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12 ** Incompatible changes
13 *** Properties drawers syntax changes
14 Properties drawers are now required to be located right after
15 a headline and its planning line, when applicable.
17 It will break some documents as TODO states changes were sometimes
18 logged before the property drawer. The following function will repair
21 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
22 (defun org-repair-property-drawers ()
23 "Fix properties drawers in current buffer.
24 Ignore non Org buffers."
25 (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
27 (goto-char (point-min))
28 (let ((case-fold-search t)
29 (inline-re (and (featurep 'org-inlinetask)
30 (concat (org-inlinetask-outline-regexp)
34 (unless (and inline-re (org-looking-at-p inline-re))
36 (let ((end (save-excursion (outline-next-heading) (point))))
38 (when (org-looking-at-p org-planning-line-re) (forward-line))
39 (when (and (< (point) end)
40 (not (org-looking-at-p org-property-drawer-re))
42 (and (re-search-forward org-property-drawer-re end t)
44 (save-match-data (org-element-at-point)))
46 (insert (delete-and-extract-region
48 (min (1+ (match-end 0)) end)))
49 (unless (bolp) (insert "\n"))))))))))))
51 *** =#+CATEGORY= keywords no longer apply partially to document
52 It was possible to use several such keywords and have them apply to
53 the text below until the next one, but strongly deprecated since Org
56 =#+CATEGORY= keywords are now global to the document. You can use
57 node properties to set category for a subtree, e.g.,
62 :CATEGORY: some category
65 *** New variable to control visibility when revealing a location
66 ~org-show-following-heading~, ~org-show-siblings~,
67 ~org-show-entry-below~ and ~org-show-hierarchy-above~ no longer exist.
68 Instead, visibility is controlled through a single variable:
69 ~org-show-context-detail~, which see.
70 *** Replace disputed keys again when reading a date
71 ~org-replace-disputed-keys~ has been ignored when reading date since
72 version 8.1, but the former behavior is restored again.
74 Keybinding for reading date can be customized with a new variable
75 ~org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map~.
76 *** No default title is provided when =TITLE= keyword is missing
77 Skipping =TITLE= keyword no longer provides the current file name, or
78 buffer name, as the title. Instead, simply ignore the title.
80 The following functions require an additional argument. See their
81 docstring for more information.
82 - ~org-export-collect-footnote-definitions~
83 - ~org-html-format-headline-function~
84 - ~org-html-format-inlinetask-function~
85 - ~org-latex-format-headline-function~
86 - ~org-latex-format-inlinetask-function~
87 *** Default bindings of =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= changed
88 The key sequences =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= are now bound to
89 ~org-next-visible-heading~ and ~org-next-visible-heading~
90 respectively, rather than the =outline-mode= versions of these
91 functions. The Org version of these functions skips over inline tasks
92 (and even-level headlines when ~org-odd-levels-only~ is set).
93 *** ~org-element-context~ no longer return objects in keywords
94 ~org-element-context~ used to return objects on some keywords, i.e.,
95 =TITLE=, =DATE= and =AUTHOR=. It now returns only the keyword.
97 *** Removed function ~org-translate-time~
98 Use ~org-timestamp-translate~ instead.
99 *** Removed function ~org-beamer-insert-options-template~
100 This function inserted a Beamer specific template at point or in
101 current subtree. Use ~org-export-insert-default-template~ instead, as
102 it provides more features and covers all export back-ends. It is also
103 accessible from the export dispatcher.
104 *** Removed function ~org-timer-cancel-timer~
105 ~org-timer-stop~ now stops both relative and countdown timers.
106 *** Removed function ~org-end-of-meta-data-and-drawers~
107 The function is superseded by ~org-end-of-meta-data~, called with an
110 *** ~org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists~ is deprecated
111 It will be kept in code base until next release, for backward
114 If you need to separate consecutive lists with blank lines, always use
115 two of them, as if this option was nil (default value).
116 *** ~org-export-with-creator~ is a boolean
117 Special ~comment~ value is no longer allowed. It is possible to use
118 a body filter to add comments about the creator at the end of the
120 *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-command=
121 This undocumented option defaulted to the value of =shell-file-name=
122 at the time of loading =ob-shell=. The new behaviour is to use the
123 value of =shell-file-name= directly when the shell langage is =shell=.
124 To chose a different shell, either customize =shell-file-name= or bind
125 this variable locally.
126 *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt=
127 This undocumented option was supposed to provide different quoting
128 styles when changing the shell type. Changing the shell type can now
129 be done directly from the source block and the quoting style has to be
130 compatible across all shells, so a customization doesn't make sense
131 anymore. The chosen hard coded quoting style conforms to POSIX.
132 *** Removed option ~org-insert-labeled-timestamps-at-point~
133 Setting this option to anything else that the default value (nil)
134 would create invalid planning info. This dangerous option is now
136 *** Removed option ~org-koma-letter-use-title~
137 Use org-export-with-title instead. See also below.
138 *** Removed option ~org-entities-ascii-explanatory~
139 This variable had no effect since Org 8.0.
140 *** Removed MathML-related options from ~org-html-mathjax-options~
141 MathJax automatically chooses the best display technology based on the
142 end-users browser. You may force initial usage of MathML via
143 ~org-html-mathjax-template~ or by setting the ~path~ property of
144 ~org-html-mathjax-options~.
145 *** Removed comment-related filters
146 ~org-export-filter-comment-functions~ and
147 ~org-export-filter-comment-block-functions~ variables do not exist
150 *** Hierarchies of tags
151 The functionality of nesting tags in hierarchies is added to org-mode.
152 This is the generalization of what was previously called "Tag groups"
153 in the manual. That term is now changed to "Tag hierarchy".
155 The following in-buffer definition:
157 ,#+TAGS: [ Group : SubOne SubTwo ]
158 ,#+TAGS: [ SubOne : SubOne1 SubOne2 ]
159 ,#+TAGS: [ SubTwo : SubTwo1 SubTwo2 ]
162 Should be seen as the following tree of tags:
171 Searching for "Group" should return all tags defined above. Filtering
172 on SubOne filters also it's sub-tags. Etc.
174 There is no limit on the depth for the tag hierarchy.
176 *** Additional syntax for non-unique grouptags
177 Additional syntax is defined for grouptags if the tags in the group
178 don't have to be distinct on a heading.
180 Grouptags had to previously be defined with { }. This syntax is
181 already used for exclusive tags and Grouptags need their own,
182 non-exclusive syntax. This behaviour is achieved with [ ]. Note: {
183 } can still be used also for Grouptags but then only one of the
184 given tags can be used on the headline at the same time. Example:
186 [ group : sub1 sub2 ]
192 This is a more general case than the already existing syntax for
195 *** Define regular expression patterns as tags
196 Tags can be defined as grouptags with regular expressions as
199 The regular expressions in the group must be marked up within { }.
202 : #+TAGS: [ Project : {P@.+} ]
204 Searching for the tag Project will now list all tags also including
205 regular expression matches for P@.+. Good for example if tags for a
206 certain project is tagged with a common project-identifier,
209 *** Filtering in the agenda on grouptags (Tag hierarchies)
210 Filtering in the agenda on grouptags filter all of the related tags.
211 Exception if filter is applied with a (double) prefix-argument.
213 Filtering in the agenda on subcategories does not filter the "above"
216 If a grouptag contains a regular expression the regular expression
217 is also used as a filter.
219 *** Minor refactoring of ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag~
220 Now uses the argument arg and optional argument exclude instead of
221 strip and narrow. ARG because the argument has multiple purposes and
222 makes more sense than strip now. The term narrowing is changed to
225 The main purpose is for the function to make more logical sense when
226 filtering on tags now when tags can be structured in hierarchies.
228 *** New behaviour for `org-toggle-latex-fragment'.
229 The new behaviour is the following:
231 - With a double prefix argument or with a single prefix argument
232 when point is before the first headline, toggle overlays in the
235 - With a single prefix argument, toggle overlays in the current
238 - On latex code, toggle overlay at point;
240 - Otherwise, toggle overlays in the current section.
242 *** Additional markup with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
243 The content of the included file can now be optionally marked up, for
244 instance as HTML. See the documentation for details.
245 *** File links with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
246 Objects can be extracted via =#+INCLUDE= using file links. It is
247 possible to include only the contents of the object. See manual for
249 *** Additional =:hline= processing to ob-shell
250 If the argument =:hlines yes= is present in a babel call, an optional
251 argument =:hlines-string= can be used to define a string to use as a
252 representation for the lisp symbol ='hline= in the shell program. The
254 *** Drawers do not need anymore to be referenced in =#+DRAWERS=
255 One can use a drawer without listing it in the =#+DRAWERS= keyword,
256 which is now obsolete. As a consequence, this change also deprecates
257 ~org-drawers~ variable.
258 *** ~org-edit-special~ can edit export blocks
259 Using C-c ' on an export block now opens a sub-editing buffer. Major
260 mode in that buffer is determined by export backend name (e.g.,
261 "latex" \to "latex-mode"). You can define exceptions to this rule by
262 configuring ~org-src-lang-modes~, which see.
263 *** Markdown export supports switches in source blocks
264 For example, it is now possible to number lines using the =-n= switch
266 *** New option in ASCII export
267 Plain lists can have an extra margin by setting
268 ~org-ascii-list-margin~ variable to an appopriate integer.
269 *** New blocks in ASCII export
270 ASCII export now supports =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYRIGHT= and
271 =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYLEFT= blocks. See documentation for details.
272 *** More back-end specific publishing options
273 The number of publishing options specific to each back-end has been
274 increased. See manual for details.
275 *** Export inline source blocks
276 Inline source code was used to be removed upon exporting. They are
277 now handled as standard code blocks, i.e., the source code can appear
278 in the output, depending on the parameters.
279 *** Extend ~org-export-first-sibling-p~ and ~org-export-last-sibling-p~
280 These functions now support any element or object, not only headlines.
281 *** New function: ~org-export-table-row-in-header-p~
282 *** New function: ~org-element-lineage~
283 This function deprecates ~org-export-get-genealogy~. It also provides
284 more features. See docstring for details.
285 *** New function: ~org-element-copy~
286 *** New filter: ~org-export-filter-body-functions~
287 Functions in this filter are applied on the body of the exported
288 document, befor wrapping it within the template.
289 *** Improve radio tables
290 Radio tables feature now relies on Org's export framework ("ox.el").
291 ~:no-escape~ parameter no longer exists, but additional global
292 parameters are now supported: ~:raw~, ~:backend~. Moreover, there are
293 new parameters specific to some pre-defined translators, e.g.,
294 ~:environment~ and ~:booktabs~ for ~orgtbl-to-latex~. See translators
295 docstrings (including ~orgtbl-to-generic~) for details.
296 *** Non-floating minted listings in Latex export
297 It is not possible to specify =#+attr_latex: :float nil= in conjunction with
298 source blocks exported by the minted package.
299 *** Field formulas can now create columns as needed
300 Previously, evaluating formulas that referenced out-of-bounds columns
301 would throw an error. A new variable
302 ~org-table-formula-create-columns~ was added to adjust this
303 behavior. It is now possible to silently add new columns, to do so
304 with a warning or to explicitly ask the user each time.
306 Ability to plot values in a column through ASCII-art bars. See manual
308 *** New hook: ~org-archive-hook~
309 This hook is called after successfully archiving a subtree, with point
310 on the original subtree, not yet deleted.
311 *** New option: ~org-attach-archive-delete~
312 When non-nil, attachments from archived subtrees are removed.
313 *** New option: ~org-latex-caption-above~
314 This variable generalizes ~org-latex-table-caption-above~, which is
315 now deprecated. In addition to tables, it applies to source blocks,
316 special blocks and images. See docstring for more information.
317 *** Export unnumbered headlines
318 Headlines, for which the property ~UNNUMBERED~ is non-nil, are now
319 exported without section numbers irrespective of their levels. The
320 property is inherited by children.
321 *** Tables can be sorted with an arbitrary function
322 It is now possible to specify a function, both programatically,
323 through a new optional argument, and interactively with ~f~ or ~F~
324 keys, to sort a table.
325 *** Table of contents can be local to a section
326 The ~TOC~ keywords now accepts an optional ~local~ parameter. See
328 *** Countdown timers can now be paused.
329 ~org-timer-pause-time~ now pauses and restarts both relative and
331 *** New option ~only-window~ for ~org-agenda-window-setup~
332 When ~org-agenda-window-setup~ is set to ~only-window~, the agenda is
333 displayed as the sole window of the current frame.
334 *** ~{{{date}}}~ macro supports optional formatting argument
335 It is now possible to supply and optional formatting argument to
336 ~{{{date}}}~. See manual for details.
337 *** New option ~org-export-with-title~
338 It is possible to suppress the title insertion with ~#+OPTIONS:
339 title:nil~ or globally using the variable ~org-export-with-title~.
340 *** New entities family: "\_ "
341 "\_ " are used to insert up to 20 contiguous spaces in various
342 back-ends. In particular, this family can be used to introduce
343 leading spaces within table cells.
344 *** New MathJax configuration options.
345 Org uses the MathJax CDN by default. See the manual and the docstring
346 of ~org-html-mathjax-options~ for details.
347 *** New behaviour in `org-export-options-alist'
348 When defining a back-end, it is now possible to specify to give
349 `parse' behaviour on a keyword. It is equivalent to call
350 `org-element-parse-secondary-string' on the value.
352 However, parsed =KEYWORD= is automatically associated to an
353 =:EXPORT_KEYWORD:= property, which can be used to override the keyword
354 value during a subtree export. Moreover, macros are expanded in such
355 keywords and properties.
356 *** Viewport support in html export
357 Viewport for mobile-optimized website is now automatically inserted
358 when exporting to html. See ~org-html-viewport~ for details.
359 *** New ~#+SUBTITLE~ export keyword
360 Org can typeset a subtitle in some export backends. See the manual
363 *** Strip all meta data from ITEM special property
364 ITEM special property does not contain TODO, priority or tags anymore.
365 *** File names in links accept are now compatible with URI syntax
366 Absolute file names can now start with =///= in addition to =/=. E.g.,
367 =[[file:///home/me/unicorn.jpg]]=.
368 *** Footnotes in included files are now local to the file
369 As a consequence, it is possible to include multiple Org files with
370 footnotes in a master document without being concerned about footnote
372 *** Mailto links now use regular URI syntax
373 This change deprecates old Org syntax for mailto links:
374 =mailto:user@domain::Subject=.
375 *** =QUOTE= keywords do not exist anymore
376 =QUOTE= keywords have been deprecated since Org 8.2.
377 *** Select tests to perform with the build system
378 The build system has been enhanced to allow test selection with a
379 regular expression by defining =BTEST_RE= during the test invocation.
380 This is especially useful during bisection to find just when a
381 particular test failure was introduced.
382 *** Exact heading search for external links ignore spaces and cookies
383 Exact heading search for links now ignore spaces and cookies. This is
384 the case for links of the form ~file:projects.org::*task title~, as
385 well as links of the form ~file:projects.org::some words~
386 when ~org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline~ is not nil.
387 *** ~org-latex-hyperref-template~, ~org-latex-title-command~ formatting
388 New formatting keys are supported. See the respective docstrings.
389 Note, ~org-latex-hyperref-template~ has a new default value.
392 ** Incompatible changes
393 *** =ob-sh.el= renamed to =ob-shell=
394 This may require two changes in user config.
396 1. In =org-babel-do-load-languages=, change =(sh . t)= to =(shell . t)=.
397 2. Edit =local.mk= files to change the value of =BTEST_OB_LANGUAGES=
398 to remove "sh" and include "shell".
400 *** Combine org-mac-message.el and org-mac-link-grabber into org-mac-link.el
402 Please remove calls to =(require 'org-mac-message)= and =(require
403 'org-mac-link-grabber)= in your =.emacs= initialization file. All you
404 need now is =(require 'org-mac-link)=.
406 Additionally, replace any calls to =ogml-grab-link= to
407 =org-mac-grab-link=. For example, replace this line:
409 : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'omgl-grab-link)
413 : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-grab-link)
415 *** HTML export: Replace =HTML_HTML5_FANCY= by =:html-html5-fancy= (...)
417 Some of the HTML specific export options in Org <8.1 are either nil or
418 t, like =#+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=. We replaced these binary options with
419 option keywords like :html-include-style.
421 So you need to replace
423 : #+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE: t
427 : #+OPTIONS: :html-include-style t
429 Options affected by this change: =HTML5_FANCY=, =HTML_INCLUDE_SCRIPTS=
430 and =HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=.
432 *** Add an argument to ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-buffer~
434 ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-file~ can run in a different
435 process when provided a non-nil =ASYNC= optional argument, without
436 relying on ~org-export-async-start~ macro.
438 Since =ASYNC= is the first of optional arguments, you have to shift
439 the other optional arguments accordingly.
441 *** Export back-ends are now structures
443 Export back-ends are now structures, and stored as such in the
444 communication channel during an export process. In other words, from
445 now on, ~(plist-get info :back-end)~ will return a structure instead
448 Arguments in hooks and in filters are still symbols, though.
450 ** Important bugfixes
452 *** [[doc:org-insert-heading][org-insert-heading]] has been rewritten and bugs are now fixed
453 *** The replacement of disputed keys is now turned of when reading a date
455 *** Match string for sparse trees can now contain a slash in a property value
457 You can now have searches like SOMEPROP="aaa/bbb". Until now,
458 this would break because the slash would be interpreted as the
459 separator starting a TOTO match string.
462 *** =C-c ^ x= will now sort checklist items by their checked status
464 See [[doc:org-sort-list][org-sort-list]]: hitting =C-c ^ x= will put checked items at the end
466 *** Various LaTeX export enhancements
469 - Support for .pgf files
470 - LaTeX Babel blocks can now be exported as =.tikz= files
471 - Allow =latexmk= as an option for [[doc:org-latex-pdf-process][org-latex-pdf-process]]
472 - When using =\usepackage[AUTO]{babel}=, AUTO will automatically be
473 replaced with a value compatible with ~org-export-default-language~
474 or ~LANGUAGE~ keyword.
475 - The dependency on the =latexsym= LaTeX package has been removed, we
476 now use =amssymb= symbols by default instead.
478 *** New functions for paragraph motion
480 The commands =C-down= and =C-up= now invoke special commands
481 that use knowledge from the org-elements parser to move the cursor
482 in a paragraph-like way.
484 *** New entities in =org-entities.el=
486 Add support for ell, imath, jmath, varphi, varpi, aleph, gimel, beth,
487 dalet, cdots, S (§), dag, ddag, colon, therefore, because, triangleq,
488 leq, geq, lessgtr, lesseqgtr, ll, lll, gg, ggg, prec, preceq,
489 preccurlyeq, succ, succeq, succurlyeq, setminus, nexist(s), mho,
490 check, frown, diamond. Changes loz, vert, checkmark, smile and tilde.
492 *** Anonymous export back-ends
494 ~org-export-create-backend~ can create anonymous export back-ends,
495 which can then be passed to export functions like
496 ~org-export-to-file~, ~org-export-to-buffer~ or ~org-export-as~.
498 It allows for quick translation of Org syntax without the overhead of
499 registering a new back-end.
501 *** New agenda fortnight view
503 The agenda has not, in addition to day, week, month, and year
504 views, also a fortnight view covering 14 days.
507 *** New option [[doc:org-bookmark-names-plist][org-bookmark-names-plist]]
509 This allows to specify the names of automatic bookmarks.
510 *** New option [[doc:org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties][org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties]]
512 This allows more flexibility when optimizing the agenda generation.
513 See http://orgmode.org/worg/agenda-optimization.html for details.
514 *** New option: [[doc:org-html-link-use-abs-url][org-html-link-use-abs-url]] to force using absolute URLs
516 This is an export/publishing option, and should be used either within
517 the =#+OPTIONS= line(s) or within a [[doc:org-publish-project-alist][org-publish-project-alist]].
519 Setting this option to =t= is needed when the HTML output does not
520 allow relative URLs. For example, the =contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el=
521 library produces a RSS feed, and RSS feeds need to use absolute URLs,
522 so a combination of =:html-link-home "..." and :html-link-use-abs-url
523 t= is required---see the configuration example in the comment section
526 *** New option [[doc:org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd][org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd]]
528 This makes java executable configurable for ditaa blocks.
530 *** New options [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex][org-babel-latex-htlatex]] and [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages][org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages]]
532 This enables SVG generation from latex code blocks.
534 *** New option: [[doc:org-habit-show-done-always-green][org-habit-show-done-always-green]]
536 See [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg00214.html][this message]] from Max Mikhanosha.
538 *** New option: [[doc:org-babel-inline-result-wrap][org-babel-inline-result-wrap]]
540 If you set this to the following
542 : (setq org-babel-inline-result-wrap "$%s$")
544 then inline code snippets will be wrapped into the formatting string.
546 *** New option: [[doc:org-special-ctrl-o][org-special-ctrl-o]]
548 This variable can be used to turn off the special behavior of
550 ** New contributed packages
552 - =ox-bibtex.el= by Nicolas Goaziou :: an utility to handle BibTeX
553 export to both LaTeX and HTML exports. It uses the [[http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/][bibtex2html]]
556 - =org-screenshot.el= by Max Mikhanosha :: an utility to handle
557 screenshots easily from Org, using the external tool [[http://freecode.com/projects/scrot][scrot]].
561 *** "QUOTE" keywords in headlines are deprecated
563 "QUOTE" keywords are an undocumented feature in Org. When a headline
564 starts with the keyword "QUOTE", its contents are parsed as
565 a ~quote-section~ and treated as an example block. You can achieve
566 the same with example blocks.
568 This feature is deprecated and will be removed in the next Org
575 Installation instructions have been updated and simplified.
577 If you have troubles installing or updating Org, focus on these
580 - when updating via a =.zip/.tar.gz= file, you only need to set the
581 =load-path= in your =.emacs=. Set it before any other Org
582 customization that would call autoloaded Org functions.
584 - when updating by pulling Org's Git repository, make sure to create the
585 correct autoloads. You can do this by running =~$ make autoloads= (to
586 only create the autoloads) or by running =~$ make= (to also compile
587 the Emacs lisp files.) =~$ make help= and =~$ make helpall= gives you
588 detailed explanations.
590 - when updating through ELPA (either from GNU ELPA or from Org ELPA),
591 you have to install Org's ELPA package in a session where no Org
592 function has been called already.
594 When in doubt, run =M-x org-version RET= and see if you have a mixed-up
597 See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
599 ** Incompatible changes
601 Org 8.0 is the most disruptive major version of Org.
603 If you configured export options, you will have to update some of them.
605 If you used =#+ATTR_*= keywords, the syntax of the attributes changed and
606 you will have to update them.
608 Below is a list of changes for which you need to take action.
610 See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html for the most recent version of
611 this list and for detailed instructions on how to migrate.
613 **** New export engine
615 Org 8.0 comes with a new export engine written by Nicolas Goaziou. This
616 export engine relies on ~org-element.el~ (Org's syntax parser), which was
617 already in Org's core. This new export engine triggered the rewriting of
618 /all/ export back-ends.
620 The most visible change is the export dispatcher, accessible through the
621 keybinding =C-c C-e=. By default, this menu only shows some of the
622 built-in export formats, but you can add more formats by loading them
623 directly (e.g., =(require 'ox-texinfo)= or by configuring the option
624 [[doc:org-export-backends][org-export-backends]].
626 More contributed back-ends are available from the =contrib/= directory, the
627 corresponding files start with the =ox-= prefix.
629 If you customized an export back-end (like HTML or LaTeX), you will need to
630 rename some options so that your customization is not lost. Typically, an
631 option starting with =org-export-html-= is now named =org-html-=. See the
632 manual for details and check [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html][this Worg page]] for directions.
634 **** New syntax for #+ATTR_HTML/LaTeX/... options
636 : #+ATTR_HTML width="200px"
638 should now be written
640 : #+ATTR_HTML :width 200px
642 Keywords like =#+ATTR_HTML= and =#+ATTR_LaTeX= are defined in their
643 respective back-ends, and the list of supported parameters depends on
644 each backend. See Org's manual for details.
646 **** ~org-remember.el~ has been removed
648 You cannot use =remember.el= anymore to capture notes.
650 Support for remember templates has been obsoleted since long, it is
653 Use =M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET= to import your
654 remember templates into capture templates.
656 **** ~org-jsinfo.el~ has been merged into ~ox-html.el~
658 If you were requiring ~ox-jsinfo.el~ in your ~.emacs.el~ file, you
659 will have to remove this requirement from your initialization file.
661 **** Note for third-party developers
663 The name of the files for export back-end have changed: we now use the
664 prefix =ox-= for those files (like we use the =ob-= prefix for Babel
665 files.) For example ~org-html.el~ is now ~ox-html.el~.
667 If your code relies on these files, please update the names in your
670 **** Packages moved from core to contrib
672 Since packages in Org's core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we try
673 to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For 8.0, we
674 moved some contributions into the =contrib/= directory.
676 The rationale for deciding that these files should live in =contrib/=
677 is either because they rely on third-party software that is not
678 included in Emacs, or because they are not targeting a significant
681 - org-colview-xemacs.el
688 Note that ~ox-freedmind.el~ has been rewritten by Jambunathan,
689 ~org-mew.el~ has been enhanced by Tokuya Kameshima and
690 ~ox-taskjuggler.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and others.
692 Also, the Taskjuggler exporter now uses TJ3 by default. John Hendy
693 wrote [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler3.html][a tutorial on Worg]] for the TJ3 export.
695 ** New packages in core
697 *** ~ob-makefile.el~ by Eric Schulte and Thomas S. Dye
699 =ob-makefile.el= implements Org Babel support for Makefile tangling.
701 *** ~ox-man.el~ by Luis Anaya
703 =ox-man.el= allows you to export Org files to =man= pages.
705 *** ~ox-md.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou
707 =ox-md.el= allows you to export Org files to Markdown files, using the
708 vanilla [[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/][Markdown syntax]].
710 *** ~ox-texinfo.el~ by Jonathan Leech-Pepin
712 =ox-texinfo.el= allows you to export Org files to [[http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] files.
714 ** New packages in contrib
716 *** ~ob-julia.el~ by G. Jay Kerns
718 [[http://julialang.org/][Julia]] is a new programming language.
720 =ob-julia.el= provides Org Babel support for evaluating Julia source
723 *** ~ob-mathomatic.el~ by Luis Anaya
725 [[http://www.mathomatic.org/][mathomatic]] a portable, command-line, educational CAS and calculator
726 software, written entirely in the C programming language.
728 ~ob-mathomatic.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating mathomatic
731 *** ~ob-tcl.el~ by Luis Anaya
733 ~ob-tcl.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating [[http://www.tcl.tk/][Tcl]] source code.
735 *** ~org-bullets.el~ by Evgeni Sabof
737 Display bullets instead of stars for headlines.
739 Also see [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-8-12][this updated FAQ]] on how to display another character than "*"
740 for starting headlines.
742 *** ~org-favtable.el~ by Marc-Oliver Ihm
744 ~org-favtable.el~ helps you to create and update a table of favorite
745 locations in org, keeping the most frequently visited lines right at
746 the top. This table is called "favtable". See the documentation on
747 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-favtable.html][Worg]].
749 *** ~ox-confluence.el~ by Sébastien Delafond
751 ~ox-confluence.el~ lets you convert Org files to [[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence%2BWiki%2BMarkup][Confluence Wiki]] files.
753 *** ~ox-deck.el~ and ~ox-s5.el~ by Rick Frankel
755 [[http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/][deck.js]] is a javascript library for displaying HTML ages as
756 presentations. ~ox-deck.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
759 [[http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/][s5]] is a set of scripts which also allows to display HTML pages as
760 presentations. ~ox-s5.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
763 *** ~ox-groff.el~ by Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou
765 The [[http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/][groff]] (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads
766 plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted
769 Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou implemented ~ox-groff.el~ to allow
770 conversion from Org files to groff.
772 *** ~ox-koma-letter.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and Alan Schmitt
774 This back-end allow to export Org pages to the =KOMA Scrlttr2= format.
776 *** ~ox-rss.el~ by Bastien
778 This back-end lets you export Org pages to RSS 2.0 feeds. Combined
779 with the HTML publishing feature, this allows you to build a blog
786 **** New export generic options
788 If you use Org exporter, we advise you to re-read [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Exporting][the manual section about
789 it]]. It has been updated and includes new options.
791 Among the new/updated export options, three are of particular importance:
793 - [[doc:org-export-allow-bind-keywords][org-export-allow-bind-keywords]] :: This option replaces the old option
794 =org-export-allow-BIND= and the default value is =nil=, not =confirm=.
795 You will need to explicitly set this to =t= in your initialization
796 file if you want to allow =#+BIND= keywords.
798 - [[doc:org-export-with-planning][org-export-with-planning]] :: This new option controls the export of
799 =SCHEDULED:, DEADLINE:, CLOSED:= lines, and planning information is
800 now skipped by default during export. This use to be the job of
801 [[doc:org-export-with-timestamps][org-export-with-timestamps]], but this latter option has been given a
802 new role: it controls the export of /standalone time-stamps/. When
803 set to =nil=, Org will not export active and inactive time-stamps
804 standing on a line by themselves or within a paragraph that only
805 contains time-stamps.
807 To check if an option has been introduced or its default value changed in
808 Org 8.0, do =C-h v [option] RET= and check if the documentation says that
809 the variable has been introduced (or changed) in version 24.4 of Emacs.
811 **** Enhanced default stylesheet for the HTML exporter
813 See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-style-default][org-html-style-default]].
815 **** New tags, classes and ids for the HTML exporter
817 See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-divs][org-html-divs]].
819 **** Support for tikz pictures in LaTeX export
820 **** ~org-man.el~: New export function for "man" links
821 **** ~org-docview.el~: New export function for docview links
822 *** Structure editing
824 **** =C-u C-u M-RET= inserts a heading at the end of the parent subtree
825 **** Cycling to the =CONTENTS= view keeps inline tasks folded
827 [[doc:org-cycle-hook][org-cycle-hook]] as a new function [[doc:org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks][org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks]] which
828 prevents the display of inline tasks when showing the content of a subtree.
830 **** =C-c -= in a region makes a list item for each line
832 This is the opposite of the previous behavior, where =C-c -= on a region
833 would create one item for the whole region, and where =C-u C-c -= would
834 create an item for each line. Now =C-c -= on the selected region creates
835 an item per line, and =C-u C-c -= creates a single item for the whole
838 **** When transposing words, markup characters are now part of the words
840 In Emacs, you can transpose words with =M-t=. Transposing =*these*
841 _words__= will preserve markup.
843 **** New command [[doc:org-set-property-and-value][org-set-property-and-value]] bound to =C-c C-x P=
845 This command allows you to quickly add both the property and its value. It
846 is useful in buffers where there are many properties and where =C-c C-x p=
847 can slow down the flow of editing too much.
849 **** New commands [[doc:org-next-block][org-next-block]] and [[doc:org-previous-block][org-previous-block]]
851 These commands allow you to go to the previous block (=C-c M-b= or the
852 speedy key =B=) or to the next block (=C-c M-f= or the speedy key =F=.)
854 **** New commands [[doc:org-drag-line-forward][org-drag-line-forward]] and [[doc:org-drag-line-backward][org-drag-line-backward]]
856 These commands emulate the old behavior of =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= but are
857 now bound to =S-M-<down>= and =S-M-<up>= respectively, since =M-<down>= and
858 =M-<up>= now drag the whole element at point (a paragraph, a table, etc.)
859 forward and backward.
861 **** When a list item has a checkbox, inserting a new item uses a checkbox too
862 **** When sorting entries/items, only the description of links is considered
864 Now Org will sort this list
866 : - [[http://abc.org][B]]
867 : - [[http://def.org][A]]
871 : - [[http://def.org][A]]
872 : - [[http://abc.org][B]]
874 by comparing the descriptions, not the links.
875 Same when sorting headlines instead of list items.
876 **** New option =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp=
878 For example, setting this option to "^;;; " in Emacs lisp files and using
879 =orgstruct-mode= in those files will allow you to cycle through visibility
880 states as if lines starting with ";;; *..." where headlines.
882 In general, you want to set =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp= as a file
885 **** New behavior of [[doc:org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift][org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift]]
887 The default is now to ask for a time-shift only when there is a time-stamp.
888 When called with a universal prefix argument =C-u=, it will not ask for a
889 time-shift even if there is a time-stamp.
891 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree][org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree]]
893 This defaults to =t= so that the whole subtree is highlighted when you
894 restrict the agenda view to it with =C-c C-x <= (or the speed command =<=).
895 The default setting helps ensuring that you are not adding tasks after the
896 restricted region. If you find this highlighting too intrusive, set this
898 **** New option [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]]
900 When switching back from a =DONE= keyword to a =TODO= keyword, Org now
901 removes the =CLOSED= planning information, if any. It also removes this
902 information when going back to a non-TODO state (e.g., with =C-c C-t SPC=).
903 If you want to keep the =CLOSED= planning information when removing the
904 TODO keyword, set [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]] to =t=.
906 **** New option [[doc:org-image-actual-width][org-image-actual-width]]
908 This option allows you to change the width of in-buffer displayed images.
909 The default is to use the actual width of the image, but you can use a
910 fixed value for all images, or fall back on an attribute like
912 : #+attr_html: :width 300px
913 *** Scheduled/deadline
915 **** Implement "delay" cookies for scheduled items
917 If you want to delay the display of a scheduled task in the agenda, you can
918 now use a delay cookie like this: =SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>=. The
919 task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear in your agenda starting
920 from two days later (i.e. from March 27th.)
922 Imagine for example that your co-workers are not done in due time and tell
923 you "we need two more days". In that case, you may want to delay the
924 display of the task in your agenda by two days, but you still want the task
925 to appear as scheduled on March 25th.
927 In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all
928 occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled
929 occurrence of the task, use =--2d= instead. See [[doc:org-scheduled-delay-days][org-scheduled-delay-days]]
930 and [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline]] for details on how to
931 control this globally or per agenda.
933 **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-s= will insert a delay cookie for scheduled tasks
935 See the previous section for why delay cookies may be useful.
937 **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-d= will insert a warning delay for deadline tasks
939 =C-u C-u C-c C-d= now inserts a warning delay to deadlines.
940 *** Calendar, diary and appts
942 **** New variable [[doc:org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map][org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map]]
944 By default, this new local map uses "." to go to today's date, like in the
945 normal =M-x calendar RET=. If you want to deactivate this and to reassign
946 the "@" key to =calendar-goto-today=, use this:
948 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
949 ;; Unbind "." in Org's calendar:
950 (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd ".") nil)
952 ;; Bind "@" to `calendar-goto-today':
953 (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
955 (lambda () (interactive) (org-eval-in-calendar '(calendar-goto-today))))
958 **** In Org's calendar, =!= displays diary entries of the date at point
960 This is useful when you want to check if you don't already have an
961 appointment when setting new ones with =C-c .= or =C-c s=. =!= will
962 call =diary-view-entries= and display the diary in a separate buffer.
964 **** [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]]: only keep the descriptions of links
966 [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]] returns diary information from Org files, but it returns it
967 in a diary buffer, not in an Org mode buffer. When links are displayed,
968 only show their description, not the full links.
971 **** New agenda type =agenda*= and entry types =:scheduled* :deadline*=
973 When defining agenda custom commands, you can now use =agenda*=: this will
974 list entries that have both a date and a time. This is useful when you
975 want to build a list of appointments.
977 You can also set [[doc:org-agenda-entry-types][org-agenda-entry-types]] either globally or locally in
978 each agenda custom command and use =:timestamp*= and/or =:deadline*= there.
980 Another place where this is useful is your =.diary= file:
982 : %%(org-diary :scheduled*) ~/org/rdv.org
984 This will list only entries from =~/org/rdv.org= that are scheduled with a
985 time value (i.e. appointments).
987 **** New agenda sorting strategies
989 [[doc:org-agenda-sorting-strategy][org-agenda-sorting-strategy]] allows these new sorting strategies:
991 | Strategy | Explanations |
992 |----------------+------------------------------------------|
993 | timestamp-up | Sort by any timestamp, early first |
994 | timestamp-down | Sort by any timestamp, late first |
995 | scheduled-up | Sort by scheduled timestamp, early first |
996 | scheduled-down | Sort by scheduled timestamp, late first |
997 | deadline-up | Sort by deadline timestamp, early first |
998 | deadline-down | Sort by deadline timestamp, late first |
999 | ts-up | Sort by active timestamp, early first |
1000 | ts-down | Sort by active timestamp, late first |
1001 | tsia-up | Sort by inactive timestamp, early first |
1002 | tsia-down | Sort by inactive timestamp, late first |
1004 **** New options to limit the number of agenda entries
1006 You can now limit the number of entries in an agenda view. This is
1007 different from filters: filters only /hide/ the entries in the agenda,
1008 while limits are set while generating the list of agenda entries.
1010 These new options are available:
1012 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-entries][org-agenda-max-entries]] :: limit by number of entries.
1013 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] :: limit by number of TODOs.
1014 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-tags][org-agenda-max-tags]] :: limit by number of tagged entries.
1015 - [[doc:org-agenda-max-effort][org-agenda-max-effort]] :: limit by effort (minutes).
1017 For example, if you locally set [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] to 3 in an agenda
1018 view, the agenda will be limited to the first three todos. Other entries
1019 without a TODO keyword or beyond the third TODO headline will be ignored.
1021 When setting a limit (e.g. about an effort's sum), the default behavior is
1022 to exclude entries that cannot be checked against (e.g. entries that have
1023 no effort property.) To include other entries too, you can set the limit
1024 to a negative number. For example =(setq org-agenda-max-tags -3)= will not
1025 show the fourth tagged headline (and beyond), but it will also show
1026 non-tagged headlines.
1028 **** =~= in agenda view sets temporary limits
1030 You can hit =~= in the agenda to temporarily set limits: this will
1031 regenerate the agenda as if the limits were set. This is useful for
1032 example when you want to only see a list of =N= tasks, or a list of tasks
1033 that take only =N= minutes.
1035 **** "=" in agenda view filters by regular expressions
1037 You can now filter agenda entries by regular expressions using ~=~. =C-u
1038 == will filter entries out. Regexp filters are cumulative. You can set
1039 [[doc:org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset][org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset]] to suit your needs in each agenda view.
1041 **** =|= in agenda view resets all filters
1043 Since it's common to combine tag filters, category filters, and now regexp
1044 filters, there is a new command =|= to reset all filters at once.
1046 **** Allow writing an agenda to an =.org= file
1048 You can now write an agenda view to an =.org= file. It copies the
1049 headlines and their content (but not subheadings) into the new file.
1051 This is useful when you want to quickly share an agenda containing the full
1054 **** New commands to drag an agenda line forward (=M-<down>=) or backward (=M-<up>=)
1056 It sometimes handy to move agenda lines around, just to quickly reorganize
1057 your tasks, or maybe before saving the agenda to a file. Now you can use
1058 =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= to move the line forward or backward.
1060 This does not persist after a refresh of the agenda, and this does not
1061 change the =.org= files who contribute to the agenda.
1063 **** Use =%b= for displaying "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view
1065 [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] now allows to use a =%b= formatter to tell Org
1066 to display "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view.
1068 This is useful when you want to display the task hierarchy in your agenda.
1070 **** Use =%l= for displaying the headline's level in the agenda view
1072 [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] allows to use a =%l= formatter to tell Org to
1073 display entries with additional spaces corresponding to their level in the
1076 **** [[doc:org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] will ask before overwriting an existing file
1078 =M-x org-agenda-write RET= (or =C-c C-w= from an agenda buffer) used to
1079 overwrite preexisting file with the same name without confirmation. It now
1080 asks for a confirmation.
1082 **** New commands =M-m= and =M-*= to toggle (all) mark(s) for bulk action
1084 - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle][org-agenda-bulk-toggle]] :: this command is bound to =M-m= and toggles
1085 the mark of the entry at point.
1087 - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all][org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all]] :: this command is bound to =M-*= and
1088 toggles all the marks in the current agenda.
1090 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level][org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level]]
1092 This option sets the maximum outline level to display in search view.
1093 E.g. when this is set to 1, the search view will only show headlines of
1096 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds][org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds]]
1098 This allows to compare times using seconds instead of days when honoring
1099 options like =org-agenda-todo-ignore-*= in the agenda display.
1101 **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-entry-text-leaders][org-agenda-entry-text-leaders]]
1103 This allows you to get rid of the ">" character that gets added in front of
1104 entries excerpts when hitting =E= in the agenda view.
1106 **** New formatting string for past deadlines in [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]
1108 The default formatting for past deadlines is ="%2d d. ago: "=, which makes
1109 it explicit that the deadline is in the past. You can configure this via
1110 [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]. Note that the width of the formatting
1111 string is important to keep the agenda alignment clean.
1113 **** New allowed value =repeated-after-deadline= for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]]
1115 When [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]] is set to
1116 =repeated-after-deadline=, the agenda will skip scheduled items if they are
1117 repeated beyond the current deadline.
1119 **** New option for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled][org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled]]
1121 This variable may be set to nil, t, the symbol `pre-scheduled', or a number
1122 which will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when the
1123 prewarnings should resume. The symbol `pre-scheduled' eliminates the
1124 deadline prewarning only prior to the scheduled date.
1126 Read the full docstring for details.
1128 **** [[doc:org-class][org-class]] now supports holiday strings in the skip-weeks parameter
1130 For example, this task will now be skipped only on new year's day:
1133 : <%%(org-class 2012 1 1 2013 12 12 2 "New Year's Day")>
1136 **** Allow =C-1= as a prefix for [[doc:org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] and [[doc:org-capture][org-capture]]
1138 With a =C-1= prefix, the capture mechanism will use the =HH:MM= value at
1139 point (if any) or the current =HH:MM= time as the default time for the
1142 **** Expand keywords within %(sexp) placeholder in capture templates
1144 If you use a =%:keyword= construct within a =%(sexp)= construct, Org will
1145 expand the keywords before expanding the =%(sexp)=.
1147 **** Allow to contextualize capture (and agenda) commands by checking the name of the buffer
1149 [[doc:org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]] and [[doc:org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
1150 allow you to define what capture templates and what agenda commands should
1151 be available in various contexts. It is now possible for the context to
1152 check against the name of the buffer.
1155 Using =#+TAGS: { Tag1 : Tag2 Tag3 }= will define =Tag1= as a /group tag/
1156 (note the colon after =Tag1=). If you search for =Tag1=, it will return
1157 headlines containing either =Tag1=, =Tag2= or =Tag3= (or any combination
1160 You can use group tags for sparse tree in an Org buffer, for creating
1161 agenda views, and for filtering.
1163 See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Tag-groups for details.
1167 **** =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= will ignore non-core link functions
1169 Org knows how to store links from Org buffers, from info files and from
1170 other Emacs buffers. Org can be taught how to store links from any buffer
1171 through new link protocols (see [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Adding-hyperlink-types]["Adding hyperlink types"]] in the manual.)
1173 Sometimes you want Org to ignore added link protocols and store the link
1174 as if the protocol was not known.
1176 You can now do this with =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET=.
1178 **** =C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= on an active region will store links for each lines
1180 Imagine for example that you want to store a link for every message in a
1181 Gnus summary buffer. In that case =C-x h C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link
1182 RET= will store a link for every line (i.e. message) if the region is
1185 **** =C-c C-M-l= will add a default description for links which don't have one
1187 =C-c C-M-l= inserts all stored links. If a link does not have a
1188 description, this command now adds a default one, so that we are not mixing
1189 with-description and without-description links when inserting them.
1191 **** No curly braces to bracket links within internal links
1193 When storing a link to a headline like
1195 : * See [[http://orgmode.org][Org website]]
1197 [[doc:org-store-link][org-store-link]] used to convert the square brackets into curly brackets.
1198 It does not anymore, taking the link description or the link path, when
1199 there is no description.
1202 **** Switching between #+TBLFM lines
1204 If you have several =#+TBLFM= lines below a table, =C-c C-c= on a line will
1205 apply the formulas from this line, and =C-c C-c= on another line will apply
1206 those other formulas.
1208 **** You now use "nan" for empty fields in Calc formulas
1210 If empty fields are of interest, it is recommended to reread the section
1211 [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Formula-syntax-for-Calc][3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc]] of the manual because the description for the
1212 mode strings has been clarified and new examples have been added towards
1215 **** Handle localized time-stamps in formulas evaluation
1217 If your =LOCALE= is set so that Org time-stamps use another language than
1218 english, and if you make time computations in Org's table, it now works by
1219 internally converting the time-stamps with a temporary =LOCALE=C= before
1222 **** New lookup functions
1224 There are now three lookup functions:
1226 - [[doc:org-loopup-first][org-loopup-first]]
1227 - [[doc:org-loopup-last][org-loopup-last]]
1228 - [[doc:org-loopup-all][org-loopup-all]]
1230 See [[http://orgmode.org/org.html#Lookup-functions][the manual]] for details.
1231 *** Startup keywords
1233 These new startup keywords are now available:
1235 | Startup keyword | Option |
1236 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
1237 | =#+STARTUP: logdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer t)= |
1238 | =#+STARTUP: nologdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer nil)= |
1239 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
1240 | =#+STARTUP: logstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed t)= |
1241 | =#+STARTUP: nologstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed nil)= |
1242 |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
1243 | =#+STARTUP: latexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview t)= |
1244 | =#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview nil)= |
1248 **** New option [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]]
1250 E.g. if [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]] is set to 5, time is 14:47 and you
1251 clock in: then the clock starts at 14:45. If you clock out within the next
1252 5 minutes, the clock line will be removed; if you clock out 8 minutes after
1253 your clocked in, the clock out time will be 14:50.
1255 **** New option [[doc:org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations][org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations]]
1257 When non-nil, =C-c C-x C-d= uses effort durations. E.g., by default, one
1258 day is considered to be a 8 hours effort, so a task that has been clocked
1259 for 16 hours will be displayed as during 2 days in the clock display or in
1262 See [[doc:org-effort-durations][org-effort-durations]] on how to set effort durations and
1263 [[doc:org-time-clocksum-format][org-time-clocksum-format]] for more on time clock formats.
1265 **** New option [[doc:org-clock-x11idle-program-name][org-clock-x11idle-program-name]]
1267 This allows to set the name of the program which prints X11 idle time in
1268 milliseconds. The default is to use =x11idle=.
1270 **** New option [[doc:org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time][org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time]]
1272 When non-nil, use the last clock out time for [[doc:org-todo][org-todo]]. Note that this
1273 option has precedence over the combined use of [[doc:org-use-effective-time][org-use-effective-time]] and
1274 [[doc:org-extend-today-until][org-extend-today-until]].
1276 **** =S-<left/right>= on a clocksum column will update the sum by updating the last clock
1277 **** =C-u 3 C-S-<up/down>= will update clock timestamps synchronously by 3 units
1278 **** New parameter =:wstart= for clocktables to define the week start day
1279 **** New parameter =:mstart= to state the starting day of the month
1280 **** Allow relative times in clocktable tstart and tend options
1281 **** The clocktable summary is now a caption
1282 **** =:tstart= and =:tend= and friends allow relative times like "<-1w>" or "<now>"
1285 **** You can now use =C-c C-k= for [[doc:org-edit-src-abort][org-edit-src-abort]]
1287 This allows you to quickly cancel editing a source block.
1289 **** =C-u C-u M-x org-babel-tangle RET= tangles by the target file of the block at point
1291 This is handy if you want to tangle all source code blocks that have the
1292 same target than the block at point.
1294 **** New options for auto-saving the base buffer or the source block editing buffer
1296 When [[doc:org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save][org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save]] is set to =t=, editing a source block
1297 in a new window will turn on =auto-save-mode= and save the code in a new
1298 file under the same directory than the base Org file.
1300 When [[doc:org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay][org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay]] is set to a number of minutes =N=,
1301 the base Org buffer will be saved after this number of minutes of idle
1304 **** New =:post= header argument post-processes results
1306 This header argument may be used to pass the results of the current
1307 code block through another code block for post-processing. See the
1308 manual for a usage example.
1310 **** Commented out heading are ignored when collecting blocks for tangling
1312 If you comment out a heading (with =C-c ;= anywhere on the heading or in
1313 the subtree), code blocks from within this heading are now ignored when
1314 collecting blocks for tangling.
1316 **** New option [[doc:org-babel-hash-show-time][org-babel-hash-show-time]] to show a time-stamp in the result hash
1317 **** Do not ask for confirmation if cached value is current
1319 Do not run [[doc:org-babel-confirm-evaluate][org-babel-confirm-evaluate]] if source block has a cache and the
1320 cache value is current as there is no evaluation involved in this case.
1321 **** =ob-sql.el= and =ob-python.el= have been improved.
1322 **** New Babel files only need to =(require 'ob)=
1324 When writing a new Babel file, you now only need to use =(require 'ob)=
1325 instead of requiring each Babel library one by one.
1328 - Org now fontifies radio link targets by default
1329 - In the agenda, use [[doc:org-todo-keyword-faces][org-todo-keyword-faces]] to highlight selected TODO keywords
1330 - New face [[doc:org-priority][org-priority]], enhanced fontification of priority cookies in agenda
1331 - New face [[doc:org-tag-group][org-tag-group]] for group tags
1335 - New speedy key =s= pour [[doc:org-narrow-to-subtree][org-narrow-to-subtree]]
1336 - Handling of [[doc:org-html-table-row][org-html-table-row]] has been updated (incompatible change)
1337 - [[doc:org-export-html-table-tag][org-export-html-table-tag]] is replaced by [[doc:org-html-table-default-attributes][org-html-table-default-attributes]]
1338 - Support using =git-annex= with Org attachments
1339 - org-protocol: Pass optional value using query in url to capture from protocol
1340 - When the refile history is empty, use the current filename as default
1341 - When you cannot change the TODO state of a task, Org displays the blocking task
1342 - New option [[doc:org-mobile-allpriorities][org-mobile-allpriorities]]
1343 - org-bibtex.el now use =visual-line-mode= instead of the deprecated =longlines-mode=
1344 - [[doc:org-format-latex-options][org-format-latex-options]] allows to set the foreground/background colors automatically
1345 - New option [[doc:org-archive-file-header-format][org-archive-file-header-format]]
1346 - New "neg" entity in [[doc:org-entities][org-entities]]
1347 - New function [[doc:org-docview-export][org-docview-export]] to export docview links
1348 - New =:eps= header argument for ditaa code blocks
1349 - New option [[doc:org-gnus-no-server][org-gnus-no-server]] to start Gnus with =gnus-no-server=
1350 - Org is now distributed with =htmlize.el= version 1.43
1351 - ~org-drill.el~ has been updated to version 2.3.7
1352 - ~org-mac-iCal.el~ now supports MacOSX version up to 10.8
1353 - Various improvements to ~org-contacts.el~ and =orgpan.el=
1357 *** Spanish translation of the Org guide by David Arroyo Menéndez
1359 David (and others) translated the Org compact guide in spanish:
1361 You can read the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/orgguide/orgguide.es.pdf][PDF guide]].
1363 *** ~poporg.el~ and ~outorg.el~
1365 Two new libraries (~poporg.el~ by François Pinard and ~outorg.el~ by
1366 Thorsten Jolitz) now enable editing of comment-sections from source-code
1367 buffers in temporary Org-mode buffers, making the full editing power of
1368 Org-mode available. ~outorg.el~ comes together with ~outshine.el~ and
1369 ~navi-mode.el~, two more libraries by Thorsten Jolitz with the goal to give
1370 source-code buffers the /look & feel/ of Org-mode buffers while greatly
1371 improving navigation and structure editing. A detailed description can be
1372 found here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
1374 Here are two screencasts demonstrating Thorsten's tools:
1376 - [[http://youtu.be/nqE6YxlY0rw]["Modern conventions for Emacs Lisp files"]]
1377 - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DII-xYw5VGFM][Exploring Bernt Hansen's Org-mode tutorial with 'navi-mode']]
1379 *** MobileOrg for iOS
1381 MobileOrg for iOS back in the App Store The 1.6.0 release was focused on
1382 the new Dropbox API and minor bug fixes but also includes a new ability to
1383 launch in Capture mode. Track development and contribute [[https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg/issues][on github]].
1387 ** New option [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]]
1389 [[doc::org-use-tag-inheritance][org-use-tag-inheritance]] controls whether tags are inherited when
1390 org-tags-view is called (either in =tags=, =tags-tree= or =tags-todo=
1393 When generating other agenda types such as =agenda=, =todo= and
1394 =todo-tree=, tags inheritance is not used when selecting the entries
1395 to display. Still, you might want to have all tag information correct
1396 in the agenda buffer, e.g. for tag filtering. In that case, add the
1397 agenda type to this variable.
1399 Setting this variable to nil should considerably speeds up the agenda
1402 Note that the default was to display inherited tags in the agenda
1403 lines even if `org-use-tag-inheritance' was nil. The default is now
1404 to *never* display inherited tags in agenda lines, but to /know/ about
1405 them when the agenda type is listed in [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]].
1407 ** New default value nil for [[doc::org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks][org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks]]
1409 Using `nil' as the default value speeds up the agenda generation. You
1410 can hit `#' (or `C-u #') in agenda buffers to temporarily dim (or turn
1411 invisible) blocked tasks.
1413 ** New speedy keys for [[doc::org-speed-commands-default][org-speed-commands-default]]
1415 You can now use `:' (instead of `;') for setting tags---this is
1416 consistent with using the `:' key in agenda view.
1418 You can now use `=' for [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]].
1420 ** =org-float= is now obsolete, use =diary-float= instead
1421 ** No GPL manual anymore
1423 There used to be a GPL version of the Org manual, but this is not the
1424 case anymore, the Free Software Foundation does not permit this.
1426 The GNU FDL license is now included in the manual directly.
1428 ** Enhanced compatibility with Emacs 22 and XEmacs
1430 Thanks to Achim for his work on enhancing Org's compatibility with
1431 various Emacsen. Things may not be perfect, but Org should work okay
1432 in most environments.
1436 ** New ELPA repository for Org packages
1438 You can now add the Org ELPA repository like this:
1440 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
1441 (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
1444 It contains both the =org-*.tar= package (the core Org distribution, also
1445 available through http://elpa.gnu.org) and the =org-plus*.tar= package (the
1446 extended Org distribution, with non-GNU packages from the =contrib/=
1449 See http://orgmode.org/elpa/
1451 ** Overview of the new keybindings
1453 | Keybinding | Speedy | Command |
1454 |-----------------+--------+-----------------------------|
1455 | =C-c C-x C-z= | | [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]] |
1456 | =C-c C-x C-q= | | [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]] |
1457 | =C-c C-x C-x= | | [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] |
1458 | =M-h= | | [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] |
1459 | =*= | | [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] |
1460 | =C-c C-M-l= | | [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]] |
1461 | =C-c C-x C-M-v= | | [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]] |
1462 | =C-c C-x E= | =E= | [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]] |
1463 | | =#= | [[doc::org-toggle-comment][org-toggle-comment]] |
1464 | | =:= | [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]] |
1465 | | =W= | Set =APPT_WARNTIME= |
1466 | =k= | | [[doc::org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] |
1467 | C-c , | , | [[doc::org-priority][org-priority]] |
1469 ** New package and Babel language
1471 *** =org-eshell.el= by Konrad Hinsen is now in Org
1473 =org-eshell.el= allows you to create links from [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/index.html][Eshell]].
1475 *** Support for execution of Scala code blocks (see ob-scala.el)
1476 *** Support for execution of IO code blocks (see ob-io.el)
1478 ** Incompatible changes
1480 - If your code relies on =org-write-agenda=, please use
1481 [[doc::org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] from now on.
1483 - If your code relies on =org-make-link=, please use =concat=
1486 - =org-link-to-org-use-id= has been renamed to
1487 =org-id-link-to-org-use-id= and its default value is nil. The
1488 previous default was =create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id=.
1490 ** New features and user-visible changes
1494 =org-element.el= is a toolbox for parsing and analyzing "elements"
1495 in an Org-mode buffer. This has been written by Nicolas Goaziou
1496 and has been tested for quite some time. It is now part of Org's
1497 core and many core functions rely on this package.
1499 Two functions might be particularly handy for users:
1500 =org-element-at-point= and =org-element-context=.
1502 See the docstrings for more details.
1504 Below is a list of editing and navigating commands that now rely
1505 on =org-element.el=.
1507 **** [[doc::org-fill-paragraph][org-fill-paragraph]] has been completely rewritten
1509 The filling mechanisms now rely on org-element, trying to do the
1510 right thing on each element in various contexts. E.g. filling in
1511 a list item will preserve indentation; filling in message-mode
1512 will fall back on the relevant filling functions; etc.
1514 **** [[doc::org-metaup][org-metaup]] and [[doc::org-metadown][org-metadown]] will drag the element backward/forward
1516 If you want to get the old behavior (i.e. moving a line up and
1517 down), you can first select the line as an active region, then
1518 =org-metaup= or =org-metadown= to move the region backward or
1519 forward. This also works with regions bigger than just one line.
1521 **** [[doc::org-up-element][org-up-element]] and [[doc::org-down-element][org-down-element]] (respectively =C-c C-^= and =C-c C-_=)
1523 This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements.
1525 **** [[doc::org-backward-element][org-backward-element]] and [[doc::org-forward-element][org-forward-element]] (respectively =M-{= and =M-}=)
1527 This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of
1530 **** [[doc::org-narrow-to-element][org-narrow-to-element]] will narrow to the element at point
1531 **** [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] will mark the element at point
1533 This command is bound to =M-h= and will mark the element at
1534 point. If the point is at a paragraph, it will mark the
1535 paragraph. If the point is at a list item, it will mark the list
1538 Note that if point is at the beginning of a list, it will mark
1541 To mark a subtree, you can either use =M-h= on the headline
1542 (since there is no ambiguity about the element you're at) or
1543 [[doc::org-mark-subtree][org-mark-subtree]] (=C-c @=) anywhere in the subtree.
1545 Invoking [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] repeatedly will try to mark the next
1546 element on top of the previous one(s). E.g. hitting =M-h= twice
1547 on a headline will mark the current subtree and the next one on
1552 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]]
1554 There is a new option =org-agenda-sticky= which enables "sticky"
1555 agendas. Sticky agendas remain opened in the background so that
1556 you don't need to regenerate them each time you hit the
1557 corresponding keystroke. This is a big time saver.
1559 When [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is =non-nil=, the agenda buffer will be
1560 named using the agenda key and its description. In sticky
1561 agendas, the =q= key will just bury the agenda buffers and
1562 further agenda commands will show existing buffer instead of
1563 generating new ones.
1565 If [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is set to =nil=, =q= will kill the single
1568 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
1570 Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
1571 agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set
1574 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
1575 (setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts
1576 '(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt"))))
1579 then the =p= agenda command will only be available from buffers
1580 visiting *.txt files. See the docstring and the manual for more
1581 details on how to use this.
1583 **** Changes in bulk actions
1585 The set of commands starting with =k ...= as been deleted and the
1586 features have been merged into the "bulk action" feature.
1588 After you marked some entries in the agenda, if you call =B s=,
1589 the agenda entries will be rescheduled using the date at point if
1590 on a date header. If you are on an entry with a timestamp, you
1591 will be prompted for a date to reschedule your marked entries to,
1592 using the timestamp at point as the default prompt.
1594 You can now use =k= to capture the marked entry and use the date
1595 at point as an overriding date for the capture template.
1597 To bind this behavior to =M-x org-capture RET= (or its
1598 keybinding), set the new option [[doc::org-capture-use-agenda-date][org-capture-use-agenda-date]] to
1601 **** =N= and =P= in the agenda will move to the next/previous item
1603 **** New command [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] to mark all items
1605 This new command is bound to =*= in agenda mode.
1607 There is also a new option [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-char][org-agenda-bulk-mark-char]] to set the
1608 character to use as a mark for bulk actions.
1610 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-persistent-marks][org-agenda-persistent-marks]]
1612 When set to =non-nil=, marks will remain visible after a bulk
1613 action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressing =p= when
1614 invoking [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-action][org-agenda-bulk-action]]. Marks are deleted if your
1615 rebuild the agenda buffer or move to another date/span (e.g. with
1618 **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown]]
1620 =Non-nil= means skip timestamp line if same entry shows because
1623 In the agenda of today, an entry can show up multiple times
1624 because it has both a plain timestamp and has a nearby deadline.
1625 When this variable is t, then only the deadline is shown and the
1626 fact that the entry has a timestamp for or including today is not
1627 shown. When this variable is =nil=, the entry will be shown
1630 **** New =todo-unblocked= and =nottodo-unblocked= skip conditions
1632 See the [[http://orgmode.org/w/?p%3Dorg-mode.git%3Ba%3Dcommit%3Bh%3Df426da][git commit]] for more explanations.
1634 **** Allow category filtering in the agenda
1636 You can now filter the agenda by category. Pressing "<" will
1637 filter by the category of the item on the current line, and
1638 pressing "<" again will remove the filter. You can combine tag
1639 filters and category filters.
1641 You can use =org-agenda-category-filter= in your custom agenda
1642 views and =org-agenda-category-filter-preset= in your main
1645 See also the new command [[doc::org-agenda-filter-by-top-category][org-agenda-filter-by-top-category]]:
1646 hitting =^= will filter by "Top" category: only show entries that
1647 are of the same category than the Top category of the entry at
1652 **** Inserting links
1654 When inserting links through [[doc::org-insert-link][org-insert-link]], the description is
1655 now displayed first, followed by the literal link, as the
1656 description is often more useful when you look for the link you
1659 Completion now complete both literal links and description. If
1660 you complete a description, the literal link and its description
1661 will be inserted directly, whereas when you complete the literal
1662 link, you will be prompted for a description (as with Org 7.8.)
1664 In the completion buffer, links to the current buffer are now
1667 **** New templates =%h= and =%(sexp)= for abbreviated links
1669 On top of =%s= template, which is replaced by the link tag in
1670 abbreviated links, you can now use =%h= (which does the same than =%s=
1671 but does not hexify the tag) and =%(sexp)= (which can run a function
1672 that takes the tag as its own argument.)
1674 **** New link type =help=
1676 You can now create links from =help= buffers.
1678 For example, if you request help for the command [[doc::org-agenda][org-agenda]] with
1679 =C-h f org-agenda RET=, creating a link from this buffer will let
1680 you go back to the same buffer.
1682 **** New command [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]]
1684 This will insert all links as list items. With a universal
1685 prefix argument, links will not be deleted from the variable
1688 This new command is bound to =C-c C-M-l=.
1690 **** New option [[doc::org-url-hexify-p][org-url-hexify-p]]
1692 When set to =nil=, the =URL= part of a link will not be hexified.
1694 **** Org can now open multiple shell links
1696 **** New option [[doc::org-doi-server-url][org-doi-server-url]] to specify an alternate DOI server
1698 **** RET now follows time stamps links
1702 **** [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] and =org-archive-*= can now loop in the active region
1704 When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, using
1705 [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] or =org-archive-*= commands in the active region will
1706 loop over headlines. This is handy if you want to set the TODO
1707 keyword for several items, or archive them quickly.
1709 **** You can now set tags for headlines in a region
1711 If [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, then
1712 selecting the region and hitting =C-c C-q= will set the tags for
1713 all headlines in the region.
1715 **** New command [[doc::org-insert-drawer][org-insert-drawer]] to insert a drawer interactively
1717 **** Comments start with "^[ \t]*# " anywhere on a line
1719 Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments
1720 with "^#+" are not supported anymore.
1722 **** New speed key =#= to toggle the COMMENT cookie on a headline
1724 **** =indent-region-function= is now set to [[doc::org-indent-region][org-indent-region]]
1726 =C-M-\= should now produce useful results.
1728 You can unindent the buffer with [[doc::org-unindent-buffer][org-unindent-buffer]].
1730 **** New option [[doc::org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree][org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree]]
1732 When =non-nil=, =S-M-<left>= will promote level-1 subtrees
1733 containing other subtrees. The level-1 headline will be
1734 commented out. You can revert to the previous state with =M-x
1739 **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-z= for [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]]
1741 **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-q= for [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]]
1743 **** New command [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] to clock in the last clocked item
1745 This command is bound to =C-c C-x C-x= and will clock in the last
1746 clocked entry, if any.
1748 **** =C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-out][org-clock-out]] =RET= now prompts for a state to switch to
1750 **** =S-M-<up/down>= on a clock timestamps adjusts the previous/next clock
1752 **** New option [[doc::org-clock-continuously][org-clock-continuously]]
1754 When set to =nil=, clocking in a task will first try to find the
1755 last clocked out task and restart from when that task was clocked
1758 You can temporarily activate continuous clocking with =C-u C-u
1759 C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-in][org-clock-in]] =RET= (three universal prefix arguments)
1760 and =C-u C-u M-x= [[org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] =RET= (two universal prefix
1764 **** New option [[doc::org-clock-frame-title-format][org-clock-frame-title-format]]
1766 This option sets the value of =frame-title-format= when clocking
1769 **** New options for controlling the clockreport display
1771 [[doc::org-clock-file-time-cell-format][org-clock-file-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the file time
1772 cells in clockreport.
1774 [[doc::org-clock-total-time-cell-format][org-clock-total-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the total
1775 time cells in clockreport.
1778 **** New options for controlling the clock/timer display
1780 [[doc::org-clock-clocked-in-display][org-clock-clocked-in-display]]: control whether the current clock
1781 is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
1783 [[doc::org-timer-display][org-timer-display]]: control whether the current timer is displayed
1784 in the mode line and/or frame title.
1786 This allows the clock and timer to be displayed in the frame
1787 title instead of, or as well as, the mode line. This is useful
1788 for people with limited space in the mode line but with ample
1789 space in the frame title.
1793 **** New option [[doc::org-custom-properties][org-custom-properties]]
1795 The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn
1796 on/off with [[doc::org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility][org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility]]. This might
1797 be useful for properties used by third-part tools or that you
1798 don't want to see temporarily.
1800 **** New command [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]]
1802 This will redisplay all images. It is bound to =C-c C-x C-M-v=.
1804 **** New entities in =org-entities.el=
1806 There are these new entities:
1808 : ("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "˜" "~" "~" "~")
1809 : ("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/")
1810 : ("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+")
1811 : ("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_")
1812 : ("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=")
1813 : ("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^")
1815 **** New face =org-list-dt= for definition terms
1816 **** New face =org-date-selected= for the selected calendar day
1817 **** New face value for =org-document-title=
1819 The face is back to a normal height.
1823 **** New speed command =:= to activate the column view
1824 **** New special property =CLOCKSUM_T= to display today's clocked time
1826 You can use =CLOCKSUM_T= the same way you use =CLOCKSUM=. It
1827 will display the time spent on tasks for today only.
1829 **** Use the =:COLUMNS:= property in columnview dynamic blocks
1831 If the =:COLUMNS:= is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic
1832 block will use its value as the column format.
1834 **** Consider inline tasks when computing a sum
1836 *** Org Dates and Time Stamps
1838 **** Enhanced [[doc::org-sparse-tree][org-sparse-tree]]
1840 =C-c /= can now check for time ranges.
1842 When checking for dates with =C-c /= it is useful to change the
1843 type of dates that you are interested in. You can now do this
1844 interactively with =c= after =C-c /= and/or by setting
1845 [[doc::org-sparse-tree-default-date-type][org-sparse-tree-default-date-type]] to the default value you want.
1847 **** Support for hourly repeat cookies
1851 : SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h>
1853 if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry.
1855 **** =C-u C-u C-c .= inserts a time-stamp with no prompt
1857 **** When (setq [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] 'time), accept days in the prompt
1859 "8am Wed" and "Wed 8am" are now acceptable values when entering a
1860 date from the prompt. If [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] is set to
1861 =time=, this will produce the expected prompt indication.
1863 **** New option [[doc::org-datetree-add-timestamp][org-datetree-add-timestamp]]
1865 When set to =non-nil=, datetree entries will also have a
1866 timestamp. This is useful if you want to see these entries in a
1867 sparse tree with =C-c /=.
1871 **** New command [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]]
1873 M-x [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]] RET will prompt for a string and a capture
1874 template. The string will be used as an annotation for the
1875 template. This is useful when capturing in batch mode as it lets
1876 you define the content of the template without being in Emacs.
1878 **** New option [[doc::org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]]
1880 Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
1881 capture templates should be available from. For example, when
1884 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
1885 (setq org-capture-templates-contexts
1886 '(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode"))))
1889 then the =c= capture template will only be available from
1890 =message-mode= buffers. See the docstring and the manual for
1891 more details on how to use this.
1893 **** New =%l= template to insert the literal link
1894 **** New option [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]]
1896 Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note.
1897 You can now turn this on by setting [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]] to
1900 **** Expand =%<num>= escape sequences into text entered for <num>'th =%^{PROMPT}= escape
1902 See the manual for more explanations.
1904 **** More control over empty lines
1906 You can use =:empty-lines-before= and =:empty-lines-after= to
1907 control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more
1910 **** New hook [[doc::org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook][org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook]]
1912 This new hook runs before the finalization process starts.
1916 **** New functions =orgtbl-to-table.el= and =orgtbl-to-unicode=
1918 =orgtbl-to-table.el= convert the table to a =table.el= table, and
1919 =orgtbl-to-unicode= will use =ascii-art-to-unicode.el= (when
1920 available) to print beautiful tables.
1922 **** [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]] now a bit clever about the target format
1924 When you specify a file name like =table.csv=, [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]]
1925 will now suggest =orgtbl-to-csv= the default method for exporting
1928 **** New option [[doc::org-export-date-timestamp-format][org-export-date-timestamp-format]]
1930 The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps
1931 in the #+DATE option.
1933 **** LaTeX: New options for exporting table rules :tstart, :hline and :tend
1935 See [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-hline][org-export-latex-tables-hline]] and [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-tend][org-export-latex-tables-tend]].
1937 **** LaTeX: You can now set =:hfmt= from =#+ATTR_LaTeX=
1938 **** Beamer: Add support and keybinding for the =exampleblock= environment
1940 Add support for these languages in [[doc::org-export-language-setup][org-export-language-setup]].
1941 More languages are always welcome.
1943 **** Beamer: New option [[doc::org-beamer-inherited-properties][org-beamer-inherited-properties]]
1945 This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties.
1946 Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
1948 **** ODT: Add support for ODT export in org-bbdb.el
1949 **** ODT: Add support for indented tables (see [[http://orgmode.org/w/?p%3Dorg-mode.git%3Ba%3Dcommit%3Bh%3De9fd33][this commit]] for details)
1950 **** ODT: Improve the conversion from ODT to other formats
1951 **** ASCII: Swap the level-1/level-2 characters to underline the headlines
1952 **** Support for Chinese, simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese
1953 **** HTML: New option [[doc::org-export-html-date-format-string][org-export-html-date-format-string]]
1955 Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks
1956 to Sébastien Vauban for this patch.
1960 **** New =:results drawer= parameter
1962 =:results drawer= replaces =:results wrap=, which is deprecated but still
1965 **** =:results org= now put results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block
1967 =:results org= used to put results in a =#+BEGIN_ORG= block but it now puts
1968 results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block, with comma-escaped lines.
1970 =#+BEGIN_ORG= blocks are obsolete.
1972 **** Exporting =#+BEGIN_SRC org= blocks exports the code
1974 It used to exports the results of the code.
1978 **** New menu entry for [[doc::org-refile][org-refile]]
1979 **** Allow capturing to encrypted entries
1981 If you capture to an encrypted entry, it will be decrypted before
1982 inserting the template then re-encrypted after finalizing the capture.
1984 **** Inactive timestamps are now handled in tables
1986 Calc can do computation on active time-stamps like <2012-09-29 sat.>.
1987 Inactive time-stamps in a table's cell are now internally deactivated so
1988 that Calc formulas can operate on them.
1990 **** [[doc::org-table-number-regexp][org-table-number-regexp]] can now accept comma as decimal mark
1991 **** Org allows a new property =APPT_WARNTIME=
1993 You can set it with the =W= speedy key or set it manually. When
1994 set, exporting to iCalendar and [[doc::org-agenda-to-appt][org-agenda-to-appt]] will use the
1995 value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning
1998 **** New command [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]]
2000 This will increment the effort value.
2002 It is bound to =C-c C-x E= and to =E= as a speedy command.
2004 **** Attach: Add support for creating symbolic links
2006 =org-attach-method= now supports a new method =lns=, allowing to
2007 attach symbolic links.
2009 **** Archive: you can now archive to a datetree
2011 **** New option [[doc::org-inlinetask-show-first-star][org-inlinetask-show-first-star]]
2013 =Non-nil= means display the first star of an inline task as
2014 additional marker. When =nil=, the first star is not shown.
2016 **** New option [[doc::org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory][org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory]]
2018 This lets you define the path for the =ltxpng/= directory.
2020 **** You can now use imagemagick instead of dvipng to preview LaTeX fragments
2021 **** You can now turn off [[doc::orgstruct++-mode][orgstruct++-mode]] safely
2022 **** =C-u C-c C-c= on list items to add check boxes
2024 =C-u C-c C-c= will add an empty check box on a list item.
2026 When hit from the top of the list, it will add check boxes for
2027 all top level list items.
2029 **** =org-list-ending-method= and =org-list-end-regexp= are now obsolete
2031 Fall back on using =org-list-end-re= only, which see.
2033 **** org-feed.el now expands =%(sexp)= templates
2034 **** New option [[doc::org-protocol-data-separator][org-protocol-data-separator]]
2036 **** New option [[doc::org-ditaa-jar-option][org-ditaa-jar-option]] to specify the ditaa jar file
2038 **** New possible value for [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]]
2040 When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is set to
2041 =start-level=, the command will loop over the active region but
2042 will only act upon entries that are of the same level than the
2043 first headline in the region.
2045 **** New option [[doc::org-habit-show-all-today][org-habit-show-all-today]]
2047 When set to =t=, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today's
2050 ** Important bug fixes
2052 *** M-TAB on options keywords perform completion correctly again
2054 If you hit =M-TAB= on keywords like =#+TITLE=, Org will try to
2055 perform completion with meaningful values.
2057 *** Add licenses to javascript embedded and external code snippets
2059 Embedded javascript code produced when exporting an Org file to
2060 HTML is now licensed under GPLv3 (or later), and the copyright is
2061 owned by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2063 The javascript code for embedding MathJax in the browser mentions
2064 the MathJax copyright and the Apache 2.0 license.
2066 The javascript code for embedding =org-injo.js= in the browser
2067 mentions the copyright of Sebastian Rose and the GPLv3 (or later)
2070 =org-export-html-scripts= is now a variable, so that you can adapt
2071 the code and the license to your needs.
2073 See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for
2074 explanations on why these changes were necessary.
2078 ** Incompatible changes
2080 *** Emacs 21 support has been dropped
2082 Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use [[http://orgmode.org/org-6.36c.zip][version 6.36c]] instead.
2084 *** XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version
2086 To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer
2087 version of XEmacs. We were about to drop XEmacs support entirely,
2088 but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that
2089 made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this
2092 *** New keys for TODO sparse trees
2094 The key =C-c C-v= is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO
2095 sparse trees can still be made with =C-c / t= (all not-done
2096 states) and =C-c / T= (specific states).
2098 *** The Agenda =org-agenda-ndays= is now obsolete
2100 The variable =org-agenda-ndays= is obsolete - please use
2101 =org-agenda-span= instead.
2103 Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
2105 *** Changes to the intended use of =org-export-latex-classes=
2107 So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header
2108 of the LaTeX document, including all the =\usepackage= calls
2109 necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to
2110 maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call,
2111 for example for the special symbol support it needs.
2113 First of all, you can *opt out of this change* in the following
2114 way: You can say: /I want to have full control over headers, and I
2115 will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs/. If
2116 that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip the
2117 rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the
2118 =[EXTRA]= place holder):
2120 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
2121 (setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
2122 org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)
2125 /Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified
2128 There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX
2129 packages that need to be included in all classes. The header
2130 definition in =org-export-latex-classes= should then not contain
2131 the corresponding =\usepackage= calls (see below).
2133 The two new variables are:
2135 1. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist= :: This is the
2136 variable where Org-mode itself puts the packages it needs.
2137 Normally you should not change this variable. The only
2138 reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages
2139 causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then
2140 you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using
2141 Org-mode functionality that needs it.
2143 2. =org-export-latex-packages-alist= :: This is the variable where
2144 you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all
2147 The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX
2150 1. Header from =org-export-latex-classes=
2151 2. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=
2152 3. =org-export-latex-packages-alist=
2153 4. Buffer-specific things set with =#+LaTeX_HEADER:=
2155 If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or
2156 if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the
2157 header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can
2158 put the following macro-like place holders into the header:
2161 [DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages
2162 [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages
2163 [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages
2164 [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages
2165 [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER
2166 [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff
2169 If you have currently customized =org-export-latex-classes=, you
2170 should revise that customization and remove any package calls that
2171 are covered by =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. This
2172 applies to the following packages:
2190 If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package
2191 you are using, you can remove it from
2192 =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. But then you risk that
2193 some of the advertised export features of Org will not work
2196 You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes
2197 to =org-export-latex-packages-alist=. If necessary, put the place
2198 holders so that the packages get loaded in the right sequence. As
2199 said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit the place
2200 holders, all the variables will dump their content at the end of
2203 *** The constant =org-html-entities= is obsolete
2205 Its content is now part of the new constant =org-entities=, which
2206 is defined in the file org-entities.el. =org-html-entities= was
2207 an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did write
2210 *** =org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist= has changed
2212 Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
2214 *** Deleted =org-mode-p=
2216 This function has been deleted: please update your code.
2218 ** Important new features
2220 *** New Org to ODT exporter
2222 Jambunathan's Org to ODT exporter is now part of Org.
2224 To use it, it `C-c C-e o' in an Org file. See the documentation
2225 for more information on how to customize it.
2227 *** org-capture.el is now the default capture system
2229 This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only
2230 describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to
2231 use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual
2232 section [[http://orgmode.org/org-remember.pdf][chapter about remember]].
2234 The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more
2235 possibilities for capturing different types of data. See
2236 [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/26441/focus%3D26441][Carsten's announcement]] for more details.
2238 To switch over to the new system:
2242 : M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
2244 to get a translated version of your remember templates into the
2245 new variable =org-capture-templates=. This will "mostly" work,
2246 but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good
2247 place to modify your templates. After running this command,
2248 enter the customize buffer for this variable with
2250 : M-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET
2252 and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the
2255 2. Bind the command =org-capture= to a key, similar to what you did
2258 : (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
2260 If your fingers prefer =C-c r=, you can also use this key once
2261 you have decided to move over completely to the new
2262 implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong
2263 with using both system in parallel.
2267 *** New Org libraries
2268 **** org-eshell.el (Konrad Hinsen)
2270 Implement links to eshell buffers.
2272 **** org-special-blocks (Carsten Dominik)
2274 This package generalizes the #+begin_foo and #+end_foo tokens.
2276 To use, put the following in your init file:
2279 (require 'org-special-blocks)
2282 The tokens #+begin_center, #+begin_verse, etc. existed
2283 previously. This package generalizes them (at least for the
2284 LaTeX and html exporters). When a #+begin_foo token is
2285 encountered by the LaTeX exporter, it is expanded
2286 into \begin{foo}. The text inside the environment is not
2287 protected, as text inside environments generally is.
2288 When #+begin_foo is encountered by the html exporter, a div with
2289 class foo is inserted into the HTML file. It is up to the user
2290 to add this class to his or her stylesheet if this div is to mean
2293 **** org-taskjuggler.el (Christian Egli)
2295 Christian Egli's /org-taskjuggler.el/ module is now part of Org.
2296 He also wrote a [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.php][tutorial]] for it.
2298 **** org-ctags.el (Paul Sexton)
2300 Targets like =<<my target>>= can now be found by Emacs' etag
2301 functionality, and Org-mode links can be used to to link to
2302 etags, also in non-Org-mode files. For details, see the file
2305 This feature uses a new hook =org-open-link-functions= which will
2306 call function to do something special with text links.
2308 Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution.
2310 **** org-docview.el (Jan Böcker)
2312 This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where
2313 Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point
2314 to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the
2317 : [[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org-Mode Manual]]
2319 Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution.
2321 *** New Babel libraries
2323 - ob-picolisp.el (Thorsten Jolitz)
2324 - ob-fortran.el (Sergey Litvinov)
2325 - ob-shen.el (Eric Schulte)
2326 - ob-maxima.el (Eric S Fraga)
2327 - ob-java.el (Eric Schulte)
2328 - ob-lilypond.el (Martyn Jago)
2329 - ob-awk.el (Eric Schulte)
2331 ** Other new features and various enhancements
2335 **** Org-Bibtex -- major improvements
2337 Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references
2338 data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a
2339 single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is
2340 stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline
2341 free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all
2342 standard bibtex reference types and fields.
2344 The key new functions are
2346 - org-bibtex-check :: queries the user to flesh out all required
2347 (and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available
2348 for the specific reference =type= of the current headline.
2350 - org-bibtex-create :: Create a new entry at the given level,
2351 using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields.
2353 - org-bibtex-yank :: Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a
2354 formatted Org-mode headline into the current buffer
2356 - org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring :: Export the current headline
2357 to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry.
2359 **** org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages
2361 You can now create links from messages. This is particularly
2362 useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for
2363 later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
2365 **** Modified link escaping
2367 David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888][his message]]:
2369 : Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters
2370 : in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets
2371 : in link target oder description) or are not allowed to appear in
2372 : a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http:
2375 : With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and
2376 : unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters.
2377 : Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning
2378 : percent escaped links are solved.
2380 Thanks a lot to David for this work.
2382 **** Make =org-store-link= point to directory in a dired buffer
2384 When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a
2385 file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory.
2387 Patch by Stephen Eglen.
2389 **** Allow regexps in =org-file-apps= to capture link parameters
2391 The way extension regexps in =org-file-apps= are handled has
2392 changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps
2393 are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping
2394 to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command
2395 string to be executed.
2397 For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
2398 =file:/doc.pdf::<page number>=, you can add the following entry
2402 Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
2403 Command: evince "%s" -p %1
2406 Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
2410 **** Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline
2412 You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w"
2413 when calling =org-schedule= or =org-deadline=: it will schedule
2414 (or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before
2415 today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any.
2417 You can use this programmatically: =(org-schedule nil "+2d")=
2418 will work on the current entry.
2420 You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and
2421 (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda.
2423 Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this!
2425 **** American-style dates are now understood by =org-read-date=
2427 So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
2430 2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05
2431 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
2436 **** =org-agenda-custom-commands= has a default value
2438 This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default
2439 value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for
2440 details. Thanks to Carsten for this.
2442 **** Improved filtering through =org-agenda-to-appt=
2444 The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries
2445 to pass to =org-agenda-get-day-entries= and allows to filter out
2446 entries using a function.
2448 Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to
2449 Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for
2450 [[git:68ffb7a7][fixing a small bug]] in the final implementation.
2452 **** Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid
2454 Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See
2455 the new variable =org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm=. Thanks to
2456 C. A. Webber for a patch to this effect.
2458 **** Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command
2460 =B S= in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a
2461 random number of days into the future, with 7 as the default.
2462 This is useful if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today,
2463 you realize you'll never deal with them all, and you just want
2464 them to be distributed across the next N days. When called with
2465 a prefix arg, rescheduling will avoid weekend days.
2467 Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
2471 **** Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble
2473 When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring
2474 the =org-export-email/author/creator-info= variables.
2476 When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the
2477 docstring of these variable for details about available
2480 You can set =:html-preamble= in publishing project in the same
2481 way: `t' means to honor =:email/creator/author-info=, and a
2482 formatting string will insert a string.
2484 **** New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8
2486 While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to
2487 improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide
2488 representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all
2489 of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich
2490 in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new
2491 exporters can be reached with the commands =C-c C-e n= and =C-c
2492 C-e u=, respectively.
2494 When there is no representation for a given symbol in the
2495 targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like
2496 representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For
2497 example, =\simeq= could be represented as "[approx. equal to]".
2498 Please use the variable =org-entities-ascii-explanatory= to state
2501 **** HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property
2503 The =HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS= property can now be used to add a
2504 class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export.
2506 **** Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails
2508 This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
2509 =org-format-latex-signal-error=.
2511 **** Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org-mode documents
2513 Org-mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in
2514 to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple
2515 presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some
2516 support to make richer presentations as well. See the [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export][BEAMER
2517 section]] in the manual for more details.
2519 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about
2520 BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example
2521 for how this community can achieve a much better result than any
2526 **** Refile targets can now be cached
2528 You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable
2529 =org-refile-use-cache=. This should speed up refiling if you
2530 have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update
2531 the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still
2532 offers a deleted one, press =C-0 C-c C-w=.
2534 **** New logging support for refiling
2536 Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be
2537 added to this entry. For details, see the new option
2540 Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea.
2544 **** In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegley's pcomplete.el
2546 Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code.
2550 **** New command =org-table-transpose-table-at-point=
2552 See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of
2553 Org's core. Thanks to Juan!
2555 **** Display field's coordinates when editing it with =C-c `=
2557 When editing a field with =C-c `=, the field's coordinate will
2558 the displayed in the buffer.
2560 Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect.
2562 **** Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values
2564 If you want to compute time values use the =T= flag, either in
2565 Calc formulas or Elisp formulas:
2567 | Task 1 | Task 2 | Total |
2568 |--------+--------+---------|
2569 | 35:00 | 35:00 | 1:10:00 |
2570 #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T
2572 Values must be of the form =[HH:]MM:SS=, where hours are
2575 Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and
2578 **** Implement formulas applying to field ranges
2580 Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas.
2582 : A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define
2583 : row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows
2590 : as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that
2591 : is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a
2594 Thanks a lot to Carsten for this.
2596 **** Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed
2598 Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also,
2599 there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent.
2601 Thanks to Seweryn Kokot.
2605 **** Improved handling of lists
2607 Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
2609 1. Indentation of text determines again end of items in
2610 lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item
2611 doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more
2614 2. Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the
2615 variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical
2616 counters like [@c] or [@W].
2618 3. Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various
2619 blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are
2620 controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and
2621 `org-list-export-context'.
2623 4. Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will
2624 keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text
2625 and make paragraphs and still not break the list.
2627 5. Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with
2628 standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a
2629 prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and
2630 make every line in region an item. It permits to easily
2631 integrate paragraphs inside a list.
2633 6. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be
2634 used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no
2635 blank line around, without breaking list structure.
2637 Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this!
2639 *** Inline display of linked images
2641 Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does
2642 toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links
2643 that have no description part will be inlined.
2645 *** Implement offsets for ordered lists
2647 If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different
2648 from 1, you can now do it like this:
2650 : 1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12
2652 *** Babel: code block body expansion for table and preview
2654 In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the
2655 code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents,
2656 augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to
2657 variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and
2658 also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes
2659 into account all header arguments, and variables.
2661 A new keybinding `C-c M-b p' bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block'
2662 can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its
2663 expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging).
2666 The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable
2667 values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or
2668 stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this
2669 is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization
2670 to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc...) in headline
2671 properties or in tables.
2673 Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default
2674 behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column
2675 names, and rownames across all languages.
2677 *** Editing Convenience and Appearance
2679 **** New command =org-copy-visible= (=C-c C-x v=)
2681 This command will copy the visible text in the region into the
2682 kill ring. Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to
2683 Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it!
2685 **** Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by =C-k=
2687 See the new variable =org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree=. This was a
2688 request by Scott Otterson.
2690 **** Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts.
2692 The command =C-c C-x \= toggles the display of Org's special
2693 entities like =\alpha= as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub
2694 and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower
2695 display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and
2696 superscripts, see the variable
2697 =org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts=.
2699 Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible.
2701 **** New faces for title, date, author and email address lines
2703 The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is
2704 displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for
2705 author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the
2706 following new faces:
2708 =org-document-title=
2710 =org-document-info-keyword=
2712 In addition, the variable =org-hidden-keywords= can be used to
2713 make the corresponding keywords disappear.
2715 Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
2717 **** Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords
2719 The variables =org-todo-keyword-faces=, =org-tag-faces=, and
2720 =org-priority-faces= now accept simple color names as
2721 specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or
2722 background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the
2723 variable =org-faces-easy-properties=, which governs which face
2724 property is affected by this setting.
2726 This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces.
2727 The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson.
2729 **** <N> in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width
2731 Requested by Michael Brand.
2733 **** Better level cycling function
2735 =TAB= in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline
2736 through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved
2737 version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly
2738 this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement.
2740 **** Adaptive filling
2742 For paragraph text, =org-adaptive-fill-function= did not handle
2743 the base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is
2744 now fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">"
2745 comments to be filled correctly.
2747 Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch.
2749 **** `org-reveal' (=C-c C-r=) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el)
2751 Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
2753 **** Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords
2755 When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now
2756 assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords.
2758 Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch.
2762 **** Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log
2764 Using =S-M-<up/down>= on CLOCK log timestamps will
2765 increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that
2766 duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be
2767 slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.
2769 Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
2771 **** Localized clock tables
2773 Clock tables now support a new new =:lang= parameter, allowing
2774 the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See
2775 the variable =org-clock-clocktable-language-setup= which controls
2776 available translated strings.
2778 **** Show clock overruns in mode line
2780 When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the
2781 planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example
2782 using the new face =org-mode-line-clock-overrun=, or by adding an
2783 extra string given by =org-task-overrun-text=.
2785 Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect.
2787 **** Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock
2789 If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls
2790 into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent
2791 can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting
2792 of =org-clock-report-include-clocking-task=. The default is
2795 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition.
2799 **** Improvements with inline tasks and indentation
2801 There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks.
2802 See the new variable =org-inlinetask-export-templates=.
2804 Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes.
2806 **** A property value of "nil" now means to unset a property
2808 This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if
2809 some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it
2810 would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a
2813 Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this
2816 **** New helper functions in org-table.el
2818 There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field.
2819 This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
2824 org-table-current-line
2828 **** Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node
2830 The new option =org-archive-reversed-order= allows to have
2831 archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target
2834 This was requested by Tom.
2836 **** Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent
2838 This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for
2839 example by viewing from the agenda.
2841 This was a request by Matt Lundin.
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