1 # -*- mode: org; fill-column: 65 -*-
5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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11 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
13 * Version 6.17 (in preparation)
17 *** Built-in footnote support
19 Org-mode now supports the creation of footnotes. In contrast to the
20 `footnote.el' package, Org-mode's footnotes are designed for work on a
21 larger document, not only for one-off documents like emails. The basic
22 syntax is similar to the one used by `footnote.el', i.e. a footnote is
23 defined in a paragraph that is started by a footnote marker in square
24 brackets in column 0, no indentation allowed. The footnote
25 reference is simply the marker in square brackets inside text.
29 The Org homepage[1] now looks a lot better than it used to.
31 [1] The link is: http://orgmode.org
34 Org-mode extends the number-based syntax to _named_ footnotes and
35 optional inline definition. Using numbers as markers is supported for
36 backward compatibility. Here are the valid references:
38 - [1] :: A numeric footnote marker.
40 - [fn:name] :: A named footnote reference, where `name' is a
43 - [fn:: This is the inline definition of this footnote] ::
44 A LaTeX-like anonymous footnote where the definition is given
45 directly at the reference point.
47 - [fn:name: a definition] ::
48 An inline definition of a footnote, which also specifies a name
49 for the note. Since Org allows multiple references to the same
50 note, you can then use use `[fn:name]' to create additional
53 The following command handles footnotes:
56 The footnote action command. When the cursor is on a footnote
57 reference, jump to the definition. When it is at a definition,
58 jump to the (first) reference. Otherwise, create a new footnote.
59 Depending on the variable `org-footnote-define-inline' (with
60 associated #+STARTUP options fninline and nofninline), the
61 definitions will be placed locally, or into the nearest outline
62 section with the heading `Footnotes'. If no such section is found
63 after the reference point, one will be created at the end of the
65 When this command is called with a prefix argument, a menu of
66 additional options is offered:
67 - s :: Sort the footnote definitions by reference sequence.
68 During editing, Org makes no effort to sort
69 footnote definitions into a particular sequence.
70 If you want them sorted, use this command.
71 - n :: Normalize the footnotes by collecting all
72 definitions (including inline definitions) into a
73 special section, and then numbering them in
74 sequence. The references will then also be
75 numbers. This is meant to be the final step before
76 finishing a document (e.g. sending off an email).
77 The exporters do this automatically, and so could
78 something like `message-send-hook'.
79 - d :: Delete the footnote at point, and all references to it.
82 If the cursor is on a footnote reference, jump to the definition.
83 If it is a the definition, jump back to the reference. When
84 called with a prefix argument at either location, offer the
85 same menu as `C-u C-c C-x f'.
87 Org-mode's footnote support is designed so that it should also
88 work in buffers that are not in Org-mode, for example in email
89 messages. Just bind =org-footnote-action= to a global key like
92 The main trigger for this development came from a hook function
93 written by Paul Rivier, to implement named footnotes and to
94 convert them to numbered ones before export. Thanks, Paul!
96 *** Line numbers and references in literal examples
98 Literal examples introduced with =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= or =#+BEGIN_SRC=
99 do now allow optional line numbering in the example.
100 Furthermore, links to specific code lines are supported, greatly
101 increasing Org-mode utility for writing tutorials and other
104 Code references use special labels embedded directly into the
105 source code. Such labels look like "((name))" and must be unique
106 within a document. Org-mode links with the coderef cookie in the
107 link part will be correctly interpreted, both while working with
108 an Org file (internal links), and while exporting to the
109 different backends. Line numbering and code references are
110 supported for all three major backends, HTML, LaTeX, and ASCII.
111 In the HTML backend, hovering the mouse over a link to a source
112 line will remote-highlight the referenced code line.
114 The options for the BEGIN lines are:
116 - -n :: Number the lines in the example
117 - +n :: Like -n, but continue numbering from where the previous
119 - -r :: Remove the coderef cookies from the example, and replace
120 links to this reference with line numbers. This option
121 takes only effect if either -n or +n are given as well.
122 If -r is not given, coderefs simply use the label name.
127 #+begin_src emacs-lisp -n -r
128 (defmacro org-unmodified (&rest body) ((def))
129 "Execute body without changing `buffer-modified-p'."
130 `(set-buffer-modified-p ((back))
131 (prog1 (buffer-modified-p) ,@body)))
133 [[((def))][Line ((def))]] contains the macro name. Later at line [[((back))]],
137 When exported, this is translated to:
138 #+begin_src emacs-lisp -n -r
139 (defmacro org-unmodified (&rest body) ((def))
140 "Execute body without changing `buffer-modified-p'."
141 `(set-buffer-modified-p ((back))
142 (prog1 (buffer-modified-p) ,@body)))
144 [[((def))][Line ((def))]] contains the macro name. Later at line [[((back))]],
147 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for proposing this feature set. Thanks
148 to Sebastian Rose for the key Javascript element that made the
149 remote highlighting possible.
151 *** New hooks for export preprocessing
152 The export preprocessor now runs more hooks, to allow
153 better-timed tweaking by user functions:
155 - =org-export-preprocess-hook= ::
156 Pretty much the first thing in the preprocessor. But org-mode
157 is already active in the preprocessing buffer.
159 - =org-export-preprocess-after-include-files-hook= ::
160 This is run after the contents of included files have been inserted.
162 - =org-export-preprocess-after-tree-selection-hook= ::
163 This is run after selection of trees to be exported has
164 happened. This selection includes tags-based selection, as
165 well as removal of commented and archived trees.
167 - =org-export-preprocess-before-backend-specifics-hook= ::
168 Hook run before backend-specific functions are called during preprocessing.
170 - =org-export-preprocess-final-hook= ::
171 Hook for preprocessing an export buffer. This is run as the
172 last thing in the preprocessing buffer, just before returning
173 the buffer string to the backend.
175 *** Capture column view into a different file.
177 The :id parameter for the dynamic block capturing column view
178 can now truly be an ID that will also be found in a
179 different file. Also, it can be like =file:path/to/file=, to
180 capture the global column view from a different file.
182 Thanks to Francois Lagarde for his report that IDs outside
183 the current file would not work.
189 Cleanup of many small bugs, and one new feature.
193 *** References to last table row with special names
195 Fields in the last row of a table can now be referenced with
196 $LR1, $LR2, etc. These references can appear both on the
197 left hand side and right hand side of a formula.
201 This version reverses the introduction of @0 as a reference to
202 the last rwo in a table, because of a conflict with the use of
203 @0 for the current row.
208 - All known LaTeX export issues fixed
209 - Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
210 - Better implementation for entry IDs
211 - Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
212 - Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
214 ** Incompatible changes
215 *** Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
217 There used to be a syntax for setting link attributes for
218 HTML export by enclosing the attributes into double braces
219 and adding them to the link itself, like
222 [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="an image"}}] ]
225 This syntax is not longer supported, use instead
228 ,#+ATTR_HTML: alt="an image"
234 *** All known LaTeX export issues fixed
236 All the remaining issues with the LaTeX exporter have hopefully
237 been addressed in this release. In particular, this covers
238 quoting of special characters in tables and problems with
239 exporting files where the headline is in the first line, or with
242 *** Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
244 Tables, and Hyperlinks that represent inlined images, can now be
245 equipped with additional information that will be used during
246 export. The information will be taken from the following special
247 lines in the buffer and apply to the first following table or
250 - #+CAPTION: :: The caption of the image or table. This string
251 should be processed according to the export backend, but
252 this is not yet done.
254 - #+LABEL: :: A label to identify the figure/table for cross
255 references. For HTML export, this string will become the
256 ID for the ~<div class="figure">~ element that encapsulates
257 the image tag and the caption. For LaTeX export, this
258 string will be used as the argument of a ~\label{...}~
259 macro. These labels will be available for internal links
260 like ~[[label][Table] ]~.
262 - #+ATTR_HTML: :: Attributes for HTML export of image, to be
263 added as attributes into the ~<img...>~ tag. This string
264 will not be processed, so it should have immediately the
267 - #+ATTR_LaTeX: :: Attributes for LaTeX export of images and
269 For /images/, this string is directly inserted into
270 the optional argument of the ~\includegraphics[...]{file}~
271 command, to specify scaling, clipping and other options.
272 This string will not be processed, so it should have
273 immediately the right format, like =width=5cm,angle=90=.\\
274 For /tables/, this can currently contain the keyword
275 =longtable=, to request typesetting of the table using the
276 longtable package, which automatically distributes the table
277 over several pages if needed. Also, the attributes line may
278 contain an alignment string for the tabular environment, like
279 =longtable,align=l|lrl=
281 For LaTeX export, if either a caption or a label is given, the element
282 will be exported as a float, i.e. wrapped into a figure or table
285 *** Better implementation for entry IDs
287 Unique identifiers for entries can now be used more efficiently.
288 Internally, a hash array has replaced the alist used so far to
289 keep track of the files in which an ID is defined. This makes it
290 quite fast to find an entry by ID.
292 There is a new link type which looks like this:
295 id:GLOBALLY-UNIQUE-IDENTIFIER
298 This link points to a specific entry. When you move the entry to
299 a different file, for example if you move it to an archive
300 file, the link will continue to work.
302 The file /org-id.el/ contains an API that can be used to write
303 code using these identifiers, including creating IDs and finding
304 them wherever they are.
306 Org has its own method to create unique identifiers, but if the system
307 has /uuidgen/ command installed (Mac's and Linux systems generally
308 do), it will be used by default (a change compared to the earlier
309 implmentation, where you explicitdly had to opt for uuidgen). You can
310 also select the method by hand, using the variable =org-id-method=.
312 If the ID system ever gets confused about where a certain ID is, it
313 initiates a global scan of all agenda files with associated archives,
314 all files previously known containing any IDs, and all currently
315 visited Org-mode files to rebuild the hash. You can also initiate
316 this by hand: =M-x org-id-update-id-locations=. Running this command
317 will also dump into the =*Messages*= buffer information about any
318 duplicate IDs. These should not exist, and Org will never /make/ the
319 same ID twice, but if you /copy/ an entry with its properties,
320 duplicate IDs will inevitably be produced. Unfortunately, this is
321 unavoidable in a plain text system that allows you to edit the text in
322 arbitrary ways, and a portion of care on your side is needed to keep
325 The hash is stored in the file =~/.emacs.d/.org-id-locations=.
326 This is also a change from previous versions where the file was
327 =~/.org=id-locations=. Therefore, you can remove this old file
328 if you have it. I am not sure what will happen if the =.emacs.d=
329 directory does not exists in your setup, but in modern Emacsen, I
330 believe it should exist. If you do not want to use IDs across
331 files, you can avoid the overhead with tracking IDs by
332 customizing the variable =org-id-track-globally=. IDs can then
333 still be used for links inside a single file.
335 IDs will also be used when you create a new link to an Org-mode
336 buffer. If you use =org-store-link= (normally at =C-c l=) inside
337 en entry in an Org-mode buffer, and ID property will be created
338 if it does not exist, and the stored link will be an =id:= link.
339 If you prefer the much less secure linking to headline text, you
340 can configure the variable =org-link-to-org-use-id=. The default
341 setting for this variable is =create-if-interactive=, meaning
342 that an ID will be created when you store a link interactively,
343 but not if you happen to be in an Org-mode file while you create
344 a remember note (which usually has a link to the place where you
345 were when starting remember).
347 *** Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
349 You may now use =@0= to reference the last dataline in a table
350 in a stable way. This is useful in particular for automatically
351 generated tables like the ones using /org-collector.el/ by Eric
357 - New relative timer to support timed notes
358 - Special faces can be set for individual tags
359 - The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
360 - Exclude some tags from inheritance.
361 - More special values for time comparisons in property searches
362 - Control for exporting meta data
363 - Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
364 - LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
365 - Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
367 ** Incompatible Changes
369 *** Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
371 Relative row references in tables look like this: "@-4" which
372 means the forth row above this one. These row references are
373 not allowed to cross horizontal separator lines (hlines). So
374 far, when a row reference violates this policy, Org would
375 silently choose the field just next to the hline.
377 Tassilo Horn pointed out that this kind of hidden magic is
378 actually confusing and may cause incorrect formulas, and I do
379 agree. Therefore, trying to cross a hline with a relative
380 reference will now throw an error.
382 If you need the old behavior, customize the variable
383 `org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline'.
387 *** New relative timer to support timed notes
389 Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while
390 watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.
393 Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time
394 you use this, the timer will be started. When called
395 with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.
398 Insert a description list item with the current relative
399 time. With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
402 Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the
403 normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.
406 Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
407 By default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a
408 =C-u= prefix, reset the timer to specific starting
409 offset. The user is prompted for the offset, with a
410 default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this
411 can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the
412 process. When called with a double prefix argument
413 =C-c C-u=, change all timer strings in the active
414 region by a certain amount. This can be used to fix timer
415 strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right
418 Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for
419 contributions to this idea.
421 *** Special faces can be set for individual tags
423 You may now use the variable =org-tag-faces= to define the
424 face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
425 do for TODO keywords.
427 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.
429 *** The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
431 This request has come up often, most recently it was
432 formulated by Tassilo Horn.
434 If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
435 tags, customize the variable =org-agenda-show-inherited-tags=.
437 *** Exclude some tags from inheritance.
439 So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to
440 allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using
441 one of the more complex settings for
442 `org-use-tag-inheritance'. It may actually be better to
443 allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult
444 to achieve with this methodology.
446 A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to
447 specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.
449 *** More special values for time comparisons in property searches
451 In addition to =<now>=, =<today>=, =<yesterday>=, and
452 =<tomorrow>=, there are more special values accepted now in
453 time comparisons in property searches: You may use strings
454 like =<+3d>= or =<-2w>=, with units d, w, m, and y for day,
455 week, month, and year, respectively
457 Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.
459 *** Control for exporting meta data
461 All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the
462 priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from
463 export with appropriate options:
465 | Variable | Publishing property | OPTIONS switch |
466 |-------------------------------+---------------------+----------------|
467 | org-export-with-todo-keywords | :todo-keywords | todo: |
468 | org-export-with-tags | :tags | tags: |
469 | org-export-with-priority | :priority | pri: |
471 *** Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
473 You can now use the key =C-c C-x M-w= in a w3m buffer with
474 HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
475 a special way. When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
476 buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
479 For this to work you need to load the new file /org-w3m.el./
480 Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this
483 Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for
486 *** LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
488 The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
489 export if you configure =org-use-property-inheritance= like
492 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
493 (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))
500 - Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
501 - Support for ido completion
502 - New face for date lines in agenda column view
503 - Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
504 - New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
505 - New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
507 - BBDB links may use regular expressions.
508 - Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
509 - Improved XHTML compliance
513 *** Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
515 The remember buffers created with Org's extensions are in
516 Org-mode, which is nice to prepare snippets that will
517 actually be stored in Org-mode files. However, this makes it
518 hard to configure key bindings without modifying the Org-mode
519 keymap. There is now a minor mode active in these buffers,
520 `org-remember-mode', and its keymap org-remember-mode-map can
521 be used for key bindings. By default, this map only contains
522 the bindings for =C-c C-c= to store the note, and =C-c C-k=
523 to abort it. Use `org-remember-mode-hook' to define your own
526 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
528 'org-remember-mode-hook
530 (define-key org-remember-mode-map
531 "\C-x\C-s" 'org-remember-finalize)))
534 If you wish, you can also use this to free the =C-c C-c=
535 binding (by binding this key to nil in the minor mode map),
536 so that you can use =C-c C-c= again to set tags.
538 This modification is based on a request by Tim O'Callaghan.
540 *** Support for ido completion
542 You can now get the completion interface from /ido.el/ for
543 many of Org's internal completion commands by turning on the
544 variable =org-completion-use-ido=. =ido-mode= must also be
545 active before you can use this.
547 This change is based upon a request by Samuel Wales.
549 *** New face for date lines in agenda column view
551 When column view is active in the agenda, and when you have
552 summarizing properties, the date lines become normal column
553 lines and the separation between different days becomes
554 harder to see. If this bothers you, you can now customize
555 the face =org-agenda-column-dateline=.
557 This is based on a request by George Pearson.
559 *** Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
561 These anchors can be used to jump to a directly with an HTML
562 link, just like the =sec-xxx= IDs. For example, the
563 following will make a http link
564 =//domain/path-to-my-file.html#dummy= work:
571 This is based on a request by Matt Lundin.
573 *** New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
575 This new file implements special export behavior of
576 user-defined blocks. The currently supported blocks are
578 - comment :: Comment blocks with author-specific markup
579 - ditaa :: conversion of ASCII art into pretty png files
580 using Stathis Sideris' /ditaa.jar/ program
581 - dot :: creation of graphs in the /dot/ language
582 - R :: Sweave type exporting using the R program
584 For more details and examples, see the file commentary in
587 Kudos to Eric Schulte for this new functionality, after
588 /org-plot.el/ already his second major contribution. Thanks
589 to Stathis for this excellent program, and for allowing us to
590 bundle it with Org-mode.
592 *** New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
594 This module gives control over execution Emacs Lisp code
595 blocks included in a file.
597 Thanks to Eric Schulte also for this file.
601 You can now configure Org to understand many links created
602 with the Emacs Planner package, so you can cut text from
603 planner pages and paste them into Org-mode files without
604 having to re-write the links. Among other things, this means
605 that the command =org-open-at-point-global= which follows
606 links not only in Org-mode, but in arbitrary files like
607 source code files etc, will work also with links created by
608 planner. The following customization is needed to make all of
611 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
612 (setq org-link-translation-function
613 'org-translate-link-from-planner)
616 I guess an inverse translator could be written and integrated
619 *** BBDB links may use regular expressions.
621 This did work all along, but only now I have documented it.
623 *** =yank-pop= works again after yanking an outline tree
625 Samuel Wales had noticed that =org-yank= did mess up this
626 functionality. Now you can use =yank-pop= again, the only
627 restriction is that the so-yanked text will not be
628 pro/demoted or folded.
630 *** Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
632 Thanks to Steve Purcell for a patch to this effect.
634 *** Improved XHTML compliance
636 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this.
638 *** Many bug fixes again.
643 - A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
644 - Fine-tuning the behavior of `org-yank'
645 - Formulas for clocktables
646 - Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
647 - More languages for HTML export.
651 *** A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
653 With =transient-make-mode= active (=zmacs-regions= under
654 XEmacs), you can now select a region of entries and refile
655 them all with a single =C-c C-w= command.
657 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this useful proposal.
659 *** Fine-tuning the behavior of =org-yank=
661 The behavior of Org's yanking command has been further
662 fine-tuned in order to avoid some of the small annoyances
665 - Calling =org-yank= with a prefix arg will stop any special
666 treatment and directly pass through to the normal =yank=
667 command. Therefore, you can now force a normal yank with
670 - Subtrees will only be folded after a yank if doing so will
671 now swallow any non-white characters after the yanked text.
672 This is, I think a really important change to make the
673 command work more sanely.
675 *** Formulas for clocktables
677 You can now add formulas to a clock table, either by hand, or
678 with a =:formula= parameter. These formulas can be used to
679 create additional columns with further analysis of the
682 Thanks to Jurgen Defurne for triggering this addition.
684 *** Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
686 The footnote export in 6.11 really was not good enough. Now
687 it works fine. If you have customized
688 =footnote-section-tag=, make sure that your customization is
689 matched by =footnote-section-tag-regexp=.
691 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this change.
693 *** More languages for HTML export.
695 More languages are supported during HTML export. This is
696 only relevant for the few special words Org inserts, like
697 "Table of Contents", or "Footnotes". Also the encoding
698 issues with this feature seem to be solved now.
700 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing me to fix the encoding
707 - Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
708 - State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
709 - Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
710 - HTML export now validates again as XHTML
711 - The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
712 - Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
713 - Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app
714 - Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~"
715 - Links to attachment files
716 - Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
717 - Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
721 *** Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
722 When yanking a cut/copied subtree or a series of trees, the
723 normal yank key =C-y= now adjusts the level of the tree to
724 make it fit into the current outline position, without losing
725 its identity, and without swallowing other subtrees.
727 This uses the command =org-past-subtree=. An additional
728 change in that command has been implemented: Normally, this
729 command picks the right outline level from the surrounding
730 *visible* headlines, and uses the smaller one. So if the
731 cursor is between a level 4 and a level 3 headline, the tree
732 will be pasted as level 3. If the cursor is actually *at*
733 the beginning of a headline, the level of that headline will
734 be used. For example, lets say you have a tree like this:
740 ,(2)* Level one again
743 with (1) and (2) indicating possible cursor positions for the
744 insertion. When at (1), the tree will be pasted as level 2.
745 When at (2), it will be pasted as level 1.
747 If you do not want =C-y= to behave like this, configure the
748 variable =org-yank-adjusted-subtrees=.
750 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this idea and a partial implementation.
752 *** State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
754 If you configure the variable =org-agenda-log-mode-items=,
755 you can now request that all logged state changes be included
756 in the agenda when log mode is active. If you find this too
757 much for normal applications, you can also temporarily
758 request the inclusion of state changes by pressing =C-u l= in
761 This was a request by Hsiu-Khuern Tang.
763 You can also press `C-u C-u l' to get *only* log items in the
764 agenda, withour any timestamps/deadlines etc.
766 *** Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
767 Previously, footnotes would be left in the document where
768 they are defined, now they are all collected and put into a
769 special =<div>= at the end of the document.
771 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this request.
773 *** HTML export now validates again as XHTML.
775 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this cleanup.
777 *** The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
779 If the option =org-clock-in-resume= is t, and the first clock
780 line in an entry is unclosed, clocking into that task resumes
781 the clock from that time.
783 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
785 *** Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
787 The data saved include the contents of =org-clock-history=,
788 and the running clock, if there is one.
790 To use this, you will need to add to your .emacs
792 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
793 (setq org-clock-persist t)
794 (setq org-clock-in-resume t)
795 (org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
798 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
800 *** Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app.
802 So far you could only bypass your setup in `org-file-apps'
803 and force opening a file link in Emacs by using a =C-u= prefix arg
804 with =C-c C-o=. Now you can call =C-u C-u C-c C-o= to force
805 an external application. Which external application depends
806 on your system. On Mac OS X and Windows, =open= is used. On
807 a GNU/Linux system, the mailcap settings are used.
809 This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.
811 *** Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~".
813 Inserting file links with =C-u C-c C-l= was buggy if the
814 setting of `org-link-file-path-type' was `adaptive' (the
815 default). Absolute file paths were not abbreviated relative
816 to the users home directory. This bug has been fixed.
818 Thanks to Matt Lundin for the report.
820 *** Links to attachment files
822 Even though one of the purposes of entry attachments was to
823 reduce the number of links in an entry, one might still want
824 to have the occasional link to one of those files. You can
825 now use link abbreviations to set up a special link type that
826 points to attachments in the current entry. Note that such
827 links will only work from within the same entry that has the
828 attachment, because the directory path is entry specific.
829 Here is the setup you need:
831 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
832 (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("att" . org-attach-expand-link)))
835 After this, a link like this will work
838 [[att:some-attached-file.txt]]
840 This was a proposal by Lindsay Todd.
842 *** Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
844 When a repeating task, listed in the daily/weekly agenda under
845 today's date, is completed from the agenda, it is listed as
846 DONE in the agenda until the next update happens. After the
847 next update, the task will have disappeared, of course,
848 because the new date is no longer today.
850 *** Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
852 Buffers that are created during publishing are now deleted
853 when the publishing is over. At least I hope it works like this.
859 - Secondary agenda filtering is becoming a killer feature
860 - Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
861 - Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
862 - C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
863 - Customize org-mouse.el feature set to free up mouse events
864 - New commands for export all the way to PDF (through LaTeX)
865 - Some bug fixed for LaTeX export, more bugs remain.
869 *** Enhancements to secondary agenda filtering
871 This is, I believe, becoming a killer feature. It allows you
872 to define fewer and more general custom agenda commands, and
873 then to do the final narrowing to specific tasks you are
874 looking for very quickly, much faster than calling a new
877 If you have not tries this yet, you should!
879 **** You can now refining the current filter by an additional criterion
880 When filtering an existing agenda view with =/=, you can
881 now narrow down the existing selection by an additional
882 condition. Do do this, use =\= instead of =/= to add the
883 additional criterion. You can also press =+= or =-= after
884 =/= to add a positive or negative condition. A condition
885 can be a TAG, or an effort estimate limit, see below.
887 **** It is now possible to filter for effort estimates
888 This means to filter the agenda for the value of the Effort
889 property. For this you should best set up global allowed
890 values for effort estimates, with
892 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
893 (setq org-global-properties
894 '(("Effort_ALL" . "0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00")))
897 You may then select effort limits with single keys in the
898 filter. It works like this: After =/= or =\=, first select
899 the operator which you want to use to compare effort
902 : < Select entries with effort smaller than or equal to the limit
903 : > Select entries with effort larger than or equal to the limit
904 : = Select entries with effort equal to the limit
906 After that, you can press a single digit number which is
907 used as an index to the allowed effort estimates.
909 If you do not use digits to fast-select tags, you can even
910 skip the operator, which will then default to
911 `org-agenda-filter-effort-default-operator', which is by
914 Thanks to Manish for the great idea to include fast effort
915 filtering into the agenda filtering process.
917 **** The mode line will show the active filter
918 For example, if there is a filter in place that does select
919 for HOME tags, against EMAIL tags, and for tasks with an
920 estimated effort smaller than 30 minutes, the mode-line with
921 show =+HOME-EMAIL+<0:30=
923 **** The filter now persists when the agenda view is refreshed
924 All normal refresh commands, including those that move the
925 weekly agenda from one week to the next, now keep the
926 current filter in place.
928 You need to press =/ /= to turn off the filter. However,
929 when you run a new agenda command, for example going from
930 the weekly agenda to the TODO list, the filter will be
933 *** Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
935 You can still use =C-c C-c= on a headline, but the new
936 binding should be considered as the main binding for this
937 command. The reasons for this change are:
939 - Using =C-c C-c= for tags is really out of line with other
942 - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
943 cannot, because =C-c C-c= exits the buffer :-(
945 - =C-c C-q= will also work when the cursor is somewhere down
946 in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
948 *** Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
950 The new option =org-todo-state-tags-triggers= can be used to
951 define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
952 For example, the setting
954 : (setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers
955 : '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil))
956 : ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
958 will make sure that any change to any of the DONE states will
959 remove tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the
960 "WAITING" state will trigger the tag "Today" to be added.
962 I use this mostly to get rid of TODAY and NEXT tags which I
963 apply to select an entry for execution in the near future,
964 which I often prefer to specific time scheduling.
966 *** C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
967 The new headline is inserted after the current subtree.
969 Thanks to Peter Jones for patches to fine-tune this behavior.
971 *** Customize org-mouse.el feature set
972 There is a new variable =org-mouse-features= which gives you
973 some control about what features of org-mouse you want to
974 use. Turning off some of the feature will free up the
975 corresponding mouse events, or will avoid activating special
976 regions for mouse clicks. By default I have urned off the
977 feature to use drag mouse events to move or promote/demote
978 entries. You can of course turn them back on if you wish.
980 This variable may still change in the future, allowing more
981 fine-grained control.
983 *** New commands for export to PDF
985 This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF
988 : C-c C-e p process to PDF.
989 : C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
992 - \usepackage{graphicx} is now part of the standard class
994 - Several bugs fixed, but definitely not all of them :-(
996 *** New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
998 Set this to =t= if you want state change notes to be inserted
999 after any initial drawers, i.e drawers the immediately follow
1000 the headline and the planning line (the one with
1001 DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED information).
1005 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular expressions, see [[*%20org%20file%20apps%20now%20uses%20regular%20repressions%20instead%20of%20extensions][below]]
1009 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
1010 Just like in =auto-mode-alist=, car's in the variable
1011 =org-file-apps= that are strings are now interpreted as
1012 regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
1013 instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
1014 sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
1015 be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
1017 There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by
1018 Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then
1019 any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be
1022 *** Changes to the attachment system
1024 - The default method to attach a file is now to copy it
1025 instead of moving it.
1026 - You can modify the default method using the variable
1027 `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want
1028 to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
1029 - The keys =c=, =m=, and =l= specifically select =copy=,
1030 =move=, or =link=, respectively, as the attachment method
1031 for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'.
1032 - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
1033 now use =n= instead of =c=.
1034 - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
1035 itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
1036 keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
1037 customizing the variable =org-attach-file-list-property=.
1041 ** Incompatible changes
1043 - Changes in the structure of IDs, see [[*The%20default%20structure%20of%20IDs%20has%20changed][here]] for details.
1045 - C-c C-a has been redefined, see [[*%20C%20c%20C%20a%20no%20longer%20calls%20show%20all][here]] for details.
1049 *** The default structure of IDs has changed
1051 IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
1052 - By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be
1053 an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
1054 - IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters
1055 anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used
1056 as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not
1057 distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
1058 - The ID string derived from the current time is now
1059 /reversed/ to become an ID. This assures that the first
1060 two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to
1061 split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
1062 - You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems
1065 *** =C-c C-a= no longer calls `show-all'
1067 The reason for this is that =C-c C-a= is now used for the
1068 attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
1069 is needed, use =M-x show-all=, or =C-u C-u C-u TAB=.
1071 *** New attachment system
1073 You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree.
1074 This works by creating special directories based on the ID of
1075 an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can
1076 keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically
1077 committing changes to git. See the manual for more
1080 Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new
1081 concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
1083 *** New remember template escapes
1085 : %^{prop}p to insert a property
1086 : %k the heading of the item currently being clocked
1087 : %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
1089 Also, when you exit remember with =C-2 C-c C-c=, the item
1090 will be filed as a child of the item currently being
1091 clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
1092 think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
1093 added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
1096 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
1098 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
1100 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
1102 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
1104 This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox
1107 Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
1109 *** New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
1111 It can be used to locally set the variable
1112 `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are
1113 allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on
1114 how to use it, see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php][publishing tutorial]].
1120 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
1121 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
1122 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
1123 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
1124 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
1125 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
1126 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
1127 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
1128 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
1129 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
1130 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
1131 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
1132 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
1133 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
1134 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
1135 - It is possible to define filters for column view
1136 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
1137 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
1138 - And tons of bugs fixed.
1141 ** Incompatible changes
1143 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
1145 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
1146 remember process is now interpreted differently:
1148 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
1149 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
1150 : in its new location.
1151 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
1152 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
1154 This was requested by John Wiegley.
1156 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
1158 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
1159 as a tty key replacement.
1161 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1163 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1164 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1165 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1166 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1169 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1173 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
1175 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
1176 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
1177 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
1178 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
1179 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
1180 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
1181 do have the tag will be hidden.
1183 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
1184 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
1185 not require a new search and is very fast.
1187 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
1188 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
1189 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
1190 direct access character.
1192 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
1193 unhiding any hidden lines.
1195 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
1196 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
1197 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
1198 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
1200 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
1202 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
1203 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
1204 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
1205 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
1207 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
1208 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
1209 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
1210 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
1212 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
1213 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
1214 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
1216 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
1219 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
1220 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
1222 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
1224 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
1225 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
1226 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
1227 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
1229 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
1231 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
1233 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
1234 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
1235 behavior is governed by two new variables:
1236 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
1237 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
1238 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
1240 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
1241 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
1242 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
1243 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
1244 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
1245 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
1246 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
1247 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
1250 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
1251 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
1253 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
1256 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
1258 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
1259 remember process is now interpreted differently:
1261 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
1262 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
1263 : in its new location.
1264 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
1265 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
1267 This was requested by John Wiegley.
1269 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
1271 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
1272 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
1273 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
1274 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
1275 you do not like this, customize the variable
1276 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
1278 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
1279 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
1282 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
1284 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
1286 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
1287 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
1288 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
1289 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
1290 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
1293 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
1295 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
1296 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
1298 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1300 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
1302 This was a request by Peter Frings.
1304 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
1306 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
1307 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
1308 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
1310 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
1312 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
1313 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
1314 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
1315 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
1316 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
1317 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
1318 position of the keyword in this sequence.
1320 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
1323 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
1325 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
1327 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
1329 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
1330 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
1332 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
1334 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
1336 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
1337 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
1338 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
1339 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
1342 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
1344 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
1346 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
1347 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
1348 For more information, look at the variable
1349 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
1351 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
1353 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
1355 This was a request by Chris Randle.
1360 For older Changes, see [[file:Changes_old.org]]