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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
7 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
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20 - New, more CSS-like setup for HTML style information
21 - Attributes in hyperlinks, for example alt and title for images
22 - Simplified way to specify file links
23 - Modified behavior of time stamps in iCalendar export
24 - New way to compare times during a property search
25 - New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
26 - New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
27 - New option :index-style for org-publish
28 - New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
30 ** Incompatible changes
32 *** New structure for the timestamp directory for org-publish.
34 The timestamp directory now uses SHA1 hashed versions of the
35 path to each publishing file. This should be a consistent
36 and system-independent way to handle things. The change
37 means that your next publishing command will publish each and
38 every file again, but just once, until new time stamps are in
43 *** New setup for HTML style information
45 In order to create a more CSS-like setup of the HTML style
46 information, the following changes have been made:
47 - The default style has moved to a constant,
48 =org-export-html-style-default= and should not be changed
50 - The default of the variable =org-export-html-style= is now
51 just the empty string. This variable should receive
52 settings that are Org-wide. When using org-publish, this
53 variable is associated with the =:style= property and can
54 be used to establish project-wide settings.
55 - There is a new variable =org-export-html-style-extra= that
56 should be used for file-local settings. Org-publish can, if
57 necessary, access this variable with the =:style-extra=
59 - When a file is published, the values of
60 - org-export-html-style-default
61 - org-export-html-style
62 - org-export-html-style-extra
63 are all inserted into the HTML header, in the given
66 This follows a proposal by Rustom Mody.
68 *** Attributes in hyperlinks
70 You can now set attributes in hyperlinks that will be used
71 when publishing to HTML. For example, if you want to use the
72 ALT and TITLE attributes of an inlined image, here is who to
75 : [[./img/a.jpg{{alt="This is image A" title="Image with no action"}}] ]
77 Thanks to Charles Chen for this idea.
79 *** Simplified way to specify file links
81 In a link, you can now leave out the "file:" prefix if you
82 write an absolute file name like =/Users/dominik/.emacs= or
83 =~/.emacs=, or if you write a relative file name by using
84 =./= or =../= to start the file path. You cannot write a
85 plain file name, because plain text is interpreted as an
88 So for example, a link to an image /A.jpg/ with a thumbnail
89 /B.jpg/ can now be written like
95 *** Changes in iCalendar export
97 Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
98 differently in iCalendar export. The default behavior is now
101 - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
102 used as the item's DUE date. Therefore, such a deadline
103 will no longer show up in the calendar.
105 - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
106 item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
109 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
110 items DTSTART. Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
113 - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
114 effect on iCalendar export at all. It will be ignored.
116 Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
117 exactly what you want. Take a look at the variables
118 =org-icalendar-use-deadlines= and
119 =org-icalendar-use-scheduled= if you want to go back to the
120 old behavior or even do something completely different.
122 Thanks to Karen Cooke for triggering this change.
124 *** New way to compare times during a property search
126 If the comparison value in a property search is a string that
127 is enclosed in angular brackets, a time comparison will be
130 : +DEADLINE>="<2008-12-24 15:20>"
132 looks for entries with a deadline on or after that time.
133 Special allowed values are "<now>" (with time) and "<today>"
136 This is based on a request by Manish.
138 *** New option `org-open-directory-means-index'
140 When set, a link pointing to a directory will actually open
141 the index.org file in that directory. This is a good setting
142 inside a publishing project. When not set, you get a
143 finder/explorer window for that directory, or dired,
144 depending on system and setup.
146 This follows a request by Richard Riley.
148 *** New parameters :prefix and :prefix1 for include files
150 These parameters specify prefixes for each line of included
151 text. :prefix1 is only for the first line, :prefix for all
154 This follows a proposal by Richard Riley.
156 *** New option :index-style for org-publish
158 This option can be used to switch the style of the index
159 produced by org-publish. Can be `list' (index is just an
160 itemized list of the titles of the files involved) or `tree'
161 (the directory structure of the source files is reflected in
162 the index). The default is `tree'.
164 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for the patch.
168 If I were to name my releases, this one would be called "Adam".
169 Adam, you definitely owe me a beer :-). And I owe you one, too -
170 thanks for all the great ideas.
174 - Use cursor position in agenda for remember, scheduling and deadlines
175 - New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
176 - Remember templates can be filed to beginning/end of a file
177 - Visiting a filed remember buffer immediately
178 - BBDB anniversaries are now links
179 - Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
180 - The format of section numbers in exported files is configurable
181 - Direct, single key access to allowed values in column view
182 - New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
183 - Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK line
185 ** Incompatible changes
187 *** `C-c C-x C-k' now calls `org-mark-entry-for-agenda-action'
188 It used to call =org-cut-special=, but that is also at bound
189 to the key =C-c C-x C-w=.
192 *** Making use of the cursor position in the agenda
194 The date at the cursor in the agenda (and also in the
195 calendar) can now be used to schedule entries, or to set the
196 date in a remember template correctly. It is also designed
197 to make it easier to move an entry to a date picked in the
198 agenda. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for starting the thread
199 that led to this development.
201 **** Calling remember with the cursor date in the agenda
203 If you want to use the date at the agenda cursor in a
204 remember template, start remember from the agenda with the
205 keys =k r=. While the template is being filled in, the
206 default date for all time stamps, and also for all
207 interactive escapes like =%^t= is now the date at the cursor
208 in the agenda. The exact same command can also be used from
209 the calendar if you prefer that.
211 **** Picking a date for scheduling/deadline in the agenda
213 You may now pick the date for scheduling an item or for
214 setting a deadline in the agenda, where you have the best
215 overview over free time slots. This is a two step process.
217 1. First you pick the entry that should be acted upon. In
218 the agenda, you use the keys =k m=. In an org-mode file,
219 this is on =C-c C-x C-k=.
221 2. Then you find the agenda date you want to apply. When the
222 cursor is anywhere in the block belonging to that date,
223 press =k s= to schedule, or =k d= to put a deadline. The
224 agenda is not updated immediately, press =r= if you want
225 it to show the affected entry in the right place.
227 *** New API for mapping a function over all or selected entries
229 Org has sophisticated mapping capabilities to find all
230 entries satisfying certain criteria. Internally, this
231 functionality is used to produce agenda views, but there is
232 also an API that can be used to execute arbitrary functions
233 for each or selected entries. The main entry point for this
237 -- Function: org-map-entries func &optional match scope &rest skip
238 Call FUNC at each headline selected by MATCH in SCOPE.
240 FUNC is a function or a lisp form. The function will be
241 called without arguments, with the cursor positioned at
242 the beginning of the headline. The return values of all
243 calls to the function will be collected and returned as
246 MATCH is a tags/property/todo match as it is used in the
247 agenda tags view. Only headlines that are matched by
248 this query will be considered during the iteration.
249 When MATCH is nil or t, all headlines will be visited by
252 SCOPE determines the scope of this command, it can
253 specify a file, all agenda files, the current tree and
256 The remaining args are treated as settings for the
257 skipping facilities of the scanner.
260 The function given to that mapping routine can really do anything
261 you like. Here is a simple example that will turn all entries in
262 the current file with a tag =TOMORROW= into TODO entries with the
263 keyword =UPCOMING=. Entries in comment trees and in archive
264 trees will be ignored.
266 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
268 '(org-todo "UPCOMING")
269 "+TOMORROW" 'file 'archive 'comment)
272 The following example counts the number of entries with TODO
273 keyword =WAITING=, in all agenda files.
275 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
276 (length (org-map-entries t "/+WAITING" nil 'agenda))
279 *** Changes in Remember templates
281 **** Remember templates can now use the cursor date in the agenda
282 Use =k r= to start remember from the agenda, with enforcing
283 the cursor date as default for any time stamps created by
286 **** Filing remember templates to the beginning or end of a file
287 You may now set the heading part of a remember template
288 definition to `top' or `bottom'. The template will then be
289 filed as a level 1 entry to the beginning or end of the
290 target file, respectively. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
293 **** You can jump to the location of a note immediately after filing it
294 Just include the =%&= escape anywhere in the template. An
295 interesting combination now is to use =%!%&=, which will
296 immediately file and visit the note, which is equivalent to
297 generating the note directly in the target location. Thanks
298 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
300 *** BBDB anniversaries are now links.
301 If you are using =%%(bbdb-anniversaries)= to list
302 anniversaries in the agenda, you can now directly access the
303 entry that triggered a listed anniversary from the agenda.
304 Just click the anniversary - it is a link now. Thanks to
305 Thomas Baumann for a patch to this effect.
307 *** Column view in the agenda now cleans the ITEM field
309 =org-agenda-columns-remove-prefix-from-item=. Thanks to Adam
310 Spiers for this proposal.
312 *** The format of section number in exported files is configurable
314 See the new variable `org-export-section-number-format'.
315 Thanks to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
317 *** Direct access to allowed values in column view
319 In column view, if you press a key 1-9 or 0, the
320 corresponding values from the list of allowed values for that
321 field at point will be directly selected. Thanks to Levin Du
322 for this proposal and a patch to this effect.
324 *** New hook to hack exported iCalendar files
325 The new hook `org-before-save-iCalendar-file-hook' runs just
326 before the buffer with a created iCalendar export is saved.
327 This is what I settled for after a long discussion with Adam
328 Spiers about doing some special filtering automatically.
330 *** Log mode in agenda now shows end time for CLOCK lines
331 When turning on log mode in the agenda with =l=, clock lines
332 will now also list the end time, not only the starting time.
333 Thanks to Tian Qiu for bringing this up again.
338 - Statistics cookies [/] and [%] for TODO entries
339 - Editing source code example in the proper mode
340 - iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
341 - New properties for customizing subtree export
343 ** Incompatible changes
345 - The default of the variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels' is
346 now `t'. The main reason for this is that it is easier to
347 explain in the manual and will lead to fewer surprises.
349 - The former CONTRIB directory is now called "contrib". This was
350 already the case in the git distribution, but the tar and zip
351 archives still did this wrong.
355 *** Statistics for TODO entries
357 The [/] and [%] cookies have already provided statistics for
358 checkboxes. Now they do the same also for TODO entries. If a
359 headline contains either cookie, changing the TODO state of any
360 direct child will trigger an update of this cookie. Children
361 that are neither TODO nor DONE are ignored.
363 There have already been requests to automatically switch the
364 parent headline to DONE when all children are done. I am not
365 making this a default feature, because one needs to make many
366 decisions about which keyword to use, etc. Instead of a complex
367 customization variable, I am providing a hook that can be used.
368 This hook will be called each time a TODO statistics cookie is
369 updated, with the cursor in the corresponding line. Each
370 function in the hook will receive two arguments, the number of
371 done entries, and the number of not-done entries, and you can use
372 the hook to change the state of the headline. Here is an example
375 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
376 (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
377 "Switch entry to DONE when all sub-entries are done, to TODO otherwise."
378 (let (org-log-done org-log-states) ; turn off logging
379 (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0) "DONE" "TODO"))))
381 (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
384 *** Editing source code example in the proper mode
386 If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
387 include these examples into a =#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC= or
388 (with the org-mtags module loaded) a =<src...= structure. =lang=
389 stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this
390 could be =emacs-lisp= for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or =org= for
391 Org mode examples. You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c
392 followed by the single quote) to edit the example in its native
393 mode. This works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to
394 the example and setting the appropriate mode. You need to exit
395 editing by pressing "C-c '" again. This is important, because
396 lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted by
397 calling this command.
399 "C-c '" also edits include files, the setupfile in a =#+setufile=
400 line, and all those little foreign snippets like:
403 ,#+HTML: this code can be edited in html-mode
409 ,#+LaTeX: this code can be edited in latex-mode
416 ,Here we can edit in fortran-mode
420 *** iCalendar now defines proper UIDs for entries
422 This is necessary for synchronization services. The UIDs are
423 created using the the org-id.el module which is now part of the
424 Org core. If you set the variable
426 : (setq org-icalendar-store-UID t)
428 then all created UIDs will be stored in the entry as an =:ID:=
429 property. This is off by default because it creates lots of
430 property drawers even if you only play with iCalendar export.
431 But if you plan to use synchronization, you really need to turn
434 Diary sexp entries do not yet receive proper persistent UIDs,
435 because they are transformed to iCalendar format by icalendar.el
436 which creates fresh UIDs each time, based on the current time.
438 An interesting aspect of Org is that a single outline node can
439 give rise to multiple iCalendar entries (as a timestamp, a
440 deadline, a scheduled item, and as a TODO item). Therefore, Org
441 adds prefixes "TS-", "DL-" "CS-", and "TD-" to the UID during
442 iCalendar export, depending on what triggered the inclusion of
443 the entry. In this way the UID remains unique, but a
444 synchronization program can still figure out from which entry all
445 the different instances originate.
447 *** New properties for customizing subtree export.
449 When exporting a subtree by selecting it before calling the
450 export command, you can now use the properties =EXPORT_TITLE=,
451 =EXPORT_TEXT=, and =EXPORT_OPTIONS= to overrule the global
452 =#+TITLE=, =#+TEXT=, and =#+OPTIONS= settings. You can also set
453 an export file name with =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= that will overrule
454 the file name derived from the buffer's file name. As far as the
455 options are concerned, the global =#+OPTIONS= will still be read,
456 and only the options you give in the property will be
457 overwritten. For example:
463 , :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ct.html
464 , :EXPORT_TITLE: Steve's collected computer tricks
465 , :EXPORT_OPTIONS: h:2 toc:nil
473 - Description lists are now supported natively
474 - Block quotes for export
475 - Fontified code examples in HTML export
476 - Include files for export
477 - Text before the first headline is now exported by default
478 - In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
479 - The in-buffer settings keywords may now be lower case
480 - Completion of structure elements
481 - Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
482 - Clock task history, moving entries with the running clock
483 - BBDB anniversaries much faster
484 - New contrib files: org-eval.el and org-mtags.el
486 ** Incompatible changes
488 - The text before the first headline is now exported by default
490 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
491 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
492 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
493 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
494 value on a per-file basis with
502 *** Description lists are now supported natively
504 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
505 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
506 separated by " :: ". For example
508 : Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
509 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
510 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
511 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
512 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
513 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
514 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
515 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
516 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
520 Emacs software by Carsten Dominik
521 - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
522 - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
523 - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
524 - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
525 - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
526 natural constants and units into a buffer.
527 - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
528 running IDL and WAVE CL files.
530 This works now in the HTML exporter, we still need to supoort
531 it with the LaTeX and ASCII exporters.
533 *** Block quotes for export
535 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
539 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
540 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
547 Everything should be made as simple as possible,
548 but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
551 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
553 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
554 fontified in an Emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
555 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
559 ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
566 In the export, this will then look like this (if you are now
567 looking at the ASCII export and do not see anything
568 interesting, go and check out the HTML version at
569 http://orgmode.org/Changes.html).
571 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
577 The string after the =BEGIN_SRC= is the name of the major emacs
578 mode that should be used to fontify the code example, without the
579 "-mode" at the end of the mode name. For example, if you are
580 writing an Org tutorial with Org examples included, you would use
581 "org" as the language identifier - in fact, I have used just
582 that in the example above.
584 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
585 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
586 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
588 *** Include files for export
592 : #+INCLUDE "file" markup lang
594 will lead to the inclusion of the contents of FILE at the moment
595 of publishing. FILE should be surrounded by double quotes, this
596 is obligatory if it contains space characters. The parameters
597 MARKUP and LANG are optional. MARKUP can be "example", "quote",
598 or "src". If it is "src", LANG should be the name of the Emacs
599 mode to be used for fontifying the code. For example:
601 : Here is my /.emacs/ file:
602 : #+INCLUDE "~/.emacs" src emacs-lisp
604 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
606 Previously, the default was to not include text in an org-mode
607 buffer before the first headline. From now on, the default it to
608 include it. If you like the old default better, customize the
609 variable =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the
610 value on a per-file basis with
615 *** In-buffer options may now be collected in an external file
617 If you would like to share the Org setup between a number of
618 files, you can now store in-buffer setup in a file and simply
619 point to that file from each file that should read it. If
620 you write in a buffer
622 : #+SETUPFILE: "path/to/setup.org"
624 then this file will be scanned for in-buffer options like
625 =#+STARTUP=, =#+TITLE=, or =#+OPTIONS=.
627 *** The in-buffer settings keywords may now be upper or lower case
629 From now on, it makes no difference is you write =#+STARTUP= or
630 =#+startup=, to make these lines less imposing. Similarly for all
631 other in-buffer keywords.
633 *** Completion of structure elements
634 As a new experimental feature, Org now supports completion of
635 structural elements like =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= in a special way.
636 It work by typing, for example "<e" and then pressing TAB, on
637 an otherwise empty line. "<e" will expand into a complete
638 EXAMPLE template, with the cursor positioned in the middle.
639 Currently supported templates are:
652 This is an experimental feature, please comment! See also
653 below under /org-mtags.el/.
655 *** Startup visibility can now be influenced by properties
657 When Emacs opens an Org mode buffer, the outline visibility
658 is set to a startup value that is taken from the variable
659 =org-startup-folded=, or from a =#+STARTUP= setting in the
660 buffer. After this has happened, the buffer will now also be
661 scanned for entries with a =VISIBILITY= property. Wherever
662 such a property is found, the corresponding subtree will get
663 its visibility adjusted. Allowed values for the property
666 - folded :: Fold the subtree
667 - children :: Show the text after the headline, and the
668 headlines of all direct children
669 - content :: Show all headlines in the tree, but no text below any
671 - all :: Show the entire subtree
673 For example, I am using this for the huge /Changes.org/ file that
674 is the source for the list of visible changes you are reading
675 right now. The top-most entry in this file always describes the
676 changes in my current working version. The start of this section
677 currently looks like this:
682 , :VISIBILITY: content
687 This was a proposal by Ben Alexander.
689 The command =C-u C-u TAB= will switch back to the startup
690 visibility of the buffer.
692 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
694 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
695 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
697 - =C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u C-u I= from the agenda) will
698 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
699 - =C-u C-c C-x C-i= (or =C-u I= from the agenda) will offer a
700 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
701 for selection. =d= selects the default task, =i= selects
702 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
703 being clocked. =1=,... selects a recent task. When you
704 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
705 - You can use =C-u C-c C-x C-j= to jump to any of these
708 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
709 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
710 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
711 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
712 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
713 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
714 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
716 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
718 =bbdb-anniversaries= is now much faster, thanks to a new
719 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
720 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
722 *** New files in the contrib directory
724 Do people think any of these should become core?
726 - org-eval.el :: This new module allows to include the result
727 of the evaluation of Lisp code (and other scripting
728 languages) into the buffer, similar to the =<lisp>= tag
729 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]].
730 - org-mtags.el :: This new modules allows you to use
731 Muse-like tags for some structure definitions in Org.
732 For example, instead of
740 In fact, I myself find these easier to type and to look
741 at. Also, it will allow you to more easily move text
742 and files back and forth between Org and Muse. For a
743 list of supported structure elements, see the commentary
744 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]].
746 If you load this module and use the "<i" etc completion
747 described above, the Muse form will automatically be
751 Many bug fixes again. Will this ever stop?
757 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
758 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
759 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
760 - New operators for property searches
761 - Search commands can now include archive files.
762 - Clock tables can include the archive files
763 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
767 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
769 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
770 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
771 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
772 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
773 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
774 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
776 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
778 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
779 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
780 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
781 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
782 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
783 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
784 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
785 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
786 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
787 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
788 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
789 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
790 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
793 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
795 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
796 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
797 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
798 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
799 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
800 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
801 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
802 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
803 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
805 *** New operators for property searches
807 Property searches can now choose a number of different
808 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
809 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
811 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
812 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
813 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
815 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
816 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
818 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
819 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
820 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
821 match" or "does not match", respectively.
823 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
825 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
827 If the value of the customization variable
828 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
829 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
830 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
831 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
832 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
835 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
837 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
838 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
839 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
840 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
841 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
843 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
845 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
846 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
847 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
848 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
849 be functions, so that more general transformations are
850 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
851 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
855 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
856 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
857 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
861 - The Org distribution has a new structure
862 - New system for selecting modules to load
863 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
864 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
865 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
866 - Export commands can be done in the background
867 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
868 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
869 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
870 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
871 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
872 - And some more small fixes and improvements
874 ** Incompatible changes
876 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
878 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
879 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
880 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
881 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
882 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
883 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
887 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
889 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
890 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
891 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
892 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
893 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
894 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
898 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
899 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
900 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
901 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
902 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
903 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
904 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
905 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
908 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
910 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
911 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
912 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
913 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
914 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
915 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
916 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
917 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
920 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
921 buffer you can simply use "A".
923 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
925 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
927 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
928 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
929 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
930 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
933 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
934 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
935 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
936 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
937 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
938 visibility both locally and globally.
940 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
941 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
942 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
944 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
946 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
947 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
948 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
949 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
950 JavaScript program is served from
951 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
952 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
953 to be independent of the existence and stability of
954 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
955 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
958 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
960 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
962 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
963 together with org-info.js.
965 *** Export improvements
967 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
968 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
969 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
972 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
973 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
974 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
975 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
976 this less system dependent in the future.
978 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
980 *** Improvements to clocktable
982 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
983 when trying to specify the time block that should be
984 considered when constructing the table.
986 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
990 |--------------+-----------------------|
991 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
992 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
993 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
994 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
996 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
997 | thisweek | The current week |
998 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
999 | thismonth | The current month |
1000 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
1001 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
1004 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
1005 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
1006 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
1007 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
1008 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
1009 will switch to the following week.
1011 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
1012 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
1013 a request from Bernt Hansen.
1015 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
1016 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
1017 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
1018 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
1019 configure the variable
1020 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
1021 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
1022 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
1024 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
1026 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
1027 the form =W08= for week 8.
1029 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
1030 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
1031 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
1032 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
1033 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
1034 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
1035 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
1036 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
1037 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
1038 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
1039 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
1041 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
1042 specify an ISO week. For example
1044 : w4 Monday of week 4
1045 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
1046 : w4-5 Same as above
1047 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
1048 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
1050 So far I have not implemented the effect of
1051 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
1052 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
1053 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
1054 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
1055 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
1056 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
1059 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
1060 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
1061 test extensively and report back.
1063 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
1065 *** Improvements in Search View
1067 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
1068 only in TODO entries.
1070 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
1071 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
1072 also match in "Nasim's".
1077 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
1078 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
1079 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
1080 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
1081 this excellent proposal.
1083 The regexp option is also implemented for
1084 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
1085 properties for inheritance my name.
1087 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
1088 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
1089 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
1090 if and only if the setting in
1091 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
1094 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
1095 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
1096 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
1097 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
1098 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
1099 customize them freely.
1101 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
1102 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
1103 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
1104 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
1105 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
1106 default date, not switch to today.
1108 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
1109 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
1111 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
1112 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
1114 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
1115 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
1116 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
1118 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
1121 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
1122 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
1123 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
1125 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
1126 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
1127 initial region if set.
1129 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
1132 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1134 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
1135 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
1136 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
1137 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
1138 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
1139 file name to which the export should go, and a local
1140 format. For example:
1143 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
1144 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
1147 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1149 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
1150 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
1151 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
1152 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
1154 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
1161 - New keyword search agenda view
1163 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1165 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1167 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
1169 - Granularity while editing time stamps
1171 - New repeaters mechanisms
1173 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1175 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1177 - =M-RET= splits lines again
1181 ** Incompatible changes
1183 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
1184 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
1189 *** New keyword search agenda view
1191 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
1192 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
1193 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
1194 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
1195 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
1196 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
1197 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
1198 example, the search string
1200 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
1202 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
1203 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
1204 which are also not matched by the regular expression
1205 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
1206 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
1207 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
1208 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
1209 (possibly sub-) heading.
1211 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
1212 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
1214 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
1215 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
1218 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
1219 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
1220 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
1222 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
1224 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
1225 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
1227 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
1228 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
1229 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
1231 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
1232 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
1233 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
1234 to cover contributed extensions as well.
1236 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
1238 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
1239 last element defines the contexts in which the template
1240 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
1241 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
1242 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
1243 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
1244 function, the template will be offered only if the function
1245 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
1246 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
1249 One possible application for this would be to have several
1250 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
1251 the right one based on context. For example, think of
1252 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
1253 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
1254 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
1256 : (setq org-remember-templates
1257 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
1258 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
1260 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
1262 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
1264 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
1265 + In a table, add a hline as before
1266 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
1267 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
1268 + In a headline, turn it into an item
1269 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
1270 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
1271 item markers from all lines.
1273 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1275 - `C-c *' has now more functions
1276 + in a table, recompute, as before
1277 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
1278 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
1279 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
1280 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
1281 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
1283 Based on proposals by Bastien.
1285 *** Changes related to time stamps
1287 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
1288 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
1289 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
1290 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
1291 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
1292 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
1293 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
1294 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
1295 specify the number of minutes to shift.
1297 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1299 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
1300 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
1302 :** TODO Call Father
1303 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
1304 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
1305 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
1306 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
1307 : and marked it done on Saturday.
1308 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
1309 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
1310 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
1313 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
1315 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
1317 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
1318 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
1321 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
1322 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
1323 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
1324 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
1325 the previous content.
1327 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
1329 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
1330 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
1331 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
1333 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
1337 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
1338 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
1339 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
1340 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
1343 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
1344 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
1345 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
1348 - There are three new hooks:
1350 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
1351 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
1352 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
1356 ** Incompatible changes
1358 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
1359 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
1360 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
1364 *** Changes to logging progress
1366 There is now more control over which state changes are being
1367 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
1368 sections in the manual. Basically:
1370 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
1371 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
1372 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
1373 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
1374 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
1375 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
1376 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
1377 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
1379 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
1380 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
1381 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
1382 : when leaving this state. This is great for
1383 : getting a record when switching *back* from
1385 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
1386 : Here we not even define a fast access
1387 : character, but just the logging stuff.
1389 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
1393 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
1394 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
1395 of the line) before the current line.
1397 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
1398 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
1399 create a new line below the current one.
1403 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
1404 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
1411 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1413 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1414 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
1416 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
1418 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1419 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1420 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1422 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
1424 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
1426 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
1430 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
1432 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
1434 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
1436 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
1438 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
1440 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
1442 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
1444 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
1448 ** Incompatible Changes
1450 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1451 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1452 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
1456 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
1458 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
1459 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
1461 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
1462 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
1464 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
1465 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
1466 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
1467 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
1468 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
1469 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
1472 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
1473 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
1476 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
1477 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
1478 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
1480 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
1481 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
1482 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
1483 variable does select the interface that is used to select
1484 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
1485 Possible values are:
1487 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
1489 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
1490 path to select a location.
1491 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
1494 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
1495 they are always current.
1497 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
1498 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
1499 special also because it only matches in headline. This
1500 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
1501 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
1502 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
1503 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
1504 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
1506 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
1507 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
1508 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
1509 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
1510 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
1511 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
1512 interface. Comments?
1517 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
1518 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
1519 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
1520 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
1521 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
1523 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
1524 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
1526 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
1527 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
1529 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
1530 headline up to the tags.
1531 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
1533 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
1535 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
1536 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
1537 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
1538 request by Austin Frank.
1540 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
1541 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
1542 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
1544 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
1545 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
1546 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
1547 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
1549 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
1550 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
1551 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
1552 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
1553 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
1554 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
1555 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
1556 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
1557 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
1558 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
1559 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
1562 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
1563 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
1564 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
1565 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
1573 will file is with the following property
1575 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
1577 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
1578 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
1579 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
1581 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
1582 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
1591 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
1593 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
1595 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
1597 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
1599 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
1601 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
1603 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
1605 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
1607 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1611 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
1612 entries in a subtree. For example
1614 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
1616 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
1617 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
1618 request by Bernt Hansen.
1620 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
1621 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
1622 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
1623 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
1624 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
1625 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
1626 interactively select the filing location (file and
1627 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
1628 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
1629 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
1630 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
1631 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
1633 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
1634 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
1635 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
1636 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
1637 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1640 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1641 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1642 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1643 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1644 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1645 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1646 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1649 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1650 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1651 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1654 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1655 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1656 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1657 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1658 explain here, complex.
1660 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1661 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1662 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1664 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1665 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1666 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1668 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1680 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1681 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1682 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1683 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1684 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1685 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1686 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1687 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1688 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1689 subtree motion commands.
1691 - Plain lists items work the same.
1693 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1694 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1695 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1698 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1699 let me know about any problems.
1703 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1704 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1705 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1706 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1707 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1709 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1710 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1711 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1712 history variable. For example:
1714 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1716 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1717 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1718 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1719 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1720 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1721 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1722 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1723 by Bastien and Adam.
1725 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1726 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1727 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1728 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1732 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1733 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1736 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1737 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1738 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1739 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1740 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1741 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1747 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1749 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1750 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1751 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1752 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1753 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1754 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1755 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1756 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1759 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1760 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1761 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1762 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1764 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1765 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1766 the new scope. If you like you can display an agenda view
1767 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1769 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1770 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1771 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1772 select a new restriction.
1774 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1776 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1778 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1780 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1781 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1783 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1784 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1785 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1788 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1789 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1790 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1792 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1793 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1794 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1795 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1796 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1802 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1803 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1804 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1806 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1807 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1808 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1817 + Remember and related stuff
1818 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1819 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1820 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1821 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1823 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1824 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1825 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1826 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1827 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1828 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1829 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1831 + Properties and Column view
1832 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1833 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1834 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1835 - New currency summary type {$}
1837 + The date/time prompt
1838 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1839 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1840 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1843 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1844 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1847 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1850 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1851 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1852 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1853 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1854 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1856 ** Incompatible changes
1858 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1859 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1860 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1862 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1863 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1864 prompted, like this:
1866 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1868 : (org-remember ?n))
1870 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1871 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1873 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1875 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1877 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1878 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1882 *** Remember and related stuff
1884 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1885 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1886 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1887 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1888 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1889 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1890 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1891 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1892 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1893 definitions. For example:
1895 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1897 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1900 : (setq org-refile-targets
1901 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1903 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1904 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1905 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1906 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1909 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1910 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1912 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1913 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1914 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1915 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1916 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1918 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1919 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1921 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1923 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1924 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1925 : %[..] include file
1927 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1929 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1930 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1931 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1934 : (require 'remember)
1935 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1936 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1937 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1939 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1940 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1941 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1943 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1945 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1947 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1949 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1950 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1951 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1952 the default in Org-mode.
1954 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1955 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1956 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1957 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1959 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1960 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1961 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1962 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1963 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1965 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1966 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1967 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1968 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1971 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1972 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1973 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1974 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1975 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1977 *** Properties and Column view
1979 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1980 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1983 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1984 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1985 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1986 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1987 discussion around this issue.
1989 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1990 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1991 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1992 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1993 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1994 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1995 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1996 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1998 *** The date/time prompt
2000 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
2003 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
2004 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
2005 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
2006 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
2007 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
2009 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
2010 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
2011 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
2012 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
2013 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
2014 entered month is before the current, for example if you
2015 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
2016 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
2017 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
2019 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
2020 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
2021 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
2022 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
2023 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
2025 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
2027 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
2028 list of newly performed conversions:
2030 | Org | Description | HTML |
2031 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
2032 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
2033 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
2034 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
2035 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
2037 You can turn this globally on or off with
2038 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
2039 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
2040 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
2041 William Henney for relevant inputs.
2043 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
2044 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
2048 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
2049 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
2050 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
2051 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
2052 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
2053 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
2055 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
2057 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
2058 export by setting it either globally
2059 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
2060 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
2061 the list of available classes and their sectioning
2062 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
2063 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
2066 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
2067 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
2068 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
2070 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
2071 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
2073 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
2074 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
2077 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
2078 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
2079 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
2086 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
2087 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
2088 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
2090 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
2091 the values of constants and properties are no longer
2092 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
2093 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
2094 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
2096 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
2097 with extension matched by the new variable
2098 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
2107 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2108 + All known bugs fixed.
2109 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
2110 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
2111 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
2113 - The agenda dispatcher
2114 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
2115 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
2117 - Sorting improvements
2118 + User-defined sorting keys.
2119 + Sorting by properties.
2120 + Sorting of plain lists.
2122 - HTML <div> structure
2125 + New variables, several of them.
2126 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
2127 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
2128 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
2129 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
2133 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
2135 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
2136 (at least I hope so...).
2138 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
2139 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
2141 + global, i.e. for the entire file
2142 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
2143 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
2145 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
2146 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
2147 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
2151 : :ID: planning-overview
2157 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
2161 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
2162 be prompted for the ID.
2164 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
2165 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
2166 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
2167 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
2168 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
2171 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
2173 *** The agenda dispatcher
2175 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
2176 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
2177 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
2178 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
2179 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
2180 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
2181 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
2182 them to custom commands.
2184 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
2185 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
2186 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
2187 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
2189 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
2190 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
2191 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
2192 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
2193 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
2195 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
2196 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
2199 *** Sorting improvements
2201 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
2202 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
2204 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
2205 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
2207 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
2210 - Plain lists can be sorted.
2212 *** HTML <div> structure
2214 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
2216 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
2217 "table-of-contents".
2219 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
2220 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
2222 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
2223 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
2225 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
2226 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
2228 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
2229 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
2233 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
2234 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
2235 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
2238 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
2240 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
2242 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
2243 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
2244 your properties will not be folded away.
2245 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
2247 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
2248 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
2249 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
2251 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
2252 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
2253 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
2254 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
2255 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
2257 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
2258 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
2259 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
2260 a proposal by Bastien.
2262 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
2263 request by Wanrong Lin.
2265 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
2266 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
2267 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
2273 - Remember templates can now have name.
2274 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
2275 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
2276 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
2277 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
2278 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2279 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
2280 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
2281 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
2282 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
2283 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
2285 ** Incompatible Changes
2287 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
2291 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
2292 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
2293 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
2294 the name start with the selection character, for example if
2295 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
2296 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
2298 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
2299 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
2300 change). Thanks to Bastien.
2302 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
2303 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
2305 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
2306 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
2307 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
2308 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
2310 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
2311 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
2312 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
2314 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
2315 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
2316 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
2317 Wiegley for a patch.
2319 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
2320 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
2321 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
2322 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
2323 with full completion support.
2325 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
2326 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
2327 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
2329 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
2330 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
2333 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
2334 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
2335 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
2336 well tested yet, please check it out.
2344 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
2345 - Command to jump to the running clock
2346 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
2347 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
2348 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
2349 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2350 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
2351 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
2352 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
2353 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
2354 - Better tag alignment in agenda
2356 ** Incompatible changes
2358 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
2359 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
2361 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
2362 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
2363 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
2365 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
2366 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
2369 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2374 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
2375 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
2378 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
2381 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
2384 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
2385 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
2386 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
2387 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
2388 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
2390 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
2391 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
2392 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
2393 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
2395 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
2396 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
2397 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
2398 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
2399 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
2400 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
2401 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
2402 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
2403 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
2405 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
2406 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
2407 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
2408 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
2409 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
2410 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
2411 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
2412 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
2413 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
2415 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
2416 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
2417 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
2418 being prompted for a template, like this:
2420 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
2422 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
2424 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
2425 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
2426 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
2427 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
2429 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
2430 (also `s' does this).
2432 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
2433 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
2436 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
2437 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
2438 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
2440 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
2441 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
2442 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
2444 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
2445 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
2446 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
2447 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
2455 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
2456 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
2457 - CSV support when importing a table.
2458 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
2459 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
2460 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
2461 - Modifications to priority cycling.
2462 - Modifications to computations in column view.
2463 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
2468 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
2469 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
2472 : * Tree with special properties
2474 : :CATEGORY: Examples
2475 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
2478 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
2479 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
2480 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
2481 *single* default for the file which is then locally
2482 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
2483 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
2484 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
2485 encourage you to stop using them.
2487 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
2488 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
2489 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
2490 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
2494 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
2495 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
2496 | file | the full current buffer |
2497 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
2498 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
2499 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
2500 | agenda | all agenda files |
2502 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
2503 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
2504 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
2505 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
2508 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
2509 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
2510 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
2511 basic input it works.
2513 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
2514 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
2515 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
2516 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2518 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
2519 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
2522 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
2523 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
2525 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
2527 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
2528 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
2529 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
2530 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
2531 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
2533 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
2534 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
2535 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
2536 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
2537 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
2540 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
2541 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
2542 of all the children's values each time you enter column
2543 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
2544 the children has that particular property defined, the
2545 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
2546 items under such an entry without getting the property value
2547 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
2548 is a better way of doing things.
2550 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
2551 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
2552 testing is appreciated.
2554 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
2555 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
2556 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
2557 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
2559 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
2560 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
2561 links in square or angular brackets.
2569 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
2572 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
2573 agenda can be configured.
2575 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
2577 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
2579 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
2581 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2583 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2584 inherited from the outline faces.
2586 ** Incompatible Changes
2588 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2589 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2590 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2591 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
2592 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
2597 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
2598 switching to that state. With the setting
2600 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
2601 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
2603 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
2606 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
2607 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
2608 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
2609 own function. Configure the new variable
2610 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
2611 this development with a patch.
2613 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
2614 t, in order to better match the original intent of
2615 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
2616 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
2617 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
2618 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
2619 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
2621 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
2622 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
2623 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
2624 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
2625 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
2626 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
2627 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
2629 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
2630 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
2633 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
2634 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
2635 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
2636 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
2637 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
2638 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
2639 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2641 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2642 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2643 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2644 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2645 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2646 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2647 match the current org-mode faces.
2649 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2653 ** Incompatible changes
2655 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2659 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2660 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2661 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2663 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2665 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2666 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2667 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2668 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2669 command fall back to cycling.
2671 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2672 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2673 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2674 interface anyway, set the variable
2675 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2676 others for input on this issue.
2678 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2679 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2680 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2682 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2683 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2685 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2686 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2688 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2690 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2691 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2692 `format-time-string', for example:
2694 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2696 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2697 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2698 included) have changed this.
2700 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2701 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2702 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2703 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2704 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2705 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2706 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2712 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2714 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2716 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2718 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2720 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2722 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2724 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2726 ** Incompatible changes
2728 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2729 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2731 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2735 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2736 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2737 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2739 A Here is a configuration example:
2741 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2742 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2743 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2744 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2747 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2748 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2750 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2751 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2752 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2753 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2754 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2755 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2756 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2757 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2758 states, just like you also do for tags.
2760 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2761 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2763 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2764 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2765 switch the entry to that state.
2767 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2768 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2769 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2772 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2774 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2775 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2776 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2777 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2779 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2780 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2782 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2783 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2784 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2785 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2786 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2788 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2789 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2790 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2793 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2794 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2795 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2796 the file will simply be skipped.
2806 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2807 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2808 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2809 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2810 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2811 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2812 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2813 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2816 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2817 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2818 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2819 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2820 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2821 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2822 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2823 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2824 the special locations.
2826 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2829 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2832 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2833 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2834 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2836 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2837 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2838 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2844 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2846 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2848 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2850 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2852 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2854 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2856 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2858 - Global values for selected properties.
2865 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2866 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2867 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2868 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2869 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2870 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2871 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2872 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2874 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2875 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2876 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2877 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2878 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2879 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2880 currently how to handle the new link types for
2883 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2884 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2885 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2886 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2889 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2890 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2891 The syntax is like this
2893 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2895 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2898 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2900 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2901 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2902 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2904 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2907 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2908 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2909 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2910 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2913 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2914 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2915 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2916 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2917 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2918 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2921 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2922 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2923 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2926 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2927 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2928 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2929 `org-global-properties', like this:
2931 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2933 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2935 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2937 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2938 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2939 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2940 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2941 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2942 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2950 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2951 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2952 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2953 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2955 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2956 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2957 this stuff into the drawer.
2958 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2960 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2961 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2963 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2964 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2966 - Lots of minor fixes.
2970 ** Incompatible Changes
2972 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2973 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2974 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2978 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2979 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2980 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2982 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2983 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2984 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2985 know if we need to make this customizable.
2987 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2988 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2989 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2990 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2991 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2993 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
3002 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
3005 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
3006 compute their value from the children's values.
3008 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
3009 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
3012 ** Incompatible Changes
3014 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
3015 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
3016 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
3017 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
3022 - Improvements for properties:
3024 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
3025 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
3027 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
3028 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
3029 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
3030 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
3031 typos when entering properties.
3033 - Improvements for column view.
3035 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
3036 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
3039 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
3040 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
3041 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
3042 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
3045 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
3046 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
3049 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
3050 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
3051 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
3053 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
3054 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
3055 beginning of a line. So
3057 : * This is a level 1 headline
3058 : *this is bold text*
3060 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
3061 available in orgstruct-mode.
3067 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
3068 structure editing commands into any other mode.
3070 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
3071 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
3072 open if explicitly asked.
3074 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
3076 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
3077 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
3080 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
3081 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
3084 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
3086 ** Incompatible changes
3088 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
3089 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
3090 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
3091 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
3092 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
3093 that this is the better convention.
3097 *** Orgstruct minor mode
3099 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
3100 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
3101 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
3102 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
3103 easily create lists.
3105 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
3106 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
3107 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
3108 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
3109 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
3110 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
3111 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
3112 minor modes have assigned to them.
3114 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
3115 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
3116 the promised implementation.
3120 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
3121 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
3122 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
3123 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
3124 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
3127 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
3129 you can then create drawers like this:
3132 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
3133 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
3136 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
3137 contains properties of an entry (see below).
3139 *** Properties and Column View
3141 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
3142 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
3143 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
3144 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
3145 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
3146 a property drawer and inserting a line like
3148 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
3150 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
3151 program using properties, use the functions
3152 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
3153 and `org-entry-delete'.
3155 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
3158 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
3159 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
3160 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
3161 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
3162 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
3163 after the headline, outside the drawer.
3165 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
3168 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
3170 will find entries that
3173 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
3174 - are TODO status WAITING.
3176 So here is an entry that will match:
3178 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
3183 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
3184 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
3187 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
3189 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
3190 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
3191 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
3192 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
3193 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
3194 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
3195 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
3196 can set up different property columns on different levels
3197 of an outline tree. For example:
3201 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
3205 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
3208 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
3210 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
3213 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
3216 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
3217 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
3219 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
3220 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
3221 will get a different table than if you do it in the
3222 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
3223 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
3224 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
3227 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
3228 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
3230 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
3231 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
3232 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
3233 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
3234 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
3235 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
3237 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
3238 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
3241 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
3243 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
3245 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
3246 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
3247 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
3249 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
3250 Any suggestions for better defaults?
3251 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
3252 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
3257 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
3258 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
3259 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
3260 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
3261 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
3262 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
3263 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
3266 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
3267 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
3268 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
3269 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
3270 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
3277 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
3279 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
3280 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
3281 constants can now be set with a line like:
3283 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
3287 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
3288 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
3291 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
3293 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
3297 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
3298 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
3299 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
3300 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
3307 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
3308 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
3309 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
3310 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
3312 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
3313 See manual section 3.5.3.
3315 - New options for turning off footnotes.
3316 This was a request from Ignotus.
3317 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
3319 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
3320 default. This was a request from Micheal.
3321 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
3325 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
3326 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
3327 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
3328 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
3329 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
3335 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
3336 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
3338 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
3340 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
3342 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
3344 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
3346 ** Incompatible changes
3348 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
3349 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
3350 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
3351 with the xemacs version. For example:
3353 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
3355 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
3356 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
3357 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
3358 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
3359 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
3363 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
3364 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
3365 interval on a single day. For example
3367 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
3369 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
3370 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
3371 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
3372 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
3374 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
3377 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
3378 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
3382 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
3384 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
3385 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
3386 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
3387 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
3388 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
3389 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
3390 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
3391 using localization features may not work correctly in the
3392 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
3393 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
3394 stick to the ASCII characters.
3396 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
3397 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
3398 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
3399 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
3400 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
3402 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
3404 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
3405 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
3406 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
3408 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
3409 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
3410 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
3411 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
3412 if we can agree on this:
3414 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
3415 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
3416 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
3417 out to a previous level. For example
3425 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
3434 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
3435 using promotion and demotion functions.
3441 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
3442 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
3444 ** Incompatible changes
3446 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
3450 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
3451 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
3452 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
3453 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
3454 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
3455 column where the character is specified). You may also use
3456 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
3458 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
3459 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3460 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
3461 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
3462 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
3463 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
3464 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
3466 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
3467 never exported, but can be used to place column group
3468 information into the table. In this table, we create a
3469 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
3470 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
3473 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
3474 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
3475 wherever you want a vertical line:
3477 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
3478 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
3479 : | / | < | < | | < | |
3481 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
3482 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
3484 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
3485 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
3486 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
3487 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
3488 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
3489 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
3490 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
3491 behavior we had before.
3493 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
3495 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
3496 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
3497 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
3498 special characters in other languages as along as your
3499 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
3500 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
3501 out how to do this in XEmacs.
3507 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
3511 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
3513 [1]This is a footnote
3515 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
3516 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
3518 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
3520 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
3521 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
3524 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
3530 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
3531 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
3533 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
3534 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
3535 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
3536 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
3538 ** Incompatible Changes
3540 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
3541 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
3545 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
3546 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
3548 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
3550 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
3551 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
3552 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
3553 collect your credit, let me know!
3555 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
3556 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
3558 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
3559 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
3561 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
3562 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
3563 would in the diary. For example
3565 * Birthdays and similar stuff
3567 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
3569 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
3570 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
3572 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
3574 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
3575 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
3576 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
3577 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
3578 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
3579 put in a few categories, and then turned off
3580 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
3581 faster agenda display.
3583 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
3584 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
3585 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
3586 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
3587 to Raman for this idea.
3589 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
3590 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
3591 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
3594 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
3595 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
3596 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
3600 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
3602 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
3603 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
3605 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
3606 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
3607 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
3608 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
3611 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
3612 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
3614 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
3615 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
3616 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
3617 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
3619 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
3620 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
3621 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
3622 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
3624 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
3625 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
3632 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
3633 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
3634 further processing in scripts.
3636 ** Incompatible Changes
3638 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
3639 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3643 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3644 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3645 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3646 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3649 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3650 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3651 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3652 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3653 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3654 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3655 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3656 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3658 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3659 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3660 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3661 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3663 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3664 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3665 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3667 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3677 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3679 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3681 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3683 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3685 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3687 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3689 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3693 ** Incompatible changes
3695 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3696 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3699 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3700 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3701 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3702 `org-disputed-keys'.
3704 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3705 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3706 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3710 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3711 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3712 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3713 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3714 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3715 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3716 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3717 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3718 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3719 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3720 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3722 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3723 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3724 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3725 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3727 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3728 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3730 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3731 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3732 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3733 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3735 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3736 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3737 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3738 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3739 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3740 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3741 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3742 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3744 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3746 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3747 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3748 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3749 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3750 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3751 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3752 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3755 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3756 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3757 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3758 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3759 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3760 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3763 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3764 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3765 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3766 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3767 indicates a non-stuck project.
3769 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3770 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3771 please let me know if you find problems.
3773 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3774 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3780 ** Incompatible changes
3784 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3785 exported HTML. These are the variables
3786 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3787 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3790 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3791 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3792 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3794 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3795 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3796 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3797 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3798 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3799 that are scanned for the agenda.
3807 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3808 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3809 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3811 ** Incompatible changes
3813 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3817 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3819 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3821 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3823 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3824 list (and which is also works!)
3826 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3827 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3829 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3830 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3831 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3832 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3833 toward using the latter.
3835 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3836 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3837 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3838 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3840 (setq org-todo-keywords
3841 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3842 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3843 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3844 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3847 If your setting has this new structure,
3848 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3849 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3850 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3851 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3853 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3854 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3855 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3856 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3857 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3860 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3861 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3862 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3863 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3864 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3865 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3866 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3868 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3869 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3870 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3871 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3872 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3874 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3875 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3876 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3877 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3878 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3879 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3880 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3881 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3882 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3889 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3891 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3892 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3893 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3894 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3895 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3896 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3899 ** Incompatible changes
3901 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3902 over several lines, like
3905 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3908 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3909 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3910 See below for details.
3912 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3913 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3914 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3915 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3920 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3921 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3924 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3925 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3926 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3928 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3929 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3930 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3931 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3932 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3933 where you want to be.
3935 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3936 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3937 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3940 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3941 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3943 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3944 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3946 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3948 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3949 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3950 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3951 new in-buffer option
3955 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3956 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3957 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3958 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3960 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3961 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3962 can be done by setting the variable
3963 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3965 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3971 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3973 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3974 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3975 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3976 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3977 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3979 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3981 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3982 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3985 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3986 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3987 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3988 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3989 are logging all state changes.
3991 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3996 - Priority handling in the tags view
3997 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3998 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3999 - Improvements to the formula editor.
4000 - C-j does better indentation.
4004 - Priority handling in the tags view
4006 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
4007 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
4009 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
4011 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
4012 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
4013 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
4015 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
4017 - Changes in the spreadsheet
4019 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
4020 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
4021 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
4022 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
4023 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
4024 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
4025 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
4027 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
4030 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
4032 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
4034 + There is now a menu with commands.
4036 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
4037 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
4039 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
4040 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
4042 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
4043 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
4047 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
4048 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
4049 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
4051 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
4052 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
4057 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
4058 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
4059 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
4060 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
4062 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
4063 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
4064 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
4074 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
4075 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
4076 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
4078 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
4079 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
4080 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
4081 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
4082 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
4083 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
4084 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
4086 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
4087 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
4088 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
4090 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
4092 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
4093 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
4095 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
4096 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
4098 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
4099 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
4100 levels. For example:
4102 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
4104 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
4105 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
4106 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
4109 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
4110 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
4111 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
4112 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
4114 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
4115 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
4124 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
4125 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
4126 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
4127 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
4129 ** Detailed description of changes
4131 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
4132 any table in any mode.
4134 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
4135 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
4136 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
4137 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
4138 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
4139 inside the same file, in a block comment.
4141 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
4142 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
4143 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
4144 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
4145 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
4147 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
4148 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
4149 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
4150 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
4151 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
4152 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
4153 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
4156 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
4157 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
4158 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
4159 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
4160 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
4161 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
4162 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
4163 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
4164 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
4165 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
4166 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
4167 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
4169 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
4170 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
4171 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
4172 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
4178 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
4179 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
4180 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
4181 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
4182 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
4184 ** Detailed description of changes
4186 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
4187 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
4188 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
4190 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
4192 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
4193 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
4195 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
4197 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
4198 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
4199 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
4201 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
4202 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
4203 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
4205 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
4206 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
4207 to Raman for this excellent idea.
4209 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
4210 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
4212 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
4214 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
4215 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
4216 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
4217 remember.el work like this as well).
4218 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
4219 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
4220 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
4221 new template, but the old context information. This is
4222 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
4225 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
4226 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
4227 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
4228 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
4229 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
4230 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
4231 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
4232 without interaction.
4234 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
4235 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
4236 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
4237 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
4238 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
4239 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
4241 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
4242 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
4243 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
4244 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
4246 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
4247 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
4248 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
4249 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
4250 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
4251 them would require special hooks. Comments?
4257 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
4258 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
4260 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
4261 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
4262 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
4263 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
4264 + Incompatible changes
4265 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
4266 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
4267 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
4268 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
4269 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
4270 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
4271 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
4275 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
4276 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
4277 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
4278 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
4279 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
4280 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
4281 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
4282 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
4286 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
4287 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
4288 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
4289 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
4290 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
4291 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
4292 - Empty entries go full circle.
4293 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
4298 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
4301 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
4302 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
4303 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
4304 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
4305 another, dedicated frame.
4306 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
4307 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
4310 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
4311 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
4312 - Changes in Agenda buffer
4313 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
4314 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
4315 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
4316 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
4317 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
4318 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
4319 use regular expressions.
4320 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
4321 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
4322 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
4326 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
4327 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
4328 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
4335 - Improvements to fast tag selection
4336 + show status also in target line.
4337 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
4338 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
4339 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
4343 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
4344 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
4345 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
4346 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
4350 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
4351 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
4356 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
4357 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
4358 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
4362 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
4363 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
4364 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
4365 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
4366 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
4367 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
4368 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
4369 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
4370 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
4371 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
4372 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
4377 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
4378 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
4379 - File links can contain environment variables.
4380 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
4384 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
4385 each block created by a different agenda command.
4386 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
4387 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
4388 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
4389 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
4390 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
4391 upon the agenda type.
4392 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
4393 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
4394 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
4395 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
4396 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
4397 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
4398 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
4399 - More minor bug fixes.
4402 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
4403 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
4404 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
4408 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
4409 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
4410 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
4414 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
4417 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
4418 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
4419 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
4427 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
4428 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
4430 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
4431 LaTeX environment and math.
4434 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
4436 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
4437 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
4438 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
4442 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
4443 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
4446 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
4447 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
4448 and will not lead to conflicts.
4449 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
4453 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
4454 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
4455 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
4456 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
4457 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
4458 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
4459 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
4465 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
4466 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
4469 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
4470 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
4471 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
4472 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
4473 directories for different export types.
4474 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
4475 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
4482 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
4483 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
4484 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
4485 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
4486 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
4487 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
4488 relative and absolute paths.
4489 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
4490 - Bug and typo fixes.
4494 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
4495 contains a description or not.
4496 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
4497 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
4498 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
4499 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
4500 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
4501 for all available exporters.
4502 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
4508 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
4509 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
4510 end of the HTML file.
4511 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
4512 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
4513 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
4514 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
4520 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
4521 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
4522 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
4523 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
4533 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
4534 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
4537 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
4538 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
4539 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
4540 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
4541 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
4542 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
4543 - New structure for the customization tree.
4548 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
4552 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
4553 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
4554 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
4555 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
4556 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
4561 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
4562 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
4563 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
4564 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
4568 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
4569 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
4572 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
4573 - Various small bug fixes
4576 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
4577 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
4578 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
4579 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
4580 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
4581 argument to `C-c C-v'.
4582 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
4583 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
4584 next buffer change due to editing).
4587 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
4588 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
4589 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
4590 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
4593 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
4594 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
4595 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
4596 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
4597 - Changes to the HTML exporter
4598 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
4599 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
4600 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
4601 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
4602 - support for cascading style sheets.
4603 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
4604 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
4611 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
4615 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
4618 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
4619 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
4620 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
4621 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
4622 and are not linked to the calendar.
4623 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
4624 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
4625 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
4626 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
4629 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
4630 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
4631 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
4632 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
4633 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
4636 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
4637 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
4638 - Named fields and columns in tables.
4639 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4642 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4643 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4646 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4647 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4648 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4649 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4650 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4651 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4655 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4656 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4657 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4658 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4659 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4660 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4661 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4662 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4663 - Improved html export of tables.
4664 - Various clean-up changes.
4667 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4671 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4672 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4676 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4677 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4681 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4682 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4683 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4686 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4687 - New startup option `content'.
4688 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4689 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4690 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4693 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4694 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4695 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4696 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4697 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4698 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4701 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4702 table shape when typing in fields.
4703 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4704 into arbitrary major modes.
4705 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4706 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4707 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4710 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4711 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4712 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4714 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4715 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4716 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4717 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4718 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4720 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4721 - Sorting fully configurable.
4722 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4723 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4727 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4728 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4729 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4730 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4731 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4732 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4733 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4736 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4737 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4738 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4739 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4740 - Priorities for TODO items.
4741 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4742 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4743 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4748 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4749 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4750 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4751 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4752 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4753 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4754 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4755 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4756 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4757 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4758 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4759 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4760 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4761 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4762 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4765 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4766 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4767 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4768 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4769 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4770 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4771 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4772 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4773 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4774 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4775 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4776 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4779 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4780 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4781 - Date ranges introduced.
4782 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4783 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4784 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4785 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4786 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4787 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4788 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4791 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4792 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4793 - Fully automatic table editor.
4794 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4795 - Other link system changes
4796 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4797 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4798 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4799 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4800 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4801 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4802 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4804 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4805 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4806 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4807 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4808 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4809 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4811 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4815 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4816 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4817 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4818 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4822 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents