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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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14 * Version 6.10 (in preparation)
21 *** Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
23 You can still use =C-c C-c= on a headline, but the new
24 binding should be considered as the main binding for this
27 - Using =C-c C-c= for tags is really out of line with other
30 - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
31 cannot, because =C-c C-c= exits the buffer :-(
33 - =C-c C-q= wll also work when the cursor is somewhere down
34 in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
36 *** New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
37 Set this to t if you want state change notes to be inserted
40 *** New commands for export to PDF
41 This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF
44 : C-c C-e p process to PDF.
45 : C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
47 *** TODO state changes can trigger tag changes
48 The new option =org-todo-state-tags-triggers= can be used to
49 define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
50 For example, the setting
52 : (setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers
53 : '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil))
54 : ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
56 will make sure that any change to a DONE state will remove
57 tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the "WAITING"
58 state will also trigger the tag "Today".
62 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular expressions, see [[*%20org%20file%20apps%20now%20uses%20regular%20repressions%20instead%20of%20extensions][below]]
66 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
67 Just like in =auto-mode-alist=, car's in the variable
68 =org-file-apps= that are strings are now interpreted as
69 regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
70 instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
71 sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
72 be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
74 There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by
75 Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then
76 any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be
79 *** Changes to the attachment system
81 - The default method to attach a file is now to copy it
83 - You can modify the default method using the variable
84 `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want
85 to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
86 - The keys =c=, =m=, and =l= specifically select =copy=,
87 =move=, or =link=, respectively, as the attachment method
88 for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'.
89 - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
90 now use =n= instead of =c=.
91 - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
92 itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
93 keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
94 customizing the variable =org-attach-file-list-property=.
98 ** Incompatible changes
100 - Changes in the structure of IDs, see [[*The%20default%20structure%20of%20IDs%20has%20changed][here]] for details.
102 - C-c C-a has been redefined, see [[*%20C%20c%20C%20a%20no%20longer%20calls%20show%20all][here]] for details.
106 *** The default structure of IDs has changed
108 IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
109 - By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be
110 an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
111 - IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters
112 anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used
113 as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not
114 distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
115 - The ID string derived from the current time is now
116 /reversed/ to become an ID. This assures that the first
117 two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to
118 split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
119 - You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems
122 *** =C-c C-a= no longer calls `show-all'
124 The reason for this is that =C-c C-a= is now used for the
125 attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
126 is needed, use =M-x show-all=, or =C-u C-u C-u TAB=.
128 *** New attachment system
130 You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree.
131 This works by creating special directories based on the ID of
132 an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can
133 keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically
134 committing changes to git. See the manual for more
137 Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new
138 concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
140 *** New remember template escapes
142 : %^{prop}p to insert a property
143 : %k the heading of the item currently being clocked
144 : %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
146 Also, when you exit remember with =C-2 C-c C-c=, the item
147 will be filed as a child of the item currently being
148 clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
149 think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
150 added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
153 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
155 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
157 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
159 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
161 This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox
164 Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
166 *** New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
168 It can be used to locally set the variable
169 `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are
170 allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on
171 how to use it, see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php][publishing tutorial]].
180 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
181 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
182 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
183 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
184 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
185 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
186 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
187 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
188 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
189 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
190 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
191 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
192 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
193 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
194 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
195 - It is possible to define filters for column view
196 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
197 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
198 - And tons of bugs fixed.
201 ** Incompatible changes
203 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
205 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
206 remember process is now interpreted differently:
208 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
209 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
210 : in its new location.
211 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
212 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
214 This was requested by John Wiegley.
216 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
218 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
219 as a tty key replacement.
221 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
223 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
224 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
225 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
226 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
229 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
233 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
235 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
236 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
237 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
238 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
239 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
240 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
241 do have the tag will be hidden.
243 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
244 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
245 not require a new search and is very fast.
247 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
248 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
249 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
250 direct access character.
252 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
253 unhiding any hidden lines.
255 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
256 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
257 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
258 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
260 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
262 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
263 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
264 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
265 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
267 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
268 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
269 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
270 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
272 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
273 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
274 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
276 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
279 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
280 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
282 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
284 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
285 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
286 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
287 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
289 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
291 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
293 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
294 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
295 behavior is governed by two new variables:
296 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
297 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
298 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
300 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
301 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
302 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
303 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
304 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
305 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
306 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
307 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
310 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
311 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
313 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
316 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
318 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
319 remember process is now interpreted differently:
321 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
322 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
323 : in its new location.
324 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
325 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
327 This was requested by John Wiegley.
329 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
331 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
332 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
333 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
334 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
335 you do not like this, customize the variable
336 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
338 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
339 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
342 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
344 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
346 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
347 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
348 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
349 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
350 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
353 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
355 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
356 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
358 This was a request by Chris Randle.
360 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
362 This was a request by Peter Frings.
364 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
366 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
367 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
368 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
370 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
372 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
373 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
374 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
375 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
376 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
377 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
378 position of the keyword in this sequence.
380 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
383 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
385 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
387 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
389 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
390 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
392 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
394 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
396 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
397 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
398 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
399 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
402 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
404 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
406 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
407 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
408 For more information, look at the variable
409 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
411 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
413 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
415 This was a request by Chris Randle.
422 - New, more CSS-like setup for HTML style information
423 - Attributes in hyperlinks, for example alt and title for images
424 - Simplified way to specify file links
425 - Modified behavior of time stamps in iCalendar export
426 - New way to compare times during a property search
427 - New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
428 - New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
429 - New option :index-style for org-publish
430 - New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
432 ** Incompatible changes
434 *** New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
436 The timestamp directory now uses SHA1 hashed versions of the
437 path to each publishing file. This should be a consistent
438 and system-independent way to handle things. The change
439 means that your next publishing command will publish each and
440 every file again, but just once, until new time stamps are in
445 *** New setup for HTML style information
447 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
448 information, the following changes have been made:
449 - The default style has moved to a constant,
450 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
452 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
453 just the empty string. This variable should receive
454 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
455 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
456 be used to establish project-wide settings.
457 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
458 should be used for file-local settings. Org-publish can, if
459 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
461 - When a file is published, the values of
462 - org-export-html-style-default
463 - org-export-html-style
464 - org-export-html-style-extra
465 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
468 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
470 *** Attributes in hyperlinks
472 You can now set attributes in hyperlinks that will be used
473 when publishing to HTML. For example, if you want to use the
474 ALT and TITLE attributes of an inlined image, here is who to
477 : [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="This is image A" title="Image with no action"}}]]
479 Thanks to Charles Chen for this idea.
481 *** Simplified way to specify file links
483 In a link, you can now leave out the "file:" prefix if you
484 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
485 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
486 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
487 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
490 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
491 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
494 [[./A.jpg][./B.jpg] ]
497 *** Changes in iCalendar export
499 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
500 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
503 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
504 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
505 will no longer show up in the calendar.
507 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
508 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
511 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
512 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
515 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
516 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
518 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
519 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
520 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
521 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
522 old behavior or even do something completely different.
524 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
526 *** New way to compare times during a property search
528 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
529 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
532 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
534 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
535 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
538 This is based on a request by Manish.
540 *** New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
542 When set, a link pointing to a directory will actually open
543 the index.org file in that directory. This is a good setting
544 inside a publishing project. When not set, you get a
545 finder/explorer window for that directory, or dired,
546 depending on system and setup.
548 This follows a request by Richard Riley.
550 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
552 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
553 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
556 This follows a proposal by Richard Riley.
558 *** New option :index-style for org-publish
560 This option can be used to switch the style of the index
561 produced by org-publish. Can be `list' (index is just an
562 itemized list of the titles of the files involved) or `tree'
563 (the directory structure of the source files is reflected in
564 the index). The default is `tree'.
566 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for the patch.
568 *** In the Agenda, inclusion of archives can now be toggled
569 - Pressing =v= will toggle inclusion of trees with the
570 ARCHIVE tag, this includes obviously the archive sibling.
571 - Pressing `C-u v' will include trees with ARCHIVE tag, and
572 will also include all archive files that are currently
573 associated with your agenda files.
575 This was triggered by a proposal by Manuel Hermenegildo.
579 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
580 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
581 thanks for all the great ideas.
585 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
586 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
587 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
588 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
589 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
590 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
591 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
592 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
593 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
594 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
596 ** Incompatible changes
598 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
599 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
600 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
603 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
605 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
606 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
607 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
608 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
609 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
610 that led to this development.
612 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
614 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
615 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
616 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
617 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
618 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
619 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
620 the calendar if you prefer that.
622 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
624 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
625 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
626 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
628 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
629 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
630 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
632 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
633 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
634 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
635 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
636 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
638 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
640 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
641 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
642 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
643 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
644 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
648 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
649 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
651 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
652 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
653 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
654 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
657 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
658 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
659 this query will be considered during the iteration.
660 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
663 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
664 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
667 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
668 skipping facilities of the scanner.
671 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
672 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
673 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
674 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
675 trees will be ignored.
677 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
679 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
680 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
683 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
684 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
686 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
687 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
690 *** Changes in Remember templates
692 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
693 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
694 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
697 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
698 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
699 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
700 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
701 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
704 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
705 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
706 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
707 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
708 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
709 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
711 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
712 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
713 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
714 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
715 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
716 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
718 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
720 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
721 Spiers for this proposal.
723 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
725 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
726 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
728 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
730 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
731 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
732 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
733 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
735 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
736 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
737 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
738 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
739 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
741 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
742 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
743 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
744 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
745 *** Fixes and additions for org-publish
746 - the :include and :index-title properties in org-publish
747 work now as advertized
748 - the #+TITLE of a page will be used in the index
749 - new :completion-function property can define a hook to be
750 run after publishing a file.
752 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for a patch to this effect.
758 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
759 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
760 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
761 - New properties for customizing subtree export
763 ** Incompatible changes
765 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
766 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
767 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
769 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
770 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
771 archives still did this wrong.
775 *** Statistics for TODO entries
777 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
778 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
779 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
780 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
781 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
783 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
784 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
785 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
786 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
787 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
788 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
789 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
790 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
791 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
792 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
795 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
796 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
797 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
798 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
799 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
801 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
804 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
806 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
807 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
808 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
809 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
810 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
811 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
812 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
813 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
814 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
815 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
816 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
817 calling this command.
819 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
820 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
823 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
829 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
836 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
840 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
842 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
843 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
844 Org core. If you set the variable
846 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
848 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
849 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
850 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
851 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
854 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
855 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
856 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
858 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
859 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
860 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
861 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
862 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
863 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
864 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
865 the different instances originate.
867 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
869 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
870 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
871 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
872 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
873 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
874 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
875 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
876 and only the options you give in the property will be
877 overwritten. For example:
883 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
884 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
885 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
889 *** New way to define tags for an entire file.
891 Tags that are defined in a line like
892 : #+FILETAGS: work urgent
893 are inherited by all entries in the file.
895 Thanks to Manuel Hermenegildo for this proposal.
901 - Description lists are now supported natively
902 - Block quotes for export
903 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
904 - Include files for export
905 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
906 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
907 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
908 - Completion of structure elements
909 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
910 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
911 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
912 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
914 ** Incompatible changes
916 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
918 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
919 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
920 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
921 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
922 value on a per-file basis with
930 *** Description lists are now supported natively
932 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
933 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
934 separated by " :: ". For example
936 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
937 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
938 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
939 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
940 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
941 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
942 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
943 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
944 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
948 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
949 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
950 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
951 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
952 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
953 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
954 natural constants and units into a buffer.
955 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
956 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
958 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
959 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
961 *** Block quotes for export
963 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
967 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
968 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
975 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
976 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
979 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
981 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
982 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
983 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
987 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
994 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
995 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
996 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
997 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
999 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
1000 (defun org-xor (a b)
1005 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
1006 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
1007 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
1008 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
1009 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
1010 that in the example above.
1012 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
1013 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
1014 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
1016 *** Include files for export
1020 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
1022 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
1023 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
1024 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
1025 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
1026 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
1027 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
1029 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
1030 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
1032 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
1034 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
1035 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
1036 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
1037 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
1038 value on a per-file basis with
1043 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
1045 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
1046 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
1047 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
1048 you write in a buffer
1050 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
1052 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
1053 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
1055 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
1057 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
1058 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
1059 other in-buffer keywords.
1061 *** Completion of structure elements
1062 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
1063 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
1064 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
1065 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
1066 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
1067 Currently supported templates are:
1070 : <e #+begin_example
1080 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
1081 below under /org-mtags.el/.
1083 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
1085 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
1086 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
1087 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
1088 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
1089 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
1090 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
1091 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
1094 - folded :: Fold the subtree
1095 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
1096 headlines of all direct children
1097 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
1099 - all :: Show the entire subtree
1101 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
1102 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
1103 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
1104 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
1105 currently looks like this:
1110 , :VISIBILITY: content
1115 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
1117 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
1118 visibility of the buffer.
1120 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
1122 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
1123 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
1124 it for another task.
1125 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
1126 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
1127 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
1128 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
1129 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
1130 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
1131 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
1132 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
1133 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
1136 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
1137 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
1138 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
1139 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
1140 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
1141 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
1142 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
1144 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
1146 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
1147 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
1148 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
1150 *** New files in the contrib directory
1152 Do people think any of these should become core?
1154 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
1155 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
1156 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
1157 of [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/emacs-wiki.html#Lisp-Tricks][Emacs Wiki]] and [[http://mwolson.org/static/doc/muse/Embedded-Lisp.html#Embedded-Lisp][Muse]].
1158 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
1159 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
1160 For example, instead of
1168 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
1169 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
1170 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
1171 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
1172 in the file [[http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git?a=blob_plain;f=contrib/lisp/org-mtags.el;hb=HEAD][commentary in the file org-mtags.el]].
1174 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
1175 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
1179 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
1185 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
1186 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
1187 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
1188 - New operators for property searches
1189 - Search commands can now include archive files.
1190 - Clock tables can include the archive files
1191 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
1195 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
1197 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
1198 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
1199 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
1200 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
1201 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
1202 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
1204 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
1206 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
1207 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
1208 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
1209 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
1210 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
1211 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
1212 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
1213 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
1214 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
1215 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
1216 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
1217 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
1218 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
1221 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
1223 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
1224 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
1225 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
1226 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
1227 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
1228 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
1229 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
1230 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
1231 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
1233 *** New operators for property searches
1235 Property searches can now choose a number of different
1236 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
1237 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
1239 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
1240 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
1241 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
1243 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
1244 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
1246 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
1247 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
1248 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
1249 match" or "does not match", respectively.
1251 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
1253 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
1255 If the value of the customization variable
1256 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
1257 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
1258 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
1259 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
1260 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
1263 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
1265 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
1266 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
1267 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
1268 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
1269 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
1271 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
1273 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
1274 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
1275 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
1276 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
1277 be functions, so that more general transformations are
1278 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
1279 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
1283 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
1284 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
1285 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
1289 - The Org distribution has a new structure
1290 - New system for selecting modules to load
1291 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
1292 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
1293 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
1294 - Export commands can be done in the background
1295 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
1296 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
1297 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1298 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
1299 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
1300 - And some more small fixes and improvements
1302 ** Incompatible changes
1304 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
1306 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
1307 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
1308 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
1309 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
1310 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
1311 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
1315 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
1317 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
1318 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
1319 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
1320 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
1321 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
1322 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
1326 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
1327 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
1328 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
1329 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
1330 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
1331 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
1332 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
1333 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
1336 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
1338 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
1339 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
1340 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
1341 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
1342 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
1343 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
1344 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
1345 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
1348 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
1349 buffer you can simply use "A".
1351 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
1353 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
1355 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
1356 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
1357 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
1358 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
1361 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
1362 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
1363 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
1364 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
1365 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
1366 visibility both locally and globally.
1368 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
1369 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
1370 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
1372 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
1374 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
1375 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
1376 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
1377 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
1378 JavaScript program is served from
1379 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
1380 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
1381 to be independent of the existence and stability of
1382 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
1383 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
1384 using something like
1386 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
1388 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
1390 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
1391 together with org-info.js.
1393 *** Export improvements
1395 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
1396 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
1397 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
1400 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
1401 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
1402 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
1403 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
1404 this less system dependent in the future.
1406 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
1408 *** Improvements to clocktable
1410 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
1411 when trying to specify the time block that should be
1412 considered when constructing the table.
1414 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
1417 | :block | meaning |
1418 |--------------+-----------------------|
1419 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
1420 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
1421 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
1422 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
1424 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
1425 | thisweek | The current week |
1426 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
1427 | thismonth | The current month |
1428 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
1429 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
1432 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
1433 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
1434 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
1435 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
1436 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
1437 will switch to the following week.
1439 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
1440 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
1441 a request from Bernt Hansen.
1443 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
1444 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
1445 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
1446 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
1447 configure the variable
1448 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
1449 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
1450 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
1452 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1454 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
1455 the form =W08= for week 8.
1457 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
1458 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
1459 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
1460 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
1461 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
1462 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
1463 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
1464 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
1465 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
1466 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
1467 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
1469 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
1470 specify an ISO week. For example
1472 : w4 Monday of week 4
1473 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
1474 : w4-5 Same as above
1475 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
1476 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
1478 So far I have not implemented the effect of
1479 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
1480 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
1481 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
1482 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
1483 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
1484 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1487 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1488 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1489 test extensively and report back.
1491 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1493 *** Improvements in Search View
1495 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1496 only in TODO entries.
1498 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1499 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1500 also match in "Nasim's".
1505 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1506 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1507 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1508 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1509 this excellent proposal.
1511 The regexp option is also implemented for
1512 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1513 properties for inheritance my name.
1515 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1516 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1517 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1518 if and only if the setting in
1519 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1522 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1523 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1524 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1525 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1526 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1527 customize them freely.
1529 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1530 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1531 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1532 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1533 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1534 default date, not switch to today.
1536 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1537 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1539 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1540 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1542 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1543 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1544 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1546 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1549 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1550 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1551 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1553 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1554 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1555 initial region if set.
1557 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1560 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1562 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1563 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1564 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1565 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1566 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1567 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1568 format. For example:
1571 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1572 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1575 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1577 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1578 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1579 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1580 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1582 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1589 - New keyword search agenda view
1591 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1593 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1595 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1597 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1599 - New repeaters mechanisms
1601 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1603 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1605 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1609 ** Incompatible changes
1611 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1612 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1617 *** New keyword search agenda view
1619 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1620 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1621 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1622 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1623 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1624 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1625 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1626 example, the search string
1628 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1630 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1631 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1632 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1633 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1634 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1635 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1636 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1637 (possibly sub-) heading.
1639 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1640 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1642 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1643 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1646 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1647 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1648 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1650 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1652 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1653 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1655 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1656 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1657 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1659 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1660 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1661 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1662 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1664 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1666 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1667 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1668 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1669 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1670 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1671 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1672 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1673 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1674 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1677 One possible application for this would be to have several
1678 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1679 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1680 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1681 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1682 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1684 : (setq org-remember-templates
1685 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1686 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1688 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1690 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1692 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1693 + In a table, add a hline as before
1694 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1695 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1696 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1697 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1698 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1699 item markers from all lines.
1701 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1703 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1704 + in a table, recompute, as before
1705 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1706 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1707 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1708 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1709 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1711 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1713 *** Changes related to time stamps
1715 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1716 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1717 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1718 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1719 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1720 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1721 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1722 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1723 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1725 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1727 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1728 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1730 :** TODO Call Father
1731 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1732 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1733 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1734 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1735 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1736 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1737 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1738 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1741 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1743 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1745 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1746 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1749 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1750 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1751 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1752 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1753 the previous content.
1755 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1757 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1758 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1759 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1761 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1765 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1766 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1767 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1768 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1771 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1772 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1773 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1776 - There are three new hooks:
1778 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1779 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1780 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1784 ** Incompatible changes
1786 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1787 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1788 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1792 *** Changes to logging progress
1794 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1795 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1796 sections in the manual. Basically:
1798 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1799 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1800 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1801 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1802 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1803 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1804 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1805 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1807 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1808 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1809 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1810 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1811 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1813 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1814 : Here we not even define a fast access
1815 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1817 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1821 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1822 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1823 of the line) before the current line.
1825 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1826 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1827 create a new line below the current one.
1831 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1832 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1839 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1841 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1842 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1844 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1846 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1847 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1848 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1850 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1852 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1854 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1858 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1860 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1862 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1864 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1866 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1868 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1870 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1872 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1876 ** Incompatible Changes
1878 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1879 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1880 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1884 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1886 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1887 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1889 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1890 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1892 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1893 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1894 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1895 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1896 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1897 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1900 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1901 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1904 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1905 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1906 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1908 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1909 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1910 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1911 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1912 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1913 Possible values are:
1915 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1917 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1918 path to select a location.
1919 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1922 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1923 they are always current.
1925 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1926 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1927 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1928 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1929 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1930 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1931 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1932 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1934 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1935 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1936 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1937 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1938 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1939 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1940 interface. Comments?
1945 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1946 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1947 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1948 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1949 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1951 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1952 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1954 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1955 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1957 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1958 headline up to the tags.
1959 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1961 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1963 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1964 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1965 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1966 request by Austin Frank.
1968 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1969 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1970 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1972 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1973 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1974 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1975 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1977 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1978 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1979 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1980 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1981 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1982 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1983 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1984 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1985 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1986 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1987 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1990 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1991 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1992 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1993 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
2001 will file is with the following property
2003 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
2005 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
2006 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
2007 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
2009 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
2010 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
2019 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
2021 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
2023 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
2025 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
2027 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
2029 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
2031 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
2033 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
2035 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
2039 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
2040 entries in a subtree. For example
2042 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
2044 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
2045 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
2046 request by Bernt Hansen.
2048 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
2049 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
2050 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
2051 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
2052 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
2053 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
2054 interactively select the filing location (file and
2055 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
2056 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
2057 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
2058 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
2059 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
2061 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
2062 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
2063 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
2064 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
2065 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
2068 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
2069 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
2070 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
2071 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
2072 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
2073 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
2074 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
2077 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
2078 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
2079 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
2082 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
2083 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
2084 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
2085 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
2086 explain here, complex.
2088 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
2089 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
2090 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
2092 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
2093 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
2094 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
2096 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
2108 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
2109 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
2110 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
2111 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
2112 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
2113 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
2114 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
2115 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
2116 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
2117 subtree motion commands.
2119 - Plain lists items work the same.
2121 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
2122 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
2123 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
2126 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
2127 let me know about any problems.
2131 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
2132 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
2133 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
2134 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
2135 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
2137 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
2138 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
2139 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
2140 history variable. For example:
2142 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
2144 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
2145 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
2146 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
2147 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
2148 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
2149 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
2150 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
2151 by Bastien and Adam.
2153 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
2154 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
2155 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
2156 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
2160 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
2161 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
2164 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
2165 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
2166 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
2167 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
2168 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
2169 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
2175 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
2177 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
2178 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
2179 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
2180 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
2181 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
2182 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
2183 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
2184 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
2187 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
2188 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
2189 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
2190 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
2192 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
2193 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
2194 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
2195 and then watch it change in various scopes.
2197 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
2198 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
2199 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
2200 select a new restriction.
2202 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
2204 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
2206 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
2208 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
2209 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
2211 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
2212 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
2213 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
2216 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
2217 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
2218 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
2220 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
2221 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
2222 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
2223 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
2224 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
2230 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
2231 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
2232 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
2234 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
2235 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
2236 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
2245 + Remember and related stuff
2246 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
2247 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
2248 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
2249 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
2251 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
2252 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
2253 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
2254 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
2255 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
2256 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
2257 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
2259 + Properties and Column view
2260 - More control over which properties use inheritance
2261 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
2262 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
2263 - New currency summary type {$}
2265 + The date/time prompt
2266 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
2267 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
2268 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
2271 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
2272 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
2275 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
2278 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
2279 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
2280 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
2281 - Support for pabbrev-mode
2282 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
2284 ** Incompatible changes
2286 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
2287 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
2288 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
2290 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
2291 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
2292 prompted, like this:
2294 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
2296 : (org-remember ?n))
2298 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
2299 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
2301 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
2303 : (org-remember nil ?n))
2305 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
2306 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
2310 *** Remember and related stuff
2312 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
2313 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
2314 application might be to put a note or task captured with
2315 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
2316 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
2317 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
2318 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
2319 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
2320 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
2321 definitions. For example:
2323 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
2325 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
2328 : (setq org-refile-targets
2329 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
2331 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
2332 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
2333 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
2334 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
2337 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
2338 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
2340 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
2341 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
2342 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
2343 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
2344 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
2346 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
2347 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
2349 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
2351 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
2352 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
2353 : %[..] include file
2355 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
2357 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
2358 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
2359 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
2362 : (require 'remember)
2363 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
2364 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
2365 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
2367 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
2368 provide a default for templates without a file, and
2369 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
2371 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
2373 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
2375 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
2377 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
2378 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
2379 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
2380 the default in Org-mode.
2382 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
2383 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
2384 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
2385 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
2387 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
2388 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
2389 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
2390 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
2391 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
2393 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
2394 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
2395 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
2396 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
2399 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
2400 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
2401 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
2402 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
2403 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
2405 *** Properties and Column view
2407 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
2408 property names that should be treated with inheritance
2411 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
2412 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
2413 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
2414 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
2415 discussion around this issue.
2417 - Summary type improvements in column view.
2418 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
2419 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
2420 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
2421 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
2422 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
2423 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
2424 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
2426 *** The date/time prompt
2428 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
2431 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
2432 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
2433 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
2434 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
2435 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
2437 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
2438 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
2439 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
2440 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
2441 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
2442 entered month is before the current, for example if you
2443 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
2444 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
2445 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
2447 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
2448 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
2449 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
2450 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
2451 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
2453 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
2455 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
2456 list of newly performed conversions:
2458 | Org | Description | HTML |
2459 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
2460 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
2461 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
2462 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
2463 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
2465 You can turn this globally on or off with
2466 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
2467 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
2468 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
2469 William Henney for relevant inputs.
2471 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
2472 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
2476 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
2477 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
2478 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
2479 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
2480 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
2481 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
2483 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
2485 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
2486 export by setting it either globally
2487 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2488 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2489 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2490 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2491 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2494 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2495 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2496 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2498 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2499 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2501 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2502 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2505 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2506 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2507 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2514 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2515 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2516 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2518 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2519 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2520 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2521 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2522 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2524 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2525 with extension matched by the new variable
2526 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2535 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2536 + All known bugs fixed.
2537 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2538 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2539 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2541 - The agenda dispatcher
2542 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2543 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2545 - Sorting improvements
2546 + User-defined sorting keys.
2547 + Sorting by properties.
2548 + Sorting of plain lists.
2550 - HTML <div> structure
2553 + New variables, several of them.
2554 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2555 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2556 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2557 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2561 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2563 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2564 (at least I hope so...).
2566 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2567 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2569 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2570 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2571 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2573 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2574 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2575 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2579 : :ID: planning-overview
2585 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2589 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2590 be prompted for the ID.
2592 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2593 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2594 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2595 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2596 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2599 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2601 *** The agenda dispatcher
2603 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2604 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2605 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2606 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2607 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2608 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2609 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2610 them to custom commands.
2612 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2613 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2614 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2615 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2617 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2618 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2619 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2620 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2621 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2623 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2624 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2627 *** Sorting improvements
2629 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2630 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2632 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2633 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2635 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2638 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2640 *** HTML <div> structure
2642 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2644 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2645 "table-of-contents".
2647 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2648 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2650 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2651 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2653 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2654 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2656 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2657 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2661 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2662 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2663 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2666 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2668 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2670 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2671 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2672 your properties will not be folded away.
2673 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2675 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2676 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2677 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2679 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2680 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2681 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2682 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2683 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2685 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2686 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2687 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2688 a proposal by Bastien.
2690 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2691 request by Wanrong Lin.
2693 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2694 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2695 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2701 - Remember templates can now have name.
2702 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2703 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2704 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2705 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2706 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2707 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2708 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2709 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2710 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2711 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2713 ** Incompatible Changes
2715 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2719 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2720 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2721 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2722 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2723 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2724 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2726 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2727 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2728 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2730 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2731 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2733 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2734 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2735 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2736 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2738 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2739 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2740 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2742 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2743 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2744 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2745 Wiegley for a patch.
2747 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2748 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2749 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2750 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2751 with full completion support.
2753 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2754 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2755 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2757 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2758 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2761 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2762 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2763 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2764 well tested yet, please check it out.
2772 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2773 - Command to jump to the running clock
2774 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2775 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2776 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2777 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2778 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2779 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2780 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2781 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2782 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2784 ** Incompatible changes
2786 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2787 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2789 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2790 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2791 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2793 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2794 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2797 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2802 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2803 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2806 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2809 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2812 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2813 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2814 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2815 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2816 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2818 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2819 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2820 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2821 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2823 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2824 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2825 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2826 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2827 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2828 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2829 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2830 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2831 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2833 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2834 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2835 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2836 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2837 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2838 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2839 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2840 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2841 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2843 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2844 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2845 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2846 being prompted for a template, like this:
2848 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2850 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2852 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2853 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2854 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2855 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2857 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2858 (also `s' does this).
2860 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2861 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2864 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2865 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2866 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2868 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2869 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2870 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2872 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2873 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2874 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2875 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2883 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2884 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2885 - CSV support when importing a table.
2886 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2887 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2888 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2889 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2890 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2891 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2896 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2897 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2900 : * Tree with special properties
2902 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2903 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2906 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2907 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2908 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2909 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2910 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2911 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2912 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2913 encourage you to stop using them.
2915 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2916 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2917 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2918 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2922 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2923 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2924 | file | the full current buffer |
2925 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2926 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2927 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2928 | agenda | all agenda files |
2930 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2931 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2932 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2933 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2936 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2937 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2938 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2939 basic input it works.
2941 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2942 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2943 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2944 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2946 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2947 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2950 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2951 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2953 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2955 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2956 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2957 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2958 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2959 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2961 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2962 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2963 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2964 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2965 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2968 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2969 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2970 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2971 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2972 the children has that particular property defined, the
2973 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2974 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2975 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2976 is a better way of doing things.
2978 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2979 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2980 testing is appreciated.
2982 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2983 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2984 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2985 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2987 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2988 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2989 links in square or angular brackets.
2997 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
3000 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
3001 agenda can be configured.
3003 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
3005 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
3007 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
3009 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
3011 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
3012 inherited from the outline faces.
3014 ** Incompatible Changes
3016 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
3017 t, in order to better match the original intent of
3018 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
3019 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
3020 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
3025 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
3026 switching to that state. With the setting
3028 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
3029 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
3031 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
3034 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
3035 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
3036 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
3037 own function. Configure the new variable
3038 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
3039 this development with a patch.
3041 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
3042 t, in order to better match the original intent of
3043 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
3044 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
3045 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
3046 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
3047 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
3049 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
3050 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
3051 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
3052 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
3053 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
3054 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
3055 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
3057 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
3058 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
3061 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
3062 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
3063 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
3064 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
3065 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
3066 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
3067 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
3069 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
3070 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
3071 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
3072 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
3073 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
3074 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
3075 match the current org-mode faces.
3077 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
3081 ** Incompatible changes
3083 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
3087 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
3088 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
3089 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
3091 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
3093 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
3094 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
3095 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
3096 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
3097 command fall back to cycling.
3099 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
3100 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
3101 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
3102 interface anyway, set the variable
3103 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
3104 others for input on this issue.
3106 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
3107 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
3108 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
3110 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
3111 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
3113 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
3114 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
3116 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
3118 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
3119 use a format string that will be interpreted by
3120 `format-time-string', for example:
3122 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
3124 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
3125 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
3126 included) have changed this.
3128 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
3129 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
3130 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
3131 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
3132 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
3133 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
3134 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
3140 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
3142 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
3144 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
3146 - Sorting can be done by priority.
3148 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
3150 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
3152 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
3154 ** Incompatible changes
3156 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
3157 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
3159 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
3163 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
3164 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
3165 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
3167 A Here is a configuration example:
3169 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
3170 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
3171 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
3172 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
3175 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
3176 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
3178 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
3179 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
3180 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
3181 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
3182 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
3183 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
3184 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
3185 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
3186 states, just like you also do for tags.
3188 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
3189 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
3191 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
3192 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
3193 switch the entry to that state.
3195 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
3196 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
3197 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
3200 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
3202 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
3203 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
3204 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
3205 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
3207 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
3208 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
3210 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
3211 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
3212 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
3213 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
3214 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
3216 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
3217 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
3218 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
3221 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
3222 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
3223 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
3224 the file will simply be skipped.
3234 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
3235 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
3236 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
3237 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
3238 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
3239 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
3240 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
3241 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
3244 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
3245 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
3246 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
3247 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
3248 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
3249 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
3250 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
3251 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
3252 the special locations.
3254 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
3257 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
3260 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
3261 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
3262 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
3264 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
3265 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
3266 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
3272 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
3274 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
3276 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
3278 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
3280 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
3282 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
3284 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
3286 - Global values for selected properties.
3293 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
3294 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
3295 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
3296 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
3297 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
3298 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
3299 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
3300 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
3302 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
3303 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
3304 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
3305 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
3306 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
3307 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
3308 currently how to handle the new link types for
3311 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
3312 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
3313 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
3314 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
3317 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
3318 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
3319 The syntax is like this
3321 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
3323 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
3326 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
3328 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
3329 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
3330 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
3332 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
3335 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
3336 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
3337 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
3338 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
3341 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
3342 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
3343 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
3344 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
3345 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
3346 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
3349 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
3350 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
3351 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
3354 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
3355 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
3356 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
3357 `org-global-properties', like this:
3359 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
3361 Buffer-local values are set like this:
3363 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
3365 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
3366 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
3367 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
3368 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
3369 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
3370 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
3378 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
3379 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
3380 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
3381 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
3383 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
3384 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
3385 this stuff into the drawer.
3386 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
3388 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
3389 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
3391 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
3392 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
3394 - Lots of minor fixes.
3398 ** Incompatible Changes
3400 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
3401 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
3402 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
3406 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
3407 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
3408 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
3410 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
3411 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
3412 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
3413 know if we need to make this customizable.
3415 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
3416 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
3417 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
3418 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
3419 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
3421 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
3430 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
3433 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
3434 compute their value from the children's values.
3436 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
3437 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
3440 ** Incompatible Changes
3442 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
3443 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
3444 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
3445 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
3450 - Improvements for properties:
3452 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
3453 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
3455 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
3456 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
3457 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
3458 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
3459 typos when entering properties.
3461 - Improvements for column view.
3463 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
3464 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
3467 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
3468 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
3469 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
3470 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
3473 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
3474 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
3477 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
3478 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
3479 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
3481 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
3482 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
3483 beginning of a line. So
3485 : * This is a level 1 headline
3486 : *this is bold text*
3488 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3489 available in orgstruct-mode.
3495 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3496 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3498 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3499 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3500 open if explicitly asked.
3502 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3504 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3505 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3508 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3509 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3512 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3514 ** Incompatible changes
3516 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3517 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3518 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3519 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3520 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3521 that this is the better convention.
3525 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3527 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3528 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3529 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3530 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3531 easily create lists.
3533 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3534 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3535 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3536 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3537 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3538 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3539 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3540 minor modes have assigned to them.
3542 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3543 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3544 the promised implementation.
3548 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3549 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3550 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3551 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3552 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3555 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3557 you can then create drawers like this:
3560 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3561 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3564 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3565 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3567 *** Properties and Column View
3569 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3570 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3571 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3572 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3573 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3574 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3576 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3578 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3579 program using properties, use the functions
3580 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3581 and `org-entry-delete'.
3583 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3586 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3587 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3588 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3589 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3590 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3591 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3593 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3596 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3598 will find entries that
3601 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3602 - are TODO status WAITING.
3604 So here is an entry that will match:
3606 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3611 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3612 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3615 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3617 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3618 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3619 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3620 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3621 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3622 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3623 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3624 can set up different property columns on different levels
3625 of an outline tree. For example:
3629 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3633 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3636 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3638 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3641 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3644 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3645 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3647 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3648 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3649 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3650 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3651 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3652 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3655 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3656 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3658 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3659 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3660 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3661 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3662 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3663 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3665 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3666 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3669 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3671 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3673 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3674 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3675 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3677 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3678 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3679 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3680 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3685 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3686 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3687 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3688 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3689 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3690 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3691 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3694 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3695 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3696 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3697 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3698 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3705 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3707 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3708 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3709 constants can now be set with a line like:
3711 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3715 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3716 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3719 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3721 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3725 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3726 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3727 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3728 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3735 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3736 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3737 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3738 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3740 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3741 See manual section 3.5.3.
3743 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3744 This was a request from Ignotus.
3745 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3747 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3748 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3749 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3753 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3754 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3755 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3756 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3757 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3763 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3764 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3766 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3768 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3770 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3772 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3774 ** Incompatible changes
3776 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3777 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3778 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3779 with the xemacs version. For example:
3781 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3783 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3784 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3785 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3786 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3787 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3791 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3792 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3793 interval on a single day. For example
3795 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3797 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3798 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3799 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3800 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3802 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3805 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3806 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3810 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3812 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3813 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3814 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3815 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3816 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3817 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3818 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3819 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3820 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3821 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3822 stick to the ASCII characters.
3824 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3825 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3826 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3827 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3828 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3830 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3832 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3833 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3834 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3836 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3837 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3838 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3839 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3840 if we can agree on this:
3842 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3843 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3844 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3845 out to a previous level. For example
3853 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3862 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3863 using promotion and demotion functions.
3869 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3870 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3872 ** Incompatible changes
3874 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3878 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3879 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3880 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3881 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3882 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3883 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3884 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3886 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3887 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3888 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3889 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3890 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3891 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3892 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3894 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3895 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3896 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3897 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3898 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3901 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3902 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3903 wherever you want a vertical line:
3905 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3906 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3907 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3909 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3910 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3912 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3913 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3914 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3915 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3916 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3917 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3918 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3919 behavior we had before.
3921 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3923 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3924 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3925 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3926 special characters in other languages as along as your
3927 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3928 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3929 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3935 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3939 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3941 [1]This is a footnote
3943 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3944 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3946 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3948 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3949 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3952 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3958 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3959 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3961 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3962 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3963 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3964 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3966 ** Incompatible Changes
3968 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3969 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3973 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3974 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3976 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3978 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3979 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3980 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3981 collect your credit, let me know!
3983 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3984 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3986 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3987 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3989 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3990 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3991 would in the diary. For example
3993 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3995 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3997 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3998 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
4000 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
4002 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
4003 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
4004 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
4005 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
4006 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
4007 put in a few categories, and then turned off
4008 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
4009 faster agenda display.
4011 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
4012 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
4013 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
4014 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
4015 to Raman for this idea.
4017 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
4018 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
4019 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
4022 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
4023 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
4024 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
4028 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
4030 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
4031 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
4033 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
4034 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
4035 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
4036 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
4039 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
4040 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
4042 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
4043 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
4044 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
4045 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
4047 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
4048 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
4049 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
4050 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
4052 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
4053 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
4060 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
4061 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
4062 further processing in scripts.
4064 ** Incompatible Changes
4066 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
4067 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
4071 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
4072 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
4073 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
4074 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
4077 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
4078 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
4079 that have associated file names and exports the views to
4080 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
4081 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
4082 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
4083 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
4084 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
4086 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
4087 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
4088 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
4089 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
4091 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
4092 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
4093 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
4095 - Quite a few bug fixes.
4105 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
4107 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
4109 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
4111 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
4113 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
4115 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
4117 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
4121 ** Incompatible changes
4123 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
4124 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
4127 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
4128 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
4129 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
4130 `org-disputed-keys'.
4132 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
4133 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
4134 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
4138 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
4139 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
4140 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
4141 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
4142 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
4143 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
4144 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
4145 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
4146 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
4147 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
4148 Scott fro bringing this up again.
4150 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
4151 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
4152 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
4153 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
4155 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
4156 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
4158 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
4159 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
4160 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
4161 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
4163 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
4164 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
4165 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
4166 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
4167 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
4168 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
4169 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
4170 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
4172 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
4174 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
4175 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
4176 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
4177 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
4178 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
4179 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
4180 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
4183 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
4184 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
4185 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
4186 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
4187 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
4188 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
4191 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
4192 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
4193 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
4194 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
4195 indicates a non-stuck project.
4197 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
4198 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
4199 please let me know if you find problems.
4201 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
4202 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
4208 ** Incompatible changes
4212 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
4213 exported HTML. These are the variables
4214 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
4215 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
4218 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
4219 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
4220 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
4222 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
4223 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
4224 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
4225 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
4226 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
4227 that are scanned for the agenda.
4235 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
4236 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
4237 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
4239 ** Incompatible changes
4241 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
4245 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
4247 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
4249 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
4251 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
4252 list (and which is also works!)
4254 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
4255 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
4257 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
4258 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
4259 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
4260 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
4261 toward using the latter.
4263 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
4264 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
4265 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
4266 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
4268 (setq org-todo-keywords
4269 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
4270 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
4271 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
4272 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
4275 If your setting has this new structure,
4276 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
4277 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
4278 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
4279 interpretation from the other variable still works.
4281 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
4282 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
4283 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
4284 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
4285 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
4288 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
4289 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
4290 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
4291 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
4292 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
4293 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
4294 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
4296 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
4297 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
4298 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
4299 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
4300 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
4302 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
4303 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
4304 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
4305 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
4306 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
4307 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
4308 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
4309 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
4310 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
4317 This time the changes affect the following areas:
4319 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
4320 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
4321 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
4322 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
4323 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
4324 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
4327 ** Incompatible changes
4329 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
4330 over several lines, like
4333 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
4336 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
4337 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
4338 See below for details.
4340 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
4341 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
4342 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
4343 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
4348 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
4349 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
4352 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
4353 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
4354 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
4356 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
4357 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
4358 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
4359 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
4360 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
4361 where you want to be.
4363 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
4364 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
4365 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
4368 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
4369 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
4371 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
4372 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
4374 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
4376 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
4377 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
4378 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
4379 new in-buffer option
4383 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
4384 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
4385 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
4386 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
4388 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
4389 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
4390 can be done by setting the variable
4391 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
4393 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
4399 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
4401 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
4402 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
4403 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
4404 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
4405 terminate all levels of plain list items.
4407 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
4409 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
4410 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
4413 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
4414 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
4415 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
4416 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
4417 are logging all state changes.
4419 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
4424 - Priority handling in the tags view
4425 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
4426 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
4427 - Improvements to the formula editor.
4428 - C-j does better indentation.
4432 - Priority handling in the tags view
4434 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
4435 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
4437 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
4439 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
4440 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
4441 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
4443 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
4445 - Changes in the spreadsheet
4447 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
4448 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
4449 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
4450 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
4451 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
4452 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
4453 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
4455 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
4458 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
4460 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
4462 + There is now a menu with commands.
4464 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
4465 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
4467 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
4468 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
4470 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
4471 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
4475 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
4476 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
4477 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
4479 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
4480 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
4485 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
4486 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4487 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4488 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4490 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4491 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4492 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4502 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4503 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4504 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4506 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4507 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4508 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4509 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4510 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4511 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4512 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4514 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4515 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4516 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4518 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4520 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4521 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4523 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4524 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4526 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4527 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4528 levels. For example:
4530 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4532 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4533 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4534 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4537 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4538 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4539 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4540 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4542 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4543 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4552 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4553 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4554 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4555 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4557 ** Detailed description of changes
4559 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4560 any table in any mode.
4562 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4563 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4564 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4565 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4566 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4567 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4569 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4570 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4571 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4572 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4573 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4575 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4576 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4577 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4578 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4579 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4580 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4581 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4584 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4585 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4586 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4587 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4588 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4589 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4590 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4591 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4592 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4593 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4594 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4595 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4597 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4598 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4599 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4600 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4606 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4607 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4608 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4609 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4610 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4612 ** Detailed description of changes
4614 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4615 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4616 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4618 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4620 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4621 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4623 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4625 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4626 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4627 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4629 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4630 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4631 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4633 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4634 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4635 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4637 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4638 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4640 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4642 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4643 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4644 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4645 remember.el work like this as well).
4646 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4647 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4648 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4649 new template, but the old context information. This is
4650 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4653 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4654 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4655 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4656 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4657 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4658 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4659 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4660 without interaction.
4662 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4663 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4664 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4665 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4666 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4667 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4669 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4670 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4671 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4672 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4674 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4675 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4676 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4677 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4678 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4679 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4685 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4686 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4688 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4689 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4690 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4691 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4692 + Incompatible changes
4693 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4694 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4695 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4696 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4697 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4698 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4699 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4703 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4704 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4705 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4706 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4707 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4708 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4709 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4710 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4714 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4715 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4716 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4717 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4718 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4719 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4720 - Empty entries go full circle.
4721 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4726 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4729 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4730 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4731 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4732 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4733 another, dedicated frame.
4734 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4735 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4738 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4739 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4740 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4741 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4742 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4743 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4744 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4745 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4746 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4747 use regular expressions.
4748 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4749 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4750 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4754 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4755 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4756 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4763 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4764 + show status also in target line.
4765 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4766 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4767 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4771 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4772 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4773 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4774 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4778 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4779 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4784 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4785 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4786 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4790 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4791 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4792 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4793 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4794 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4795 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4796 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4797 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4798 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4799 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4800 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4805 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4806 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4807 - File links can contain environment variables.
4808 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4812 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4813 each block created by a different agenda command.
4814 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4815 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4816 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4817 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4818 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4819 upon the agenda type.
4820 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4821 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4822 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4823 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4824 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4825 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4826 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4827 - More minor bug fixes.
4830 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4831 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4832 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4836 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4837 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4838 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4842 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4845 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4846 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4847 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4855 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4856 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4858 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4859 LaTeX environment and math.
4862 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4864 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4865 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4866 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4870 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4871 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4874 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4875 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4876 and will not lead to conflicts.
4877 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4881 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4882 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4883 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4884 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4885 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4886 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4887 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4893 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4894 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4897 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4898 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4899 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4900 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4901 directories for different export types.
4902 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4903 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4910 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4911 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4912 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4913 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4914 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4915 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4916 relative and absolute paths.
4917 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4918 - Bug and typo fixes.
4922 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4923 contains a description or not.
4924 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4925 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4926 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4927 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4928 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4929 for all available exporters.
4930 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4936 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4937 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4938 end of the HTML file.
4939 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4940 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4941 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4942 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4948 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4949 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4950 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4951 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4961 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4962 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4965 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4966 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4967 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4968 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4969 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4970 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4971 - New structure for the customization tree.
4976 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4980 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4981 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4982 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4983 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4984 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4989 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4990 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4991 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4992 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4996 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4997 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
5000 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
5001 - Various small bug fixes
5004 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
5005 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
5006 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
5007 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
5008 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
5009 argument to `C-c C-v'.
5010 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
5011 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
5012 next buffer change due to editing).
5015 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
5016 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
5017 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
5018 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
5021 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
5022 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
5023 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
5024 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
5025 - Changes to the HTML exporter
5026 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
5027 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
5028 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
5029 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
5030 - support for cascading style sheets.
5031 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
5032 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
5039 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
5043 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
5046 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
5047 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
5048 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
5049 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
5050 and are not linked to the calendar.
5051 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
5052 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
5053 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
5054 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
5057 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
5058 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
5059 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
5060 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
5061 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
5064 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
5065 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
5066 - Named fields and columns in tables.
5067 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
5070 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
5071 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
5074 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
5075 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
5076 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
5077 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
5078 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
5079 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
5083 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
5084 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
5085 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
5086 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
5087 - Archiving of finished tasks.
5088 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
5089 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
5090 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
5091 - Improved html export of tables.
5092 - Various clean-up changes.
5095 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
5099 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
5100 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
5104 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
5105 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
5109 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
5110 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
5111 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
5114 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
5115 - New startup option `content'.
5116 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
5117 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
5118 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
5121 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
5122 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
5123 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
5124 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
5125 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
5126 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
5129 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
5130 table shape when typing in fields.
5131 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
5132 into arbitrary major modes.
5133 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
5134 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
5135 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
5138 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
5139 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
5140 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
5142 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
5143 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
5144 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
5145 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
5146 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
5148 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
5149 - Sorting fully configurable.
5150 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
5151 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
5155 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
5156 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
5157 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
5158 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
5159 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
5160 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
5161 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
5164 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
5165 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
5166 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
5167 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
5168 - Priorities for TODO items.
5169 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
5170 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
5171 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
5176 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
5177 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
5178 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
5179 `org-todo-interpretation'.
5180 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
5181 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
5182 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
5183 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
5184 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
5185 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
5186 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
5187 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
5188 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
5189 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
5190 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
5193 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
5194 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
5195 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
5196 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
5197 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
5198 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
5199 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
5200 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
5201 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
5202 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
5203 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
5204 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
5207 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
5208 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
5209 - Date ranges introduced.
5210 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
5211 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
5212 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
5213 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
5214 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
5215 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
5216 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
5219 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
5220 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
5221 - Fully automatic table editor.
5222 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
5223 - Other link system changes
5224 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
5225 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
5226 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
5227 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
5228 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
5229 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
5230 Please re-read the manual section about links.
5232 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
5233 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
5234 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
5235 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
5236 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
5237 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
5239 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
5243 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
5244 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
5245 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
5246 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
5250 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents