1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
6 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:{} *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil
7 #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:1 path:org-info.js
9 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
15 ** Incompatible changes
17 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
19 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP=
20 or =#+startup=, similarly for all the in-buffer keywords.
22 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
24 Previously, the default was to not include this text, but for
25 publishing oriented files it is better to include it. If you
26 like the old default better, customize the variable
27 =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the value on
34 *** Description lists are now supported natively
36 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
37 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
38 separated by " :: ". For example
40 : Free software by Carsten Dominik
41 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
42 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
43 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
44 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
45 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
46 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
47 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
48 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
49 : - CHAIN :: A tool for running a code with
50 : different sets of parameters
51 : - MPP :: A preprocessor tool for creating MPEG
52 : and other movie streams
53 : - Dirabbrev :: Using abbreviations for directories
55 : - PSFIXBB :: fixing the BoundingBox in postscript files
56 : - TFMT :: A table formatting tool
58 *** Blockquotes for export
60 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
63 : Everything shound be made as simple as possible,
64 : but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
67 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
69 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
70 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
72 - `C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u C-u I' from the agenda) will
73 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
74 - `C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u I' from the agenda) will offer a
75 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
76 for selection. `d' selects the default task, `i' selects
77 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
78 being clocked. `1',... selects a recent task. When you
79 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
80 - You can use `C-u C-c C-x C-j' to jump to any of these
83 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
84 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
85 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
86 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
87 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
88 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
89 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
91 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
93 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
94 fontified in an emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
95 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
98 : #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
99 : (defun org-xor (a b)
104 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
105 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
106 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
107 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
109 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
115 The string after the BEGIN_SRC is the name of the major emacs
116 mode that should be used to fontify the code example.
118 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
119 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
120 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
122 *** Include files for export
126 : #+INCLUDE: "file" markup lang
128 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the
129 moment of publishing. FILE ahould be surrounded by double
130 quotes, this is obligatory it if contains space characters.
131 The parameters MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be
132 "example", "quote", or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be
133 the name of the Emacs mode that should be used for fontifying
134 the code. For example:
136 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
137 : #+include "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
139 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
141 `bbdb-anniversaries' is now much faster, thanks to a new
142 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
143 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
145 *** New file in the contrib directory: org-eval.el
147 This module allowes to include the result of the evaluation
148 of Lisp code into the buffer. This is similar to the Muse
157 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
158 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
159 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
160 - New operators for property searches
161 - Search commands can now include archive files.
162 - Clock tables can include the archive files
163 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
167 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
169 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
170 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
171 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
172 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
173 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
174 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
176 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
178 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
179 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
180 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
181 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
182 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
183 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
184 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
185 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
186 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
187 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
188 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
189 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
190 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
193 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
195 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
196 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
197 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
198 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
199 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
200 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
201 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
202 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
203 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
205 *** New operators for property searches
207 Property searches can now choose a number of different
208 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
209 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
211 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
212 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
213 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
215 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
216 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
218 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
219 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
220 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
221 match" or "does not match", respectively.
223 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
225 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
227 If the value of the customization variable
228 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
229 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
230 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
231 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
232 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
235 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
237 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
238 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
239 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
240 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
241 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
243 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
245 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
246 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
247 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
248 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
249 be functions, so that more general transformations are
250 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
251 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
255 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
256 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
257 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
261 - The Org distribution has a new structure
262 - New system for selecting modules to load
263 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
264 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
265 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
266 - Export commands can be done in the background
267 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
268 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
269 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
270 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
271 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
272 - And some more small fixes and improvements
274 ** Incompatible changes
276 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
278 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
279 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
280 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
281 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
282 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
283 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
287 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
289 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
290 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
291 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
292 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
293 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
294 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
298 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
299 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
300 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
301 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
302 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
303 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
304 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
305 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
308 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
310 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
311 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
312 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
313 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
314 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
315 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
316 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
317 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
320 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
321 buffer you can simply use "A".
323 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
325 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
327 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
328 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
329 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
330 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
333 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
334 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
335 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
336 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
337 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
338 visibility both locally and globally.
340 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
341 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
342 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
344 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
346 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
347 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
348 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
349 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
350 JavaScript program is served from
351 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
352 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
353 to be independent of the existence and stability of
354 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
355 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
358 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
360 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
362 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
363 together with org-info.js.
365 *** Export improvements
367 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
368 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
369 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
372 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
373 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
374 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
375 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
376 this less system dependent in the future.
378 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
380 *** Improvements to clocktable
382 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
383 when trying to specify the time block that should be
384 considered when constructing the table.
386 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
390 |--------------+-----------------------|
391 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
392 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
393 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
394 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
396 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
397 | thisweek | The current week |
398 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
399 | thismonth | The current month |
400 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
401 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
404 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
405 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
406 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
407 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
408 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
409 will switch to the following week.
411 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
412 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
413 a request from Bernt Hansen.
415 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
416 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
417 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
418 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
419 configure the variable
420 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
421 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
422 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
424 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
426 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
427 the form =W08= for week 8.
429 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
430 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
431 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
432 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
433 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
434 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
435 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
436 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
437 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
438 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
439 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
441 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
442 specify an ISO week. For example
444 : w4 Monday of week 4
445 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
447 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
448 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
450 So far I have not implemented the effect of
451 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
452 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
453 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
454 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
455 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
456 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
459 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
460 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
461 test extensively and report back.
463 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
465 *** Improvements in Search View
467 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
468 only in TODO entries.
470 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
471 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
472 also match in "Nasim's".
477 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
478 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
479 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
480 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
481 this excellent proposal.
483 The regexp option is also implemented for
484 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
485 properties for inheritance my name.
487 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
488 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
489 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
490 if and only if the setting in
491 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
494 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
495 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
496 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
497 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
498 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
499 customize them freely.
501 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
502 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
503 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
504 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
505 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
506 default date, not switch to today.
508 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
509 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
511 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
512 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
514 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
515 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
516 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
518 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
521 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
522 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
523 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
525 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
526 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
527 initial region if set.
529 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
532 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
534 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
535 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
536 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
537 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
538 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
539 file name to which the export should go, and a local
543 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
544 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
547 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
549 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
550 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
551 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
552 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
554 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
561 - New keyword search agenda view
563 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
565 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
567 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
569 - Granularity while editing time stamps
571 - New repeaters mechanisms
573 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
575 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
577 - =M-RET= splits lines again
581 ** Incompatible changes
583 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
584 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
589 *** New keyword search agenda view
591 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
592 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
593 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
594 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
595 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
596 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
597 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
598 example, the search string
600 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
602 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
603 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
604 which are also not matched by the regular expression
605 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
606 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
607 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
608 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
609 (possibly sub-) heading.
611 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
612 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
614 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
615 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
618 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
619 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
620 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
622 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
624 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
625 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
627 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
628 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
629 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
631 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
632 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
633 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
634 to cover contributed extensions as well.
636 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
638 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
639 last element defines the contexts in which the template
640 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
641 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
642 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
643 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
644 function, the template will be offered only if the function
645 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
646 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
649 One possible application for this would be to have several
650 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
651 the right one based on context. For example, think of
652 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
653 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
654 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
656 : (setq org-remember-templates
657 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
658 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
660 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
662 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
664 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
665 + In a table, add a hline as before
666 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
667 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
668 + In a headline, turn it into an item
669 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
670 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
671 item markers from all lines.
673 Based on proposals by Bastien.
675 - `C-c *' has now more functions
676 + in a table, recompute, as before
677 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
678 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
679 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
680 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
681 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
683 Based on proposals by Bastien.
685 *** Changes related to time stamps
687 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
688 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
689 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
690 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
691 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
692 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
693 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
694 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
695 specify the number of minutes to shift.
697 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
699 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
700 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
703 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
704 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
705 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
706 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
707 : and marked it done on Saturday.
708 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
709 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
710 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
713 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
715 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
717 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
718 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
721 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
722 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
723 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
724 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
725 the previous content.
727 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
729 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
730 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
731 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
733 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
737 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
738 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
739 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
740 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
743 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
744 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
745 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
748 - There are three new hooks:
750 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
751 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
752 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
756 ** Incompatible changes
758 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
759 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
760 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
764 *** Changes to logging progress
766 There is now more control over which state changes are being
767 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
768 sections in the manual. Basically:
770 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
771 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
772 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
773 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
774 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
775 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
776 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
777 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
779 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
780 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
781 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
782 : when leaving this state. This is great for
783 : getting a record when switching *back* from
785 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
786 : Here we not even define a fast access
787 : character, but just the logging stuff.
789 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
793 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
794 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
795 of the line) before the current line.
797 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
798 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
799 create a new line below the current one.
803 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
804 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
811 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
813 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
814 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
816 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
818 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
819 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
820 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
822 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
824 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
826 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
830 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
832 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
834 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
836 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
838 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
840 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
842 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
844 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
848 ** Incompatible Changes
850 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
851 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
852 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
856 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
858 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
859 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
861 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
862 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
864 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
865 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
866 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
867 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
868 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
869 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
872 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
873 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
876 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
877 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
878 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
880 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
881 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
882 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
883 variable does select the interface that is used to select
884 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
887 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
889 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
890 path to select a location.
891 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
894 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
895 they are always current.
897 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
898 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
899 special also because it only matches in headline. This
900 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
901 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
902 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
903 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
904 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
906 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
907 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
908 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
909 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
910 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
911 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
917 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
918 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
919 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
920 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
921 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
923 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
924 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
926 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
927 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
929 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
930 headline up to the tags.
931 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
933 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
935 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
936 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
937 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
938 request by Austin Frank.
940 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
941 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
942 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
944 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
945 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
946 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
947 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
949 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
950 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
951 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
952 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
953 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
954 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
955 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
956 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
957 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
958 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
959 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
962 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
963 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
964 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
965 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
973 will file is with the following property
975 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
977 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
978 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
979 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
981 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
982 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
991 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
993 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
995 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
997 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
999 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1001 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1003 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1005 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1007 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1011 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1012 entries in a subtree. For example
1014 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1016 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1017 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1018 request by Bernt Hansen.
1020 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1021 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1022 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1023 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1024 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1025 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1026 interactively select the filing location (file and
1027 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1028 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1029 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1030 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1031 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1033 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1034 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1035 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1036 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1037 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1040 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1041 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1042 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1043 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1044 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1045 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1046 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1049 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1050 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1051 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1054 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1055 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1056 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1057 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1058 explain here, complex.
1060 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1061 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1062 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1064 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1065 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1066 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1068 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1080 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1081 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1082 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1083 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1084 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1085 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1086 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1087 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1088 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1089 subtree motion commands.
1091 - Plain lists items work the same.
1093 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1094 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1095 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1098 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1099 let me know about any problems.
1103 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1104 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1105 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1106 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1107 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1109 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1110 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1111 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1112 history variable. For example:
1114 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1116 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1117 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1118 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1119 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1120 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1121 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1122 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1123 by Bastien and Adam.
1125 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1126 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1127 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1128 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1132 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1133 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1136 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1137 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1138 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1139 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1140 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1141 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1147 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1149 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1150 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1151 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1152 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1153 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1154 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1155 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1156 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1159 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1160 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1161 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1162 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1164 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1165 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1166 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
1167 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1169 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1170 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1171 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1172 select a new restriction.
1174 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1176 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1178 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1180 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1181 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1183 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1184 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1185 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1188 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1189 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1190 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1192 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1193 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1194 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1195 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1196 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1202 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1203 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1204 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1206 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1207 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1208 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1217 + Remember and related stuff
1218 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1219 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1220 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1221 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1223 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1224 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1225 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1226 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1227 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1228 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1229 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1231 + Properties and Column view
1232 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1233 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1234 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1235 - New currency summary type {$}
1237 + The date/time prompt
1238 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1239 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1240 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1243 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1244 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1247 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1250 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1251 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1252 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1253 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1254 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1256 ** Incompatible changes
1258 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1259 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1260 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1262 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1263 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1264 prompted, like this:
1266 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1268 : (org-remember ?n))
1270 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1271 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1273 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1275 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1277 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1278 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1282 *** Remember and related stuff
1284 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1285 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1286 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1287 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1288 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1289 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1290 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1291 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1292 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1293 definitions. For example:
1295 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1297 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1300 : (setq org-refile-targets
1301 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1303 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1304 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1305 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1306 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1309 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1310 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1312 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1313 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1314 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1315 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1316 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1318 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1319 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1321 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1323 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1324 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1325 : %[..] include file
1327 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1329 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1330 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1331 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1334 : (require 'remember)
1335 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1336 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1337 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1339 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1340 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1341 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1343 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1345 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1347 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1349 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1350 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1351 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1352 the default in Org-mode.
1354 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1355 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1356 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1357 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1359 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1360 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1361 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1362 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1363 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1365 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1366 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1367 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1368 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1371 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1372 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1373 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1374 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1375 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1377 *** Properties and Column view
1379 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1380 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1383 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1384 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1385 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1386 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1387 discussion around this issue.
1389 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1390 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1391 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1392 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1393 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1394 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1395 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1396 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1398 *** The date/time prompt
1400 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1403 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1404 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1405 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1406 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1407 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1409 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1410 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1411 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1412 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1413 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1414 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1415 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1416 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1417 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1419 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1420 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1421 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1422 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1423 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1425 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1427 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1428 list of newly performed conversions:
1430 | Org | Description | HTML |
1431 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1432 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1433 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1434 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1435 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1437 You can turn this globally on or off with
1438 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1439 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1440 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1441 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1443 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1444 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1448 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1449 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1450 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1451 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1452 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1453 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1455 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1457 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1458 export by setting it either globally
1459 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1460 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1461 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1462 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1463 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1466 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1467 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1468 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1470 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1471 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1473 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1474 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1477 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1478 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1479 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1486 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1487 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1488 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1490 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1491 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1492 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1493 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1494 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1496 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1497 with extension matched by the new variable
1498 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1507 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1508 + All known bugs fixed.
1509 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1510 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1511 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1513 - The agenda dispatcher
1514 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1515 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1517 - Sorting improvements
1518 + User-defined sorting keys.
1519 + Sorting by properties.
1520 + Sorting of plain lists.
1522 - HTML <div> structure
1525 + New variables, several of them.
1526 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1527 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1528 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1529 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1533 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1535 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1536 (at least I hope so...).
1538 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1539 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1541 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1542 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1543 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1545 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1546 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1547 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1551 : :ID: planning-overview
1557 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1561 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1562 be prompted for the ID.
1564 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1565 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1566 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1567 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1568 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1571 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1573 *** The agenda dispatcher
1575 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1576 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1577 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1578 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1579 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1580 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1581 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1582 them to custom commands.
1584 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1585 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1586 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1587 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1589 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1590 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1591 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1592 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1593 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1595 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1596 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1599 *** Sorting improvements
1601 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1602 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1604 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1605 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1607 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1610 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1612 *** HTML <div> structure
1614 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1616 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1617 "table-of-contents".
1619 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1620 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1622 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1623 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1625 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1626 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1628 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1629 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1633 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1634 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1635 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1638 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1640 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1642 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1643 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1644 your properties will not be folded away.
1645 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1647 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1648 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1649 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1651 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1652 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1653 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1654 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1655 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1657 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1658 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1659 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1660 a proposal by Bastien.
1662 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1663 request by Wanrong Lin.
1665 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1666 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1667 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1673 - Remember templates can now have name.
1674 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1675 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1676 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1677 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1678 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1679 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1680 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1681 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1682 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1683 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1685 ** Incompatible Changes
1687 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1691 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1692 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1693 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1694 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1695 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1696 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1698 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1699 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1700 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1702 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1703 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1705 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1706 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1707 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1708 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1710 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1711 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1712 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1714 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1715 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1716 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1717 Wiegley for a patch.
1719 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1720 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1721 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1722 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1723 with full completion support.
1725 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1726 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1727 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1729 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1730 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1733 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1734 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1735 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1736 well tested yet, please check it out.
1744 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1745 - Command to jump to the running clock
1746 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1747 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1748 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1749 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1750 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1751 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1752 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1753 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1754 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1756 ** Incompatible changes
1758 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1759 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1761 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1762 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1763 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1765 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1766 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1769 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1774 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1775 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1778 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1781 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1784 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1785 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1786 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1787 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1788 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1790 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1791 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1792 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1793 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1795 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1796 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1797 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1798 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1799 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1800 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1801 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1802 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1803 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1805 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1806 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1807 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1808 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1809 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1810 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1811 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1812 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1813 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1815 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1816 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1817 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1818 being prompted for a template, like this:
1820 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1822 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1824 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1825 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1826 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1827 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1829 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1830 (also `s' does this).
1832 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1833 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1836 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1837 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1838 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1840 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1841 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1842 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1844 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1845 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1846 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1847 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1855 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1856 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1857 - CSV support when importing a table.
1858 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1859 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1860 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1861 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1862 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1863 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1868 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1869 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1872 : * Tree with special properties
1874 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1875 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1878 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1879 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1880 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1881 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1882 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1883 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1884 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1885 encourage you to stop using them.
1887 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1888 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1889 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1890 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1894 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1895 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1896 | file | the full current buffer |
1897 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1898 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1899 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1900 | agenda | all agenda files |
1902 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1903 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1904 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1905 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1908 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1909 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1910 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1911 basic input it works.
1913 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1914 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1915 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1916 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1918 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1919 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1922 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1923 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1925 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1927 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1928 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1929 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1930 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1931 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1933 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1934 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1935 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1936 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1937 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1940 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1941 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1942 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1943 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1944 the children has that particular property defined, the
1945 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1946 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1947 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1948 is a better way of doing things.
1950 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1951 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1952 testing is appreciated.
1954 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1955 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1956 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1957 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1959 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1960 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1961 links in square or angular brackets.
1969 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1972 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1973 agenda can be configured.
1975 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1977 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1979 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1981 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1983 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1984 inherited from the outline faces.
1986 ** Incompatible Changes
1988 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1989 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1990 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1991 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1992 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1997 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1998 switching to that state. With the setting
2000 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2001 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2003 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2006 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2007 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2008 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2009 own function. Configure the new variable
2010 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2011 this development with a patch.
2013 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2014 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2015 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2016 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2017 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2018 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2019 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2021 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2022 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2023 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2024 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2025 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2026 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2027 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2029 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2030 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2033 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2034 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2035 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2036 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2037 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2038 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2039 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2041 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2042 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2043 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2044 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2045 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2046 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2047 match the current org-mode faces.
2049 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2053 ** Incompatible changes
2055 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2059 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2060 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2061 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2063 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2065 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2066 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2067 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2068 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2069 command fall back to cycling.
2071 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2072 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2073 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2074 interface anyway, set the variable
2075 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2076 others for input on this issue.
2078 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2079 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2080 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2082 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2083 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2085 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2086 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2088 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2090 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2091 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2092 `format-time-string', for example:
2094 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2096 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2097 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2098 included) have changed this.
2100 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2101 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2102 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2103 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2104 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2105 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2106 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2112 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2114 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2116 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2118 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2120 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2122 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2124 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2126 ** Incompatible changes
2128 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2129 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2131 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2135 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2136 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2137 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2139 A Here is a configuration example:
2141 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2142 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2143 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2144 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2147 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2148 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2150 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2151 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2152 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2153 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2154 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2155 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2156 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2157 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2158 states, just like you also do for tags.
2160 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2161 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2163 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2164 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2165 switch the entry to that state.
2167 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2168 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2169 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2172 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2174 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2175 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2176 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2177 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2179 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2180 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2182 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2183 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2184 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2185 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2186 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2188 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2189 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2190 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2193 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2194 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2195 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2196 the file will simply be skipped.
2206 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2207 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2208 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2209 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2210 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2211 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2212 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2213 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2216 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2217 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2218 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2219 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2220 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2221 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2222 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2223 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2224 the special locations.
2226 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2229 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2232 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2233 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2234 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2236 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2237 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2238 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2244 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2246 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2248 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2250 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2252 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2254 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2256 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2258 - Global values for selected properties.
2265 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2266 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2267 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2268 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2269 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2270 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2271 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2272 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2274 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2275 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2276 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2277 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2278 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2279 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2280 currently how to handle the new link types for
2283 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2284 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2285 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2286 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2289 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2290 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2291 The syntax is like this
2293 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2295 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2298 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2300 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2301 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2302 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2304 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2307 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2308 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2309 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2310 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2313 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2314 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2315 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2316 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2317 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2318 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2321 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2322 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2323 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2326 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2327 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2328 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2329 `org-global-properties', like this:
2331 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2333 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2335 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2337 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2338 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2339 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2340 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2341 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2342 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2350 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2351 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2352 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2353 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2355 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2356 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2357 this stuff into the drawer.
2358 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2360 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2361 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2363 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2364 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2366 - Lots of minor fixes.
2370 ** Incompatible Changes
2372 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2373 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2374 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2378 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2379 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2380 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2382 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2383 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2384 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2385 know if we need to make this customizable.
2387 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2388 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2389 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2390 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2391 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2393 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2402 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2405 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2406 compute their value from the children's values.
2408 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2409 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2412 ** Incompatible Changes
2414 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2415 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2416 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2417 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2422 - Improvements for properties:
2424 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2425 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2427 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2428 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2429 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2430 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2431 typos when entering properties.
2433 - Improvements for column view.
2435 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2436 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2439 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2440 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2441 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2442 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2445 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2446 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2449 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2450 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2451 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2453 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2454 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2455 beginning of a line. So
2457 : * This is a level 1 headline
2458 : *this is bold text*
2460 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2461 available in orgstruct-mode.
2467 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2468 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2470 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2471 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2472 open if explicitly asked.
2474 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2476 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2477 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2480 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2481 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2484 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2486 ** Incompatible changes
2488 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2489 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2490 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2491 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2492 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2493 that this is the better convention.
2497 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2499 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2500 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2501 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2502 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2503 easily create lists.
2505 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2506 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2507 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2508 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2509 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2510 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2511 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2512 minor modes have assigned to them.
2514 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2515 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2516 the promised implementation.
2520 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2521 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2522 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2523 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2524 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2527 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2529 you can then create drawers like this:
2532 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2533 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2536 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2537 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2539 *** Properties and Column View
2541 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2542 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2543 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2544 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2545 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2546 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2548 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2550 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2551 program using properties, use the functions
2552 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2553 and `org-entry-delete'.
2555 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2558 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2559 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2560 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2561 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2562 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2563 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2565 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2568 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2570 will find entries that
2573 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2574 - are TODO status WAITING.
2576 So here is an entry that will match:
2578 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2583 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2584 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2587 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2589 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2590 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2591 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2592 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2593 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2594 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2595 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2596 can set up different property columns on different levels
2597 of an outline tree. For example:
2601 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2605 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2608 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2610 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2613 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2616 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2617 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2619 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2620 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2621 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2622 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2623 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2624 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2627 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2628 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2630 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2631 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2632 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2633 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2634 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2635 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2637 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2638 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2641 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2643 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2645 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2646 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2647 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2649 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2650 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2651 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2652 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2657 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2658 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2659 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2660 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2661 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2662 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2663 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2666 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2667 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2668 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2669 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2670 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2677 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2679 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2680 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2681 constants can now be set with a line like:
2683 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2687 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2688 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2691 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2693 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2697 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2698 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2699 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2700 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2707 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2708 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2709 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2710 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2712 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2713 See manual section 3.5.3.
2715 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2716 This was a request from Ignotus.
2717 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2719 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2720 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2721 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2725 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2726 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2727 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2728 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2729 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2735 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2736 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2738 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2740 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2742 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2744 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2746 ** Incompatible changes
2748 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2749 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2750 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2751 with the xemacs version. For example:
2753 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2755 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2756 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2757 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2758 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2759 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2763 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2764 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2765 interval on a single day. For example
2767 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2769 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2770 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2771 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2772 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2774 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2777 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2778 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2782 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2784 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2785 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2786 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2787 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2788 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2789 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2790 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2791 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2792 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2793 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2794 stick to the ASCII characters.
2796 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2797 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2798 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2799 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2800 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2802 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2804 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2805 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2806 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2808 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2809 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2810 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2811 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2812 if we can agree on this:
2814 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2815 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2816 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2817 out to a previous level. For example
2825 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2834 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2835 using promotion and demotion functions.
2841 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2842 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2844 ** Incompatible changes
2846 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2850 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2851 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2852 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2853 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2854 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2855 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2856 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2858 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2859 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2860 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2861 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2862 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2863 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2864 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2866 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2867 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2868 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2869 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2870 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2873 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2874 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2875 wherever you want a vertical line:
2877 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2878 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2879 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2881 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2882 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2884 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2885 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2886 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2887 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2888 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2889 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2890 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2891 behavior we had before.
2893 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2895 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2896 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2897 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2898 special characters in other languages as along as your
2899 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2900 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2901 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2907 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2911 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2913 [1]This is a footnote
2915 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2916 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2918 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2920 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2921 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2924 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2930 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2931 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2933 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2934 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2935 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2936 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2938 ** Incompatible Changes
2940 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2941 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2945 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2946 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2948 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2950 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2951 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2952 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2953 collect your credit, let me know!
2955 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2956 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2958 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2959 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2961 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2962 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2963 would in the diary. For example
2965 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2967 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2969 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2970 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2972 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2974 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2975 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2976 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2977 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2978 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2979 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2980 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2981 faster agenda display.
2983 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2984 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2985 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2986 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2987 to Raman for this idea.
2989 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2990 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2991 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2994 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2995 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2996 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3000 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3002 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3003 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3005 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3006 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3007 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3008 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3011 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3012 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3014 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3015 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3016 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3017 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3019 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3020 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3021 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3022 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3024 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3025 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3032 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3033 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3034 further processing in scripts.
3036 ** Incompatible Changes
3038 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3039 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3043 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3044 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3045 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3046 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3049 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3050 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3051 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3052 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3053 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3054 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3055 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3056 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3058 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3059 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3060 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3061 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3063 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3064 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3065 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3067 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3077 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3079 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3081 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3083 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3085 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3087 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3089 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3093 ** Incompatible changes
3095 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3096 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3099 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3100 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3101 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3102 `org-disputed-keys'.
3104 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3105 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3106 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3110 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3111 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3112 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3113 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3114 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3115 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3116 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3117 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3118 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3119 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3120 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3122 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3123 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3124 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3125 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3127 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3128 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3130 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3131 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3132 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3133 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3135 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3136 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3137 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3138 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3139 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3140 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3141 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3142 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3144 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3146 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3147 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3148 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3149 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3150 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3151 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3152 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3155 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3156 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3157 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3158 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3159 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3160 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3163 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3164 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3165 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3166 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3167 indicates a non-stuck project.
3169 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3170 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3171 please let me know if you find problems.
3173 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3174 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3180 ** Incompatible changes
3184 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3185 exported HTML. These are the variables
3186 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3187 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3190 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3191 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3192 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3194 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3195 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3196 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3197 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3198 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3199 that are scanned for the agenda.
3207 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3208 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3209 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3211 ** Incompatible changes
3213 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3217 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3219 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3221 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3223 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3224 list (and which is also works!)
3226 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3227 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3229 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3230 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3231 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3232 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3233 toward using the latter.
3235 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3236 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3237 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3238 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3240 (setq org-todo-keywords
3241 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3242 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3243 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3244 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3247 If your setting has this new structure,
3248 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3249 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3250 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3251 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3253 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3254 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3255 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3256 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3257 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3260 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3261 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3262 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3263 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3264 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3265 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3266 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3268 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3269 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3270 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3271 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3272 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3274 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3275 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3276 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3277 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3278 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3279 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3280 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3281 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3282 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3289 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3291 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3292 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3293 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3294 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3295 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3296 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3299 ** Incompatible changes
3301 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3302 over several lines, like
3305 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3308 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3309 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3310 See below for details.
3312 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3313 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3314 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3315 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3320 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3321 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3324 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3325 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3326 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3328 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3329 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3330 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3331 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3332 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3333 where you want to be.
3335 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3336 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3337 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3340 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3341 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3343 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3344 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3346 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3348 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3349 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3350 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3351 new in-buffer option
3355 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3356 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3357 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3358 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3360 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3361 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3362 can be done by setting the variable
3363 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3365 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3371 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3373 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3374 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3375 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3376 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3377 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3379 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3381 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3382 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3385 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3386 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3387 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3388 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3389 are logging all state changes.
3391 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3396 - Priority handling in the tags view
3397 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3398 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3399 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3400 - C-j does better indentation.
3404 - Priority handling in the tags view
3406 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3407 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3409 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3411 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3412 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3413 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3415 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3417 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3419 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3420 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3421 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3422 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3423 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3424 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3425 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3427 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3430 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3432 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3434 + There is now a menu with commands.
3436 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3437 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3439 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3440 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3442 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3443 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3447 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3448 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3449 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3451 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3452 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3457 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3458 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3459 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3460 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3462 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3463 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3464 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3474 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3475 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3476 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3478 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3479 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3480 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3481 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3482 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3483 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3484 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3486 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3487 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3488 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3490 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3492 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3493 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3495 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3496 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3498 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3499 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3500 levels. For example:
3502 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3504 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3505 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3506 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3509 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3510 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3511 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3512 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3514 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3515 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3524 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3525 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3526 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3527 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3529 ** Detailed description of changes
3531 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3532 any table in any mode.
3534 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3535 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3536 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3537 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3538 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3539 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3541 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3542 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3543 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3544 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3545 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3547 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3548 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3549 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3550 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3551 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3552 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3553 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3556 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3557 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3558 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3559 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3560 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3561 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3562 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3563 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3564 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3565 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3566 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3567 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3569 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3570 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3571 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3572 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3578 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3579 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3580 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3581 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3582 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3584 ** Detailed description of changes
3586 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3587 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3588 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3590 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3592 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3593 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3595 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3597 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3598 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3599 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3601 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3602 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3603 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3605 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3606 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3607 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3609 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3610 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3612 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3614 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3615 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3616 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3617 remember.el work like this as well).
3618 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3619 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3620 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3621 new template, but the old context information. This is
3622 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3625 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3626 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3627 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3628 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3629 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3630 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3631 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3632 without interaction.
3634 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3635 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3636 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3637 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3638 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3639 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3641 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3642 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3643 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3644 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3646 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3647 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3648 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3649 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3650 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3651 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3657 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3658 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3660 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3661 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3662 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3663 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3664 + Incompatible changes
3665 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3666 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3667 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3668 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3669 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3670 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3671 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3675 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3676 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3677 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3678 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3679 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3680 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3681 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3682 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3686 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3687 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3688 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3689 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3690 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3691 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3692 - Empty entries go full circle.
3693 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3698 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3701 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3702 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3703 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3704 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3705 another, dedicated frame.
3706 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3707 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3710 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3711 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3712 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3713 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3714 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3715 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3716 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3717 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3718 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3719 use regular expressions.
3720 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3721 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3722 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3726 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3727 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3728 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3735 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3736 + show status also in target line.
3737 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3738 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3739 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3743 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3744 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3745 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3746 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3750 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3751 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3756 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3757 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3758 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3762 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3763 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3764 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3765 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3766 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3767 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3768 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3769 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3770 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3771 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3772 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3777 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3778 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3779 - File links can contain environment variables.
3780 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3784 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3785 each block created by a different agenda command.
3786 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3787 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3788 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3789 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3790 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3791 upon the agenda type.
3792 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3793 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3794 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3795 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3796 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3797 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3798 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3799 - More minor bug fixes.
3802 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3803 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3804 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3808 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3809 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3810 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3814 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3817 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3818 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3819 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3827 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3828 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3830 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3831 LaTeX environment and math.
3834 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3836 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3837 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3838 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3842 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3843 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3846 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3847 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3848 and will not lead to conflicts.
3849 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3853 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3854 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3855 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3856 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3857 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3858 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3859 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3865 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3866 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3869 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3870 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3871 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3872 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3873 directories for different export types.
3874 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3875 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3882 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3883 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3884 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3885 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3886 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3887 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3888 relative and absolute paths.
3889 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3890 - Bug and typo fixes.
3894 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3895 contains a description or not.
3896 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3897 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3898 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3899 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3900 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3901 for all available exporters.
3902 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3908 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3909 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3910 end of the HTML file.
3911 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3912 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3913 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3914 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3920 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3921 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3922 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3923 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3933 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3934 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3937 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3938 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3939 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3940 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3941 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3942 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3943 - New structure for the customization tree.
3948 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3952 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3953 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3954 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3955 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3956 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3961 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3962 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3963 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3964 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3968 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3969 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3972 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3973 - Various small bug fixes
3976 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3977 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3978 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3979 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3980 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3981 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3982 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3983 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3984 next buffer change due to editing).
3987 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3988 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3989 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3990 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3993 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3994 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3995 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3996 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3997 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3998 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3999 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4000 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4001 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4002 - support for cascading style sheets.
4003 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4004 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4011 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4015 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4018 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4019 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4020 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4021 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4022 and are not linked to the calendar.
4023 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4024 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4025 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4026 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4029 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4030 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4031 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4032 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4033 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4036 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4037 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4038 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4039 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4042 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4043 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4046 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4047 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4048 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4049 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4050 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4051 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4055 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4056 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4057 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4058 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4059 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4060 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4061 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4062 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4063 - Improved html export of tables.
4064 - Various clean-up changes.
4067 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4071 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4072 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4076 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4077 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4081 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4082 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4083 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4086 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4087 - New startup option `content'.
4088 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4089 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4090 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4093 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4094 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4095 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4096 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4097 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4098 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4101 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4102 table shape when typing in fields.
4103 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4104 into arbitrary major modes.
4105 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4106 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4107 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4110 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4111 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4112 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4114 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4115 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4116 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4117 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4118 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4120 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4121 - Sorting fully configurable.
4122 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4123 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4127 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4128 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4129 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4130 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4131 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4132 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4133 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4136 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4137 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4138 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4139 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4140 - Priorities for TODO items.
4141 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4142 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4143 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4148 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4149 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4150 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4151 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4152 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4153 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4154 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4155 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4156 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4157 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4158 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4159 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4160 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4161 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4162 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4165 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4166 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4167 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4168 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4169 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4170 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4171 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4172 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4173 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4174 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4175 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4176 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4179 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4180 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4181 - Date ranges introduced.
4182 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4183 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4184 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4185 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4186 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4187 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4188 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4191 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4192 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4193 - Fully automatic table editor.
4194 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4195 - Other link system changes
4196 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4197 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4198 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4199 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4200 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4201 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4202 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4204 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4205 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4206 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4207 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4208 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4209 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4211 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4215 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4216 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4217 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4218 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4222 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents