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3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of User-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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12 ** Incompatible Changes
16 *** Remember and Refile
18 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
19 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
20 + when called without prefix argment, the command does its
21 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
22 + when called with a single C-u pefix, these commands can be
23 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
24 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
25 template and then Emacs jumpt to the default target
26 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
27 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
29 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
30 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
33 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
34 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
35 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
37 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
38 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
39 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
40 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
41 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
42 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
45 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
46 introduced only in 5.19 is obsolete. Please use
47 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
48 variable does select the interface that is used to select
49 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
52 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
54 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
55 path to select a location.
56 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
59 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
60 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
61 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
62 request by Austin Frank.
64 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
65 they are always current.
69 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
70 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
71 special also because it only matches in headline. This goes
72 some way toward saving org-goto from being removed from
73 Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and sorry
74 that it took me o long to ut it in. If you prefer to use
75 single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
76 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
78 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
79 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
80 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
81 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
83 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
84 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
85 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
86 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
87 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue sheduled
88 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
89 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
90 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
91 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
92 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
93 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
96 - Archving a subtree now creates an additional property,
97 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
98 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
99 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
107 will file is with the following property
109 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
111 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
112 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
113 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
119 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
121 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
123 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
125 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
127 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
129 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
131 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
133 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
135 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
139 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
140 entries in a subtree. For example
142 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
144 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
145 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
146 request by Bernt Hansen.
148 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
149 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
150 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
151 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
152 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
153 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
154 interactively select the filing location (file and
155 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
156 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
157 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
158 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
159 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
161 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
162 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
163 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
164 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
165 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
168 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
169 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
170 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
171 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
172 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
173 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
174 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
177 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
178 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
179 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
182 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
183 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
184 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
185 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
186 explain here, complex.
188 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
189 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
190 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
192 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
193 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
194 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
196 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
208 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
209 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
210 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
211 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
212 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
213 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
214 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
215 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
216 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
217 subtree motion commands.
219 - Plain lists items work the same.
221 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
222 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
223 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
226 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
227 let me know about any problems.
231 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
232 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
233 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
234 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
235 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
237 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
238 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
239 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
240 history variable. For example:
242 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
244 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
245 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
246 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
247 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
248 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
249 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
250 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
253 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
254 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
255 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
256 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
260 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
261 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
264 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
265 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
266 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
267 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
268 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
269 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
275 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
277 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
278 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
279 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
280 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
281 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
282 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
283 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
284 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
287 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
288 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
289 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
290 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
292 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
293 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
294 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
295 and then watch it change in various scopes.
297 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
298 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
299 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
300 select a new restriction.
302 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
304 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
306 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
308 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
309 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
311 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
312 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
313 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
316 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
317 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
318 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
320 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
321 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
322 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
323 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
324 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
330 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
331 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
332 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
334 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
335 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
336 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
345 + Remember and related stuff
346 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
347 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
348 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
349 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
351 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
352 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
353 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
354 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
355 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
356 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
357 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
359 + Properties and Column view
360 - More control over which properties use inheritance
361 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
362 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
363 - New currency summary type {$}
365 + The date/time prompt
366 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
367 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
368 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
371 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
372 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
375 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
378 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
379 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
380 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
381 - Support for pabbrev-mode
382 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
384 ** Incompatible changes
386 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
387 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
388 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
390 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
391 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
394 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
398 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
399 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
401 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
403 : (org-remember nil ?n))
405 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
406 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
410 *** Remember and related stuff
412 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
413 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
414 application might be to put a note or task captured with
415 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
416 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
417 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
418 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
419 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
420 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
421 definitions. For example:
423 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
425 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
428 : (setq org-refile-targets
429 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
431 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
432 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
433 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
434 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
437 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
438 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
440 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
441 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
442 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
443 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
444 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
446 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
447 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
449 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
451 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
452 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
455 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
457 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
458 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
459 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
462 : (require 'remember)
463 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
464 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
465 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
467 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
468 provide a default for templates without a file, and
469 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
471 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
473 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
475 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
477 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
478 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
479 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
480 the default in Org-mode.
482 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
483 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
484 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
485 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
487 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
488 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
489 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
490 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
491 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
493 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
494 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
495 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
496 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
499 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
500 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
501 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
502 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
503 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
505 *** Properties and Column view
507 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
508 property names that should be treated with inheritance
511 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
512 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
513 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
514 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
515 discussion around this issue.
517 - Summary type improvements in column view.
518 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
519 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
520 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
521 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
522 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
523 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
524 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
526 *** The date/time prompt
528 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
531 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
532 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
533 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
534 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
535 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
537 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
538 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
539 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
540 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
541 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
542 entered month is before the current, for example if you
543 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
544 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
545 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
547 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
548 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
549 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
550 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
551 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
553 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
555 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
556 list of newly performed conversions:
558 | Org | Description | HTML |
559 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
560 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
561 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
562 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
563 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
565 You can turn this globally on or off with
566 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
567 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
568 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
569 William Henney for relevant inputs.
571 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
572 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
576 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
577 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
578 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
579 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
580 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
581 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
583 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
585 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
586 export by setting it either globally
587 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
588 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
589 the list of available classes and their sectioning
590 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
591 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
594 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
595 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
596 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
598 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
599 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
601 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
602 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
605 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
606 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
607 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
614 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
615 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
616 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
618 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
619 the values of constants and properties are no longer
620 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
621 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
622 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
624 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
625 with extension matched by the new variable
626 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
635 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
636 + All known bugs fixed.
637 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
638 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
639 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
641 - The agenda dispatcher
642 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
643 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
645 - Sorting improvements
646 + User-defined sorting keys.
647 + Sorting by properties.
648 + Sorting of plain lists.
650 - HTML <div> structure
653 + New variables, several of them.
654 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
655 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
656 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
657 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
661 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
663 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
664 (at least I hope so...).
666 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
667 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
669 + global, i.e. for the entire file
670 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
671 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
673 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
674 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
675 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
679 : :ID: planning-overview
685 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
689 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
690 be prompted for the ID.
692 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
693 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
694 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
695 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
696 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
699 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
701 *** The agenda dispatcher
703 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
704 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
705 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
706 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
707 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
708 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
709 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
710 them to custom commands.
712 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
713 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
714 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
715 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
717 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
718 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
719 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
720 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
721 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
723 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
724 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
727 *** Sorting improvements
729 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
730 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
732 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
733 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
735 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
738 - Plain lists can be sorted.
740 *** HTML <div> structure
742 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
744 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
747 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
748 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
750 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
751 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
753 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
754 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
756 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
757 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
761 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
762 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
763 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
766 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
768 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
770 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
771 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
772 your properties will not be folded away.
773 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
775 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
776 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
777 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
779 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
780 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
781 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
782 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
783 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
785 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
786 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
787 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
788 a proposal by Bastien.
790 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
791 request by Wanrong Lin.
793 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
794 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
795 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
801 - Remember templates can now have name.
802 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
803 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
804 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
805 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
806 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
807 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
808 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
809 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
810 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
811 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
813 ** Incompatible Changes
815 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
819 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
820 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
821 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
822 the name start with the selection character, for example if
823 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
824 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
826 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
827 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
828 change). Thanks to Bastien.
830 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
831 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
833 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
834 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
835 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
836 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
838 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
839 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
840 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
842 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
843 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
844 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
847 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
848 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
849 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
850 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
851 with full completion support.
853 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
854 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
855 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
857 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
858 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
861 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
862 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
863 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
864 well tested yet, please check it out.
872 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
873 - Command to jump to the running clock
874 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
875 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
876 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
877 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
878 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
879 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
880 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
881 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
882 - Better tag alignment in agenda
884 ** Incompatible changes
886 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
887 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
889 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
890 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
891 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
893 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
894 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
897 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
902 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
903 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
906 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
909 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
912 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
913 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
914 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
915 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
916 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
918 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
919 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
920 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
921 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
923 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
924 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
925 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
926 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
927 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
928 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
929 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
930 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
931 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
933 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
934 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
935 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
936 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
937 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
938 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
939 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
940 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
941 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
943 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
944 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
945 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
946 being prompted for a template, like this:
948 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
950 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
952 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
953 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
954 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
955 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
957 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
958 (also `s' does this).
960 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
961 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
964 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
965 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
966 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
968 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
969 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
970 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
972 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
973 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
974 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
975 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
983 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
984 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
985 - CSV support when importing a table.
986 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
987 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
988 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
989 - Modifications to priority cycling.
990 - Modifications to computations in column view.
991 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
996 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
997 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1000 : * Tree with special properties
1002 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1003 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1006 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1007 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1008 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1009 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1010 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1011 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1012 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1013 encourage you to stop using them.
1015 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1016 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1017 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1018 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1022 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1023 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1024 | file | the full current buffer |
1025 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1026 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1027 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1028 | agenda | all agenda files |
1030 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1031 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1032 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1033 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1036 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1037 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1038 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1039 basic input it works.
1041 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1042 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1043 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1044 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1046 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1047 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1050 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1051 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1053 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1055 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1056 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1057 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1058 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1059 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1061 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1062 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1063 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1064 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1065 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1068 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1069 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1070 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1071 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1072 the children has that particular property defined, the
1073 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1074 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1075 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1076 is a better way of doing things.
1078 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1079 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1080 testing is appreciated.
1082 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1083 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1084 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1085 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1087 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1088 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1089 links in square or angular brackets.
1097 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1100 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1101 agenda can be configured.
1103 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1105 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1107 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1109 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1111 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1112 inherited from the outline faces.
1114 ** Incompatible Changes
1116 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1117 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1118 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1119 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1120 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1125 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1126 switching to that state. With the setting
1128 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1129 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1131 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1134 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1135 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1136 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1137 own function. Configure the new variable
1138 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1139 this development with a patch.
1141 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1142 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1143 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1144 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1145 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1146 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1147 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1149 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1150 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1151 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1152 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1153 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1154 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1155 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1157 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1158 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1161 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1162 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1163 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1164 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1165 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1166 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1167 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1169 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1170 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1171 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1172 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1173 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1174 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1175 match the current org-mode faces.
1177 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1181 ** Incompatible changes
1183 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1187 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1188 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1189 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1191 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1193 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1194 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1195 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1196 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1197 command fall back to cycling.
1199 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1200 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1201 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1202 interface anyway, set the variable
1203 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1204 others for input on this issue.
1206 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1207 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1208 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1210 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1211 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1213 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1214 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
1216 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
1218 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
1219 use a format string that will be interpreted by
1220 `format-time-string', for example:
1222 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
1224 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
1225 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
1226 included) have changed this.
1228 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
1229 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
1230 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
1231 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
1232 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
1233 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
1234 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
1240 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
1242 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
1244 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
1246 - Sorting can be done by priority.
1248 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
1250 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1252 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
1254 ** Incompatible changes
1256 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
1257 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
1259 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1263 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
1264 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
1265 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
1267 A Here is a configuration example:
1269 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
1270 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
1271 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
1272 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
1275 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
1276 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
1278 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
1279 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
1280 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
1281 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
1282 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
1283 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
1284 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
1285 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
1286 states, just like you also do for tags.
1288 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
1289 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
1291 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
1292 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
1293 switch the entry to that state.
1295 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
1296 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
1297 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
1300 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
1302 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
1303 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
1304 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
1305 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
1307 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
1308 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
1310 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
1311 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
1312 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
1313 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
1314 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
1316 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
1317 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
1318 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
1321 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
1322 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
1323 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
1324 the file will simply be skipped.
1334 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
1335 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
1336 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
1337 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
1338 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
1339 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
1340 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
1341 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
1344 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
1345 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
1346 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
1347 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
1348 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
1349 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
1350 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
1351 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
1352 the special locations.
1354 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
1357 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
1360 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
1361 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
1362 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
1364 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
1365 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
1366 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
1372 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
1374 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
1376 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
1378 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
1380 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
1382 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
1384 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
1386 - Global values for selected properties.
1393 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
1394 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
1395 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
1396 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
1397 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
1398 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
1399 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
1400 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
1402 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
1403 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
1404 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
1405 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
1406 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
1407 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
1408 currently how to handle the new link types for
1411 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
1412 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
1413 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
1414 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
1417 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
1418 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
1419 The syntax is like this
1421 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
1423 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
1426 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
1428 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
1429 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
1430 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
1432 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
1435 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
1436 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
1437 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
1438 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
1441 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
1442 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
1443 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
1444 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
1445 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
1446 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
1449 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
1450 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
1451 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
1454 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
1455 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
1456 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
1457 `org-global-properties', like this:
1459 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
1461 Buffer-local values are set like this:
1463 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
1465 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
1466 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
1467 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
1468 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
1469 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
1470 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
1478 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
1479 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
1480 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
1481 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
1483 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
1484 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
1485 this stuff into the drawer.
1486 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1488 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
1489 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
1491 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
1492 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
1494 - Lots of minor fixes.
1498 ** Incompatible Changes
1500 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
1501 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
1502 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
1506 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
1507 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
1508 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
1510 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
1511 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
1512 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
1513 know if we need to make this customizable.
1515 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
1516 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
1517 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
1518 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
1519 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
1521 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
1530 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
1533 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
1534 compute their value from the children's values.
1536 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
1537 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
1540 ** Incompatible Changes
1542 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
1543 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
1544 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
1545 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
1550 - Improvements for properties:
1552 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
1553 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
1555 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
1556 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
1557 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
1558 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
1559 typos when entering properties.
1561 - Improvements for column view.
1563 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
1564 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
1567 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
1568 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
1569 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
1570 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
1573 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
1574 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
1577 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
1578 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
1579 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
1581 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
1582 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
1583 beginning of a line. So
1585 : * This is a level 1 headline
1586 : *this is bold text*
1588 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
1589 available in orgstruct-mode.
1595 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
1596 structure editing commands into any other mode.
1598 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
1599 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
1600 open if explicitly asked.
1602 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
1604 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
1605 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
1608 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
1609 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
1612 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
1614 ** Incompatible changes
1616 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
1617 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
1618 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
1619 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
1620 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
1621 that this is the better convention.
1625 *** Orgstruct minor mode
1627 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
1628 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
1629 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
1630 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
1631 easily create lists.
1633 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
1634 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
1635 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
1636 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
1637 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
1638 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
1639 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
1640 minor modes have assigned to them.
1642 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
1643 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
1644 the promised implementation.
1648 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
1649 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
1650 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
1651 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
1652 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
1655 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
1657 you can then create drawers like this:
1660 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
1661 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
1664 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
1665 contains properties of an entry (see below).
1667 *** Properties and Column View
1669 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
1670 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
1671 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
1672 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
1673 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
1674 a property drawer and inserting a line like
1676 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
1678 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
1679 program using properties, use the functions
1680 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
1681 and `org-entry-delete'.
1683 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
1686 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
1687 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
1688 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
1689 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
1690 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
1691 after the headline, outside the drawer.
1693 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
1696 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
1698 will find entries that
1701 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
1702 - are TODO status WAITING.
1704 So here is an entry that will match:
1706 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
1711 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
1712 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
1715 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
1717 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
1718 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
1719 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
1720 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
1721 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
1722 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
1723 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
1724 can set up different property columns on different levels
1725 of an outline tree. For example:
1729 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
1733 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
1736 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
1738 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
1741 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
1744 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
1745 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
1747 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
1748 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
1749 will get a different table than if you do it in the
1750 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
1751 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
1752 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
1755 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
1756 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
1758 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
1759 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
1760 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
1761 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
1762 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
1763 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
1765 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
1766 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
1769 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
1771 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
1773 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
1774 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
1775 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
1777 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
1778 Any suggestions for better defaults?
1779 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
1780 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
1785 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
1786 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
1787 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
1788 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
1789 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
1790 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
1791 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
1794 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
1795 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
1796 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
1797 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
1798 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
1805 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
1807 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
1808 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
1809 constants can now be set with a line like:
1811 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
1815 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
1816 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
1819 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
1821 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
1825 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
1826 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
1827 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
1828 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
1835 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
1836 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
1837 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
1838 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
1840 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
1841 See manual section 3.5.3.
1843 - New options for turning off footnotes.
1844 This was a request from Ignotus.
1845 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
1847 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
1848 default. This was a request from Micheal.
1849 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
1853 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
1854 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
1855 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
1856 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
1857 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
1863 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
1864 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
1866 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
1868 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
1870 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
1872 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
1874 ** Incompatible changes
1876 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
1877 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
1878 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
1879 with the xemacs version. For example:
1881 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
1883 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
1884 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
1885 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
1886 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
1887 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
1891 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
1892 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
1893 interval on a single day. For example
1895 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
1897 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
1898 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
1899 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
1900 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
1902 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
1905 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
1906 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
1910 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
1912 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
1913 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
1914 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
1915 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
1916 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
1917 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
1918 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
1919 using localization features may not work correctly in the
1920 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
1921 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
1922 stick to the ASCII characters.
1924 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
1925 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
1926 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
1927 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
1928 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
1930 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
1932 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
1933 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
1934 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
1936 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
1937 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
1938 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
1939 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
1940 if we can agree on this:
1942 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
1943 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
1944 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
1945 out to a previous level. For example
1953 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
1962 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
1963 using promotion and demotion functions.
1969 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
1970 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
1972 ** Incompatible changes
1974 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
1978 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
1979 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
1980 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
1981 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
1982 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
1983 column where the character is specified). You may also use
1984 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
1986 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
1987 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
1988 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
1989 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1990 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
1991 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
1992 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
1994 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
1995 never exported, but can be used to place column group
1996 information into the table. In this table, we create a
1997 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
1998 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2001 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2002 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2003 wherever you want a vertical line:
2005 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2006 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2007 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2009 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2010 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2012 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2013 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2014 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2015 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2016 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2017 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2018 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2019 behavior we had before.
2021 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2023 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2024 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2025 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2026 special characters in other languages as along as your
2027 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2028 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2029 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2035 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2039 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2041 [1]This is a footnote
2043 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2044 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2046 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2048 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2049 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2052 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2058 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2059 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2061 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2062 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2063 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2064 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2066 ** Incompatible Changes
2068 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2069 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2073 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2074 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2076 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2078 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2079 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2080 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2081 collect your credit, let me know!
2083 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2084 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2086 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2087 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2089 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2090 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2091 would in the diary. For example
2093 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2095 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2097 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2098 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2100 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2102 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2103 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2104 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2105 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2106 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2107 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2108 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2109 faster agenda display.
2111 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2112 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2113 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2114 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2115 to Raman for this idea.
2117 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2118 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2119 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2122 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2123 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2124 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2128 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2130 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2131 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2133 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2134 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2135 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2136 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2139 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2140 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2142 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2143 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2144 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2145 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2147 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2148 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2149 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2150 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2152 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2153 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2160 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2161 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2162 further processing in scripts.
2164 ** Incompatible Changes
2166 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2167 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2171 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2172 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2173 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2174 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2177 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2178 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2179 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2180 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2181 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2182 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2183 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2184 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2186 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2187 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2188 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2189 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2191 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2192 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2193 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2195 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2205 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2207 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2209 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2211 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2213 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
2215 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
2217 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
2221 ** Incompatible changes
2223 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
2224 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
2227 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
2228 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
2229 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
2230 `org-disputed-keys'.
2232 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
2233 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
2234 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
2238 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
2239 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
2240 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
2241 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
2242 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
2243 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
2244 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
2245 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
2246 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
2247 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
2248 Scott fro bringing this up again.
2250 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
2251 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
2252 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
2253 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
2255 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
2256 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
2258 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
2259 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
2260 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
2261 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
2263 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
2264 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
2265 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
2266 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
2267 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
2268 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
2269 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
2270 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
2272 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
2274 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
2275 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
2276 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
2277 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
2278 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
2279 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
2280 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
2283 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
2284 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
2285 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
2286 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
2287 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
2288 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
2291 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
2292 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
2293 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
2294 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
2295 indicates a non-stuck project.
2297 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
2298 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
2299 please let me know if you find problems.
2301 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
2302 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
2308 ** Incompatible changes
2312 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
2313 exported HTML. These are the variables
2314 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
2315 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
2318 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
2319 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
2320 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
2322 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
2323 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
2324 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
2325 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
2326 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
2327 that are scanned for the agenda.
2335 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
2336 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
2337 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
2339 ** Incompatible changes
2341 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
2345 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
2347 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
2349 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
2351 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
2352 list (and which is also works!)
2354 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
2355 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
2357 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
2358 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
2359 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
2360 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
2361 toward using the latter.
2363 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
2364 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
2365 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
2366 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
2368 (setq org-todo-keywords
2369 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
2370 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
2371 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
2372 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
2375 If your setting has this new structure,
2376 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
2377 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
2378 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
2379 interpretation from the other variable still works.
2381 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
2382 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
2383 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
2384 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
2385 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
2388 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
2389 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
2390 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
2391 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
2392 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
2393 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
2394 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
2396 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
2397 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
2398 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
2399 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
2400 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
2402 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
2403 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
2404 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
2405 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
2406 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
2407 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
2408 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
2409 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
2410 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
2417 This time the changes affect the following areas:
2419 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
2420 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
2421 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
2422 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
2423 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
2424 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
2427 ** Incompatible changes
2429 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
2430 over several lines, like
2433 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
2436 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
2437 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
2438 See below for details.
2440 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
2441 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
2442 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
2443 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
2448 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
2449 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
2452 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
2453 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
2454 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
2456 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
2457 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
2458 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
2459 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
2460 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
2461 where you want to be.
2463 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
2464 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
2465 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
2468 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
2469 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
2471 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
2472 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
2474 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
2476 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
2477 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
2478 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
2479 new in-buffer option
2483 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
2484 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
2485 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
2486 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
2488 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
2489 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
2490 can be done by setting the variable
2491 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
2493 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
2499 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
2501 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
2502 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
2503 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
2504 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
2505 terminate all levels of plain list items.
2507 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
2509 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
2510 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
2513 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
2514 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
2515 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
2516 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
2517 are logging all state changes.
2519 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
2524 - Priority handling in the tags view
2525 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
2526 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
2527 - Improvements to the formula editor.
2528 - C-j does better indentation.
2532 - Priority handling in the tags view
2534 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
2535 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
2537 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
2539 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
2540 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
2541 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
2543 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
2545 - Changes in the spreadsheet
2547 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
2548 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
2549 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
2550 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
2551 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
2552 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
2553 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
2555 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
2558 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
2560 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
2562 + There is now a menu with commands.
2564 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
2565 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
2567 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
2568 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
2570 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
2571 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
2575 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
2576 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
2577 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
2579 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
2580 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
2585 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
2586 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
2587 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
2588 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
2590 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
2591 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
2592 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
2602 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
2603 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
2604 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
2606 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
2607 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
2608 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
2609 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
2610 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
2611 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
2612 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
2614 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
2615 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
2616 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
2618 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
2620 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
2621 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
2623 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
2624 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
2626 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
2627 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
2628 levels. For example:
2630 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
2632 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
2633 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
2634 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
2637 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
2638 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
2639 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
2640 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
2642 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
2643 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
2652 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
2653 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
2654 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
2655 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
2657 ** Detailed description of changes
2659 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
2660 any table in any mode.
2662 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
2663 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
2664 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
2665 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
2666 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
2667 inside the same file, in a block comment.
2669 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
2670 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
2671 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
2672 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
2673 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
2675 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
2676 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
2677 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
2678 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
2679 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
2680 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
2681 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
2684 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
2685 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
2686 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
2687 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
2688 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
2689 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
2690 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
2691 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
2692 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
2693 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
2694 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
2695 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
2697 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
2698 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
2699 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
2700 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
2706 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
2707 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
2708 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
2709 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
2710 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
2712 ** Detailed description of changes
2714 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
2715 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
2716 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
2718 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
2720 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
2721 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
2723 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
2725 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
2726 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
2727 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
2729 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
2730 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
2731 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
2733 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
2734 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
2735 to Raman for this excellent idea.
2737 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
2738 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
2740 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
2742 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
2743 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
2744 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
2745 remember.el work like this as well).
2746 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
2747 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
2748 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
2749 new template, but the old context information. This is
2750 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
2753 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
2754 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
2755 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
2756 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
2757 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
2758 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
2759 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
2760 without interaction.
2762 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
2763 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
2764 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
2765 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
2766 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
2767 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
2769 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
2770 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
2771 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
2772 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
2774 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
2775 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
2776 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
2777 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
2778 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
2779 them would require special hooks. Comments?
2785 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
2786 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
2788 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
2789 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
2790 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
2791 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
2792 + Incompatible changes
2793 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
2794 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
2795 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
2796 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
2797 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
2798 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
2799 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
2803 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
2804 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
2805 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
2806 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
2807 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
2808 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
2809 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
2810 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
2814 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
2815 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
2816 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
2817 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
2818 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
2819 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
2820 - Empty entries go full circle.
2821 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
2826 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
2829 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
2830 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
2831 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
2832 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
2833 another, dedicated frame.
2834 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
2835 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
2838 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
2839 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
2840 - Changes in Agenda buffer
2841 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
2842 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
2843 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
2844 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
2845 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
2846 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
2847 use regular expressions.
2848 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
2849 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
2850 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
2854 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
2855 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
2856 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
2863 - Improvements to fast tag selection
2864 + show status also in target line.
2865 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
2866 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
2867 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
2871 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
2872 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
2873 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
2874 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
2878 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
2879 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
2884 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
2885 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
2886 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
2890 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
2891 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
2892 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
2893 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
2894 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
2895 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
2896 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
2897 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
2898 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
2899 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
2900 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
2905 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
2906 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
2907 - File links can contain environment variables.
2908 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
2912 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
2913 each block created by a different agenda command.
2914 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
2915 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
2916 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
2917 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
2918 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
2919 upon the agenda type.
2920 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
2921 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
2922 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
2923 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
2924 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
2925 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
2926 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
2927 - More minor bug fixes.
2930 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
2931 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
2932 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
2936 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
2937 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
2938 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
2942 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
2945 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
2946 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
2947 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
2955 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
2956 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
2958 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
2959 LaTeX environment and math.
2962 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
2964 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
2965 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
2966 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
2970 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
2971 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
2974 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
2975 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
2976 and will not lead to conflicts.
2977 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
2981 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
2982 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
2983 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
2984 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
2985 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
2986 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
2987 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
2993 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
2994 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
2997 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
2998 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
2999 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3000 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3001 directories for different export types.
3002 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3003 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3010 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3011 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3012 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3013 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3014 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3015 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3016 relative and absolute paths.
3017 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3018 - Bug and typo fixes.
3022 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3023 contains a description or not.
3024 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3025 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3026 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3027 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3028 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3029 for all available exporters.
3030 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3036 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3037 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3038 end of the HTML file.
3039 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3040 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3041 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3042 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3048 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3049 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3050 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3051 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3061 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3062 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3065 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3066 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3067 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3068 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3069 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3070 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3071 - New structure for the customization tree.
3076 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3080 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3081 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3082 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3083 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3084 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3089 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3090 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3091 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3092 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3096 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3097 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3100 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3101 - Various small bug fixes
3104 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3105 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3106 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3107 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3108 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3109 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3110 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3111 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3112 next buffer change due to editing).
3115 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3116 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3117 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3118 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3121 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3122 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3123 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3124 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3125 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3126 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3127 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3128 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3129 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3130 - support for cascading style sheets.
3131 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3132 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3139 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3143 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3146 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3147 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3148 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3149 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3150 and are not linked to the calendar.
3151 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3152 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3153 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3154 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3157 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3158 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3159 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3160 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3161 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3164 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3165 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3166 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3167 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3170 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3171 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3174 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3175 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3176 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3177 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3178 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3179 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3183 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3184 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3185 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3186 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3187 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3188 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3189 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3190 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3191 - Improved html export of tables.
3192 - Various clean-up changes.
3195 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3199 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3200 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3204 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3205 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3209 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3210 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3211 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3214 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
3215 - New startup option `content'.
3216 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
3217 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
3218 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
3221 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
3222 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
3223 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
3224 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
3225 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
3226 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
3229 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
3230 table shape when typing in fields.
3231 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
3232 into arbitrary major modes.
3233 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
3234 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
3235 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
3238 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
3239 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
3240 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
3242 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
3243 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
3244 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
3245 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
3246 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
3248 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
3249 - Sorting fully configurable.
3250 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
3251 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
3255 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
3256 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
3257 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
3258 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
3259 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
3260 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
3261 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
3264 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
3265 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
3266 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
3267 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
3268 - Priorities for TODO items.
3269 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
3270 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
3271 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
3276 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
3277 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
3278 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
3279 `org-todo-interpretation'.
3280 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
3281 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
3282 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
3283 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
3284 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
3285 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
3286 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
3287 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
3288 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
3289 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
3290 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
3293 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
3294 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
3295 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
3296 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
3297 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
3298 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
3299 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
3300 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
3301 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
3302 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
3303 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
3304 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
3307 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
3308 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
3309 - Date ranges introduced.
3310 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
3311 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
3312 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
3313 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
3314 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
3315 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
3316 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
3319 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
3320 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
3321 - Fully automatic table editor.
3322 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
3323 - Other link system changes
3324 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
3325 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
3326 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
3327 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
3328 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
3329 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
3330 Please re-read the manual section about links.
3332 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
3333 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
3334 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
3335 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
3336 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
3337 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
3339 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
3343 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
3344 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
3345 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
3346 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
3350 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents