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3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of User-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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12 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
14 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
15 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
17 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
19 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
20 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
21 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
23 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
25 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
27 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
31 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
33 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
35 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
37 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
39 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
41 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
43 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
45 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
49 ** Incompatible Changes
51 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
52 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
53 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
57 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
59 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
60 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
62 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
63 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
65 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
66 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
67 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
68 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
69 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
70 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
73 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
74 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
77 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
78 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
79 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
81 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
82 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
83 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
84 variable does select the interface that is used to select
85 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
88 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
90 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
91 path to select a location.
92 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
95 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
96 they are always current.
98 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
99 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
100 special also because it only matches in headline. This
101 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
102 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
103 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
104 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
105 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
107 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
108 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
109 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
110 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
111 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
112 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
118 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
119 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
120 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
121 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
122 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
124 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
125 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
127 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
128 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
130 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
131 headline up to the tags.
132 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
134 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
136 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
137 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
138 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
139 request by Austin Frank.
141 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
142 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
143 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
145 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
146 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
147 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
148 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
150 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
151 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
152 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
153 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
154 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
155 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
156 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
157 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
158 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
159 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
160 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
163 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
164 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
165 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
166 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
174 will file is with the following property
176 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
178 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
179 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
180 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
182 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
183 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
192 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
194 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
196 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
198 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
200 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
202 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
204 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
206 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
208 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
212 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
213 entries in a subtree. For example
215 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
217 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
218 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
219 request by Bernt Hansen.
221 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
222 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
223 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
224 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
225 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
226 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
227 interactively select the filing location (file and
228 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
229 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
230 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
231 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
232 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
234 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
235 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
236 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
237 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
238 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
241 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
242 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
243 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
244 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
245 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
246 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
247 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
250 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
251 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
252 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
255 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
256 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
257 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
258 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
259 explain here, complex.
261 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
262 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
263 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
265 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
266 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
267 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
269 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
281 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
282 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
283 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
284 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
285 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
286 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
287 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
288 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
289 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
290 subtree motion commands.
292 - Plain lists items work the same.
294 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
295 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
296 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
299 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
300 let me know about any problems.
304 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
305 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
306 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
307 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
308 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
310 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
311 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
312 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
313 history variable. For example:
315 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
317 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
318 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
319 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
320 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
321 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
322 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
323 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
326 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
327 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
328 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
329 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
333 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
334 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
337 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
338 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
339 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
340 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
341 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
342 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
348 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
350 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
351 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
352 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
353 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
354 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
355 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
356 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
357 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
360 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
361 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
362 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
363 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
365 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
366 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
367 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
368 and then watch it change in various scopes.
370 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
371 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
372 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
373 select a new restriction.
375 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
377 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
379 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
381 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
382 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
384 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
385 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
386 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
389 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
390 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
391 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
393 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
394 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
395 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
396 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
397 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
403 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
404 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
405 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
407 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
408 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
409 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
418 + Remember and related stuff
419 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
420 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
421 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
422 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
424 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
425 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
426 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
427 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
428 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
429 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
430 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
432 + Properties and Column view
433 - More control over which properties use inheritance
434 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
435 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
436 - New currency summary type {$}
438 + The date/time prompt
439 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
440 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
441 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
444 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
445 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
448 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
451 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
452 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
453 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
454 - Support for pabbrev-mode
455 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
457 ** Incompatible changes
459 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
460 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
461 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
463 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
464 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
467 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
471 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
472 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
474 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
476 : (org-remember nil ?n))
478 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
479 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
483 *** Remember and related stuff
485 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
486 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
487 application might be to put a note or task captured with
488 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
489 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
490 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
491 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
492 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
493 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
494 definitions. For example:
496 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
498 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
501 : (setq org-refile-targets
502 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
504 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
505 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
506 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
507 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
510 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
511 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
513 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
514 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
515 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
516 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
517 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
519 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
520 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
522 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
524 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
525 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
528 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
530 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
531 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
532 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
535 : (require 'remember)
536 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
537 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
538 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
540 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
541 provide a default for templates without a file, and
542 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
544 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
546 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
548 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
550 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
551 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
552 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
553 the default in Org-mode.
555 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
556 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
557 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
558 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
560 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
561 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
562 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
563 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
564 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
566 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
567 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
568 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
569 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
572 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
573 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
574 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
575 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
576 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
578 *** Properties and Column view
580 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
581 property names that should be treated with inheritance
584 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
585 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
586 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
587 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
588 discussion around this issue.
590 - Summary type improvements in column view.
591 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
592 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
593 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
594 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
595 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
596 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
597 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
599 *** The date/time prompt
601 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
604 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
605 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
606 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
607 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
608 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
610 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
611 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
612 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
613 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
614 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
615 entered month is before the current, for example if you
616 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
617 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
618 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
620 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
621 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
622 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
623 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
624 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
626 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
628 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
629 list of newly performed conversions:
631 | Org | Description | HTML |
632 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
633 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
634 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
635 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
636 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
638 You can turn this globally on or off with
639 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
640 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
641 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
642 William Henney for relevant inputs.
644 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
645 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
649 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
650 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
651 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
652 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
653 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
654 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
656 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
658 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
659 export by setting it either globally
660 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
661 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
662 the list of available classes and their sectioning
663 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
664 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
667 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
668 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
669 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
671 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
672 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
674 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
675 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
678 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
679 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
680 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
687 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
688 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
689 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
691 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
692 the values of constants and properties are no longer
693 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
694 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
695 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
697 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
698 with extension matched by the new variable
699 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
708 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
709 + All known bugs fixed.
710 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
711 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
712 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
714 - The agenda dispatcher
715 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
716 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
718 - Sorting improvements
719 + User-defined sorting keys.
720 + Sorting by properties.
721 + Sorting of plain lists.
723 - HTML <div> structure
726 + New variables, several of them.
727 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
728 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
729 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
730 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
734 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
736 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
737 (at least I hope so...).
739 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
740 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
742 + global, i.e. for the entire file
743 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
744 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
746 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
747 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
748 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
752 : :ID: planning-overview
758 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
762 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
763 be prompted for the ID.
765 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
766 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
767 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
768 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
769 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
772 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
774 *** The agenda dispatcher
776 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
777 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
778 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
779 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
780 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
781 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
782 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
783 them to custom commands.
785 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
786 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
787 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
788 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
790 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
791 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
792 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
793 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
794 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
796 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
797 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
800 *** Sorting improvements
802 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
803 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
805 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
806 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
808 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
811 - Plain lists can be sorted.
813 *** HTML <div> structure
815 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
817 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
820 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
821 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
823 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
824 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
826 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
827 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
829 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
830 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
834 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
835 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
836 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
839 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
841 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
843 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
844 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
845 your properties will not be folded away.
846 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
848 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
849 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
850 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
852 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
853 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
854 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
855 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
856 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
858 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
859 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
860 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
861 a proposal by Bastien.
863 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
864 request by Wanrong Lin.
866 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
867 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
868 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
874 - Remember templates can now have name.
875 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
876 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
877 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
878 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
879 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
880 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
881 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
882 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
883 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
884 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
886 ** Incompatible Changes
888 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
892 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
893 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
894 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
895 the name start with the selection character, for example if
896 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
897 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
899 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
900 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
901 change). Thanks to Bastien.
903 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
904 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
906 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
907 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
908 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
909 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
911 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
912 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
913 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
915 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
916 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
917 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
920 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
921 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
922 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
923 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
924 with full completion support.
926 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
927 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
928 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
930 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
931 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
934 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
935 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
936 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
937 well tested yet, please check it out.
945 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
946 - Command to jump to the running clock
947 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
948 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
949 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
950 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
951 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
952 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
953 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
954 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
955 - Better tag alignment in agenda
957 ** Incompatible changes
959 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
960 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
962 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
963 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
964 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
966 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
967 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
970 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
975 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
976 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
979 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
982 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
985 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
986 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
987 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
988 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
989 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
991 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
992 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
993 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
994 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
996 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
997 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
998 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
999 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1000 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1001 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1002 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1003 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1004 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1006 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1007 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1008 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1009 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1010 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1011 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1012 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1013 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1014 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1016 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1017 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1018 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1019 being prompted for a template, like this:
1021 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1023 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1025 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1026 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1027 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1028 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1030 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1031 (also `s' does this).
1033 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1034 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1037 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1038 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1039 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1041 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1042 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1043 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1045 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1046 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1047 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1048 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1056 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1057 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1058 - CSV support when importing a table.
1059 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1060 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1061 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1062 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1063 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1064 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1069 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1070 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1073 : * Tree with special properties
1075 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1076 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1079 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1080 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1081 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1082 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1083 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1084 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1085 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1086 encourage you to stop using them.
1088 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1089 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1090 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1091 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1095 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1096 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1097 | file | the full current buffer |
1098 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1099 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1100 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1101 | agenda | all agenda files |
1103 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1104 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1105 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1106 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1109 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1110 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1111 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1112 basic input it works.
1114 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1115 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1116 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1117 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1119 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1120 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1123 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1124 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1126 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1128 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1129 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1130 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1131 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1132 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1134 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1135 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1136 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1137 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1138 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1141 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1142 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1143 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1144 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1145 the children has that particular property defined, the
1146 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1147 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1148 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1149 is a better way of doing things.
1151 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1152 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1153 testing is appreciated.
1155 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1156 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1157 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1158 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1160 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1161 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1162 links in square or angular brackets.
1170 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1173 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1174 agenda can be configured.
1176 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1178 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1180 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1182 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1184 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1185 inherited from the outline faces.
1187 ** Incompatible Changes
1189 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1190 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1191 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1192 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1193 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1198 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1199 switching to that state. With the setting
1201 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1202 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1204 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1207 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1208 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1209 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1210 own function. Configure the new variable
1211 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1212 this development with a patch.
1214 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1215 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1216 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1217 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1218 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1219 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1220 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1222 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1223 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1224 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1225 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1226 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1227 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1228 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1230 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1231 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1234 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1235 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1236 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1237 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1238 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1239 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1240 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1242 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1243 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1244 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1245 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1246 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1247 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1248 match the current org-mode faces.
1250 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1254 ** Incompatible changes
1256 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1260 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1261 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1262 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1264 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1266 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1267 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1268 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1269 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1270 command fall back to cycling.
1272 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1273 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1274 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1275 interface anyway, set the variable
1276 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1277 others for input on this issue.
1279 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1280 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1281 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1283 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1284 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1286 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1287 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
1289 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
1291 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
1292 use a format string that will be interpreted by
1293 `format-time-string', for example:
1295 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
1297 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
1298 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
1299 included) have changed this.
1301 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
1302 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
1303 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
1304 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
1305 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
1306 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
1307 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
1313 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
1315 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
1317 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
1319 - Sorting can be done by priority.
1321 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
1323 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1325 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
1327 ** Incompatible changes
1329 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
1330 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
1332 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1336 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
1337 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
1338 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
1340 A Here is a configuration example:
1342 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
1343 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
1344 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
1345 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
1348 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
1349 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
1351 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
1352 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
1353 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
1354 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
1355 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
1356 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
1357 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
1358 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
1359 states, just like you also do for tags.
1361 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
1362 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
1364 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
1365 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
1366 switch the entry to that state.
1368 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
1369 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
1370 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
1373 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
1375 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
1376 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
1377 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
1378 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
1380 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
1381 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
1383 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
1384 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
1385 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
1386 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
1387 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
1389 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
1390 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
1391 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
1394 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
1395 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
1396 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
1397 the file will simply be skipped.
1407 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
1408 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
1409 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
1410 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
1411 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
1412 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
1413 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
1414 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
1417 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
1418 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
1419 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
1420 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
1421 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
1422 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
1423 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
1424 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
1425 the special locations.
1427 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
1430 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
1433 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
1434 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
1435 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
1437 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
1438 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
1439 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
1445 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
1447 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
1449 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
1451 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
1453 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
1455 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
1457 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
1459 - Global values for selected properties.
1466 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
1467 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
1468 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
1469 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
1470 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
1471 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
1472 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
1473 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
1475 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
1476 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
1477 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
1478 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
1479 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
1480 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
1481 currently how to handle the new link types for
1484 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
1485 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
1486 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
1487 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
1490 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
1491 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
1492 The syntax is like this
1494 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
1496 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
1499 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
1501 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
1502 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
1503 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
1505 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
1508 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
1509 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
1510 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
1511 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
1514 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
1515 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
1516 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
1517 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
1518 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
1519 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
1522 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
1523 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
1524 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
1527 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
1528 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
1529 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
1530 `org-global-properties', like this:
1532 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
1534 Buffer-local values are set like this:
1536 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
1538 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
1539 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
1540 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
1541 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
1542 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
1543 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
1551 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
1552 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
1553 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
1554 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
1556 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
1557 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
1558 this stuff into the drawer.
1559 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1561 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
1562 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
1564 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
1565 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
1567 - Lots of minor fixes.
1571 ** Incompatible Changes
1573 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
1574 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
1575 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
1579 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
1580 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
1581 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
1583 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
1584 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
1585 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
1586 know if we need to make this customizable.
1588 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
1589 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
1590 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
1591 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
1592 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
1594 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
1603 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
1606 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
1607 compute their value from the children's values.
1609 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
1610 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
1613 ** Incompatible Changes
1615 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
1616 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
1617 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
1618 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
1623 - Improvements for properties:
1625 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
1626 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
1628 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
1629 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
1630 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
1631 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
1632 typos when entering properties.
1634 - Improvements for column view.
1636 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
1637 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
1640 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
1641 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
1642 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
1643 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
1646 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
1647 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
1650 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
1651 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
1652 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
1654 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
1655 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
1656 beginning of a line. So
1658 : * This is a level 1 headline
1659 : *this is bold text*
1661 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
1662 available in orgstruct-mode.
1668 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
1669 structure editing commands into any other mode.
1671 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
1672 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
1673 open if explicitly asked.
1675 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
1677 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
1678 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
1681 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
1682 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
1685 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
1687 ** Incompatible changes
1689 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
1690 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
1691 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
1692 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
1693 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
1694 that this is the better convention.
1698 *** Orgstruct minor mode
1700 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
1701 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
1702 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
1703 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
1704 easily create lists.
1706 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
1707 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
1708 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
1709 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
1710 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
1711 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
1712 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
1713 minor modes have assigned to them.
1715 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
1716 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
1717 the promised implementation.
1721 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
1722 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
1723 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
1724 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
1725 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
1728 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
1730 you can then create drawers like this:
1733 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
1734 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
1737 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
1738 contains properties of an entry (see below).
1740 *** Properties and Column View
1742 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
1743 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
1744 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
1745 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
1746 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
1747 a property drawer and inserting a line like
1749 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
1751 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
1752 program using properties, use the functions
1753 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
1754 and `org-entry-delete'.
1756 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
1759 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
1760 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
1761 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
1762 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
1763 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
1764 after the headline, outside the drawer.
1766 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
1769 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
1771 will find entries that
1774 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
1775 - are TODO status WAITING.
1777 So here is an entry that will match:
1779 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
1784 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
1785 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
1788 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
1790 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
1791 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
1792 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
1793 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
1794 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
1795 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
1796 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
1797 can set up different property columns on different levels
1798 of an outline tree. For example:
1802 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
1806 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
1809 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
1811 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
1814 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
1817 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
1818 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
1820 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
1821 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
1822 will get a different table than if you do it in the
1823 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
1824 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
1825 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
1828 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
1829 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
1831 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
1832 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
1833 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
1834 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
1835 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
1836 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
1838 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
1839 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
1842 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
1844 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
1846 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
1847 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
1848 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
1850 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
1851 Any suggestions for better defaults?
1852 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
1853 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
1858 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
1859 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
1860 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
1861 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
1862 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
1863 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
1864 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
1867 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
1868 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
1869 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
1870 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
1871 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
1878 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
1880 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
1881 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
1882 constants can now be set with a line like:
1884 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
1888 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
1889 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
1892 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
1894 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
1898 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
1899 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
1900 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
1901 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
1908 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
1909 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
1910 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
1911 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
1913 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
1914 See manual section 3.5.3.
1916 - New options for turning off footnotes.
1917 This was a request from Ignotus.
1918 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
1920 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
1921 default. This was a request from Micheal.
1922 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
1926 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
1927 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
1928 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
1929 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
1930 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
1936 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
1937 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
1939 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
1941 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
1943 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
1945 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
1947 ** Incompatible changes
1949 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
1950 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
1951 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
1952 with the xemacs version. For example:
1954 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
1956 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
1957 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
1958 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
1959 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
1960 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
1964 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
1965 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
1966 interval on a single day. For example
1968 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
1970 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
1971 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
1972 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
1973 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
1975 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
1978 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
1979 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
1983 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
1985 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
1986 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
1987 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
1988 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
1989 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
1990 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
1991 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
1992 using localization features may not work correctly in the
1993 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
1994 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
1995 stick to the ASCII characters.
1997 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
1998 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
1999 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2000 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2001 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2003 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2005 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2006 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2007 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2009 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2010 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2011 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2012 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2013 if we can agree on this:
2015 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2016 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2017 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2018 out to a previous level. For example
2026 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2035 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2036 using promotion and demotion functions.
2042 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2043 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2045 ** Incompatible changes
2047 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2051 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2052 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2053 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2054 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2055 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2056 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2057 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2059 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2060 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2061 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2062 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2063 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2064 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2065 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2067 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2068 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2069 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2070 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2071 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2074 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2075 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2076 wherever you want a vertical line:
2078 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2079 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2080 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2082 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2083 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2085 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2086 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2087 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2088 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2089 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2090 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2091 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2092 behavior we had before.
2094 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2096 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2097 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2098 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2099 special characters in other languages as along as your
2100 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2101 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2102 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2108 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2112 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2114 [1]This is a footnote
2116 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2117 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2119 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2121 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2122 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2125 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2131 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2132 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2134 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2135 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2136 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2137 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2139 ** Incompatible Changes
2141 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2142 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2146 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2147 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2149 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2151 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2152 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2153 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2154 collect your credit, let me know!
2156 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2157 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2159 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2160 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2162 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2163 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2164 would in the diary. For example
2166 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2168 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2170 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2171 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2173 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2175 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2176 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2177 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2178 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2179 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2180 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2181 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2182 faster agenda display.
2184 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2185 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2186 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2187 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2188 to Raman for this idea.
2190 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2191 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2192 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2195 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2196 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2197 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2201 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2203 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2204 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2206 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2207 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2208 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2209 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2212 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2213 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2215 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2216 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2217 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2218 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2220 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2221 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2222 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2223 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2225 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2226 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2233 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2234 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2235 further processing in scripts.
2237 ** Incompatible Changes
2239 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2240 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2244 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2245 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2246 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2247 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2250 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2251 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2252 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2253 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2254 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2255 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2256 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2257 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2259 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2260 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2261 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2262 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2264 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2265 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2266 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2268 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2278 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2280 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2282 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2284 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2286 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
2288 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
2290 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
2294 ** Incompatible changes
2296 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
2297 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
2300 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
2301 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
2302 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
2303 `org-disputed-keys'.
2305 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
2306 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
2307 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
2311 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
2312 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
2313 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
2314 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
2315 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
2316 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
2317 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
2318 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
2319 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
2320 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
2321 Scott fro bringing this up again.
2323 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
2324 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
2325 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
2326 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
2328 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
2329 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
2331 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
2332 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
2333 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
2334 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
2336 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
2337 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
2338 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
2339 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
2340 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
2341 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
2342 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
2343 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
2345 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
2347 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
2348 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
2349 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
2350 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
2351 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
2352 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
2353 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
2356 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
2357 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
2358 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
2359 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
2360 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
2361 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
2364 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
2365 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
2366 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
2367 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
2368 indicates a non-stuck project.
2370 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
2371 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
2372 please let me know if you find problems.
2374 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
2375 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
2381 ** Incompatible changes
2385 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
2386 exported HTML. These are the variables
2387 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
2388 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
2391 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
2392 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
2393 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
2395 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
2396 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
2397 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
2398 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
2399 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
2400 that are scanned for the agenda.
2408 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
2409 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
2410 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
2412 ** Incompatible changes
2414 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
2418 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
2420 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
2422 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
2424 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
2425 list (and which is also works!)
2427 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
2428 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
2430 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
2431 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
2432 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
2433 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
2434 toward using the latter.
2436 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
2437 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
2438 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
2439 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
2441 (setq org-todo-keywords
2442 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
2443 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
2444 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
2445 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
2448 If your setting has this new structure,
2449 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
2450 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
2451 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
2452 interpretation from the other variable still works.
2454 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
2455 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
2456 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
2457 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
2458 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
2461 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
2462 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
2463 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
2464 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
2465 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
2466 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
2467 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
2469 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
2470 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
2471 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
2472 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
2473 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
2475 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
2476 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
2477 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
2478 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
2479 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
2480 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
2481 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
2482 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
2483 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
2490 This time the changes affect the following areas:
2492 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
2493 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
2494 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
2495 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
2496 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
2497 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
2500 ** Incompatible changes
2502 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
2503 over several lines, like
2506 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
2509 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
2510 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
2511 See below for details.
2513 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
2514 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
2515 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
2516 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
2521 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
2522 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
2525 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
2526 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
2527 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
2529 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
2530 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
2531 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
2532 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
2533 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
2534 where you want to be.
2536 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
2537 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
2538 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
2541 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
2542 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
2544 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
2545 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
2547 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
2549 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
2550 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
2551 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
2552 new in-buffer option
2556 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
2557 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
2558 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
2559 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
2561 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
2562 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
2563 can be done by setting the variable
2564 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
2566 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
2572 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
2574 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
2575 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
2576 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
2577 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
2578 terminate all levels of plain list items.
2580 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
2582 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
2583 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
2586 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
2587 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
2588 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
2589 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
2590 are logging all state changes.
2592 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
2597 - Priority handling in the tags view
2598 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
2599 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
2600 - Improvements to the formula editor.
2601 - C-j does better indentation.
2605 - Priority handling in the tags view
2607 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
2608 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
2610 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
2612 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
2613 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
2614 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
2616 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
2618 - Changes in the spreadsheet
2620 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
2621 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
2622 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
2623 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
2624 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
2625 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
2626 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
2628 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
2631 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
2633 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
2635 + There is now a menu with commands.
2637 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
2638 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
2640 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
2641 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
2643 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
2644 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
2648 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
2649 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
2650 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
2652 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
2653 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
2658 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
2659 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
2660 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
2661 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
2663 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
2664 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
2665 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
2675 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
2676 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
2677 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
2679 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
2680 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
2681 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
2682 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
2683 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
2684 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
2685 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
2687 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
2688 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
2689 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
2691 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
2693 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
2694 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
2696 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
2697 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
2699 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
2700 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
2701 levels. For example:
2703 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
2705 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
2706 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
2707 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
2710 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
2711 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
2712 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
2713 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
2715 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
2716 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
2725 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
2726 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
2727 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
2728 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
2730 ** Detailed description of changes
2732 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
2733 any table in any mode.
2735 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
2736 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
2737 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
2738 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
2739 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
2740 inside the same file, in a block comment.
2742 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
2743 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
2744 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
2745 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
2746 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
2748 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
2749 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
2750 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
2751 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
2752 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
2753 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
2754 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
2757 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
2758 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
2759 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
2760 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
2761 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
2762 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
2763 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
2764 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
2765 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
2766 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
2767 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
2768 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
2770 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
2771 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
2772 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
2773 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
2779 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
2780 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
2781 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
2782 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
2783 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
2785 ** Detailed description of changes
2787 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
2788 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
2789 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
2791 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
2793 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
2794 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
2796 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
2798 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
2799 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
2800 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
2802 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
2803 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
2804 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
2806 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
2807 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
2808 to Raman for this excellent idea.
2810 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
2811 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
2813 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
2815 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
2816 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
2817 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
2818 remember.el work like this as well).
2819 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
2820 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
2821 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
2822 new template, but the old context information. This is
2823 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
2826 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
2827 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
2828 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
2829 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
2830 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
2831 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
2832 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
2833 without interaction.
2835 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
2836 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
2837 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
2838 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
2839 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
2840 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
2842 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
2843 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
2844 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
2845 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
2847 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
2848 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
2849 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
2850 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
2851 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
2852 them would require special hooks. Comments?
2858 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
2859 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
2861 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
2862 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
2863 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
2864 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
2865 + Incompatible changes
2866 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
2867 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
2868 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
2869 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
2870 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
2871 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
2872 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
2876 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
2877 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
2878 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
2879 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
2880 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
2881 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
2882 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
2883 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
2887 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
2888 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
2889 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
2890 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
2891 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
2892 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
2893 - Empty entries go full circle.
2894 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
2899 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
2902 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
2903 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
2904 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
2905 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
2906 another, dedicated frame.
2907 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
2908 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
2911 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
2912 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
2913 - Changes in Agenda buffer
2914 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
2915 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
2916 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
2917 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
2918 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
2919 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
2920 use regular expressions.
2921 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
2922 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
2923 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
2927 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
2928 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
2929 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
2936 - Improvements to fast tag selection
2937 + show status also in target line.
2938 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
2939 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
2940 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
2944 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
2945 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
2946 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
2947 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
2951 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
2952 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
2957 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
2958 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
2959 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
2963 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
2964 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
2965 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
2966 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
2967 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
2968 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
2969 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
2970 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
2971 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
2972 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
2973 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
2978 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
2979 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
2980 - File links can contain environment variables.
2981 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
2985 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
2986 each block created by a different agenda command.
2987 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
2988 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
2989 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
2990 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
2991 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
2992 upon the agenda type.
2993 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
2994 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
2995 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
2996 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
2997 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
2998 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
2999 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3000 - More minor bug fixes.
3003 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3004 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3005 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3009 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3010 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3011 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3015 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3018 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3019 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3020 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3028 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3029 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3031 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3032 LaTeX environment and math.
3035 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3037 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3038 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3039 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3043 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3044 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3047 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3048 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3049 and will not lead to conflicts.
3050 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3054 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3055 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3056 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3057 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3058 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3059 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3060 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3066 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3067 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3070 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3071 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3072 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3073 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3074 directories for different export types.
3075 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3076 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3083 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3084 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3085 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3086 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3087 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3088 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3089 relative and absolute paths.
3090 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3091 - Bug and typo fixes.
3095 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3096 contains a description or not.
3097 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3098 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3099 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3100 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3101 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3102 for all available exporters.
3103 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3109 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3110 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3111 end of the HTML file.
3112 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3113 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3114 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3115 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3121 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3122 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3123 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3124 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3134 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3135 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3138 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3139 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3140 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3141 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3142 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3143 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3144 - New structure for the customization tree.
3149 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3153 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3154 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3155 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3156 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3157 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3162 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3163 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3164 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3165 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3169 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3170 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3173 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3174 - Various small bug fixes
3177 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3178 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3179 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3180 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3181 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3182 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3183 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3184 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3185 next buffer change due to editing).
3188 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3189 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3190 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3191 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3194 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3195 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3196 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3197 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3198 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3199 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3200 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3201 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3202 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3203 - support for cascading style sheets.
3204 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3205 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3212 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3216 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3219 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3220 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3221 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3222 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3223 and are not linked to the calendar.
3224 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3225 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3226 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3227 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3230 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3231 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3232 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3233 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3234 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3237 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3238 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3239 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3240 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3243 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3244 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3247 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3248 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3249 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3250 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3251 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3252 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3256 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3257 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3258 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3259 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3260 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3261 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3262 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3263 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3264 - Improved html export of tables.
3265 - Various clean-up changes.
3268 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3272 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3273 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3277 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3278 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3282 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3283 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3284 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3287 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
3288 - New startup option `content'.
3289 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
3290 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
3291 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
3294 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
3295 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
3296 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
3297 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
3298 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
3299 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
3302 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
3303 table shape when typing in fields.
3304 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
3305 into arbitrary major modes.
3306 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
3307 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
3308 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
3311 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
3312 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
3313 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
3315 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
3316 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
3317 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
3318 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
3319 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
3321 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
3322 - Sorting fully configurable.
3323 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
3324 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
3328 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
3329 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
3330 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
3331 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
3332 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
3333 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
3334 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
3337 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
3338 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
3339 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
3340 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
3341 - Priorities for TODO items.
3342 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
3343 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
3344 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
3349 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
3350 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
3351 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
3352 `org-todo-interpretation'.
3353 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
3354 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
3355 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
3356 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
3357 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
3358 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
3359 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
3360 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
3361 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
3362 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
3363 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
3366 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
3367 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
3368 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
3369 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
3370 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
3371 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
3372 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
3373 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
3374 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
3375 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
3376 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
3377 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
3380 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
3381 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
3382 - Date ranges introduced.
3383 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
3384 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
3385 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
3386 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
3387 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
3388 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
3389 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
3392 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
3393 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
3394 - Fully automatic table editor.
3395 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
3396 - Other link system changes
3397 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
3398 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
3399 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
3400 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
3401 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
3402 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
3403 Please re-read the manual section about links.
3405 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
3406 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
3407 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
3408 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
3409 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
3410 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
3412 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
3416 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
3417 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
3418 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
3419 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
3423 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents