1 # -*- mode: org; org-export-publishing-directory: "tmp"; fill-column: 65 -*-
3 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
4 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
5 #+EMAIL: carsten at orgmode dot org
6 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:{} *:t TeX:t LaTeX:nil
7 #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info toc:1 path:org-info.js
9 #+LINK_HOME: http://orgmode.org
13 ** Incompatible changes
15 *** The text before the first headline is now exported by default
17 Previously, the default was to not include this text, but for
18 publishing oriented files it is better to include it. If you
19 like the old default better, customize the variable
20 =org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading= or set the value on
27 *** Description lists are now supported natively
29 A plain list will be exported as a description list if the
30 first item in the list has a /term/ and the /description/,
31 separated by " :: ". For example
33 : Free software by Carsten Dominik
34 : - RefTeX :: Support for LaTeX Labels, References, Citations
35 : - CDLaTeX :: more LaTeX functionality for Emacs
36 : - TeXmathp :: checking LaTeX buffers for Math mode.
37 : - ORG :: An Emacs mode for notes and projet planning.
38 : - CONSTANTS :: An Emacs package for inserting the definition of
39 : natural constants and units into a buffer.
40 : - IDLWAVE :: The Emacs modes for editing and
41 : running IDL and WAVE CL files.
42 : - CHAIN :: A tool for running a code with
43 : different sets of parameters
44 : - MPP :: A preprocessor tool for creating MPEG
45 : and other movie streams
46 : - Dirabbrev :: Using abbreviations for directories
48 : - PSFIXBB :: fixing the BoundingBox in postscript files
49 : - TFMT :: A table formatting tool
51 *** Blockquotes for export
53 For quoting an entire paragraph as a citation, use
56 : Everything shound be made as simple as possible,
57 : but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
60 *** Clock task history, and moving entries with the running clock
62 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
63 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
65 - `C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u C-u I' from the agenda) will
66 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
67 - `C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u I' from the agenda) will offer a
68 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
69 for selection. `d' selects the default task, `i' selects
70 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
71 being clocked. `1',... selects a recent task. When you
72 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
73 - You can use `C-u C-c C-x C-j' to jump to any of these
76 When moving an entry using structure editing commands,
77 archiving commands, or the special subtree cut-and-paste
78 commands =C-c C-x C-w= and =C-c C-x C-y=, the running clock
79 marker and all clock history markers will be moved with the
80 subtree. Now you can start a clock in a remember buffer and
81 keep the clock running while filing the note away. See also
82 the variable `org-remember-clock-out-on-exit'.
84 *** Fontified code examples in HTML export
86 You can now get code examples fontified like they would be
87 fontified in an emacs Buffer, and export the result to HTML.
88 To do so, wrap the code examples into the following
91 : #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
92 : (defun org-xor (a b)
97 The string after the BEGIN_SRC is the name of the major emacs
98 mode that should be used to fontify the code example.
100 Currently this works only for HTML export, and requires the
101 /htmlize.el/ package, version 1.34 or later. For other
102 backends, such structures are simply exported as EXAMPLE.
104 *** BBDB anniversaries much faster
105 `bbdb-anniversaries' is now much faster, thanks to a new
106 approach using a hash for birthdays. Thanks to Thomas
107 Baumann for a patch to this effect.
117 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
118 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
119 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
120 - New operators for property searches
121 - Search commands can now include archive files.
122 - Clock tables can include the archive files
123 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
127 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
129 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
130 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
131 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
132 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
133 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
134 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
136 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
138 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
139 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
140 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
141 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
142 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
143 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
144 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
145 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
146 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
147 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
148 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
149 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
150 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
153 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
155 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
156 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
157 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
158 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
159 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
160 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
161 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
162 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
163 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
165 *** New operators for property searches
167 Property searches can now choose a number of different
168 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
169 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
171 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
172 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
173 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
175 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
176 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
178 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
179 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
180 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
181 match" or "does not match", respectively.
183 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
185 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
187 If the value of the customization variable
188 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
189 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
190 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
191 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
192 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
195 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
197 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
198 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
199 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
200 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
201 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
203 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
205 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
206 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
207 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
208 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
209 be functions, so that more general transformations are
210 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
211 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
215 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
216 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
217 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
221 - The Org distribution has a new structure
222 - New system for selecting modules to load
223 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
224 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
225 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
226 - Export commands can be done in the background
227 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
228 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
229 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
230 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
231 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
232 - And some more small fixes and improvements
234 ** Incompatible changes
236 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
238 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
239 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
240 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
241 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
242 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
243 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
247 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
249 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
250 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
251 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
252 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
253 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
254 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
258 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
259 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
260 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
261 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
262 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
263 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
264 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
265 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
268 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
270 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
271 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
272 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
273 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
274 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
275 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
276 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
277 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
280 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
281 buffer you can simply use "A".
283 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
285 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
287 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
288 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
289 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
290 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
293 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
294 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
295 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
296 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
297 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
298 visibility both locally and globally.
300 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
301 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
302 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
304 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
306 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
307 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
308 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
309 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
310 JavaScript program is served from
311 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
312 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
313 to be independent of the existence and stability of
314 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
315 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
318 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
320 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
322 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
323 together with org-info.js.
325 *** Export improvements
327 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
328 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
329 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
332 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
333 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
334 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
335 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
336 this less system dependent in the future.
338 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
340 *** Improvements to clocktable
342 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
343 when trying to specify the time block that should be
344 considered when constructing the table.
346 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
350 |--------------+-----------------------|
351 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
352 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
353 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
354 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
356 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
357 | thisweek | The current week |
358 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
359 | thismonth | The current month |
360 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
361 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
364 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
365 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
366 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
367 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
368 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
369 will switch to the following week.
371 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
372 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
373 a request from Bernt Hansen.
375 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
376 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
377 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
378 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
379 configure the variable
380 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
381 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
382 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
384 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
386 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
387 the form =W08= for week 8.
389 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
390 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
391 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
392 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
393 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
394 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
395 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
396 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
397 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
398 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
399 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
401 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
402 specify an ISO week. For example
404 : w4 Monday of week 4
405 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
407 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
408 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
410 So far I have not implemented the effect of
411 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
412 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
413 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
414 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
415 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
416 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
419 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
420 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
421 test extensively and report back.
423 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
425 *** Improvements in Search View
427 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
428 only in TODO entries.
430 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
431 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
432 also match in "Nasim's".
437 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
438 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
439 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
440 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
441 this excellent proposal.
443 The regexp option is also implemented for
444 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
445 properties for inheritance my name.
447 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
448 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
449 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
450 if and only if the setting in
451 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
454 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
455 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
456 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
457 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
458 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
459 customize them freely.
461 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
462 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
463 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
464 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
465 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
466 default date, not switch to today.
468 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
469 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
471 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
472 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
474 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
475 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
476 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
478 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
481 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
482 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
483 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
485 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
486 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
487 initial region if set.
489 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
492 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
494 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
495 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
496 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
497 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
498 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
499 file name to which the export should go, and a local
503 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
504 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
507 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
509 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
510 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
511 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
512 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
514 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
521 - New keyword search agenda view
523 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
525 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
527 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
529 - Granularity while editing time stamps
531 - New repeaters mechanisms
533 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
535 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
537 - =M-RET= splits lines again
541 ** Incompatible changes
543 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
544 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
549 *** New keyword search agenda view
551 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
552 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
553 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
554 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
555 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
556 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
557 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
558 example, the search string
560 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
562 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
563 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
564 which are also not matched by the regular expression
565 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
566 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
567 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
568 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
569 (possibly sub-) heading.
571 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
572 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
574 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
575 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
578 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
579 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
580 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
582 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
584 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
585 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
587 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
588 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
589 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
591 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
592 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
593 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
594 to cover contributed extensions as well.
596 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
598 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
599 last element defines the contexts in which the template
600 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
601 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
602 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
603 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
604 function, the template will be offered only if the function
605 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
606 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
609 One possible application for this would be to have several
610 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
611 the right one based on context. For example, think of
612 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
613 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
614 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
616 : (setq org-remember-templates
617 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
618 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
620 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
622 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
624 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
625 + In a table, add a hline as before
626 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
627 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
628 + In a headline, turn it into an item
629 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
630 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
631 item markers from all lines.
633 Based on proposals by Bastien.
635 - `C-c *' has now more functions
636 + in a table, recompute, as before
637 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
638 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
639 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
640 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
641 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
643 Based on proposals by Bastien.
645 *** Changes related to time stamps
647 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
648 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
649 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
650 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
651 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
652 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
653 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
654 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
655 specify the number of minutes to shift.
657 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
659 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
660 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
663 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
664 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
665 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
666 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
667 : and marked it done on Saturday.
668 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
669 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
670 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
673 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
675 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
677 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
678 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
681 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
682 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
683 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
684 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
685 the previous content.
687 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
689 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
690 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
691 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
693 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
697 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
698 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
699 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
700 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
703 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
704 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
705 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
708 - There are three new hooks:
710 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
711 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
712 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
716 ** Incompatible changes
718 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
719 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
720 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
724 *** Changes to logging progress
726 There is now more control over which state changes are being
727 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
728 sections in the manual. Basically:
730 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
731 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
732 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
733 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
734 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
735 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
736 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
737 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
739 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
740 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
741 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
742 : when leaving this state. This is great for
743 : getting a record when switching *back* from
745 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
746 : Here we not even define a fast access
747 : character, but just the logging stuff.
749 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
753 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
754 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
755 of the line) before the current line.
757 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
758 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
759 create a new line below the current one.
763 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
764 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
771 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
773 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
774 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
776 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
778 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
779 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
780 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
782 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
784 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
786 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
790 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
792 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
794 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
796 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
798 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
800 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
802 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
804 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
808 ** Incompatible Changes
810 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
811 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
812 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
816 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
818 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
819 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
821 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
822 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
824 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
825 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
826 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
827 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
828 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
829 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
832 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
833 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
836 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
837 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
838 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
840 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
841 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
842 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
843 variable does select the interface that is used to select
844 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
847 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
849 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
850 path to select a location.
851 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
854 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
855 they are always current.
857 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
858 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
859 special also because it only matches in headline. This
860 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
861 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
862 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
863 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
864 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
866 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
867 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
868 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
869 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
870 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
871 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
877 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
878 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
879 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
880 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
881 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
883 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
884 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
886 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
887 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
889 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
890 headline up to the tags.
891 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
893 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
895 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
896 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
897 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
898 request by Austin Frank.
900 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
901 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
902 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
904 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
905 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
906 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
907 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
909 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
910 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
911 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
912 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
913 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
914 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
915 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
916 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
917 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
918 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
919 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
922 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
923 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
924 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
925 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
933 will file is with the following property
935 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
937 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
938 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
939 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
941 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
942 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
951 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
953 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
955 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
957 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
959 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
961 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
963 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
965 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
967 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
971 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
972 entries in a subtree. For example
974 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
976 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
977 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
978 request by Bernt Hansen.
980 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
981 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
982 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
983 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
984 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
985 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
986 interactively select the filing location (file and
987 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
988 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
989 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
990 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
991 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
993 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
994 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
995 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
996 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
997 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
1000 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
1001 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
1002 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
1003 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
1004 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
1005 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
1006 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
1009 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
1010 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
1011 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
1014 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
1015 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
1016 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
1017 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
1018 explain here, complex.
1020 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
1021 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
1022 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
1024 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
1025 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
1026 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
1028 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
1040 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
1041 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
1042 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
1043 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
1044 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
1045 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
1046 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
1047 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
1048 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
1049 subtree motion commands.
1051 - Plain lists items work the same.
1053 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
1054 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
1055 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
1058 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
1059 let me know about any problems.
1063 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
1064 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
1065 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
1066 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
1067 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
1069 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
1070 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
1071 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
1072 history variable. For example:
1074 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
1076 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
1077 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
1078 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
1079 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
1080 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
1081 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
1082 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
1083 by Bastien and Adam.
1085 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
1086 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1087 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1088 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1092 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1093 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1096 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1097 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1098 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1099 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1100 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1101 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1107 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1109 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1110 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1111 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1112 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1113 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1114 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1115 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1116 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1119 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1120 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1121 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1122 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1124 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1125 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1126 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
1127 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1129 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1130 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1131 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1132 select a new restriction.
1134 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1136 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1138 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1140 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1141 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1143 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1144 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1145 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1148 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1149 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1150 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1152 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1153 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1154 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1155 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1156 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1162 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1163 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1164 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1166 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1167 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1168 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1177 + Remember and related stuff
1178 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1179 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1180 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1181 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1183 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1184 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1185 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1186 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1187 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1188 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1189 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1191 + Properties and Column view
1192 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1193 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1194 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1195 - New currency summary type {$}
1197 + The date/time prompt
1198 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1199 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1200 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1203 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1204 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1207 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1210 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1211 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1212 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1213 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1214 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1216 ** Incompatible changes
1218 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1219 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1220 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1222 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1223 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1224 prompted, like this:
1226 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1228 : (org-remember ?n))
1230 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1231 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1233 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1235 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1237 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1238 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1242 *** Remember and related stuff
1244 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1245 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1246 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1247 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1248 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1249 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1250 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1251 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1252 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1253 definitions. For example:
1255 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1257 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1260 : (setq org-refile-targets
1261 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1263 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1264 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1265 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1266 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1269 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1270 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1272 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1273 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1274 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1275 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1276 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1278 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1279 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1281 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1283 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1284 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1285 : %[..] include file
1287 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1289 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1290 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1291 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1294 : (require 'remember)
1295 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1296 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1297 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1299 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1300 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1301 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1303 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1305 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1307 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1309 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1310 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1311 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1312 the default in Org-mode.
1314 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1315 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1316 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1317 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1319 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1320 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1321 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1322 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1323 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1325 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1326 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1327 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1328 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1331 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1332 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1333 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1334 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1335 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1337 *** Properties and Column view
1339 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1340 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1343 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1344 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1345 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1346 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1347 discussion around this issue.
1349 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1350 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1351 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1352 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1353 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1354 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1355 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1356 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1358 *** The date/time prompt
1360 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1363 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1364 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1365 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1366 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1367 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1369 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1370 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1371 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1372 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1373 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1374 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1375 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1376 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1377 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1379 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1380 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1381 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1382 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1383 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1385 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1387 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1388 list of newly performed conversions:
1390 | Org | Description | HTML |
1391 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1392 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1393 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1394 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1395 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1397 You can turn this globally on or off with
1398 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1399 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1400 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1401 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1403 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1404 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1408 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1409 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1410 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1411 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1412 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1413 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1415 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1417 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1418 export by setting it either globally
1419 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1420 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1421 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1422 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1423 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1426 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1427 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1428 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1430 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1431 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1433 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1434 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1437 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1438 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1439 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1446 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1447 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1448 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1450 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1451 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1452 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1453 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1454 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1456 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1457 with extension matched by the new variable
1458 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1467 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1468 + All known bugs fixed.
1469 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1470 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1471 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1473 - The agenda dispatcher
1474 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1475 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1477 - Sorting improvements
1478 + User-defined sorting keys.
1479 + Sorting by properties.
1480 + Sorting of plain lists.
1482 - HTML <div> structure
1485 + New variables, several of them.
1486 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1487 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1488 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1489 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1493 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1495 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1496 (at least I hope so...).
1498 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1499 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1501 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1502 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1503 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1505 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1506 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1507 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1511 : :ID: planning-overview
1517 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1521 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1522 be prompted for the ID.
1524 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1525 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1526 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1527 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1528 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1531 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1533 *** The agenda dispatcher
1535 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1536 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1537 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1538 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1539 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1540 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1541 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1542 them to custom commands.
1544 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1545 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1546 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1547 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1549 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1550 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1551 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1552 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1553 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1555 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1556 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1559 *** Sorting improvements
1561 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1562 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1564 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1565 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1567 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1570 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1572 *** HTML <div> structure
1574 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1576 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1577 "table-of-contents".
1579 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1580 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1582 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1583 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1585 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1586 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1588 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1589 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1593 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1594 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1595 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1598 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1600 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1602 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1603 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1604 your properties will not be folded away.
1605 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1607 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1608 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1609 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1611 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1612 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1613 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1614 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1615 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1617 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1618 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1619 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1620 a proposal by Bastien.
1622 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1623 request by Wanrong Lin.
1625 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1626 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1627 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1633 - Remember templates can now have name.
1634 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1635 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1636 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1637 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1638 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1639 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1640 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1641 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1642 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1643 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1645 ** Incompatible Changes
1647 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1651 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1652 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1653 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1654 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1655 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1656 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1658 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1659 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1660 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1662 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1663 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1665 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1666 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1667 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1668 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1670 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1671 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1672 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1674 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1675 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1676 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1677 Wiegley for a patch.
1679 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1680 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1681 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1682 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1683 with full completion support.
1685 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1686 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1687 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1689 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1690 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1693 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1694 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1695 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1696 well tested yet, please check it out.
1704 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1705 - Command to jump to the running clock
1706 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1707 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1708 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1709 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1710 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1711 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1712 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1713 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1714 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1716 ** Incompatible changes
1718 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1719 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1721 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1722 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1723 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1725 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1726 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1729 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1734 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1735 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1738 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1741 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1744 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1745 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1746 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1747 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1748 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1750 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1751 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1752 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1753 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1755 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1756 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1757 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1758 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1759 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1760 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1761 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1762 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1763 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1765 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1766 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1767 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1768 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1769 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1770 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1771 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1772 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1773 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1775 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1776 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1777 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1778 being prompted for a template, like this:
1780 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1782 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1784 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1785 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1786 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1787 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1789 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1790 (also `s' does this).
1792 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1793 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1796 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1797 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1798 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1800 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1801 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1802 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1804 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1805 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1806 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1807 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1815 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1816 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1817 - CSV support when importing a table.
1818 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1819 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1820 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1821 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1822 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1823 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1828 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1829 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1832 : * Tree with special properties
1834 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1835 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1838 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1839 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1840 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1841 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1842 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1843 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1844 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1845 encourage you to stop using them.
1847 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1848 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1849 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1850 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1854 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1855 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1856 | file | the full current buffer |
1857 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1858 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1859 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1860 | agenda | all agenda files |
1862 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1863 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1864 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1865 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1868 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1869 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1870 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1871 basic input it works.
1873 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1874 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1875 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1876 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1878 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1879 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1882 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1883 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1885 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1887 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1888 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1889 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1890 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1891 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1893 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1894 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1895 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1896 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1897 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1900 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1901 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1902 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1903 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1904 the children has that particular property defined, the
1905 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1906 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1907 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1908 is a better way of doing things.
1910 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1911 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1912 testing is appreciated.
1914 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1915 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1916 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1917 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1919 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1920 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1921 links in square or angular brackets.
1929 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1932 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1933 agenda can be configured.
1935 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1937 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1939 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1941 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1943 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1944 inherited from the outline faces.
1946 ** Incompatible Changes
1948 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1949 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1950 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1951 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1952 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1957 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1958 switching to that state. With the setting
1960 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1961 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1963 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1966 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1967 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1968 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1969 own function. Configure the new variable
1970 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1971 this development with a patch.
1973 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1974 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1975 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1976 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1977 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1978 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1979 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1981 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1982 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1983 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1984 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1985 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1986 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1987 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1989 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1990 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1993 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1994 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1995 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1996 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1997 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1998 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1999 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
2001 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
2002 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
2003 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
2004 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
2005 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
2006 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
2007 match the current org-mode faces.
2009 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
2013 ** Incompatible changes
2015 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
2019 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
2020 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
2021 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
2023 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
2025 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
2026 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
2027 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
2028 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
2029 command fall back to cycling.
2031 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
2032 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
2033 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
2034 interface anyway, set the variable
2035 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
2036 others for input on this issue.
2038 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
2039 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
2040 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
2042 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
2043 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
2045 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
2046 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
2048 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
2050 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
2051 use a format string that will be interpreted by
2052 `format-time-string', for example:
2054 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
2056 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
2057 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
2058 included) have changed this.
2060 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
2061 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
2062 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
2063 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
2064 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
2065 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
2066 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
2072 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
2074 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
2076 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
2078 - Sorting can be done by priority.
2080 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
2082 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2084 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
2086 ** Incompatible changes
2088 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2089 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2091 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2095 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2096 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2097 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2099 A Here is a configuration example:
2101 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2102 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2103 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2104 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2107 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2108 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2110 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2111 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2112 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2113 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2114 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2115 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2116 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2117 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2118 states, just like you also do for tags.
2120 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2121 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2123 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2124 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2125 switch the entry to that state.
2127 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2128 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2129 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2132 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2134 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2135 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2136 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2137 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2139 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2140 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2142 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2143 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2144 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2145 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2146 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2148 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2149 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2150 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2153 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2154 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2155 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2156 the file will simply be skipped.
2166 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2167 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2168 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2169 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2170 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2171 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2172 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2173 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2176 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2177 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2178 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2179 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2180 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2181 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2182 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2183 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2184 the special locations.
2186 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2189 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2192 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2193 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2194 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2196 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2197 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2198 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2204 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2206 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2208 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2210 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2212 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2214 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2216 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2218 - Global values for selected properties.
2225 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2226 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2227 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2228 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2229 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2230 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2231 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2232 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2234 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2235 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2236 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2237 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2238 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2239 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2240 currently how to handle the new link types for
2243 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2244 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2245 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2246 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2249 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2250 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2251 The syntax is like this
2253 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2255 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2258 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2260 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2261 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2262 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2264 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2267 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2268 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2269 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2270 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2273 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2274 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2275 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2276 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2277 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2278 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2281 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2282 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2283 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2286 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2287 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2288 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2289 `org-global-properties', like this:
2291 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2293 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2295 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2297 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2298 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2299 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2300 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2301 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2302 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2310 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2311 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2312 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2313 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2315 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2316 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2317 this stuff into the drawer.
2318 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2320 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2321 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2323 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2324 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2326 - Lots of minor fixes.
2330 ** Incompatible Changes
2332 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2333 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2334 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2338 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2339 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2340 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2342 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2343 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2344 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2345 know if we need to make this customizable.
2347 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2348 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2349 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2350 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2351 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2353 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2362 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2365 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2366 compute their value from the children's values.
2368 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2369 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2372 ** Incompatible Changes
2374 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2375 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2376 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2377 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2382 - Improvements for properties:
2384 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2385 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2387 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2388 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2389 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2390 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2391 typos when entering properties.
2393 - Improvements for column view.
2395 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2396 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2399 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2400 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2401 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2402 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2405 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2406 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2409 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2410 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2411 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2413 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2414 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2415 beginning of a line. So
2417 : * This is a level 1 headline
2418 : *this is bold text*
2420 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2421 available in orgstruct-mode.
2427 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2428 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2430 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2431 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2432 open if explicitly asked.
2434 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2436 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2437 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2440 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2441 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2444 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2446 ** Incompatible changes
2448 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2449 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2450 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2451 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2452 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2453 that this is the better convention.
2457 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2459 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2460 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2461 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2462 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2463 easily create lists.
2465 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2466 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2467 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2468 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2469 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2470 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2471 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2472 minor modes have assigned to them.
2474 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2475 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2476 the promised implementation.
2480 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2481 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2482 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2483 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2484 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2487 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2489 you can then create drawers like this:
2492 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2493 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2496 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2497 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2499 *** Properties and Column View
2501 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2502 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2503 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2504 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2505 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2506 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2508 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2510 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2511 program using properties, use the functions
2512 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2513 and `org-entry-delete'.
2515 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2518 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2519 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2520 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2521 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2522 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2523 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2525 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2528 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2530 will find entries that
2533 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2534 - are TODO status WAITING.
2536 So here is an entry that will match:
2538 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2543 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2544 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2547 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2549 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2550 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2551 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2552 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2553 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2554 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2555 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2556 can set up different property columns on different levels
2557 of an outline tree. For example:
2561 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2565 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2568 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2570 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2573 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2576 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2577 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2579 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2580 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2581 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2582 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2583 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2584 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2587 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2588 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2590 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2591 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2592 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2593 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2594 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2595 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2597 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2598 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2601 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2603 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2605 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2606 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2607 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2609 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2610 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2611 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2612 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2617 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2618 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2619 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2620 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2621 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2622 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2623 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2626 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2627 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2628 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2629 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2630 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2637 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2639 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2640 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2641 constants can now be set with a line like:
2643 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2647 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2648 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2651 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2653 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2657 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2658 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2659 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2660 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2667 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2668 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2669 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2670 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2672 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2673 See manual section 3.5.3.
2675 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2676 This was a request from Ignotus.
2677 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2679 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2680 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2681 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2685 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2686 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2687 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2688 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2689 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2695 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2696 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2698 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2700 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2702 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2704 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2706 ** Incompatible changes
2708 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2709 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2710 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2711 with the xemacs version. For example:
2713 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2715 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2716 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2717 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2718 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2719 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2723 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2724 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2725 interval on a single day. For example
2727 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2729 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2730 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2731 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2732 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2734 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2737 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2738 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2742 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2744 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2745 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2746 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2747 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2748 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2749 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2750 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2751 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2752 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2753 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2754 stick to the ASCII characters.
2756 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2757 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2758 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2759 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2760 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2762 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2764 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2765 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2766 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2768 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2769 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2770 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2771 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2772 if we can agree on this:
2774 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2775 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2776 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2777 out to a previous level. For example
2785 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2794 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2795 using promotion and demotion functions.
2801 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2802 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2804 ** Incompatible changes
2806 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2810 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2811 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2812 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2813 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2814 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2815 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2816 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2818 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2819 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2820 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2821 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2822 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2823 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2824 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2826 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2827 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2828 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2829 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2830 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2833 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2834 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2835 wherever you want a vertical line:
2837 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2838 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2839 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2841 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2842 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2844 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2845 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2846 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2847 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2848 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2849 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2850 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2851 behavior we had before.
2853 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2855 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2856 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2857 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2858 special characters in other languages as along as your
2859 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2860 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2861 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2867 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2871 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2873 [1]This is a footnote
2875 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2876 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2878 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2880 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2881 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2884 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2890 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2891 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2893 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2894 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2895 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2896 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2898 ** Incompatible Changes
2900 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2901 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2905 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2906 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2908 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2910 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2911 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2912 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2913 collect your credit, let me know!
2915 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2916 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2918 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2919 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2921 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2922 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2923 would in the diary. For example
2925 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2927 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2929 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2930 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2932 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2934 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2935 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2936 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2937 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2938 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2939 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2940 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2941 faster agenda display.
2943 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2944 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2945 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2946 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2947 to Raman for this idea.
2949 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2950 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2951 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2954 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2955 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2956 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2960 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2962 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2963 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2965 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2966 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2967 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2968 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2971 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2972 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2974 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2975 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2976 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2977 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2979 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2980 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2981 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2982 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2984 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2985 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2992 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2993 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2994 further processing in scripts.
2996 ** Incompatible Changes
2998 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2999 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
3003 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
3004 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
3005 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
3006 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
3009 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
3010 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
3011 that have associated file names and exports the views to
3012 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
3013 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
3014 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
3015 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
3016 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
3018 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
3019 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
3020 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
3021 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
3023 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
3024 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
3025 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
3027 - Quite a few bug fixes.
3037 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
3039 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
3041 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
3043 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
3045 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
3047 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
3049 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
3053 ** Incompatible changes
3055 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
3056 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
3059 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
3060 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
3061 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
3062 `org-disputed-keys'.
3064 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
3065 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
3066 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
3070 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
3071 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
3072 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
3073 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
3074 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
3075 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
3076 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
3077 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
3078 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
3079 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
3080 Scott fro bringing this up again.
3082 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
3083 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
3084 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
3085 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3087 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3088 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3090 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3091 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3092 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3093 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3095 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3096 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3097 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3098 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3099 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3100 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3101 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3102 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3104 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3106 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3107 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3108 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3109 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3110 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3111 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3112 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3115 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3116 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3117 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3118 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3119 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3120 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3123 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3124 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3125 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3126 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3127 indicates a non-stuck project.
3129 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3130 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3131 please let me know if you find problems.
3133 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3134 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3140 ** Incompatible changes
3144 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3145 exported HTML. These are the variables
3146 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3147 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3150 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3151 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3152 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3154 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3155 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3156 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3157 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3158 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3159 that are scanned for the agenda.
3167 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3168 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3169 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3171 ** Incompatible changes
3173 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3177 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3179 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3181 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3183 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3184 list (and which is also works!)
3186 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3187 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3189 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3190 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3191 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3192 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3193 toward using the latter.
3195 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3196 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3197 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3198 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3200 (setq org-todo-keywords
3201 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3202 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3203 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3204 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3207 If your setting has this new structure,
3208 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3209 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3210 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3211 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3213 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3214 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3215 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3216 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3217 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3220 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3221 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3222 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3223 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3224 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3225 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3226 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3228 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3229 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3230 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3231 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3232 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3234 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3235 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3236 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3237 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3238 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3239 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3240 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3241 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3242 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3249 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3251 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3252 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3253 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3254 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3255 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3256 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3259 ** Incompatible changes
3261 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3262 over several lines, like
3265 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3268 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3269 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3270 See below for details.
3272 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3273 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3274 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3275 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3280 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3281 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3284 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3285 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3286 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3288 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3289 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3290 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3291 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3292 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3293 where you want to be.
3295 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3296 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3297 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3300 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3301 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3303 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3304 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3306 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3308 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3309 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3310 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3311 new in-buffer option
3315 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3316 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3317 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3318 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3320 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3321 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3322 can be done by setting the variable
3323 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3325 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3331 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3333 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3334 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3335 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3336 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3337 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3339 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3341 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3342 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3345 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3346 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3347 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3348 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3349 are logging all state changes.
3351 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3356 - Priority handling in the tags view
3357 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3358 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3359 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3360 - C-j does better indentation.
3364 - Priority handling in the tags view
3366 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3367 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3369 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3371 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3372 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3373 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3375 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3377 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3379 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3380 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3381 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3382 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3383 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3384 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3385 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3387 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3390 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3392 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3394 + There is now a menu with commands.
3396 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3397 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3399 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3400 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3402 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3403 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3407 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3408 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3409 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3411 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3412 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3417 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3418 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3419 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3420 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3422 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3423 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3424 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3434 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3435 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3436 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3438 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3439 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3440 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3441 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3442 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3443 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3444 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3446 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3447 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3448 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3450 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3452 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3453 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3455 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3456 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3458 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3459 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3460 levels. For example:
3462 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3464 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3465 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3466 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3469 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3470 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3471 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3472 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3474 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3475 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3484 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3485 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3486 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3487 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3489 ** Detailed description of changes
3491 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3492 any table in any mode.
3494 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3495 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3496 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3497 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3498 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3499 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3501 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3502 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3503 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3504 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3505 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3507 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3508 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3509 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3510 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3511 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3512 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3513 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3516 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3517 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3518 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3519 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3520 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3521 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3522 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3523 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3524 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3525 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3526 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3527 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3529 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3530 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3531 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3532 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3538 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3539 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3540 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3541 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3542 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3544 ** Detailed description of changes
3546 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3547 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3548 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3550 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3552 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3553 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3555 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3557 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3558 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3559 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3561 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3562 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3563 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3565 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3566 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3567 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3569 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3570 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3572 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3574 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3575 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3576 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3577 remember.el work like this as well).
3578 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3579 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3580 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3581 new template, but the old context information. This is
3582 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3585 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3586 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3587 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3588 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3589 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3590 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3591 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3592 without interaction.
3594 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3595 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3596 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3597 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3598 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3599 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3601 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3602 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3603 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3604 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3606 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3607 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3608 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3609 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3610 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3611 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3617 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3618 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3620 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3621 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3622 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3623 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3624 + Incompatible changes
3625 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3626 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3627 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3628 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3629 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3630 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3631 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3635 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3636 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3637 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3638 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3639 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3640 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3641 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3642 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3646 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3647 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3648 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3649 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3650 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3651 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3652 - Empty entries go full circle.
3653 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3658 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3661 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3662 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3663 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3664 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3665 another, dedicated frame.
3666 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3667 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3670 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3671 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3672 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3673 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3674 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3675 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3676 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3677 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3678 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3679 use regular expressions.
3680 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3681 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3682 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3686 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3687 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3688 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3695 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3696 + show status also in target line.
3697 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3698 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3699 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3703 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3704 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3705 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3706 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3710 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3711 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3716 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3717 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3718 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3722 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3723 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3724 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3725 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3726 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3727 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3728 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3729 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3730 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3731 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3732 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3737 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3738 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3739 - File links can contain environment variables.
3740 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3744 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3745 each block created by a different agenda command.
3746 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3747 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3748 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3749 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3750 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3751 upon the agenda type.
3752 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3753 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3754 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3755 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3756 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3757 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3758 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3759 - More minor bug fixes.
3762 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3763 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3764 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3768 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3769 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3770 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3774 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3777 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3778 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3779 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3787 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3788 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3790 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3791 LaTeX environment and math.
3794 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3796 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3797 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3798 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3802 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3803 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3806 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3807 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3808 and will not lead to conflicts.
3809 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3813 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3814 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3815 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3816 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3817 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3818 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3819 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3825 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3826 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3829 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3830 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3831 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3832 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3833 directories for different export types.
3834 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3835 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3842 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3843 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3844 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3845 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3846 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3847 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3848 relative and absolute paths.
3849 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3850 - Bug and typo fixes.
3854 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3855 contains a description or not.
3856 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3857 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3858 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3859 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3860 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3861 for all available exporters.
3862 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3868 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3869 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3870 end of the HTML file.
3871 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3872 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3873 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3874 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3880 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3881 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3882 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3883 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3893 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3894 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3897 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3898 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3899 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3900 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3901 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3902 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3903 - New structure for the customization tree.
3908 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3912 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3913 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3914 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3915 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3916 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3921 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3922 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3923 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3924 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3928 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3929 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3932 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3933 - Various small bug fixes
3936 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3937 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3938 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3939 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3940 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3941 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3942 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3943 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3944 next buffer change due to editing).
3947 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3948 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3949 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3950 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3953 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3954 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3955 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3956 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3957 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3958 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3959 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3960 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3961 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3962 - support for cascading style sheets.
3963 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3964 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3971 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3975 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3978 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3979 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3980 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3981 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3982 and are not linked to the calendar.
3983 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3984 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3985 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3986 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3989 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3990 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3991 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3992 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3993 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3996 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3997 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3998 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3999 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
4002 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
4003 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
4006 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
4007 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
4008 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
4009 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
4010 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
4011 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
4015 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
4016 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
4017 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
4018 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
4019 - Archiving of finished tasks.
4020 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
4021 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
4022 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
4023 - Improved html export of tables.
4024 - Various clean-up changes.
4027 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
4031 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
4032 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
4036 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
4037 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
4041 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
4042 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
4043 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
4046 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
4047 - New startup option `content'.
4048 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
4049 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
4050 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
4053 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
4054 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
4055 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
4056 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
4057 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
4058 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
4061 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
4062 table shape when typing in fields.
4063 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
4064 into arbitrary major modes.
4065 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
4066 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
4067 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
4070 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
4071 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
4072 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
4074 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
4075 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
4076 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
4077 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
4078 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
4080 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
4081 - Sorting fully configurable.
4082 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
4083 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4087 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4088 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4089 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4090 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4091 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4092 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4093 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4096 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4097 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4098 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4099 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4100 - Priorities for TODO items.
4101 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4102 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4103 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4108 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4109 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4110 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4111 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4112 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4113 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4114 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4115 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4116 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4117 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4118 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4119 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4120 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4121 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4122 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4125 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4126 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4127 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4128 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4129 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4130 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4131 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4132 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4133 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4134 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4135 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4136 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4139 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4140 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4141 - Date ranges introduced.
4142 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4143 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4144 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4145 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4146 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4147 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4148 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4151 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4152 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4153 - Fully automatic table editor.
4154 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4155 - Other link system changes
4156 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4157 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4158 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4159 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4160 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4161 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4162 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4164 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4165 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4166 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4167 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4168 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4169 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4171 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4175 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4176 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4177 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4178 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4182 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents