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 *** Clock task history
14 Org now remembers the last 5 tasks that you clocked into, to
15 make it easier to clock back into a task after interrupting
17 - `C-u C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u C-u I' from the agenda) wil
18 clock into that task and mark it as current default task.
19 - `C-u C-c C-x C-i' (or `C-u I' from the agenda) will offer a
20 list of recently clocked tasks, including the default task,
21 for selection. `d' selects the default task, `i' selects
22 the task that was interrupted by the task that is currently
23 being clocked. `1',... selects a recent task. When you
24 select a task, you will be clocked into it.
30 - Column view (mostly) works now in XEmacs
31 - Summaries for columns in the agenda
32 - The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
33 - New operators for property searches
34 - Search commands can now include archive files.
35 - Clock tables can include the archive files
36 - Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
40 *** Column view works now in XEmacs
42 I had already given up on this, but Greg Chernev (who
43 implemented noutline.el for XEmacs and in this way kept Org
44 alive on XEmacs) has done it again and provided the patches
45 to make column view work under XEmacs. There are still some
46 problems, but the basics work and we will iron out the
47 remaining issues, hopefully soon.
49 *** Summaries for columns in the agenda
51 If any of the columns has a summary type defined, turning on
52 column view in the agenda will show summaries for these
53 columns. Org will first visit all relevant agenda files and
54 make sure that the computations of this property are up to
55 date. This is also true for the special =CLOCKSUM= property.
56 Org will then sum the values displayed in the agenda. In the
57 daily/weekly agenda, the sums will cover a single day, in all
58 other views they cover the entire block. It is vital to
59 realize that the agenda may show the same entry multiple
60 times (for example as scheduled and as a deadline), and it
61 may show two entries from the same hierarchy (for example a
62 /parent/ and it's /child/). In these cases, the summation in
63 the agenda will lead to incorrect results because some values
66 *** The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
68 If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
69 you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
70 work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
71 entries. If you are also clocking your work, you may later
72 want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
73 time. Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
74 property =Effort=, displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
75 and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
76 work load of a day. See the manual for more details.
78 *** New operators for property searches
80 Property searches can now choose a number of different
81 operators for comparing values. These operators are `=',
82 `<>', `<', `<=', `>', and `>='.
84 When the search term uses the operator with plain number like
85 =+Effort>=2.7=, then the property value is converted to a
86 number and a numerical comparison takes place.
88 When the search term uses a string on the right hand side of
89 the operator, a string comparison is done: =+PRIORITY<"C".=
91 Finally, if the right hand side is enclosed in curly braces,
92 a regexp match is done: =aaa={regexp}=. In this case you
93 should use only the `=' or `<>' operators, meaning "does
94 match" or "does not match", respectively.
96 This was a triggered with a request by Dan Davison.
98 *** Search commands can now include archive files.
100 If the value of the customization variable
101 =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files= contains the symbol
102 =agenda-archives= as the first element in the list, all
103 archive files of all agenda files will be added to the list
104 of files to search. This is relevant for the search view
105 =C-c a s=, as well as for the agenda files multi-occur
108 *** Clock tables can include the archive files
110 There are new values for the =:scope= parameter of a clock
111 table. This can now be =file-with-archives= and
112 =agenda-with-archives=, in order to collect information not
113 only from the current file or all agenda files, but also from
114 all archive files that are currently used by these files.
116 *** Orgtbl radio tables generalized.
118 The options available for radio tables using orgtbl-mode have
119 been expanded. You may use several reception points and
120 formats for the same table, you may have special formatting
121 in the last line of the table, and many table parameters may
122 be functions, so that more general transformations are
123 possible. Jason Riedy provided a patch for this, and he will
124 hopefully come up with some examples. Thanks!
128 This is a new major release, mostly because of structural changes
129 in Org. However, since this took a while, there is also a long
130 list of small improvements and some new significant features.
134 - The Org distribution has a new structure
135 - New system for selecting modules to load
136 - New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
137 - Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
138 - Internal links work now better in HTML export
139 - Export commands can be done in the background
140 - Flexible setting of the time block shown by the clock table
141 - Clock table can be included in the agenda
142 - Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
143 - Tag inheritance can be limited to a subset of all tags
144 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword
145 - And some more small fixes and improvements
147 ** Incompatible changes
149 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
151 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
152 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
153 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
154 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
155 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
156 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
160 *** The Org distribution has a new structure
162 In the distribution files as well as in the GIT repository,
163 the lisp files are now located in a subdirectory "lisp", and
164 the documentation files are located in a subdirectory "doc".
165 If you are running Org directly from the unpacked
166 distribution archive (zip or tar file, or GIT repository),
167 you need to modify your settings for load-path accordingly.
171 Org-mode has now a system for loading modules by simply
172 configuring an option that lists all the modules you want to
173 use. Customize the variable `org-modules'. That variable
174 lists both modules that are part of the Org-mode core (and in
175 this way part of Emacs), and modules that are contributed
176 packages. Contributed modules will only be available when
177 you have installed them properly (most likely by downloading
178 the distribution and adding /path/to/orgdir/contrib/lisp to
181 *** New archiving mechanism: The Archive Sibling
183 There is a new method to archive entries in the current file:
184 By moving it to a sibling called the /Archive Sibling/. That
185 sibling has the heading "Archive" and also carries the
186 ARCHIVE tag. This can be a great way to do archiving inside
187 a project, to get parts of the project out of the way and to
188 wait with true archiving (moving to another file) until the
189 entire project is done. Archiving to a sibling keeps much of
190 the context, for example inherited tags and approximate tree
193 The key binding for the is "C-c C-x A", and from the agenda
194 buffer you can simply use "A".
196 Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this rather clever idea.
198 *** Support for Sebastian Rose's JavaScript org-info.js.
200 This fascinating program allows a completely new viewing
201 experience for web pages created from Org files. The same
202 document can be viewed in different ways, and switching
203 between the views as well as navigation uses single-key
206 One of the view types is an /Info-like/ interface where you
207 can jump through the sections of the document with the `n'
208 and `p' keys (and others). There is also a /folding/
209 interface where you can fold the document much like you can
210 fold it in org-mode in Emacs, and cycle through the
211 visibility both locally and globally.
213 To set this up, all you need to do is to make sure that
214 org-infojs.el gets loaded (customize the variable org-modules
215 to check). Then add this line to the buffer:
217 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info
219 In that line, you can configure the initial view and other
220 settings. Available views are =info= for the info-like
221 interface, and =overview=, =content=, and =showall= for the
222 folding interface. See the manual for more details. The
223 JavaScript program is served from
224 http://orgmode.org/org-info.js, and your exported HTML files
225 will automatically get it from there. However, you may want
226 to be independent of the existence and stability of
227 orgmode.org and install a copy locally. Then you need to
228 change the path from which the script is loaded, either by
231 : #+INFOJS_OPT: view:info path:../scripts/org-info.js
233 or by configuring the variable =org-infojs-options=.
235 For details see the documentation provided by Sebastian Rose
236 together with org-info.js.
238 *** Export improvements
240 - The export of internal links to HTML now works a lot
241 better. Most internal links that work while editing an Org
242 file inside Emacs will now also work the the corresponding
245 - You can run many of the export commands in the background
246 by using `C-c C-u C-c C-e' in order to start the process.
247 RIght now this will only work if "emacs" is the right
248 command to get to your Emacs executable - I hope to make
249 this less system dependent in the future.
251 Both these are based on requests by Ilya Shlyakhter.
253 *** Improvements to clocktable
255 - The clocktable is now much more flexible and user friendly
256 when trying to specify the time block that should be
257 considered when constructing the table.
259 The =:block= parameter to the table can now look like any
263 |--------------+-----------------------|
264 | 2008 | The entire year 2008 |
265 | 2008-04 | The month April 2008 |
266 | 2008-04-02 | The day April 2, 2008 |
267 | 2008-W14 | ISO-Week 14 in 2008 |
269 | today-5 | The day five days ago |
270 | thisweek | The current week |
271 | thisweek-2 | Two weeks ago |
272 | thismonth | The current month |
273 | thismonth-12 | Same month, last year |
274 | lastmonth | Same as thismonth-1 |
277 What is more, you can now use the =S-left= and =S-right=
278 keys to shift the time block around. The cursor needs to
279 be in the =#+BEGIN: clocktable= line for this to work. If
280 the current block is =today=, =S-left= with switch to
281 yesterday. If the current block is =2008-W14=, =S-right=
282 will switch to the following week.
284 - When the clocktable is collecting from several files, the
285 total time for each file will now also be listed. This was
286 a request from Bernt Hansen.
288 - If you turn on the new clock report mode with the "R" key in
289 the agenda, a clock table will be attached to the agenda,
290 showing the clock report for the file scope and time
291 interval of the agenda view. To turn this on permanently,
292 configure the variable
293 =org-agenda-start-with-clock report-mode=. To modify the
294 properties of the table, in particular the =:maxlevel=
295 depth, configure =org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist=.
297 *** Support for ISO week dates (ISO 6801)
299 The agenda now shows the ISO week for the displayed dates, in
300 the form =W08= for week 8.
302 The keys =d=, =w=, =m=, and =y= in the agenda view now accept
303 prefix arguments. Remember that in the agenda, you can
304 directly type a prefix argument by typing a number, no need
305 to press =C-u= first. The prefix argument may be used to
306 jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month,
307 or year, respectively. For example, =32 d= jumps to February
308 1st, =9 w= to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or
309 month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as
310 well. For example, =200712 w= will jump to week 12 in the
311 year 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two
312 digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037.
314 When entering a date at the date prompt, you may now also
315 specify an ISO week. For example
317 : w4 Monday of week 4
318 : fri w4 Friday of week 4
320 : 2012 w4 fri Friday of week 4 in 2012.
321 : 2012-W04-5 Same as above
323 So far I have not implemented the effect of
324 `org-read-date-prefer-future' on this functionality, because
325 it seemed too magic for me. I'd appreciate comments on this
326 issue: Should `org-read-date-prefer-future' also push dates
327 into the next year if the week you are entering has already
328 passed in the current year? For consistency I guess this
329 should be the case, but I cannot quite wrap my head around
332 I hope but am not entirely convinced that this will behave
333 sanely also during the first/last week of a year. Please
334 test extensively and report back.
336 This was a request by Thomas Baumann.
338 *** Improvements in Search View
340 - Calling search view with a C-u prefix will make it match
341 only in TODO entries.
343 - The single quote is no longer considered a word character
344 during search, so that searching for the word "Nasim" will
345 also match in "Nasim's".
350 - Inheritance of tags can now be limited to a subset of all
351 tags, using the variable =org-use-tag-inheritance=. This
352 variable may now be a regular expression or a list to
353 select the inherited tags. Thanks to Michael Ekstrand for
354 this excellent proposal.
356 The regexp option is also implemented for
357 =org-use-property-inheritance=, so that you can now select
358 properties for inheritance my name.
360 - The INHERIT flag to the function =org-entry-get= can be set
361 to the symbol =selective=. If this is the case, then the
362 value of the property will be retrieved using inheritance
363 if and only if the setting in
364 =org-use-property-inheritance= selects the property for
367 - There are now special faces for the date lines in the
368 agenda/timeline buffers, and another special face for days
369 that fall on a weekend: =org-agenda-date= and
370 =org-agenda-date-weekend=. Both these faces are initially
371 similar to the =org-agenda-structure= face, but you can
372 customize them freely.
374 - When an entry already has a scheduling or deadline time
375 stamp, calling `C-c C-s' or `C-c C-d', respectively, will
376 now use that old date as the default, and you can can use
377 the "++4d" syntax to invoke shifts relative to that default
378 date. Simply pressing RET at the prompt will keep the
379 default date, not switch to today.
381 This was an omission in the earlier implementation, spotted
382 by Wanrong Lin. Thanks!
384 - File names in remember templates can be relative, if they
385 are, they will be interpreted relative to =org-directory=.
387 - The handling of the clipboard when inserting into remember
388 templates is now much better, and gives more control on what
389 should be inserted with new %-escapes:
391 - =%c= - Now always insert the head of the kill ring, never
394 - =%x= - Insert the content of the X clipboard. This is the
395 first non-empty value from the PRIMARY, SECONDARY and
396 CLIPBOARD X clipboards.
398 - =%^C= - This allows the user to choose between any of the
399 clipboard values available, the kill ring head, and the
400 initial region if set.
402 - =%^L= - Like =%^C=, but this inserts an org link using the
405 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
407 - Table export to an internal file can now use a format
408 specification, similar to the formats that are used by
409 orgtbl radio tables. The default format is in the variable
410 =org-table-export-default-format=. You can use properties
411 =TABLE_EXPORT_FILE= and =TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT= to specify the
412 file name to which the export should go, and a local
416 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FILE: ~/xx.txt
417 : :TABLE_EXPORT_FORMAT: orgtbl-to-generic :splice t :sep "\t"
420 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
422 - Entries can be sorted by TODO keyword, and the order is given
423 by the definition sequence of the TODO keywords in the
424 variable =org-todo-keywords=, or in the =#+TODO= line. Use
425 the "o" key when sorting with =C-c ^=.
427 Thanks to James TD Smith for this patch.
434 - New keyword search agenda view
436 - Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
438 - New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
440 - Modifying list/headline status of a line
442 - Granularity while editing time stamps
444 - New repeaters mechanisms
446 - New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
448 - Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
450 - =M-RET= splits lines again
454 ** Incompatible changes
456 - The variable `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes' is now a list
457 of two values - if you have configured this variable before,
462 *** New keyword search agenda view
464 `C-c a s' now invokes a special agenda view that can be used
465 to search notes by keyword and regular expressions. In
466 particular, it does not require a single regular expression
467 or string to search for, but it can search for a number
468 keywords or regexps that can occur in arbitrary sequence in
469 the entry. The search knows the boundaries of an entry, can
470 use simple Boolean logic and is reasonably fast. For
471 example, the search string
473 : +computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}
475 will search for note entries that contain the keywords
476 =computer= and =wifi=, but not the keyword =ethernet=, and
477 which are also not matched by the regular expression
478 "8\.11[bg]", meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. If the
479 first character of the search string is an asterisk, the
480 search will only look at headlines - otherwise it will look
481 at the headine and the text below it, up to the next
482 (possibly sub-) heading.
484 The command searches all agenda files, and in addition the
485 files listed in =org-agenda-text-search-extra-files=.
487 I find it very useful to define a custom command to do such
488 a search only in a limited number of files (my notes files),
491 : ("N" "Search notes" search ""
492 : ((org-agenda-files '("~/org/notes.org" "~/org/computer.org"))
493 : (org-agenda-text-search-extra-files nil)))
495 *** Many new extensions available in the CONTRIB directory
497 - Phil Jackson's /org-irc.el/ is now part of the Org-mode
498 core, which means it will become part of Emacs soon.
500 - The new development model already starts to pay off, a
501 number of interesting extensions are now part of the
502 distribution. Check the file CONTRIB/README for a list.
504 - There is a new variable `org-default-extensions'.
505 Configuring this variable makes it *very* easy to load
506 these default extensions - eventually this will be expanded
507 to cover contributed extensions as well.
509 *** New remember template option: pre-selection contexts
511 - Remember template definitions now allow six elements. The
512 last element defines the contexts in which the template
513 should be offered. It can be a list of major modes, a
514 function, =t= or =nil=. If it is a list of major-mode, the
515 template will be available only when =org-remember= is
516 called from a buffer in one of these modes. If it is a
517 function, the template will be offered only if the function
518 returns `t' when called in the current buffer. A value of
519 =t= or =nil= for this element means select this template in
522 One possible application for this would be to have several
523 templates all using the same selection letter, and choosing
524 the right one based on context. For example, think of
525 tasks describing a bug in a source code file. With the
526 following configuration we make sure that the bug reports
527 are filed into the appropriate sections of the target file.
529 : (setq org-remember-templates
530 : '(("Elisp" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "Elisp bugs" (emacs-lisp-mode))
531 : ("C Bugs" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?" "~/bugs.org" "C bugs" (cc-mode))))
533 See (info "(org)Remember templates") for details.
535 *** Modifying list/headline status of a line
537 - `C-c -' has now more functions:
538 + In a table, add a hline as before
539 + In an item list, cycle bullet type as before
540 + In a normal line, turn it into an item
541 + In a headline, turn it into an item
542 + If there is an active region, turn each line into an item.
543 But if the first region line is already an item, remove
544 item markers from all lines.
546 Based on proposals by Bastien.
548 - `C-c *' has now more functions
549 + in a table, recompute, as before
550 + in a normal line, convert it to a sub heading.
551 + at an item, convert it into a subheading
552 + if there is an active region, convert all lines in the
553 region to headlines. However, if the first lie already is
554 a heading, remove the stars from all lines int he region.
556 Based on proposals by Bastien.
558 *** Changes related to time stamps
560 - The value variable =org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes= is now
561 a list of two values. The first applies when creating a new
562 time stamp. The second applies when modifying a timestamp
563 with S-up/down. The default for this new task is 5 minutes,
564 but 15 may also be a very good value for many people. If
565 S-up/down is used on a time stamp where the minute part is
566 not compatible with this granularity it will be made so.
567 You can bypass this by using a prefix argument to exactly
568 specify the number of minutes to shift.
570 This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
572 - New repeaters that shift a date relative to today, or that
573 make sure that the next date is in the future. For example:
576 : DEADLINE: <2008-02-10 Sun ++1w>
577 : Marking this DONE will shift the date by at least one week,
578 : but also by as many weeks as it takes to get this date into
579 : the future. However, it stays on a Sunday, even if you called
580 : and marked it done on Saturday.
581 :** TODO Check the batteries in the smoke detectors
582 : DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue .+1m>
583 : Marking this DONE will shift the date to one month after
586 Proposed by Wanrong Lin and Rainer Stengle.
588 *** New parameters for dynamic blocks ad the clock table
590 - There is a new =:link= parameter for the clocktable. When
591 set, the headlines listed in the table will be links to the
594 - There is a new =:content= parameter that is passed to the
595 writer function of the dynamic block. Use this parameter
596 to pass the previous content of the block to the writer
597 function, in case you want to make the outcome dependent on
598 the previous content.
600 *** Limiting iCalendar export to fewer entries
602 - New way to limit iCalendar export to the entries captured in
603 an agenda view. This is done by "writing" the agenda view
604 using `C-x C-w' to a file with extension .ics.
606 This was a request by Kyle Sexton.
610 - Due to a popular revolt shortly after the 5.22 release,
611 =M-RET= can again be used to split a line so that the rest
612 of the line becomes the new heading. However, if you do
613 this in a heading containing tags, the tags will stay in the
616 Customize the variable =org-M-RET-may-split-line= if you
617 don't want this command to split a line in the middle. The
618 same variable also influences line splitting in items and in
621 - There are three new hooks:
623 =org-follow-link-hook=: runs after following a link
624 =org-publish-before-export-hook=: runs before export
625 =org-publish-after-export-hook=: runs after export
629 ** Incompatible changes
631 - The variable `org-log-done' is now less complex.
632 - The in-buffer settings for logging have changed. Some
633 options no longer exists, some new ones have been added.
637 *** Changes to logging progress
639 There is now more control over which state changes are being
640 logged in what way. Please read carefully the corresponding
641 sections in the manual. Basically:
643 - The variable `org-log-done' has been simplified, it no
644 longer influences logging state changes and clocking out.
645 - There is a new variable for triggering note-taking when
646 clocking out an item: `org-log-note-clock-out'.
647 - Logging of state changes now has to be configured on a
648 pre-keyword basis, either in `org-todo-keywords' or in the
649 #+TODO in-buffer setting.
650 - These per-keyword settings allow more control. For example
652 : WAIT(w@) Record a note when entering this state.
653 : WAIT(w!) Record a timestamp when entering this state.
654 : WAIT(w@/!) Recore a note when entering and timestamp
655 : when leaving this state. This is great for
656 : getting a record when switching *back* from
658 : WAIT(/!) Record a timestamp when leaving this state.
659 : Here we not even define a fast access
660 : character, but just the logging stuff.
662 This was triggered by requests from Wanrong Lin and Bernt Hansen.
666 - M-RET no longer brakes a line in the middle, it will make a
667 new line after the current or (if cursor is at the beginning
668 of the line) before the current line.
670 - RET, when executed in a headline after the main text and
671 before the tags will leave the tags in the current line and
672 create a new line below the current one.
676 Bug fixes, in particular the long-hunted bug about wrong window
677 positions after pressing SPACE in the agenda. Hopefully this
684 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
686 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
687 and `org-refile' has been normalized.
689 - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
691 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
692 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
693 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
695 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
697 - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
699 - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
703 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
705 - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
707 - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
709 - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
711 - New parameter =:step= for clocktable, to get daily reports.
713 - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
715 - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
717 - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
721 ** Incompatible Changes
723 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
724 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
725 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
729 *** Remember/Refile/Goto
731 - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
732 and `org-refile' has been normalized:
734 + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
735 normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
737 + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
738 used to select a target location and to jump there. In
739 the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
740 template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
741 location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
742 you select a location from the refile target list and jump
745 + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
746 jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
749 - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
750 the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
751 out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
753 - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
754 introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
755 `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
756 variable does select the interface that is used to select
757 the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
760 + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
762 + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
763 path to select a location.
764 + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
767 - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
768 they are always current.
770 - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
771 isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
772 special also because it only matches in headline. This
773 goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
774 from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
775 sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
776 to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
777 configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
779 - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
780 interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
781 default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
782 `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
783 interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
784 am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
790 - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
791 with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
792 the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
793 time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
794 A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
796 - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
797 `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
799 + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
800 the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
802 + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
803 headline up to the tags.
804 + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
806 This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
808 - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
809 scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
810 to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
811 request by Austin Frank.
813 - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
814 several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
815 log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
817 - The clock table accepts a new parameter =:step=. This
818 parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
819 tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
820 This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [[http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/30/clocking-time-with-emacs-org/][blog]].
822 - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
823 date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
824 today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
825 overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
826 agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
827 item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
828 for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
829 suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
830 show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
831 be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
832 forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
835 - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
836 =ARCHIVE_OLPATH=. This property contains the "path" in the
837 outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
838 original file. For example, archiving =Fix the door= in the
846 will file is with the following property
848 : :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
850 Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
851 that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
852 `org-archive-save-context-info'.
854 - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
855 links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
864 - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
866 - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
868 - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
870 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
872 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
874 - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
876 - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
878 - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
880 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
884 - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
885 entries in a subtree. For example
887 : #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
889 will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
890 Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
891 request by Bernt Hansen.
893 - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
894 interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
895 variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
896 Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
897 pressing `C-c C-c' in the =*Remember*= buffer. But if you
898 have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
899 interactively select the filing location (file and
900 headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
901 excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
902 is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
903 that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
904 first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
906 - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
907 before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
908 will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
909 could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
910 creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
913 - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
914 is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
915 reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
916 tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
917 new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
918 located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
919 with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
922 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
923 width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
924 it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
927 - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
928 brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
929 braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
930 link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
931 explain here, complex.
933 - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
934 a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
935 on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
937 - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
938 file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
939 users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
941 - Bug fixes, lots of them.
953 - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
954 empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
955 part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
956 this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
957 equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
958 lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
959 limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
960 sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
961 before the first child and still have good behavior of the
962 subtree motion commands.
964 - Plain lists items work the same.
966 I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
967 Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
968 pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
971 This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
972 let me know about any problems.
976 - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
977 to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
978 If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
979 can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
980 C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
982 - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
983 a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
984 previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
985 history variable. For example:
987 : %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
989 will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
990 typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
991 give you any of the three names. And a history will be
992 kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
993 input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
994 same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
995 across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
998 - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
999 will be stored immediately after all template parts have
1000 been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
1001 C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
1005 - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
1006 maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
1009 - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
1010 refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
1011 completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
1012 may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
1013 outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
1014 places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
1020 *** Restriction lock on agenda scope
1022 You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
1023 certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
1024 pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
1025 only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
1026 commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
1027 you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
1028 or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
1029 you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
1032 You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
1033 restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
1034 prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
1035 make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
1037 When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
1038 currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
1039 the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
1040 and then watch it change in various scopes.
1042 To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
1043 Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
1044 in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
1045 select a new restriction.
1047 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
1049 *** Imenu and Speedbar support
1051 - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
1053 : (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
1054 : (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
1056 a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
1057 provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
1058 depth of the menu can be set with the variable
1061 - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
1062 drill into the first and second level headlines of an
1063 Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
1065 - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
1066 file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
1067 press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
1068 set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
1069 visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
1075 - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
1076 These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
1077 and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
1079 - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
1080 a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
1081 when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
1090 + Remember and related stuff
1091 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
1092 - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
1093 - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
1094 - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
1096 + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1097 - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
1098 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1099 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
1100 - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
1101 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
1102 - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
1104 + Properties and Column view
1105 - More control over which properties use inheritance
1106 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
1107 - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
1108 - New currency summary type {$}
1110 + The date/time prompt
1111 - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
1112 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
1113 - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
1116 - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
1117 - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
1120 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
1123 - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
1124 - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
1125 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
1126 - Support for pabbrev-mode
1127 - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
1129 ** Incompatible changes
1131 - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
1132 org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
1133 canceling your customization and then adding it again.
1135 - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
1136 functions to select a specific remember template, without being
1137 prompted, like this:
1139 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1141 : (org-remember ?n))
1143 You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
1144 must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
1146 : (defun my-remember-template-n ()
1148 : (org-remember nil ?n))
1150 - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
1151 deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
1155 *** Remember and related stuff
1157 - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
1158 different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
1159 application might be to put a note or task captured with
1160 `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
1161 offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
1162 These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
1163 as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
1164 headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
1165 variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
1166 definitions. For example:
1168 : (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
1170 selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
1173 : (setq org-refile-targets
1174 : '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
1176 searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
1177 explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
1178 list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
1179 it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
1182 This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
1183 Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
1185 - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
1186 the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
1187 For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
1188 then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
1189 given in the template associated with the letter "n".
1191 This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
1192 Sorry, and thanks anyway.
1194 - New %-escapes in remember templates:
1196 : %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
1197 : %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
1198 : %[..] include file
1200 Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
1202 - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
1203 to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
1204 Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
1207 : (require 'remember)
1208 : (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
1209 : (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
1210 : (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
1212 You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
1213 provide a default for templates without a file, and
1214 `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
1216 *** Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
1218 - Stacked emphasis like ~*/bold italic/*~ is no longer allowed.
1220 - You may finally emphasize a single character like ~*a*~.
1222 - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
1223 does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
1224 if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
1225 the default in Org-mode.
1227 - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
1228 further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
1229 you can write ~=quoted *xxx* a_x = b=~. This and the following
1230 point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
1232 - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
1233 exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
1234 org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
1235 face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
1236 org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
1238 - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
1239 extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
1240 configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
1241 customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
1244 - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
1245 When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
1246 are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
1247 great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
1248 for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
1250 *** Properties and Column view
1252 - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
1253 property names that should be treated with inheritance
1256 - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
1257 even if the category is not specified as a property in the
1258 entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
1259 Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
1260 discussion around this issue.
1262 - Summary type improvements in column view.
1263 * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
1264 format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
1265 This was triggered by a report by Levin.
1266 * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
1267 shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
1268 symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
1269 this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
1271 *** The date/time prompt
1273 There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
1276 - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
1277 interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
1278 the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
1279 input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
1280 annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
1282 - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
1283 enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
1284 today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
1285 "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
1286 enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
1287 entered month is before the current, for example if you
1288 enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
1289 this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
1290 off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
1292 - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
1293 the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
1294 default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
1295 simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
1296 to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
1298 *** Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
1300 - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
1301 list of newly performed conversions:
1303 | Org | Description | HTML |
1304 |-----+------------------------------------+----------|
1305 | ~\\-~ | double backslash followed by minus | ­ |
1306 | ~--~ | two dashes (minuses) | – |
1307 | ~---~ | three dashes (minuses) | — |
1308 | ~...~ | three dots | … |
1310 You can turn this globally on or off with
1311 `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
1312 "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
1313 starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
1314 William Henney for relevant inputs.
1316 - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
1317 Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
1321 - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
1322 : g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
1323 : because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
1324 : G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
1325 : e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
1326 : `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
1328 *** Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
1330 - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
1331 export by setting it either globally
1332 (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
1333 file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
1334 the list of available classes and their sectioning
1335 structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
1336 option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
1339 - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
1340 LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
1341 tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
1343 - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
1344 seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
1346 - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
1347 to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
1350 - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
1351 commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
1352 shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
1359 - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
1360 something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
1361 This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
1363 - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
1364 the values of constants and properties are no longer
1365 enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
1366 this still happens in order to allow expressions in
1367 constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
1369 - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
1370 with extension matched by the new variable
1371 `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
1380 - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1381 + All known bugs fixed.
1382 + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
1383 + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
1384 + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
1386 - The agenda dispatcher
1387 + `<' cycles through restriction states.
1388 + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
1390 - Sorting improvements
1391 + User-defined sorting keys.
1392 + Sorting by properties.
1393 + Sorting of plain lists.
1395 - HTML <div> structure
1398 + New variables, several of them.
1399 + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
1400 + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
1401 + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
1402 + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
1406 *** Bug fixes and improvements in column view
1408 - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
1409 (at least I hope so...).
1411 - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
1412 exporting or printing it. The column view can be
1414 + global, i.e. for the entire file
1415 + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
1416 + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
1418 You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
1419 capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
1420 in the dynamic block definition. For example:
1424 : :ID: planning-overview
1430 : #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
1434 Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
1435 be prompted for the ID.
1437 - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
1438 priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
1439 of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
1440 entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
1441 the current column format, they are instead retained in the
1444 - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
1446 *** The agenda dispatcher
1448 - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
1449 the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
1450 subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
1451 twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
1452 commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
1453 through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
1454 still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
1455 them to custom commands.
1457 - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
1458 several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
1459 similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
1460 excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
1462 : (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
1463 : '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
1464 : ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
1465 : ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
1466 : ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
1468 - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
1469 now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
1472 *** Sorting improvements
1474 We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
1475 John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
1477 - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
1478 and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
1480 - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
1483 - Plain lists can be sorted.
1485 *** HTML <div> structure
1487 There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
1489 - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
1490 "table-of-contents".
1492 - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
1493 classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
1495 - The postamble, containing the author information and the
1496 date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
1498 I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
1499 know if there are more "canonical" choices.
1501 Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
1502 to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
1506 - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
1507 customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
1508 that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
1511 - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
1513 : #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
1515 This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
1516 The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
1517 your properties will not be folded away.
1518 Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
1520 - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
1521 association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
1522 faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
1524 - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
1525 exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
1526 the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
1527 from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
1528 needed to handle not only the property drawer.
1530 - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
1531 not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
1532 can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
1533 a proposal by Bastien.
1535 - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
1536 request by Wanrong Lin.
1538 - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
1539 remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
1540 This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
1546 - Remember templates can now have name.
1547 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
1548 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
1549 - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
1550 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
1551 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1552 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
1553 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
1554 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
1555 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
1556 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
1558 ** Incompatible Changes
1560 - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
1564 - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
1565 element. The name will be listed along with the selection
1566 character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
1567 the name start with the selection character, for example if
1568 you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
1569 Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
1571 - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
1572 buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
1573 change). Thanks to Bastien.
1575 - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
1576 cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
1578 - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
1579 italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
1580 the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
1581 John Wiegley for the idea and code.
1583 - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
1584 scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
1585 Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
1587 - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
1588 `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
1589 scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
1590 Wiegley for a patch.
1592 - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
1593 default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
1594 keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
1595 single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
1596 with full completion support.
1598 - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
1599 `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
1600 and I have found this change very useful indeed.
1602 - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
1603 to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
1606 - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
1607 to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
1608 properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
1609 well tested yet, please check it out.
1617 - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
1618 - Command to jump to the running clock
1619 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
1620 - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
1621 - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
1622 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1623 - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
1624 - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
1625 - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
1626 - New variable to make block aranda more compact
1627 - Better tag alignment in agenda
1629 ** Incompatible changes
1631 - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
1632 "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
1634 - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
1635 renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
1636 an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
1638 - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
1639 `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
1642 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
1647 - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
1648 progress logging for a single entry. For example:
1651 : :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
1654 turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
1657 - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
1658 special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
1659 to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
1660 Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
1661 and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
1663 - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
1664 clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
1665 you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
1666 key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
1668 - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
1669 drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
1670 configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
1671 drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
1672 Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
1673 `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
1674 must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
1675 folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
1676 too many clock entries are visually annoying.
1678 - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
1679 in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
1680 the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
1681 will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
1682 table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
1683 inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
1684 parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
1685 Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
1686 To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
1688 - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
1689 template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
1690 bindings that go directly to a specific template without
1691 being prompted for a template, like this:
1693 : (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
1695 Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
1697 - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
1698 (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
1699 including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
1700 and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
1702 - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
1703 (also `s' does this).
1705 - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
1706 produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
1709 - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
1710 remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
1711 to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
1713 - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
1714 space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
1715 possible, to show more items on a single screen.
1717 - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
1718 `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
1719 to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
1720 like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
1728 - Category and the archive location can be properties.
1729 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter.
1730 - CSV support when importing a table.
1731 - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
1732 - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
1733 - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
1734 - Modifications to priority cycling.
1735 - Modifications to computations in column view.
1736 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
1741 - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
1742 the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
1745 : * Tree with special properties
1747 : :CATEGORY: Examples
1748 : :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
1751 This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
1752 categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
1753 of the =#+CATEGORY= and =#+ARCHIVE= lines is now to set a
1754 *single* default for the file which is then locally
1755 overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
1756 if I remember correctly. Multiple =#+= lines still work
1757 and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
1758 encourage you to stop using them.
1760 - The clocktable has a new =:scope= parameter that determines
1761 the range in the file from which clock entries should be
1762 taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
1763 entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
1767 |---------+-------------------------------------------------|
1768 | nil | the current buffer or narrowed region |
1769 | file | the full current buffer |
1770 | subtree | the subtree where the clocktable is located |
1771 | treeN | the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3 |
1772 | tree | the surrounding level 1 tree |
1773 | agenda | all agenda files |
1775 Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
1776 inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
1777 for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
1778 not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
1781 - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
1782 table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
1783 algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
1784 basic input it works.
1786 - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
1787 second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
1788 consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
1789 This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1791 - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
1792 range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
1795 : 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
1796 : 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
1798 Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
1800 - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
1801 orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
1802 auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
1803 the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
1804 better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
1806 - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
1807 t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
1808 default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
1809 the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
1810 from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
1813 - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
1814 column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
1815 of all the children's values each time you enter column
1816 view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
1817 the children has that particular property defined, the
1818 parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
1819 items under such an entry without getting the property value
1820 changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
1821 is a better way of doing things.
1823 - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
1824 trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
1825 testing is appreciated.
1827 - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
1828 the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
1829 it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
1830 The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
1832 - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
1833 calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
1834 links in square or angular brackets.
1842 - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
1845 - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
1846 agenda can be configured.
1848 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
1850 - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
1852 - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
1854 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1856 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1857 inherited from the outline faces.
1859 ** Incompatible Changes
1861 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1862 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1863 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1864 work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
1865 incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
1870 - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
1871 switching to that state. With the setting
1873 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
1874 : #+STARTUP: lognotestate
1876 only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
1879 - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
1880 agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
1881 interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
1882 own function. Configure the new variable
1883 `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
1884 this development with a patch.
1886 - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
1887 t, in order to better match the original intent of
1888 remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
1889 work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
1890 templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
1891 location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
1892 need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
1894 - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
1895 and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
1896 or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
1897 and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
1898 lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
1899 that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
1900 location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
1902 - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
1903 state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
1906 - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
1907 So if you select a location interactively once, you can
1908 re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
1909 the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
1910 comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
1911 note goes if you exit with a particular command.
1912 Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
1914 - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
1915 inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
1916 convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
1917 faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
1918 will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
1919 Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
1920 match the current org-mode faces.
1922 This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
1926 ** Incompatible changes
1928 - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
1932 - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
1933 setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
1934 have configured keys for TODO keywords like
1936 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
1938 C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
1939 prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
1940 the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
1941 will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
1942 command fall back to cycling.
1944 The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
1945 Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
1946 idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
1947 interface anyway, set the variable
1948 `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
1949 others for input on this issue.
1951 - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
1952 set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
1953 later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
1955 - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
1956 This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
1958 - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
1959 file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
1961 : #+DATE: 15 November 2003
1963 If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
1964 use a format string that will be interpreted by
1965 `format-time-string', for example:
1967 : #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
1969 - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
1970 days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
1971 included) have changed this.
1973 - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
1974 obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
1975 if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
1976 example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
1977 value of this number will be enforced also when a different
1978 lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
1979 of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
1985 - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
1987 - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
1989 - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
1991 - Sorting can be done by priority.
1993 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
1995 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
1997 - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
1999 ** Incompatible changes
2001 - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
2002 ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
2004 - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
2008 - You can now define different faces for different TODO
2009 keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
2010 is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
2012 A Here is a configuration example:
2014 : (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
2015 : '(("TODO" . org-warning)
2016 : ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
2017 : ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
2020 Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
2021 keywords that have no specific face assigned.
2023 - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
2024 TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
2025 switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
2026 TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
2027 that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
2028 tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
2029 now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
2030 states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
2031 states, just like you also do for tags.
2033 : #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
2034 : #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
2036 Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
2037 will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
2038 switch the entry to that state.
2040 - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
2041 information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
2042 archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
2045 : (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
2047 will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
2048 ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
2049 default setting for this variable is to save everything that
2050 could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
2052 - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
2053 the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
2055 - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
2056 ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
2057 Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
2058 might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
2059 affect the folding ellipsis globally.
2061 - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
2062 CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
2063 know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
2066 - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
2067 if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
2068 `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
2069 the file will simply be skipped.
2079 - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
2080 (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
2081 the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
2082 subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
2083 export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
2084 inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
2085 appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
2086 exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
2089 - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
2090 When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
2091 behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
2092 of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
2093 again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
2094 presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
2095 like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
2096 keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
2097 the special locations.
2099 - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
2102 - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
2105 - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
2106 nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
2107 cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
2109 - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
2110 deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
2111 this works correctly again, and complain if not.
2117 - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
2119 - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
2121 - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
2123 - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
2125 - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
2127 - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
2129 - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
2131 - Global values for selected properties.
2138 - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
2139 distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
2140 LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
2141 manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
2142 Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
2143 I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
2144 ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
2145 be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
2147 - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
2148 system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
2149 other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
2150 *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
2151 interface for adding a new link type is described in the
2152 appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
2153 currently how to handle the new link types for
2156 - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
2157 `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
2158 global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
2159 links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
2162 - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
2163 lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
2164 The syntax is like this
2166 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
2168 When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
2171 : DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
2173 You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
2174 agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
2175 See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
2177 Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
2180 - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
2181 set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
2182 the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
2183 matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
2186 - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
2187 exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
2188 without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
2189 C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
2190 this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
2191 storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
2194 - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
2195 appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
2196 reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
2199 - You can now set default values for properties that can be
2200 inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
2201 globally. Global properties are set in the variable
2202 `org-global-properties', like this:
2204 (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
2206 Buffer-local values are set like this:
2208 #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
2210 When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
2211 the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
2212 not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
2213 are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
2214 the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
2215 Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
2223 - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
2224 `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
2225 and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
2226 Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
2228 - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
2229 into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
2230 this stuff into the drawer.
2231 `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
2233 - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
2234 specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
2236 - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
2237 Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
2239 - Lots of minor fixes.
2243 ** Incompatible Changes
2245 - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
2246 `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
2247 not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
2251 - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
2252 headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
2253 tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
2255 - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
2256 keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
2257 little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
2258 know if we need to make this customizable.
2260 - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
2261 of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
2262 all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
2263 again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
2264 the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
2266 - Column View and hidestars now work together.
2275 - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
2278 - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
2279 compute their value from the children's values.
2281 - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
2282 conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
2285 ** Incompatible Changes
2287 - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
2288 make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
2289 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
2290 using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
2295 - Improvements for properties:
2297 + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
2298 properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
2300 + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
2301 these are defined, you can change the value of a property
2302 with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
2303 inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
2304 typos when entering properties.
2306 - Improvements for column view.
2308 + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
2309 also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
2312 + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
2313 parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
2314 property, or the parent node can have a check box property
2315 that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
2318 + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
2319 and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
2322 These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
2323 from [[http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg][omni outliner]] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
2324 accurately [[file:omni-org.jpg][reproduced by Org-mode]].
2326 - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
2327 order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
2328 beginning of a line. So
2330 : * This is a level 1 headline
2331 : *this is bold text*
2333 - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
2334 available in orgstruct-mode.
2340 - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
2341 structure editing commands into any other mode.
2343 - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
2344 that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
2345 open if explicitly asked.
2347 - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
2349 - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
2350 the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
2353 - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
2354 now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
2357 - Bug fixes and minor changes.
2359 ** Incompatible changes
2361 - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
2362 you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
2363 only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
2364 now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
2365 to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
2366 that this is the better convention.
2370 *** Orgstruct minor mode
2372 There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
2373 in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
2374 the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
2375 modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
2376 easily create lists.
2378 The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
2379 cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
2380 like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
2381 `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
2382 `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
2383 like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
2384 these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
2385 minor modes have assigned to them.
2387 Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
2388 some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
2389 the promised implementation.
2393 The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
2394 that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
2395 to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
2396 starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
2397 bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
2400 : (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
2402 you can then create drawers like this:
2405 : here is some stuff that remains hidden
2406 : unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
2409 The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
2410 contains properties of an entry (see below).
2412 *** Properties and Column View
2414 - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
2415 associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
2416 properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
2417 tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
2418 In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
2419 a property drawer and inserting a line like
2421 : :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
2423 Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
2424 program using properties, use the functions
2425 `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
2426 and `org-entry-delete'.
2428 - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
2431 If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
2432 headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
2433 will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
2434 is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
2435 the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
2436 after the headline, outside the drawer.
2438 - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
2441 : LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
2443 will find entries that
2446 - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
2447 - are TODO status WAITING.
2449 So here is an entry that will match:
2451 : *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
2456 You may also use a regular expression to match against a
2457 property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
2460 : ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
2462 - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
2463 tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
2464 file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
2465 an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
2466 table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
2467 properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
2468 the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
2469 can set up different property columns on different levels
2470 of an outline tree. For example:
2474 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
2478 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
2481 : Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
2483 : Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
2486 : :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
2489 : Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
2490 : Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
2492 Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
2493 you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
2494 will get a different table than if you do it in the
2495 /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
2496 view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
2497 table will cover all entries, but contain only the
2500 Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
2501 The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
2503 - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
2504 value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
2505 needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
2506 necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
2507 request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
2508 #+CONSTANTS, see below.
2510 - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
2511 properties and column view - comments and suggestions
2514 + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
2516 + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
2518 + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
2519 C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
2520 that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
2522 + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
2523 Any suggestions for better defaults?
2524 + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
2525 be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
2530 - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
2531 Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
2532 everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
2533 in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
2534 the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
2535 formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
2536 a field that is computed both by a column and a field
2539 From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
2540 overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
2541 results. For example you can now finally have a column of
2542 increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
2543 number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
2550 : #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
2552 - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
2553 with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
2554 constants can now be set with a line like:
2556 : #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
2560 - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
2561 archiving is added to the line with planning information.
2564 : ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
2566 Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
2570 Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
2571 "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
2572 bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
2573 version, and complain if not. Thanks!
2580 - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
2581 and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
2582 an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
2583 Compilation completely removes the penalty.
2585 - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
2586 See manual section 3.5.3.
2588 - New options for turning off footnotes.
2589 This was a request from Ignotus.
2590 See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
2592 - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
2593 default. This was a request from Micheal.
2594 See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
2598 + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
2599 + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
2600 + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
2601 + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
2602 + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
2608 - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
2609 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
2611 - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
2613 - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
2615 - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
2617 - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
2619 ** Incompatible changes
2621 - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
2622 Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
2623 file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
2624 with the xemacs version. For example:
2626 : mv org_xemacs.el org.el
2628 This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
2629 that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
2630 XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
2631 program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
2632 XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
2636 - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
2637 longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
2638 interval on a single day. For example
2640 : <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
2642 This is now fully supported, including changing the time
2643 with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
2644 da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
2645 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
2647 This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
2650 - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
2651 clocking in and out) using this syntax.
2655 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
2657 - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
2658 long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
2659 This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
2660 the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
2661 David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
2662 of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
2663 same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
2664 using localization features may not work correctly in the
2665 Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
2666 org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
2667 stick to the ASCII characters.
2669 - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
2670 M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
2671 space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
2672 surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
2673 William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
2675 - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
2677 + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
2678 indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
2679 William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
2681 + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
2682 discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
2683 too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
2684 fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
2685 if we can agree on this:
2687 Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
2688 but indent another bullet type further. The time when
2689 this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
2690 out to a previous level. For example
2698 When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
2707 So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
2708 using promotion and demotion functions.
2714 - Vertical lines in exported tables.
2715 - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
2717 ** Incompatible changes
2719 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
2723 - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
2724 that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
2725 and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
2726 characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
2727 group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
2728 column where the character is specified). You may also use
2729 "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
2731 : | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
2732 : |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2733 : | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
2734 : | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2735 : | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
2736 : | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
2737 : #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
2739 A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
2740 never exported, but can be used to place column group
2741 information into the table. In this table, we create a
2742 group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
2743 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
2746 Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
2747 </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
2748 wherever you want a vertical line:
2750 : | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
2751 : |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
2752 : | / | < | < | | < | |
2754 - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
2755 grouping explicitly requests these lines.
2757 - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
2758 meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
2759 become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
2760 who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
2761 inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
2762 TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
2763 unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
2764 behavior we had before.
2766 - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
2768 + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
2769 `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
2770 properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
2771 special characters in other languages as along as your
2772 post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
2773 for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
2774 out how to do this in XEmacs.
2780 - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
2784 - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
2786 [1]This is a footnote
2788 Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
2789 HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
2791 - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
2793 - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
2794 so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
2797 - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
2803 - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
2804 - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
2806 - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
2807 - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
2808 - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
2809 - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
2811 ** Incompatible Changes
2813 - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
2814 interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
2818 - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
2819 every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
2821 <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
2823 will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
2824 I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
2825 the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
2826 collect your credit, let me know!
2828 - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
2829 Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
2831 *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
2832 <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
2834 - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
2835 org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
2836 would in the diary. For example
2838 * Birthdays and similar stuff
2840 %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
2842 %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
2843 %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
2845 These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
2847 It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
2848 is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
2849 the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
2850 then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
2851 all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
2852 put in a few categories, and then turned off
2853 `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
2854 faster agenda display.
2856 - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
2857 current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
2858 you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
2859 buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
2860 to Raman for this idea.
2862 - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
2863 fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
2864 link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
2867 - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
2868 per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
2869 For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
2873 Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
2875 - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
2876 ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
2878 - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
2879 bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
2880 available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
2881 well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
2884 (add-hook 'org-load-hook
2885 (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
2887 The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
2888 reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
2889 with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
2890 example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
2892 If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
2893 will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
2894 emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
2895 between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
2897 - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
2898 mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
2905 This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
2906 postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
2907 further processing in scripts.
2909 ** Incompatible Changes
2911 - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
2912 been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
2916 - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
2917 Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
2918 buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
2919 `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
2922 - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
2923 files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
2924 that have associated file names and exports the views to
2925 these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
2926 your views, to take with you when you don't have your
2927 computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
2928 in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
2929 version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
2931 - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
2932 Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
2933 in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
2934 See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
2936 - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
2937 a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
2938 the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
2940 - Quite a few bug fixes.
2950 - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
2952 - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
2954 - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
2956 - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
2958 - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
2960 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
2962 - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
2966 ** Incompatible changes
2968 - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
2969 have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
2972 - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
2973 because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
2974 If you need this replacement, customize the variable
2975 `org-disputed-keys'.
2977 - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
2978 `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
2979 is still an alias for this new variable, though.
2983 - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
2984 view. This has come up several times in the past and most
2985 recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
2986 `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
2987 how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
2988 subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
2989 default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
2990 in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
2991 remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
2992 the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
2993 Scott fro bringing this up again.
2995 One property of the new setup is that you will never get
2996 more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
2997 something special to allow *several* empty lines in
2998 collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
3000 In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
3001 that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
3003 - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
3004 into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
3005 and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
3006 from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
3008 - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
3009 variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
3010 first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
3011 i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
3012 C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3013 If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
3014 will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
3015 proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
3017 I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
3019 - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
3020 more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
3021 scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
3022 these values can differ from what is used for display in an
3023 emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
3024 for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
3025 emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
3028 - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
3029 org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
3030 this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
3031 `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
3032 fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
3033 Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
3036 - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
3037 use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
3038 keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
3039 give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
3040 indicates a non-stuck project.
3042 - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
3043 modified - I might have broken something in the process,
3044 please let me know if you find problems.
3046 - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
3047 replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
3053 ** Incompatible changes
3057 - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
3058 exported HTML. These are the variables
3059 `org-export-table-header-tags' and
3060 `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
3063 - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
3064 header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
3065 images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
3067 - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
3068 means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
3069 for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
3070 in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
3071 refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
3072 that are scanned for the agenda.
3080 - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
3081 - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
3082 - TTY replacement keys have changed.
3084 ** Incompatible changes
3086 - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
3090 - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
3092 + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
3094 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
3096 The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
3097 list (and which is also works!)
3099 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
3100 #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
3102 is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
3103 reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
3104 in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
3105 states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
3106 toward using the latter.
3108 + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
3109 separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
3110 `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
3111 only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
3113 (setq org-todo-keywords
3114 '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
3115 (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
3116 (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
3117 (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
3120 If your setting has this new structure,
3121 `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
3122 does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
3123 using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
3124 interpretation from the other variable still works.
3126 + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
3127 (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
3128 t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
3129 like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
3130 agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
3133 - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
3134 before the first headline (this is done by setting the
3135 variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
3136 then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
3137 title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
3138 overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
3139 normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
3141 - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
3142 Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
3143 are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
3144 changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
3145 for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
3147 | Command | | Old TTY | New TTY |
3148 | org-..... | Main Key | Replacement | Replacement |
3149 |-------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------|
3150 | shiftleft | S-left | C-c C-x left | C-c left |
3151 | shiftright | S-right | C-c C-x right | C-c right |
3152 | shiftup | S-up | C-c C-x up | C-c up |
3153 | shiftdown | S-down | C-c C-x down | C-c down |
3154 | shiftcontrolleft | C-S-left | | C-c C-x left |
3155 | shiftcontrolright | C-s-right | | C-c C-x right |
3162 This time the changes affect the following areas:
3164 - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
3165 - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
3166 - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
3167 - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
3168 - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
3169 - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
3172 ** Incompatible changes
3174 - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
3175 over several lines, like
3178 #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
3181 This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
3182 independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
3183 See below for details.
3185 - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
3186 into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
3187 lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
3188 there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
3193 - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
3194 buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
3197 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
3198 #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
3199 #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
3201 Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
3202 different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
3203 does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
3204 working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
3205 but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
3206 where you want to be.
3208 After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
3209 a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
3210 KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
3213 S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
3214 from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
3216 C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
3217 next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
3219 Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
3221 - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
3222 configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
3223 `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
3224 new in-buffer option
3228 - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
3229 fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
3230 interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
3231 #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
3233 - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
3234 interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
3235 can be done by setting the variable
3236 org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
3238 (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
3244 Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
3246 - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
3247 Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
3248 previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
3249 in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
3250 terminate all levels of plain list items.
3252 Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
3254 - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
3255 cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
3258 - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
3259 automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
3260 changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
3261 this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
3262 are logging all state changes.
3264 - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
3269 - Priority handling in the tags view
3270 - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
3271 - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
3272 - Improvements to the formula editor.
3273 - C-j does better indentation.
3277 - Priority handling in the tags view
3279 + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
3280 Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
3282 - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
3284 + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
3285 calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
3286 prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
3288 + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
3290 - Changes in the spreadsheet
3292 + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
3293 formulas. The column references without specified row can be
3294 written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
3295 easier to read and are now the default way how references are
3296 shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
3297 back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
3298 `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
3300 Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
3303 - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
3305 + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
3307 + There is now a menu with commands.
3309 + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
3310 immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
3312 + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
3313 S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
3315 - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
3316 or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
3320 + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
3321 Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
3322 Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
3324 + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
3325 should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
3330 - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
3331 When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
3332 the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
3333 gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
3335 - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
3336 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
3337 will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
3347 - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
3348 top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
3349 Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
3351 - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
3352 entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
3353 example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
3354 click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
3355 be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
3356 S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
3357 and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
3359 - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
3360 automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
3361 time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
3363 - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
3365 - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
3366 links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
3368 - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
3369 `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
3371 - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
3372 document can now be set independently of the number of headline
3373 levels. For example:
3375 #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
3377 - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
3378 the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
3379 move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
3382 - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
3383 simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
3384 be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
3385 should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
3387 - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
3388 command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
3397 - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
3398 - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
3399 - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
3400 - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
3402 ** Detailed description of changes
3404 - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
3405 any table in any mode.
3407 This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
3408 would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
3409 use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
3410 automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
3411 spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
3412 inside the same file, in a block comment.
3414 I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
3415 other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
3416 not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
3417 Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
3418 a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
3420 - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
3421 with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
3422 formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
3423 indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
3424 a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
3425 convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
3426 linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
3429 - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
3430 defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
3431 <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
3432 org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
3433 have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
3434 `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
3435 tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
3436 vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
3437 printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
3438 change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
3439 you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
3440 pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
3442 - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
3443 now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
3444 line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
3445 are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
3451 - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
3452 - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
3453 - Easier access to the list of stored links.
3454 - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
3455 - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
3457 ** Detailed description of changes
3459 - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
3460 using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
3461 default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
3463 Email from NAME: SUBJECT
3465 If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
3466 correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
3468 Email to NAME: SUBJECT
3470 The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
3471 attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
3472 better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
3474 - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
3475 works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
3476 link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
3478 - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
3479 reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
3480 to Raman for this excellent idea.
3482 - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
3483 exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
3485 - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
3487 - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
3488 remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
3489 region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
3490 remember.el work like this as well).
3491 Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
3492 was created with a template, you will again be asked to
3493 select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
3494 new template, but the old context information. This is
3495 useful if you change your mind about the template to use
3498 - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
3499 can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
3500 become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
3501 navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
3502 be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
3503 can change them while storing the note. However, when you
3504 exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
3505 without interaction.
3507 - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
3508 of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
3509 that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
3510 you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
3511 from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
3512 anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
3514 - Templates can access information specific to the link type
3515 created, for example the author and subject of an email.
3516 Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
3517 in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
3519 - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
3520 functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
3521 require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
3522 sure how well this would work though, since some things like
3523 the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
3524 them would require special hooks. Comments?
3530 - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
3531 For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
3533 - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
3534 - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
3535 - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
3536 - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
3537 + Incompatible changes
3538 - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
3539 - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
3540 - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
3541 - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
3542 - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
3543 See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
3544 - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
3548 - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
3549 - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
3550 - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
3551 - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
3552 - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
3553 - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
3554 - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
3555 - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
3559 - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
3560 - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
3561 - Tables calculation and Calc package.
3562 - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
3563 - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
3564 - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
3565 - Empty entries go full circle.
3566 - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
3571 - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
3574 - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
3575 - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
3576 Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
3577 - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
3578 another, dedicated frame.
3579 - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
3580 - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
3583 - Sorting of outline items on same level.
3584 - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
3585 - Changes in Agenda buffer
3586 - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
3587 - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
3588 - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
3589 but still do not move the entry to the new date.
3590 - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
3591 - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
3592 use regular expressions.
3593 - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
3594 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
3595 - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
3599 - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
3600 - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
3601 - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
3608 - Improvements to fast tag selection
3609 + show status also in target line.
3610 + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
3611 - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
3612 `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
3616 - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
3617 - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
3618 - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
3619 - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
3623 - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
3624 - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
3629 - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
3630 - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
3631 `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
3635 - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
3636 See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
3637 - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
3638 See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
3639 - [[bracket links]] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
3640 - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
3641 - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
3642 - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
3643 - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
3644 now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
3645 different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
3650 - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
3651 - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
3652 - File links can contain environment variables.
3653 - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
3657 - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
3658 each block created by a different agenda command.
3659 - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
3660 - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
3661 dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
3662 - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
3663 - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
3664 upon the agenda type.
3665 - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
3666 variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
3667 - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
3668 like [[mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy]].
3669 - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
3670 - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
3671 - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
3672 - More minor bug fixes.
3675 - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
3676 - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
3677 - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
3681 - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
3682 - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
3683 - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
3687 - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
3690 - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
3691 stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
3692 - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
3700 - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
3701 - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
3703 - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
3704 LaTeX environment and math.
3707 - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
3709 - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
3710 - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
3711 - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
3715 - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
3716 - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
3719 - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
3720 - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
3721 and will not lead to conflicts.
3722 - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
3726 - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
3727 - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
3728 `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
3729 - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
3730 See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
3731 - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
3732 - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
3738 - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
3739 - Bug fixes and documentation update.
3742 - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
3743 - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
3744 - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
3745 - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
3746 directories for different export types.
3747 - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
3748 - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
3755 - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
3756 - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
3757 - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
3758 - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
3759 file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
3760 - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
3761 relative and absolute paths.
3762 - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
3763 - Bug and typo fixes.
3767 - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
3768 contains a description or not.
3769 - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
3770 - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
3771 todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
3772 - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
3773 - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
3774 for all available exporters.
3775 - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
3781 - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
3782 As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
3783 end of the HTML file.
3784 - Support for customizable file search in file links.
3785 - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
3786 - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
3787 entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
3793 - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
3794 - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
3795 - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
3796 - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
3806 - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
3807 See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
3810 - Links use now the [[link][description]] format by default.
3811 When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
3812 - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
3813 the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
3814 - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
3815 - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
3816 - New structure for the customization tree.
3821 - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
3825 - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
3826 To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
3827 - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
3828 `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
3829 - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
3834 - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
3835 of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
3836 - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
3837 and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
3841 - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
3842 `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
3845 - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
3846 - Various small bug fixes
3849 - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
3850 - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
3851 - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
3852 `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
3853 - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
3854 argument to `C-c C-v'.
3855 - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
3856 - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
3857 next buffer change due to editing).
3860 - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
3861 - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
3862 - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
3863 - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
3866 - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
3867 in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
3868 The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
3869 - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
3870 - Changes to the HTML exporter
3871 - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
3872 markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
3873 of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
3874 - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
3875 - support for cascading style sheets.
3876 - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
3877 - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
3884 - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
3888 - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
3891 - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
3892 typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
3893 variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
3894 - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
3895 and are not linked to the calendar.
3896 - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
3897 - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
3898 by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
3899 standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
3902 - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
3903 of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
3904 - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
3905 DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
3906 color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
3909 - Formulas for individual fields in table.
3910 - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
3911 - Named fields and columns in tables.
3912 - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
3915 - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
3916 - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
3919 - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
3920 Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
3921 - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
3922 - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
3923 - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
3924 [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
3928 - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
3929 brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
3930 - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
3931 Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
3932 - Archiving of finished tasks.
3933 - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
3934 - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
3935 - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
3936 - Improved html export of tables.
3937 - Various clean-up changes.
3940 - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
3944 - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
3945 into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
3949 - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
3950 - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
3954 - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
3955 - BBDB links to company-only entries.
3956 - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
3959 - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
3960 - New startup option `content'.
3961 - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
3962 - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
3963 configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
3966 - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
3967 adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
3968 - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
3969 - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
3970 - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
3971 - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
3974 - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
3975 table shape when typing in fields.
3976 - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
3977 into arbitrary major modes.
3978 - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
3979 - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
3980 - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
3983 - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
3984 - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
3985 - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
3987 - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
3988 - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
3989 - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
3990 - command to convert a buffer region to a table
3991 - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
3993 - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
3994 - Sorting fully configurable.
3995 - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
3996 - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
4000 - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
4001 - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
4002 warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
4003 That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
4004 - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
4005 - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
4006 - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
4009 - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
4010 - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
4011 - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
4012 Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
4013 - Priorities for TODO items.
4014 - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
4015 - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
4016 - File links can contain line numbers, like file:/usr/etc/config:255
4021 - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
4022 See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
4023 - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
4024 `org-todo-interpretation'.
4025 - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
4026 - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
4027 - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
4028 - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
4029 - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
4030 modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
4031 - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
4032 in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
4033 - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
4034 - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
4035 See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
4038 - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
4039 - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
4040 - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
4041 change the TODO state of an item remotely.
4042 - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
4043 - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
4044 - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
4045 New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
4046 - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
4047 argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
4048 - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
4049 - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
4052 - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
4053 - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
4054 - Date ranges introduced.
4055 - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
4056 - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
4057 - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "shell:ls *.org"
4058 - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
4059 instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
4060 - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
4061 TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
4064 - Windows (NT/2000) support.
4065 - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
4066 - Fully automatic table editor.
4067 - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
4068 - Other link system changes
4069 - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
4070 - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
4071 - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
4072 - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
4073 - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
4074 symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
4075 Please re-read the manual section about links.
4077 - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
4078 - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
4079 timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
4080 - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
4081 always work (non-English month names had caused problems
4082 with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
4084 - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
4088 - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
4089 - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
4090 - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
4091 sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
4095 - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents