to them.
2427 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2428 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2429 the promised implementation.
2433 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2434 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2435 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2436 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2437 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2440 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2442 you can then create drawers like this:
2445 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2446 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2449 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2450 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2452 *** Properties and Column View
2454 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2455 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2456 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2457 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2458 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2459 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2461 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2463 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2464 program using properties, use the functions
2465 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2466 and `org-entry-delete'.
2468 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2471 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2472 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2473 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2474 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2475 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2476 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2478 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2481 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2483 will find entries that
2486 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2487 - are TODO status WAITING.
2489 So here is an entry that will match:
2491 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2496 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2497 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2500 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2502 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2503 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2504 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2505 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2506 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2507 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2508 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2509 can set up different property columns on different levels
2510 of an outline tree. For example:
2514 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2518 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2521 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2523 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2526 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2529 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2530 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2532 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2533 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2534 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2535 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2536 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2537 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2540 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2541 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2543 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2544 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2545 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2546 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2547 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2548 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2550 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2551 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2554 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2556 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2558 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2559 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2560 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2562 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2563 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2564 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2565 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2570 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2571 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2572 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2573 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2574 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2575 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2576 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2579 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2580 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2581 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2582 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2583 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2590 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2592 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2593 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2594 constants can now be set with a line like:
2596 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2600 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2601 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2604 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2606 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2610 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2611 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2612 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2613 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2620 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2621 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2622 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2623 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2625 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2626 See manual section 3.5.3.
2628 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2629 This was a request from Ignotus.
2630 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2632 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2633 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2634 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2638 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2639 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2640 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2641 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2642 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2648 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2649 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2651 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2653 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2655 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2657 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2659 ** Incompatible changes
2661 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2662 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2663 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2664 with the xemacs version. For example:
2666 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2668 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2669 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2670 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2671 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2672 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2676 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2677 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2678 interval on a single day. For example
2680 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2682 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2683 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2684 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2685 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2687 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2690 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2691 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2695 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2697 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2698 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2699 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2700 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2701 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2702 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2703 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2704 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2705 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2706 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2707 stick to the ASCII characters.
2709 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2710 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2711 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2712 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2713 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2715 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2717 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2718 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2719 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2721 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2722 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2723 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2724 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2725 if we can agree on this:
2727 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2728 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2729 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2730 out to a previous level. For example
2738 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2747 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2748 using promotion and demotion functions.
2754 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2755 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2757 ** Incompatible changes
2759 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2763 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2764 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2765 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2766 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2767 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2768 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2769 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2771 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2772 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2773 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2774 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2775 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2776 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2777 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2779 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2780 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2781 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2782 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2783 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2786 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2787 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2788 wherever you want a vertical line:
2790 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2791 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2792 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2794 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2795 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2797 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2798 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2799 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2800 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2801 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2802 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2803 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2804 behavior we had before.
2806 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2808 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2809 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2810 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2811 special characters in other languages as along as your
2812 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2813 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2814 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2820 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2824 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2826 [1]This is a footnote
2828 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2829 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2831 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2833 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2834 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2837 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2843 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2844 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2846 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2847 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2848 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2849 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2851 ** Incompatible Changes
2853 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2854 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2858 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2859 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2861 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2863 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2864 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2865 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2866 collect your credit, let me know!
2868 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2869 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2871 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2872 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2874 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2875 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2876 would in the diary. For example
2878 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2880 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2882 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2883 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2885 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2887 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2888 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2889 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2890 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2891 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2892 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2893 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2894 faster agenda display.
2896 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2897 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2898 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2899 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2900 to Raman for this idea.
2902 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2903 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2904 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2907 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2908 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2909 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2913 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2915 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2916 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2918 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2919 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2920 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2921 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2924 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2925 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2927 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2928 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2929 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2930 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2932 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2933 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2934 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2935 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2937 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2938 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2945 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2946 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2947 further processing in scripts.
2949 ** Incompatible Changes
2951 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2952 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2956 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2957 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2958 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2959 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2962 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2963 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2964 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2965 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2966 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2967 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2968 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2969 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2971 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2972 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2973 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2974 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2976 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2977 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2978 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2980 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2990 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2992 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2994 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2996 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2998 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3000 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3002 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3006 ** Incompatible changes
3008 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3009 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3012 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3013 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3014 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3015 `org-disputed-keys'.
3017 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3018 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3019 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3023 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3024 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3025 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3026 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3027 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3028 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3029 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3030 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3031 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3032 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3033 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3035 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3036 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3037 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3038 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3040 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3041 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3043 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3044 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3045 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3046 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3048 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3049 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3050 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3051 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3052 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3053 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3054 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3055 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3057 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3059 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3060 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3061 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3062 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3063 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3064 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3065 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3068 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3069 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3070 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3071 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3072 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3073 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3076 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3077 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3078 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3079 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3080 indicates a non-stuck project.
3082 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3083 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3084 please let me know if you find problems.
3086 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3087 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3093 ** Incompatible changes
3097 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3098 exported HTML. These are the variables
3099 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3100 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3103 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3104 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3105 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3107 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3108 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3109 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3110 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3111 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3112 that are scanned for the agenda.
3120 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3121 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3122 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3124 ** Incompatible changes
3126 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3130 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3132 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3134 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3136 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3137 list (and which is also works!)
3139 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3140 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3142 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3143 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3144 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3145 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3146 toward using the latter.
3148 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3149 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3150 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3151 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3153 (setq org-todo-keywords
3154 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3155 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3156 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3157 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3160 If your setting has this new structure,
3161 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3162 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3163 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3164 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3166 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3167 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3168 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3169 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3170 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3173 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3174 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3175 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3176 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3177 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3178 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3179 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3181 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3182 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3183 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3184 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3185 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3187 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3188 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3189 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3190 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3191 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3192 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3193 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3194 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3195 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3202 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3204 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3205 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3206 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3207 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3208 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3209 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3212 ** Incompatible changes
3214 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3215 over several lines, like
3218 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3221 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3222 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3223 See below for details.
3225 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3226 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3227 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3228 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3233 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3234 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3237 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3238 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3239 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3241 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3242 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3243 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3244 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3245 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3246 where you want to be.
3248 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3249 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3250 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3253 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3254 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3256 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3257 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3259 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3261 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3262 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3263 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3264 new in-buffer option
3268 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3269 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3270 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3271 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3273 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3274 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3275 can be done by setting the variable
3276 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3278 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3284 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3286 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3287 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3288 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3289 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3290 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3292 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3294 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3295 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3298 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3299 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3300 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3301 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3302 are logging all state changes.
3304 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3309 - Priority handling in the tags view
3310 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3311 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3312 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3313 - C-j does better indentation.
3317 - Priority handling in the tags view
3319 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3320 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3322 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3324 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3325 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3326 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3328 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3330 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3332 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3333 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3334 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3335 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3336 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3337 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3338 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3340 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3343 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3345 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3347 + There is now a menu with commands.
3349 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3350 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3352 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3353 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3355 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3356 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3360 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3361 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3362 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3364 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3365 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3370 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3371 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3372 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3373 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3375 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3376 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3377 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3387 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3388 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3389 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3391 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3392 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3393 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3394 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3395 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3396 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3397 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3399 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3400 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3401 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3403 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3405 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3406 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3408 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3409 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3411 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3412 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3413 levels. For example:
3415 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3417 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3418 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3419 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3422 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3423 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3424 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3425 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3427 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3428 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3437 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3438 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3439 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3440 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3442 ** Detailed description of changes
3444 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3445 any table in any mode.
3447 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3448 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3449 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3450 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3451 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3452 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3454 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3455 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3456 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3457 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3458 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3460 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3461 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3462 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3463 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3464 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3465 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3466 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3469 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3470 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3471 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3472 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3473 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3474 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3475 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3476 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3477 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3478 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3479 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3480 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3482 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3483 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3484 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3485 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3491 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3492 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3493 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3494 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3495 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3497 ** Detailed description of changes
3499 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3500 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3501 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3503 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3505 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3506 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3508 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3510 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3511 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3512 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3514 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3515 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3516 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3518 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3519 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3520 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3522 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3523 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3525 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3527 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3528 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3529 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3530 remember.el work like this as well).
3531 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3532 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3533 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3534 new template, but the old context information. This is
3535 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3538 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3539 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3540 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3541 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3542 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3543 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3544 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3545 without interaction.
3547 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3548 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3549 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3550 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3551 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3552 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3554 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3555 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3556 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3557 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3559 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3560 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3561 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3562 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3563 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3564 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3570 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3571 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3573 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3574 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3575 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3576 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3577 + Incompatible changes
3578 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3579 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3580 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3581 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3582 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3583 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3584 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3588 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3589 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3590 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3591 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3592 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3593 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3594 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3595 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3599 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3600 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3601 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3602 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3603 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3604 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3605 - Empty entries go full circle.
3606 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3611 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3614 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3615 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3616 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3617 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3618 another, dedicated frame.
3619 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3620 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3623 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3624 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3625 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3626 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3627 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3628 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3629 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3630 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3631 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3632 use regular expressions.
3633 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3634 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3635 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3639 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3640 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3641 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3648 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3649 + show status also in target line.
3650 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3651 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3652 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3656 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3657 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3658 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3659 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3663 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3664 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3669 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3670 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3671 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3675 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3676 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3677 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3678 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3679 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3680 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3681 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3682 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3683 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3684 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3685 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3690 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3691 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3692 - File links can contain environment variables.
3693 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3697 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3698 each block created by a different agenda command.
3699 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3700 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3701 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3702 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3703 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3704 upon the agenda type.
3705 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3706 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3707 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3708 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3709 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3710 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3711 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3712 - More minor bug fixes.
3715 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3716 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3717 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3721 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3722 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3723 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3727 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3730 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3731 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3732 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3740 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3741 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3743 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3744 LaTeX environment and math.
3747 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3749 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3750 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3751 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3755 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3756 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3759 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3760 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3761 and will not lead to conflicts.
3762 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3766 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3767 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3768 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3769 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3770 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3771 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3772 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3778 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3779 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3782 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3783 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3784 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3785 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3786 directories for different export types.
3787 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3788 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3795 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3796 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3797 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3798 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3799 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3800 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3801 relative and absolute paths.
3802 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3803 - Bug and typo fixes.
3807 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3808 contains a description or not.
3809 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3810 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3811 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3812 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3813 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3814 for all available exporters.
3815 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3821 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3822 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3823 end of the HTML file.
3824 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3825 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3826 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3827 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3833 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3834 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3835 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3836 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3846 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3847 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3850 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3851 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3852 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3853 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3854 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3855 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3856 - New structure for the customization tree.
3861 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3865 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3866 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3867 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3868 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3869 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3874 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3875 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3876 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3877 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3881 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3882 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3885 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3886 - Various small bug fixes
3889 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3890 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3891 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3892 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3893 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3894 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3895 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3896 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3897 next buffer change due to editing).
3900 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3901 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3902 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3903 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3906 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3907 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3908 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3909 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3910 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3911 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3912 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3913 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3914 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3915 - support for cascading style sheets.
3916 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3917 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3924 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3928 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3931 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3932 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3933 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3934 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3935 and are not linked to the calendar.
3936 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3937 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3938 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3939 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3942 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3943 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3944 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3945 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3946 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3949 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3950 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3951 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3952 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3955 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3956 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3959 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3960 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3961 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3962 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3963 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3964 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3968 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3969 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3970 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3971 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3972 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3973 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3974 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3975 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3976 - Improved html export of tables.
3977 - Various clean-up changes.
3980 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3984 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3985 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3989 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3990 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3994 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3995 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3996 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3999 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4000 - New startup option `content'.
4001 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4002 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4003 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4006 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4007 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4008 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4009 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4010 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4011 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4014 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4015 table shape when typing in fields.
4016 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4017 into arbitrary major modes.
4018 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4019 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4020 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4023 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4024 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4025 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4027 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4028 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4029 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4030 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4031 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4033 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4034 - Sorting fully configurable.
4035 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4036 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4040 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4041 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4042 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4043 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4044 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4045 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4046 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4049 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4050 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4051 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4052 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4053 - Priorities for TODO items.
4054 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4055 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4056 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4061 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4062 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4063 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4064 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4065 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4066 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4067 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4068 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4069 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4070 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4071 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4072 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4073 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4074 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4075 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4078 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4079 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4080 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4081 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4082 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4083 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4084 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4085 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4086 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4087 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4088 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4089 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4092 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4093 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4094 - Date ranges introduced.
4095 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4096 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4097 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4098 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4099 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4100 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4101 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4104 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4105 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4106 - Fully automatic table editor.
4107 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4108 - Other link system changes
4109 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4110 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4111 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4112 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4113 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4114 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4115 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4117 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4118 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4119 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4120 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4121 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4122 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4124 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4128 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4129 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4130 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4131 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4135 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents