1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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11 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
13 * Version 6.06 (in preparation)
19 ** Incompatible changes
20 *** New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
21 The timestamp directory now uses SHA1 hashed versions of the
22 path to each publishing file. This should be a consistent
23 and system-independent way to handle things. The change
24 means that your next publishing command will publish each and
25 every file again, but just once, until the timestamps are
30 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
31 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
32 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
35 *** New setup for HTML style information
36 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
37 information, the following changes have been made:
38 - The default style has moved to a constant,
39 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
41 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
42 just the empty string. This variable should receive
43 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
44 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
45 be used to establish project-wide settings.
46 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
47 should be used for file-local setings. Org-publish can, if
48 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
50 - When a file is published, the values of
51 - org-export-html-style-default
52 - org-export-html-style
53 - org-export-html-style-extra
54 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
57 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
59 *** A way to compare times during a property search
60 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
61 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
64 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
66 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
67 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
70 This is based on a request by Manish.
72 *** Simplified way to specify file links
74 In a link, you can now leave uout the "file:" prefix if you
75 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
76 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
77 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
78 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
81 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
82 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
88 *** Changes in iCalendar export
89 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
90 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
93 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
94 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
95 will no longer show up in the calendar.
97 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
98 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
101 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
102 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
105 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
106 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
108 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
109 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
110 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
111 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
112 old behavior or even do something completely different.
114 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
116 *** New option :index-style for org-publish
117 This option can be used to switch the style of the index
118 produced by org-publish.
122 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
123 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
124 thanks for all the great ideas.
128 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
129 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
130 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
131 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
132 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
133 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
134 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
135 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
136 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
137 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
139 ** Incompatible changes
141 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
142 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
143 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
146 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
148 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
149 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
150 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
151 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
152 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
153 that led to this development.
155 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
157 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
158 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
159 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
160 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
161 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
162 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
163 the calendar if you prefer that.
165 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
167 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
168 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
169 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
171 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
172 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
173 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
175 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
176 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
177 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
178 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
179 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
181 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
183 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
184 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
185 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
186 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
187 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
191 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
192 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
194 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
195 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
196 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
197 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
200 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
201 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
202 this query will be considered during the iteration.
203 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
206 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
207 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
210 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
211 skipping facilities of the scanner.
214 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
215 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
216 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
217 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
218 trees will be ignored.
220 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
222 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
223 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
226 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
227 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
229 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
230 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
233 *** Changes in Remember templates
235 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
236 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
237 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
240 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
241 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
242 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
243 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
244 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
247 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
248 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
249 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
250 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
251 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
252 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
254 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
255 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
256 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
257 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
258 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
259 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
261 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
263 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
264 Spiers for this proposal.
266 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
268 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
269 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
271 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
273 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
274 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
275 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
276 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
278 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
279 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
280 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
281 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
282 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
284 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
285 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
286 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
287 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
292 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
293 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
294 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
295 - New properties for customizing subtree export
297 ** Incompatible changes
299 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
300 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
301 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
303 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
304 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
305 archives still did this wrong.
309 *** Statistics for TODO entries
311 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
312 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
313 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
314 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
315 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
317 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
318 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
319 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
320 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
321 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
322 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
323 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
324 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
325 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
326 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
329 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
330 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
331 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
332 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
333 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
335 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
338 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
340 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
341 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
342 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
343 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
344 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
345 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
346 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
347 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
348 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
349 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
350 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
351 calling this command.
353 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
354 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
357 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
363 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
370 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
374 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
376 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
377 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
378 Org core. If you set the variable
380 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
382 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
383 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
384 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
385 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
388 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
389 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
390 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
392 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
393 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
394 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
395 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
396 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
397 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
398 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
399 the different instances originate.
401 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
403 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
404 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
405 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
406 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
407 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
408 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
409 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
410 and only the options you give in the property will be
411 overwritten. For example:
417 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
418 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
419 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
427 - Description lists are now supported natively
428 - Block quotes for export
429 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
430 - Include files for export
431 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
432 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
433 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
434 - Completion of structure elements
435 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
436 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
437 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
438 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
440 ** Incompatible changes
442 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
444 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
445 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
446 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
447 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
448 value on a per-file basis with
456 *** Description lists are now supported natively
458 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
459 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
460 separated by " :: ". For example
462 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
463 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
464 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
465 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
466 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
467 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
468 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
469 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
470 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
474 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
475 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
476 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
477 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
478 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
479 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
480 natural constants and units into a buffer.
481 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
482 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
484 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
485 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
487 *** Block quotes for export
489 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
493 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
494 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
501 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
502 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
505 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
507 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
508 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
509 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
513 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
520 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
521 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
522 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
523 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
525 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
531 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
532 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
533 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
534 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
535 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
536 that in the example above.
538 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
539 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
540 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
542 *** Include files for export
546 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
548 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
549 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
550 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
551 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
552 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
553 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
555 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
556 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
558 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
560 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
561 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
562 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
563 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
564 value on a per-file basis with
569 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
571 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
572 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
573 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
574 you write in a buffer
576 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
578 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
579 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
581 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
583 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
584 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
585 other in-buffer keywords.
587 *** Completion of structure elements
588 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
589 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
590 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
591 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
592 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
593 Currently supported templates are:
606 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
607 below under /org-mtags.el/.
609 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
611 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
612 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
613 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
614 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
615 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
616 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
617 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
620 - folded :: Fold the subtree
621 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
622 headlines of all direct children
623 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
625 - all :: Show the entire subtree
627 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
628 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
629 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
630 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
631 currently looks like this:
636 , :VISIBILITY: content
641 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
643 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
644 visibility of the buffer.
646 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
648 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
649 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
651 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
652 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
653 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
654 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
655 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
656 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
657 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
658 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
659 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
662 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
663 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
664 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
665 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
666 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
667 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
668 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
670 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
672 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
673 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
674 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
676 *** New files in the contrib directory
678 Do people think any of these should become core?
680 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
681 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
682 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
683 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]].
684 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
685 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
686 For example, instead of
694 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
695 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
696 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
697 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
698 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]].
700 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
701 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
705 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
711 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
712 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
713 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
714 - New operators for property searches
715 - Search commands can now include archive files.
716 - Clock tables can include the archive files
717 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
721 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
723 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
724 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
725 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
726 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
727 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
728 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
730 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
732 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
733 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
734 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
735 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
736 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
737 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
738 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
739 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
740 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
741 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
742 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
743 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
744 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
747 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
749 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
750 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
751 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
752 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
753 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
754 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
755 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
756 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
757 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
759 *** New operators for property searches
761 Property searches can now choose a number of different
762 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
763 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
765 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
766 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
767 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
769 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
770 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
772 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
773 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
774 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
775 match" or "does not match", respectively.
777 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
779 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
781 If the value of the customization variable
782 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
783 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
784 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
785 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
786 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
789 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
791 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
792 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
793 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
794 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
795 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
797 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
799 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
800 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
801 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
802 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
803 be functions, so that more general transformations are
804 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
805 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
809 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
810 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
811 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
815 - The Org distribution has a new structure
816 - New system for selecting modules to load
817 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
818 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
819 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
820 - Export commands can be done in the background
821 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
822 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
823 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
824 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
825 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
826 - And some more small fixes and improvements
828 ** Incompatible changes
830 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
832 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
833 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
834 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
835 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
836 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
837 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
841 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
843 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
844 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
845 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
846 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
847 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
848 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
852 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
853 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
854 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
855 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
856 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
857 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
858 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
859 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
862 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
864 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
865 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
866 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
867 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
868 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
869 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
870 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
871 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
874 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
875 buffer you can simply use "A".
877 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
879 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
881 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
882 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
883 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
884 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
887 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
888 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
889 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
890 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
891 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
892 visibility both locally and globally.
894 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
895 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
896 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
898 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
900 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
901 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
902 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
903 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
904 JavaScript program is served from
905 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
906 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
907 to be independent of the existence and stability of
908 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
909 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
912 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
914 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
916 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
917 together with org-info.js.
919 *** Export improvements
921 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
922 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
923 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
926 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
927 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
928 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
929 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
930 this less system dependent in the future.
932 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
934 *** Improvements to clocktable
936 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
937 when trying to specify the time block that should be
938 considered when constructing the table.
940 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
944 |--------------+-----------------------|
945 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
946 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
947 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
948 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
950 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
951 | thisweek | The current week |
952 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
953 | thismonth | The current month |
954 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
955 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
958 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
959 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
960 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
961 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
962 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
963 will switch to the following week.
965 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
966 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
967 a request from Bernt Hansen.
969 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
970 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
971 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
972 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
973 configure the variable
974 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
975 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
976 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
978 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
980 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
981 the form =W08= for week 8.
983 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
984 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
985 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
986 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
987 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
988 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
989 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
990 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
991 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
992 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
993 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
995 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
996 specify an ISO week. For example
998 : w4 Monday of week 4
999 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
1000 : w4-5 Same as above
1001 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
1002 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
1004 So far I have not implemented the effect of
1005 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
1006 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
1007 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
1008 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
1009 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
1010 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1013 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1014 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1015 test extensively and report back.
1017 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1019 *** Improvements in Search View
1021 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1022 only in TODO entries.
1024 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1025 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1026 also match in "Nasim's".
1031 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1032 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1033 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1034 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1035 this excellent proposal.
1037 The regexp option is also implemented for
1038 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1039 properties for inheritance my name.
1041 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1042 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1043 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1044 if and only if the setting in
1045 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1048 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1049 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1050 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1051 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1052 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1053 customize them freely.
1055 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1056 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1057 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1058 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1059 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1060 default date, not switch to today.
1062 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1063 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1065 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1066 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1068 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1069 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1070 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1072 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1075 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1076 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1077 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1079 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1080 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1081 initial region if set.
1083 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1086 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1088 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1089 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1090 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1091 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1092 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1093 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1094 format. For example:
1097 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1098 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1101 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1103 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1104 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1105 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1106 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1108 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1115 - New keyword search agenda view
1117 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1119 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1121 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1123 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1125 - New repeaters mechanisms
1127 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1129 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1131 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1135 ** Incompatible changes
1137 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1138 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1143 *** New keyword search agenda view
1145 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1146 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1147 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1148 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1149 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1150 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1151 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1152 example, the search string
1154 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1156 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1157 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1158 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1159 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1160 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1161 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1162 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1163 (possibly sub-) heading.
1165 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1166 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1168 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1169 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1172 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1173 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1174 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1176 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1178 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1179 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1181 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1182 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1183 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1185 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1186 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1187 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1188 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1190 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1192 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1193 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1194 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1195 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1196 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1197 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1198 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1199 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1200 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1203 One possible application for this would be to have several
1204 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1205 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1206 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1207 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1208 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1210 : (setq org-remember-templates
1211 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1212 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1214 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1216 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1218 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1219 + In a table, add a hline as before
1220 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1221 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1222 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1223 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1224 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1225 item markers from all lines.
1227 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1229 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1230 + in a table, recompute, as before
1231 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1232 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1233 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1234 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1235 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1237 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1239 *** Changes related to time stamps
1241 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1242 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1243 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1244 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1245 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1246 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1247 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1248 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1249 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1251 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1253 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1254 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1256 :** TODO Call Father
1257 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1258 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1259 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1260 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1261 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1262 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1263 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1264 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1267 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1269 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1271 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1272 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1275 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1276 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1277 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1278 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1279 the previous content.
1281 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1283 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1284 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1285 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1287 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1291 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1292 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1293 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1294 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1297 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1298 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1299 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1302 - There are three new hooks:
1304 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1305 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1306 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1310 ** Incompatible changes
1312 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1313 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1314 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1318 *** Changes to logging progress
1320 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1321 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1322 sections in the manual. Basically:
1324 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1325 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1326 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1327 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1328 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1329 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1330 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1331 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1333 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1334 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1335 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1336 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1337 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1339 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1340 : Here we not even define a fast access
1341 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1343 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1347 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1348 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1349 of the line) before the current line.
1351 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1352 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1353 create a new line below the current one.
1357 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1358 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1365 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1367 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1368 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1370 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1372 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1373 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1374 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1376 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1378 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1380 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1384 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1386 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1388 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1390 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1392 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1394 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1396 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1398 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1402 ** Incompatible Changes
1404 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1405 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1406 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1410 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1412 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1413 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1415 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1416 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1418 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1419 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1420 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1421 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1422 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1423 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1426 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1427 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1430 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1431 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1432 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1434 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1435 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1436 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1437 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1438 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1439 Possible values are:
1441 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1443 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1444 path to select a location.
1445 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1448 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1449 they are always current.
1451 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1452 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1453 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1454 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1455 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1456 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1457 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1458 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1460 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1461 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1462 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1463 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1464 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1465 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1466 interface. Comments?
1471 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1472 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1473 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1474 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1475 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1477 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1478 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1480 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1481 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1483 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1484 headline up to the tags.
1485 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1487 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1489 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1490 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1491 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1492 request by Austin Frank.
1494 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1495 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1496 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1498 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1499 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1500 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1501 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1503 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1504 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1505 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1506 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1507 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1508 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1509 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1510 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1511 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1512 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1513 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1516 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1517 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1518 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1519 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1527 will file is with the following property
1529 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1531 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1532 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1533 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1535 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1536 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1545 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1547 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1549 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1551 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1553 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1555 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1557 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1559 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1561 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1565 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1566 entries in a subtree. For example
1568 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1570 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1571 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1572 request by Bernt Hansen.
1574 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1575 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1576 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1577 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1578 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1579 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1580 interactively select the filing location (file and
1581 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1582 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1583 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1584 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1585 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1587 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1588 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1589 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1590 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1591 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1594 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1595 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1596 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1597 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1598 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1599 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1600 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1603 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1604 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1605 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1608 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1609 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1610 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1611 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1612 explain here, complex.
1614 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1615 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1616 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1618 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1619 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1620 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1622 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1634 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1635 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1636 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1637 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1638 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1639 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1640 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1641 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1642 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1643 subtree motion commands.
1645 - Plain lists items work the same.
1647 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1648 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1649 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1652 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1653 let me know about any problems.
1657 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1658 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1659 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1660 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1661 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1663 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1664 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1665 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1666 history variable. For example:
1668 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1670 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1671 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1672 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1673 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1674 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1675 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1676 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1677 by Bastien and Adam.
1679 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1680 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1681 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1682 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1686 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1687 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1690 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1691 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1692 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1693 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1694 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1695 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1701 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1703 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1704 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1705 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1706 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1707 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1708 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1709 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1710 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1713 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1714 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1715 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1716 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1718 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1719 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1720 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
1721 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1723 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1724 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1725 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1726 select a new restriction.
1728 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1730 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1732 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1734 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1735 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1737 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1738 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1739 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1742 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1743 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1744 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1746 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1747 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1748 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1749 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1750 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1756 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1757 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1758 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1760 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1761 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1762 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1771 + Remember and related stuff
1772 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1773 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1774 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1775 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1777 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1778 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1779 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1780 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1781 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1782 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1783 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1785 + Properties and Column view
1786 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1787 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1788 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1789 - New currency summary type {$}
1791 + The date/time prompt
1792 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1793 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1794 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1797 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1798 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1801 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1804 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1805 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1806 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1807 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1808 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1810 ** Incompatible changes
1812 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1813 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1814 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1816 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1817 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1818 prompted, like this:
1820 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1822 : (org-remember ?n))
1824 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1825 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1827 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1829 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1831 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1832 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1836 *** Remember and related stuff
1838 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1839 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1840 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1841 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1842 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1843 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1844 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1845 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1846 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1847 definitions. For example:
1849 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1851 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1854 : (setq org-refile-targets
1855 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1857 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1858 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1859 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1860 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1863 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1864 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1866 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1867 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1868 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1869 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1870 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1872 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1873 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1875 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1877 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1878 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1879 : %[..] include file
1881 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1883 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1884 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1885 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1888 : (require 'remember)
1889 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1890 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1891 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1893 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1894 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1895 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1897 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1899 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1901 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1903 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1904 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1905 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1906 the default in Org-mode.
1908 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1909 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1910 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1911 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1913 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1914 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1915 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1916 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1917 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1919 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1920 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1921 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1922 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1925 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1926 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1927 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1928 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1929 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1931 *** Properties and Column view
1933 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1934 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1937 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1938 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1939 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1940 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1941 discussion around this issue.
1943 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1944 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1945 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1946 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1947 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1948 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1949 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1950 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1952 *** The date/time prompt
1954 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1957 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1958 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1959 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1960 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1961 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1963 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1964 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1965 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1966 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1967 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1968 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1969 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1970 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1971 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1973 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1974 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1975 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1976 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1977 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1979 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1981 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1982 list of newly performed conversions:
1984 | Org | Description | HTML |
1985 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1986 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1987 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1988 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1989 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1991 You can turn this globally on or off with
1992 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1993 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1994 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1995 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1997 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1998 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
2002 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
2003 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
2004 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
2005 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
2006 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
2007 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
2009 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
2011 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
2012 export by setting it either globally
2013 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2014 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2015 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2016 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2017 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2020 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2021 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2022 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2024 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2025 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2027 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2028 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2031 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2032 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2033 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2040 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2041 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2042 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2044 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2045 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2046 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2047 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2048 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2050 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2051 with extension matched by the new variable
2052 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2061 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2062 + All known bugs fixed.
2063 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2064 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2065 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2067 - The agenda dispatcher
2068 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2069 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2071 - Sorting improvements
2072 + User-defined sorting keys.
2073 + Sorting by properties.
2074 + Sorting of plain lists.
2076 - HTML <div> structure
2079 + New variables, several of them.
2080 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2081 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2082 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2083 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2087 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2089 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2090 (at least I hope so...).
2092 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2093 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2095 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2096 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2097 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2099 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2100 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2101 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2105 : :ID: planning-overview
2111 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2115 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2116 be prompted for the ID.
2118 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2119 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2120 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2121 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2122 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2125 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2127 *** The agenda dispatcher
2129 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2130 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2131 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2132 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2133 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2134 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2135 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2136 them to custom commands.
2138 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2139 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2140 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2141 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2143 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2144 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2145 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2146 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2147 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2149 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2150 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2153 *** Sorting improvements
2155 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2156 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2158 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2159 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2161 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2164 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2166 *** HTML <div> structure
2168 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2170 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2171 "table-of-contents".
2173 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2174 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2176 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2177 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2179 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2180 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2182 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2183 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2187 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2188 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2189 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2192 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2194 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2196 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2197 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2198 your properties will not be folded away.
2199 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2201 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2202 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2203 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2205 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2206 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2207 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2208 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2209 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2211 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2212 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2213 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2214 a proposal by Bastien.
2216 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2217 request by Wanrong Lin.
2219 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2220 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2221 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2227 - Remember templates can now have name.
2228 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2229 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2230 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2231 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2232 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2233 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2234 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2235 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2236 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2237 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2239 ** Incompatible Changes
2241 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2245 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2246 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2247 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2248 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2249 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2250 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2252 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2253 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2254 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2256 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2257 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2259 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2260 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2261 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2262 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2264 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2265 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2266 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2268 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2269 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2270 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2271 Wiegley for a patch.
2273 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2274 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2275 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2276 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2277 with full completion support.
2279 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2280 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2281 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2283 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2284 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2287 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2288 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2289 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2290 well tested yet, please check it out.
2298 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2299 - Command to jump to the running clock
2300 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2301 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2302 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2303 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2304 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2305 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2306 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2307 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2308 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2310 ** Incompatible changes
2312 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2313 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2315 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2316 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2317 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2319 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2320 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2323 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2328 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2329 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2332 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2335 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2338 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2339 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2340 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2341 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2342 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2344 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2345 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2346 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2347 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2349 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2350 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2351 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2352 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2353 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2354 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2355 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2356 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2357 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2359 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2360 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2361 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2362 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2363 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2364 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2365 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2366 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2367 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2369 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2370 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2371 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2372 being prompted for a template, like this:
2374 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2376 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2378 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2379 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2380 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2381 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2383 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2384 (also `s' does this).
2386 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2387 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2390 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2391 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2392 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2394 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2395 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2396 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2398 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2399 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2400 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2401 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2409 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2410 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2411 - CSV support when importing a table.
2412 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2413 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2414 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2415 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2416 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2417 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2422 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2423 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2426 : * Tree with special properties
2428 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2429 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2432 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2433 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2434 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2435 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2436 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2437 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2438 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2439 encourage you to stop using them.
2441 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2442 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2443 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2444 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2448 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2449 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2450 | file | the full current buffer |
2451 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2452 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2453 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2454 | agenda | all agenda files |
2456 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2457 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2458 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2459 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2462 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2463 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2464 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2465 basic input it works.
2467 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2468 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2469 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2470 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2472 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2473 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2476 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2477 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2479 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2481 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2482 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2483 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2484 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2485 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2487 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2488 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2489 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2490 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2491 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2494 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2495 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2496 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2497 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2498 the children has that particular property defined, the
2499 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2500 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2501 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2502 is a better way of doing things.
2504 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2505 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2506 testing is appreciated.
2508 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2509 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2510 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2511 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2513 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2514 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2515 links in square or angular brackets.
2523 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2526 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2527 agenda can be configured.
2529 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2531 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2533 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2535 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2537 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2538 inherited from the outline faces.
2540 ** Incompatible Changes
2542 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2543 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2544 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2545 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2546 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2551 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2552 switching to that state. With the setting
2554 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2555 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2557 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2560 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2561 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2562 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2563 own function. Configure the new variable
2564 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2565 this development with a patch.
2567 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2568 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2569 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2570 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2571 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2572 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2573 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2575 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2576 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2577 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2578 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2579 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2580 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2581 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2583 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2584 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2587 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2588 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2589 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2590 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2591 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2592 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2593 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2595 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2596 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2597 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2598 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2599 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2600 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2601 match the current org-mode faces.
2603 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2607 ** Incompatible changes
2609 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2613 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2614 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2615 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2617 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2619 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2620 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2621 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2622 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2623 command fall back to cycling.
2625 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2626 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2627 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2628 interface anyway, set the variable
2629 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2630 others for input on this issue.
2632 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2633 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2634 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2636 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2637 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2639 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2640 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2642 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2644 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2645 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2646 `format-time-string', for example:
2648 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2650 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2651 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2652 included) have changed this.
2654 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2655 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2656 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2657 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2658 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2659 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2660 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2666 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2668 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2670 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2672 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2674 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2676 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2678 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2680 ** Incompatible changes
2682 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2683 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2685 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2689 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2690 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2691 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2693 A Here is a configuration example:
2695 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2696 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2697 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2698 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2701 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2702 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2704 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2705 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2706 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2707 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2708 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2709 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2710 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2711 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2712 states, just like you also do for tags.
2714 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2715 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2717 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2718 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2719 switch the entry to that state.
2721 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2722 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2723 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2726 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2728 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2729 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2730 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2731 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2733 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2734 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2736 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2737 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2738 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2739 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2740 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2742 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2743 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2744 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2747 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2748 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2749 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2750 the file will simply be skipped.
2760 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2761 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2762 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2763 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2764 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2765 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2766 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2767 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2770 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2771 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2772 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2773 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2774 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2775 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2776 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2777 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2778 the special locations.
2780 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2783 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2786 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2787 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2788 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2790 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2791 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2792 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2798 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2800 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2802 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2804 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2806 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2808 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2810 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2812 - Global values for selected properties.
2819 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2820 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2821 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2822 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2823 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2824 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2825 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2826 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2828 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2829 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2830 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2831 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2832 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2833 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2834 currently how to handle the new link types for
2837 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2838 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2839 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2840 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2843 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2844 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2845 The syntax is like this
2847 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2849 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2852 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2854 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2855 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2856 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2858 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2861 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2862 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2863 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2864 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2867 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2868 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2869 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2870 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2871 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2872 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2875 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2876 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2877 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2880 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2881 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2882 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2883 `org-global-properties', like this:
2885 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2887 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2889 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2891 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2892 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2893 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2894 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2895 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2896 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2904 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2905 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2906 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2907 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2909 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2910 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2911 this stuff into the drawer.
2912 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2914 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2915 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2917 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2918 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2920 - Lots of minor fixes.
2924 ** Incompatible Changes
2926 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2927 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2928 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2932 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2933 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2934 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2936 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2937 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2938 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2939 know if we need to make this customizable.
2941 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2942 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2943 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2944 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2945 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2947 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2956 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2959 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2960 compute their value from the children's values.
2962 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2963 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2966 ** Incompatible Changes
2968 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2969 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2970 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2971 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2976 - Improvements for properties:
2978 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2979 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2981 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2982 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2983 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2984 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2985 typos when entering properties.
2987 - Improvements for column view.
2989 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2990 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2993 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2994 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2995 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2996 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2999 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
3000 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
3003 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
3004 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
3005 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
3007 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
3008 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
3009 beginning of a line. So
3011 : * This is a level 1 headline
3012 : *this is bold text*
3014 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3015 available in orgstruct-mode.
3021 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3022 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3024 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3025 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3026 open if explicitly asked.
3028 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3030 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3031 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3034 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3035 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3038 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3040 ** Incompatible changes
3042 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3043 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3044 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3045 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3046 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3047 that this is the better convention.
3051 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3053 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3054 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3055 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3056 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3057 easily create lists.
3059 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3060 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3061 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3062 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3063 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3064 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3065 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3066 minor modes have assigned to them.
3068 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3069 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3070 the promised implementation.
3074 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3075 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3076 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3077 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3078 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3081 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3083 you can then create drawers like this:
3086 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3087 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3090 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3091 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3093 *** Properties and Column View
3095 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3096 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3097 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3098 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3099 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3100 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3102 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3104 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3105 program using properties, use the functions
3106 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3107 and `org-entry-delete'.
3109 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3112 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3113 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3114 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3115 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3116 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3117 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3119 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3122 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3124 will find entries that
3127 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3128 - are TODO status WAITING.
3130 So here is an entry that will match:
3132 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3137 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3138 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3141 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3143 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3144 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3145 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3146 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3147 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3148 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3149 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3150 can set up different property columns on different levels
3151 of an outline tree. For example:
3155 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3159 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3162 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3164 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3167 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3170 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3171 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3173 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3174 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3175 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3176 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3177 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3178 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3181 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3182 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3184 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3185 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3186 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3187 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3188 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3189 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3191 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3192 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3195 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3197 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3199 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3200 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3201 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3203 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3204 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3205 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3206 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3211 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3212 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3213 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3214 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3215 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3216 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3217 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3220 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3221 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3222 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3223 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3224 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3231 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3233 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3234 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3235 constants can now be set with a line like:
3237 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3241 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3242 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3245 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3247 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3251 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3252 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3253 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3254 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3261 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3262 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3263 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3264 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3266 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3267 See manual section 3.5.3.
3269 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3270 This was a request from Ignotus.
3271 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3273 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3274 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3275 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3279 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3280 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3281 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3282 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3283 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3289 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3290 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3292 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3294 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3296 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3298 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3300 ** Incompatible changes
3302 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3303 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3304 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3305 with the xemacs version. For example:
3307 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3309 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3310 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3311 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3312 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3313 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3317 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3318 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3319 interval on a single day. For example
3321 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3323 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3324 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3325 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3326 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3328 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3331 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3332 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3336 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3338 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3339 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3340 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3341 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3342 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3343 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3344 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3345 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3346 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3347 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3348 stick to the ASCII characters.
3350 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3351 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3352 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3353 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3354 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3356 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3358 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3359 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3360 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3362 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3363 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3364 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3365 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3366 if we can agree on this:
3368 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3369 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3370 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3371 out to a previous level. For example
3379 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3388 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3389 using promotion and demotion functions.
3395 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3396 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3398 ** Incompatible changes
3400 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3404 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3405 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3406 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3407 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3408 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3409 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3410 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3412 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3413 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3414 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3415 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3416 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3417 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3418 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3420 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3421 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3422 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3423 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3424 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3427 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3428 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3429 wherever you want a vertical line:
3431 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3432 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3433 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3435 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3436 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3438 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3439 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3440 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3441 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3442 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3443 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3444 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3445 behavior we had before.
3447 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3449 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3450 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3451 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3452 special characters in other languages as along as your
3453 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3454 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3455 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3461 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3465 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3467 [1]This is a footnote
3469 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3470 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3472 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3474 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3475 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3478 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3484 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3485 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3487 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3488 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3489 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3490 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3492 ** Incompatible Changes
3494 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3495 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3499 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3500 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3502 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3504 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3505 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3506 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3507 collect your credit, let me know!
3509 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3510 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3512 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3513 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3515 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3516 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3517 would in the diary. For example
3519 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3521 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3523 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3524 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3526 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3528 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3529 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3530 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3531 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3532 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3533 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3534 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3535 faster agenda display.
3537 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3538 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3539 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3540 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3541 to Raman for this idea.
3543 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3544 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3545 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3548 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3549 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3550 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3554 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3556 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3557 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3559 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3560 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3561 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3562 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3565 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3566 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3568 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3569 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3570 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3571 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3573 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3574 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3575 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3576 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3578 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3579 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3586 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3587 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3588 further processing in scripts.
3590 ** Incompatible Changes
3592 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3593 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3597 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3598 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3599 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3600 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3603 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3604 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3605 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3606 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3607 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3608 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3609 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3610 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3612 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3613 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3614 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3615 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3617 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3618 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3619 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3621 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3631 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3633 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3635 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3637 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3639 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3641 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3643 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3647 ** Incompatible changes
3649 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3650 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3653 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3654 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3655 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3656 `org-disputed-keys'.
3658 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3659 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3660 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3664 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3665 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3666 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3667 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3668 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3669 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3670 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3671 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3672 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3673 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3674 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3676 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3677 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3678 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3679 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3681 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3682 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3684 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3685 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3686 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3687 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3689 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3690 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3691 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3692 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3693 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3694 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3695 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3696 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3698 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3700 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3701 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3702 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3703 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3704 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3705 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3706 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3709 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3710 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3711 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3712 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3713 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3714 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3717 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3718 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3719 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3720 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3721 indicates a non-stuck project.
3723 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3724 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3725 please let me know if you find problems.
3727 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3728 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3734 ** Incompatible changes
3738 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3739 exported HTML. These are the variables
3740 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3741 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3744 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3745 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3746 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3748 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3749 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3750 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3751 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3752 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3753 that are scanned for the agenda.
3761 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3762 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3763 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3765 ** Incompatible changes
3767 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3771 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3773 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3775 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3777 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3778 list (and which is also works!)
3780 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3781 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3783 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3784 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3785 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3786 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3787 toward using the latter.
3789 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3790 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3791 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3792 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3794 (setq org-todo-keywords
3795 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3796 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3797 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3798 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3801 If your setting has this new structure,
3802 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3803 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3804 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3805 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3807 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3808 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3809 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3810 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3811 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3814 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3815 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3816 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3817 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3818 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3819 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3820 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3822 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3823 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3824 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3825 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3826 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3828 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3829 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3830 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3831 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3832 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3833 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3834 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3835 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3836 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3843 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3845 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3846 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3847 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3848 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3849 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3850 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3853 ** Incompatible changes
3855 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3856 over several lines, like
3859 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3862 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3863 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3864 See below for details.
3866 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3867 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3868 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3869 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3874 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3875 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3878 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3879 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3880 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3882 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3883 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3884 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3885 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3886 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3887 where you want to be.
3889 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3890 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3891 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3894 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3895 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3897 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3898 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3900 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3902 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3903 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3904 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3905 new in-buffer option
3909 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3910 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3911 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3912 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3914 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3915 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3916 can be done by setting the variable
3917 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3919 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3925 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3927 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3928 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3929 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3930 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3931 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3933 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3935 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3936 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3939 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3940 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3941 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3942 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3943 are logging all state changes.
3945 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3950 - Priority handling in the tags view
3951 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3952 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3953 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3954 - C-j does better indentation.
3958 - Priority handling in the tags view
3960 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3961 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3963 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3965 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3966 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3967 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3969 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3971 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3973 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3974 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3975 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3976 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3977 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3978 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3979 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3981 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3984 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3986 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3988 + There is now a menu with commands.
3990 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3991 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3993 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3994 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3996 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3997 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
4001 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
4002 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
4003 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
4005 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
4006 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
4011 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
4012 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4013 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4014 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4016 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4017 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4018 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4028 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4029 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4030 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4032 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4033 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4034 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4035 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4036 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4037 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4038 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4040 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4041 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4042 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4044 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4046 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4047 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4049 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4050 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4052 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4053 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4054 levels. For example:
4056 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4058 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4059 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4060 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4063 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4064 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4065 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4066 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4068 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4069 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4078 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4079 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4080 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4081 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4083 ** Detailed description of changes
4085 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4086 any table in any mode.
4088 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4089 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4090 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4091 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4092 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4093 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4095 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4096 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4097 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4098 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4099 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4101 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4102 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4103 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4104 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4105 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4106 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4107 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4110 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4111 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4112 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4113 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4114 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4115 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4116 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4117 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4118 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4119 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4120 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4121 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4123 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4124 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4125 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4126 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4132 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4133 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4134 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4135 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4136 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4138 ** Detailed description of changes
4140 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4141 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4142 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4144 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4146 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4147 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4149 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4151 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4152 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4153 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4155 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4156 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4157 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4159 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4160 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4161 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4163 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4164 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4166 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4168 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4169 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4170 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4171 remember.el work like this as well).
4172 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4173 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4174 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4175 new template, but the old context information. This is
4176 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4179 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4180 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4181 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4182 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4183 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4184 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4185 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4186 without interaction.
4188 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4189 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4190 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4191 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4192 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4193 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4195 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4196 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4197 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4198 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4200 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4201 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4202 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4203 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4204 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4205 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4211 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4212 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4214 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4215 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4216 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4217 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4218 + Incompatible changes
4219 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4220 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4221 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4222 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4223 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4224 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4225 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4229 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4230 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4231 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4232 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4233 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4234 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4235 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4236 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4240 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4241 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4242 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4243 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4244 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4245 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4246 - Empty entries go full circle.
4247 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4252 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4255 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4256 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4257 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4258 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4259 another, dedicated frame.
4260 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4261 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4264 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4265 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4266 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4267 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4268 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4269 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4270 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4271 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4272 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4273 use regular expressions.
4274 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4275 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4276 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4280 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4281 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4282 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4289 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4290 + show status also in target line.
4291 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4292 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4293 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4297 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4298 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4299 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4300 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4304 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4305 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4310 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4311 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4312 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4316 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4317 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4318 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4319 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4320 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4321 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4322 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4323 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4324 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4325 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4326 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4331 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4332 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4333 - File links can contain environment variables.
4334 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4338 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4339 each block created by a different agenda command.
4340 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4341 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4342 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4343 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4344 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4345 upon the agenda type.
4346 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4347 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4348 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4349 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4350 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4351 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4352 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4353 - More minor bug fixes.
4356 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4357 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4358 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4362 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4363 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4364 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4368 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4371 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4372 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4373 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4381 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4382 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4384 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4385 LaTeX environment and math.
4388 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4390 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4391 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4392 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4396 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4397 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4400 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4401 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4402 and will not lead to conflicts.
4403 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4407 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4408 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4409 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4410 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4411 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4412 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4413 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4419 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4420 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4423 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4424 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4425 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4426 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4427 directories for different export types.
4428 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4429 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4436 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4437 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4438 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4439 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4440 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4441 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4442 relative and absolute paths.
4443 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4444 - Bug and typo fixes.
4448 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4449 contains a description or not.
4450 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4451 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4452 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4453 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4454 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4455 for all available exporters.
4456 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4462 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4463 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4464 end of the HTML file.
4465 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4466 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4467 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4468 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4474 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4475 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4476 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4477 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4487 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4488 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4491 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4492 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4493 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4494 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4495 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4496 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4497 - New structure for the customization tree.
4502 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4506 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4507 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4508 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4509 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4510 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4515 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4516 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4517 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4518 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4522 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4523 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4526 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4527 - Various small bug fixes
4530 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4531 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4532 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4533 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4534 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4535 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4536 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4537 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4538 next buffer change due to editing).
4541 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4542 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4543 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4544 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4547 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4548 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4549 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4550 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4551 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4552 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4553 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4554 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4555 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4556 - support for cascading style sheets.
4557 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4558 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4565 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4569 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4572 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4573 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4574 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4575 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4576 and are not linked to the calendar.
4577 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4578 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4579 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4580 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4583 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4584 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4585 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4586 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4587 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4590 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4591 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4592 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4593 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4596 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4597 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4600 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4601 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4602 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4603 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4604 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4605 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4609 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4610 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4611 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4612 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4613 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4614 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4615 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4616 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4617 - Improved html export of tables.
4618 - Various clean-up changes.
4621 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4625 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4626 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4630 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4631 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4635 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4636 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4637 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4640 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4641 - New startup option `content'.
4642 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4643 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4644 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4647 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4648 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4649 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4650 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4651 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4652 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4655 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4656 table shape when typing in fields.
4657 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4658 into arbitrary major modes.
4659 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4660 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4661 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4664 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4665 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4666 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4668 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4669 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4670 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4671 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4672 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4674 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4675 - Sorting fully configurable.
4676 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4677 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4681 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4682 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4683 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4684 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4685 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4686 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4687 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4690 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4691 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4692 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4693 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4694 - Priorities for TODO items.
4695 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4696 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4697 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4702 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4703 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4704 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4705 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4706 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4707 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4708 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4709 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4710 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4711 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4712 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4713 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4714 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4715 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4716 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4719 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4720 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4721 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4722 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4723 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4724 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4725 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4726 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4727 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4728 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4729 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4730 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4733 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4734 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4735 - Date ranges introduced.
4736 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4737 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4738 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4739 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4740 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4741 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4742 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4745 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4746 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4747 - Fully automatic table editor.
4748 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4749 - Other link system changes
4750 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4751 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4752 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4753 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4754 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4755 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4756 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4758 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4759 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4760 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4761 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4762 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4763 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4765 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4769 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4770 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4771 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4772 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4776 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents