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  1. ORG NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8 -*-
  2. #+STARTUP: overview
  3. #+LINK: doc https://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#%s
  4. #+LINK: msg https://list.orgmode.org/%s/
  5. #+LINK: git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=%s
  6. Copyright (C) 2012-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  7. See the end of the file for license conditions.
  8. Please send Org bug reports to mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
  9. * Version 9.6 (not yet released)
  10. ** Important announcements and breaking changes
  11. *** Element cache is enabled by default and work for headings
  12. The old element cache code has been refactored. Emacs does not hang
  13. anymore when the cache is enabled.
  14. When cache is enabled, ~org-element-at-point~ for headings is
  15. guaranteed to return valid =:parent= property. The highest-level
  16. headings contain new =org-data= element as their parent.
  17. The new =org-data= element provides properties from top-level property
  18. drawer, buffer-global category, and =:path= property containing file
  19. path for file Org buffers.
  20. The new cache still need to be tested extensively. Please, report any
  21. warning coming from element cache. If you see warnings regularly, it
  22. would be helpful to set ~org-element--cache-self-verify~ to
  23. ='backtrace= and provide the backtrace to Org mailing list.
  24. *** Element cache persists across Emacs sessions
  25. The cache state is saved between Emacs sessions. Enabled by default.
  26. The cache persistence can be controlled via
  27. ~org-element-cache-persistent~.
  28. *** Users experiencing performance issues can use new folding backend
  29. The old folding backend used in Org is poorly scalable when the file
  30. size increases beyond few Mbs. The symptoms usually include slow
  31. cursor motion, especially in long-running Emacs sessions.
  32. A new optimised folding backend is now available, and enabled by
  33. default. To disable it, put the following to the Emacs config *before*
  34. loading Org:
  35. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  36. (setq org-fold-core-style 'overlays)
  37. #+end_src
  38. Even more performance optimisation can be enabled by customising
  39. =org-fold-core--optimise-for-huge-buffers=. However, this option may
  40. be dangerous. Please, read the variable docstring carefully to
  41. understand the possible consequences.
  42. When =org-fold-core-style= is set to =text-properties=, several new
  43. features will become available and several notable changes will happen
  44. to the Org behaviour. The new features and changes are listed below.
  45. **** Hidden parts of the links can now be searched and revealed during isearch
  46. In the past, hidden parts of the links could not be searched using
  47. isearch (=C-s=). Now, they are searchable by default. The hidden
  48. match is also revealed temporarily during isearch.
  49. To restore the old behaviour add the following core to your Emacs
  50. config:
  51. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  52. (defun org-hidden-link-ignore-isearch ()
  53. "Do not match hidden parts of links during isearch."
  54. (org-fold-core-set-folding-spec-property 'org-link :isearch-open nil)
  55. (org-fold-core-set-folding-spec-property 'org-link :isearch-ignore t))
  56. (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-hidden-link-ignore-isearch)
  57. #+end_src
  58. See docstring of =org-fold-core--specs= to see more details about
  59. =:isearch-open= and =:isearch-ignore= properties.
  60. **** =org-catch-invisible-edits= now works for hidden parts of the links and for emphasis markers
  61. In the past, user could edit invisible parts of the links and emphasis markers. Now, the editing is respecting the value of =org-catch-invisible-edits=.
  62. Note that hidden parts of sub-/super-scripts are still not handled.
  63. **** Breaking structure of folded elements automatically reveals the folded text
  64. In the past, the user could be left with unfoldable text after breaking the org structure.
  65. For example, if
  66. #+begin_src org
  67. :DRAWER:
  68. like this
  69. :END:
  70. #+end_src
  71. is folded and then edited into
  72. #+begin_src org
  73. DRAWER:
  74. like this
  75. :END:
  76. #+end_src
  77. The hidden text would not be revealed.
  78. Now, breaking structure of drawers, blocks, and headings automatically
  79. reveals the folded text.
  80. **** Folding state of the drawers is now preserved when cycling headline visibility
  81. In the past drawers were folded every time a headline is unfolded.
  82. Now, it is not the case anymore. The drawer folding state is
  83. preserved. The initial folding state of all the drawers in buffer is
  84. set according to the startup visibility settings.
  85. To restore the old behaviour, add the following code to Emacs config:
  86. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  87. (add-hook 'org-cycle-hook #'org-cycle-hide-drawers)
  88. #+end_src
  89. Note that old behaviour may cause performance issues when cycling
  90. headline visibility in large buffers.
  91. **** =outline-*= functions may no longer work correctly in Org mode
  92. The new folding backend breaks some of the =outline-*= functions that
  93. rely on the details of visibility state implementation in
  94. =outline.el=. The old Org folding backend was compatible with the
  95. =outline.el= folding, but it is not the case anymore with the new
  96. backend. From now on, using =outline-*= functions is strongly
  97. discouraged when working with Org files.
  98. ** New features
  99. *** Interactive commands now support escaping text inside comment blocks
  100. ~org-edit-special~ and ~org-insert-structure-template~ now handle
  101. comment blocks.
  102. See [[*New command ~org-edit-comment-block~ to edit comment block at
  103. point]].
  104. *** New customization option =org-property-separators=
  105. A new alist variable to control how properties are combined.
  106. If a property is specified multiple times with a =+=, like
  107. #+begin_src org
  108. :PROPERTIES:
  109. :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: some/path
  110. :EXPORT_FILE_NAME+: to/file
  111. :END:
  112. #+end_src
  113. the old behavior was to always combine them with a single space
  114. (=some/path to/file=). For the new variable, the car of each item in
  115. the alist should be either a list of property names or a regular
  116. expression, while the cdr should be the separator to use when
  117. combining that property.
  118. The default value for the separator is a single space, if none of the
  119. provided items in the alist match a given property.
  120. For example, in order to combine =EXPORT_FILE_NAME= properties with a
  121. forward slash =/=, one can use
  122. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  123. (setq org-property-separators '((("EXPORT_FILE_NAME") . "/")))
  124. #+end_src
  125. The example above would then produce the property value
  126. =some/path/to/file=.
  127. *** New library =org-persist.el= implements variable persistence across Emacs sessions
  128. The library stores variable data in ~org-persist-directory~ (set to XDG
  129. cache dir by default).
  130. The entry points are ~org-persist-register~, ~org-persist-unregister~,
  131. ~org-persist-read~, and ~org-persist-read-all~. Storing circular
  132. structures is supported. Storing references between different
  133. variables is also supported (see =:inherit= key in
  134. ~org-persist-register~).
  135. The library permits storing buffer-local variables. Such variables
  136. are linked to the buffer text, file =inode=, and file path.
  137. *** New =:options= attribute when exporting tables to LaTeX
  138. The =:options= attribute allows adding an optional argument with a
  139. list of various table options (between brackets in LaTeX export),
  140. since certain tabular environments, such as longtblr of the
  141. tabularray LaTeX package, provides this structure.
  142. *** New =:compact= attribute when exporting lists to Texinfo
  143. The =:compact= attribute allows exporting multiple description list
  144. items to one =@item= command and one or more =@itemx= commands. This
  145. feature can also be enabled for all description lists in a file using
  146. the =compact-itemx= export option, or globally using the
  147. ~org-texinfo-compact-itemx~ variable.
  148. *** New shorthands recognized when exporting to Texinfo
  149. Items in a description list that begin with =Function:=, =Variable:=
  150. or certain related prefixes are converted using Texinfo definition
  151. commands.
  152. *** New =:noweb-prefix= babel header argument
  153. =:noweb-prefix= can be set to =no= to prevent the prefix characters
  154. from being repeated when expanding a multiline noweb reference.
  155. *** New LaTeX source block backend using =engraved-faces-latex=
  156. When ~org-latex-src-block-backend~ is set to ~engraved~,
  157. =engrave-faces-latex= from [[http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/engrave-faces.html][engrave-faces]] is used to transcode source
  158. blocks to LaTeX. This requires the =fvextra=, =float=, and (by
  159. default, but not necessarily) =tcolorbox= LaTeX packages be
  160. installed. It uses Emacs' font-lock information, and so tends to
  161. produce results superior to Minted or Listings.
  162. *** Support for =#+include=-ing URLs
  163. =#+include: FILE= will now accept URLs as the file.
  164. *** Structure templates now respect case used in ~org-structure-template-alist~
  165. The block type in ~org-structure-template-alist~ is not case-sensitive.
  166. When the block type starts from the upper case, structure template
  167. will now insert =#+BEGIN_TYPE=. Previously, lower-case =#+begin_type= was inserted unconditionally.
  168. *** New ox-latex tabbing support for tables.
  169. Latex tables can now be exported to the latex tabbing environment
  170. tabbing environment]].
  171. This is done by adding =#+ATTR_LATEX: :mode tabbing= at the top
  172. of the table.
  173. The default column width is set to 1/n times the latex textwidth,
  174. where n is the number of columns.
  175. This behaviour can be changed by supplying a =:align= parameter.
  176. The tabbing environment can be useful when generating simple tables which
  177. can be span multiple pages and when table cells are allowed to overflow.
  178. *** Support for =nocite= citations and sub-bibliographies in the "csl" export processor
  179. The "csl" citation export processor now supports =nocite= style
  180. citations that add items to the printed bibliography without visible
  181. references in the text. Using the key =*= in a nocite citation, for
  182. instance,
  183. #+begin_src org
  184. [cite/n:@*]
  185. #+end_src
  186. includes all available items in the printed bibliography.
  187. The "csl" export processor now also supports sub-bibliographies that
  188. show only a subset of the references based on some criterion. For
  189. example,
  190. #+begin_src org
  191. #+print_bibliography: :type book :keyword ai
  192. #+end_src
  193. prints a sub-bibliography containing the book entries with =ai= among
  194. their keywords.
  195. ** New options
  196. *** A new custom setting =org-hide-drawer-startup= to control initial folding state of drawers
  197. Previously, all the drawers were always folded when opening an Org
  198. file. This only had an effect on the drawers outside folded
  199. headlines. The drawers inside folded headlines were re-folded because
  200. =org-cycle-hide-drawers= was present inside =org-cycle-hook=.
  201. With the new folding backend, running =org-cycle-hide-drawers= is no
  202. longer needed if all the drawers are truly folded on startup: [[*Folding
  203. state of the drawers is now preserved when cycling headline
  204. visibility]]. However, this has an unwanted effect when a user does
  205. not want the drawers to be folded (see [[https://orgmode.org/list/m2r14f407q.fsf@ntnu.no][this bug report]]).
  206. The new custom setting gives more control over initial folding state
  207. of the drawers. When set to =nil= (default is =t=), the drawers are
  208. not folded on startup.
  209. The folding state can also be controlled on per-file basis using
  210. =STARTUP= keyword:
  211. : #+startup: hidedrawers
  212. : #+startup: nohidedrawers
  213. *** New custom setting ~org-icalendar-force-alarm~
  214. The new setting, when set to non-nil, makes Org create alarm at the
  215. event time when the alarm time is set to 0. The default value is
  216. nil -- do not create alarms at the event time.
  217. ** New functions and changes in function arguments
  218. *** ~org-fold-show-entry~ does not fold drawers by default anymore
  219. ~org-fold-show-entry~ now accepts an optional argument HIDE-DRAWERS.
  220. When the argument is non-nil, the function folds all the drawers
  221. inside entry. This was the default previously.
  222. Now, ~org-fold-show-entry~ does not fold drawers by default.
  223. *** New command ~org-edit-comment-block~ to edit comment block at point
  224. As the contents of comments blocks is not parsed as Org markup, the
  225. headlines and keywords inside should be escaped, similar to src
  226. blocks, example blocks, and export blocks. This in inconvenient to do
  227. manually and ~org-edit-special~ is usually advised to edit text in
  228. such kind of blocks.
  229. Now, comment block editing is also supported via this new function.
  230. *** New function ~org-element-cache-map~ for quick mapping across Org elements
  231. When element cache is enabled, the new function provides the best
  232. possible performance to map across large Org buffers.
  233. It is recommended to provide =:next-re= and =:fail-re= parameters for
  234. best speed.
  235. Diagnostic information about execution speed can be provided according
  236. to ~org-element--cache-map-statistics~ and
  237. ~org-element--cache-map-statistics-threshold~.
  238. ~org-scan-tags~ and tag views in agenda utilise the new function.
  239. *** New function ~org-element-at-point-no-context~
  240. This function is like ~org-element-at-point~, but it does not try to
  241. update the cache and does not guarantee correct =:parent= properties
  242. for =headline= elements.
  243. This function is faster than ~org-element-at-point~ when used together
  244. with frequent buffer edits.
  245. *** Various Org API functions now use cache and accept Org elements as optional arguments
  246. ~org-in-archived-heading-p~, ~org-in-commented-heading-p~,
  247. ~org-up-heading-safe~, ~org-end-of-subtree~, ~org-goto-first-child~,
  248. ~org-back-to-heading~, ~org-entry-get-with-inheritance~, and
  249. ~org-narrow-to-subtree~ all accept Org element as an extra optional
  250. argument.
  251. ~org-get-tags~ now accepts Org element or buffer position as first
  252. argument.
  253. *** New function ~org-texinfo-kbd-macro~
  254. This function is intended for us in the definition of a ~kbd~ macro in
  255. files that are exported to Texinfo.
  256. *** =org-at-heading-p= now recognises optional argument. Its meaning is inverted.
  257. =org-at-heading-p= now returns t by default on headings inside folds.
  258. Passing optional argument will produce the old behaviour.
  259. *** =org-babel-execute:plantuml= can output ASCII graphs in the buffer
  260. Previously, executing PlantUML src blocks always exported to a file. Now, if
  261. :results is set to a value which does not include "file", no file will be
  262. exported and an ASCII graph will be inserted below the src block.
  263. ** Removed or renamed functions and variables
  264. *** =org-plantump-executable-args= is renamed and applies to jar as well
  265. The new variable name is =org-plantuml-args=. It now applies to both
  266. jar PlantUML file and executable.
  267. ** Miscellaneous
  268. *** Styles are customizable in ~biblatex~ citation processor
  269. It is now possible to add new styles or modify old ones in ~biblatex~
  270. citation processor. See ~org-cite-biblatex-styles~ for more
  271. information.
  272. *** Citation processors can declare styles dynamically
  273. When a citation processor is registered, it is now possible to set
  274. ~:cite-styles~ key to a function, which will be called whenever the
  275. list of styles is required.
  276. *** Org also searches for CSL style files in default directory
  277. When CSL style file name is relative, Org first looks into
  278. default-directory before trying ~org-cite-csl-styles-dir~.
  279. *** Users can add checkers to the linting process
  280. The function ~org-lint-add-checker~ allows one to add personal checks
  281. when calling ~org-lint~. See its docstring for more information.
  282. *** New =transparent-image-converter= property for =dvipng=
  283. The =dvipng= option in ~org-preview-latex-process-alist~ has a new
  284. property =transparent-image-converter= which is used instead of
  285. =image-converter= when producing transparent images.
  286. *** =:tangle-mode= now accepts more permissions formats
  287. Previously =:tangle-mode (identity #o755)= was the only reasonable way
  288. to set the file mode. ~org-babel-interpret-file-mode~ has been
  289. introduced which will accept three new formats:
  290. + Short octals, e.g. =:tangle-mode o755=
  291. + ls-style, e.g. =:tangle-mode rwxrw-rw-=
  292. + chmod-style, e.g. =:tangle-mode u+x=
  293. Chmod-style permissions are based on the new variable
  294. ~org-babel-tangle-default-file-mode~.
  295. *** A new custom setting =org-agenda-clock-report-header= to add a header to org agenda clock report
  296. *** ~org-latex-listings~ has been replaced with ~org-latex-src-block-backend~
  297. ~org-latex-listings~ has been renamed to better reflect the current
  298. purpose of the variable. The replacement variable
  299. ~org-latex-src-block-backend~ acts in exactly the same way, however it
  300. accepts =listings= and =verbatim= in place of =t= and =nil= (which
  301. still work, but are no longer listed as valid options).
  302. *** ~org-link-parameters~ has a new ~:insert-description~ parameter
  303. The value of ~:insert-description~ is used as the initial input when
  304. prompting for a link description. It can be a string (used as-is) or
  305. a function (called with the same arguments as
  306. ~org-make-link-description-function~ to return a string to use).
  307. *** New list of languages for LaTeX export: ~org-latex-language-alist~
  308. ~org-latex-language-alist~ unifies into a single list the old language
  309. lists for the =babel= and =polyglossia= LaTeX packages:
  310. ~org-latex-babel-language-alist~ and
  311. ~org-latex-polyglossia-language-alist~, respectively, which are
  312. declared obsolete.
  313. This new list captures the current state of art regarding language
  314. support in LaTeX. The new =babel= syntax for loading languages via
  315. =ini= files and the new command =\babelprovide= (see:
  316. https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/babel.pdf)
  317. are also supported.
  318. * Version 9.5
  319. ** Important announcements and breaking changes
  320. *** The =contrib/= now lives in a separate repository
  321. Org's repository has been trimmed from the =contrib/= directory.
  322. The old contents of the =contrib/= directory now lives in a separate
  323. repository at https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib.
  324. You can install this repository by cloning it and updating your
  325. ~load-path~ accordingly. You can also install =org-contrib= as a
  326. [[https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/][NonGNU ELPA]] package.
  327. *** Org ELPA and Org archives won't be available for Org > 9.5
  328. [[https://orgmode.org/elpa.html][Org ELPA]] is still available for installing Org 9.5, either with or
  329. without contributed packages, but future versions won't be available
  330. via Org ELPA, as we are deprecating this installation method.
  331. Also, Org 9.5 is available as =tar.gz= and =zip= archives, but this
  332. installation method is also deprecated.
  333. If you want to install the latest stable versions of Org, please use
  334. the GNU ELPA package. If you want to install the contributed files,
  335. please use the NonGNU ELPA package. If you want to keep up with the
  336. latest unstable Org, please install from the Git repository.
  337. See https://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for the details.
  338. *** =ditaa.jar= is not bundled with Org anymore
  339. =ditaa.jar= used to be bundled with Org but it is not anymore.
  340. See [[https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa][the ditaa repository]] on how to install it.
  341. *** ~org-adapt-indentation~ now defaults to =nil=
  342. If you want to automatically indent headlines' metadata, set it to
  343. =headline-data=.
  344. If you want to automatically indent every line to the headline's
  345. current indentation, set it to =t=.
  346. Indent added by =RET= and =C-j= also depends on the value of
  347. ~electric-indent-mode~. Enabling this mode by default in 9.4 revealed
  348. some bugs caused confusing behavior. If you disabled
  349. ~electric-indent-mode~ for this reason, it is time to try it again.
  350. Hopefully problems have been fixed. See [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#indentation][this FAQ]] for more details.
  351. *** ~org-speed-commands-user~ is obsolete, use ~org-speed-commands~
  352. Setting ~org-speed-commands-user~ in your configuration won't have any
  353. effect. Please set ~org-speed-commands~ instead, which see.
  354. *** Some =ob-*.el= files have been moved to the org-contrib repo
  355. These files have been moved to https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib:
  356. - ob-abc.el
  357. - ob-asymptote.el
  358. - ob-coq.el
  359. - ob-ebnf.el
  360. - ob-hledger.el
  361. - ob-io.el
  362. - ob-J.el
  363. - ob-ledger.el
  364. - ob-mscgen.el
  365. - ob-picolisp.el
  366. - ob-shen.el
  367. - ob-stan.el
  368. - ob-vala.el
  369. See the discussion [[msg::87bl9rq29m.fsf@gnu.org][here]].
  370. *** Compatibility with Emacs versions
  371. We made it explicit that we aim at keeping the latest stable version
  372. of Org compatible with at least Emacs V, V-1 and V-2, where V is the
  373. stable major version of Emacs.
  374. For example, if the current major version of Emacs is 28.x, then the
  375. latest stable version of Org should be compatible with Emacs 28.x,
  376. 27.x and 26.x – but not with Emacs 25.x.
  377. See [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-maintenance.html#emacs-compatibility][this note on Worg]] and [[git::519947e508e081e71bf67db99e27b1c171ba4dfe][this commit]].
  378. *** The keybinding for ~org-table-blank-field~ has been removed
  379. If you prefer to keep the keybinding, you can add it back to
  380. ~org-mode-map~ like so:
  381. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  382. (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c SPC") #'org-table-blank-field)
  383. #+end_src
  384. ** New features
  385. *** New citation engine
  386. Org 9.5 provides a new library =oc.el= which provides tooling to
  387. handle citations in Org, e.g., activate, follow, insert, and export
  388. them, respectively called "activate", "follow", "insert" and "export"
  389. capabilities. Libraries responsible for providing some, or all, of
  390. these capabilities are called "citation processors".
  391. The manual contains a few pointers to let you start and you may want
  392. to check [[https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-07-31-citations.html][this blog post]]. If you need help using this new features,
  393. please ask on the mailing list.
  394. Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for implementing this, to Bruce D’Arcus for
  395. helping him and to John Kitchin for paving the way with =org-ref.el=.
  396. *** Async session evaluation
  397. The =:async= header argument can be used for asynchronous evaluation
  398. in session blocks for certain languages.
  399. Currently, async evaluation is supported in Python. There is also
  400. functionality to implement async evaluation in other languages that
  401. use comint, but this needs to be done on a per-language basis.
  402. By default, async evaluation is disabled unless the =:async= header
  403. argument is present. You can also set =:async no= to force it off
  404. (for example if you've set =:async= in a property drawer).
  405. Async evaluation is disabled during export.
  406. *** ~ox-koma-letter.el~ is now part of Org's core
  407. ~ox-koma-letter.el~ provides a KOMA scrlttr2 back-end for the Org
  408. export engine. It used to be in the =contrib/= directory but it is
  409. now part of Org's core.
  410. *** Support exporting DOI links
  411. Org now supports export for DOI links, through its new =ol-doi.el=
  412. library. For backward compatibility, it is loaded by default.
  413. *** Add a new ~:refile-targets~ template option
  414. When exiting capture mode via ~org-capture-refile~, the variable
  415. ~org-refile-targets~ will be temporarily bound to the value of this
  416. template option.
  417. *** New startup options =#+startup: show<n>levels=
  418. These startup options complement the existing =overview=, =content=,
  419. =showall=, =showeverything= with a way to start the document with n
  420. levels shown, where n goes from 2 to 5.
  421. Example:
  422. : #+startup: show3levels
  423. *** New =u= table formula flag to enable Calc units simplification mode
  424. A new =u= mode flag for Calc formulas in Org tables has been added to
  425. enable Calc units simplification mode.
  426. *** Support fontification of inline export snippets
  427. See [[msg:87im57fh8j.fsf@gmail.com][this thread]].
  428. *** New command =org-refile-reverse= bound to =C-c C-M-w=
  429. You can now use =C-c C-M-w= to run ~org-refile-reverse~.
  430. It is almost identical to ~org-refile~, except that it temporarily
  431. toggles how ~org-reverse-note-order~ applies to the current buffer.
  432. So if ~org-refile~ would append the entry as the last entry under the
  433. target heading, ~org-refile-reverse~ will prepend it as the first
  434. entry, and vice-versa.
  435. *** LaTeX attribute ~:float~ now passes through arbitrary values
  436. LaTeX users are able to define arbitrary float types, e.g. with the
  437. float package. The Org mode LaTeX exporter is now able to process and
  438. export arbitrary float types. The user is responsible for ensuring
  439. that Org mode configures LaTeX to process any new float type.
  440. *** Support verse and quote blocks in LaTeX export
  441. The LaTeX export back-end accepts four attributes for verse blocks:
  442. =:lines=, =:center=, =:versewidth= and =:latexcode=. The three first
  443. require the external LaTeX package =verse.sty=, which is an extension
  444. of the standard LaTeX environment.
  445. The LaTeX export back-end accepts two attributes for quote blocks:
  446. =:environment=, for an arbitrary quoting environment (the default
  447. value is that of =org-latex-default-quote-environment=: ="quote"=) and
  448. =:options=.
  449. *** =org-set-tags-command= selects tags from ~org-global-tags-completion-table~
  450. Let ~org-set-tags-command~ TAB fast tag completion interface complete
  451. tags including from both buffer local and user defined persistent
  452. global list (~org-tag-alist~ and ~org-tag-persistent-alist~). Now
  453. option ~org-complete-tags-always-offer-all-agenda-tags~ is honored.
  454. *** Clocktable option =:formula %= now shows the per-file time percentages
  455. This change only has an effect when multiple files are contributing to
  456. a given clocktable (such as when =:scope agenda= has been specified).
  457. The existing behavior is that such tables have an extra 'File' column,
  458. and each individual file that contributes has its own summary line
  459. with the headline value '*File time*'. Those summary rows also
  460. produce a rollup time value for the file in the 'Time' column.
  461. Prior to this change, the built-in =%= formula did not produce a
  462. calculation for those per-file times in the '%' column (the relevant
  463. cells in the '%' column were blank). With this change, the percentage
  464. contribution of each individual file time to the total time is shown.
  465. The more agenda files you have, the more useful this behavior becomes.
  466. *** =ob-python.el= improvements to =:return= header argument
  467. The =:return= header argument in =ob-python= now works for session
  468. blocks as well as non-session blocks. Also, it now works with the
  469. =:epilogue= header argument -- previously, setting the =:return=
  470. header would cause the =:epilogue= to be ignored.
  471. This change allows more easily moving boilerplate out of the main code
  472. block and into the header. For example, for plotting, we need to add
  473. boilerplate to save the figure to a file and return the
  474. filename. Instead of doing this within the code block, we can now
  475. handle it through the header arguments as follows:
  476. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  477. ,#+header: :var fname="/home/jack/tmp/plot.svg"
  478. ,#+header: :epilogue plt.savefig(fname)
  479. ,#+header: :return fname
  480. ,#+begin_src python :results value file
  481. import matplotlib, numpy
  482. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  483. fig=plt.figure(figsize=(4,2))
  484. x=numpy.linspace(-15,15)
  485. plt.plot(numpy.sin(x)/x)
  486. fig.tight_layout()
  487. ,#+end_src
  488. ,#+RESULTS:
  489. [[file:/home/jack/tmp/plot.svg]]
  490. #+END_SRC
  491. As another example, we can use =:return= with the external [[https://pypi.org/project/tabulate/][tabulate]]
  492. package, to convert pandas Dataframes into orgmode tables:
  493. #+begin_src org
  494. ,#+header: :prologue from tabulate import tabulate
  495. ,#+header: :return tabulate(table, headers=table.columns, tablefmt="orgtbl")
  496. ,#+begin_src python :results value raw :session
  497. import pandas as pd
  498. table = pd.DataFrame({
  499. "a": [1,2,3],
  500. "b": [4,5,6]
  501. })
  502. ,#+end_src
  503. ,#+RESULTS:
  504. | | a | b |
  505. |---+---+---|
  506. | 0 | 1 | 4 |
  507. | 1 | 2 | 5 |
  508. | 2 | 3 | 6 |
  509. #+end_src
  510. *** Display images with width proportional to the buffer text width
  511. Previously, if you used a =:width= attribute like =#+attr_html: :width 70%= or
  512. =#+attr_latex: :width 0.7\linewidth= this would be interpreted as a 70px wide and
  513. 0.7px wide width specification respectively.
  514. Now, percentages are transformed into floats (i.e. 70% becomes 0.7),
  515. and float width specifications between 0.0 and 2.0 are now interpreted
  516. as that portion of the text width in the buffer. For instance, the
  517. above examples of =70%= and =0.7\linewidth= will result in an image
  518. with width equal to the pixel-width of the buffer text multiplied by 0.7.
  519. This functionality is implemented in a new function,
  520. ~org-display-inline-image--width~ which contains the width
  521. determination logic previously in ~org-display-inline-images~ and the
  522. new behavior.
  523. ** New options
  524. *** Option ~org-hidden-keywords~ now also applies to #+SUBTITLE:
  525. The option ~org-hidden-keywords~ previously applied
  526. to #+TITLE:, #+AUTHOR:, #+DATE:, and #+EMAIL:. Now it can also be
  527. used to hide the #+SUBTITLE: keyword.
  528. *** New formatting directive ~%L~ for org-capture
  529. The new ~%L~ formatting directive contains the bare link target, and
  530. may be used to create links with programmatically generated
  531. descriptions.
  532. *** New option ~org-id-ts-format~
  533. Earlier, IDs generated using =ts= method had a hard-coded format (i.e. =20200923T160237.891616=).
  534. The new option allows user to customize the format.
  535. Defaults are unchanged.
  536. *** New argument for ~file-desc~ babel header
  537. It is now possible to provide the =file-desc= header argument for a
  538. babel source block but omit the description by passing an empty vector
  539. as an argument (i.e., :file-desc []). This can be useful because
  540. providing =file-desc= without an argument results in the result of
  541. =file= being used in the description. Previously, the only way to
  542. omit a file description was to omit the header argument entirely,
  543. which made it difficult/impossible to provide a default value for
  544. =file-desc=.
  545. *** New option to set ~org-link-file-path-type~ to a function
  546. ~org-link-file-path-type~ can now be set to a function that takes the
  547. full filename as an argument and returns the path to link to.
  548. For example, if you use ~project.el~, you can set this function to use
  549. relative links within a project as follows:
  550. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  551. (setq (org-link-file-path-type
  552. (lambda (path)
  553. (let* ((proj (project-current))
  554. (root (if proj (project-root proj) default-directory)))
  555. (if (string-prefix-p (expand-file-name root) path)
  556. (file-relative-name path)
  557. (abbreviate-file-name path))))))
  558. #+end_src
  559. *** New options and new behavior for babel LaTeX SVG image files
  560. Org babel now uses a two-stage process for converting latex source
  561. blocks to SVG image files (when the extension of the output file is
  562. ~.svg~). The first stage in the process converts the latex block into
  563. a PDF file, which is then converted into an SVG file in the second
  564. stage. The TeX->PDF part uses the existing infrastructure for
  565. ~org-babel-latex-tex-to-pdf~. The PDF->SVG part uses a command
  566. specified in a new customization,
  567. ~org-babel-latex-pdf-svg-process~. By default, this uses inkscape for
  568. conversion, but since it is fully customizable, any other command can
  569. be used in its place. For instance, dvisvgm might be used here. This
  570. two-part processing replaces the previous use of htlatex to process
  571. LaTeX directly to SVG (htlatex is still used for HTML conversion).
  572. Conversion to SVG exposes a number of additional customizations that
  573. give the user full control over the contents of the latex source
  574. block. ~org-babel-latex-preamble~, ~org-babel-latex-begin-env~ and
  575. ~org-babel-latex-end-env~ are new customization options added to allow
  576. the user to specify the preamble and code that preceedes and proceeds
  577. the contents of the source block.
  578. *** New option ~org-html-meta-tags~ allows for HTML meta tags customization
  579. New variable ~org-html-meta-tags~ makes it possible to customize the
  580. =<meta>= tags used in an HTML export. Accepts either a static list of
  581. values, or a function that generates such a list (see
  582. ~org-html-meta-tags-default~ as an example of the latter).
  583. *** Option ~org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions~ now supports collecting bulk arguments
  584. When specifying a custom agenda bulk option, you can now also specify
  585. a function which collects the arguments to be used with each call to
  586. the custom function.
  587. *** New faces to improve the contextuality of Org agenda views
  588. Four new faces improve certain styles and offer more flexibility for
  589. some Org agenda views: ~org-agenda-date-weekend-today~,
  590. ~org-imminent-deadline~, ~org-agenda-structure-secondary~,
  591. ~org-agenda-structure-filter~. They inherit from existing faces in
  592. order to remain backward-compatible.
  593. Quoting from [[https://list.orgmode.org/87lf7q7gpq.fsf@protesilaos.com/][this thread]]:
  594. #+begin_quote
  595. + The 'org-imminent-deadline' is useful to disambiguate generic
  596. warnings from deadlines. For example, a warning could be rendered
  597. in a yellow colored text and have a bold weight, whereas a deadline
  598. might be red and styled with italics.
  599. + The 'org-agenda-structure-filter' applies to all tag/term filters
  600. in agenda views that search for keywords or patterns. It is
  601. designed to inherit from 'org-agenda-structure' in addition to the
  602. 'org-warning' face that was present before (and removes the
  603. generic 'warning' face from one place). This offers the benefit
  604. of consistency, as, say, an increase in font height or a change in
  605. font family in 'org-agenda-structure' will propagate to the filter
  606. as well. The whole header line thus looks part of a singular
  607. design.
  608. + The 'org-agenda-structure-secondary' complements the above for those
  609. same views where a description follows the header. For instance, the
  610. tags view provides information to "Press N r" to filter by a
  611. numbered tag. Themes/users may prefer to disambiguate this line
  612. from the header above it, such as by using a less intense color or by
  613. reducing its height relative to the 'org-agenda-structure'.
  614. + The 'org-agenda-date-weekend-today' provides the option to
  615. differentiate the current date on a weekend from the current date on
  616. weekdays.
  617. #+end_quote
  618. *** New option ~org-clock-ask-before-exiting~
  619. By default, a function is now added to ~kill-emacs-query-functions~
  620. that asks whether to clock out and save when there's a running clock.
  621. Customize ~org-clock-ask-before-exiting~~ to nil to disable this new
  622. behavior.
  623. *** Option ~org-html-inline-image-rules~ now includes .webp
  624. By default ox-html now inlines webp images.
  625. *** ~org-html-head-include-scripts~ is now =nil= by default
  626. See [[msg:498dbe2e-0cd2-c81e-7960-4a26c566a1f7@memebeam.org][this thread]].
  627. *** New option ~org-html-content-class~
  628. This is the CSS class name to use for the top level content wrapper.
  629. *** New option ~org-babel-plantuml-svg-text-to-path~
  630. This option, nil by default, allows to add a SVG-specific post-export
  631. step that runs inkscape text-to-path replacement over the output file.
  632. *** You can now configure ~org-html-scripts~ and ~org-html-style-default~
  633. ~org-html-scripts~ and ~org-html-style-default~ used to be constants,
  634. you can now configure them.
  635. *** New option ~org-attach-git-dir~
  636. ~org-attach-git-dir~ will decide whether to use ~org-attach-git-dir~
  637. (the default) or use the attachment directory of the current node, if
  638. it is correctly configured as a Git repository.
  639. *** New option ~org-attach-sync-delete-empty-dir~
  640. ~org-attach-sync-delete-empty-dir~ controls the deletion of an empty
  641. attachment directory at calls of ~org-attach-sync~. There is
  642. Never delete, Always delete and Query the user (default).
  643. *** ~org-babel-default-header-args~ can now be specified as closures or strings
  644. ~org-babel-default-header-args~ now also accepts closures that
  645. evaluate to a string. Previously, only direct strings were
  646. supported. These closures are evaluated when point is at the source
  647. block, which allows them to make use of contextual information at the
  648. relevant source block. One example that illustrates the usefulness of
  649. this addition (also given in the documentation for
  650. ~org-babel-default-header-args~) is:
  651. #+begin_src elisp
  652. (defun org-src-sha ()
  653. (let ((elem (org-element-at-point)))
  654. (concat (sha1 (org-element-property :value elem)) \".svg\")))
  655. (setq org-babel-default-header-args:latex
  656. `((:results . \"file link replace\")
  657. (:file . (lambda () (org-src-sha)))))
  658. #+end_src
  659. This will set the ~:file~ header argument to the sha1 checksum of the
  660. contents of the current latex source block.
  661. Finally, the closures are only evaluated if they're not overridden for
  662. a source block. This improves efficiency in cases where the result of
  663. a compute-expensive closure would otherwise be discarded.
  664. *** New special value ~'attach~ for src block =:dir= option
  665. Passing the symbol ~attach~ or string ="'attach"= (with quotes) to the =:dir=
  666. option of a src block is now equivalent to =:dir (org-attach-dir) :mkdir yes=
  667. and any file results with a path descended from the attachment directory will
  668. use =attachment:= style links instead of the standard =file:= link type.
  669. ** Miscellaneous
  670. *** =org-bibtex= includes =doi= and =url= entries when exporting to BiBTeX
  671. =doi= and =url= entries have been made optional for some publication
  672. types and will be exported if present for those types.
  673. *** Missing or empty placeholders in "eval" macros are now =nil=
  674. They used to be the empty string.
  675. *** =org-goto-first-child= now works before first heading
  676. When point is before first heading =org-goto-first-child= will move
  677. point to the first child heading, or return nil if no heading exist
  678. in buffer. This is in line with the fact that everything before first
  679. heading is regarded as outline level 0, i.e. the parent level of all
  680. headings in the buffer.
  681. Previously =org-goto-first-child= would do nothing before first
  682. heading, except return nil.
  683. *** Faces of all the heading text elements now conform to the headline face
  684. In the past, faces of todo keywords, emphasized text, tags, and
  685. priority cookies inherited =default= face. The resulting headline
  686. fontification was not always consistent, as discussed in [[msg::87h7sawubl.fsf@protesilaos.com][this bug
  687. report]]. Now, the relevant faces adapt to face used to fontify the
  688. current headline level.
  689. Users who prefer to keep the old behavior should change their face
  690. customization explicitly stating that =default= face is inherited.
  691. Example of old face customization:
  692. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  693. (setq org-todo-keyword-faces '(("TODO"
  694. :background "chocolate"
  695. :height 0.75)))
  696. #+end_src
  697. To preserve the old behavior the above customization should be
  698. changed to
  699. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  700. (setq org-todo-keyword-faces '(("TODO"
  701. :inherit default
  702. :background "chocolate"
  703. :height 0.75)))
  704. #+end_src
  705. *** Storing ID-links before first heading uses title as description
  706. Storing links to files using ~org-store-link~ (=<C-c l>=) when
  707. ~org-id-link-to-org-use-id~ is not nil will now store the title as
  708. description of the link, if available. If no title exists it falls
  709. back to the filename as before.
  710. *** Change in =org-tags-expand= signature
  711. The function does not allow for a third optional parameter anymore.
  712. *** LaTeX environment =#+results= are now removed
  713. If a babel src block produces a raw LaTeX environment, it will now be
  714. recognized as a result, and so replaced when re-evaluated.
  715. *** Tag completion now uses =completing-read-multiple=
  716. Tag completion now uses =completing-read-multiple= with a simple
  717. completion table, which should allow better interoperability with
  718. custom completion functions.
  719. *** Providing =directory-empty-p= from Emacs 28 as =org-directory-empty-p=
  720. *** =org-get-last-sibling= marked as obsolete
  721. Use =org-get-previous-sibling= instead. This is just a rename to have
  722. a more consistent naming. E.g. recall the pair of funtctions
  723. =next-line= / =previous-line=.
  724. *** Make org-protocol compatible with =URLSearchParams= JavaScript class
  725. Decoder of query part of org-protocol URI recognizes "+" as an encoded
  726. space characters now, so it is possible to avoid call to =encodeURIComponent=
  727. for each parameter and use more readable expression in bookmarklet:
  728. #+begin_example
  729. 'org-protocol://store-link?' + new URLSearchParams({
  730. url: location.href, title: document.title})
  731. #+end_example
  732. *** Remove obsolete LaTeX packages from ~org-latex-default-packages-alist~
  733. The LaTeX packages =grffile= and =textcomp= are redundant, with their
  734. capabilities being merged into =graphicx= and the LaTeX core
  735. respectively a while ago.
  736. * Version 9.4
  737. ** Incompatible changes
  738. *** Possibly broken internal file links: please check and fix
  739. A bug has been affecting internal links to headlines, like
  740. : [[*Headline][A link to a headline]]
  741. Storing a link to a headline may have been broken in your setup and
  742. those links may appear as
  743. : [[*TODO Headline][A link to a headline]]
  744. Following the link above will result in an error: the TODO keyword
  745. should not be part of internal file links.
  746. You can use the following command to fix links in an Org buffer:
  747. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  748. (defun org-fix-links ()
  749. "Fix ill-formatted internal links.
  750. E.g. replace [[*TODO Headline][headline]] by [[*Headline][headline]].
  751. Go through the buffer and ask for the replacement."
  752. (interactive)
  753. (visible-mode 1)
  754. (save-excursion
  755. (goto-char (point-min))
  756. (let ((regexp (format "\\[\\[\\*%s\\s-+"
  757. (regexp-opt org-todo-keywords-1 t))))
  758. (while (re-search-forward regexp nil t)
  759. (when (and (save-excursion
  760. (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
  761. (looking-at-p org-link-bracket-re))
  762. (y-or-n-p "Fix link (remove TODO keyword)? "))
  763. (replace-match "[[*")))))
  764. (visible-mode -1))
  765. #+end_src
  766. *** Calling conventions changes when opening or exporting custom links
  767. This changes affects export back-ends, and libraries providing new
  768. link types.
  769. Function used in ~:follow~ link parameter is required to accept a
  770. second argument. Likewise, function used in ~:export~ parameter needs
  771. to accept a fourth argument. See ~org-link-set-parameters~ for
  772. details.
  773. Eventually, the function ~org-export-custom-protocol-maybe~ is now
  774. called with a fourth argument. Even though the 3-arguments definition
  775. is still supported, at least for now, we encourage back-end developers
  776. to switch to the new signature.
  777. *** Python session return values must be top-level expression statements
  778. Python blocks with ~:session :results value~ header arguments now only
  779. return a value if the last line is a top-level expression statement.
  780. Also, when a None value is returned, "None" will be printed under
  781. "#+RESULTS:", as it already did with ~:results value~ for non-session
  782. blocks.
  783. *** In HTML export, change on how outline-container-* is set
  784. When the headline has a =CUSTOM_ID=, use this custom id to build the
  785. div id. For example, if you have =:CUSTOM_ID: my-headline= then the
  786. resulting <div> will be ~<div id="outline-container-my-headline">~.
  787. You may want to check whether your HTML files are rendered differently
  788. after this change.
  789. *** New keybinding =<C-c C-TAB>= for ~org-force-cycle-archived~
  790. ~org-force-cycle-archived~ used to be associated with =<C-TAB>= but
  791. this keybinding is used in Emacs for navigating tabs in Emacs. The
  792. new keybinding is =<C-c C-TAB>=.
  793. ** New default settings for some options
  794. These options now default to =t=:
  795. - ~org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region~
  796. - ~org-fontify-done-headline~
  797. - ~org-src-tab-acts-natively~
  798. You may want to read the docstrings of these options to understand the
  799. consequences of this change.
  800. Also, ~org-startup-folded~ now defaults to ~showeverything~.
  801. ** New features
  802. *** =RET= and =C-j= now obey ~electric-indent-mode~
  803. Since Emacs 24.4, ~electric-indent-mode~ is enabled by default. In
  804. most major modes, this causes =RET= to reindent the current line and
  805. indent the new line, and =C-j= to insert a newline without indenting.
  806. Org mode now obeys this minor mode: when ~electric-indent-mode~ is
  807. enabled, and point is neither in a table nor on a timestamp or a link:
  808. - =RET= (bound to ~org-return~) reindents the current line and indents
  809. the new line;
  810. - =C-j= (bound to the new command ~org-return-and-maybe-indent~)
  811. merely inserts a newline.
  812. To get the previous behavior back, disable ~electric-indent-mode~
  813. explicitly:
  814. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  815. (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (electric-indent-local-mode -1)))
  816. #+end_src
  817. Alternatively, if you wish to keep =RET= as the "smart-return" key,
  818. but dislike Org's default indentation of sections, you may prefer to
  819. customize ~org-adapt-indentation~ to either nil or =headline-data=.
  820. *** New allowed value for ~org-adapt-indentation~
  821. ~org-adapt-indentation~ now accepts a new value, =headline-data=.
  822. When set to this value, Org will only adapt indentation of headline
  823. data lines, such as planning/clock lines and property/logbook drawers.
  824. Also, with this setting, =org-indent-mode= will keep these data lines
  825. correctly aligned with the headline above.
  826. *** Looping agenda commands over headlines
  827. ~org-agenda-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region~ allows you to loop
  828. agenda commands over the active region.
  829. When set to =t= (the default), loop over all headlines. When set to
  830. ='start-level=, loop over headlines with the same level as the first
  831. headline in the region. When set to a string, loop over lines
  832. matching this regular expression.
  833. *** New minor mode ~org-table-header-line-mode~
  834. Turn on the display of the first data row of the table at point in the
  835. window header line when this first row is not visible anymore in the
  836. buffer.
  837. You can activate this minor mode by default by setting the option
  838. ~org-table-header-line-p~ to =t=. You can also change the face for
  839. the header line by customizing the ~org-table-header~ face.
  840. *** New minor mode ~org-list-checkbox-radio-mode~
  841. When this minor mode is on, checkboxes behave as radio buttons: if a
  842. checkbox is turned on, other checkboxes at the same level are turned
  843. off.
  844. If you want to occasionally toggle a checkbox as a radio button
  845. without turning this minor mode on, you can use =<C-c C-x C-r>= to
  846. call ~org-toggle-radio-button~.
  847. You can also add =#+ATTR_ORG: :radio t= right before the list to tell
  848. Org to use radio buttons for this list only.
  849. *** Numeric priorities are now allowed (up to 65)
  850. You can now set ~org-priority-highest/lowest/default~ to integers to
  851. use numeric priorities globally or set, for example
  852. #+PRIORITIES: 1 10 5
  853. to define a buffer-local range and default for priorities. Priority
  854. commands should work as usual. You cannot use numbers superior to 64
  855. for numeric priorities, as it would clash with priorities like [#A]
  856. where the "A" is internally converted to its numeric value of 65.
  857. *** Property drawers allowed before first headline
  858. Property drawers are now allowed before the first headline.
  859. Org mode is moving more towards making things before the first
  860. headline behave just as if it was at outline level 0. Inheritance for
  861. properties will work also for this level. In other words: defining
  862. things in a property drawer before the first headline will make them
  863. "inheritable" for all headlines.
  864. *** Refinement in window behavior on exiting Org source buffer
  865. After editing a source block, Org will restore the window layout when
  866. ~org-src-window-setup~ is set to a value that modifies the layout.
  867. *** Display remote inline images
  868. Org now knows how to display remote images inline.
  869. Whether the images are actually displayed is controlled by the new
  870. option ~org-display-remote-inline-images~.
  871. *** New option to resolve open clock at a provided time
  872. ~org-resolve-clocks~ now has a `t' option, which works just like the
  873. `k' option, but the user specifies a time of day, not a number of
  874. minutes.
  875. *** New step value =semimonth= accepted for clock tables
  876. *** Allow text rescaling in column view
  877. You can now use =C-x C-+= in column view: the columns face size will
  878. increase or decrease, together with the column header size.
  879. *** New startup option =#+startup: num=
  880. When this startup option is set, display headings as numerated.
  881. Use =#+startup: nonum= to turn this off.
  882. *** New tool for custom links
  883. Org provides a new tool ~org-link-open-as-file~, useful when defining
  884. new link types similar to "file"-type links. See docstring for
  885. details.
  886. *** New optional numeric argument for ~org-return~
  887. In situations where ~org-return~ calls ~newline~, multiple newlines
  888. can now be inserted with this prefix argument.
  889. *** New source code block header argument =:file-mode=
  890. Source code block header argument =:file-mode= can set file
  891. permissions if =:file= argument is provided.
  892. *** =ob-C.el= allows the inclusion of non-system header files
  893. In C and C++ blocks, ~:includes~ arguments that do not start with a
  894. ~<~ character will now be formatted as double-quoted ~#include~
  895. statements.
  896. *** =ob-clojure.el= supports inf-clojure.el and ClojureScript evaluation
  897. You can now set ~(setq org-babel-clojure-backend 'inf-clojure)~ and
  898. evaluate Clojure source blocks using [[https://github.com/clojure-emacs/inf-clojure][inf-clojure]]. With a header
  899. argument like =:alias "alias"= the Clojure REPL will boot with
  900. =clojure -Aalias=. Otherwise Clojure will boot with =lein=, =boot= or
  901. =tools.deps=, depending on whether the current directory contains a
  902. =project.clj=, =build.boot= or =deps.edn=, falling back on
  903. ~inf-clojure-generic-cmd~ in case no such file is present.
  904. Also, when using [[https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider][cider]], you can now use =#+begin_src clojurescript= to
  905. execute ClojureScript code from Org files. Note that this works only
  906. if your Org file is associated with a cider session that knows how to
  907. run ClojureScript code. A bare =lein repl= session outside of a
  908. directory configured for ClojureScript will /not/ work.
  909. *** =ob-java.el= supports Java command line arguments
  910. Babel Java blocks recognize header argument =:cmdargs= and pass its
  911. value in call to =java=.
  912. *** =ob-screen.el= now accepts =:screenrc= header argument
  913. Screen blocks now recognize the =:screenrc= header argument and pass
  914. its value to the screen command via the "-c" option. The default
  915. remains =/dev/null= (i.e. a clean screen session)
  916. *** =ob-plantuml=: now supports using PlantUML executable to generate diagrams
  917. Set =org-plantuml-exec-mode= to ='plantuml= in order to use the
  918. executable instead of JAR. When using an executable it is also
  919. possible to configure executable location as well as arguments via:
  920. =org-plantuml-executable-path= and =org-plantuml-executable-args=.
  921. ** New commands
  922. *** ~org-table-header-line-mode~
  923. Turn on a minor mode to display the first data row of the table at
  924. point in the header-line when the beginning of the table is invisible.
  925. *** ~org-agenda-ctrl-c-ctrl-c~
  926. Hitting =<C-c C-c>= in an agenda view now calls ~org-agenda-set-tags~.
  927. *** ~org-hide-entry~
  928. This command is the counterpart of ~org-show-entry~.
  929. *** ~org-columns-toggle-or-columns-quit~
  930. =<C-c C-c>= bound to ~org-columns-toggle-or-columns-quit~ replaces the
  931. recent ~org-columns-set-tags-or-toggle~. Tag setting is still
  932. possible via column view value edit or with =<C-c C-q>=.
  933. *** ~org-datetree-find-month-create~
  934. Find or create a month entry for a date.
  935. ** New options and settings
  936. *** New option ~org-html-prefer-user-labels~
  937. When non-nil, use =NAME= affiliated keyword, or raw target values, to
  938. generate anchor's ID. Otherwise, consistently use internal naming
  939. scheme.
  940. =CUSTOM_ID= values are still always used, when available.
  941. *** New option for using tabs in ~org-agenda-window-setup~
  942. Choosing ~other-tab~ for ~org-agenda-window-setup~ will open the
  943. agenda view in a new tab. This will work with versions of Emacs since
  944. 27.1 when ~tab-bar-mode~ was introduced.
  945. *** New option ~org-table-header-line-p~
  946. Setting this option to =t= will activate ~org-table-header-line-mode~
  947. in org-mode buffers.
  948. *** New option ~org-startup-numerated~
  949. When this option is =t=, Org files will start using ~(org-num-mode 1)~
  950. and headings will be visually numerated.
  951. You can turn this on/off on a per-file basis with =#+startup: num= or
  952. =#+startup: nonum=.
  953. *** New option ~org-clock-auto-clockout-timer~
  954. When this option is set to a number and the user configuration
  955. contains =(org-clock-auto-clockout-insinuate)=, Org will clock out the
  956. currently clocked in task after that number of seconds of idle time.
  957. This is useful when you often forget to clock out before being idle
  958. and don't want to have to manually set the clocking time to take into
  959. account.
  960. *** New option to group captured datetime entries by month
  961. A new `:tree-type month' option was added to org-capture-templates to
  962. group new datetime entries by month.
  963. *** New option to show source buffers using "plain" display-buffer
  964. There is a new option ~plain~ to ~org-src-window-setup~ to show source
  965. buffers using ~display-buffer~. This allows users to control how
  966. source buffers are displayed by modifying ~display-buffer-alist~ or
  967. ~display-buffer-base-action~.
  968. *** New option ~org-archive-subtree-save-file-p~
  969. Archiving a subtree used to always save the target archive buffer.
  970. Commit [[git::b186d1d7][b186d1d7]] changed this behavior by always not saving the target
  971. buffer, because batch archiving from agenda could take too much time.
  972. This new option ~org-archive-subtree-save-file-p~ defaults to the
  973. value =from-org= so that archiving a subtree will save the target
  974. buffer when done from an org-mode buffer, but not from the agenda.
  975. You can also set this option to =t= or to =from-agenda=.
  976. *** New option ~org-show-notification-timeout~
  977. This option will add a timeout to notifications.
  978. *** New option ~org-latex-to-html-convert-command~
  979. This new option allows you to convert a LaTeX fragment directly into
  980. HTML.
  981. *** New option ~org-babel-shell-results-defaults-to-output~
  982. By default, source code blocks are executed in "functional mode": it
  983. means that the results of executing them are the value of their last
  984. statement (see [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Results-of-Evaluation.html][the documentation]].)
  985. The value of a shell script's execution is its exit code. But most
  986. users expect the results of executing a shell script to be its output,
  987. not its exit code.
  988. So we introduced this option, that you can set to nil if you want to
  989. stick using ~:results value~ as the implicit header.
  990. In all Babel libraries, the absence of a ~:results~ header should
  991. produce the same result than setting ~:results value~, unless there is
  992. an option to explicitly create an exception.
  993. See [[msg:CA+A2iZaziAfMeGpBqL6qGrzrWEVvLvC0DUw++T4gCF3NGuW-DQ@mail.gmail.com][this thread]] for more context.
  994. *** New option in ~org-attach-store-link-p~
  995. ~org-attach-store-link-p~ has a new option to store a file link to the
  996. attachment.
  997. *** New option ~org-fontify-todo-headline~
  998. This feature is the same as ~org-fontify-done-headline~, but for TODO
  999. headlines instead. This allows you to distinguish TODO headlines from
  1000. normal headlines. The face can be customized via ~org-headline-todo~.
  1001. *** New default value for ~org-file-apps~
  1002. The new value uses Emacs as the application for opening directory.
  1003. *** New hook ~org-agenda-filter-hook~
  1004. Functions in this hook are run after ~org-agenda-filter~ is called.
  1005. ** Removed or renamed functions and variables
  1006. *** Deprecated ~org-flag-drawer~ function
  1007. Use ~org-hide-drawer-toggle~ instead.
  1008. *** Deprecated ~org-hide-block-toggle-maybe~ function
  1009. Use ~org-hide-block-toggle~ instead.
  1010. *** Deprecated ~org-hide-block-toggle-all~ function
  1011. This function was not used in the code base, and has no clear use
  1012. either. It has been marked for future removal. Please contact the
  1013. mailing list if you use this function.
  1014. *** Deprecated ~org-return-indent~ function
  1015. In Elisp code, use ~(org-return t)~ instead. Interactively, =C-j= is
  1016. now bound to ~org-return-and-maybe-indent~, which indents the new line
  1017. when ~electric-indent-mode~ is disabled.
  1018. *** Removed ~org-maybe-keyword-time-regexp~
  1019. The variable was not used in the code base.
  1020. *** Removed ~org-export-special-keywords~
  1021. The variable was not used in the code base.
  1022. *** Renamed ~org-at-property-block-p~
  1023. The new name is ~org-at-property-drawer-p~, which is less confusing.
  1024. *** Renamed ~org-columns-set-tags-or-toggle~
  1025. See [[*~org-columns-toggle-or-columns-quit~]].
  1026. *** Renamed priority options
  1027. From ~org-lowest-priority~ to ~org-priority-lowest~.
  1028. From ~org-default-priority~ to ~org-priority-default~.
  1029. From ~org-highest-priority~ to ~org-priority-highest~.
  1030. From ~org-enable-priority-commands~ to ~org-priority-enable-commands~.
  1031. From ~org-show-priority~ to ~org-priority-show~.
  1032. ** Miscellaneous
  1033. *** =ob-screen.el= now respects screen =:session= name
  1034. Screen babel session are now named based on the =:session= header
  1035. argument (defaults to ~default~).
  1036. Previously all session names had ~org-babel-session-~ prepended.
  1037. *** Forward/backward paragraph functions in line with the rest of Emacs
  1038. ~org-forward-paragraph~ and ~org-backward-paragraph~, bound to
  1039. ~<C-UP>~ and ~<C-DOWN>~ functions mimic more closely behavior of
  1040. ~forward-paragraph~ and ~backward-paragraph~ functions when
  1041. available.
  1042. They also accept an optional argument for multiple calls.
  1043. See their docstring for details.
  1044. *** ~org-table-to-lisp~ no longer checks if point is at a table
  1045. The caller is now responsible for the check. It can use, e.g.,
  1046. ~org-at-table-p~.
  1047. The function is also much more efficient than it used to be, even on
  1048. very large tables.
  1049. *** New function ~org-collect-keywords~
  1050. *** Drawers' folding use an API similar to block's
  1051. Tooling for folding drawers interactively or programmatically is now
  1052. on par with block folding. In particular, ~org-hide-drawer-toggle~,
  1053. a new function, is the central place for drawer folding.
  1054. *** Duration can be read and written in compact form
  1055. ~org-duration-to-minutes~ understands =1d3h5min= as a duration,
  1056. whereas ~org-duration-from-minutes~ can output this compact form if
  1057. the duration format contains the symbol ~compact~.
  1058. *** C-n, C-p, SPC and DEL in agenda commands dispatch window
  1059. You can now use =<C-n>=, =<C-p>=, =<SPC>= and =<DEL>= key to scroll up
  1060. and down the agenda and attach dispatch window.
  1061. *** =<C-c C-c>= in agenda calls ~org-agenda-set-tags~
  1062. Both =<C-c C-q>= and =<C-c C-c>= set the tags of the headline in the
  1063. Org buffer. Both keybindings are now available from the agenda too.
  1064. *** Allow to use an empty HTML extension
  1065. Using =(setq org-html-extension "")= or setting the HTML extension in
  1066. any fashion will produce the expected output, with no trailing period
  1067. to the resulting HTML file.
  1068. *** Handle repeated tasks with =.+= type and hours step
  1069. A task using a =.+= repeater and hours step is repeated starting from
  1070. now. E.g.,
  1071. #+begin_example
  1072. ,,** TODO Wash my hands
  1073. DEADLINE: <2019-04-05 08:00 Sun .+1h>
  1074. Marking this DONE shifts the date to exactly one hour from now.
  1075. #+end_example
  1076. *** The format of equation reference in HTML export can now be specified
  1077. By default, HTML (via MathJax) and LaTeX export equation references
  1078. using different commands. LaTeX must use ~\ref{%s}~ because it is used
  1079. for all labels; however, HTML (via MathJax) uses ~\eqref{%s}~ for
  1080. equations producing inconsistent output. New option
  1081. ~org-html-equation-reference-format~ sets the command used in HTML
  1082. export.
  1083. *** =ob-haskell.el= supports compilation with =:compile= header argument
  1084. By default, Haskell blocks are interpreted. By adding =:compile yes=
  1085. to a Haskell source block, it will be compiled, executed and the
  1086. results will be displayed.
  1087. *** Support for ~org-edit-special~ with LaTeX fragments
  1088. Calling ~org-edit-special~ on an inline LaTeX fragment calls a new
  1089. function, ~org-edit-latex-fragment~. This functions in a comparable
  1090. manner to editing inline source blocks, bringing up a minibuffer set
  1091. to LaTeX mode. The math-mode deliminators are read only.
  1092. *** ~org-capture-current-plist~ is now accessible during ~org-capture-mode-hook~
  1093. *** New =org-refile.el= file
  1094. Org refile variables and functions have been moved to a new file.
  1095. *** The end of a 7 years old bug
  1096. This bug [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-08/msg00072.html][originally reported]] by Matt Lundin and investigated by Andrew
  1097. Hyatt has been fixed. Thanks to both of them.
  1098. * Version 9.3
  1099. ** Incompatible changes
  1100. *** Change bracket link escaping syntax
  1101. Org used to percent-encode sensitive characters in the URI part of the
  1102. bracket links.
  1103. Now, escaping mechanism uses the usual backslash character, according
  1104. to the following rules:
  1105. 1. All =[= and =]= characters in the URI must be escaped;
  1106. 2. Every =\= character preceding either =[= or =]= must be escaped;
  1107. 3. Every =\= character at the end of the URI must be escaped.
  1108. When in doubt, use the function ~org-link-escape~ in order to turn
  1109. a link string into its properly escaped form.
  1110. The following function will help switching your links to the new
  1111. syntax:
  1112. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  1113. (defun org-update-link-syntax (&optional no-query)
  1114. "Update syntax for links in current buffer.
  1115. Query before replacing a link, unless optional argument NO-QUERY
  1116. is non-nil."
  1117. (interactive "P")
  1118. (org-with-point-at 1
  1119. (let ((case-fold-search t))
  1120. (while (re-search-forward "\\[\\[[^]]*?%\\(?:2[05]\\|5[BD]\\)" nil t)
  1121. (let ((object (save-match-data (org-element-context))))
  1122. (when (and (eq 'link (org-element-type object))
  1123. (= (match-beginning 0)
  1124. (org-element-property :begin object)))
  1125. (goto-char (org-element-property :end object))
  1126. (let* ((uri-start (+ 2 (match-beginning 0)))
  1127. (uri-end (save-excursion
  1128. (goto-char uri-start)
  1129. (re-search-forward "\\][][]" nil t)
  1130. (match-beginning 0)))
  1131. (uri (buffer-substring-no-properties uri-start uri-end)))
  1132. (when (or no-query
  1133. (y-or-n-p
  1134. (format "Possibly obsolete URI syntax: %S. Fix? "
  1135. uri)))
  1136. (setf (buffer-substring uri-start uri-end)
  1137. (org-link-escape (org-link-decode uri)))))))))))
  1138. #+end_src
  1139. The old ~org-link-escape~ and ~org-link-unescape~ functions have been
  1140. renamed into ~org-link-encode~ and ~org-link-decode~.
  1141. *** Change match group number in ~org-link-bracket-re~
  1142. Link description, if any, is located in match group 2 instead of match
  1143. group 3.
  1144. *** ob-clojure does not auto prepend ~(ns ..)~ statement anymore
  1145. When tangling, user usually just wants to tangle literally code instead
  1146. of prepend inserting a ~(ns ..)~ statement before source block
  1147. code. Now, when you have no ~:ns~ header argument specified, this
  1148. behavior will not happen automatically.
  1149. *** Change in behavior on exit from an Org edit buffer
  1150. Org will no longer attempt to restore the window configuration in the
  1151. frame to which the user returns after editing a source block with
  1152. ~org-edit-src-code~. Instead, the window configuration will remain as
  1153. it is.
  1154. *** Change default value for ~org-email-link-description-format~
  1155. When linking from a mail buffer, Org used to truncate the subject of
  1156. the message to 30 characters in order to build the description of the
  1157. link. This behavior was considered as too surprising. As
  1158. a consequence, Org no longer truncates subjects.
  1159. You can get the old behavior back with the following:
  1160. : (setq org-email-link-description-format "Email %c: %.30s")
  1161. *** ~:file~ header argument no longer assume "file" ~:results~
  1162. The "file" ~:results~ value is now mandatory for a code block
  1163. returning a link to a file. The ~:file~ or ~:file-ext~ header
  1164. arguments no longer imply a "file" result is expected.
  1165. *** Plain numbers are hours in Column View mode
  1166. See [[git:3367ac9457]] for details.
  1167. *** All LaTeX preview backends use now xcolor
  1168. The dvipng backend was previously relying on fg and bg parameters to
  1169. be passed to the CLI. This didn't work when xcolor was directly or
  1170. indirectly used in the document (e.g. tkiz is a user of xcolor). Since
  1171. every other backend was already using xcolor to set fg and bg, the CLI
  1172. alternative was removed and there is no more a :use-xcolor options
  1173. since now it's implicitly always true.
  1174. *** Org-Attach Git commit
  1175. [[*Org-Attach has been refactored and extended][Refactoring of Org-Attach]] affected the Git commit functionality. Not
  1176. much, but the following changes are required if you still need to
  1177. auto-commit attachments to git:
  1178. - Customization of ~org-attach-annex-auto-get~ needs to be renamed to
  1179. ~org-attach-git-annex-auto-get~.
  1180. - Customization of ~org-attach-commit~ is no longer needed. Instead
  1181. one need to require the =org-attach-git= module in the startup.
  1182. ** New features
  1183. *** New option to wrap source code lines in HTML export
  1184. When new option ~html-wrap-src-lines~ (with variable
  1185. ~org-html-wrap-src-lines~) is non-nil, HTML export wraps source code
  1186. lines in HTML ~code~ elements.
  1187. *** New option to handle schedules and deadlines in iCalendar export
  1188. Export ignore done tasks with a deadline when
  1189. ~org-icalendar-use-deadline~ contains ~event-if-todo-not-done~.
  1190. Likewise, scheduled done tasks are also ignored when
  1191. ~org-icalendar-use-scheduled~ contains the same symbol.
  1192. *** Add ~split-window-right~ option for src block edit window placement
  1193. Given the increasing popularity of wide screen monitors, splitting
  1194. horizontally may make more sense than splitting vertically. An
  1195. option, ~split-window-right~, to request horizontal splitting has been
  1196. added to ~org-src-window-setup~.
  1197. *** Org-Attach has been refactored and extended
  1198. Org attach has been refactored and the functionality extended. It
  1199. should now be easier to understand how it works. A few improvements
  1200. and extra options have been added as well.
  1201. From the initial comment in org-attach source-code:
  1202. - Attachments are managed either by using a custom property DIR or by
  1203. using property ID from org-id. When DIR is defined, a location in
  1204. the filesystem is directly attached to the outline node. When
  1205. org-id is used, attachments are stored in a folder named after the
  1206. ID, in a location defined by ~org-attach-id-dir~. DIR has
  1207. precedence over ID when both parameters are defined for the current
  1208. outline node (also when inherited parameters are taken into
  1209. account).
  1210. From now on inheritance requires no extra property and will adhere to
  1211. ~org-attach-use-inheritance~ by default. Inheritance can be
  1212. customized to always be activated or never be activated in
  1213. ~org-attach-use-inheritance~.
  1214. The ATTACH_DIR property is deprecated in favor of the shorter
  1215. property DIR. Links to folders inside the DIR property can now be
  1216. declared as relative links. This is not enabled by default, but can
  1217. be set in ~org-attach-dir-relative~.
  1218. When adding new attachment to the outline node the preferred way of
  1219. doing so can be customized. Take a look at
  1220. ~org-attach-preferred-new-method~. It defaults to using ID since that
  1221. was the behavior before this change.
  1222. If both DIR and ID properties are set on the same node, DIR has
  1223. precedence and will be used.
  1224. One can now also choose to build attachment-directory-paths in a
  1225. customized way. This is an advanced topic, but in some case it makes
  1226. sense to parse an ID in a different way than the default one. Create
  1227. your own function and add it to the beginning of
  1228. ~org-attach-id-to-path-function~list~ if you want to customize the ID
  1229. based folder structure.
  1230. If you've used ATTACH_DIR properties to manage attachments, use the
  1231. following code to rename that property to DIR which supports the same
  1232. functionality. ATTACH_DIR_INHERIT is no longer supported and is
  1233. removed.
  1234. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  1235. (defun org-update-attach-properties ()
  1236. "Change properties for Org-Attach."
  1237. (interactive)
  1238. (org-with-point-at 1
  1239. (while (outline-next-heading)
  1240. (let ((DIR (org--property-local-values "ATTACH_DIR" nil)))
  1241. (when DIR
  1242. (org-set-property "DIR" (car DIR))
  1243. (org-delete-property "ATTACH_DIR"))))
  1244. (org-delete-property-globally "ATTACH_DIR_INHERIT")))
  1245. #+end_src
  1246. For those who hate breaking changes, even though the changes are made
  1247. to clean things up; fear not. ATTACH_DIR will still continue to work.
  1248. It's just not documented any longer. When you get the chance, run the
  1249. code above to clean things up anyway!
  1250. **** New hooks
  1251. Two hooks are added to org-attach:
  1252. - org-attach-after-change-hook
  1253. - org-attach-open-hook
  1254. They are added mostly for internal restructuring purposes, but can
  1255. ofc. be used for other things as well.
  1256. *** New link-type: Attachment
  1257. Attachment-links are now first-class citizens. They mimic file-links
  1258. in everything they do but use the existing attachment-folder as a base
  1259. when expanding the links. Both =DIR= and =ID= properties are used to
  1260. try to resolve the links, in exactly the same way as Org-Attach uses
  1261. those properties.
  1262. *** Handle overlay specification for notes in Beamer export
  1263. This aligns Beamer notes with slide overlays.
  1264. *** Add support for lettered lists in Texinfo
  1265. Using =:enum A= or =:enum a= Texinfo attribute switches an otherwise
  1266. numbered list to a lettered list.
  1267. *** Add a dispatcher command to insert dynamic blocks
  1268. You can add new dynamic blocks with function
  1269. ~org-dynamic-block-define~. All such dynamic blocks can be used by
  1270. ~org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock~ command.
  1271. *** Babel
  1272. **** ob-emacs-lisp sets ~lexical-binding~ in Org edit buffers
  1273. When editing an Elisp src block, the editing buffer's
  1274. ~lexical-binding~ is set according to the src block's =:lexical=
  1275. parameter.
  1276. **** Add LaTeX output support in PlantUML
  1277. *** New minor mode to display headline numbering
  1278. Use =<M-x org-num-mode>= to get a visual indication of the numbering
  1279. in the outline. The numbering is also automatically updated upon
  1280. changes in the buffer.
  1281. *** New property =HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS= in HTML export
  1282. The new property =HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS= assigns a class attribute to
  1283. a headline.
  1284. *** Allow LaTeX attributes and captions for "table.el" tables
  1285. Supported LaTeX attributes are ~:float~, ~:center~, ~:font~ and
  1286. ~:caption~.
  1287. *** Attach buffer contents to headline
  1288. With =<b>= key from attachment dispatcher (=<C-c C-a>=), it is now
  1289. possible to write the contents of a buffer to a file in the headline
  1290. attachment directory.
  1291. *** iCalendar export respects a =CLASS= property
  1292. Set the =CLASS= property on an entry to specify a visibility class for
  1293. that entry only during iCalendar export. The property can be set to
  1294. anything the calendar server supports. The iCalendar standard defines
  1295. the values =PUBLIC=, =CONFIDENTIAL=, =PRIVATE=, which can be
  1296. interpreted as publicly visible, accessible to a specific group, and
  1297. private respectively.
  1298. This property can be inherited during iCalendar export, depending on
  1299. the value of ~org-use-property-inheritance~.
  1300. *** New parameter for =INCLUDE= keyword
  1301. Add =:coding CODING-SYSTEM= to include files using a different coding
  1302. system than the main Org document. For example:
  1303. #+begin_example
  1304. ,#+INCLUDE: "myfile.cmd" src cmd :coding cp850-dos
  1305. #+end_example
  1306. *** New values in clock tables' step: =month= and =year=
  1307. *** ODT export handles numbers cookies in lists
  1308. *** New cell movement functions in tables
  1309. ~S-<UP>~, ~S-<DOWN>~, ~S-<RIGHT>~, and ~S-<LEFT>~ now move cells in
  1310. the corresponding direction by swapping with the adjacent cell.
  1311. *** New option to natively fontify LaTeX snippets and environments
  1312. A 'native option was added to org-highlight-latex-and-related. It
  1313. matches the same structures than 'latex but it calls
  1314. org-src-font-lock-fontify-block instead, thus bringing about full
  1315. LaTeX font locking.
  1316. *** ~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~ learned to shift backward in time
  1317. =<C-c C-x c>= (~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~) now takes a
  1318. negative value as a valid repeater to shift time stamps in backward
  1319. in cloned subtrees. You can give, for example, ‘-3d’ to shift three
  1320. days in the past.
  1321. *** Toggle display of all vs. undone scheduled habits conveniently
  1322. =<C-u K>= (~org-habit-toggle-display-in-agenda~) in an agenda toggles
  1323. the display of all habits to those which are undone and scheduled.
  1324. This is a function for convenience.
  1325. *** New parameter for SQL Babel blocks: ~:dbconnection~
  1326. The new parameter ~:dbconnection~ allows to specify a connection name
  1327. in a SQL block header: this name is used to look up connection
  1328. parameters in ~sql-connection-alist~.
  1329. *** New =:scale= attribute supported by LaTeX exporters
  1330. The builtin "latex" exporters now accept and use a =:scale= attribute,
  1331. which scales an image by a given factor.
  1332. This attribute is wrapped around the =scale= parameter of LaTeX's
  1333. =\includegraphics= (bitmap images) or a TiKZ's =\scalebox=.
  1334. Therefore, its value should be some string palatable to LaTeX as
  1335. a positive float Its default value is an empty string (i.e. disabled).
  1336. This attribute overrides the =:width= and =:height= attributes.
  1337. #+begin_example
  1338. ,#+name: Beastie
  1339. ,#+caption: I think I saw this curious horse already, but where ?
  1340. ,#+LATEX_ATTR: :scale 2
  1341. [[https://orgmode.org/img/org-mode-unicorn-logo.png]]
  1342. #+end_example
  1343. *** Allow specifying the target for a table of contents
  1344. The =+TOC= keyword now accepts a =:target:= attribute that specifies
  1345. the headline to use for making the table of contents.
  1346. #+begin_example
  1347. ,* Target
  1348. :PROPERTIES:
  1349. :CUSTOM_ID: TargetSection
  1350. :END:
  1351. ,** Heading A
  1352. ,** Heading B
  1353. ,* Another section
  1354. ,#+TOC: headlines 1 :target "#TargetSection"
  1355. #+end_example
  1356. ** New functions
  1357. *** ~org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock~
  1358. Use default keybinding =<C-c C-x x>= to run command
  1359. ~org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock~. It will prompt user to select
  1360. dynamic block in ~org-dynamic-block-alist~.
  1361. *** ~org-table-cell-up~
  1362. *** ~org-table-cell-down~
  1363. *** ~org-table-cell-left~
  1364. *** ~org-table-cell-right~
  1365. *** ~org-habit-toggle-display-in-agenda~
  1366. ** Removed functions and variables
  1367. *** Removed Org Drill
  1368. You can install it back from MELPA.
  1369. *** ~org-babel-set-current-result-hash~
  1370. *** ~org-capture-insert-template-here~
  1371. *** ~org-attach-directory~
  1372. It has been deprecated in favor of ~org-attach-id-dir~ which is less
  1373. ambiguous given the restructured org-attach.
  1374. *** ~org-enable-fixed-width-editor~
  1375. This variable was not used through the code base.
  1376. ** Miscellaneous
  1377. *** Change signature for ~org-list-to-subtree~
  1378. The function now accepts the level of the subtree as an optional
  1379. argument. It no longer deduces it from the current level.
  1380. *** LaTeX preview is simplified
  1381. Function ~org-latex-preview~, formerly known as
  1382. ~org-toggle-latex-fragment~, has a hopefully simpler and more
  1383. predictable behavior. See its docstring for details.
  1384. *** ~org-table-copy-down~ supports patterns
  1385. When ~org-table-copy-increment~ is non-nil, it is now possible to
  1386. increment fields like =A1=, or =0A=, i.e., any string prefixed or
  1387. suffixed with a whole number.
  1388. *** No more special indentation for description items
  1389. Descriptions items are indented like regular ones, i.e., text starts
  1390. after the bullet. Special indentation used to introduce bugs when
  1391. inserting sub-items in a description list.
  1392. *** New hook: ~org-todo-repeat-hook~
  1393. This hook was actually introduced in Org 9.2.1, but wasn't advertised.
  1394. *** Org Table reads numbers starting with 0 as strings
  1395. *** Disable fast tag selection interface via prefix arg
  1396. A call of ~org-set-tags-command~ with prefix argument C-u C-u avoids
  1397. the fast tag selection interface and instead offers the plain
  1398. interface.
  1399. *** ~:mkdirp~ now supports create directory for ~:dir~ path
  1400. The ~:mkdirp~ header argument used to only work for ~:tangle~ tangle
  1401. files. Now ~:mkdirp~ works for ~:dir~ too. This is more convenient for
  1402. specify default directory and with ~:file~ header argument.
  1403. *** New variable: ~org-agenda-breadcrumbs-separator~
  1404. If breadcrumbs are showed in org-agenda with the help of "%b" format
  1405. in ~org-agenda-prefix-format~, user can customize breadcrumbs's
  1406. separator using ~org-agenda-breadcrumbs-separator~.
  1407. *** New variable ~org-attach-commands~
  1408. This variable makes it possible to customize the list of commands for
  1409. the attachment dispatcher.
  1410. *** New ID method based on timestamp
  1411. If one chooses, it is now possible to create ID's based on timestamp
  1412. (ISO8601) instead of UUID by changing org-id-method to ts.
  1413. For an improved folder structure when using timestamp as ID, make sure
  1414. to promote ~org-attach-id-ts-folder-format~ to the first element of
  1415. ~org-attach-id-to-path-function-list~ in your configuration at the
  1416. same time.
  1417. *** New customization: ~org-id-locations-relative~
  1418. New customization to make the persisting of org-id-locations between
  1419. sessions to store links to files as relative instead of absolute. The
  1420. links will be stored as relative to the path of org-id-locations-file.
  1421. *** ~org-ctrl-c-tab~ is functional before the first headline
  1422. I.e. treat the whole file as if it was a subtree.
  1423. Also fold everything below the chosen level. Former behavior was to
  1424. leave unfolded subtrees unfolded.
  1425. *** ~org-kill-note-or-show-branches~ is functional before the first headline
  1426. I.e. treat the whole file as if it was a subtree.
  1427. *** Respect narrowing when agenda command is restricted to buffer
  1428. *** ~org-table-insert-column~ inserts the column at point position
  1429. Before, the new column was inserted to the right of the column at
  1430. point position.
  1431. *** Table column deletion now consistent with row deletion
  1432. Point stays in the column at deletion, except when deleting the
  1433. rightmost column.
  1434. * Version 9.2
  1435. ** Incompatible changes
  1436. *** Removal of OrgStruct mode mode and radio lists
  1437. OrgStruct minor mode and radio lists mechanism (~org-list-send-list~
  1438. and ~org-list-radio-lists-templates~) are removed from the code base.
  1439. Note that only radio /lists/ have been removed, not radio tables.
  1440. If you want to manipulate lists like in Org in other modes, we suggest
  1441. to use =orgalist.el=, which you can install from GNU ELPA.
  1442. If you want to use Org folding outside of Org buffers, you can have a
  1443. look at the outshine package in the MELPA repository.
  1444. *** Change in the structure template expansion
  1445. Org 9.2 comes with a new template expansion mechanism, combining
  1446. ~org-insert-structure-template~ bound to ~C-c C-,~.
  1447. If you customized the ~org-structure-template-alist~ option manually,
  1448. you probably need to update it, see the docstring for accepted values.
  1449. If you prefer using previous patterns, e.g. =<s=, you can activate
  1450. them again by requiring Org Tempo library:
  1451. : (require 'org-tempo)
  1452. or add it to ~org-modules~.
  1453. If you need complex templates, look at the ~tempo-define-template~
  1454. function or at solutions like Yasnippet.
  1455. *** Change to Noweb expansion
  1456. Expansion check =:noweb-ref= only if no matching named block is found
  1457. in the buffer. As a consequence, any =:noweb-ref= value matching the
  1458. name of a source block in the buffer is ignored. A simple fix is to
  1459. give every concerned source-block, including the named one, a new,
  1460. unique, Noweb reference.
  1461. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  1462. ,#+NAME: foo
  1463. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  1464. 1
  1465. ,#+END_SRC
  1466. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref foo
  1467. 2
  1468. ,#+END_SRC
  1469. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb yes
  1470. <<foo>>
  1471. ,#+END_SRC
  1472. #+END_SRC
  1473. should become
  1474. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  1475. ,#+NAME: foo
  1476. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref bar
  1477. 1
  1478. ,#+END_SRC
  1479. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref bar
  1480. 2
  1481. ,#+END_SRC
  1482. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb yes
  1483. <<bar>>
  1484. ,#+END_SRC
  1485. #+END_SRC
  1486. *** Default/accepted values of ~org-calendar-to-agenda-key~
  1487. The default value and accepted value of ~org-calendar-to-agenda-key~
  1488. changed. This is an excerpt of the new docstring:
  1489. : When set to ‘default’, bind the function to ‘c’, but only if it is
  1490. : available in the Calendar keymap. This is the default choice because
  1491. : ‘c’ can then be used to switch back and forth between agenda and calendar.
  1492. :
  1493. : When nil, ‘org-calendar-goto-agenda’ is not bound to any key.
  1494. Check the full docstring for more.
  1495. *** Change the signature of the ~org-set-effort~ function
  1496. Here is the new docstring:
  1497. : (org-set-effort &optional INCREMENT VALUE)
  1498. :
  1499. : Set the effort property of the current entry.
  1500. : If INCREMENT is non-nil, set the property to the next allowed
  1501. : value. Otherwise, if optional argument VALUE is provided, use
  1502. : it. Eventually, prompt for the new value if none of the previous
  1503. : variables is set.
  1504. *** Placeholders in =(eval ...)= macros are always strings
  1505. Within =(eval ...)= macros, =$1=-like placeholders are always replaced
  1506. with a string. As a consequence, they must not be enclosed within
  1507. quotes. As an illustration, consider the following, now valid,
  1508. examples:
  1509. #+begin_example
  1510. ,#+macro: join (eval (concat $1 $2))
  1511. ,#+macro: sum (eval (+ (string-to-number $1) (string-to-number $2)))
  1512. {{{join(a,b)}}} => ab
  1513. {{{sum(1,2)}}} => 3
  1514. #+end_example
  1515. However, there is no change in non-eval macros:
  1516. #+begin_example
  1517. ,#+macro: disp argument: $1
  1518. {{{disp(text)}}} => argument: text
  1519. #+end_example
  1520. *** =align= STARTUP value no longer narrow table columns
  1521. Columns narrowing (or shrinking) is now dynamic. See [[*Dynamically
  1522. narrow table columns]] for details. In particular, it is decoupled from
  1523. aligning.
  1524. If you need to automatically shrink columns upon opening an Org
  1525. document, use =shrink= value instead, or in addition to align:
  1526. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  1527. ,#+STARTUP: align shrink
  1528. #+END_EXAMPLE
  1529. *** ~org-get-tags~ meaning change
  1530. Function ~org-get-tags~ used to return local tags to the current
  1531. headline. It now returns all the inherited tags in addition to the
  1532. local tags. In order to get the old behavior back, you can use:
  1533. : (org-get-tags nil t)
  1534. *** Alphabetic sorting in tables and lists
  1535. When sorting alphabetically, ~org-table-sort-lines~ and ~org-sort-list~
  1536. now sort according to the locale’s collation rules instead of by
  1537. code-point.
  1538. *** Change the name of the :tags clocktable option to :match
  1539. The =:match= (renamed from =:tags=) option allows to limit clock entries
  1540. to those matching a todo-tags matcher.
  1541. The old =:tags= option can be set to =t= to display a headline's tags in a
  1542. dedicated column.
  1543. This is consistent with the naming of =org-dblock-write:columnview=
  1544. options, where =:match= is also used as a headlines filter.
  1545. ** New features
  1546. *** Add ~:session~ support of ob-clojure for CIDER
  1547. You can initialize source block session with Babel default keybinding
  1548. =[C-c C-v C-z]= to use =sesman= session manager to link current
  1549. project, directory or buffer with specific Clojure session, or
  1550. =cider-jack-in= a new CIDER REPL if no CIDER REPLs available. In older
  1551. CIDER version which has not =sesman= integrated, only has
  1552. =cider-jack-in= without Clojure project is supported.
  1553. #+begin_src clojure :session
  1554. (dissoc Clojure 'JVM)
  1555. (conj clojurists "stardiviner")
  1556. #+end_src
  1557. *** Add ~:results link~ support for Babel
  1558. With this output format, create a link to the file specified in
  1559. ~:file~ header argument, without actually writing any result to it:
  1560. #+begin_example
  1561. ,#+begin_src shell :dir "data/tmp" :results link :file "crackzor_1.0.c.gz"
  1562. wget -c "https://ben.akrin.com/crackzor/crackzor_1.0.c.gz"
  1563. ,#+end_src
  1564. ,#+results:
  1565. [[file:data/tmp/crackzor_1.0.c.gz]]
  1566. #+end_example
  1567. *** Add ~:session~ support of ob-js for js-comint
  1568. #+begin_src js :session "*Javascript REPL*"
  1569. console.log("stardiviner")
  1570. #+end_src
  1571. *** Add ~:session~ support of ob-js for Indium
  1572. #+begin_src js :session "*JS REPL*"
  1573. console.log("stardiviner")
  1574. #+end_src
  1575. *** Add ~:session~ support of ob-js for skewer-mode
  1576. #+begin_src js :session "*skewer-repl*"
  1577. console.log("stardiviner")
  1578. #+end_src
  1579. *** Add support for links to LaTeX equations in HTML export
  1580. Use MathJax links when enabled (by ~org-html-with-latex~), otherwise
  1581. add a label to the rendered equation.
  1582. *** Org Tempo may used for snippet expansion of structure template.
  1583. See manual and the commentary section in ~org-tempo.el~ for details.
  1584. *** Exclude unnumbered headlines from table of contents
  1585. Set their =UNNUMBERED= property to the special =notoc= value. See
  1586. manual for details.
  1587. *** ~org-archive~ functions update status cookies
  1588. Archiving headers through ~org-archive-subtree~ and
  1589. ~org-archive-to-archive-sibling~ such as the ones listed below:
  1590. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  1591. ,* Top [1/2]
  1592. ,** DONE Completed
  1593. ,** TODO Working
  1594. #+END_SRC
  1595. Will update the status cookie in the top level header.
  1596. *** Disable =org-agenda-overriding-header= by setting to empty string
  1597. The ~org-agenda-overriding-header~ inserted into agenda views can now
  1598. be disabled by setting it to an empty string.
  1599. *** Dynamically narrow table columns
  1600. With ~C-c TAB~, it is now possible to narrow a column to the width
  1601. specified by a width cookie in the column, or to 1 character if there
  1602. is no such cookie. The same keybinding expands a narrowed column to
  1603. its previous state.
  1604. Editing the column automatically expands the whole column to its full
  1605. size.
  1606. *** =org-columns-summary-types= entries can take an optional COLLECT function
  1607. You can use this to make collection of a property from an entry
  1608. conditional on another entry. E.g. given this configuration:
  1609. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  1610. (defun custom/org-collect-confirmed (property)
  1611. "Return `PROPERTY' for `CONFIRMED' entries"
  1612. (let ((prop (org-entry-get nil property))
  1613. (confirmed (org-entry-get nil "CONFIRMED")))
  1614. (if (and prop (string= "[X]" confirmed))
  1615. prop
  1616. "0")))
  1617. (setq org-columns-summary-types
  1618. '(("X+" org-columns--summary-sum
  1619. custom/org-collect-confirmed)))
  1620. #+END_SRC
  1621. You can have a file =bananas.org= containing:
  1622. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  1623. ,#+columns: %ITEM %CONFIRMED %Bananas{+} %Bananas(Confirmed Bananas){X+}
  1624. ,* All shipments
  1625. ,** Shipment 1
  1626. :PROPERTIES:
  1627. :CONFIRMED: [X]
  1628. :Bananas: 4
  1629. :END:
  1630. ,** Shipment 2
  1631. :PROPERTIES:
  1632. :CONFIRMED: [ ]
  1633. :BANANAS: 7
  1634. :END:
  1635. #+END_SRC
  1636. ... and when going to the top of that file and entering column view
  1637. you should expect to see something like:
  1638. | ITEM | CONFIRMED | Bananas | Confirmed Bananas |
  1639. |---------------+-----------+---------+-------------------|
  1640. | All shipments | | 11 | 4 |
  1641. | Shipment 1 | [X] | 4 | 4 |
  1642. | Shipment 2 | [ ] | 7 | 7 |
  1643. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  1644. ,#+STARTUP: shrink
  1645. #+END_EXAMPLE
  1646. *** Allow to filter by tags/property when capturing colview
  1647. You can now use =:match= to filter entries using a todo/tags/properties
  1648. matcher.
  1649. *** Add support for Oracle's database alias in Babel blocks
  1650. =ob-sql= library already support running SQL blocks against an Oracle
  1651. database using ~sqlplus~. Now it's possible to use alias names
  1652. defined in =TNSNAMES= file instead of specifying full connection
  1653. parameters. See example below.
  1654. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  1655. you can use the previous full connection parameters
  1656. ,#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine oracle :dbuser me :dbpassword my_insecure_password :database my_db_name :dbhost my_db_host :dbport 1521
  1657. select sysdate from dual;
  1658. ,#+END_SRC
  1659. or the alias defined in your TNSNAMES file
  1660. ,#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine oracle :dbuser me :dbpassword my_insecure_password :database my_tns_alias
  1661. select sysdate from dual;
  1662. ,#+END_SRC
  1663. #+END_SRC
  1664. *** ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock~ toggle agenda restriction at point
  1665. You can set an agenda restriction lock with =C-x C-x <= or with =<= at the
  1666. beginning of a headline when using Org speed commands. Now, if there
  1667. is already a restriction at point, hitting =<= again (or =C-x C-x <=) will
  1668. remove it.
  1669. *** Headlines can now link to themselves in HTML export
  1670. When enabling ~org-html-self-link-headlines~ the headlines exported to
  1671. HTML contain a hyperlink to themselves.
  1672. ** New commands and functions
  1673. *** ~org-insert-structure-template~
  1674. This function can be used to wrap existing text of Org elements in
  1675. a #+BEGIN_FOO/#+END_FOO block. Bound to C-c C-x w by default.
  1676. *** ~org-export-excluded-from-toc-p~
  1677. See docstring for details.
  1678. *** ~org-timestamp-to-time~
  1679. *** ~org-timestamp-from-string~
  1680. *** ~org-timestamp-from-time~
  1681. *** ~org-attach-dired-to-subtree~
  1682. See docstring for details.
  1683. *** ~org-toggle-narrow-to-subtree~
  1684. Toggle the narrowing state of the buffer: when in a narrowed state,
  1685. widen, otherwise call ~org-narrow-to-subtree~ to narrow.
  1686. This is attached to the "s" speed command, so that hitting "s" twice
  1687. will go back to the widen state.
  1688. *** ~org-browse-news~
  1689. Browse https://orgmode.org/Changes.html to let users read information
  1690. about the last major release.
  1691. There is a new menu entry for this in the "Documentation" menu item.
  1692. *** ~org-info-find-node~
  1693. From an Org file or an agenda switch to a suitable info page depending
  1694. on the context.
  1695. The function is bound to =C-c C-x I=.
  1696. ** Removed commands and functions
  1697. *** ~org-outline-overlay-data~
  1698. Use ~org-save-outline-visibility~ instead.
  1699. *** ~org-set-outline-overlay-data~
  1700. Use ~org-save-outline-visibility~ instead.
  1701. *** ~org-get-string-indentation~
  1702. It was not used throughout the code base.
  1703. *** ~org-fix-indentation~
  1704. It was not used throughout code base.
  1705. *** ~org-context-p~
  1706. Use ~org-element-at-point~ instead.
  1707. *** ~org-preserve-lc~
  1708. It is no longer used in the code base.
  1709. *** ~org-try-structure-completion~
  1710. Org Tempo may be used as a replacement. See details above.
  1711. ** Removed options
  1712. *** org-babel-use-quick-and-dirty-noweb-expansion
  1713. See [[*Change to Noweb expansion][Change to Noweb expansion]] for explanations.
  1714. ** Miscellaneous
  1715. *** New default value for ~org-texinfo-table-scientific-notation~
  1716. It is now nil, which means numbers in scientific notation are not
  1717. handled specially by default.
  1718. *** New default value for ~org-latex-table-scientific-notation~
  1719. It is now nil, which means numbers in scientific notation are not
  1720. handled specially by default.
  1721. *** New face: ~org-upcoming-distant-deadline~
  1722. It is meant to be used as the face for distant deadlines, see
  1723. ~org-agenda-deadline-faces~
  1724. *** ~org-paste-subtree~ no longer breaks sections
  1725. Unless point is at the beginning of a headline, ~org-paste-subtree~
  1726. now pastes the tree before the next visible headline. If you need to
  1727. break the section, use ~org-yank~ instead.
  1728. *** ~org-table-insert-column~ inserts a column to the right
  1729. It used to insert it on the left. With this change,
  1730. ~org-table-insert-column~ and ~org-table-delete-column~ are
  1731. reciprocal.
  1732. *** ~org-publish-resolve-external-link~ accepts a new optional argument.
  1733. *** ~org-irc.el~ now supports exporting =irc:= links properly
  1734. Previously, irc links were exported by ~ox-md~ and ~ox-html~ as normal
  1735. file links, which lead to them being broken in web browsers. Now both
  1736. of these exporters will properly export to =irc:= links, which will
  1737. open properly in irc clients from web browsers.
  1738. *** ~org-comment-dwim~ (bound to =M-;=) now comments headings, if point is on a heading
  1739. *** Add support for open source block in window below
  1740. Set option ~org-src-window-setup~ to ~split-window-below~.
  1741. *** Alphabetic sorting in headings and tags now uses the locale’s sorting rules
  1742. When sorting alphabetically, ~org-sort-entries~ and
  1743. ~org-tags-sort-function~ now sort according to the locale’s collation
  1744. rules instead of by code-point.
  1745. *** New speed command "k" to kill (cut) the subtree at point
  1746. * Version 9.1
  1747. ** Incompatible changes
  1748. *** Variables relative to clocksum duration are obsolete
  1749. ~org-time-clocksum-format~, ~org-time-clocksum-use-fractional~ and
  1750. ~org-time-clocksum-fractional-format~ are obsolete. If you changed
  1751. them, consider modifying ~org-duration-format~ instead.
  1752. Variable ~org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations~ is also obsolete.
  1753. Consider setting ~org-duration-units~ instead.
  1754. *** ~org-at-timestamp-p~ optional argument accepts different values
  1755. See docstrings for the allowed values. For backward compatibility,
  1756. ~(org-at-timestamp-p t)~ is still supported, but should be updated
  1757. accordingly.
  1758. *** ~org-capture-templates~ no longer accepts S-expressions as file names
  1759. Since functions are allowed there, a straightforward way to migrate
  1760. is to turn, e.g.,
  1761. : (file (sexp))
  1762. into
  1763. : (file (lambda () (sexp)))
  1764. *** Deleted contributed packages
  1765. =org-ebib.el, =org-bullets.el= and =org-mime.el= have been deleted
  1766. from the contrib/ directory.
  1767. You can now find them here :
  1768. - https://github.com/joostkremers/ebib
  1769. - https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
  1770. - https://github.com/org-mime/org-mime
  1771. *** Change ~org-texinfo-classes~ value
  1772. The value cannot support functions to create sectioning commands
  1773. anymore. Also, the sectioning commands should include commands for
  1774. appendices. See the docstring for more information.
  1775. *** Removal of ~:sitemap-sans-extension~
  1776. The publishing property is no longer recognized, as a consequence of
  1777. changes to site-map generation.
  1778. You can get the same functionality by setting ~:sitemap-format-entry~
  1779. to the following
  1780. #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
  1781. (lambda (entry style project)
  1782. (cond ((not (directory-name-p entry))
  1783. (format "[[file:%s][%s]]"
  1784. (file-name-sans-extension entry)
  1785. (org-publish-find-title entry project)))
  1786. ((eq style 'tree) (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name entry)))
  1787. (t entry)))
  1788. #+END_SRC
  1789. *** Change signature for ~:sitemap-function~
  1790. ~:sitemap-function~ now expects to be called with two arguments. See
  1791. ~org-publish-project-alist~ for details.
  1792. *** Change signature for some properties in ~org-list-to-generic~
  1793. ~:istart~, ~:icount~, ~:iend~ and ~:isep~ now expect the type of the
  1794. list as their first argument.
  1795. *** Change signature for ~org-get-repeater~
  1796. The optional argument is now a string to extract the repeater from.
  1797. See docstring for details.
  1798. *** Change signature for ~org-time-string-to-time~
  1799. See docstring for changes.
  1800. *** Change order of items in ~org-agenda-time-grid~
  1801. ~org-agenda-time-grid~ gained an extra item to allow users to customize
  1802. the string displayed after times in the agenda. See docstring for
  1803. details.
  1804. *** ~tags-todo~ custom searches now include DONE keywords
  1805. Use "/!" markup when filtering TODO keywords to get only not-done TODO
  1806. keywords.
  1807. *** ~org-split-string~ returns ~("")~ when called on an empty string
  1808. It used to return nil.
  1809. *** Removal of =ob-scala.el=
  1810. See [[https://github.com/ensime/emacs-scala-mode/issues/114][this github issue]].
  1811. You can use =ob-scala.el= as packaged in scala-mode, available from the
  1812. MELPA repository.
  1813. ** New features
  1814. *** iCalendar export uses inheritance for TIMEZONE and LOCATION properties
  1815. Both these properties can be inherited during iCalendar export,
  1816. depending on the value of ~org-use-property-inheritance~.
  1817. *** iCalendar export respects a TIMEZONE property
  1818. Set the TIMEZONE property on an entry to specify a time zone for that
  1819. entry only during iCalendar export. The property value should be
  1820. specified as in "Europe/London".
  1821. *** ~org-attach~ can move directory contents
  1822. When setting a new directory for an entry, org-attach offers to move
  1823. files over from the old directory. Using a prefix arg will reset the
  1824. directory to old, ID based one.
  1825. *** New Org duration library
  1826. This new library implements tools to read and print time durations in
  1827. various formats (e.g., "H:MM", or "1d 2h 3min"...).
  1828. See ~org-duration-to-minutes~ and ~org-duration-from-minutes~
  1829. docstrings.
  1830. *** Agenda
  1831. **** New variable : ~org-agenda-show-future-repeats~
  1832. **** New variable : ~org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat~
  1833. **** New variable : ~org-deadline-past-days~
  1834. See docstring for details.
  1835. **** Binding C-c C-x < for ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda~
  1836. **** New auto-align default setting for =org-agenda-tags-column=
  1837. =org-agenda-tags-column= can now be set to =auto=, which will
  1838. automatically align tags to the right edge of the window. This is now
  1839. the default setting.
  1840. *** New value for ~org-publish-sitemap-sort-folders~
  1841. The new ~ignore~ value effectively allows toggling inclusion of
  1842. directories in published site-maps.
  1843. *** Babel
  1844. **** Scheme: support for tables
  1845. **** Scheme: new variable: ~org-babel-scheme-null-to~
  1846. This new custom option allows you to use an empty list or null symbol to
  1847. format the table output, initially assigned to ~hlines~.
  1848. **** Scheme: new header ~:prologue~
  1849. A new block code header has been created for Org Babel that enables
  1850. developers to prepend code to the scheme block being processed.
  1851. Multiple ~:prologue~ headers can be added each of them using a string
  1852. with the content to be added.
  1853. The scheme blocks are prepared by surrounding the code in the block
  1854. with a let form. The content of the ~:prologue~ headers are prepended
  1855. before this let form.
  1856. **** Support for hledger accounting reports added
  1857. **** Clojure: new setting ~org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout~
  1858. Creation of a new setting to specify the Cider timeout. By setting
  1859. the =org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout= setting option. The value
  1860. is in seconds and if set to nil then no timeout will occur.
  1861. **** Clojure: new header ~:show-process~
  1862. A new block code header has been created for Org Babel that enables
  1863. developers to output the process of an ongoing process into a new
  1864. window/buffer.
  1865. You can tell Org Babel to output the process of a running code block.
  1866. To show that output you only have to specify the =:show-process=
  1867. option in the code block's header like this:
  1868. #+begin_example
  1869. ,#+BEGIN_SRC clojure :results output :show-process t
  1870. (dotimes [n 10]
  1871. (println n ".")
  1872. (Thread/sleep 500))
  1873. ,#+END_SRC
  1874. #+end_example
  1875. If =:show-process= is specified that way, then when you will run the
  1876. code using =C-c C-c= a new window will open in Emacs. Everything that
  1877. is output by the REPL will immediately be added to that new window.
  1878. When the processing of the code is finished, then the window and its
  1879. buffer will be closed and the results will be reported in the
  1880. =#+RESULTS= section.
  1881. Note that the =:results= parameter's behavior is *not* changed. If
  1882. =silent= is specified, then no result will be displayed. If =output=
  1883. is specified then all the output from the window will appears in the
  1884. results section. If =value= is specified, then only the last returned
  1885. value of the code will be displayed in the results section.
  1886. **** Maxima: new headers ~:prologue~ and ~:epilogue~
  1887. Babel options ~:prologue~ and ~:epilogue~ have been implemented for
  1888. Maxima source blocks which prepend and append, respectively, the given
  1889. code strings. This can be useful for specifying formatting settings
  1890. which would add clutter to exported code. For instance, you can use
  1891. this ~:prologue "fpprintprec: 2; linel: 50;"~ for presenting Maxima
  1892. results in a beamer presentation.
  1893. **** PlantUML: add support for header arguments
  1894. [[https://plantuml.com/][Plantuml]] source blocks now support the [[https://orgmode.org/manual/prologue.html#prologue][~:prologue~]], [[https://orgmode.org/manual/epilogue.html#epilogue][~:epilogue~]] and
  1895. [[https://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var][~:var~]] header arguments.
  1896. **** SQL: new engine added ~sqsh~
  1897. A new engine was added to support ~sqsh~ command line utility for use
  1898. against Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase SQL server.
  1899. More information on ~sqsh~ can be found here: [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/][sourceforge/sqsh]]
  1900. To use ~sqsh~ in an *sql* =SRC_BLK= set the =:engine= like this:
  1901. #+begin_example
  1902. ,#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine sqsh :dbhost my_host :dbuser master :dbpassword pass :database support
  1903. Select * From Users
  1904. Where clue > 0
  1905. ,#+END_SRC
  1906. #+end_example
  1907. **** SQL: new engine added =vertica=
  1908. A new engine was added to support vsql command line utility for use
  1909. against HP Vertica.
  1910. More information on =vsql= can be found here: [[https://my.vertica.com/docs/7.2.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/ConnectingToHPVertica/vsql/UsingVsql.htm][my.vertica.com]]
  1911. To use =vertica= in an sql =SRC_BLK= set the =:engine= like this:
  1912. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  1913. ,#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine vertica :dbhost my_host :dbuser dbadmin :dbpassword pw :database vmart
  1914. SELECT * FROM nodes;
  1915. ,#+END_SRC
  1916. #+END_EXAMPLE
  1917. **** C++: New header ~:namespaces~
  1918. The new ~:namespaces~ export option can be used to specify namespaces
  1919. to be used within a C++ org source block. Its usage is similar to
  1920. ~:includes~, in that it can accept multiple, space-separated
  1921. namespaces to use. This header is equivalent to adding ~using
  1922. namespace <name>;~ in the source block. Here is a "Hello World" in C++
  1923. using ~:namespaces~:
  1924. #+begin_example
  1925. ,#+BEGIN_SRC C++ :results output :namespaces std :includes <iostream>
  1926. cout << "Hello World" << endl;
  1927. ,#+END_SRC
  1928. #+end_example
  1929. **** Support for Vala language
  1930. [[https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala][Vala]] language blocks support two special header arguments:
  1931. - ~:flags~ passes arguments to the compiler
  1932. - ~:cmdline~ passes commandline arguments to the generated executable
  1933. Support for [[https://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var][~:var~]] does not exist yet, also there is no [[https://orgmode.org/manual/session.html#session][~:session~]]
  1934. support because Vala is a compiled language.
  1935. The Vala compiler binary can be changed via the ~defcustom~
  1936. ~org-babel-vala-compiler~.
  1937. *** New ~function~ scope argument for the Clock Table
  1938. Added a nullary function that returns a list of files as a possible
  1939. argument for the scope of the clock table.
  1940. *** Export
  1941. **** Implement vernacular table of contents in Markdown exporter
  1942. Global table of contents are generated using vanilla Markdown syntax
  1943. instead of HTML. Also #+TOC keyword, including local table of
  1944. contents, are now supported.
  1945. **** Add Slovenian translations
  1946. **** Implement ~org-export-insert-image-links~
  1947. This new function is meant to be used in back-ends supporting images
  1948. as descriptions of links, a.k.a. image links. See its docstring for
  1949. details.
  1950. **** New macro : ~{{{n}}}~
  1951. This macro creates and increment multiple counters in a document. See
  1952. manual for details.
  1953. **** Add global macros through ~org-export-global-macros~
  1954. With this variable, one can define macros available for all documents.
  1955. **** New keyword ~#+EXPORT_FILE_NAME~
  1956. Similarly to ~:EXPORT_FILE_NAME:~ property, this keyword allows the
  1957. user to specify the name of the output file upon exporting the
  1958. document. This also has an effect on publishing.
  1959. **** Horizontal rules are no longer ignored in LaTeX table math mode
  1960. **** Use ~compilation-mode~ for compilation output
  1961. **** Plain lists accept a new ~:separator~ attribute in Texinfo
  1962. The new ~:separator~ attribute splits a tag from a description list
  1963. item into multiple parts. This allows to have two-column tables with
  1964. multiple entries in the first column. See manual for more details.
  1965. **** ~latex-environment~ elements support ~caption~ keywords for LaTeX export
  1966. *** ~org-edit-special~ can edit LaTeX environments
  1967. Using ~C-c '~ on a LaTeX environment opens a sub-editing buffer. By
  1968. default, major mode in that buffer is ~latex-mode~, but it can be
  1969. changed by configuring ~org-src-lang-modes~.
  1970. *** ~org-list-to-generic~ includes a new property: ~:ifmt~
  1971. ~:ifmt~ is a function to be called on the body of each item. See
  1972. ~org-list-to-generic~ documentation for details.
  1973. *** New variable : ~org-bibtex-headline-format-function~
  1974. This allow to use a different title than entry title.
  1975. *** ~org-attach~ supports attaching files from URLs
  1976. Using ~C-c C-a u~ prompts for a URL pointing to a file to be attached
  1977. to the document.
  1978. *** New option for ~org-refile-use-outline-path~
  1979. ~org-refile-use-outline-path~ now supports the setting ~buffer-name~,
  1980. which causes refile targets to be prefixed with the buffer’s
  1981. name. This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with
  1982. ~uniquify.el~.
  1983. *** ~org-file-contents~ now allows the FILE argument to be a URL.
  1984. This allows ~#+SETUPFILE:~ to accept a URL instead of a local file
  1985. path. The URL contents are auto-downloaded and saved to a temporary
  1986. cache ~org--file-cache~. A new optional argument ~NOCACHE~ is added
  1987. to ~org-file-contents~.
  1988. *** ~org-mode-restart~ now resets the newly added ~org--file-cache~.
  1989. Using ~C-c C-c~ on any keyword (like ~#+SETUPFILE~) will reset the
  1990. that file cache.
  1991. *** New option : ~org-table-duration-hour-zero-padding~
  1992. This variable allow computed durations in tables to be zero-padded.
  1993. *** New mode switch for table formulas : =U=
  1994. This mode omits seconds in durations.
  1995. ** Removed functions
  1996. *** Org Timeline
  1997. This feature has been removed. Use a custom agenda view, possibly
  1998. narrowed to current buffer to achieve a similar functionality.
  1999. *** ~org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches~ is obsolete
  2000. Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
  2001. *** ~org-agenda-skip-subtree-when-regexp-matches~ is obsolete
  2002. Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
  2003. *** ~org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches-in-subtree~ is obsolete
  2004. Use ~org-agenda-skip-if~ instead.
  2005. *** ~org-minutes-to-clocksum-string~ is obsolete
  2006. Use ~org-duration-from-minutes~ instead.
  2007. *** ~org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes~ is obsolete
  2008. Use ~org-duration-to-minutes~ instead.
  2009. *** ~org-duration-string-to-minutes~ is obsolete
  2010. Use ~org-duration-to-minutes~ instead.
  2011. *** ~org-gnus-nnimap-cached-article-number~ is removed.
  2012. This function relied on ~nnimap-group-overview-filename~, which was
  2013. removed from Gnus circa September 2010.
  2014. ** Removed options
  2015. *** ~org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all~ is removed.
  2016. For an equivalent to a nil value, set ~org-agenda-show-future-repeats~
  2017. to nil and ~org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat~ to =t=.
  2018. *** ~org-gnus-nnimap-query-article-no-from-file~ is removed.
  2019. This variable has no effect, as it was relying on a function that was
  2020. removed from Gnus circa September 2010.
  2021. *** ~org-usenet-links-prefer-google~ is obsolete.
  2022. Use ~org-gnus-prefer-web-links~ instead.
  2023. *** ~org-publish-sitemap-file-entry-format~ is deprecated
  2024. One can provide new ~:sitemap-format-entry~ property for a function
  2025. equivalent to the removed format string.
  2026. *** ~org-enable-table-editor~ is removed.
  2027. Setting it to a nil value broke some other features (e.g., speed
  2028. keys).
  2029. *** ~org-export-use-babel~ cannot be set to ~inline-only~
  2030. The variable is now a boolean.
  2031. *** ~org-texinfo-def-table-markup~ is obsolete
  2032. Use ~org-texinfo-table-default-markup~ instead.
  2033. ** New functions
  2034. *** ~org-publish-find-property~
  2035. This function can be used as a tool to format entries in a site-map,
  2036. in addition to ~org-publish-find-title~ and ~org-publish-find-date~.
  2037. *** ~org-list-to-org~
  2038. It is the reciprocal of ~org-list-to-lisp~, which see.
  2039. *** ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda~
  2040. Call ~org-agenda-set-restriction-lock~ from the agenda.
  2041. ** Miscellaneous
  2042. *** The Library of Babel now on Worg
  2043. The library-of-babel.org used to be accessible from the =doc/=
  2044. directory, distributed with Org’s core. It is now accessible
  2045. from the Worg community-driven documentation [[https://orgmode.org/worg/library-of-babel.html][here]].
  2046. If you want to contribute to it, please see [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html][how to contribute]].
  2047. *** Allow multiple columns view
  2048. Columns view is not limited to a single buffer anymore.
  2049. *** Org Attach obeys ~dired-dwim-target~
  2050. When a Dired buffer is opened next to the Org document being edited,
  2051. the prompt for file to attach can start in the Dired buffer's
  2052. directory if `dired-dwim-target' in non-nil.
  2053. *** ~org-fill-paragraph~ can now fill a whole region
  2054. *** More specific anniversary descriptions
  2055. Anniversary descriptions (used in the agenda view, for instance)
  2056. include the point in time, when the anniversary appears. This is,
  2057. in its most general form, just the date of the anniversary. Or
  2058. more specific terms, like "today", "tomorrow" or "in n days" are
  2059. used to describe the time span.
  2060. This feature allows to automatically change the description of an
  2061. anniversary, depending on if it occurs in the next few days or
  2062. far away in the future.
  2063. *** Computed dates in tables appear as inactive time stamps
  2064. *** Save point before opening a file with an unknown search option
  2065. When following a file link with a search option (e.g., =::#custom-id=)
  2066. that doesn't exist in the target file, save position before raising an
  2067. error. As a consequence, it is possible to jump back to the original
  2068. document with ~org-mark-ring-goto~ (default binding =C-c &=).
  2069. *** ~org-get-heading~ accepts two more optional arguments
  2070. See docstring for details.
  2071. *** New option ~org-babel-uppercase-example-markers~
  2072. This variable is a ~defcustom~ and replaces the variable
  2073. ~org-babel-capitalize-example-region-markers~, which is a ~defvar~ and
  2074. is now obsolete.
  2075. *** =INCLUDE= keywords in commented trees are now ignored.
  2076. *** Default value for ~org-texinfo-text-markup-alist~ changed.
  2077. Now ~=...=~ markup uses ~@samp{}~ instead of ~@verb{}~. You can use
  2078. ~@verb{}~ again by customizing the variable.
  2079. *** Texinfo exports example blocks as ~@example~
  2080. *** Texinfo exports inline source blocks as ~@code{}~
  2081. *** Texinfo default table markup is ~@asis~
  2082. It used to be ~@samp~ but ~@asis~ is neutral and, therefore, more
  2083. suitable as a default value.
  2084. *** Texinfo default process includes ~--no-split~ option
  2085. *** New entities : ~\dollar~ and ~\USD~
  2086. *** Support for date style URLs in =org-protocol://open-source=
  2087. URLs like =https://cool-blog.com/2017/05/20/cool-post/= are covered by
  2088. rewrite rules.
  2089. *** Add (C) =COMMENT= support to ~org-structure-template-alist~
  2090. * Version 9.0
  2091. ** Incompatible changes
  2092. *** Emacs 23 support has been dropped
  2093. From now on, Org expects at least Emacs 24.3, although Emacs 24.4 or
  2094. above is suggested.
  2095. *** XEmacs support has been dropped
  2096. Incomplete compatibility layer with XEmacs has been removed. If you
  2097. want to take over maintenance of this compatibility, please contact
  2098. our mailing list.
  2099. *** New syntax for export blocks
  2100. Export blocks are explicitly marked as such at the syntax level to
  2101. disambiguate their parsing from special blocks. The new syntax is
  2102. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2103. ,#+BEGIN_EXPORT backend
  2104. ...
  2105. ,#+END_EXPORT
  2106. #+END_SRC
  2107. instead of
  2108. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2109. ,#+BEGIN_backend
  2110. ...
  2111. ,#+END_backend
  2112. #+END_SRC
  2113. As a consequence, =INCLUDE= keywords syntax is modified, e.g.,
  2114. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2115. ,#+INCLUDE: "file.org" HTML
  2116. #+END_SRC
  2117. becomes
  2118. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2119. ,#+INCLUDE: "file.org" export html
  2120. #+END_SRC
  2121. The following function repairs export blocks and =INCLUDE= keywords
  2122. using previous syntax:
  2123. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  2124. (defun org-repair-export-blocks ()
  2125. "Repair export blocks and INCLUDE keywords in current buffer."
  2126. (interactive)
  2127. (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
  2128. (let ((case-fold-search t)
  2129. (back-end-re (regexp-opt
  2130. '("HTML" "ASCII" "LATEX" "ODT" "MARKDOWN" "MD" "ORG"
  2131. "MAN" "BEAMER" "TEXINFO" "GROFF" "KOMA-LETTER")
  2132. t)))
  2133. (org-with-wide-buffer
  2134. (goto-char (point-min))
  2135. (let ((block-re (concat "^[ \t]*#\\+BEGIN_" back-end-re)))
  2136. (save-excursion
  2137. (while (re-search-forward block-re nil t)
  2138. (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point))))
  2139. (when (eq (org-element-type element) 'special-block)
  2140. (save-excursion
  2141. (goto-char (org-element-property :end element))
  2142. (save-match-data (search-backward "_"))
  2143. (forward-char)
  2144. (insert "EXPORT")
  2145. (delete-region (point) (line-end-position)))
  2146. (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1))))))
  2147. (let ((include-re
  2148. (format "^[ \t]*#\\+INCLUDE: .*?%s[ \t]*$" back-end-re)))
  2149. (while (re-search-forward include-re nil t)
  2150. (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point))))
  2151. (when (and (eq (org-element-type element) 'keyword)
  2152. (string= (org-element-property :key element) "INCLUDE"))
  2153. (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1)))))))))
  2154. #+END_SRC
  2155. Moreover, ~:export-block~ keyword used in ~org-export-define-backend~ and
  2156. ~org-export-define-derived-backend~ is no longer used and needs to be
  2157. removed.
  2158. *** Footnotes changes
  2159. **** [1]-like constructs are not valid footnotes
  2160. Using =[1]= as a footnote was already discouraged in the manual, since
  2161. it introduced too many false-positives in many Org documents. These
  2162. constructs are now unsupported.
  2163. If you used =[N]= in some of your documents, consider turning them into
  2164. =[fn:N]=.
  2165. **** /Org Footnote/ library doesn't handle non-Org buffers
  2166. Commands for footnotes in an Org document no longer try to do
  2167. something in non-Org ones. If you need to have footnotes there,
  2168. consider using the =footnote.el= library, shipped with Emacs.
  2169. In particular, ~org-footnote-tag-for-non-org-mode-files~ no longer
  2170. exists.
  2171. *** ~org-file-apps~ no longer accepts S-expressions as commands
  2172. The variable now accepts functions of two arguments instead of plain
  2173. S-expressions. Replacing an S-expression with an appropriate function
  2174. is straightforward. For example
  2175. : ("pdf" . (foo))
  2176. becomes
  2177. : ("pdf" . (lambda (file link) (foo)))
  2178. *** The ~{{{modification-time}}}~ macro can get time via =vc=
  2179. The modification time will be determined via =vc.el= if the second
  2180. argument is non-nil. See the manual for details.
  2181. *** Preparation and completion functions in publishing projects change signature
  2182. Preparation and completion functions are now called with an argument,
  2183. which is the project property list. It used to be dynamically scoped
  2184. through the ~project-plist~ variable.
  2185. *** Old Babel header properties are no longer supported
  2186. Using header arguments as property names is no longer possible. As
  2187. such, the following
  2188. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2189. ,* Headline
  2190. :PROPERTIES:
  2191. :exports: code
  2192. :var: a=1 b=2
  2193. :var+: c=3
  2194. :END:
  2195. #+END_EXAMPLE
  2196. should be written instead
  2197. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2198. ,* Headline
  2199. :PROPERTIES:
  2200. :header-args: :exports code
  2201. :header-args+: :var a=1 b=2
  2202. :header-args+: :var c=3
  2203. :END:
  2204. #+END_EXAMPLE
  2205. Please note that, however, old properties were defined at the source
  2206. block definition. Current ones are defined where the block is called.
  2207. ** New features
  2208. *** ~org-eww~ has been moved into core
  2209. *** New org-protocol key=value syntax
  2210. Org-protocol can now handle query-style parameters such as:
  2211. #+begin_example
  2212. org-protocol://store-link?url=http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html&title=The%20title
  2213. org-protocol://capture?template=x&title=Hello&body=World&url=http:%2F%2Fexample.com
  2214. #+end_example
  2215. Old-style links such as
  2216. : org-protocol://store-link:/http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html/The%20title
  2217. continue to be supported.
  2218. If you have defined your own handler functions for
  2219. ~org-protocol-protocol-alist~, change them to accept either a property
  2220. list (for new-style links) or a string (for old-style links). Use
  2221. ~org-protocol-parse-parameters~ to convert old-style links into property
  2222. lists.
  2223. *** New Org linter library
  2224. ~org-lint~ can check syntax and report common issues in Org documents.
  2225. *** New option ~date-tree-last~ for ~org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy~
  2226. When ~org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy~ is set to ~date-tree-last~, diary
  2227. entries are added to last in the date tree.
  2228. *** New ~vbar~ entity
  2229. ~\vbar~ or ~\vbar{}~ will be exported unconditionally as a =|=,
  2230. unlike to existing ~\vert~, which is expanded as ~&vert;~ when using
  2231. a HTML derived export back-end.
  2232. *** Export
  2233. **** New =#+latex_compiler= keyword to set LaTeX compiler.
  2234. PDFLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaLaTeX are supported. See the manual for
  2235. details.
  2236. **** New option ~org-export-with-broken-links~
  2237. This option tells the export process how to behave when encountering
  2238. a broken internal link. See its docstring for more information.
  2239. **** Attributes support in custom language environments for LaTeX export
  2240. Custom language environments for LaTeX export can now define the
  2241. string to be inserted during export, using attributes to indicate the
  2242. position of the elements. See variable ~org-latex-custom-lang-environments~
  2243. for more details.
  2244. **** New Texinfo ~options~ attribute on special blocks
  2245. Using ~:options~ as a Texinfo attribute, it is possible to add
  2246. information to custom environments. See manual for details.
  2247. **** New HTML ~id~ attributes on special, example and quote blocks
  2248. If the block has a =#+NAME:= attribute assigned, then the HTML element
  2249. will have an ~id~ attribute with that name in the HTML export. This
  2250. enables one to create links to these elements in other places, e.g.,
  2251. ~<a href="#name">text</a>~.
  2252. **** Listings with captions are now numbered in HTML export
  2253. The class associated to the numbering is "listing-number". If you
  2254. don't want these blocks to be numbered, as it was the case until now,
  2255. You may want to add ~.listing-number { display: none; }~ to the CSS
  2256. used.
  2257. **** Line Numbering in SRC/EXAMPLE blocks support arbitrary start number
  2258. The ~-n~ option to ~SRC~ and ~EXAMPLE~ blocks can now take a numeric
  2259. argument to specify the staring line number for the source or example
  2260. block. The ~+n~ option can now take a numeric argument that will be
  2261. added to the last line number from the previous block as the starting
  2262. point for the SRC/EXAMPLE block.
  2263. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2264. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp -n 20
  2265. ;; this will export with line number 20
  2266. (message "This is line 21")
  2267. ,#+END_SRC
  2268. ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp +n 10
  2269. ;; This will be listed as line 31
  2270. (message "This is line 32")
  2271. ,#+END_SRC
  2272. #+END_SRC
  2273. **** Allow toggling center for images in LaTeX export
  2274. With the global variable ~org-latex-images-centered~ or the local
  2275. attribute ~:center~ it is now possible to center an image in LaTeX
  2276. export.
  2277. **** Default CSS class ~org-svg~ for SVG images in HTML export
  2278. SVG images exported in HTML are now by default assigned a CSS class
  2279. ~org-svg~ if no CSS class is specified with the ~:class~ attribute. By
  2280. default, the CSS styling of class ~org-svg~ specifies an image width of
  2281. 90\thinsp{}% of the container the image.
  2282. **** Markdown footnote export customization
  2283. Variables ~org-md-footnotes-section~ and ~org-md-footnote-format~
  2284. introduced for =ox-md.el=. Both new variables define template strings
  2285. which can be used to customize the format of the exported footnotes
  2286. section and individual footnotes, respectively.
  2287. *** Babel
  2288. **** Blocks with coderefs labels can now be evaluated
  2289. The labels are removed prior to evaluating the block.
  2290. **** Support for Lua language
  2291. **** Support for SLY in Lisp blocks
  2292. See ~org-babel-lisp-eval-fn~ to activate it.
  2293. **** Support for Stan language
  2294. New ob-stan.el library.
  2295. Evaluating a Stan block can produce two different results.
  2296. 1. Dump the source code contents to a file.
  2297. This file can then be used as a variable in other blocks, which
  2298. allows interfaces like RStan to use the model.
  2299. 2. Compile the contents to a model file.
  2300. This provides access to the CmdStan interface. To use this, set
  2301. ~org-babel-stan-cmdstan-directory~ and provide a ~:file~ argument
  2302. that does not end in ".stan".
  2303. For more information and usage examples, visit
  2304. https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-stan.html
  2305. **** Support for Oracle databases via ~sqlplus~
  2306. =ob-sql= library supports running SQL blocks against an Oracle
  2307. database using ~sqlplus~. Use with properties like this (all
  2308. mandatory):
  2309. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2310. :engine oracle
  2311. :dbhost <host.com>
  2312. :dbport <1521>
  2313. :dbuser <username>
  2314. :database <database>
  2315. :dbpassword <secret>
  2316. #+END_EXAMPLE
  2317. **** Improved support to Microsoft SQL Server via ~sqlcmd~
  2318. =ob-sql= library removes support to the ~msosql~ engine which uses the
  2319. deprecated ~osql~ command line tool, and replaces it with ~mssql~
  2320. engine which uses the ~sqlcmd~ command line tool. Use with properties
  2321. like this:
  2322. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2323. :engine mssql
  2324. :dbhost <host.com>
  2325. :dbuser <username>
  2326. :dbpassword <secret>
  2327. :database <database>
  2328. #+END_EXAMPLE
  2329. If you want to use the *trusted connection* feature, omit *both* the
  2330. =dbuser= and =dbpassword= properties and add =cmdline -E= to the properties.
  2331. If your Emacs is running in a Cygwin environment, the =ob-sql= library
  2332. can pass the converted path to the =sqlcmd= tool.
  2333. **** Improved support of header arguments for postgresql
  2334. The postgresql engine in a sql code block supports now ~:dbport~ nd
  2335. ~:dbpassword~ as header arguments.
  2336. **** Support for additional plantuml output formats
  2337. The support for output formats of [[https://plantuml.com/][plantuml]] has been extended to now
  2338. include:
  2339. All Diagrams:
  2340. - png ::
  2341. - svg ::
  2342. - eps ::
  2343. - pdf ::
  2344. - vdx ::
  2345. - txt :: ASCII art
  2346. - utxt :: ASCII art using unicode characters
  2347. Class Diagrams:
  2348. - xmi ::
  2349. - html ::
  2350. State Diagrams:
  2351. - scxml ::
  2352. The output formats are determined by the file extension specified
  2353. using the :file property, e.g.:
  2354. #+begin_src plantuml :file diagram.png
  2355. @startuml
  2356. Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request
  2357. Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response
  2358. Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request
  2359. Alice <-- Bob: another authentication Response
  2360. @enduml
  2361. #+end_src
  2362. Please note that *pdf* *does not work out of the box* and needs additional
  2363. setup in addition to plantuml. See [[https://plantuml.com/pdf.html]] for
  2364. details and setup information.
  2365. *** Rewrite of radio lists
  2366. Radio lists, i.e, Org plain lists in foreign buffers, have been
  2367. rewritten to be on par with Radio tables. You can use a large set of
  2368. parameters to control how a given list should be rendered. See manual
  2369. for details.
  2370. *** org-bbdb-anniversaries-future
  2371. Used like ~org-bbdb-anniversaries~, it provides a few days warning for
  2372. upcoming anniversaries (default: 7 days).
  2373. *** Clear non-repeated SCHEDULED upon repeating a task
  2374. If the task is repeated, and therefore done at least one, scheduling
  2375. information is no longer relevant. It is therefore removed.
  2376. See [[git:481719fbd5751aaa9c672b762cb43aea8ee986b0][commit message]] for more information.
  2377. *** Support for ISO week trees
  2378. ISO week trees are an alternative date tree format that orders entries
  2379. by ISO week and not by month.
  2380. For example:
  2381. : * 2015
  2382. : ** 2015-W35
  2383. : ** 2015-W36
  2384. : *** 2015-08-31 Monday
  2385. They are supported in org-capture via ~file+weektree~ and
  2386. ~file+weektree+prompt~ target specifications.
  2387. *** Accept ~:indent~ parameter when capturing column view
  2388. When defining a "columnview" dynamic block, it is now possible to add
  2389. an :indent parameter, much like the one in the clock table.
  2390. On the other hand, stars no longer appear in an ITEM field.
  2391. *** Columns view
  2392. **** ~org-columns~ accepts a prefix argument
  2393. When called with a prefix argument, ~org-columns~ apply to the whole
  2394. buffer unconditionally.
  2395. **** New variable : ~org-agenda-view-columns-initially~
  2396. The variable used to be a ~defvar~, it is now a ~defcustom~.
  2397. **** Allow custom summaries
  2398. It is now possible to add new summary types, or override those
  2399. provided by Org by customizing ~org-columns-summary-types~, which see.
  2400. **** Allow multiple summaries for any property
  2401. Columns can now summarize the same property using different summary
  2402. types.
  2403. *** Preview LaTeX snippets in buffers not visiting files
  2404. *** New option ~org-attach-commit~
  2405. When non-nil, commit attachments with git, assuming the document is in
  2406. a git repository.
  2407. *** Allow conditional case-fold searches in ~org-occur~
  2408. When set to ~smart~, the new variable ~org-occur-case-fold-search~ allows
  2409. to mimic =isearch.el=: if the regexp searched contains any upper case
  2410. character (or character class), the search is case sensitive.
  2411. Otherwise, it is case insensitive.
  2412. *** More robust repeated =ox-latex= footnote handling
  2413. Repeated footnotes are now numbered by referring to a label in the
  2414. first footnote.
  2415. *** The ~org-block~ face is inherited by ~src-blocks~
  2416. This works also when =org-src-fontify-natively= is non-nil. It is also
  2417. possible to specify per-languages faces. See =org-src-block-faces= and
  2418. the manual for details.
  2419. *** Links are now customizable
  2420. Links can now have custom colors, tooltips, keymaps, display behavior,
  2421. etc. Links are now centralized in ~org-link-parameters~.
  2422. ** New functions
  2423. *** ~org-next-line-empty-p~
  2424. It replaces the deprecated ~next~ argument to ~org-previous-line-empty-p~.
  2425. *** ~org-show-children~
  2426. It is a faster implementation of ~outline-show-children~.
  2427. ** Removed functions
  2428. *** ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag-refine~ has been removed.
  2429. Use ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag~ instead.
  2430. *** ~org-agenda-todayp~ is deprecated.
  2431. Use ~org-agenda-today-p~ instead.
  2432. *** ~org-babel-get-header~ is removed.
  2433. Use ~org-babel--get-vars~ or ~assq~ instead, as applicable.
  2434. *** ~org-babel-trim~ is deprecated.
  2435. Use ~org-trim~ instead.
  2436. *** ~org-element-remove-indentation~ is deprecated.
  2437. Use ~org-remove-indentation~ instead.
  2438. *** ~org-image-file-name-regexp~ is deprecated
  2439. Use ~image-file-name-regexp~ instead.
  2440. The never-used-in-core ~extensions~ argument has been dropped.
  2441. *** ~org-list-parse-list~ is deprecated
  2442. Use ~org-list-to-lisp~ instead.
  2443. *** ~org-on-heading-p~ is deprecated
  2444. A comment to this effect was in the source code since 7.8.03, but
  2445. now a byte-compiler warning will be generated as well.
  2446. *** ~org-table-p~ is deprecated
  2447. Use ~org-at-table-p~ instead.
  2448. *** ~org-table-recognize-table.el~ is deprecated
  2449. It was not called by any org code since 2010.
  2450. *** Various reimplementations of cl-lib functions are deprecated
  2451. The affected functions are:
  2452. - ~org-count~
  2453. - ~org-remove-if~
  2454. - ~org-remove-if-not~
  2455. - ~org-reduce~
  2456. - ~org-every~
  2457. - ~org-some~
  2458. Additionally, ~org-sublist~ is deprecated in favor of ~cl-subseq~. Note
  2459. the differences in indexing conventions: ~org-sublist~ is 1-based and
  2460. end-inclusive; ~cl-subseq~ is 0-based and end-exclusive.
  2461. ** Removed options
  2462. *** Remove all options related to ~ido~ or ~iswitchb~
  2463. This includes ~org-completion-use-iswitchb~ and ~org-completion-use-ido~.
  2464. Instead Org uses regular functions, e.g., ~completion-read~ so as to
  2465. let those libraries operate.
  2466. *** Remove ~org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists~
  2467. Two consecutive blank lines always terminate all levels of current
  2468. plain list.
  2469. *** ~fixltx2e~ is removed from ~org-latex-default-packages-alist~
  2470. fixltx2e is obsolete, see LaTeX News 22.
  2471. ** Miscellaneous
  2472. *** Add Icelandic smart quotes
  2473. *** Allow multiple receiver locations in radio tables and lists
  2474. *** Allow angular links within link descriptions
  2475. It is now allowed to write, e.g.,
  2476. ~[[http:orgmode.org][<file:unicorn.png>]]~ as an equivalent to
  2477. ~[[http:orgmode.org][file:unicorn.png]]~. The advantage of the former
  2478. is that spaces are allowed within the path.
  2479. *** Beamer export back-ends uses ~org-latex-prefer-user-labels~
  2480. *** ~:preparation-function~ called earlier during publishing
  2481. Functions in this list are called before any file is associated to the
  2482. current project. Thus, they can be used to generate to be published
  2483. Org files.
  2484. *** Function ~org-remove-indentation~ changes.
  2485. The new algorithm doesn't remove TAB characters not used for
  2486. indentation.
  2487. *** Secure placeholders in capture templates
  2488. Placeholders in capture templates are no longer expanded recursively.
  2489. However, ~%(...)~ constructs are expanded very late, so you can fill
  2490. the contents of the S-exp with the replacement text of non-interactive
  2491. placeholders. As before, interactive ones are still expanded as the
  2492. very last step, so the previous statement doesn't apply to them.
  2493. Note that only ~%(...)~ placeholders initially present in the
  2494. template, or introduced using a file placeholder, i.e., ~%[...]~ are
  2495. expanded. This prevents evaluating potentially malicious code when
  2496. another placeholder, e.g., ~%i~ expands to a S-exp.
  2497. *** Links stored by ~org-gnus-store-link~ in nnir groups
  2498. Since gnus nnir groups are temporary, ~org-gnus-store-link~ now refers
  2499. to the article's original group.
  2500. *** ~org-babel-check-confirm-evaluate~ is now a function instead of a macro
  2501. The calling convention has changed.
  2502. *** HTML export table row customization changes
  2503. Variable ~org-html-table-row-tags~ has been split into
  2504. ~org-html-table-row-open-tag~ and ~org-html-table-row-close-tag~.
  2505. Both new variables can be either a string or a function which will be
  2506. called with 6 parameters.
  2507. *** =ITEM= special property returns headline without stars
  2508. *** Rename ~org-insert-columns-dblock~ into ~org-columns-insert-dblock~
  2509. The previous name is, for the time being, kept as an obsolete alias.
  2510. *** ~org-trim~ can preserve leading indentation.
  2511. When setting a new optional argument to a non-nil value, ~org-trim~
  2512. preserves leading indentation while removing blank lines at the
  2513. beginning of the string. The behavior is identical for white space at
  2514. the end of the string.
  2515. *** Function ~org-info-export~ changes.
  2516. HTML links created from certain info links now point to =gnu.org= URL's rather
  2517. than just to local files. For example info links such as =info:emacs#List
  2518. Buffers= used to be converted to HTML links like this:
  2519. : <a href="emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
  2520. where local file =emacs.html= is referenced.
  2521. For most folks this file does not exist.
  2522. Thus the new behavior is to generate this HTML link instead:
  2523. : <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
  2524. All emacs related info links are similarly translated plus few other
  2525. =gnu.org= manuals.
  2526. *** Repeaters with a ~++~ interval and a time can be shifted to later today
  2527. Previously, if a recurring task had a timestamp of
  2528. ~<2016-01-01 Fri 20:00 ++1d>~ and was completed on =2016-01-02= at
  2529. =08:00=, the task would skip =2016-01-02= and would be rescheduled for
  2530. =2016-01-03=. Timestamps with ~++~ cookies and a specific time will
  2531. now shift to the first possible future occurrence, even if the
  2532. occurrence is later the same day the task is completed. (Timestamps
  2533. already in the future are still shifted one time further into the
  2534. future.)
  2535. *** ~org-mobile-action-alist~ is now a defconst
  2536. It used to be a defcustom, with a warning that it shouldn't be
  2537. modified anyway.
  2538. *** ~file+emacs~ and ~file+sys~ link types are deprecated
  2539. They are still supported in Org 9.0 but will eventually be removed in
  2540. a later release. Use ~file~ link type along with universal arguments
  2541. to force opening it in either Emacs or with system application.
  2542. *** New defcustom ~org-babel-J-command~ stores the j command
  2543. *** New defalias ~org-babel-execute:j~
  2544. Allows J source blocks be indicated by letter j. Previously the
  2545. indication letter was solely J.
  2546. *** ~org-open-line~ ignores tables at the very beginning of the buffer
  2547. When ~org-special-ctrl-o~ is non-nil, it is impractical to create
  2548. a blank line above a table at the beginning of the document. Now, as
  2549. a special case, ~org-open-line~ behaves normally in this situation.
  2550. *** ~org-babel-hash-show-time~ is now customizable
  2551. The experimental variable used to be more or less confidential, as
  2552. a ~defvar~.
  2553. *** New ~:format~ property to parsed links
  2554. It defines the format of the original link. Possible values are:
  2555. ~plain~, ~bracket~ and ~angle~.
  2556. * Version 8.3
  2557. ** Incompatible changes
  2558. *** Properties drawers syntax changes
  2559. Properties drawers are now required to be located right after a
  2560. headline and its planning line, when applicable.
  2561. It will break some documents as TODO states changes were sometimes
  2562. logged before the property drawer.
  2563. The following function will repair them:
  2564. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  2565. (defun org-repair-property-drawers ()
  2566. "Fix properties drawers in current buffer.
  2567. Ignore non Org buffers."
  2568. (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
  2569. (org-with-wide-buffer
  2570. (goto-char (point-min))
  2571. (let ((case-fold-search t)
  2572. (inline-re (and (featurep 'org-inlinetask)
  2573. (concat (org-inlinetask-outline-regexp)
  2574. "END[ \t]*$"))))
  2575. (org-map-entries
  2576. (lambda ()
  2577. (unless (and inline-re (org-looking-at-p inline-re))
  2578. (save-excursion
  2579. (let ((end (save-excursion (outline-next-heading) (point))))
  2580. (forward-line)
  2581. (when (org-looking-at-p org-planning-line-re) (forward-line))
  2582. (when (and (< (point) end)
  2583. (not (org-looking-at-p org-property-drawer-re))
  2584. (save-excursion
  2585. (and (re-search-forward org-property-drawer-re end t)
  2586. (eq (org-element-type
  2587. (save-match-data (org-element-at-point)))
  2588. 'drawer))))
  2589. (insert (delete-and-extract-region
  2590. (match-beginning 0)
  2591. (min (1+ (match-end 0)) end)))
  2592. (unless (bolp) (insert "\n"))))))))))))
  2593. #+END_SRC
  2594. *** Using "COMMENT" is now equivalent to commenting with "#"
  2595. If you used "COMMENT" in headlines to prevent a subtree from being
  2596. exported, you can still do it but all information within the subtree
  2597. is now commented out, i.e. no #+OPTIONS line will be parsed or taken
  2598. into account when exporting.
  2599. If you want to exclude a headline from export while using its contents
  2600. for setting options, use =:noexport:= (see =org-export-exclude-tags=.)
  2601. *** =#+CATEGORY= keywords no longer apply partially to document
  2602. It was possible to use several such keywords and have them apply to
  2603. the text below until the next one, but strongly deprecated since Org
  2604. 5.14 (2008).
  2605. =#+CATEGORY= keywords are now global to the document. You can use node
  2606. properties to set category for a subtree, e.g.,
  2607. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2608. ,* Headline
  2609. :PROPERTIES:
  2610. :CATEGORY: some category
  2611. :END:
  2612. #+END_SRC
  2613. *** New variable to control visibility when revealing a location
  2614. ~org-show-following-heading~, ~org-show-siblings~, ~org-show-entry-below~
  2615. and ~org-show-hierarchy-above~ no longer exist. Instead, visibility is
  2616. controlled through a single variable: ~org-show-context-detail~, which
  2617. see.
  2618. *** Replace disputed keys again when reading a date
  2619. ~org-replace-disputed-keys~ has been ignored when reading date since
  2620. version 8.1, but the former behavior is restored again.
  2621. Keybinding for reading date can be customized with a new variable
  2622. ~org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map~.
  2623. *** No default title is provided when =TITLE= keyword is missing
  2624. Skipping =TITLE= keyword no longer provides the current file name, or
  2625. buffer name, as the title. Instead, simply ignore the title.
  2626. *** Default bindings of =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= changed
  2627. The key sequences =C-c C-n= and =C-c C-p= are now bound to
  2628. ~org-next-visible-heading~ and ~org-previous-visible-heading~
  2629. respectively, rather than the =outline-mode= versions of these
  2630. functions. The Org version of these functions skips over inline tasks
  2631. (and even-level headlines when ~org-odd-levels-only~ is set).
  2632. *** ~org-element-context~ no longer return objects in keywords
  2633. ~org-element-context~ used to return objects on some keywords, i.e.,
  2634. =TITLE=, =DATE= and =AUTHOR=. It now returns only the keyword.
  2635. *** ~org-timer-default-timer~ type changed from number to string
  2636. If you have, in your configuration, something like =(setq
  2637. org-timer-default-timer 10)= replace it with =(setq
  2638. org-timer-default-timer "10")=.
  2639. *** Functions signature changes
  2640. The following functions require an additional argument. See their
  2641. docstring for more information.
  2642. - ~org-export-collect-footnote-definitions~
  2643. - ~org-html-format-headline-function~
  2644. - ~org-html-format-inlinetask-function~
  2645. - ~org-latex-format-headline-function~
  2646. - ~org-latex-format-inlinetask-function~
  2647. - ~org-link-search~
  2648. ** New features
  2649. *** Default lexical evaluation of emacs-lisp source blocks
  2650. Emacs-lisp source blocks in Babel are now evaluated using lexical
  2651. scoping. There is a new header to control this behavior.
  2652. The default results in an eval with lexical scoping.
  2653. :lexical yes
  2654. This turns lexical scoping off in the eval (the former behavior).
  2655. :lexical no
  2656. This uses the lexical environment with x=42 in the eval.
  2657. :lexical '((x . 42))
  2658. *** Behavior of ~org-return~ changed
  2659. If point is before or after the headline title, insert a new line
  2660. without changing the headline.
  2661. *** Hierarchies of tags
  2662. The functionality of nesting tags in hierarchies is added to Org mode.
  2663. This is the generalization of what was previously called "Tag groups"
  2664. in the manual. That term is now changed to "Tag hierarchy".
  2665. The following in-buffer definition:
  2666. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2667. ,#+TAGS: [ Group : SubOne SubTwo ]
  2668. ,#+TAGS: [ SubOne : SubOne1 SubOne2 ]
  2669. ,#+TAGS: [ SubTwo : SubTwo1 SubTwo2 ]
  2670. #+END_SRC
  2671. Should be seen as the following tree of tags:
  2672. - Group
  2673. - SubOne
  2674. - SubOne1
  2675. - SubOne2
  2676. - SubTwo
  2677. - SubTwo1
  2678. - SubTwo2
  2679. Searching for "Group" should return all tags defined above. Filtering
  2680. on SubOne filters also it's sub-tags. Etc.
  2681. There is no limit on the depth for the tag hierarchy.
  2682. *** Additional syntax for non-unique grouptags
  2683. Additional syntax is defined for grouptags if the tags in the group
  2684. don't have to be distinct on a heading.
  2685. Grouptags had to previously be defined with { }. This syntax is
  2686. already used for exclusive tags and Grouptags need their own,
  2687. non-exclusive syntax. This behavior is achieved with [ ]. Note: { }
  2688. can still be used also for Grouptags but then only one of the given
  2689. tags can be used on the headline at the same time. Example:
  2690. [ group : sub1 sub2 ]
  2691. #+BEGIN_SRC org
  2692. ,* Test :sub1:sub2:
  2693. #+END_SRC
  2694. This is a more general case than the already existing syntax for
  2695. grouptags; { }.
  2696. *** Define regular expression patterns as tags
  2697. Tags can be defined as grouptags with regular expressions as
  2698. "sub-tags".
  2699. The regular expressions in the group must be marked up within { }.
  2700. Example use:
  2701. : #+TAGS: [ Project : {P@.+} ]
  2702. Searching for the tag Project will now list all tags also including
  2703. regular expression matches for P@.+. This is good for example for
  2704. projects tagged with a common identifier, i.e. P@2014_OrgTags.
  2705. *** Filtering in the agenda on grouptags (Tag hierarchies)
  2706. Filtering in the agenda on grouptags filters all of the related tags.
  2707. Except if a filter is applied with a (double) prefix-argument.
  2708. Filtering in the agenda on subcategories does not filter the "above"
  2709. levels anymore.
  2710. If a grouptag contains a regular expression the regular expression
  2711. is also used as a filter.
  2712. *** Minor refactoring of ~org-agenda-filter-by-tag~
  2713. Now uses the argument ARG and optional argument exclude instead of
  2714. strip and narrow. ARG because the argument has multiple purposes and
  2715. makes more sense than strip now. The term "narrowing" is changed to
  2716. exclude.
  2717. The main purpose is for the function to make more logical sense when
  2718. filtering on tags now when tags can be structured in hierarchies.
  2719. *** Babel: support for sed scripts
  2720. Thanks to Bjarte Johansen for this feature.
  2721. *** Babel: support for Processing language
  2722. New ob-processing.el library.
  2723. This library implements necessary functions for implementing editing
  2724. of Processing code blocks, viewing the resulting sketches in an
  2725. external viewer, and HTML export of the sketches.
  2726. Check the documentation for more details.
  2727. Thanks to Jarmo Hurri for this feature.
  2728. *** New behavior for ~org-toggle-latex-fragment~
  2729. The new behavior is the following:
  2730. - With a double prefix argument or with a single prefix argument when
  2731. point is before the first headline, toggle overlays in the whole
  2732. buffer;
  2733. - With a single prefix argument, toggle overlays in the current
  2734. subtree;
  2735. - On latex code, toggle overlay at point;
  2736. - Otherwise, toggle overlays in the current section.
  2737. *** Additional markup with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
  2738. The content of the included file can now be optionally marked up, for
  2739. instance as HTML. See the documentation for details.
  2740. *** File links with =#+INCLUDE= keyword
  2741. Objects can be extracted via =#+INCLUDE= using file links. It is
  2742. possible to include only the contents of the object. See manual for
  2743. more information.
  2744. *** Drawers do not need anymore to be referenced in =#+DRAWERS=
  2745. One can use a drawer without listing it in the =#+DRAWERS= keyword,
  2746. which is now obsolete. As a consequence, this change also deprecates
  2747. ~org-drawers~ variable.
  2748. *** ~org-edit-special~ can edit export blocks
  2749. Using C-c ' on an export block now opens a sub-editing buffer. Major
  2750. mode in that buffer is determined by export backend name (e.g.,
  2751. "latex" \to "latex-mode"). You can define exceptions to this rule by
  2752. configuring ~org-src-lang-modes~, which see.
  2753. *** Additional =:hline= processing to ob-shell
  2754. If the argument =:hlines yes= is present in a babel call, an optional
  2755. argument =:hlines-string= can be used to define a string to use as a
  2756. representation for the lisp symbol ='hline= in the shell program. The
  2757. default is =hline=.
  2758. *** Markdown export supports switches in source blocks
  2759. For example, it is now possible to number lines using the =-n= switch in
  2760. a source block.
  2761. *** New option in ASCII export
  2762. Plain lists can have an extra margin by setting ~org-ascii-list-margin~
  2763. variable to an appropriate integer.
  2764. *** New blocks in ASCII export
  2765. ASCII export now supports =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYRIGHT= and =#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYLEFT=
  2766. blocks. See documentation for details.
  2767. *** More back-end specific publishing options
  2768. The number of publishing options specific to each back-end has been
  2769. increased. See manual for details.
  2770. *** Export inline source blocks
  2771. Inline source code was used to be removed upon exporting. They are
  2772. now handled as standard code blocks, i.e., the source code can appear
  2773. in the output, depending on the parameters.
  2774. *** Extend ~org-export-first-sibling-p~ and ~org-export-last-sibling-p~
  2775. These functions now support any element or object, not only headlines.
  2776. *** New function: ~org-export-table-row-in-header-p~
  2777. *** New function: ~org-export-get-reference~
  2778. *** New function: ~org-element-lineage~
  2779. This function deprecates ~org-export-get-genealogy~. It also provides
  2780. more features. See docstring for details.
  2781. *** New function: ~org-element-copy~
  2782. *** New filter: ~org-export-filter-body-functions~
  2783. Functions in this filter are applied on the body of the exported
  2784. document, before wrapping it within the template.
  2785. *** New :environment parameter when exporting example blocks to LaTeX
  2786. : #+ATTR_LATEX: :environment myverbatim
  2787. : #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2788. : This sentence is false.
  2789. : #+END_EXAMPLE
  2790. will be exported using =@samp(myverbatim)= instead of =@samp(verbatim)=.
  2791. *** Various improvements on radio tables
  2792. Radio tables feature now relies on Org's export framework ("ox.el").
  2793. ~:no-escape~ parameter no longer exists, but additional global
  2794. parameters are now supported: ~:raw~, ~:backend~. Moreover, there are new
  2795. parameters specific to some pre-defined translators, e.g.,
  2796. ~:environment~ and ~:booktabs~ for ~orgtbl-to-latex~. See translators
  2797. docstrings (including ~orgtbl-to-generic~) for details.
  2798. *** Non-floating minted listings in Latex export
  2799. It is not possible to specify =#+attr_latex: :float nil= in conjunction
  2800. with source blocks exported by the minted package.
  2801. *** Field formulas can now create columns as needed
  2802. Previously, evaluating formulas that referenced out-of-bounds columns
  2803. would throw an error. A new variable ~org-table-formula-create-columns~
  2804. was added to adjust this behavior. It is now possible to silently add
  2805. new columns, to do so with a warning or to explicitly ask the user
  2806. each time.
  2807. *** ASCII plot
  2808. Ability to plot values in a column through ASCII-art bars. See manual
  2809. for details.
  2810. *** New hook: ~org-archive-hook~
  2811. This hook is called after successfully archiving a subtree, with point
  2812. on the original subtree, not yet deleted.
  2813. *** New option: ~org-attach-archive-delete~
  2814. When non-nil, attachments from archived subtrees are removed.
  2815. *** New option: ~org-latex-caption-above~
  2816. This variable generalizes ~org-latex-table-caption-above~, which is now
  2817. deprecated. In addition to tables, it applies to source blocks,
  2818. special blocks and images. See docstring for more information.
  2819. *** New option: ~org-latex-prefer-user-labels~
  2820. See the docstring for more information.
  2821. *** Export unnumbered headlines
  2822. Headlines, for which the property ~UNNUMBERED~ is non-nil, are now
  2823. exported without section numbers irrespective of their levels. The
  2824. property is inherited by children.
  2825. *** Tables can be sorted with an arbitrary function
  2826. It is now possible to specify a function, both programmatically,
  2827. through a new optional argument, and interactively with ~f~ or ~F~ keys,
  2828. to sort a table.
  2829. *** Table of contents can be local to a section
  2830. The ~TOC~ keywords now accepts an optional ~local~ parameter. See manual
  2831. for details.
  2832. *** Countdown timers can now be paused
  2833. ~org-timer-pause-time~ now pauses and restarts both relative and
  2834. countdown timers.
  2835. *** New option ~only-window~ for ~org-agenda-window-setup~
  2836. When ~org-agenda-window-setup~ is set to ~only-window~, the agenda is
  2837. displayed as the sole window of the current frame.
  2838. *** ~{{{date}}}~ macro supports optional formatting argument
  2839. It is now possible to supply and optional formatting argument to
  2840. ~{{{date}}}~. See manual for details.
  2841. *** ~{{{property}}}~ macro supports optional search argument
  2842. It is now possible to supply an optional search option to
  2843. ~{{{property}}}~ in order to retrieve remote properties optional. See
  2844. manual for details.
  2845. *** New option ~org-export-with-title~
  2846. It is possible to suppress the title insertion with ~#+OPTIONS:
  2847. title:nil~ or globally using the variable ~org-export-with-title~.
  2848. *** New entities family: "\_ "
  2849. "\_ " are used to insert up to 20 contiguous spaces in various
  2850. back-ends. In particular, this family can be used to introduce
  2851. leading spaces within table cells.
  2852. *** New MathJax configuration options
  2853. Org uses the MathJax CDN by default. See the manual and the docstring
  2854. of ~org-html-mathjax-options~ for details.
  2855. *** New behavior in `org-export-options-alist'
  2856. When defining a back-end, it is now possible to specify to give
  2857. `parse' behavior on a keyword. It is equivalent to call
  2858. `org-element-parse-secondary-string' on the value.
  2859. However, parsed =KEYWORD= is automatically associated to an
  2860. =:EXPORT_KEYWORD:= property, which can be used to override the keyword
  2861. value during a subtree export. Moreover, macros are expanded in such
  2862. keywords and properties.
  2863. *** Viewport support in html export
  2864. Viewport for mobile-optimized website is now automatically inserted
  2865. when exporting to html. See ~org-html-viewport~ for details.
  2866. *** New ~#+SUBTITLE~ export keyword
  2867. Org can typeset a subtitle in some export backends. See the manual
  2868. for details.
  2869. *** Remotely edit a footnote definition
  2870. Calling ~org-edit-footnote-reference~ (C-c ') on a footnote reference
  2871. allows to edit its definition, as long as it is not anonymous, in a
  2872. dedicated buffer. It works even if buffer is currently narrowed.
  2873. *** New function ~org-delete-indentation~ bound to ~M-^~
  2874. Work as ~delete-indentation~ unless at heading, in which case text is
  2875. added to headline text.
  2876. *** Support for images in Texinfo export
  2877. ~Texinfo~ back-end now handles images. See the manual for details.
  2878. *** Support for captions in Texinfo export
  2879. Tables and source blocks can now have captions. Additionally, lists
  2880. of tables and lists of listings can be inserted in the document with
  2881. =#+TOC= keyword.
  2882. *** Countdown timer support hh:mm:ss format
  2883. In addition to setting countdown timers in minutes, they can also be
  2884. set using the hh:mm:ss format.
  2885. *** Extend ~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~
  2886. ~org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift~ now accepts 0 as an argument for the
  2887. number of clones, which removes the repeater from the original subtree
  2888. and creates one shifted, repeating clone.
  2889. *** New time block for clock tables: ~untilnow~
  2890. It encompasses all past closed clocks.
  2891. *** Support for the ~polyglossia~ LaTeX package
  2892. See the docstring of ~org-latex-classes~ and
  2893. ~org-latex-guess-polyglossia-language~ for details.
  2894. *** None-floating tables, graphics and blocks can have captions
  2895. *** `org-insert-heading' can be forced to insert top-level headline
  2896. ** Removed functions
  2897. *** Removed function ~org-translate-time~
  2898. Use ~org-timestamp-translate~ instead.
  2899. *** Removed function ~org-beamer-insert-options-template~
  2900. This function inserted a Beamer specific template at point or in
  2901. current subtree. Use ~org-export-insert-default-template~ instead, as
  2902. it provides more features and covers all export back-ends. It is also
  2903. accessible from the export dispatcher.
  2904. *** Removed function ~org-timer-cancel-timer~
  2905. ~org-timer-stop~ now stops both relative and countdown timers.
  2906. *** Removed function ~org-export-solidify-link-text~
  2907. This function, being non-bijective, introduced bug in internal
  2908. references. Use ~org-export-get-reference~ instead.
  2909. *** Removed function ~org-end-of-meta-data-and-drawers~
  2910. The function is superseded by ~org-end-of-meta-data~, called with an
  2911. optional argument.
  2912. *** Removed functions ~org-table-colgroup-line-p~, ~org-table-cookie-line-p~
  2913. These functions were left-over from pre 8.0 era. They are not correct
  2914. anymore. Since they are not needed, they have no replacement.
  2915. ** Removed options
  2916. *** ~org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists~ is deprecated
  2917. It will be kept in code base until next release, for backward
  2918. compatibility.
  2919. If you need to separate consecutive lists with blank lines, always use
  2920. two of them, as if this option was nil (default value).
  2921. *** ~org-export-with-creator~ is a boolean
  2922. Special ~comment~ value is no longer allowed. It is possible to use a
  2923. body filter to add comments about the creator at the end of the
  2924. document instead.
  2925. *** Removed option =org-html-use-unicode-chars=
  2926. Setting this to non-nil was problematic as it converted characters
  2927. everywhere in the buffer, possibly corrupting URLs.
  2928. *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-command=
  2929. This undocumented option defaulted to the value of =shell-file-name= at
  2930. the time of loading =ob-shell=. The new behavior is to use the value
  2931. of =shell-file-name= directly when the shell language is =shell=. To chose
  2932. a different shell, either customize =shell-file-name= or bind this
  2933. variable locally.
  2934. *** Removed option =org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt=
  2935. This undocumented option was supposed to provide different quoting
  2936. styles when changing the shell type. Changing the shell type can now
  2937. be done directly from the source block and the quoting style has to be
  2938. compatible across all shells, so a customization doesn't make sense
  2939. anymore. The chosen hard coded quoting style conforms to POSIX.
  2940. *** Removed option ~org-insert-labeled-timestamps-at-point~
  2941. Setting this option to anything else that the default value (nil)
  2942. would create invalid planning info. This dangerous option is now
  2943. removed.
  2944. *** Removed option ~org-koma-letter-use-title~
  2945. Use org-export-with-title instead. See also below.
  2946. *** Removed option ~org-entities-ascii-explanatory~
  2947. This variable has no effect since Org 8.0.
  2948. *** Removed option ~org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline~
  2949. This variable has no effect since August 2009.
  2950. *** Removed MathML-related options from ~org-html-mathjax-options~
  2951. MathJax automatically chooses the best display technology based on the
  2952. end-users browser. You may force initial usage of MathML via
  2953. ~org-html-mathjax-template~ or by setting the ~path~ property of
  2954. ~org-html-mathjax-options~.
  2955. *** Removed comment-related filters
  2956. ~org-export-filter-comment-functions~ and
  2957. ~org-export-filter-comment-block-functions~ variables do not exist
  2958. anymore.
  2959. ** Miscellaneous
  2960. *** Strip all meta data from ITEM special property
  2961. ITEM special property does not contain TODO, priority or tags anymore.
  2962. *** File names in links accept are now compatible with URI syntax
  2963. Absolute file names can now start with =///= in addition to =/=. E.g.,
  2964. =[[file:///home/me/unicorn.jpg]]=.
  2965. *** Footnotes in included files are now local to the file
  2966. As a consequence, it is possible to include multiple Org files with
  2967. footnotes in a master document without being concerned about footnote
  2968. labels colliding.
  2969. *** Mailto links now use regular URI syntax
  2970. This change deprecates old Org syntax for mailto links:
  2971. =mailto:user@domain::Subject=.
  2972. *** =QUOTE= keywords do not exist anymore
  2973. =QUOTE= keywords have been deprecated since Org 8.2.
  2974. *** Select tests to perform with the build system
  2975. The build system has been enhanced to allow test selection with a
  2976. regular expression by defining =BTEST_RE= during the test invocation.
  2977. This is especially useful during bisection to find just when a
  2978. particular test failure was introduced.
  2979. *** Exact heading search for external links ignore spaces and cookies
  2980. Exact heading search for links now ignore spaces and cookies. This is
  2981. the case for links of the form ~file:projects.org::*task title~, as well
  2982. as links of the form ~file:projects.org::some words~ when
  2983. ~org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline~ is not nil.
  2984. *** ~org-latex-hyperref-template~, ~org-latex-title-command~ formatting
  2985. New formatting keys are supported. See the respective docstrings.
  2986. Note, ~org-latex-hyperref-template~ has a new default value.
  2987. *** ~float, wasysym, marvosym~ are removed from ~org-latex-default-packages-alist~
  2988. If you require any of these package add them to your preamble via
  2989. ~org-latex-packages-alist~. Org also uses default LaTeX ~\tolerance~ now.
  2990. *** When exporting, throw an error on unresolved id/fuzzy links and code refs
  2991. This helps spotting wrong links.
  2992. * Version 8.2
  2993. ** Incompatible changes
  2994. *** =ob-sh.el= renamed to =ob-shell=
  2995. This may require two changes in user config.
  2996. 1. In =org-babel-do-load-languages=, change =(sh . t)= to =(shell . t)=.
  2997. 2. Edit =local.mk= files to change the value of =BTEST_OB_LANGUAGES=
  2998. to remove "sh" and include "shell".
  2999. *** Combine org-mac-message.el and org-mac-link-grabber into org-mac-link.el
  3000. Please remove calls to =(require 'org-mac-message)= and =(require
  3001. 'org-mac-link-grabber)= in your =.emacs= initialization file. All you
  3002. need now is =(require 'org-mac-link)=.
  3003. Additionally, replace any calls to =ogml-grab-link= to
  3004. =org-mac-grab-link=. For example, replace this line:
  3005. : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'omgl-grab-link)
  3006. with this:
  3007. : (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-grab-link)
  3008. *** HTML export: Replace =HTML_HTML5_FANCY= by =:html-html5-fancy= (...)
  3009. Some of the HTML specific export options in Org <8.1 are either nil or
  3010. t, like =#+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=. We replaced these binary options with
  3011. option keywords like :html-include-style.
  3012. So you need to replace
  3013. : #+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE: t
  3014. by
  3015. : #+OPTIONS: :html-include-style t
  3016. Options affected by this change: =HTML5_FANCY=, =HTML_INCLUDE_SCRIPTS=
  3017. and =HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE=.
  3018. *** Add an argument to ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-buffer~
  3019. ~org-export-to-file~ and ~org-export-to-file~ can run in a different
  3020. process when provided a non-nil =ASYNC= optional argument, without
  3021. relying on ~org-export-async-start~ macro.
  3022. Since =ASYNC= is the first of optional arguments, you have to shift
  3023. the other optional arguments accordingly.
  3024. *** Export back-ends are now structures
  3025. Export back-ends are now structures, and stored as such in the
  3026. communication channel during an export process. In other words, from
  3027. now on, ~(plist-get info :back-end)~ will return a structure instead
  3028. of a symbol.
  3029. Arguments in hooks and in filters are still symbols, though.
  3030. ** Important bugfixes
  3031. *** [[doc:org-insert-heading][org-insert-heading]] has been rewritten and bugs are now fixed
  3032. *** The replacement of disputed keys is now turned of when reading a date
  3033. *** Match string for sparse trees can now contain a slash in a property value
  3034. You can now have searches like SOMEPROP="aaa/bbb". Until now,
  3035. this would break because the slash would be interpreted as the
  3036. separator starting a TOTO match string.
  3037. ** New features
  3038. *** =C-c ^ x= will now sort checklist items by their checked status
  3039. See [[doc:org-sort-list][org-sort-list]]: hitting =C-c ^ x= will put checked items at the end
  3040. of the list.
  3041. *** Various LaTeX export enhancements
  3042. - Support SVG images
  3043. - Support for .pgf files
  3044. - LaTeX Babel blocks can now be exported as =.tikz= files
  3045. - Allow =latexmk= as an option for [[doc:org-latex-pdf-process][org-latex-pdf-process]]
  3046. - When using =\usepackage[AUTO]{babel}=, AUTO will automatically be
  3047. replaced with a value compatible with ~org-export-default-language~
  3048. or ~LANGUAGE~ keyword.
  3049. - The dependency on the =latexsym= LaTeX package has been removed, we
  3050. now use =amssymb= symbols by default instead.
  3051. *** New functions for paragraph motion
  3052. The commands =C-down= and =C-up= now invoke special commands
  3053. that use knowledge from the org-elements parser to move the cursor
  3054. in a paragraph-like way.
  3055. *** New entities in =org-entities.el=
  3056. Add support for ell, imath, jmath, varphi, varpi, aleph, gimel, beth,
  3057. dalet, cdots, S (§), dag, ddag, colon, therefore, because, triangleq,
  3058. leq, geq, lessgtr, lesseqgtr, ll, lll, gg, ggg, prec, preceq,
  3059. preccurlyeq, succ, succeq, succurlyeq, setminus, nexist(s), mho,
  3060. check, frown, diamond. Changes loz, vert, checkmark, smile and tilde.
  3061. *** Anonymous export back-ends
  3062. ~org-export-create-backend~ can create anonymous export back-ends,
  3063. which can then be passed to export functions like
  3064. ~org-export-to-file~, ~org-export-to-buffer~ or ~org-export-as~.
  3065. It allows for quick translation of Org syntax without the overhead of
  3066. registering a new back-end.
  3067. *** New agenda fortnight view
  3068. The agenda has not, in addition to day, week, month, and year
  3069. views, also a fortnight view covering 14 days.
  3070. ** New options
  3071. *** New option [[doc:org-bookmark-names-plist][org-bookmark-names-plist]]
  3072. This allows to specify the names of automatic bookmarks.
  3073. *** New option [[doc:org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties][org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties]]
  3074. This allows more flexibility when optimizing the agenda generation.
  3075. See https://orgmode.org/worg/agenda-optimization.html for details.
  3076. *** New option: [[doc:org-html-link-use-abs-url][org-html-link-use-abs-url]] to force using absolute URLs
  3077. This is an export/publishing option, and should be used either within
  3078. the =#+OPTIONS= line(s) or within a [[doc:org-publish-project-alist][org-publish-project-alist]].
  3079. Setting this option to =t= is needed when the HTML output does not
  3080. allow relative URLs. For example, the =contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el=
  3081. library produces a RSS feed, and RSS feeds need to use absolute URLs,
  3082. so a combination of =:html-link-home "..." and :html-link-use-abs-url
  3083. t= is required---see the configuration example in the comment section
  3084. of =ox-rss.el=.
  3085. *** New option [[doc:org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd][org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd]]
  3086. This makes java executable configurable for ditaa blocks.
  3087. *** New options [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex][org-babel-latex-htlatex]] and [[doc:org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages][org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages]]
  3088. This enables SVG generation from latex code blocks.
  3089. *** New option: [[doc:org-habit-show-done-always-green][org-habit-show-done-always-green]]
  3090. See [[https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg00214.html][this message]] from Max Mikhanosha.
  3091. *** New option: [[doc:org-babel-inline-result-wrap][org-babel-inline-result-wrap]]
  3092. If you set this to the following
  3093. : (setq org-babel-inline-result-wrap "$%s$")
  3094. then inline code snippets will be wrapped into the formatting string.
  3095. *** New option: [[doc:org-special-ctrl-o][org-special-ctrl-o]]
  3096. This variable can be used to turn off the special behavior of
  3097. =C-o= in tables.
  3098. ** New contributed packages
  3099. - =ox-bibtex.el= by Nicolas Goaziou :: an utility to handle BibTeX
  3100. export to both LaTeX and HTML exports. It uses the [[https://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/][bibtex2html]]
  3101. software.
  3102. - =org-screenshot.el= by Max Mikhanosha :: an utility to handle
  3103. screenshots easily from Org, using the external tool [[https://freecode.com/projects/scrot][scrot]].
  3104. ** Miscellaneous
  3105. *** "QUOTE" keywords in headlines are deprecated
  3106. "QUOTE" keywords are an undocumented feature in Org. When a headline
  3107. starts with the keyword "QUOTE", its contents are parsed as
  3108. a ~quote-section~ and treated as an example block. You can achieve
  3109. the same with example blocks.
  3110. This feature is deprecated and will be removed in the next Org
  3111. release.
  3112. * Version 8.0.1
  3113. ** Installation
  3114. Installation instructions have been updated and simplified.
  3115. If you have troubles installing or updating Org, focus on these
  3116. instructions:
  3117. - when updating via a =.zip/.tar.gz= file, you only need to set the
  3118. =load-path= in your =.emacs=. Set it before any other Org
  3119. customization that would call autoloaded Org functions.
  3120. - when updating by pulling Org's Git repository, make sure to create the
  3121. correct autoloads. You can do this by running =~$ make autoloads= (to
  3122. only create the autoloads) or by running =~$ make= (to also compile
  3123. the Emacs lisp files.) =~$ make help= and =~$ make helpall= gives you
  3124. detailed explanations.
  3125. - when updating through ELPA (either from GNU ELPA or from Org ELPA),
  3126. you have to install Org's ELPA package in a session where no Org
  3127. function has been called already.
  3128. When in doubt, run =M-x org-version RET= and see if you have a mixed-up
  3129. installation.
  3130. See https://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
  3131. ** Incompatible changes
  3132. Org 8.0 is the most disruptive major version of Org.
  3133. If you configured export options, you will have to update some of them.
  3134. If you used =#+ATTR_*= keywords, the syntax of the attributes changed and
  3135. you will have to update them.
  3136. Below is a list of changes for which you need to take action.
  3137. See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html for the most recent version of
  3138. this list and for detailed instructions on how to migrate.
  3139. **** New export engine
  3140. Org 8.0 comes with a new export engine written by Nicolas Goaziou. This
  3141. export engine relies on ~org-element.el~ (Org's syntax parser), which was
  3142. already in Org's core. This new export engine triggered the rewriting of
  3143. /all/ export back-ends.
  3144. The most visible change is the export dispatcher, accessible through the
  3145. keybinding =C-c C-e=. By default, this menu only shows some of the
  3146. built-in export formats, but you can add more formats by loading them
  3147. directly (e.g., =(require 'ox-texinfo)= or by configuring the option
  3148. [[doc:org-export-backends][org-export-backends]].
  3149. More contributed back-ends are available from the =contrib/= directory, the
  3150. corresponding files start with the =ox-= prefix.
  3151. If you customized an export back-end (like HTML or LaTeX), you will need to
  3152. rename some options so that your customization is not lost. Typically, an
  3153. option starting with =org-export-html-= is now named =org-html-=. See the
  3154. manual for details and check [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html][this Worg page]] for directions.
  3155. **** New syntax for #+ATTR_HTML/LaTeX/... options
  3156. : #+ATTR_HTML width="200px"
  3157. should now be written
  3158. : #+ATTR_HTML :width 200px
  3159. Keywords like =#+ATTR_HTML= and =#+ATTR_LaTeX= are defined in their
  3160. respective back-ends, and the list of supported parameters depends on
  3161. each backend. See Org's manual for details.
  3162. **** ~org-remember.el~ has been removed
  3163. You cannot use =remember.el= anymore to capture notes.
  3164. Support for remember templates has been obsoleted since long, it is
  3165. now fully removed.
  3166. Use =M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET= to import your
  3167. remember templates into capture templates.
  3168. **** ~org-jsinfo.el~ has been merged into ~ox-html.el~
  3169. If you were requiring ~ox-jsinfo.el~ in your ~.emacs.el~ file, you
  3170. will have to remove this requirement from your initialization file.
  3171. **** Note for third-party developers
  3172. The name of the files for export back-end have changed: we now use the
  3173. prefix =ox-= for those files (like we use the =ob-= prefix for Babel
  3174. files.) For example ~org-html.el~ is now ~ox-html.el~.
  3175. If your code relies on these files, please update the names in your
  3176. code.
  3177. **** Packages moved from core to contrib
  3178. Since packages in Org's core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we try
  3179. to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For 8.0, we
  3180. moved some contributions into the =contrib/= directory.
  3181. The rationale for deciding that these files should live in =contrib/=
  3182. is either because they rely on third-party software that is not
  3183. included in Emacs, or because they are not targeting a significant
  3184. user-base.
  3185. - org-colview-xemacs.el
  3186. - org-mac-message.el
  3187. - org-mew.el
  3188. - org-wl.el
  3189. - ox-freedmind.el
  3190. - ox-taskjuggler.el
  3191. Note that ~ox-freedmind.el~ has been rewritten by Jambunathan,
  3192. ~org-mew.el~ has been enhanced by Tokuya Kameshima and
  3193. ~ox-taskjuggler.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and others.
  3194. Also, the Taskjuggler exporter now uses TJ3 by default. John Hendy
  3195. wrote [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler3.html][a tutorial on Worg]] for the TJ3 export.
  3196. ** New packages in core
  3197. *** ~ob-makefile.el~ by Eric Schulte and Thomas S. Dye
  3198. =ob-makefile.el= implements Org Babel support for Makefile tangling.
  3199. *** ~ox-man.el~ by Luis Anaya
  3200. =ox-man.el= allows you to export Org files to =man= pages.
  3201. *** ~ox-md.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou
  3202. =ox-md.el= allows you to export Org files to Markdown files, using the
  3203. vanilla [[https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/][Markdown syntax]].
  3204. *** ~ox-texinfo.el~ by Jonathan Leech-Pepin
  3205. =ox-texinfo.el= allows you to export Org files to [[https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] files.
  3206. ** New packages in contrib
  3207. *** ~ob-julia.el~ by G. Jay Kerns
  3208. [[https://julialang.org/][Julia]] is a new programming language.
  3209. =ob-julia.el= provides Org Babel support for evaluating Julia source
  3210. code.
  3211. *** ~ob-mathomatic.el~ by Luis Anaya
  3212. [[https://www.mathomatic.org/][mathomatic]] a portable, command-line, educational CAS and calculator
  3213. software, written entirely in the C programming language.
  3214. ~ob-mathomatic.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating mathomatic
  3215. entries.
  3216. *** ~ob-tcl.el~ by Luis Anaya
  3217. ~ob-tcl.el~ provides Org Babel support for evaluating [[https://www.tcl.tk/][Tcl]] source code.
  3218. *** ~org-bullets.el~ by Evgeni Sabof
  3219. Display bullets instead of stars for headlines.
  3220. Also see [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#sec-8-12][this updated FAQ]] on how to display another character than "*"
  3221. for starting headlines.
  3222. *** ~org-favtable.el~ by Marc-Oliver Ihm
  3223. ~org-favtable.el~ helps you to create and update a table of favorite
  3224. locations in org, keeping the most frequently visited lines right at
  3225. the top. This table is called "favtable". See the documentation on
  3226. [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-favtable.html][Worg]].
  3227. *** ~ox-confluence.el~ by Sébastien Delafond
  3228. ~ox-confluence.el~ lets you convert Org files to [[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence%2BWiki%2BMarkup][Confluence Wiki]] files.
  3229. *** ~ox-deck.el~ and ~ox-s5.el~ by Rick Frankel
  3230. [[http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/][deck.js]] is a javascript library for displaying HTML ages as
  3231. presentations. ~ox-deck.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
  3232. using =deck.js=.
  3233. [[https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/][s5]] is a set of scripts which also allows to display HTML pages as
  3234. presentations. ~ox-s5.el~ exports Org files to HTML presentations
  3235. using =s5=.
  3236. *** ~ox-groff.el~ by Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou
  3237. The [[https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/][groff]] (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads
  3238. plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted
  3239. output.
  3240. Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou implemented ~ox-groff.el~ to allow
  3241. conversion from Org files to groff.
  3242. *** ~ox-koma-letter.el~ by Nicolas Goaziou and Alan Schmitt
  3243. This back-end allow to export Org pages to the =KOMA Scrlttr2= format.
  3244. *** ~ox-rss.el~ by Bastien
  3245. This back-end lets you export Org pages to RSS 2.0 feeds. Combined
  3246. with the HTML publishing feature, this allows you to build a blog
  3247. entirely with Org.
  3248. ** New features
  3249. *** Export
  3250. **** New export generic options
  3251. If you use Org exporter, we advise you to re-read [[https://orgmode.org/org.html#Exporting][the manual section about
  3252. it]]. It has been updated and includes new options.
  3253. Among the new/updated export options, three are of particular importance:
  3254. - [[doc:org-export-allow-bind-keywords][org-export-allow-bind-keywords]] :: This option replaces the old option
  3255. =org-export-allow-BIND= and the default value is =nil=, not =confirm=.
  3256. You will need to explicitly set this to =t= in your initialization
  3257. file if you want to allow =#+BIND= keywords.
  3258. - [[doc:org-export-with-planning][org-export-with-planning]] :: This new option controls the export of
  3259. =SCHEDULED:, DEADLINE:, CLOSED:= lines, and planning information is
  3260. now skipped by default during export. This use to be the job of
  3261. [[doc:org-export-with-timestamps][org-export-with-timestamps]], but this latter option has been given a
  3262. new role: it controls the export of /standalone time-stamps/. When
  3263. set to =nil=, Org will not export active and inactive time-stamps
  3264. standing on a line by themselves or within a paragraph that only
  3265. contains time-stamps.
  3266. To check if an option has been introduced or its default value changed in
  3267. Org 8.0, do =C-h v [option] RET= and check if the documentation says that
  3268. the variable has been introduced (or changed) in version 24.4 of Emacs.
  3269. **** Enhanced default stylesheet for the HTML exporter
  3270. See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-style-default][org-html-style-default]].
  3271. **** New tags, classes and ids for the HTML exporter
  3272. See the new default value of [[doc:org-html-divs][org-html-divs]].
  3273. **** Support for tikz pictures in LaTeX export
  3274. **** ~org-man.el~: New export function for "man" links
  3275. **** ~org-docview.el~: New export function for docview links
  3276. *** Structure editing
  3277. **** =C-u C-u M-RET= inserts a heading at the end of the parent subtree
  3278. **** Cycling to the =CONTENTS= view keeps inline tasks folded
  3279. [[doc:org-cycle-hook][org-cycle-hook]] as a new function [[doc:org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks][org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks]] which
  3280. prevents the display of inline tasks when showing the content of a subtree.
  3281. **** =C-c -= in a region makes a list item for each line
  3282. This is the opposite of the previous behavior, where =C-c -= on a region
  3283. would create one item for the whole region, and where =C-u C-c -= would
  3284. create an item for each line. Now =C-c -= on the selected region creates
  3285. an item per line, and =C-u C-c -= creates a single item for the whole
  3286. region.
  3287. **** When transposing words, markup characters are now part of the words
  3288. In Emacs, you can transpose words with =M-t=. Transposing =*these*
  3289. _words__= will preserve markup.
  3290. **** New command [[doc:org-set-property-and-value][org-set-property-and-value]] bound to =C-c C-x P=
  3291. This command allows you to quickly add both the property and its value. It
  3292. is useful in buffers where there are many properties and where =C-c C-x p=
  3293. can slow down the flow of editing too much.
  3294. **** New commands [[doc:org-next-block][org-next-block]] and [[doc:org-previous-block][org-previous-block]]
  3295. These commands allow you to go to the previous block (=C-c M-b= or the
  3296. speedy key =B=) or to the next block (=C-c M-f= or the speedy key =F=.)
  3297. **** New commands [[doc:org-drag-line-forward][org-drag-line-forward]] and [[doc:org-drag-line-backward][org-drag-line-backward]]
  3298. These commands emulate the old behavior of =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= but are
  3299. now bound to =S-M-<down>= and =S-M-<up>= respectively, since =M-<down>= and
  3300. =M-<up>= now drag the whole element at point (a paragraph, a table, etc.)
  3301. forward and backward.
  3302. **** When a list item has a checkbox, inserting a new item uses a checkbox too
  3303. **** When sorting entries/items, only the description of links is considered
  3304. Now Org will sort this list
  3305. : - [[https://abc.org][B]]
  3306. : - [[https://def.org][A]]
  3307. like this:
  3308. : - [[https://def.org][A]]
  3309. : - [[https://abc.org][B]]
  3310. by comparing the descriptions, not the links.
  3311. Same when sorting headlines instead of list items.
  3312. **** New option =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp=
  3313. For example, setting this option to "^;;; " in Emacs lisp files and using
  3314. =orgstruct-mode= in those files will allow you to cycle through visibility
  3315. states as if lines starting with ";;; *..." where headlines.
  3316. In general, you want to set =orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp= as a file
  3317. local variable.
  3318. **** New behavior of [[doc:org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift][org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift]]
  3319. The default is now to ask for a time-shift only when there is a time-stamp.
  3320. When called with a universal prefix argument =C-u=, it will not ask for a
  3321. time-shift even if there is a time-stamp.
  3322. **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree][org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree]]
  3323. This defaults to =t= so that the whole subtree is highlighted when you
  3324. restrict the agenda view to it with =C-c C-x <= (or the speed command =<=).
  3325. The default setting helps ensuring that you are not adding tasks after the
  3326. restricted region. If you find this highlighting too intrusive, set this
  3327. option to =nil=.
  3328. **** New option [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]]
  3329. When switching back from a =DONE= keyword to a =TODO= keyword, Org now
  3330. removes the =CLOSED= planning information, if any. It also removes this
  3331. information when going back to a non-TODO state (e.g., with =C-c C-t SPC=).
  3332. If you want to keep the =CLOSED= planning information when removing the
  3333. TODO keyword, set [[doc:org-closed-keep-when-no-todo][org-closed-keep-when-no-todo]] to =t=.
  3334. **** New option [[doc:org-image-actual-width][org-image-actual-width]]
  3335. This option allows you to change the width of in-buffer displayed images.
  3336. The default is to use the actual width of the image, but you can use a
  3337. fixed value for all images, or fall back on an attribute like
  3338. : #+attr_html: :width 300px
  3339. *** Scheduled/deadline
  3340. **** Implement "delay" cookies for scheduled items
  3341. If you want to delay the display of a scheduled task in the agenda, you can
  3342. now use a delay cookie like this: =SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>=. The
  3343. task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear in your agenda starting
  3344. from two days later (i.e. from March 27th.)
  3345. Imagine for example that your co-workers are not done in due time and tell
  3346. you "we need two more days". In that case, you may want to delay the
  3347. display of the task in your agenda by two days, but you still want the task
  3348. to appear as scheduled on March 25th.
  3349. In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all
  3350. occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled
  3351. occurrence of the task, use =--2d= instead. See [[doc:org-scheduled-delay-days][org-scheduled-delay-days]]
  3352. and [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline]] for details on how to
  3353. control this globally or per agenda.
  3354. **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-s= will insert a delay cookie for scheduled tasks
  3355. See the previous section for why delay cookies may be useful.
  3356. **** Use =C-u C-u C-c C-d= will insert a warning delay for deadline tasks
  3357. =C-u C-u C-c C-d= now inserts a warning delay to deadlines.
  3358. *** Calendar, diary and appts
  3359. **** New variable [[doc:org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map][org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map]]
  3360. By default, this new local map uses "." to go to today's date, like in the
  3361. normal =M-x calendar RET=. If you want to deactivate this and to reassign
  3362. the "@" key to =calendar-goto-today=, use this:
  3363. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  3364. ;; Unbind "." in Org's calendar:
  3365. (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd ".") nil)
  3366. ;; Bind "@" to `calendar-goto-today':
  3367. (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
  3368. (kbd "@")
  3369. (lambda () (interactive) (org-eval-in-calendar '(calendar-goto-today))))
  3370. #+END_SRC
  3371. **** In Org's calendar, =!= displays diary entries of the date at point
  3372. This is useful when you want to check if you don't already have an
  3373. appointment when setting new ones with =C-c .= or =C-c s=. =!= will
  3374. call =diary-view-entries= and display the diary in a separate buffer.
  3375. **** [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]]: only keep the descriptions of links
  3376. [[doc:org-diary][org-diary]] returns diary information from Org files, but it returns it
  3377. in a diary buffer, not in an Org mode buffer. When links are displayed,
  3378. only show their description, not the full links.
  3379. *** Agenda
  3380. **** New agenda type =agenda*= and entry types =:scheduled* :deadline*=
  3381. When defining agenda custom commands, you can now use =agenda*=: this will
  3382. list entries that have both a date and a time. This is useful when you
  3383. want to build a list of appointments.
  3384. You can also set [[doc:org-agenda-entry-types][org-agenda-entry-types]] either globally or locally in
  3385. each agenda custom command and use =:timestamp*= and/or =:deadline*= there.
  3386. Another place where this is useful is your =.diary= file:
  3387. : %%(org-diary :scheduled*) ~/org/rdv.org
  3388. This will list only entries from =~/org/rdv.org= that are scheduled with a
  3389. time value (i.e. appointments).
  3390. **** New agenda sorting strategies
  3391. [[doc:org-agenda-sorting-strategy][org-agenda-sorting-strategy]] allows these new sorting strategies:
  3392. | Strategy | Explanations |
  3393. |----------------+------------------------------------------|
  3394. | timestamp-up | Sort by any timestamp, early first |
  3395. | timestamp-down | Sort by any timestamp, late first |
  3396. | scheduled-up | Sort by scheduled timestamp, early first |
  3397. | scheduled-down | Sort by scheduled timestamp, late first |
  3398. | deadline-up | Sort by deadline timestamp, early first |
  3399. | deadline-down | Sort by deadline timestamp, late first |
  3400. | ts-up | Sort by active timestamp, early first |
  3401. | ts-down | Sort by active timestamp, late first |
  3402. | tsia-up | Sort by inactive timestamp, early first |
  3403. | tsia-down | Sort by inactive timestamp, late first |
  3404. **** New options to limit the number of agenda entries
  3405. You can now limit the number of entries in an agenda view. This is
  3406. different from filters: filters only /hide/ the entries in the agenda,
  3407. while limits are set while generating the list of agenda entries.
  3408. These new options are available:
  3409. - [[doc:org-agenda-max-entries][org-agenda-max-entries]] :: limit by number of entries.
  3410. - [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] :: limit by number of TODOs.
  3411. - [[doc:org-agenda-max-tags][org-agenda-max-tags]] :: limit by number of tagged entries.
  3412. - [[doc:org-agenda-max-effort][org-agenda-max-effort]] :: limit by effort (minutes).
  3413. For example, if you locally set [[doc:org-agenda-max-todos][org-agenda-max-todos]] to 3 in an agenda
  3414. view, the agenda will be limited to the first three todos. Other entries
  3415. without a TODO keyword or beyond the third TODO headline will be ignored.
  3416. When setting a limit (e.g. about an effort's sum), the default behavior is
  3417. to exclude entries that cannot be checked against (e.g. entries that have
  3418. no effort property.) To include other entries too, you can set the limit
  3419. to a negative number. For example =(setq org-agenda-max-tags -3)= will not
  3420. show the fourth tagged headline (and beyond), but it will also show
  3421. non-tagged headlines.
  3422. **** =~= in agenda view sets temporary limits
  3423. You can hit =~= in the agenda to temporarily set limits: this will
  3424. regenerate the agenda as if the limits were set. This is useful for
  3425. example when you want to only see a list of =N= tasks, or a list of tasks
  3426. that take only =N= minutes.
  3427. **** "=" in agenda view filters by regular expressions
  3428. You can now filter agenda entries by regular expressions using ~=~. =C-u
  3429. == will filter entries out. Regexp filters are cumulative. You can set
  3430. [[doc:org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset][org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset]] to suit your needs in each agenda view.
  3431. **** =|= in agenda view resets all filters
  3432. Since it's common to combine tag filters, category filters, and now regexp
  3433. filters, there is a new command =|= to reset all filters at once.
  3434. **** Allow writing an agenda to an =.org= file
  3435. You can now write an agenda view to an =.org= file. It copies the
  3436. headlines and their content (but not subheadings) into the new file.
  3437. This is useful when you want to quickly share an agenda containing the full
  3438. list of notes.
  3439. **** New commands to drag an agenda line forward (=M-<down>=) or backward (=M-<up>=)
  3440. It sometimes handy to move agenda lines around, just to quickly reorganize
  3441. your tasks, or maybe before saving the agenda to a file. Now you can use
  3442. =M-<down>= and =M-<up>= to move the line forward or backward.
  3443. This does not persist after a refresh of the agenda, and this does not
  3444. change the =.org= files who contribute to the agenda.
  3445. **** Use =%b= for displaying "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view
  3446. [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] now allows to use a =%b= formatter to tell Org
  3447. to display "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view.
  3448. This is useful when you want to display the task hierarchy in your agenda.
  3449. **** Use =%l= for displaying the headline's level in the agenda view
  3450. [[doc:org-agenda-prefix-format][org-agenda-prefix-format]] allows to use a =%l= formatter to tell Org to
  3451. display entries with additional spaces corresponding to their level in the
  3452. outline tree.
  3453. **** [[doc:org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] will ask before overwriting an existing file
  3454. =M-x org-agenda-write RET= (or =C-c C-w= from an agenda buffer) used to
  3455. overwrite preexisting file with the same name without confirmation. It now
  3456. asks for a confirmation.
  3457. **** New commands =M-m= and =M-*= to toggle (all) mark(s) for bulk action
  3458. - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle][org-agenda-bulk-toggle]] :: this command is bound to =M-m= and toggles
  3459. the mark of the entry at point.
  3460. - [[doc:org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all][org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all]] :: this command is bound to =M-*= and
  3461. toggles all the marks in the current agenda.
  3462. **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level][org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level]]
  3463. This option sets the maximum outline level to display in search view.
  3464. E.g. when this is set to 1, the search view will only show headlines of
  3465. level 1.
  3466. **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds][org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds]]
  3467. This allows to compare times using seconds instead of days when honoring
  3468. options like =org-agenda-todo-ignore-*= in the agenda display.
  3469. **** New option [[doc:org-agenda-entry-text-leaders][org-agenda-entry-text-leaders]]
  3470. This allows you to get rid of the ">" character that gets added in front of
  3471. entries excerpts when hitting =E= in the agenda view.
  3472. **** New formatting string for past deadlines in [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]
  3473. The default formatting for past deadlines is ="%2d d. ago: "=, which makes
  3474. it explicit that the deadline is in the past. You can configure this via
  3475. [[doc:org-agenda-deadline-leaders][org-agenda-deadline-leaders]]. Note that the width of the formatting
  3476. string is important to keep the agenda alignment clean.
  3477. **** New allowed value =repeated-after-deadline= for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]]
  3478. When [[doc:org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown]] is set to
  3479. =repeated-after-deadline=, the agenda will skip scheduled items if they are
  3480. repeated beyond the current deadline.
  3481. **** New option for [[doc:org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled][org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled]]
  3482. This variable may be set to nil, t, the symbol `pre-scheduled', or a number
  3483. which will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when the
  3484. prewarnings should resume. The symbol `pre-scheduled' eliminates the
  3485. deadline prewarning only prior to the scheduled date.
  3486. Read the full docstring for details.
  3487. **** [[doc:org-class][org-class]] now supports holiday strings in the skip-weeks parameter
  3488. For example, this task will now be skipped only on new year's day:
  3489. : * Task
  3490. : <%%(org-class 2012 1 1 2013 12 12 2 "New Year's Day")>
  3491. *** Capture
  3492. **** Allow =C-1= as a prefix for [[doc:org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] and [[doc:org-capture][org-capture]]
  3493. With a =C-1= prefix, the capture mechanism will use the =HH:MM= value at
  3494. point (if any) or the current =HH:MM= time as the default time for the
  3495. capture template.
  3496. **** Expand keywords within %(sexp) placeholder in capture templates
  3497. If you use a =%:keyword= construct within a =%(sexp)= construct, Org will
  3498. expand the keywords before expanding the =%(sexp)=.
  3499. **** Allow to contextualize capture (and agenda) commands by checking the name of the buffer
  3500. [[doc:org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]] and [[doc:org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
  3501. allow you to define what capture templates and what agenda commands should
  3502. be available in various contexts. It is now possible for the context to
  3503. check against the name of the buffer.
  3504. *** Tag groups
  3505. Using =#+TAGS: { Tag1 : Tag2 Tag3 }= will define =Tag1= as a /group tag/
  3506. (note the colon after =Tag1=). If you search for =Tag1=, it will return
  3507. headlines containing either =Tag1=, =Tag2= or =Tag3= (or any combination
  3508. of those tags.)
  3509. You can use group tags for sparse tree in an Org buffer, for creating
  3510. agenda views, and for filtering.
  3511. See https://orgmode.org/org.html#Tag-groups for details.
  3512. *** Links
  3513. **** =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= will ignore non-core link functions
  3514. Org knows how to store links from Org buffers, from info files and from
  3515. other Emacs buffers. Org can be taught how to store links from any buffer
  3516. through new link protocols (see [[https://orgmode.org/org.html#Adding-hyperlink-types]["Adding hyperlink types"]] in the manual.)
  3517. Sometimes you want Org to ignore added link protocols and store the link
  3518. as if the protocol was not known.
  3519. You can now do this with =C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET=.
  3520. **** =C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET= on an active region will store links for each lines
  3521. Imagine for example that you want to store a link for every message in a
  3522. Gnus summary buffer. In that case =C-x h C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link
  3523. RET= will store a link for every line (i.e. message) if the region is
  3524. active.
  3525. **** =C-c C-M-l= will add a default description for links which don't have one
  3526. =C-c C-M-l= inserts all stored links. If a link does not have a
  3527. description, this command now adds a default one, so that we are not mixing
  3528. with-description and without-description links when inserting them.
  3529. **** No curly braces to bracket links within internal links
  3530. When storing a link to a headline like
  3531. : * See [[https://orgmode.org][Org website]]
  3532. [[doc:org-store-link][org-store-link]] used to convert the square brackets into curly brackets.
  3533. It does not anymore, taking the link description or the link path, when
  3534. there is no description.
  3535. *** Table
  3536. **** Switching between #+TBLFM lines
  3537. If you have several =#+TBLFM= lines below a table, =C-c C-c= on a line will
  3538. apply the formulas from this line, and =C-c C-c= on another line will apply
  3539. those other formulas.
  3540. **** You now use "nan" for empty fields in Calc formulas
  3541. If empty fields are of interest, it is recommended to reread the section
  3542. [[https://orgmode.org/org.html#Formula-syntax-for-Calc][3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc]] of the manual because the description for the
  3543. mode strings has been clarified and new examples have been added towards
  3544. the end.
  3545. **** Handle localized time-stamps in formulas evaluation
  3546. If your =LOCALE= is set so that Org time-stamps use another language than
  3547. english, and if you make time computations in Org's table, it now works by
  3548. internally converting the time-stamps with a temporary =LOCALE=C= before
  3549. doing computation.
  3550. **** New lookup functions
  3551. There are now three lookup functions:
  3552. - [[doc:org-loopup-first][org-loopup-first]]
  3553. - [[doc:org-loopup-last][org-loopup-last]]
  3554. - [[doc:org-loopup-all][org-loopup-all]]
  3555. See [[https://orgmode.org/org.html#Lookup-functions][the manual]] for details.
  3556. *** Startup keywords
  3557. These new startup keywords are now available:
  3558. | Startup keyword | Option |
  3559. |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
  3560. | =#+STARTUP: logdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer t)= |
  3561. | =#+STARTUP: nologdrawer= | =(setq org-log-into-drawer nil)= |
  3562. |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
  3563. | =#+STARTUP: logstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed t)= |
  3564. | =#+STARTUP: nologstatesreversed= | =(setq org-log-states-order-reversed nil)= |
  3565. |----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
  3566. | =#+STARTUP: latexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview t)= |
  3567. | =#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview= | =(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview nil)= |
  3568. *** Clocking
  3569. **** New option [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]]
  3570. E.g. if [[doc:org-clock-rounding-minutes][org-clock-rounding-minutes]] is set to 5, time is 14:47 and you
  3571. clock in: then the clock starts at 14:45. If you clock out within the next
  3572. 5 minutes, the clock line will be removed; if you clock out 8 minutes after
  3573. your clocked in, the clock out time will be 14:50.
  3574. **** New option [[doc:org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations][org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations]]
  3575. When non-nil, =C-c C-x C-d= uses effort durations. E.g., by default, one
  3576. day is considered to be a 8 hours effort, so a task that has been clocked
  3577. for 16 hours will be displayed as during 2 days in the clock display or in
  3578. the clocktable.
  3579. See [[doc:org-effort-durations][org-effort-durations]] on how to set effort durations and
  3580. [[doc:org-time-clocksum-format][org-time-clocksum-format]] for more on time clock formats.
  3581. **** New option [[doc:org-clock-x11idle-program-name][org-clock-x11idle-program-name]]
  3582. This allows to set the name of the program which prints X11 idle time in
  3583. milliseconds. The default is to use =x11idle=.
  3584. **** New option [[doc:org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time][org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time]]
  3585. When non-nil, use the last clock out time for [[doc:org-todo][org-todo]]. Note that this
  3586. option has precedence over the combined use of [[doc:org-use-effective-time][org-use-effective-time]] and
  3587. [[doc:org-extend-today-until][org-extend-today-until]].
  3588. **** =S-<left/right>= on a clocksum column will update the sum by updating the last clock
  3589. **** =C-u 3 C-S-<up/down>= will update clock timestamps synchronously by 3 units
  3590. **** New parameter =:wstart= for clocktables to define the week start day
  3591. **** New parameter =:mstart= to state the starting day of the month
  3592. **** Allow relative times in clocktable tstart and tend options
  3593. **** The clocktable summary is now a caption
  3594. **** =:tstart= and =:tend= and friends allow relative times like "<-1w>" or "<now>"
  3595. *** Babel
  3596. **** You can now use =C-c C-k= for [[doc:org-edit-src-abort][org-edit-src-abort]]
  3597. This allows you to quickly cancel editing a source block.
  3598. **** =C-u C-u M-x org-babel-tangle RET= tangles by the target file of the block at point
  3599. This is handy if you want to tangle all source code blocks that have the
  3600. same target than the block at point.
  3601. **** New options for auto-saving the base buffer or the source block editing buffer
  3602. When [[doc:org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save][org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save]] is set to =t=, editing a source block
  3603. in a new window will turn on =auto-save-mode= and save the code in a new
  3604. file under the same directory than the base Org file.
  3605. When [[doc:org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay][org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay]] is set to a number of minutes =N=,
  3606. the base Org buffer will be saved after this number of minutes of idle
  3607. time.
  3608. **** New =:post= header argument post-processes results
  3609. This header argument may be used to pass the results of the current
  3610. code block through another code block for post-processing. See the
  3611. manual for a usage example.
  3612. **** Commented out heading are ignored when collecting blocks for tangling
  3613. If you comment out a heading (with =C-c ;= anywhere on the heading or in
  3614. the subtree), code blocks from within this heading are now ignored when
  3615. collecting blocks for tangling.
  3616. **** New option [[doc:org-babel-hash-show-time][org-babel-hash-show-time]] to show a time-stamp in the result hash
  3617. **** Do not ask for confirmation if cached value is current
  3618. Do not run [[doc:org-babel-confirm-evaluate][org-babel-confirm-evaluate]] if source block has a cache and the
  3619. cache value is current as there is no evaluation involved in this case.
  3620. **** =ob-sql.el= and =ob-python.el= have been improved.
  3621. **** New Babel files only need to =(require 'ob)=
  3622. When writing a new Babel file, you now only need to use =(require 'ob)=
  3623. instead of requiring each Babel library one by one.
  3624. *** Faces
  3625. - Org now fontifies radio link targets by default
  3626. - In the agenda, use [[doc:org-todo-keyword-faces][org-todo-keyword-faces]] to highlight selected TODO keywords
  3627. - New face [[doc:org-priority][org-priority]], enhanced fontification of priority cookies in agenda
  3628. - New face [[doc:org-tag-group][org-tag-group]] for group tags
  3629. ** Miscellaneous
  3630. - New speedy key =s= pour [[doc:org-narrow-to-subtree][org-narrow-to-subtree]]
  3631. - Handling of [[doc:org-html-table-row][org-html-table-row]] has been updated (incompatible change)
  3632. - [[doc:org-export-html-table-tag][org-export-html-table-tag]] is replaced by [[doc:org-html-table-default-attributes][org-html-table-default-attributes]]
  3633. - Support using =git-annex= with Org attachments
  3634. - org-protocol: Pass optional value using query in url to capture from protocol
  3635. - When the refile history is empty, use the current filename as default
  3636. - When you cannot change the TODO state of a task, Org displays the blocking task
  3637. - New option [[doc:org-mobile-allpriorities][org-mobile-allpriorities]]
  3638. - org-bibtex.el now use =visual-line-mode= instead of the deprecated =longlines-mode=
  3639. - [[doc:org-format-latex-options][org-format-latex-options]] allows to set the foreground/background colors automatically
  3640. - New option [[doc:org-archive-file-header-format][org-archive-file-header-format]]
  3641. - New "neg" entity in [[doc:org-entities][org-entities]]
  3642. - New function [[doc:org-docview-export][org-docview-export]] to export docview links
  3643. - New =:eps= header argument for ditaa code blocks
  3644. - New option [[doc:org-gnus-no-server][org-gnus-no-server]] to start Gnus with =gnus-no-server=
  3645. - Org is now distributed with =htmlize.el= version 1.43
  3646. - ~org-drill.el~ has been updated to version 2.3.7
  3647. - ~org-mac-iCal.el~ now supports OS X versions up to 10.8
  3648. - Various improvements to ~org-contacts.el~ and =orgpan.el=
  3649. ** Outside Org
  3650. *** Spanish translation of the Org guide by David Arroyo Menéndez
  3651. David (and others) translated the Org compact guide in spanish:
  3652. You can read the [[https://orgmode.org/worg/orgguide/orgguide.es.pdf][PDF guide]].
  3653. *** ~poporg.el~ and ~outorg.el~
  3654. Two new libraries (~poporg.el~ by François Pinard and ~outorg.el~ by
  3655. Thorsten Jolitz) now enable editing of comment-sections from source-code
  3656. buffers in temporary Org-mode buffers, making the full editing power of
  3657. Org-mode available. ~outorg.el~ comes together with ~outshine.el~ and
  3658. ~navi-mode.el~, two more libraries by Thorsten Jolitz with the goal to give
  3659. source-code buffers the /look & feel/ of Org-mode buffers while greatly
  3660. improving navigation and structure editing. A detailed description can be
  3661. found here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
  3662. Here are two screencasts demonstrating Thorsten's tools:
  3663. - [[https://youtu.be/nqE6YxlY0rw]["Modern conventions for Emacs Lisp files"]]
  3664. - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DII-xYw5VGFM][Exploring Bernt Hansen's Org-mode tutorial with 'navi-mode']]
  3665. *** MobileOrg for iOS
  3666. MobileOrg for iOS back in the App Store The 1.6.0 release was focused on
  3667. the new Dropbox API and minor bug fixes but also includes a new ability to
  3668. launch in Capture mode. Track development and contribute [[https://github.com/MobileOrg/mobileorg/issues][on github]].
  3669. * Version 7.9.3
  3670. ** New option [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]]
  3671. [[doc::org-use-tag-inheritance][org-use-tag-inheritance]] controls whether tags are inherited when
  3672. org-tags-view is called (either in =tags=, =tags-tree= or =tags-todo=
  3673. agenda views.)
  3674. When generating other agenda types such as =agenda=, =todo= and
  3675. =todo-tree=, tags inheritance is not used when selecting the entries
  3676. to display. Still, you might want to have all tag information correct
  3677. in the agenda buffer, e.g. for tag filtering. In that case, add the
  3678. agenda type to this variable.
  3679. Setting this variable to nil should considerably speeds up the agenda
  3680. generation.
  3681. Note that the default was to display inherited tags in the agenda
  3682. lines even if `org-use-tag-inheritance' was nil. The default is now
  3683. to *never* display inherited tags in agenda lines, but to /know/ about
  3684. them when the agenda type is listed in [[doc::org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance][org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance]].
  3685. ** New default value =nil= for [[doc::org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks][org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks]]
  3686. Using `nil' as the default value speeds up the agenda generation. You
  3687. can hit `#' (or `C-u #') in agenda buffers to temporarily dim (or turn
  3688. invisible) blocked tasks.
  3689. ** New speedy keys for [[doc::org-speed-commands-default][org-speed-commands-default]]
  3690. You can now use `:' (instead of `;') for setting tags---this is
  3691. consistent with using the `:' key in agenda view.
  3692. You can now use `=' for [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]].
  3693. ** =org-float= is now obsolete, use =diary-float= instead
  3694. ** No GPL manual anymore
  3695. There used to be a GPL version of the Org manual, but this is not the
  3696. case anymore, the Free Software Foundation does not permit this.
  3697. The GNU FDL license is now included in the manual directly.
  3698. ** Enhanced compatibility with Emacs 22 and XEmacs
  3699. Thanks to Achim for his work on enhancing Org's compatibility with
  3700. various Emacsen. Things may not be perfect, but Org should work okay
  3701. in most environments.
  3702. * Version 7.9.2
  3703. ** New ELPA repository for Org packages
  3704. You can now add the Org ELPA repository like this:
  3705. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  3706. (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
  3707. #+END_SRC
  3708. It contains both the =org-*.tar= package (the core Org distribution, also
  3709. available through https://elpa.gnu.org) and the =org-plus*.tar= package (the
  3710. extended Org distribution, with non-GNU packages from the =contrib/=
  3711. directory.)
  3712. See https://orgmode.org/elpa/
  3713. ** Overview of the new keybindings
  3714. | Keybinding | Speedy | Command |
  3715. |-----------------+--------+-----------------------------|
  3716. | =C-c C-x C-z= | | [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]] |
  3717. | =C-c C-x C-q= | | [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]] |
  3718. | =C-c C-x C-x= | | [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] |
  3719. | =M-h= | | [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] |
  3720. | =*= | | [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] |
  3721. | =C-c C-M-l= | | [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]] |
  3722. | =C-c C-x C-M-v= | | [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]] |
  3723. | =C-c C-x E= | =E= | [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]] |
  3724. | | =#= | [[doc::org-toggle-comment][org-toggle-comment]] |
  3725. | | =:= | [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]] |
  3726. | | =W= | Set =APPT_WARNTIME= |
  3727. | =k= | | [[doc::org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] |
  3728. | C-c , | , | [[doc::org-priority][org-priority]] |
  3729. ** New package and Babel language
  3730. *** =org-eshell.el= by Konrad Hinsen is now in Org
  3731. =org-eshell.el= allows you to create links from [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/index.html][Eshell]].
  3732. *** Support for execution of Scala code blocks (see ob-scala.el)
  3733. *** Support for execution of IO code blocks (see ob-io.el)
  3734. ** Incompatible changes
  3735. - If your code relies on =org-write-agenda=, please use
  3736. [[doc::org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] from now on.
  3737. - If your code relies on =org-make-link=, please use =concat=
  3738. instead.
  3739. - =org-link-to-org-use-id= has been renamed to
  3740. =org-id-link-to-org-use-id= and its default value is nil. The
  3741. previous default was =create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id=.
  3742. ** New features and user-visible changes
  3743. *** Org Element
  3744. =org-element.el= is a toolbox for parsing and analyzing "elements"
  3745. in an Org-mode buffer. This has been written by Nicolas Goaziou
  3746. and has been tested for quite some time. It is now part of Org's
  3747. core and many core functions rely on this package.
  3748. Two functions might be particularly handy for users:
  3749. =org-element-at-point= and =org-element-context=.
  3750. See the docstrings for more details.
  3751. Below is a list of editing and navigating commands that now rely
  3752. on =org-element.el=.
  3753. **** [[doc::org-fill-paragraph][org-fill-paragraph]] has been completely rewritten
  3754. The filling mechanisms now rely on org-element, trying to do the
  3755. right thing on each element in various contexts. E.g. filling in
  3756. a list item will preserve indentation; filling in message-mode
  3757. will fall back on the relevant filling functions; etc.
  3758. **** [[doc::org-metaup][org-metaup]] and [[doc::org-metadown][org-metadown]] will drag the element backward/forward
  3759. If you want to get the old behavior (i.e. moving a line up and
  3760. down), you can first select the line as an active region, then
  3761. =org-metaup= or =org-metadown= to move the region backward or
  3762. forward. This also works with regions bigger than just one line.
  3763. **** [[doc::org-up-element][org-up-element]] and [[doc::org-down-element][org-down-element]] (respectively =C-c C-^= and =C-c C-_=)
  3764. This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements.
  3765. **** [[doc::org-backward-element][org-backward-element]] and [[doc::org-forward-element][org-forward-element]] (respectively =M-{= and =M-}=)
  3766. This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of
  3767. elements.
  3768. **** [[doc::org-narrow-to-element][org-narrow-to-element]] will narrow to the element at point
  3769. **** [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] will mark the element at point
  3770. This command is bound to =M-h= and will mark the element at
  3771. point. If the point is at a paragraph, it will mark the
  3772. paragraph. If the point is at a list item, it will mark the list
  3773. item. Etc.
  3774. Note that if point is at the beginning of a list, it will mark
  3775. the whole list.
  3776. To mark a subtree, you can either use =M-h= on the headline
  3777. (since there is no ambiguity about the element you're at) or
  3778. [[doc::org-mark-subtree][org-mark-subtree]] (=C-c @=) anywhere in the subtree.
  3779. Invoking [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] repeatedly will try to mark the next
  3780. element on top of the previous one(s). E.g. hitting =M-h= twice
  3781. on a headline will mark the current subtree and the next one on
  3782. the same level.
  3783. *** Org Agenda
  3784. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]]
  3785. There is a new option =org-agenda-sticky= which enables "sticky"
  3786. agendas. Sticky agendas remain opened in the background so that
  3787. you don't need to regenerate them each time you hit the
  3788. corresponding keystroke. This is a big time saver.
  3789. When [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is =non-nil=, the agenda buffer will be
  3790. named using the agenda key and its description. In sticky
  3791. agendas, the =q= key will just bury the agenda buffers and
  3792. further agenda commands will show existing buffer instead of
  3793. generating new ones.
  3794. If [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is set to =nil=, =q= will kill the single
  3795. agenda buffer.
  3796. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]]
  3797. Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
  3798. agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set
  3799. to this value
  3800. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  3801. (setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts
  3802. '(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt"))))
  3803. #+END_SRC
  3804. then the =p= agenda command will only be available from buffers
  3805. visiting *.txt files. See the docstring and the manual for more
  3806. details on how to use this.
  3807. **** Changes in bulk actions
  3808. The set of commands starting with =k ...= as been deleted and the
  3809. features have been merged into the "bulk action" feature.
  3810. After you marked some entries in the agenda, if you call =B s=,
  3811. the agenda entries will be rescheduled using the date at point if
  3812. on a date header. If you are on an entry with a timestamp, you
  3813. will be prompted for a date to reschedule your marked entries to,
  3814. using the timestamp at point as the default prompt.
  3815. You can now use =k= to capture the marked entry and use the date
  3816. at point as an overriding date for the capture template.
  3817. To bind this behavior to =M-x org-capture RET= (or its
  3818. keybinding), set the new option [[doc::org-capture-use-agenda-date][org-capture-use-agenda-date]] to
  3819. =t=.
  3820. **** =N= and =P= in the agenda will move to the next/previous item
  3821. **** New command [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] to mark all items
  3822. This new command is bound to =*= in agenda mode.
  3823. There is also a new option [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-char][org-agenda-bulk-mark-char]] to set the
  3824. character to use as a mark for bulk actions.
  3825. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-persistent-marks][org-agenda-persistent-marks]]
  3826. When set to =non-nil=, marks will remain visible after a bulk
  3827. action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressing =p= when
  3828. invoking [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-action][org-agenda-bulk-action]]. Marks are deleted if your
  3829. rebuild the agenda buffer or move to another date/span (e.g. with
  3830. =f= or =w=).
  3831. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown]]
  3832. =Non-nil= means skip timestamp line if same entry shows because
  3833. of deadline.
  3834. In the agenda of today, an entry can show up multiple times
  3835. because it has both a plain timestamp and has a nearby deadline.
  3836. When this variable is t, then only the deadline is shown and the
  3837. fact that the entry has a timestamp for or including today is not
  3838. shown. When this variable is =nil=, the entry will be shown
  3839. several times.
  3840. **** New =todo-unblocked= and =nottodo-unblocked= skip conditions
  3841. See the [[https://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f426da][git commit]] for more explanations.
  3842. **** Allow category filtering in the agenda
  3843. You can now filter the agenda by category. Pressing "<" will
  3844. filter by the category of the item on the current line, and
  3845. pressing "<" again will remove the filter. You can combine tag
  3846. filters and category filters.
  3847. You can use =org-agenda-category-filter= in your custom agenda
  3848. views and =org-agenda-category-filter-preset= in your main
  3849. configuration.
  3850. See also the new command [[doc::org-agenda-filter-by-top-category][org-agenda-filter-by-top-category]]:
  3851. hitting =^= will filter by "Top" category: only show entries that
  3852. are of the same category than the Top category of the entry at
  3853. point.
  3854. *** Org Links
  3855. **** Inserting links
  3856. When inserting links through [[doc::org-insert-link][org-insert-link]], the description is
  3857. now displayed first, followed by the literal link, as the
  3858. description is often more useful when you look for the link you
  3859. want to insert.
  3860. Completion now complete both literal links and description. If
  3861. you complete a description, the literal link and its description
  3862. will be inserted directly, whereas when you complete the literal
  3863. link, you will be prompted for a description (as with Org 7.8.)
  3864. In the completion buffer, links to the current buffer are now
  3865. highlighted.
  3866. **** New templates =%h= and =%(sexp)= for abbreviated links
  3867. On top of =%s= template, which is replaced by the link tag in
  3868. abbreviated links, you can now use =%h= (which does the same than =%s=
  3869. but does not hexify the tag) and =%(sexp)= (which can run a function
  3870. that takes the tag as its own argument.)
  3871. **** New link type =help=
  3872. You can now create links from =help= buffers.
  3873. For example, if you request help for the command [[doc::org-agenda][org-agenda]] with
  3874. =C-h f org-agenda RET=, creating a link from this buffer will let
  3875. you go back to the same buffer.
  3876. **** New command [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]]
  3877. This will insert all links as list items. With a universal
  3878. prefix argument, links will not be deleted from the variable
  3879. =org-stored-links=.
  3880. This new command is bound to =C-c C-M-l=.
  3881. **** New option [[doc::org-url-hexify-p][org-url-hexify-p]]
  3882. When set to =nil=, the =URL= part of a link will not be hexified.
  3883. **** Org can now open multiple shell links
  3884. **** New option [[doc::org-doi-server-url][org-doi-server-url]] to specify an alternate DOI server
  3885. **** RET now follows time stamps links
  3886. *** Org Editing
  3887. **** [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] and =org-archive-*= can now loop in the active region
  3888. When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, using
  3889. [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] or =org-archive-*= commands in the active region will
  3890. loop over headlines. This is handy if you want to set the TODO
  3891. keyword for several items, or archive them quickly.
  3892. **** You can now set tags for headlines in a region
  3893. If [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, then
  3894. selecting the region and hitting =C-c C-q= will set the tags for
  3895. all headlines in the region.
  3896. **** New command [[doc::org-insert-drawer][org-insert-drawer]] to insert a drawer interactively
  3897. **** Comments start with "^[ \t]*# " anywhere on a line
  3898. Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments
  3899. with "^#+" are not supported anymore.
  3900. **** New speed key =#= to toggle the COMMENT cookie on a headline
  3901. **** =indent-region-function= is now set to [[doc::org-indent-region][org-indent-region]]
  3902. =C-M-\= should now produce useful results.
  3903. You can unindent the buffer with [[doc::org-unindent-buffer][org-unindent-buffer]].
  3904. **** New option [[doc::org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree][org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree]]
  3905. When =non-nil=, =S-M-<left>= will promote level-1 subtrees
  3906. containing other subtrees. The level-1 headline will be
  3907. commented out. You can revert to the previous state with =M-x
  3908. undo RET=.
  3909. *** Org Clock
  3910. **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-z= for [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]]
  3911. **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-q= for [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]]
  3912. **** New command [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] to clock in the last clocked item
  3913. This command is bound to =C-c C-x C-x= and will clock in the last
  3914. clocked entry, if any.
  3915. **** =C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-out][org-clock-out]] =RET= now prompts for a state to switch to
  3916. **** =S-M-<up/down>= on a clock timestamps adjusts the previous/next clock
  3917. **** New option [[doc::org-clock-continuously][org-clock-continuously]]
  3918. When set to =nil=, clocking in a task will first try to find the
  3919. last clocked out task and restart from when that task was clocked
  3920. out.
  3921. You can temporarily activate continuous clocking with =C-u C-u
  3922. C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-in][org-clock-in]] =RET= (three universal prefix arguments)
  3923. and =C-u C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] =RET= (two universal prefix
  3924. arguments).
  3925. **** New option [[doc::org-clock-frame-title-format][org-clock-frame-title-format]]
  3926. This option sets the value of =frame-title-format= when clocking
  3927. in.
  3928. **** New options for controlling the clockreport display
  3929. [[doc::org-clock-file-time-cell-format][org-clock-file-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the file time
  3930. cells in clockreport.
  3931. [[doc::org-clock-total-time-cell-format][org-clock-total-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the total
  3932. time cells in clockreport.
  3933. **** New options for controlling the clock/timer display
  3934. [[doc::org-clock-clocked-in-display][org-clock-clocked-in-display]]: control whether the current clock
  3935. is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
  3936. [[doc::org-timer-display][org-timer-display]]: control whether the current timer is displayed
  3937. in the mode line and/or frame title.
  3938. This allows the clock and timer to be displayed in the frame
  3939. title instead of, or as well as, the mode line. This is useful
  3940. for people with limited space in the mode line but with ample
  3941. space in the frame title.
  3942. *** Org Appearance
  3943. **** New option [[doc::org-custom-properties][org-custom-properties]]
  3944. The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn
  3945. on/off with [[doc::org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility][org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility]]. This might
  3946. be useful for properties used by third-part tools or that you
  3947. don't want to see temporarily.
  3948. **** New command [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]]
  3949. This will redisplay all images. It is bound to =C-c C-x C-M-v=.
  3950. **** New entities in =org-entities.el=
  3951. There are these new entities:
  3952. : ("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "&tilde;" "~" "~" "~")
  3953. : ("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/")
  3954. : ("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+")
  3955. : ("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_")
  3956. : ("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=")
  3957. : ("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^")
  3958. **** New face =org-list-dt= for definition terms
  3959. **** New face =org-date-selected= for the selected calendar day
  3960. **** New face value for =org-document-title=
  3961. The face is back to a normal height.
  3962. *** Org Columns
  3963. **** New speed command =:= to activate the column view
  3964. **** New special property =CLOCKSUM_T= to display today's clocked time
  3965. You can use =CLOCKSUM_T= the same way you use =CLOCKSUM=. It
  3966. will display the time spent on tasks for today only.
  3967. **** Use the =:COLUMNS:= property in columnview dynamic blocks
  3968. If the =:COLUMNS:= is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic
  3969. block will use its value as the column format.
  3970. **** Consider inline tasks when computing a sum
  3971. *** Org Dates and Time Stamps
  3972. **** Enhanced [[doc::org-sparse-tree][org-sparse-tree]]
  3973. =C-c /= can now check for time ranges.
  3974. When checking for dates with =C-c /= it is useful to change the
  3975. type of dates that you are interested in. You can now do this
  3976. interactively with =c= after =C-c /= and/or by setting
  3977. [[doc::org-sparse-tree-default-date-type][org-sparse-tree-default-date-type]] to the default value you want.
  3978. **** Support for hourly repeat cookies
  3979. You can now use
  3980. : SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h>
  3981. if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry.
  3982. **** =C-u C-u C-c .= inserts a time-stamp with no prompt
  3983. **** When (setq [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] 'time), accept days in the prompt
  3984. "8am Wed" and "Wed 8am" are now acceptable values when entering a
  3985. date from the prompt. If [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] is set to
  3986. =time=, this will produce the expected prompt indication.
  3987. **** New option [[doc::org-datetree-add-timestamp][org-datetree-add-timestamp]]
  3988. When set to =non-nil=, datetree entries will also have a
  3989. timestamp. This is useful if you want to see these entries in a
  3990. sparse tree with =C-c /=.
  3991. *** Org Capture
  3992. **** New command [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]]
  3993. M-x [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]] RET will prompt for a string and a capture
  3994. template. The string will be used as an annotation for the
  3995. template. This is useful when capturing in batch mode as it lets
  3996. you define the content of the template without being in Emacs.
  3997. **** New option [[doc::org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]]
  3998. Setting this option allows you to define specific context where
  3999. capture templates should be available from. For example, when
  4000. set to this value
  4001. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  4002. (setq org-capture-templates-contexts
  4003. '(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode"))))
  4004. #+END_SRC
  4005. then the =c= capture template will only be available from
  4006. =message-mode= buffers. See the docstring and the manual for
  4007. more details on how to use this.
  4008. **** New =%l= template to insert the literal link
  4009. **** New option [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]]
  4010. Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note.
  4011. You can now turn this on by setting [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]] to
  4012. =nil=.
  4013. **** Expand =%<num>= escape sequences into text entered for <num>'th =%^{PROMPT}= escape
  4014. See the manual for more explanations.
  4015. **** More control over empty lines
  4016. You can use =:empty-lines-before= and =:empty-lines-after= to
  4017. control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more
  4018. explanations.
  4019. **** New hook [[doc::org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook][org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook]]
  4020. This new hook runs before the finalization process starts.
  4021. *** Org Export
  4022. **** New functions =orgtbl-to-table.el= and =orgtbl-to-unicode=
  4023. =orgtbl-to-table.el= convert the table to a =table.el= table, and
  4024. =orgtbl-to-unicode= will use =ascii-art-to-unicode.el= (when
  4025. available) to print beautiful tables.
  4026. **** [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]] now a bit clever about the target format
  4027. When you specify a file name like =table.csv=, [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]]
  4028. will now suggest =orgtbl-to-csv= the default method for exporting
  4029. the table.
  4030. **** New option [[doc::org-export-date-timestamp-format][org-export-date-timestamp-format]]
  4031. The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps
  4032. in the #+DATE option.
  4033. **** LaTeX: New options for exporting table rules :tstart, :hline and :tend
  4034. See [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-hline][org-export-latex-tables-hline]] and [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-tend][org-export-latex-tables-tend]].
  4035. **** LaTeX: You can now set =:hfmt= from =#+ATTR_LaTeX=
  4036. **** Beamer: Add support and keybinding for the =exampleblock= environment
  4037. Add support for these languages in [[doc::org-export-language-setup][org-export-language-setup]].
  4038. More languages are always welcome.
  4039. **** Beamer: New option [[doc::org-beamer-inherited-properties][org-beamer-inherited-properties]]
  4040. This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties.
  4041. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
  4042. **** ODT: Add support for ODT export in org-bbdb.el
  4043. **** ODT: Add support for indented tables (see [[https://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=e9fd33][this commit]] for details)
  4044. **** ODT: Improve the conversion from ODT to other formats
  4045. **** ASCII: Swap the level-1/level-2 characters to underline the headlines
  4046. **** Support for Chinese, simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese
  4047. **** HTML: New option [[doc::org-export-html-date-format-string][org-export-html-date-format-string]]
  4048. Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks
  4049. to Sébastien Vauban for this patch.
  4050. *** Org Babel
  4051. **** New =:results drawer= parameter
  4052. =:results drawer= replaces =:results wrap=, which is deprecated but still
  4053. supported.
  4054. **** =:results org= now put results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block
  4055. =:results org= used to put results in a =#+BEGIN_ORG= block but it now puts
  4056. results in a =#+BEGIN_SRC org= block, with comma-escaped lines.
  4057. =#+BEGIN_ORG= blocks are obsolete.
  4058. **** Exporting =#+BEGIN_SRC org= blocks exports the code
  4059. It used to exports the results of the code.
  4060. *** Miscellaneous
  4061. **** New menu entry for [[doc::org-refile][org-refile]]
  4062. **** Allow capturing to encrypted entries
  4063. If you capture to an encrypted entry, it will be decrypted before
  4064. inserting the template then re-encrypted after finalizing the capture.
  4065. **** Inactive timestamps are now handled in tables
  4066. Calc can do computation on active time-stamps like <2012-09-29 sat.>.
  4067. Inactive time-stamps in a table's cell are now internally deactivated so
  4068. that Calc formulas can operate on them.
  4069. **** [[doc::org-table-number-regexp][org-table-number-regexp]] can now accept comma as decimal mark
  4070. **** Org allows a new property =APPT_WARNTIME=
  4071. You can set it with the =W= speedy key or set it manually. When
  4072. set, exporting to iCalendar and [[doc::org-agenda-to-appt][org-agenda-to-appt]] will use the
  4073. value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning
  4074. alarm.
  4075. **** New command [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]]
  4076. This will increment the effort value.
  4077. It is bound to =C-c C-x E= and to =E= as a speedy command.
  4078. **** Attach: Add support for creating symbolic links
  4079. =org-attach-method= now supports a new method =lns=, allowing to
  4080. attach symbolic links.
  4081. **** Archive: you can now archive to a datetree
  4082. **** New option [[doc::org-inlinetask-show-first-star][org-inlinetask-show-first-star]]
  4083. =Non-nil= means display the first star of an inline task as
  4084. additional marker. When =nil=, the first star is not shown.
  4085. **** New option [[doc::org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory][org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory]]
  4086. This lets you define the path for the =ltxpng/= directory.
  4087. **** You can now use imagemagick instead of dvipng to preview LaTeX fragments
  4088. **** You can now turn off [[doc::orgstruct++-mode][orgstruct++-mode]] safely
  4089. **** =C-u C-c C-c= on list items to add check boxes
  4090. =C-u C-c C-c= will add an empty check box on a list item.
  4091. When hit from the top of the list, it will add check boxes for
  4092. all top level list items.
  4093. **** =org-list-ending-method= and =org-list-end-regexp= are now obsolete
  4094. Fall back on using =org-list-end-re= only, which see.
  4095. **** org-feed.el now expands =%(sexp)= templates
  4096. **** New option [[doc::org-protocol-data-separator][org-protocol-data-separator]]
  4097. **** New option [[doc::org-ditaa-jar-option][org-ditaa-jar-option]] to specify the ditaa jar file
  4098. **** New possible value for [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]]
  4099. When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is set to
  4100. =start-level=, the command will loop over the active region but
  4101. will only act upon entries that are of the same level than the
  4102. first headline in the region.
  4103. **** New option [[doc::org-habit-show-all-today][org-habit-show-all-today]]
  4104. When set to =t=, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today's
  4105. agenda.
  4106. ** Important bug fixes
  4107. *** M-TAB on options keywords perform completion correctly again
  4108. If you hit =M-TAB= on keywords like =#+TITLE=, Org will try to
  4109. perform completion with meaningful values.
  4110. *** Add licenses to javascript embedded and external code snippets
  4111. Embedded javascript code produced when exporting an Org file to
  4112. HTML is now licensed under GPLv3 (or later), and the copyright is
  4113. owned by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  4114. The javascript code for embedding MathJax in the browser mentions
  4115. the MathJax copyright and the Apache 2.0 license.
  4116. The javascript code for embedding =org-injo.js= in the browser
  4117. mentions the copyright of Sebastian Rose and the GPLv3 (or later)
  4118. license.
  4119. =org-export-html-scripts= is now a variable, so that you can adapt
  4120. the code and the license to your needs.
  4121. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for
  4122. explanations on why these changes were necessary.
  4123. * Version 7.8.11
  4124. ** Incompatible changes
  4125. *** Emacs 21 support has been dropped
  4126. Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use [[https://orgmode.org/org-6.36c.zip][version 6.36c]] instead.
  4127. *** XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version
  4128. To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer
  4129. version of XEmacs. We were about to drop XEmacs support entirely,
  4130. but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that
  4131. made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this
  4132. last-minute save.
  4133. *** New keys for TODO sparse trees
  4134. The key =C-c C-v= is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO
  4135. sparse trees can still be made with =C-c / t= (all not-done
  4136. states) and =C-c / T= (specific states).
  4137. *** The Agenda =org-agenda-ndays= is now obsolete
  4138. The variable =org-agenda-ndays= is obsolete - please use
  4139. =org-agenda-span= instead.
  4140. Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
  4141. *** Changes to the intended use of =org-export-latex-classes=
  4142. So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header
  4143. of the LaTeX document, including all the =\usepackage= calls
  4144. necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to
  4145. maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call,
  4146. for example for the special symbol support it needs.
  4147. First of all, you can *opt out of this change* in the following
  4148. way: You can say: /I want to have full control over headers, and I
  4149. will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs/. If
  4150. that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip the
  4151. rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the
  4152. =[EXTRA]= place holder):
  4153. #+begin_src emacs-lisp
  4154. (setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
  4155. org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)
  4156. #+end_src
  4157. /Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified
  4158. setup./
  4159. There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX
  4160. packages that need to be included in all classes. The header
  4161. definition in =org-export-latex-classes= should then not contain
  4162. the corresponding =\usepackage= calls (see below).
  4163. The two new variables are:
  4164. 1. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist= :: This is the
  4165. variable where Org-mode itself puts the packages it needs.
  4166. Normally you should not change this variable. The only
  4167. reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages
  4168. causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then
  4169. you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using
  4170. Org-mode functionality that needs it.
  4171. 2. =org-export-latex-packages-alist= :: This is the variable where
  4172. you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all
  4173. classes.
  4174. The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX
  4175. document are:
  4176. 1. Header from =org-export-latex-classes=
  4177. 2. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=
  4178. 3. =org-export-latex-packages-alist=
  4179. 4. Buffer-specific things set with =#+LaTeX_HEADER:=
  4180. If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or
  4181. if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the
  4182. header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can
  4183. put the following macro-like place holders into the header:
  4184. #+begin_example
  4185. [DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages
  4186. [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages
  4187. [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages
  4188. [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages
  4189. [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER
  4190. [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff
  4191. #+end_example
  4192. If you have currently customized =org-export-latex-classes=, you
  4193. should revise that customization and remove any package calls that
  4194. are covered by =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. This
  4195. applies to the following packages:
  4196. - inputenc
  4197. - fontenc
  4198. - fixltx2e
  4199. - graphicx
  4200. - longtable
  4201. - float
  4202. - wrapfig
  4203. - soul
  4204. - t1enc
  4205. - textcomp
  4206. - marvosym
  4207. - wasysym
  4208. - latexsym
  4209. - amssymb
  4210. - hyperref
  4211. If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package
  4212. you are using, you can remove it from
  4213. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. But then you risk that
  4214. some of the advertised export features of Org will not work
  4215. properly.
  4216. You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes
  4217. to =org-export-latex-packages-alist=. If necessary, put the place
  4218. holders so that the packages get loaded in the right sequence. As
  4219. said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit the place
  4220. holders, all the variables will dump their content at the end of
  4221. the header.
  4222. *** The constant =org-html-entities= is obsolete
  4223. Its content is now part of the new constant =org-entities=, which
  4224. is defined in the file org-entities.el. =org-html-entities= was
  4225. an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did write
  4226. code using it.
  4227. *** =org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist= has changed
  4228. Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
  4229. *** Deleted =org-mode-p=
  4230. This function has been deleted: please update your code.
  4231. ** Important new features
  4232. *** New Org to ODT exporter
  4233. Jambunathan's Org to ODT exporter is now part of Org.
  4234. To use it, it `C-c C-e o' in an Org file. See the documentation
  4235. for more information on how to customize it.
  4236. *** org-capture.el is now the default capture system
  4237. This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only
  4238. describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to
  4239. use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual
  4240. section [[https://orgmode.org/org-remember.pdf][chapter about remember]].
  4241. The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more
  4242. possibilities for capturing different types of data. See
  4243. [[msg:C46F10DC-DE51-43D4-AFFE-F71E440D1E1F@gmail.com][Carsten's announcement]] for more details.
  4244. To switch over to the new system:
  4245. 1. Run
  4246. : M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
  4247. to get a translated version of your remember templates into the
  4248. new variable =org-capture-templates=. This will "mostly" work,
  4249. but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good
  4250. place to modify your templates. After running this command,
  4251. enter the customize buffer for this variable with
  4252. : M-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET
  4253. and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the
  4254. customization.
  4255. 2. Bind the command =org-capture= to a key, similar to what you did
  4256. with org-remember:
  4257. : (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
  4258. If your fingers prefer =C-c r=, you can also use this key once
  4259. you have decided to move over completely to the new
  4260. implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong
  4261. with using both system in parallel.
  4262. ** New libraries
  4263. *** New Org libraries
  4264. **** org-eshell.el (Konrad Hinsen)
  4265. Implement links to eshell buffers.
  4266. **** org-special-blocks (Carsten Dominik)
  4267. This package generalizes the #+begin_foo and #+end_foo tokens.
  4268. To use, put the following in your init file:
  4269. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  4270. (require 'org-special-blocks)
  4271. #+END_EXAMPLE
  4272. The tokens #+begin_center, #+begin_verse, etc. existed
  4273. previously. This package generalizes them (at least for the
  4274. LaTeX and html exporters). When a #+begin_foo token is
  4275. encountered by the LaTeX exporter, it is expanded
  4276. into \begin{foo}. The text inside the environment is not
  4277. protected, as text inside environments generally is.
  4278. When #+begin_foo is encountered by the html exporter, a div with
  4279. class foo is inserted into the HTML file. It is up to the user
  4280. to add this class to his or her stylesheet if this div is to mean
  4281. anything.
  4282. **** org-taskjuggler.el (Christian Egli)
  4283. Christian Egli's /org-taskjuggler.el/ module is now part of Org.
  4284. He also wrote a [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.php][tutorial]] for it.
  4285. **** org-ctags.el (Paul Sexton)
  4286. Targets like =<<my target>>= can now be found by Emacs' etag
  4287. functionality, and Org-mode links can be used to to link to
  4288. etags, also in non-Org-mode files. For details, see the file
  4289. /org-ctags.el/.
  4290. This feature uses a new hook =org-open-link-functions= which will
  4291. call function to do something special with text links.
  4292. Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution.
  4293. **** org-docview.el (Jan Böcker)
  4294. This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where
  4295. Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point
  4296. to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the
  4297. Org-mode manual:
  4298. : [[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org-Mode Manual]]
  4299. Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution.
  4300. *** New Babel libraries
  4301. - ob-picolisp.el (Thorsten Jolitz)
  4302. - ob-fortran.el (Sergey Litvinov)
  4303. - ob-shen.el (Eric Schulte)
  4304. - ob-maxima.el (Eric S Fraga)
  4305. - ob-java.el (Eric Schulte)
  4306. - ob-lilypond.el (Martyn Jago)
  4307. - ob-awk.el (Eric Schulte)
  4308. ** Other new features and various enhancements
  4309. *** Hyperlinks
  4310. **** Org-Bibtex -- major improvements
  4311. Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references
  4312. data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a
  4313. single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is
  4314. stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline
  4315. free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all
  4316. standard bibtex reference types and fields.
  4317. The key new functions are
  4318. - org-bibtex-check :: queries the user to flesh out all required
  4319. (and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available
  4320. for the specific reference =type= of the current headline.
  4321. - org-bibtex-create :: Create a new entry at the given level,
  4322. using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields.
  4323. - org-bibtex-yank :: Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a
  4324. formatted Org-mode headline into the current buffer
  4325. - org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring :: Export the current headline
  4326. to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry.
  4327. **** org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages
  4328. You can now create links from messages. This is particularly
  4329. useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for
  4330. later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
  4331. **** Modified link escaping
  4332. David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See [[msg:87k4gysacq.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de][his message]]:
  4333. : Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters
  4334. : in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets
  4335. : in link target or description) or are not allowed to appear in
  4336. : a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http:
  4337. : link).
  4338. :
  4339. : With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and
  4340. : unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters.
  4341. : Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning
  4342. : percent escaped links are solved.
  4343. Thanks a lot to David for this work.
  4344. **** Make =org-store-link= point to directory in a dired buffer
  4345. When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a
  4346. file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory.
  4347. Patch by Stephen Eglen.
  4348. **** Allow regexps in =org-file-apps= to capture link parameters
  4349. The way extension regexps in =org-file-apps= are handled has
  4350. changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps
  4351. are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping
  4352. to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command
  4353. string to be executed.
  4354. For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
  4355. =file:/doc.pdf::<page number>=, you can add the following entry
  4356. to org-file-apps:
  4357. #+begin_example
  4358. Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
  4359. Command: evince "%s" -p %1
  4360. #+end_example
  4361. Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
  4362. *** Dates and time
  4363. **** Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline
  4364. You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w"
  4365. when calling =org-schedule= or =org-deadline=: it will schedule
  4366. (or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before
  4367. today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any.
  4368. You can use this programmatically: =(org-schedule nil "+2d")=
  4369. will work on the current entry.
  4370. You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and
  4371. (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda.
  4372. Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this!
  4373. **** American-style dates are now understood by =org-read-date=
  4374. So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
  4375. #+begin_example
  4376. 2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05
  4377. 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
  4378. #+end_example
  4379. *** Agenda
  4380. **** =org-agenda-custom-commands= has a default value
  4381. This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default
  4382. value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for
  4383. details. Thanks to Carsten for this.
  4384. **** Improved filtering through =org-agenda-to-appt=
  4385. The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries
  4386. to pass to =org-agenda-get-day-entries= and allows to filter out
  4387. entries using a function.
  4388. Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to
  4389. Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for
  4390. [[git:68ffb7a7][fixing a small bug]] in the final implementation.
  4391. **** Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid
  4392. Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See
  4393. the new variable =org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm=. Thanks to
  4394. C. A. Webber for a patch to this effect.
  4395. **** Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command
  4396. =B S= in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a
  4397. random number of days into the future, with 7 as the default.
  4398. This is useful if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today,
  4399. you realize you'll never deal with them all, and you just want
  4400. them to be distributed across the next N days. When called with
  4401. a prefix arg, rescheduling will avoid weekend days.
  4402. Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
  4403. *** Exporting
  4404. **** Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble
  4405. When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring
  4406. the =org-export-email/author/creator-info= variables.
  4407. When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the
  4408. docstring of these variable for details about available
  4409. %-sequences.
  4410. You can set =:html-preamble= in publishing project in the same
  4411. way: `t' means to honor =:email/creator/author-info=, and a
  4412. formatting string will insert a string.
  4413. **** New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8
  4414. While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to
  4415. improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide
  4416. representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all
  4417. of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich
  4418. in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new
  4419. exporters can be reached with the commands =C-c C-e n= and =C-c
  4420. C-e u=, respectively.
  4421. When there is no representation for a given symbol in the
  4422. targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like
  4423. representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For
  4424. example, =\simeq= could be represented as "[approx. equal to]".
  4425. Please use the variable =org-entities-ascii-explanatory= to state
  4426. your preference.
  4427. **** HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property
  4428. The =HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS= property can now be used to add a
  4429. class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export.
  4430. **** Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails
  4431. This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
  4432. =org-format-latex-signal-error=.
  4433. **** Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org-mode documents
  4434. Org-mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in
  4435. to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple
  4436. presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some
  4437. support to make richer presentations as well. See the [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export][BEAMER
  4438. section]] in the manual for more details.
  4439. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about
  4440. BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example
  4441. for how this community can achieve a much better result than any
  4442. individual could.
  4443. *** Refiling
  4444. **** Refile targets can now be cached
  4445. You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable
  4446. =org-refile-use-cache=. This should speed up refiling if you
  4447. have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update
  4448. the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still
  4449. offers a deleted one, press =C-0 C-c C-w=.
  4450. **** New logging support for refiling
  4451. Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be
  4452. added to this entry. For details, see the new option
  4453. =org-log-refile=.
  4454. Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea.
  4455. *** Completion
  4456. **** In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegley's pcomplete.el
  4457. Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code.
  4458. *** Tables
  4459. **** New command =org-table-transpose-table-at-point=
  4460. See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of
  4461. Org's core. Thanks to Juan!
  4462. **** Display field's coordinates when editing it with =C-c `=
  4463. When editing a field with =C-c `=, the field's coordinate will
  4464. the displayed in the buffer.
  4465. Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect.
  4466. **** Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values
  4467. If you want to compute time values use the =T= flag, either in
  4468. Calc formulas or Elisp formulas:
  4469. | Task 1 | Task 2 | Total |
  4470. |--------+--------+---------|
  4471. | 35:00 | 35:00 | 1:10:00 |
  4472. #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T
  4473. Values must be of the form =[HH:]MM:SS=, where hours are
  4474. optional.
  4475. Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and
  4476. feedback on this.
  4477. **** Implement formulas applying to field ranges
  4478. Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas.
  4479. : A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define
  4480. : row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows
  4481. : things like
  4482. :
  4483. : @3=
  4484. : @2$2..@5$7=
  4485. : @I$2..@II$4=
  4486. :
  4487. : as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that
  4488. : is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a
  4489. : table.
  4490. Thanks a lot to Carsten for this.
  4491. **** Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed
  4492. Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also,
  4493. there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent.
  4494. Thanks to Seweryn Kokot.
  4495. *** Lists
  4496. **** Improved handling of lists
  4497. Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
  4498. 1. Indentation of text determines again end of items in
  4499. lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item
  4500. doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more
  4501. indented than it.
  4502. 2. Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the
  4503. variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical
  4504. counters like [@c] or [@W].
  4505. 3. Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various
  4506. blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are
  4507. controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and
  4508. `org-list-export-context'.
  4509. 4. Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will
  4510. keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text
  4511. and make paragraphs and still not break the list.
  4512. 5. Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with
  4513. standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a
  4514. prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and
  4515. make every line in region an item. It permits to easily
  4516. integrate paragraphs inside a list.
  4517. 6. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be
  4518. used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no
  4519. blank line around, without breaking list structure.
  4520. Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this!
  4521. *** Inline display of linked images
  4522. Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does
  4523. toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links
  4524. that have no description part will be inlined.
  4525. *** Implement offsets for ordered lists
  4526. If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different
  4527. from 1, you can now do it like this:
  4528. : 1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12
  4529. *** Babel: code block body expansion for table and preview
  4530. In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the
  4531. code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents,
  4532. augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to
  4533. variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and
  4534. also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes
  4535. into account all header arguments, and variables.
  4536. A new keybinding `C-c M-b p' bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block'
  4537. can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its
  4538. expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging).
  4539. tangling
  4540. The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable
  4541. values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or
  4542. stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this
  4543. is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization
  4544. to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc...) in headline
  4545. properties or in tables.
  4546. Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default
  4547. behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column
  4548. names, and rownames across all languages.
  4549. *** Editing Convenience and Appearance
  4550. **** New command =org-copy-visible= (=C-c C-x v=)
  4551. This command will copy the visible text in the region into the
  4552. kill ring. Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to
  4553. Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it!
  4554. **** Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by =C-k=
  4555. See the new variable =org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree=. This was a
  4556. request by Scott Otterson.
  4557. **** Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts.
  4558. The command =C-c C-x \= toggles the display of Org's special
  4559. entities like =\alpha= as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub
  4560. and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower
  4561. display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and
  4562. superscripts, see the variable
  4563. =org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts=.
  4564. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible.
  4565. **** New faces for title, date, author and email address lines
  4566. The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is
  4567. displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for
  4568. author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the
  4569. following new faces:
  4570. =org-document-title=
  4571. =org-document-info=
  4572. =org-document-info-keyword=
  4573. In addition, the variable =org-hidden-keywords= can be used to
  4574. make the corresponding keywords disappear.
  4575. Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
  4576. **** Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords
  4577. The variables =org-todo-keyword-faces=, =org-tag-faces=, and
  4578. =org-priority-faces= now accept simple color names as
  4579. specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or
  4580. background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the
  4581. variable =org-faces-easy-properties=, which governs which face
  4582. property is affected by this setting.
  4583. This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces.
  4584. The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson.
  4585. **** <N> in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width
  4586. Requested by Michael Brand.
  4587. **** Better level cycling function
  4588. =TAB= in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline
  4589. through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved
  4590. version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly
  4591. this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement.
  4592. **** Adaptive filling
  4593. For paragraph text, =org-adaptive-fill-function= did not handle
  4594. the base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is
  4595. now fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">"
  4596. comments to be filled correctly.
  4597. Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch.
  4598. **** `org-reveal' (=C-c C-r=) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el)
  4599. Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
  4600. **** Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords
  4601. When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now
  4602. assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords.
  4603. Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch.
  4604. *** Clocking
  4605. **** Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log
  4606. Using =S-M-<up/down>= on CLOCK log timestamps will
  4607. increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that
  4608. duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be
  4609. slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.
  4610. Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
  4611. **** Localized clock tables
  4612. Clock tables now support a new new =:lang= parameter, allowing
  4613. the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See
  4614. the variable =org-clock-clocktable-language-setup= which controls
  4615. available translated strings.
  4616. **** Show clock overruns in mode line
  4617. When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the
  4618. planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example
  4619. using the new face =org-mode-line-clock-overrun=, or by adding an
  4620. extra string given by =org-task-overrun-text=.
  4621. Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect.
  4622. **** Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock
  4623. If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls
  4624. into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent
  4625. can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting
  4626. of =org-clock-report-include-clocking-task=. The default is
  4627. =nil=.
  4628. Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition.
  4629. *** Misc
  4630. **** Improvements with inline tasks and indentation
  4631. There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks.
  4632. See the new variable =org-inlinetask-export-templates=.
  4633. Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes.
  4634. **** A property value of =nil= now means to unset a property
  4635. This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if
  4636. some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it
  4637. would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a
  4638. property) back.
  4639. Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this
  4640. change.
  4641. **** New helper functions in org-table.el
  4642. There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field.
  4643. This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
  4644. #+begin_example
  4645. org-table-get
  4646. org-table-put
  4647. org-table-current-line
  4648. org-table-goto-line
  4649. #+end_example
  4650. **** Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node
  4651. The new option =org-archive-reversed-order= allows to have
  4652. archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target
  4653. node.
  4654. This was requested by Tom.
  4655. **** Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent
  4656. This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for
  4657. example by viewing from the agenda.
  4658. This was a request by Matt Lundin.
  4659. * License
  4660. This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  4661. GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  4662. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  4663. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  4664. (at your option) any later version.
  4665. GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  4666. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  4667. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  4668. GNU General Public License for more details.
  4669. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  4670. along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.