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5 #+TITLE: Org-mode list of user-visible changes
6 #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
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14 * Version 6.14 (in preparation)
22 *** New relative timer to support timed notes
24 Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while
25 watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.
28 Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time
29 you use this, the timer will be started. When called
30 with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.
33 Insert a description list item with the current relative
34 time. With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
37 Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the
38 normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.
41 Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
42 By default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a
43 =C-u= prefix, reset the timer to specific starting
44 offset. The user is prompted for the offset, with a
45 default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this
46 can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the
47 process. When called with a double prefix argument
48 =C-c C-u=, change all timer strings in the active
49 region by a certain amount. This can be used to fix timer
50 strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right
53 Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for
54 contributions to this idea.
56 *** Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
58 You can now use the key =C-c C-x M-w= in a w3m buffer with
59 HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
60 a special way. When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
61 buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
64 For this to work you need to load the new file /org-w3m.el./
65 Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this
68 Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for
71 *** The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
73 This request has come up often, most recently it was
74 formulated by Tassilo Horn.
76 If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
77 tags, customize the variable =org-agenda-show-inherited-tags=.
79 *** Exclude some tags from inheritance.
81 So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to
82 allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using
83 one of the more complex settings for
84 `org-use-tag-inheritance'. It may actually be better to
85 allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult
86 to achieve with this methodology.
88 A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to
89 specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.
91 *** More special values for time comparisons in property searches
93 In addition to =<now>=, =<today>=, =<yesterday>=, and
94 =<tomorrow>=, there are more special values accepted now in
95 time comparisons in property searches: You may use strings
96 like =<+3d>= or =<-2w>=, with units d, w, m, and y for day,
97 week, month, and year, respectively
99 Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.
101 *** Control for exporting meta data
103 All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the
104 priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from
105 export with appropriate options:
107 | Variable | Publishing property | OPTIONS switch |
108 |-------------------------------+---------------------+----------------|
109 | org-export-with-todo-keywords | :todo-keywords | todo: |
110 | org-export-with-tags | :tags | tags: |
111 | org-export-with-priority | :priority | pri: |
113 *** LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
115 The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
116 export if you configure =org-use-property-inheritance= like
119 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
120 (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))
123 *** Special faces can be set for individual tags
125 You may now use the variable =org-tag-faces= to define the
126 face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
127 do for TODO keywords.
129 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.
135 - Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
136 - Support for ido completion
137 - New face for date lines in agenda column view
138 - Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
139 - New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
140 - New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
142 - BBDB links may use regular expressions.
143 - Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
144 - Improved XHTML compliance
148 *** Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
150 The remember buffers created with Org's extensions are in
151 Org-mode, which is nice to prepare snippets that will
152 actually be stored in Org-mode files. However, this makes it
153 hard to configure key bindings without modifying the Org-mode
154 keymap. There is now a minor mode active in these buffers,
155 `org-remember-mode', and its keymap org-remember-mode-map can
156 be used for key bindings. By default, this map only contains
157 the bindings for =C-c C-c= to store the note, and =C-c C-k=
158 to abort it. Use `org-remember-mode-hook' to define your own
161 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
163 'org-remember-mode-hook
165 (define-key org-remember-mode-map
166 "\C-x\C-s" 'org-remember-finalize)))
169 If you wish, you can also use this to free the =C-c C-c=
170 binding (by binding this key to nil in the minor mode map),
171 so that you can use =C-c C-c= again to set tags.
173 This modification is based on a request by Tim O'Callaghan.
175 *** Support for ido completion
177 You can now get the completion interface from /ido.el/ for
178 many of Org's internal completion commands by turning on the
179 variable =org-completion-use-ido=. =ido-mode= must also be
180 active before you can use this.
182 This change is based upon a request by Samuel Wales.
184 *** New face for date lines in agenda column view
186 When column view is active in the agenda, and when you have
187 summarizing properties, the date lines become normal column
188 lines and the separation between different days becomes
189 harder to see. If this bothers you, you can now customize
190 the face =org-agenda-column-dateline=.
192 This is based on a request by George Pearson.
194 *** Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
196 These anchors can be used to jump to a directly with an HTML
197 link, just like the =sec-xxx= ids. For example, the
198 following will make a http link
199 =//domain/path-to-my-file.html#dummy= work:
206 This is based on a request by Matt Lundin.
208 *** New contributed file /org-exp-blocks.el/
210 This new file implements special export behavior of
211 user-defined blocks. The currently supported blocks are
213 - comment :: Comment blocks with author-specific markup
214 - ditaa :: conversion of ASCII art into pretty png files
215 using Stathis Sideris' /ditaa.jar/ program
216 - dot :: creation of graphs in the /dot/ language
217 - R :: Sweave type exporting using the R program
219 For more details and examples, see the file commentary in
222 Kudos to Eric Schulte for this new functionality, after
223 /org-plot.el/ already his second major contribution. Thanks
224 to Stathis for this excellent program, and for allowing us to
225 bundle it with Org-mode.
227 *** New contributed file /org-eval-light.el/
229 This module gives control over execution Emacs Lisp code
230 blocks included in a file.
232 Thanks to Eric Schulte also for this file.
236 You can now configure Org to understand many links created
237 with the Emacs Planner package, so you can cut text from
238 planner pages and paste them into Org-mode files without
239 having to re-write the links. Among other things, this means
240 that the command =org-open-at-point-global= which follows
241 links not only in Org-mode, but in arbitrary files like
242 source code files etc, will work also with links created by
243 planner. The following customization is needed to make all of
246 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
247 (setq org-link-translation-function
248 'org-translate-link-from-planner)
251 I guess an inverse translator could be written and integrated
254 *** BBDB links may use regular expressions.
256 This did work all along, but only now I have documented it.
258 *** =yank-pop= works again after yanking an outline tree
260 Samuel Wales had noticed that =org-yank= did mess up this
261 functionality. Now you can use =yank-pop= again, the only
262 restriction is that the so-yanked text will not be
263 pro/demoted or folded.
265 *** Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
267 Thanks to Steve Purcell for a patch to this effect.
269 *** Improved XHTML compliance
271 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this.
273 *** Many bug fixes again.
278 - A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
279 - Fine-tuning the behavior of `org-yank'
280 - Formulas for clocktables
281 - Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
282 - More languages for HTML export.
286 *** A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
288 With =transient-make-mode= active (=zmacs-regions= under
289 XEmacs), you can now select a region of entries and refile
290 them all with a single =C-c C-w= command.
292 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this useful proposal.
294 *** Fine-tuning the behavior of =org-yank=
296 The behavior of Org's yanking command has been further
297 fine-tuned in order to avoid some of the small annoyances
300 - Calling =org-yank= with a prefix arg will stop any special
301 treatment and directly pass through to the normal =yank=
302 command. Therefore, you can now force a normal yank with
305 - Subtrees will only be folded after a yank if doing so will
306 now swallow any non-white characters after the yanked text.
307 This is, I think a really important change to make the
308 command work more sanely.
310 *** Formulas for clocktables
312 You can now add formulas to a clock table, either by hand, or
313 with a =:formula= parameter. These formulas can be used to
314 create additional columns with further analysis of the
317 Thanks to Jurgen Defurne for triggering this addition.
319 *** Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
321 The footnote export in 6.11 really was not good enough. Now
322 it works fine. If you have customized
323 =footnote-section-tag=, make sure that your customization is
324 matched by =footnote-section-tag-regexp=.
326 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this change.
328 *** More languages for HTML export.
330 More languages are supported during HTML export. This is
331 only relevant for the few special words Org inserts, like
332 "Table of Contents", or "Footnotes". Also the encoding
333 issues with this feature seem to be solved now.
335 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing me to fix the encoding
342 - Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
343 - State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
344 - Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
345 - HTML export now validates again as XHTML
346 - The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
347 - Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
348 - Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app
349 - Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~"
350 - Links to attachment files
351 - Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
352 - Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
356 *** Yanking subtree with =C-y= now adjusts the tree level
357 When yanking a cut/copied subtree or a series of trees, the
358 normal yank key =C-y= now adjusts the level of the tree to
359 make it fit into the current outline position, without losing
360 its identity, and without swallowing other subtrees.
362 This uses the command =org-past-subtree=. An additional
363 change in that command has been implemented: Normally, this
364 command picks the right outline level from the surrounding
365 *visible* headlines, and uses the smaller one. So if the
366 cursor is between a level 4 and a level 3 headline, the tree
367 will be pasted as level 3. If the cursor is actually *at*
368 the beginning of a headline, the level of that headline will
369 be used. For example, lets say you have a tree like this:
375 ,(2)* Level one again
378 with (1) and (2) indicating possible cursor positions for the
379 insertion. When at (1), the tree will be pasted as level 2.
380 When at (2), it will be pasted as level 1.
382 If you do not want =C-y= to behave like this, configure the
383 variable =org-yank-adjusted-subtrees=.
385 Thanks to Samuel Wales for this idea and a partial implementation.
387 *** State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
389 If you configure the variable =org-agenda-log-mode-items=,
390 you can now request that all logged state changes be included
391 in the agenda when log mode is active. If you find this too
392 much for normal applications, you can also temporarily
393 request the inclusion of state changes by pressing =C-u l= in
396 This was a request by Hsiu-Khuern Tang.
398 You can also press `C-u C-u l' to get *only* log items in the
399 agenda, withour any timestamps/deadlines etc.
401 *** Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
402 Previously, footnotes would be left in the document where
403 they are defined, now they are all collected and put into a
404 special =<div>= at the end of the document.
406 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this request.
408 *** HTML export now validates again as XHTML.
410 Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this cleanup.
412 *** The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
414 If the option =org-clock-in-resume= is t, and the first clock
415 line in an entry is unclosed, clocking into that task resumes
416 the clock from that time.
418 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
420 *** Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
422 The data saved include the contents of =org-clock-history=,
423 and the running clock, if there is one.
425 To use this, you will need to add to your .emacs
427 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
428 (setq org-clock-persist t)
429 (setq org-clock-in-resume t)
430 (org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
433 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
435 *** Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app.
437 So far you could only bypass your setup in `org-file-apps'
438 and force opening a file link in Emacs by using a =C-u= prefix arg
439 with =C-c C-o=. Now you can call =C-u C-u C-c C-o= to force
440 an external application. Which external application depends
441 on your system. On Mac OS X and Windows, =open= is used. On
442 a GNU/Linux system, the mailcap settings are used.
444 This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.
446 *** Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~".
448 Inserting file links with =C-u C-c C-l= was buggy if the
449 setting of `org-link-file-path-type' was `adaptive' (the
450 default). Absolute file paths were not abbreviated relative
451 to the users home directory. This bug has been fixed.
453 Thanks to Matt Lundin for the report.
455 *** Links to attachment files
457 Even though one of the purposes of entry attachments was to
458 reduce the number of links in an entry, one might still want
459 to have the occasional link to one of those files. You can
460 now use link abbreviations to set up a special link type that
461 points to attachments in the current entry. Note that such
462 links will only work from within the same entry that has the
463 attachment, because the directory path is entry specific.
464 Here is the setup you need:
466 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
467 (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("att" . org-attach-expand-link)))
470 After this, a link like this will work
472 : [[att:some-attached-file.txt]]
474 This was a proposal by Lindsay Todd.
476 *** Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
478 When a repeating task, listed in the daily/weekly agenda under
479 today's date, is completed from the agenda, it is listed as
480 DONE in the agenda until the next update happens. After the
481 next update, the task will have disappeared, of course,
482 because the new date is no longer today.
484 *** Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
486 Buffers that are created during publishing are now deleted
487 when the publishing is over. At least I hope it works like this.
493 - Secondary agenda filtering is becoming a killer feature
494 - Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
495 - Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
496 - C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
497 - Customize org-mouse.el feature set to free up mouse events
498 - New commands for export all the way to PDF (through LaTeX)
499 - Some bug fixed for LaTeX export, more bugs remain.
503 *** Enhancements to secondary agenda filtering
505 This is, I believe, becoming a killer feature. It allows you
506 to define fewer and more general custom agenda commands, and
507 then to do the final narrowing to specific tasks you are
508 looking for very quickly, much faster than calling a new
511 If you have not tries this yet, you should!
513 **** You can now refining the current filter by an additional criterion
514 When filtering an existing agenda view with =/=, you can
515 now narrow down the existing selection by an additional
516 condition. Do do this, use =\= instead of =/= to add the
517 additional criterion. You can also press =+= or =-= after
518 =/= to add a positive or negative condition. A condition
519 can be a TAG, or an effort estimate limit, see below.
521 **** It is now possible to filter for effort estimates
522 This means to filter the agenda for the value of the Effort
523 property. For this you should best set up global allowed
524 values for effort estimates, with
526 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
527 (setq org-global-properties
528 '(("Effort_ALL" . "0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00")))
531 You may then select effort limits with single keys in the
532 filter. It works like this: After =/= or =\=, first select
533 the operator which you want to use to compare effort
536 : < Select entries with effort smaller than or equal to the limit
537 : > Select entries with effort larger than or equal to the limit
538 : = Select entries with effort equal to the limit
540 After that, you can press a single digit number which is
541 used as an index to the allowed effort estimates.
543 If you do not use digits to fast-select tags, you can even
544 skip the operator, which will then default to
545 `org-agenda-filter-effort-default-operator', which is by
548 Thanks to Manish for the great idea to include fast effort
549 filtering into the agenda filtering process.
551 **** The mode line will show the active filter
552 For example, if there is a filter in place that does select
553 for HOME tags, against EMAIL tags, and for tasks with an
554 estimated effort smaller than 30 minutes, the mode-line with
555 show =+HOME-EMAIL+<0:30=
557 **** The filter now persists when the agenda view is refreshed
558 All normal refresh commands, including those that move the
559 weekly agenda from one week to the next, now keep the
560 current filter in place.
562 You need to press =/ /= to turn off the filter. However,
563 when you run a new agenda command, for example going from
564 the weekly agenda to the TODO list, the filter will be
567 *** Setting tags has now its own binding, =C-c C-q=
569 You can still use =C-c C-c= on a headline, but the new
570 binding should be considered as the main binding for this
571 command. The reasons for this change are:
573 - Using =C-c C-c= for tags is really out of line with other
576 - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
577 cannot, because =C-c C-c= exits the buffer :-(
579 - =C-c C-q= will also work when the cursor is somewhere down
580 in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
582 *** Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
584 The new option =org-todo-state-tags-triggers= can be used to
585 define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
586 For example, the setting
588 : (setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers
589 : '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil))
590 : ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
592 will make sure that any change to any of the DONE states will
593 remove tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the
594 "WAITING" state will trigger the tag "Today" to be added.
596 I use this mostly to get rid of TODAY and NEXT tags which I
597 apply to select an entry for execution in the near future,
598 which I often prefer to specific time scheduling.
600 *** C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
601 The new headline is inserted after the current subtree.
603 Thanks to Peter Jones for patches to fine-tune this behavior.
605 *** Customize org-mouse.el feature set
606 There is a new variable =org-mouse-features= which gives you
607 some control about what features of org-mouse you want to
608 use. Turning off some of the feature will free up the
609 corresponding mouse events, or will avoid activating special
610 regions for mouse clicks. By default I have urned off the
611 feature to use drag mouse events to move or promote/demote
612 entries. You can of course turn them back on if you wish.
614 This variable may still change in the future, allowing more
615 fine-grained control.
617 *** New commands for export to PDF
619 This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF
622 : C-c C-e p process to PDF.
623 : C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
626 - \usepackage{graphicx} is now part of the standard class
628 - Several bugs fixed, but definitely not all of them :-(
630 *** New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
632 Set this to =t= if you want state change notes to be inserted
633 after any initial drawers, i.e drawers the immediately follow
634 the headline and the planning line (the one with
635 DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED information).
639 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular expressions, see [[*%20org%20file%20apps%20now%20uses%20regular%20repressions%20instead%20of%20extensions][below]]
643 *** =org-file-apps= now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
644 Just like in =auto-mode-alist=, car's in the variable
645 =org-file-apps= that are strings are now interpreted as
646 regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
647 instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
648 sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
649 be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
651 There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by
652 Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then
653 any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be
656 *** Changes to the attachment system
658 - The default method to attach a file is now to copy it
659 instead of moving it.
660 - You can modify the default method using the variable
661 `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want
662 to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
663 - The keys =c=, =m=, and =l= specifically select =copy=,
664 =move=, or =link=, respectively, as the attachment method
665 for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'.
666 - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
667 now use =n= instead of =c=.
668 - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
669 itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
670 keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
671 customizing the variable =org-attach-file-list-property=.
675 ** Incompatible changes
677 - Changes in the structure of IDs, see [[*The%20default%20structure%20of%20IDs%20has%20changed][here]] for details.
679 - C-c C-a has been redefined, see [[*%20C%20c%20C%20a%20no%20longer%20calls%20show%20all][here]] for details.
683 *** The default structure of IDs has changed
685 IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
686 - By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be
687 an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
688 - IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters
689 anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used
690 as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not
691 distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
692 - The ID string derived from the current time is now
693 /reversed/ to become an ID. This assures that the first
694 two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to
695 split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
696 - You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems
699 *** =C-c C-a= no longer calls `show-all'
701 The reason for this is that =C-c C-a= is now used for the
702 attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
703 is needed, use =M-x show-all=, or =C-u C-u C-u TAB=.
705 *** New attachment system
707 You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree.
708 This works by creating special directories based on the ID of
709 an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can
710 keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically
711 committing changes to git. See the manual for more
714 Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new
715 concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
717 *** New remember template escapes
719 : %^{prop}p to insert a property
720 : %k the heading of the item currently being clocked
721 : %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
723 Also, when you exit remember with =C-2 C-c C-c=, the item
724 will be filed as a child of the item currently being
725 clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
726 think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
727 added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
730 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
732 *** Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
734 Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
736 *** New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
738 This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox
741 Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
743 *** New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
745 It can be used to locally set the variable
746 `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are
747 allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on
748 how to use it, see the [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.php][publishing tutorial]].
754 - Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
755 - Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
756 - /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org
757 - Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
758 - Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
759 - Yanking inserts folded subtrees
760 - Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
761 - In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
762 - The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
763 - Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
764 - Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
765 - New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
766 - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
767 - The file specification in a remember template may be a function
768 - Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
769 - It is possible to define filters for column view
770 - Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
771 - Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
772 - And tons of bugs fixed.
775 ** Incompatible changes
777 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
779 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
780 remember process is now interpreted differently:
782 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
783 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
784 : in its new location.
785 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
786 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
788 This was requested by John Wiegley.
790 *** Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
792 The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used
793 as a tty key replacement.
795 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
797 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
798 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
799 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
800 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
803 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
807 *** Secondary filtering of agenda views.
809 You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
810 agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
811 with the =/= key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
812 tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
813 inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
814 argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
815 do have the tag will be hidden.
817 This operation only /hides/ lines in the agenda buffer, it
818 does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does
819 not require a new search and is very fast.
821 If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be
822 switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is
823 useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a
824 direct access character.
826 A double =/ /= will restore the original agenda view by
827 unhiding any hidden lines.
829 This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler
830 implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed
831 and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the
832 file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
834 *** Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
836 The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is =C-c= followed by a
837 single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
838 editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
839 =artist-mode= which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
841 It works like this: Enter the editing mode with
842 @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and
843 narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and
844 press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
846 Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon
847 followed by at least one space. These will be removed during
848 editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
850 Using the command in an empty line will create a new
853 This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott
854 Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
856 *** /org-plot.el/ is now part of Org.
858 You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot.
859 Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to
860 http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have
861 moved the docs into Org or Worg.
863 Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
865 *** Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
867 You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
868 inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
869 behavior is governed by two new variables:
870 =org-export-select-tags= and =org-export-exclude-tags=.
871 These default to =("export")= and =("noexport")=, but can be
872 changed, even to include a list of several tags.
874 Org first checks if any of the /select/ tags is present in
875 the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these
876 tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the
877 heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export,
878 but not the text below those headings. If none of the select
879 tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will
880 be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are
881 marked by any of the /exclude/ tags will be removed from the
884 You may set these tags with in-buffer options
885 =EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS= and =EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS=.
887 I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming
890 *** Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
892 The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a
893 remember process is now interpreted differently:
895 : C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline
896 : C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note
897 : in its new location.
898 : C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively
899 : C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
901 This was requested by John Wiegley.
903 *** Yanking inserts folded subtrees
905 If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
906 them with =C-y= will leave all the subtrees in a folded
907 state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
908 much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
909 you do not like this, customize the variable
910 =org-yank-folded-subtrees=.
912 Right now, I am only binding =C-y= to this new function,
913 should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
916 This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
918 *** Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
920 If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table
921 capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an
922 update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be
923 re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any
924 continuous block of comments before and after the actual
927 *** In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
929 If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can
930 now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
932 This was a request by Chris Randle.
934 *** The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
936 This was a request by Peter Frings.
938 *** Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
940 Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO
941 keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison
942 string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
944 *** Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
946 You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that
947 does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO
948 entry does first separate the non-done from the done states.
949 Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically,
950 but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO
951 entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the
952 position of the keyword in this sequence.
954 This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian
957 *** New face =org-scheduled= for entries scheduled in the future.
959 This was a request by Richard G Riley.
961 *** Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
963 Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
964 *** The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
966 Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
968 *** Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
970 The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
971 exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
972 category is now the last category in this list. Configure
973 the variable =org-icalendar-categories= to modify or revert
976 This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
978 *** It is now possible to define filters for column view
980 The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
981 column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
982 For more information, look at the variable
983 =org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function=.
985 *** Disabling integer increment during table field copy
987 Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
989 This was a request by Chris Randle.
994 For older Changes, see [[file:Changes_old.org]]