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  1. Org-mode list of User-visible changes
  2. =====================================
  3. Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten at orgmode dot org>
  4. Date: 2008/02/05 20:05:28
  5. Version 5.20
  6. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  7. Overview
  8. ========
  9. Remember/Refile/Goto
  10. --------------------
  11. - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
  12. and `org-refile' has been normalized.
  13. - The clock can now safely be used in a remember buffer.
  14. - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
  15. introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
  16. `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
  17. - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets.
  18. - Automatic isearch in `org-goto'.
  19. - Outline-path-completion as alternative org-goto interface.
  20. Misc
  21. ----
  22. - Checkboxes now work hierarchically.
  23. - `C-k' can now behave specially in headlines.
  24. - Repeater for tasks in plain timestamps.
  25. - All clock intervals of an item show in agenda/timeline.
  26. - New parameter `:step' for clocktable, to get daily reports.
  27. - Never loose a repeaded scheduled item from the agenda.
  28. - Archiving a subtree now stores the outline path in a property.
  29. - Links to messages in Apple Mail.
  30. - Bug fixes.
  31. Incompatible Changes
  32. ====================
  33. - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
  34. introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
  35. `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead.
  36. Details
  37. =======
  38. Remember/Refile/Goto
  39. --------------------
  40. - The use of prefix arguments for the commands `org-remember'
  41. and `org-refile' has been normalized:
  42. + when called without prefix argument, the command does its
  43. normal job, starting a remember note or refiling a tree.
  44. + when called with a single C-u prefix, these commands can be
  45. used to select a target location and to jump there. In
  46. the case of `org-remember', you will be prompted for a
  47. template and then Emacs jumps to the default target
  48. location or this template. In the case of `org-refile',
  49. you select a location from the refile target list and jump
  50. there.
  51. + when called with two prefixes (`C-u C-u'), the command
  52. jumps to the location last used for storing a note or a
  53. moved tree.
  54. - When the clock is running inside an remember buffer, storing
  55. the remember buffer with `C-c C-c' will automatically clock
  56. out. This was inspired by a request by Rainer Stengle.
  57. - The variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive'
  58. introduced only in 5.19 is already obsolete. Please use
  59. `org-remember-interactive-interface' instead. This new
  60. variable does select the interface that is used to select
  61. the target for a remember note in an interactive way.
  62. Possible values are:
  63. + `outline': Use an outline of the document to select a
  64. location.
  65. + `outline-path-completion': Use completion of an outline
  66. path to select a location.
  67. + `refile': Offer the `org-refile-targets' as possible
  68. targets.
  69. - It is no longer necessary to update the refiling targets -
  70. they are always current.
  71. - In `org-goto', typing characters now automatically starts
  72. isearch from the beginning of the buffer. The isearch is
  73. special also because it only matches in headline. This
  74. goes some way toward saving org-goto from being removed
  75. from Org-mode. Thanks to Piotr Zielinski for the code, and
  76. sorry that it took me so long to put it in. If you prefer
  77. to use single letters n,p,f,b,u,q for navigation as before,
  78. configure the variable `org-goto-auto-isearch'.
  79. - Outline-path-completion is now available as an alternative
  80. interface in the command `org-goto'. Please select the
  81. default interface you'd like to use with the new variable
  82. `org-goto-interface'. You can then select the alternative
  83. interface with a prefix argument to `C-c C-j' (org-goto). I
  84. am considering to make outline-path-completion the default
  85. interface. Comments?
  86. Misc
  87. ----
  88. - Checkboxes now work hierarchically. When a plain-list item
  89. with a checkbox has children with checkboxes, the status of
  90. the item's checkbox is calculated from the children, each
  91. time a checkbox is toggled with C-c C-c. Thanks to Miguel
  92. A. Figueroa-Villanueva for a patch to this effect.
  93. - There is a new variable `org-special-ctrl-k'. When set,
  94. `C-k' will behave specially in headlines:
  95. + When the cursor is at the beginning of a headline, kill
  96. the entire line and possible the folded subtree below the
  97. line.
  98. + When in the middle of the headline text, kill the
  99. headline up to the tags.
  100. + When after the headline text, kill the tags.
  101. This is following a proposal by Piotr Zielinski.
  102. - You can now also have a plain (as opposed to deadline or
  103. scheduled) repeater timestamp in a task. Switching the task
  104. to DONE will now also shift a plain time stamp. This was a
  105. request by Austin Frank.
  106. - If an entry is clocked multiple times, it will now show up
  107. several times in the agenda and timeline buffers, when
  108. log-mode is on. This was a proposal by Jurgen Defurne.
  109. - The clock table accepts a new parameter `:step'. This
  110. parameter can be `day' or `week' and will result in separate
  111. tables for each day or week in the requested time interval.
  112. This was triggered by a proposal by Sacha Chua in her [blog].
  113. - A time-stamp with a repeater now no longer refers to the
  114. date *closest* to the current day. Instead, it means either
  115. today or the most recent match. This change makes sure that
  116. overdue scheduled or deadline items never disappear from the
  117. agenda. With the previous convention, an overdue scheduled
  118. item would disappear. For example, a weekly item scheduled
  119. for Sunday would appear as overdue until Wednesday, and the
  120. suddenly disappear until next Sunday. Now the item will
  121. show up as "Sched 7x" on Saturday. From Sunday on it will
  122. be in the list as "Scheduled", i.e. old sins will be
  123. forgiven. This follows a request by Warong, Dennis and
  124. Bernt.
  125. - Archiving a subtree now creates an additional property,
  126. `ARCHIVE_OLPATH'. This property contains the "path" in the
  127. outline tree to the archived entry, as it was in the
  128. original file. For example, archiving `Fix the door' in the
  129. following hierarchy
  130. * Tasks
  131. ** HOME
  132. *** Garage
  133. **** Fix the door
  134. will file is with the following property
  135. :ARCHIVE_PATH: Task/HOME/Garage
  136. Note that you can configure (i.e. limit) the information
  137. that gets stored upon archiving with the variable
  138. `org-archive-save-context-info'.
  139. - New file `org-mac-message.el' by John Wiegley to create
  140. links for messages in Apple Mail, and to follow these
  141. links.
  142. - Bug fixes.
  143. Version 5.19
  144. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  145. Overview
  146. ========
  147. - Column view can list the clocked times of a subtree.
  148. - Storing remember notes can use the `org-refile' interface.
  149. - Storing remember notes no longer produced empty lines.
  150. - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree.
  151. - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format'.
  152. - Hack to allow brackets in link descriptions.
  153. - Clocking into an entry can enforce a specific TODO state.
  154. - EXPORT_FILE_NAME may be an absolute file name with "~".
  155. - Bug fixes, lots of them.
  156. Details
  157. =======
  158. - A new special column definition lists the sum of all CLOCK
  159. entries in a subtree. For example
  160. #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %10Time_Estimate{:} %CLOCKSUM
  161. will allow you to compare estimated times (as given in the
  162. Time_Estimate property) with the clocked times. This was a
  163. request by Bernt Hansen.
  164. - Storing remember notes can now use the `org-refile'
  165. interface instead of the `org-goto' interface (see the
  166. variable `org-remember-use-refile-when-interactive').
  167. Nothing will change if the note is stored immediately after
  168. pressing `C-c C-c' in the `*Remember*' buffer. But if you
  169. have chosen (e.g. by pressing `C-u C-c C-c') to
  170. interactively select the filing location (file and
  171. headline), the refile interface will be used instead. I am
  172. excited about this change, because the `org-goto' interface
  173. is basically a failure, at least for this application. Note
  174. that in any case the refile interface has to be configured
  175. first by customizing `org-refile-targets'.
  176. - Notes inserted with remember now remove any whitespace
  177. before and after the note before being pasted, so that there
  178. will be no empty lines inserted together with the note. We
  179. could invent special syntax in remember templates to allow
  180. creating empty lines before a note - is there anyone who'd
  181. want this?
  182. - Moving subtrees now folds all siblings of the subtree. This
  183. is the only reasonably simple way I could find to avoid the
  184. reported inconsistencies in the folding state of the outline
  185. tree after moving entries. There are reasons to like this
  186. new behavior, because it easily visualizes where the tree is
  187. located after the move. Still, not everyone might be happy
  188. with this. Massive complaining would be needed to make me
  189. fix this.
  190. - New variable `org-agenda-todo-keyword-format' to specify the
  191. width of the TODO keyword field in the agenda display. Use
  192. it to get things to line up better. This was a proposal by
  193. Rainer Stengele.
  194. - If a link description inserted with `C-c C-l' contains
  195. brackets, the brackets will now be converted into curly
  196. braces. This looks similar enough. Supporting brackets in
  197. link descriptions is, for technical reasons too long to
  198. explain here, complex.
  199. - The new option `org-clock-in-switch-to-state' can be set to
  200. a TODO state that will be enforced when the clock is started
  201. on an entry. This follows an idea by Sacha Chua.
  202. - The EXPORT_FILE_NAME property may now also be an absolute
  203. file name, and it may contain abbreviations like "~" for the
  204. users home directory. This was requested by Adam Spiers.
  205. - Bug fixes, lots of them.
  206. Version 5.18
  207. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  208. Minor fixes.
  209. Version 5.17
  210. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  211. Details
  212. =======
  213. Whitespace
  214. ----------
  215. - When cutting, pasting, or moving subtrees and items, the
  216. empty lines *before* the subtree/item now belong to the
  217. part and will be moved with it. There is one exception to
  218. this rule: If the first child is moved down (or,
  219. equivalently, the second is moved up), the amount of empty
  220. lines *above* the first child to be moved along with it is
  221. limited by the number of empty lines *below* it. This
  222. sounds complicated, but it allows to have extra empty space
  223. before the first child and still have good behavior of the
  224. subtree motion commands.
  225. - Plain lists items work the same.
  226. I believe we have finally nailed this one. Thanks to Daniel
  227. Pittman for bring this up again and to Eric Schulte for
  228. pointing out that it is the empty lines *before* an entry
  229. that really count.
  230. This change was non-trivial, please give it a good test and
  231. let me know about any problems.
  232. Remember
  233. --------
  234. - The new command `org-remember-goto-last-stored' will jump
  235. to the location of the remember note stored most recently.
  236. If you have `org-remember' on a key like `C-c r', then you
  237. can go to the location with a double prefix arg: `C-u C-u
  238. C-c r'. This was a proposal by Rainer Stengele.
  239. - Template items that are being prompted for can now specify
  240. a default value and a completion table. Furthermore,
  241. previous inputs at a specific prompt are captured in a
  242. history variable. For example:
  243. %^{Author|Roald Dahl|Thomas Mann|Larry Niven}
  244. will prompt for an author name. Pressing RET without
  245. typing anything will select "Roald Dahl". Completion will
  246. give you any of the three names. And a history will be
  247. kept, so you can use the arrow keys to get to previous
  248. input. The history is tied to the prompt. By using the
  249. same prompt in different templates, you can build a history
  250. across templates. The ideas for this came from proposals
  251. by Bastien and Adam.
  252. - When a remember template contains the string `%!', the note
  253. will be stored immediately after all template parts have
  254. been filled in, so you don't even have to press `C-c
  255. C-c'. The was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
  256. Refile
  257. ------
  258. - `org-refile-targets' has a new parameter to specify a
  259. maximum level for target selection. Thanks to Wanrong Lin
  260. for this proposal.
  261. - When the new option `org-refile-use-outline-path' is set,
  262. refile targets will be presented like a file path to the
  263. completion interface: "level 1/level 2/level 3". This
  264. may be the fastest interface yet to get to a certain
  265. outline entry. Do we need to use this interface in other
  266. places? Thanks to Jose Ruiz for this proposal.
  267. Version 5.16
  268. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  269. Details
  270. =======
  271. Restriction lock on agenda scope
  272. --------------------------------
  273. You can now permanently lock the agenda construction to a
  274. certain scope, like a file or a subtree. So instead of
  275. pressing "<" for each command in the agenda dispatcher, you
  276. only once select a restriction scope. All subsequent agenda
  277. commands will than respect this restriction. For example,
  278. you can use this at work, to limit agendas to your work file
  279. or tree, and at home to limit to the home file or tree. Or
  280. you can use it during the day in order to focus in on certain
  281. projects.
  282. You select a scope with the command `C-c C-x <', which
  283. restricts to the current subtree. When called with a `C-u'
  284. prefix, the restriction is to the current file. You can also
  285. make restrictions from the speedbar frame, see below.
  286. When making a new restriction and an agenda window is
  287. currently visible, it will immediately be updated to reflect
  288. the new scope. TO if you like you can display an agenda view
  289. and then watch it change in various scopes.
  290. To get rid of the restriction, use the command "C-c C-x >".
  291. Or press ">" in the agenda dispatcher. Also, and use of "<"
  292. in the dispatcher will disable the restriction lock and
  293. select a new restriction.
  294. Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
  295. Imenu and Speedbar support
  296. --------------------------
  297. - Org-mode now supports Imenu. For example, with the setting
  298. (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
  299. (lambda () 'imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu"))
  300. a menu will be created in each Org-mode buffer that
  301. provides access to all level 1 and level 2 headings. The
  302. depth of the menu can be set with the variable
  303. `org-imenu-depth'.
  304. - org-mode now supports Speedbar. This means that you can
  305. drill into the first and second level headlines of an
  306. Org-mode file right from the speedbar frame.
  307. - You can set a restriction lock for the Org-mode agenda to a
  308. file or a subtree directly from the speedbar frame. Just
  309. press "<" with the cursor on an Org-mode file or subtree to
  310. set the lock and immediately update the agenda if it is
  311. visible. Use ">" to get rid of the lock again.
  312. Version 5.15
  313. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  314. Details
  315. =======
  316. - There are new special properties TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_IA.
  317. These can be used to access the first keyword-less active
  318. and inactive timestamp in an entry, respectively.
  319. - New variable `org-clock-heading-function'. It can be set to
  320. a function that creates the string shown in the mode line
  321. when a clock is running. Thanks to Tom Weissmann for this
  322. idea.
  323. - Bug fixes.
  324. Version 5.14
  325. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  326. Overview
  327. ========
  328. + Remember and related stuff
  329. - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note.
  330. - Easy way to jump to the target location of remember template.
  331. - New %-escapes in remember templates: %c %(...) and %[...]
  332. - `org-remember-insinuate' simplifies remember setup
  333. + Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
  334. - Stacked emphasis is no longer allowed.
  335. - You may finally emphasize a single character like `*a*'.
  336. - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers
  337. - Text in the "=" emphasis is exported verbatim
  338. - There is a new emphasis marker "~" for verbatim text
  339. - Constructs treated specially by the exporters can be highlighted
  340. + Properties and Column view
  341. - More control over which properties use inheritance
  342. - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search
  343. - the {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output format
  344. - New currency summary type {$}
  345. + The date/time prompt
  346. - While entering data, watch live the current interpretation.
  347. - The date prompt now prefers to select the future
  348. - Easier modification of time in an existing time stamp.
  349. + Export
  350. - You can now export some special strings in HTML, like "..."
  351. - #+EMAIL: may contain several email addresses
  352. + Agenda
  353. - In the agenda, a few keys have changed: `g', `G', and `e'.
  354. + Miscellaneous
  355. - Class-dependent sectioning structures in LaTeX export.
  356. - Radio-lists modeled after the radio tables.
  357. - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil
  358. - Support for pabbrev-mode
  359. - New variable `org-show-entry-below'.
  360. Incompatible changes
  361. ====================
  362. - If you have customized the variable `org-emphasis-alist' or
  363. org-export-emphasis-alist', you need to do it again by first
  364. canceling your customization and then adding it again.
  365. - I know that some people have defined their own private helper
  366. functions to select a specific remember template, without being
  367. prompted, like this:
  368. (defun my-remember-template-n ()
  369. (interactive)
  370. (org-remember ?n))
  371. You need to modify this. The character selecting the template
  372. must now be the /second/ argument to `org-remember':
  373. (defun my-remember-template-n ()
  374. (interactive)
  375. (org-remember nil ?n))
  376. - `C-c C-w' now refiles an entry. To get a sparse tree of
  377. deadlines, use `C-c / d' instead.
  378. Details
  379. =======
  380. Remember and related stuff
  381. --------------------------
  382. - New command `org-refile' to quickly move a note to a
  383. different place. It is bound to `C-c C-w'. The foremost
  384. application might be to put a note or task captured with
  385. `remember' into the proper list or project. The command
  386. offers a list of possible refiling targets for completion.
  387. These are headings under which the entry will be inserted
  388. as a subitem. By default, this will offer all top-level
  389. headings in the current buffer, but you can configure the
  390. variable `org-refile-targets' to get more complex
  391. definitions. For example:
  392. (setq org-refile-targets '((nil . (:level . 2))))
  393. selects all level 2 headlines in the current buffer as
  394. targets. And
  395. (setq org-refile-targets
  396. '((org-agenda-files . (:tag . "refile"))))
  397. searches all agenda files and selects headlines that are
  398. explicitly marked with the tag :refile: . Note that the
  399. list of targets is built upon first use only, to rebuilt
  400. it, call the command `C-c C-w' with a double prefix
  401. argument.
  402. This is based on an idea and example implementation by Max
  403. Mikhanosha. Many thanks Max.
  404. - You can now use a C-u prefix on `org-remember' to jump to
  405. the location where a specific templates stores its notes.
  406. For example, if you have `org-remember' bound to `C-c r',
  407. then `C-u C-c r n' will get you to the file and headline
  408. given in the template associated with the letter "n".
  409. This was proposed by someone, but I have lost track who.
  410. Sorry, and thanks anyway.
  411. - New %-escapes in remember templates:
  412. %c insert the current clipboard, like C-y would do
  413. %(..) evaluate Lisp expression and insert the result
  414. %[..] include file
  415. Thanks to Adam Spiers and Tim O'Callaghan.
  416. - New function `org-remember-insinuate' that makes is easier
  417. to set Org-mode specific values for remember variables.
  418. Thanks to Michael Olson for this proposal. It is
  419. equivalent to:
  420. (require 'remember)
  421. (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation))
  422. (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler))
  423. (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template))
  424. You might still want to set `org-default-notes-file' to
  425. provide a default for templates without a file, and
  426. `org-directory' to show where to find other org files.
  427. Emphasis and Font-lock stuff
  428. ----------------------------
  429. - Stacked emphasis like `*/bold italic/*' is no longer allowed.
  430. - You may finally emphasize a single character like `*a*'.
  431. - Font-lock now can hide the emphasis markers, just like Muse
  432. does. Configure the variable `org-hide-emphasis-markers'
  433. if you want this. Showing the characters continues to be
  434. the default in Org-mode.
  435. - Text in the "=" emphasis is now exported verbatim, i.e. no
  436. further parsing and interpretation of this text takes place. So
  437. you can write `=quoted *xxx* a_x = b='. This and the following
  438. point implement a request by Daniel Clemente.
  439. - There is a new emphasis marker "~" which marks text to be
  440. exported verbatim, without special formatting. Inside an
  441. org-mode file, this text is highlighted with the org-verbatim
  442. face. I am not happy with the face yet (currently is is like
  443. org-code, but underlined), please suggest a better one.
  444. - Whether an emphasis environment is verbatim or not is now an
  445. extra flag in the variable `org-emphasis-alist'. If you have
  446. configured this variable, do it again by first canceling your
  447. customization to revert to the default, and then adding it
  448. again.
  449. - New variable `org-highlight-latex-fragments-and-specials'.
  450. When turned on, Org-mode will highlight all strings that
  451. are treated in a special way by the exporters. This is
  452. great for export-oriented writing, but maybe a bit noisy
  453. for note taking, so this feature is off by default.
  454. Properties and Column view
  455. --------------------------
  456. - `org-use-property-inheritance' may now also be a list of
  457. property names that should be treated with inheritance
  458. during searches.
  459. - CATEGORY="work" can now be used in a tags/property search,
  460. even if the category is not specified as a property in the
  461. entry, but rather is inherited or derived from #+CATEGORY.
  462. Thanks to Adam, Tim, and Bastien for an interesting
  463. discussion around this issue.
  464. - Summary type improvements in column view.
  465. * The {+} summary type can specify a printf-style output
  466. format for computed values like this: {+;%5.2f}
  467. This was triggered by a report by Levin.
  468. * New currency summary type {$}, which so far is just a
  469. shorthand for {+;%.2f}. Do we need to have a currency
  470. symbol in front of each value. Scott Jaderholm asked for
  471. this, but I am not sure if this is already what he meant.
  472. The date/time prompt
  473. --------------------
  474. There have been several small but *very* useful additions to
  475. the date prompt.
  476. - While entering data at the date prompt, the current
  477. interpretation of your input is shown next to your input in
  478. the minibuffer. I find this great to understand how the
  479. input works. If you find the extra stuff in the minibuffer
  480. annoying, turn it off with `org-read-date-display-live'.
  481. - The date prompt now prefers to select the future. If you
  482. enter a date without a month, and the day number is before
  483. today (for example, on the 16th of the month you enter
  484. "9"), Org-mode will assume next month. Similarly, if you
  485. enter a month and no year, next year will be assumed if the
  486. entered month is before the current, for example if you
  487. enter "May" in September. Thanks to John Rakestraw for
  488. this great suggestion. If you find it confusing, turn it
  489. off with `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
  490. - When modifying an existing date using `C-c .' at the stamp,
  491. the time or time range in the stamp are now offered as
  492. default input at the prompt. This goes a long way to
  493. simplifying the modification of an existing date. Thanks
  494. to Adam Spiers for this proposal.
  495. Export (all implemented by Bastien...)
  496. --------------------------------------
  497. - You can now export special strings in HTML. Here is the
  498. list of newly performed conversions:
  499. Org Description HTML
  500. -----+------------------------------------+----------
  501. `\\-' double backslash followed by minus &shy;
  502. `--' two dashes (minuses) &ndash;
  503. `---' three dashes (minuses) &mdash;
  504. `...' three dots &hellip;
  505. You can turn this globally on or off with
  506. `org-export-with-special-strings' or locally with "-:t" or
  507. "-:nil" in the #+OPTIONS line. Thanks to Adam Spiers for
  508. starting the discussion, and thanks to Daniel Clemente and
  509. William Henney for relevant inputs.
  510. - Comma-separated emails in #+EMAIL: are correctly exported.
  511. Thanks to Raman for pointing out this omission.
  512. Agenda
  513. ------
  514. - In the agenda, a few keys have changed
  515. g does now the same a "r", refresh current display,
  516. because "g" is the Emacs standard for "refresh"
  517. G toggle the time grid, used to be "g"
  518. e Execute another agenda command, pretty much the same as
  519. `C-c a', but shorter and keep the same agenda window.
  520. Miscellaneous (much of it from Bastien)
  521. ---------------------------------------
  522. - You can now select the sectioning structure of your LaTeX
  523. export by setting it either globally
  524. (`org-export-latex-default-class') or locally in each Org
  525. file (with #+LaTeX_CLASS: myclass). You can also customize
  526. the list of available classes and their sectioning
  527. structures through the new `org-export-latex-classes'
  528. option. Thanks to Daniel for discussions and suggestion on
  529. this issue.
  530. - You can send and receive radio lists in HTML,
  531. LaTeX or TeXInfo, just as you send and receive radio
  532. tables. Check the documentation for details and examples.
  533. - The default for `org-ellipsis' is back to nil, some people
  534. seem to have had problems with the face as a default.
  535. - Support for pabbrev-mode, needs pabbrev version 1.1. Thanks
  536. to Phillip Lord for adapting his package to make this
  537. possible.
  538. - New variable `org-show-entry-below' to force context-showing
  539. commands to expose the body of a headline that is being
  540. shown. Thanks to Harald Weis for pointing out this omission.
  541. Version 5.13i
  542. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  543. Details
  544. =======
  545. - On the date/time prompt, you can now also answer with
  546. something like +2tue to pick the second tuesday from today.
  547. This was a proposal by Sacha Chua.
  548. - When interpopating into Lisp formulas in the spreadsheet,
  549. the values of constants and properties are no longer
  550. enclosed into parenthesis. When interpolating for calc,
  551. this still happens in order to allow expressions in
  552. constants. This problem was reported by Eddward DeVilla.
  553. - When a directory is listed in `org-agenda-files', all files
  554. with extension matched by the new variable
  555. `org-agenda-file-regexp' in that directory will be agenda
  556. files.
  557. - Bug fixes.
  558. Version 5.13
  559. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  560. Overview
  561. ========
  562. - Bug fixes and improvements in column view
  563. + All known bugs fixed.
  564. + A Column view can be captured into a dynamic block.
  565. + The ITEM column is formatted core compactly.
  566. + Also ITEM can be edited with `e'
  567. - The agenda dispatcher
  568. + `<' cycles through restriction states.
  569. + Multi-character access codes to commands (= sub-keymaps).
  570. - Sorting improvements
  571. + User-defined sorting keys.
  572. + Sorting by properties.
  573. + Sorting of plain lists.
  574. - HTML <div> structure
  575. - Other stuff
  576. + New variables, several of them.
  577. + Drawers can be set on a per-file basis.
  578. + Better control over priority fontification in agenda.
  579. + M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down.
  580. + Abort remember template selection with C-g.
  581. Details
  582. =======
  583. Bug fixes and improvements in column view
  584. -----------------------------------------
  585. - All the bugs described by Scott Jaderholm have been fixed
  586. (at least I hope so...).
  587. - You can now capture a column view into a dynamic block, for
  588. exporting or printing it. The column view can be
  589. + global, i.e. for the entire file
  590. + local, i.e. for the subtree where the dynamic block is
  591. + from an entry with a specific :ID: property.
  592. You can identify the entry whose column view you want to
  593. capture by assigning an :ID: property, and use that property
  594. in the dynamic block definition. For example:
  595. * Planning
  596. :PROPERTIES:
  597. :ID: planning-overview
  598. :END:
  599. [...]
  600. * The column view
  601. #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "planning-overview"
  602. #+END:
  603. Use `C-c C-x r' to insert such a dynamic block, and you will
  604. be prompted for the ID.
  605. - When the current column format displays TODO keyword,
  606. priority or tags, these parts are stripped from the content
  607. of the ITEM column, making for more compact and readable
  608. entries. When any of these "properties" are not listed in
  609. the current column format, they are instead retained in the
  610. ITEM column.
  611. - You can now also edit the ITEM column with `e'.
  612. The agenda dispatcher
  613. ---------------------
  614. - Instead of pressing `1' to restrict an agenda command to
  615. the current buffer, or `0' to restrict it to the current
  616. subtree or region, you can now also press `<' once or
  617. twice, respectively. This frees up `1' and `0' for user
  618. commands, a request by Bastien. In fact, "<" cycles
  619. through different restriction states. "1" and "0" are
  620. still available for backward compatibility, until you bind
  621. them to custom commands.
  622. - The access code to custom agenda commands can now contain
  623. several characters, effectively allowing to bundle several
  624. similar commands into a sub-keymap. This follows an
  625. excellent proposal by Adam Spiers. For example:
  626. (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
  627. '(("h" . "HOME + Name tag searches") ; describe prefix "h"
  628. ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa")
  629. ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter")
  630. ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim")))
  631. - The user function option in org-agenda-custom-commands may
  632. now also be a lambda expression, following a request by
  633. Adam Spiers.
  634. Sorting improvements
  635. --------------------
  636. We are using a new routine for sorting entries, courtesy of
  637. John Wiegley. Many thanks to John.
  638. - You can define your own function to extract a sorting key
  639. and in this way sort entries by anything you like.
  640. - Entries can now be sorted according to the value of a
  641. property.
  642. - Plain lists can be sorted.
  643. HTML <div> structure
  644. --------------------
  645. There is now a <div>-based structure in exported HTML.
  646. - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
  647. "table-of-contents".
  648. - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
  649. classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
  650. - The postamble, containing the author information and the
  651. date is wrapped into a div with class "postamble".
  652. I am not sure if the class names are the best choice, let me
  653. know if there are more "canonical" choices.
  654. Thanks to Mike Newman and Cezar for input, and in particular
  655. to Mike for his clearly formulated specification.
  656. Other stuff
  657. -----------
  658. - New variable `org-agenda-window-frame-fractions' to
  659. customize the size limits of the agenda window in the case
  660. that you display the agenda window by reorganizing the
  661. frame.
  662. - Drawers can be set on a per-file basis using
  663. #+DRAWERS: HIDDEN STATE PROPERTIES
  664. This will define the drawers :HIDDEN: and :STATE:.
  665. The :PROPERTY: drawer should always be part of this list, or
  666. your properties will not be folded away.
  667. Thanks to Richard G. Riley for this proposal.
  668. - `org-agenda-fontify-priorities' may now also be an
  669. association list of priorities and faces, to specify the
  670. faces of priorities in the agenda individually.
  671. - The variable `org-export-with-property-drawer' no longer
  672. exists, please use `org-export-with-drawers' instead. Also,
  673. the corresponding switch in the #+OPTIONS line has changed
  674. from "p" to "d". Thanks to Bastien for pointing out that we
  675. needed to handle not only the property drawer.
  676. - M-up and M-down now move the current line up and down (if
  677. not at a headline, item or table). Among other things you
  678. can use this to re-order properties in the drawer. This was
  679. a proposal by Bastien.
  680. - New variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date', based on a
  681. request by Wanrong Lin.
  682. - Aborting remember template selection with C-g now kills the
  683. remember buffer and restores the old window configuration.
  684. This was a request by Nuutti Kotivuori.
  685. Version 5.12
  686. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  687. Overview
  688. ========
  689. - Remember templates can now have name.
  690. - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note (remember of log)
  691. - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg.
  692. - Lines in the agenda can be fontified according to priority.
  693. - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days'.
  694. - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
  695. `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders'.
  696. - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'.
  697. - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to `org-link'.
  698. - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags".
  699. - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'.
  700. Incompatible Changes
  701. ====================
  702. - `C-c /' now calls `org-sparse-tree'.
  703. Details
  704. =======
  705. - Remember templates can now have a template name as the first
  706. element. The name will be listed along with the selection
  707. character when prompting for a template. It is best to have
  708. the name start with the selection character, for example if
  709. you use ("Note" "n"), you will be prompted like "[n]ote".
  710. Thanks to Matiyam for this proposal.
  711. - `C-c C-k' will abort taking a note. You can use this in remember
  712. buffers and when taking a logging note (e.g. for a state
  713. change). Thanks to Bastien.
  714. - `C-c C-x C-w' and `C-c C-x M-w' now accept a prefix arg to
  715. cut N sequential subtrees. This was a proposal by John.
  716. - Lines in the agenda are now bold if they have priority A and
  717. italic if they have priority C. You can turn this off using
  718. the variable `org-agenda-fontify-priorities'. Thanks to
  719. John Wiegley for the idea and code.
  720. - New variable `org-scheduled-past-days' to set the number a
  721. scheduled item will be listed after its date has passed.
  722. Default is 10000, i.e. indefinitely.
  723. - New variables `org-agenda-deadline-leaders' and
  724. `org-agenda-scheduled-leaders' to adjust the leading text o
  725. scheduled items and deadline in the agenda. Thanks to John
  726. Wiegley for a patch.
  727. - New sparse tree function `org-sparse-tree'. This is now the
  728. default binding for `C-c /'. It requires one additional
  729. keypress to select a command, but in return is provides a
  730. single interface to all the different sparse tree commands,
  731. with full completion support.
  732. - The variable `org-ellipsis' now defaults to the face
  733. `org-link' because the visibility of the dots is really bad
  734. and I have found this change very useful indeed.
  735. - The #+OPTIONS line has a new option "tags" which can be used
  736. to set `org-export-with-tags'. Thanks to Wanrong Lin for
  737. this proposal.
  738. - New variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. Configure it
  739. to `t' if you want that searching for entries with certain
  740. properties always should assume inheritance. This is not
  741. well tested yet, please check it out.
  742. - Bug fixes
  743. Version 5.11
  744. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  745. Overview
  746. ========
  747. - SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, LOCATION properties for iCalendar
  748. - Command to jump to the running clock
  749. - Clock entries can now have their own drawer
  750. - `C-c C-x C-r' only updates a clocktable at point
  751. - New way to assign a remember template to a single key
  752. - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
  753. - `C-x C-s' in agenda buffer saves all org-mode buffers
  754. - Schedule/deadline leaves note in agenda buffer
  755. - Prefix argument for `C-c C-d/s' will remove date
  756. - New variable to make block aranda more compact
  757. - Better tag alignment in agenda
  758. Incompatible changes
  759. ====================
  760. - If you have customized `org-drawers', you need to add
  761. "CLOCK" to the list of drawers.
  762. - The variable `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column' has been
  763. renamed to `org-agenda-tags-column'. The old name is still
  764. an alias, in Emacs 22 and in XEmacs, but not in Emacs 21.
  765. - The default value for both `org-tags-column' and
  766. `org-agenda-tags-column' is now -80.
  767. - The variable
  768. `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
  769. is now obsolete.
  770. Details
  771. =======
  772. - The LOGGING property allows to modify the settings for
  773. progress logging for a single entry. For example:
  774. :PROPERTIES:
  775. :LOGGING: nologging nologrepeat
  776. :END:
  777. turns off all progress logging for the current entry and its
  778. children.
  779. - The properties SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION have
  780. special meaning during iCalendar export, when they translate
  781. to the corresponding VEVENT and VTODO fields. If not given,
  782. Org-ode continues to use cleaned-up version of the headline
  783. and body as the summary and the description, respectively.
  784. - New function to go to the entry with the currently running
  785. clock. Bound to `C-c C-x C-j', in agenda also to "J". If
  786. you use this often, you might even want to assign a global
  787. key. Thanks to Bernt and Bastien.
  788. - Clock entries can now have their own drawer, the :CLOCK:
  789. drawer. Check out the variable `org-clock-into-drawer' for
  790. configuration of this feature. The default is to create a
  791. drawer when the second clocking line gets added to an entry.
  792. Note that "CLOCK" has been added to the default value of
  793. `org-drawers', but if you have configured that variable, you
  794. must go back and add "CLOCK" yourself to get this drawer
  795. folded away. Thanks to Tom Weissman for pointing out that
  796. too many clock entries are visually annoying.
  797. - `C-c C-x C-r' no longer tries to find the first clocktable
  798. in a buffer and then updates it. Instead, it will update
  799. the clocktable at point if there is one (same as C-c C-c
  800. will do if the cursor is in the "#+BEGIN" line of the
  801. table). If there is none at point, a new one will be
  802. inserted. This change was necessary because the new :scope
  803. parameter allows to have several clocktables in a buffer.
  804. Thanks to Bastien for pointing this out.
  805. To update all dynamic blocks in a file, use `C-u C-c C-x C-u'.
  806. - The function `org-remember' can now be called with a
  807. template selection key as argument. This helps to make key
  808. bindings that go directly to a specific template without
  809. being prompted for a template, like this:
  810. (global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (org-remember "j")))
  811. Thanks to Richard G Riley for bringing this up.
  812. - `C-n' and `C-p' are back to their default binding
  813. (next/previous line) in the agenda buffer. Enough people,
  814. including recently Denis Bueno, have complained about this,
  815. and I agree it is not good to break habits like that.
  816. - `C-x C-s' in an agenda buffer now saves all org-mode buffers
  817. (also `s' does this).
  818. - Setting schedule or deadline dates from the agenda now
  819. produces a note in the agenda, similarly to what happens
  820. with S-left/right.
  821. - Using a prefix argument for `C-c C-d' or `C-c C-s' will
  822. remove the deadline or scheduling date from an item. Thanks
  823. to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
  824. - New variable `org-agenda-compact-blocks'. When set, the
  825. space between blocks in a block agenda is reduced as much as
  826. possible, to show more items on a single screen.
  827. - The variable `org-agenda-tags-column' (renamed from
  828. `org-agenda-align-tags-to-column') can now also be negative,
  829. to mean alignment to the left. The new default is -80, just
  830. like it is now for `org-tags-column'.
  831. - Bug fixes
  832. Version 5.10
  833. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  834. Overview
  835. ========
  836. - Category and the archive location can be properties.
  837. - The clocktable has a new `:scope' parameter.
  838. - CSV support when importing a table.
  839. - Better defaults when modifying a time stamp.
  840. - New way to specify the duration of an appointment.
  841. - More aggressive version of orgstruct-mode improved wrapping.
  842. - Modifications to priority cycling.
  843. - Modifications to computations in column view.
  844. - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files'.
  845. - Bug fixes.
  846. Details
  847. =======
  848. - Both the category and the archive location in a (sub)tree of
  849. the buffer can now be specified using a property, for
  850. example:
  851. * Tree with special properties
  852. :PROPERTIES:
  853. :CATEGORY: Examples
  854. :ARCHIVE: /some/special/file::
  855. :END:
  856. This is a much cleaner way of dealing with multiple
  857. categories and archives in a single file. The preferred use
  858. of the `#+CATEGORY' and `#+ARCHIVE' lines is now to set a
  859. *single* default for the file which is then locally
  860. overruled by properties. This was a proposal from Bastien
  861. if I remember correctly. Multiple `#+' lines still work
  862. and I don't plan to remove this support soon, but I
  863. encourage you to stop using them.
  864. - The clocktable has a new `:scope' parameter that determines
  865. the range in the file from which clock entries should be
  866. taken. This can be anything from the local subtree to the
  867. entire buffer to even the full list of agenda files. Legal
  868. values are:
  869. value scope
  870. ---------+-------------------------------------------------
  871. nil the current buffer or narrowed region
  872. file the full current buffer
  873. subtree the subtree where the clocktable is located
  874. treeN the surrounding level N tree, for example tree3
  875. tree the surrounding level 1 tree
  876. agenda all agenda files
  877. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer and Bernt Hansen for
  878. inspiration. Thanks to cranreuch (what is you full name?)
  879. for mentioning, at the right moment, that the clocktable is
  880. not so bad - that remark made it seem worthwhile to add
  881. features.
  882. - The commands to import a table and to convert a region to a
  883. table can now handle comma-separated values (CSV). The
  884. algorithm does not yet treat quoting correctly, but for
  885. basic input it works.
  886. - When modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the
  887. second stamp of a range, the date prompt will now
  888. consistently default to the date/time in the existing stamp.
  889. This was triggered by Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
  890. - At the date/time prompt, there is a new way to specify a
  891. range of hours, by using "+DURATION" after the time. For
  892. example:
  893. 14:00+2 means 14:00-16:00
  894. 2pm+2:30 means 14:00-16:30
  895. Again, Nuutti Kotivuori's request.
  896. - When you use the function `turn-on-orgstruct++' to turn on
  897. orgstruct-mode, the special org-mode settings for
  898. auto-filling, indentation and paragraphs are exported into
  899. the buffer, so that typing list items with indentation works
  900. better. This was Bastien's idea and request.
  901. - New variable `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default'. When
  902. t (the default), priority cycling will initially set the
  903. default priority and then increase or decrease. When nil,
  904. the first priority set by cycling is already 1 different
  905. from the default priority. This was mostly driven by
  906. Bastien.
  907. - In column view: When an entry has a property for a summary
  908. column defined, its value is normally overwritten by the sum
  909. of all the children's values each time you enter column
  910. view. Now there is an exception to this rule: If none of
  911. the children has that particular property defined, the
  912. parent's value stays. In this way you can still place TODO
  913. items under such an entry without getting the property value
  914. changed. Thanks to Russel Adams for pointing out that this
  915. is a better way of doing things.
  916. - In column view, computed values are now bold face, and
  917. trying to edit them is an error. I think this works, but
  918. testing is appreciated.
  919. - New command `org-occur-in-agenda-files', this is basically
  920. the quick command John Wiegley proposed the other day, but
  921. it also works when the agenda files are not yet in buffers.
  922. The key is `C-c C-x /', any better proposals?
  923. - Links containing a space will now be handled correctly when
  924. calling the browser. Note that you need to enclose such
  925. links in square or angular brackets.
  926. - Bug fixes.
  927. Version 5.09
  928. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  929. Overview
  930. ========
  931. - Taking a note upon TODO state changes can be restricted to
  932. selected states.
  933. - The format in which dates are shown in the daily/weekly
  934. agenda can be configured.
  935. - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now t.
  936. - `org-goto' has been made into a general lookup command.
  937. - Priority cycling goes back to the nil state.
  938. - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
  939. - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
  940. inherited from the outline faces.
  941. Incompatible Changes
  942. ====================
  943. - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
  944. t, in order to better match the original intent of
  945. remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
  946. work flow). I expect that many people will be hit by this
  947. incompatible change - nevertheless I believe it is the right
  948. thing to do.
  949. Details
  950. =======
  951. - You can now select specific states for recording a note when
  952. switching to that state. With the setting
  953. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r)
  954. #+STARTUP: lognotestate
  955. only the states ORDERED and INVOICE will record a timestamp
  956. and a note.
  957. - You can now set the format of the string for each day in the
  958. agenda and timeline buffers. You can use a format string
  959. interpreted by `format-time-string', or you can write your
  960. own function. Configure the new variable
  961. `org-agenda-format-date'. Thanks to Levin for triggering
  962. this development with a patch.
  963. - The default for `org-remember-store-without-prompt' is now
  964. t, in order to better match the original intent of
  965. remember.el (storing a note with minimum interruption of
  966. work flow). Since we can assign files and headlines to
  967. templates, I guess this takes care of selecting a filing
  968. location in most cases. For interactive filing, you now
  969. need a prefix command when exiting `remember'.
  970. - `org-goto' (bound to `C-c C-j') now uses an indirect buffer
  971. and has additional commands enabled: Org-occur with `C-c /'
  972. or even faster with `/', and the commands needed to select
  973. and copy a region. This make `org-goto' a more general
  974. lookup command instead of only a jumping command. Remember
  975. that you can exit with `Q' to go back to the original
  976. location. Thanks to William Henney for this idea.
  977. - Setting the priority with S-up/down now cycles back to a
  978. state where no priority is specified. This was requested by
  979. Rick Moynihan.
  980. - You can store a remember note to the *last used* location.
  981. So if you select a location interactively once, you can
  982. re-use it without having to find it again. For this, exit
  983. the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c'. The leading
  984. comment in the remember buffer will tell exactly where the
  985. note goes if you exit with a particular command.
  986. Thanks to Maxim Loginov for this idea.
  987. - On Emacs 23, the headline faces for org-mode are now
  988. inherited from the outline faces. This is just a
  989. convenience, so that you only have to configure one set of
  990. faces, and that will then be outline-1 .. outline-8. You
  991. will actually not see any difference in org-mode, because
  992. Stefan Monnier has made the outline faces in Emacs 23 to
  993. match the current org-mode faces.
  994. This change does not effect XEmacs, nor Emacs 21 and 22.
  995. Version 5.08
  996. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  997. Incompatible changes
  998. ====================
  999. - The default for `org-deadline-warning-days' is now 14.
  1000. Details
  1001. =======
  1002. - There is now a separate interface for fast and directly
  1003. setting a TODO keyword. This interface kicks in when you
  1004. have configured keys for TODO keywords like
  1005. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c)
  1006. C-c C-t still does the cycling thing, you need to use a
  1007. prefix argument to get to the fast interface. Or configure
  1008. the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to t, then this
  1009. will be the default and the prefix argument will make the
  1010. command fall back to cycling.
  1011. The tag selection no longer does include TODO keywords -
  1012. Leo's arguments have convinced me that this is not a good
  1013. idea. If you'd like to see the TODO keywords in the tags
  1014. interface anyway, set the variable
  1015. `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo'. Thanks to Leo and
  1016. others for input on this issue.
  1017. - New variable `org-edit-timestamp-down-means-later'. When
  1018. set, `S-down' on a timestamp will change the timestamp to
  1019. later. Thanks to Raman for this idea.
  1020. - Property names can now contain non-ascii word characters.
  1021. This follows a request from Daniel Clemente.
  1022. - For export, the date that should be given in the exported
  1023. file can now be set to a specific value with a line like
  1024. #+DATE: 15 November 2003
  1025. If you want to use the date/time when the file was created,
  1026. use a format string that will be interpreted by
  1027. `format-time-string', for example:
  1028. #+DATE: %Y/%m/%d %X
  1029. - The default of `org-deadline-warning-days' has changed to 14
  1030. days. 30 was really too much, I suspect most people (me
  1031. included) have changed this.
  1032. - When a deadline has an individual lead time, this lead time
  1033. obviously overrules `org-deadline-warning-days'. However,
  1034. if you bind `org-deadline-warning-days' to a number <=0, for
  1035. example during a custom agenda command, then the absolute
  1036. value of this number will be enforced also when a different
  1037. lead time has been specified. This is useful to get a list
  1038. of all deadlines coming up in the next N days.
  1039. Version 5.07
  1040. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1041. Overview
  1042. ========
  1043. - Different faces for different TODO keywords.
  1044. - Setting TODO states through the TAG setting interface.
  1045. - Context information is stored when moving a tree to the archive.
  1046. - Sorting can be done by priority.
  1047. - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face.
  1048. - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
  1049. - Unavailable files in `org-agenda-files' can be skipped.
  1050. Incompatible changes
  1051. ====================
  1052. - The time of archiving is now stored as a property.
  1053. ARCHIVED is no longer a special time keyword.
  1054. - Scheduling info is no longer removed entry is marked CLOSED.
  1055. Details
  1056. =======
  1057. - You can now define different faces for different TODO
  1058. keywords. This request has come up frequently, so here it
  1059. is: Use the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'.
  1060. A Here is a configuration example:
  1061. (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
  1062. '(("TODO" . org-warning)
  1063. ("DEFERRED" . shadow)
  1064. ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold
  1065. :underline t))))
  1066. Org-mode continue still use `org-todo' and `org-done' for
  1067. keywords that have no specific face assigned.
  1068. - Some People use TODO states more like tags. For them the
  1069. TODO keywords mark special states and they like to quickly
  1070. switch between states in arbitrary sequence. The standard
  1071. TODO interface is not perfect for this, because it assumes
  1072. that the states are reached in sequence. However, the fast
  1073. tag setting interface is in fact perfect for this. You can
  1074. now "misuse" the TAG selection interface to also set TODO
  1075. states. All you need to do is to assign keys to the TODO
  1076. states, just like you also do for tags.
  1077. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) WAITING(w) | CANCELED(c) DONE(d)
  1078. #+TAGS: @HOME(h) @OFFICE(o) @SHOP(s)
  1079. Next time you try to set tags with C-c C-c, the todo states
  1080. will be offered as well, and the corresponding key will
  1081. switch the entry to that state.
  1082. - New variable `org-archive-save-context-info' governs if
  1083. information that would be lost by moving a subtree to the
  1084. archive file, should be stored as special properties. For
  1085. example,
  1086. (setq org-archive-save-context-info '(itags category))
  1087. will store the inherited tags and the category in properties
  1088. ARCHIVE_ITAGS and ARCHIVE_CATEGORY, respectively. The
  1089. default setting for this variable is to save everything that
  1090. could be lost. This was a proposal by John Wiegley.
  1091. - Sorting (`C-c ^') can use the use the priority to sort. Use
  1092. the "p" and "P" keys at the prompt. John Wiegley, again.
  1093. - `Org-ellipsis' can now also be a face to make the folding
  1094. ellipsis more visible. This is based on a post by Tassilo
  1095. Horn. Since `org-ellipsis' only works in Org-mode, you
  1096. might want to use Tassilo Horn's hack directly in order to
  1097. affect the folding ellipsis globally.
  1098. - Scheduling info is no longer removed when an entry is marked
  1099. CLOSED. This was a request by Brian van den Broek. Let me
  1100. know if this breaks anything for you - then it will become
  1101. an option.
  1102. - New option `org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files'. Currently,
  1103. if a file does not exist, it will be removed from
  1104. `org-agenda-files' after a query. When this option is set,
  1105. the file will simply be skipped.
  1106. - Bug fixes.
  1107. Version 5.06
  1108. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1109. Overview
  1110. ========
  1111. Details
  1112. =======
  1113. - When exporting only a region and this region is a single
  1114. (sub)tree (for example selected with `C-c @'), the title for
  1115. the exported document is taken to be the heading of the
  1116. subtree. The sublevels become top-level entries in the
  1117. export. Furthermore, if the head entry of the tree has or
  1118. inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that file name (with
  1119. appropriately substituted extension) will be used for the
  1120. exported tree. Thanks to Patrick Drechsler and Jost Burkart
  1121. for these ideas.
  1122. - org-special-ctrl-a/e has a third allowed value, `reversed'.
  1123. When it is set to this value, the first C-a or C-e command
  1124. behaves normally, i.e. it goes to the true beginning or end
  1125. of the line. Only when you press C-a or C-e immediately
  1126. again, the the "special" position will be found. Additional
  1127. presses of the same key jump between the two positions. I
  1128. like this a lot better than the `t' setting, because now the
  1129. keys behave more predictable and still give easy access to
  1130. the special locations.
  1131. - New command to set or remove a tag from all headlines in a
  1132. region.
  1133. - When Org-mode visits a file, it will initially hide all
  1134. drawers.
  1135. - The default of the variable `org-cycle-global-at-bob' is now
  1136. nil, meaning that TAB no longer does global visibility
  1137. cycling at the beginning of the buffer.
  1138. - Bug fixes, in particular the problems with scheduling and
  1139. deadlines introduced in 5.05. Please check carefully if
  1140. this works correctly again, and complain if not.
  1141. Version 5.05
  1142. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1143. Overview
  1144. ========
  1145. - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
  1146. - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
  1147. - Global access to commands inserting and following links.
  1148. - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
  1149. - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
  1150. - Store remember notes with only 2 keys: C-c C-c
  1151. - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
  1152. - Global values for selected properties.
  1153. - Bug fixes.
  1154. Details
  1155. =======
  1156. - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
  1157. distribution. You can export an Org-mode document to a
  1158. LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'. For more options, see the
  1159. manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file. Kudos to
  1160. Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
  1161. I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
  1162. ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
  1163. be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
  1164. - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
  1165. system. This should clear the road for all those mairix and
  1166. other ideas that have been floating around. Now it is on
  1167. *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode. The
  1168. interface for adding a new link type is described in the
  1169. appendix of the manual, section A2. The unsolved problem is
  1170. currently how to handle the new link types for
  1171. export/publishing.
  1172. - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
  1173. `org-insert-link-global'. You can bind these commands to
  1174. global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
  1175. links anywhere in Emacs. Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
  1176. excellent idea.
  1177. - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
  1178. lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
  1179. The syntax is like this
  1180. DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
  1181. When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
  1182. first:
  1183. DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
  1184. You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
  1185. agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
  1186. See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
  1187. Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley proposals in
  1188. this direction.
  1189. - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'. When
  1190. set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
  1191. the agenda, either today or in the near future. Other
  1192. matches will be ignored. Thanks to John Wiegley for this
  1193. proposal.
  1194. - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'. When set,
  1195. exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
  1196. without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
  1197. C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location. So
  1198. this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
  1199. storing remember notes. This follows a request from John
  1200. Wiegley.
  1201. - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
  1202. appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
  1203. reminders. This uses appt.el. Thanks to Bastien for this
  1204. function.
  1205. - You can now set default values for properties that can be
  1206. inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
  1207. globally. Global properties are set in the variable
  1208. `org-global-properties', like this:
  1209. (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
  1210. Buffer-local values are set like this:
  1211. #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
  1212. When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
  1213. the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
  1214. not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
  1215. are checked as well. This is mostly useful (I think) to set
  1216. the list of allowed values for a property. Thanks to Bernt
  1217. Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
  1218. - Bug fixes.
  1219. Version 5.04
  1220. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1221. Details
  1222. =======
  1223. - New variables `org-export-author-info' and
  1224. `org-export-time-stamp-file' to turn off inclusion of author
  1225. and time information into exported files. Thank to Patrick
  1226. Drechsler for pointing out that this would be useful.
  1227. - New variable to avoid moving DEADLINE and SCHEDULED info
  1228. into the property drawer. The default is now to not move
  1229. this stuff into the drawer.
  1230. `org-insert-labeled-timestamps-before-properties-drawer'
  1231. - `org-archive-mark-done' can be a string now, to select a
  1232. specific keyword that should be used for archived entries.
  1233. - New command "j" in agenda to jump to an arbitrary date.
  1234. Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the patch.
  1235. - Lots of minor fixes.
  1236. Version 5.03
  1237. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1238. Incompatible Changes
  1239. ====================
  1240. - The variable `org-special-ctrl-a' has been renamed to
  1241. `org-special-ctrl-a/e'. The old one is still an alias (but
  1242. not on Emacs 21 where variable aliases cannot be defined).
  1243. Details
  1244. =======
  1245. - When the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' is set, C-e in a
  1246. headline first goes to the end of the headline ignoring the
  1247. tags. A second C-e then goes to after the tags.
  1248. - Typing and removing single characters in a headline now
  1249. keeps the tags in the headline aligned. This could have a
  1250. little impact on performance while deleting stuff - let me
  1251. know if we need to make this customizable.
  1252. - New option `org-n-level-faces' can be used to set the number
  1253. of different faces that are used for headlines. Default is
  1254. all 8 faces Org-mode defines for this purpose, level 9 uses
  1255. again the level-1 face. However, you can use fewer, and then
  1256. the level-1 face will be reused already for level N+1, etc.
  1257. - Column View and hidestars now work together.
  1258. - Bug fixes.
  1259. Version 5.02
  1260. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1261. Overview
  1262. ========
  1263. - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished
  1264. now and work well.
  1265. - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can
  1266. compute their value from the children's values.
  1267. - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The
  1268. conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no
  1269. longer there.
  1270. Incompatible Changes
  1271. ====================
  1272. - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to
  1273. make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22
  1274. is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are
  1275. using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but
  1276. not column view.
  1277. Details
  1278. =======
  1279. - Improvements for properties:
  1280. + There are interactive commands to insert and delete
  1281. properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details.
  1282. + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When
  1283. these are defined, you can change the value of a property
  1284. with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when
  1285. inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent
  1286. typos when entering properties.
  1287. - Improvements for column view.
  1288. + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and
  1289. also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed
  1290. value to the next.
  1291. + You can define summaries for columns. For example,
  1292. parents can contain the sum of all children values of a
  1293. property, or the parent node can have a check box property
  1294. that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are
  1295. checked.
  1296. + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns,
  1297. and to change the attributes of a column like the summary
  1298. type.
  1299. These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example
  1300. from [omni outliner] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be
  1301. accurately [reproduced by Org-mode].
  1302. - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in
  1303. order to remove the conflict with bold words at the
  1304. beginning of a line. So
  1305. * This is a level 1 headline
  1306. *this is bold text*
  1307. - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also
  1308. available in orgstruct-mode.
  1309. Version 5.01
  1310. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1311. Overview
  1312. ========
  1313. - A new minor mode, orgstruct-mode, exports the Org-mode
  1314. structure editing commands into any other mode.
  1315. - DRAWERS are a new level off folding for special sections
  1316. that should stay closed during visibility cycling and only
  1317. open if explicitly asked.
  1318. - Entries can now have PROPERTIES.
  1319. - A COLUMN VIEW implementation allows to easily view and edit
  1320. the properties of a hierarchy of entries (Emacs only, for
  1321. now).
  1322. - Formula evaluation in the spreadsheet is more consistent
  1323. now. Properties and per-file constants can be used during
  1324. evaluation.
  1325. - Bug fixes and minor changes.
  1326. Incompatible changes
  1327. ====================
  1328. - When using LEVEL=N in a tags search, things have changed if
  1329. you are also using `org-odd-levels-only'. If you are using
  1330. only odd levels (i.e. 1 or 3 or 5... stars), LEVEL=2 will
  1331. now refer to 3 stars, LEVEL=3 to 5 stars etc. Many thanks
  1332. to Leo (or blame on him if you must) who has convinced me
  1333. that this is the better convention.
  1334. Details
  1335. =======
  1336. Orgstruct minor mode
  1337. --------------------
  1338. There is a new minor mode, orgstruct-mode. This modes works
  1339. in a similar way as Orgtbl-mode. It can be used to export
  1340. the Org-mode structure-editing commands into arbitrary major
  1341. modes in Emacs. For example, you can use it in Mail-mode to
  1342. easily create lists.
  1343. The functionality in Orgstruct mode is only active, if the
  1344. cursor is in a line that looks either like a headline, or
  1345. like the first line of a plain list item. Then the commands
  1346. `TAB', `M-cursor', `M-S-cursor', `M-RET', `M-S-RET', `C-c ^',
  1347. `C-c C-c', and `C-c -' will do structure-related editing just
  1348. like in Org-mode. If the cursor is not in such a line, all
  1349. these keys will do whatever the major mode or other active
  1350. minor modes have assigned to them.
  1351. Orgstruct-mode is the result of a proposal by Raman, quite
  1352. some time ago. It has taken a long time, but here is finally
  1353. the promised implementation.
  1354. Drawers
  1355. -------
  1356. The new concept of /drawers/ allows to create sections
  1357. that remain folded during visibility cycling. Drawers need
  1358. to be configured using the variable `org-drawers'. A drawer
  1359. starts with a line containing only the name of the drawer
  1360. bracketed by colons. It ends with :END:. For example,
  1361. after setting
  1362. (setq org-drawers '("PROPERTIES" "HIDDEN"))
  1363. you can then create drawers like this:
  1364. :HIDDEN:
  1365. here is some stuff that remains hidden
  1366. unless TAB is pressed directly in that line
  1367. :END:
  1368. The PROPERTIES drawer has special meaning for ORG-mode, it
  1369. contains properties of an entry (see below).
  1370. Properties and Column View
  1371. --------------------------
  1372. - Entries in Org-mode can now have arbitrary /properties/
  1373. associated with them. Org-mode handles some default
  1374. properties like the TODO state, the priority, the local
  1375. tags, and planning information like DEADLINE and SCHEDULED.
  1376. In addition, you can assign arbitrary properties by creating
  1377. a property drawer and inserting a line like
  1378. :PROPNAME: This is the value of the property
  1379. Org-mode has an API for properties, if you want to write a
  1380. program using properties, use the functions
  1381. `org-entry-properties', `org-entry-get', `org-entry-put',
  1382. and `org-entry-delete'.
  1383. - Planning information like DEADLINE can be hidden in the
  1384. properties drawer.
  1385. If the PROPERTIES drawer starts in the first line after a
  1386. headline, also the DEADLINE, SCHEDULED and CLOCK information
  1387. will be inserted inside the drawer. If no PROPERTIES drawer
  1388. is present, or if it does not start in the line right after
  1389. the headline, this information remains in the lines directly
  1390. after the headline, outside the drawer.
  1391. - TAGS searches can now also query properties. For example,
  1392. the search
  1393. LEVEL=3+BOSS+ASSIGNED="Hans"/WAITING
  1394. will find entries that
  1395. - are level 3
  1396. - have the tag BOSS
  1397. - have an ASSIGNED property with the value "Hans"
  1398. - are TODO status WAITING.
  1399. So here is an entry that will match:
  1400. *** WAITING Clean up the factory :BOSS:
  1401. :PROPERTIES:
  1402. :ASSIGNED: Hans
  1403. :END:
  1404. You may also use a regular expression to match against a
  1405. property value. For example, to find stuff assigned to Hans
  1406. or Sarah, use
  1407. ASSIGNED={^\(Hans\|Sarah\)$}
  1408. - Column View is a special way to look at property values in
  1409. tabular form. Column View can be used in any org-mode
  1410. file, and also in any agenda buffer. It works by placing
  1411. an overlay over each headline (or agenda line) that shows a
  1412. table of selected properties. You can look at and edit
  1413. properties from this view. Which properties are shown in
  1414. the table must be set up using the COLUMNS property. You
  1415. can set up different property columns on different levels
  1416. of an outline tree. For example:
  1417. * People
  1418. :PROPERTIES:
  1419. :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name
  1420. :END:
  1421. ** Family
  1422. :PROPERTIES:
  1423. :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %3Age
  1424. :END:
  1425. *** Sam
  1426. Info about Sam, including a property list with Name and Age.
  1427. *** Sarah
  1428. Info about Sarah, including a property list with Name and Age.
  1429. ** Office
  1430. :PROPERTIES:
  1431. :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Name %Function %Salary
  1432. :END:
  1433. *** Boss
  1434. Info about the Boss, including a property list with Name,
  1435. Function and Salary (if only we knew....).
  1436. Now we have defined three different sets of columns. If
  1437. you switch to column view in the /Family/ section, you
  1438. will get a different table than if you do it in the
  1439. /Office/ section. However, if you switch to column
  1440. view with the cursor on the /People/ section, the
  1441. table will cover all entries, but contain only the
  1442. /Name/.
  1443. Column view does, for the time being, only work on Emacs.
  1444. The XEmacs implementation needs a bit of work.
  1445. - Properties can be used in table formulas. To access the
  1446. value of the property :XYZ:, use $PROP_XYZ. The property
  1447. needs to be defined in the hierarchy above the table, not
  1448. necessarily in the same entry as the table. This was a
  1449. request by Eddward. File-wide constants can be defined with
  1450. #+CONSTANTS, see below.
  1451. - Things that still need to be sorted out about drawers,
  1452. properties and column view - comments and suggestions
  1453. welcome!
  1454. + How to deal with drawers and properties in HTML and ASCII
  1455. export?
  1456. + What key could be used to insert an empty property drawer
  1457. into an entry?
  1458. + Right now column view is invoked through the command C-c
  1459. C-x C-c. It is too easy to type C-x C-c by mistake, and
  1460. that causes Emacs to quit. Suggestions for a different
  1461. key?
  1462. + Fontification of drawers and properties is not good yet.
  1463. Any suggestions for better defaults?
  1464. + Mouse support for editing properties in column view would
  1465. be nice - maybe Piotr is interested to add this to
  1466. org-mouse.el?
  1467. Spreadsheet
  1468. -----------
  1469. - In the spreadsheet, the evaluation of formulas has changed.
  1470. Previously, first the column formulas would be evaluated
  1471. everywhere, and then the field formulas would kick in, and
  1472. in some cases overwrite the results of column formulas in
  1473. the appropriate fields. This had the side effect that some
  1474. formulas might always use the wrong, intermediate content of
  1475. a field that is computed both by a column and a field
  1476. formula.
  1477. From now on, column formulas will no longer temporarily
  1478. overwrite field formulas. This gives much more consistent
  1479. results. For example you can now finally have a column of
  1480. increasing numbers by setting the first field to a fixed
  1481. number, and let the rest follow from a column formula.
  1482. Here is an example
  1483. | 1 |
  1484. | 2 |
  1485. | 3 |
  1486. #+TBLFM: $1=@-1+1::@1$1=1
  1487. - Constants for formulas in spreadsheets are globally defined
  1488. with the variable `org-table-formula-constants'. File-local
  1489. constants can now be set with a line like:
  1490. #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6
  1491. Minor changes
  1492. -------------
  1493. - When entries are archived, a timestamp for the moment of
  1494. archiving is added to the line with planning information.
  1495. It looks like this:
  1496. ARCHIVED: [2007-07-02 Mon 11:34]
  1497. Thanks to J. David Boyd for constructive comments.
  1498. - Bug fixes
  1499. Many bugs are fixed, as usually all the ones where I replied
  1500. "fixed" on emacs-orgmode. If you reported one of these
  1501. bugs, please check if it really has disappeared in the new
  1502. version, and complain if not. Thanks!
  1503. Version 4.79
  1504. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1505. Details
  1506. =======
  1507. - We are back to a single file org.el that works both on Emacs
  1508. and on XEmacs. Merging comes at a speed penalty for you as
  1509. an XEmacs user, but *only if you do not compile* org.el.
  1510. Compilation completely removes the penalty.
  1511. - New L flag for literal interpolation in Lisp formulas.
  1512. See manual section 3.5.3.
  1513. - New options for turning off footnotes.
  1514. This was a request from Ignotus.
  1515. See the option `org-export-with-footnotes'.
  1516. - Default length for Agenda entries, but this is off by
  1517. default. This was a request from Micheal.
  1518. See the option `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration'.
  1519. - Bug fixes:
  1520. + org-agenda-date-later (Juraj Kubelka)
  1521. + letters off margin in orgcard.ps (Charles Cave)
  1522. + TODO export problems on XEmacs (ignotus@freemail.hu)
  1523. + args-out-of-range with table formulas (Cecil Westerhof)
  1524. + problem with org-file without a heading (Tim O'Callaghan)
  1525. Version 4.78
  1526. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1527. Overview
  1528. ========
  1529. - Time stamps with a time range *included*, like
  1530. <2007-06-18 Mon 17:33-18:23>
  1531. - Clock times without clocking in/out: CLOCK: => 2:00
  1532. - Language-specific characters allowed in TAGS (Emacs only).
  1533. - Promotion and demotion of items gets the indentation right.
  1534. - Indenting lines with TAB is more intelligent.
  1535. Incompatible changes
  1536. ====================
  1537. - There is now a special version of `org.el' for XEmacs.
  1538. Before installation, as an XEmacs user you must rename the
  1539. file org_xemacs.el to org.el, i.e. you must overwrite org.el
  1540. with the xemacs version. For example:
  1541. mv org_xemacs.el org.el
  1542. This is necessary so that I can make use of some features
  1543. that would be cumbersome to support in a single file. The
  1544. XEmacs version is derived from the Emacs version with a
  1545. program, so no reason to fear that I might be dropping
  1546. XEmacs support any time soon. Sorry for the trouble.
  1547. Details
  1548. =======
  1549. - A time stamp may now contain a range of times. So you no
  1550. longer need to use two separate stamps to indicate a time
  1551. interval on a single day. For example
  1552. <2007-06-18 Mon 17:30-18:20>
  1553. This is now fully supported, including changing the time
  1554. with S-up/down while the cursor is on the end time. Also,
  1555. da the date/time prompt, you can simply write your time like
  1556. 12:00-14:00 and the range will be inserted.
  1557. This was proposed by Leo some time ago, and recently by
  1558. Michael.
  1559. - You may specify clocking times by hand (i.e. without
  1560. clocking in and out) using this syntax.
  1561. CLOCK: => 2:00
  1562. Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal.
  1563. - TAGS may now contain language-specific word characters, as
  1564. long as they are matched by the "[:alnum:]" regexp syntax.
  1565. This is for Emacs only, the XEmacs version continues to use
  1566. the character class "a-zA-Z0-9_@" for tag names. Thanks to
  1567. David Smith for a patch to this effect (a modified version
  1568. of that patch was applied). I am considering to make the
  1569. same change for TODO keywords, but not yet. Note that files
  1570. using localization features may not work correctly in the
  1571. Emacs configuration of another user, so if you are sharing
  1572. org-mode files with other users, it might still be best to
  1573. stick to the ASCII characters.
  1574. - Promotion and demotion of plain list items (commands M-left,
  1575. M-right) no longer changes the indentation by just one
  1576. space. Instead, it uses intelligence gathered from the
  1577. surrounding list structure to do the right thing. Thanks to
  1578. William Henney for starting the discussion about this.
  1579. - TAB does now a better job of indenting lines.
  1580. + After tables and code segments (lines starting with ":"),
  1581. indentation goes back to what it was before (thanks to
  1582. William Henney for suggesting this behavior).
  1583. + When plain lists items are involved, we had a long
  1584. discussion on emacs-orgmode where I tried to show that a
  1585. too-sophisticated implementation will still be easily
  1586. fooled. Here is what I have implemented now - lets see
  1587. if we can agree on this:
  1588. Indentation will flatten lists with the same bullet type,
  1589. but indent another bullet type further. The time when
  1590. this fails is in a nested list, when you want to get back
  1591. out to a previous level. For example
  1592. - item 1
  1593. - item 2
  1594. + item 2a
  1595. + item 2b
  1596. - item 3
  1597. When using TAB on every line in this list, the structure
  1598. will change to
  1599. - item 1
  1600. - item 2
  1601. + item 2a
  1602. + item 2b
  1603. - item 3
  1604. So you need to change the level of the last line by hand,
  1605. using promotion and demotion functions.
  1606. Version 4.77
  1607. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1608. Overview
  1609. ========
  1610. - Vertical lines in exported tables.
  1611. - New default for `org-show-following-heading'.
  1612. Incompatible changes
  1613. ====================
  1614. - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil.
  1615. Details
  1616. =======
  1617. - You can now specify column groups in tables, to the effect
  1618. that the groups will be separated by vertical lines in HTML
  1619. and ASCII output. Column groups are specified by the
  1620. characters "<" and ">" in a special table row. "<" starts a
  1621. group, ">" ends a group (in each case including the the
  1622. column where the character is specified). You may also use
  1623. "<>" to make a group a single column wide. For example:
  1624. | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) |
  1625. |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
  1626. | / | <> | < | | > | < | > |
  1627. | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
  1628. | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 |
  1629. | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 |
  1630. #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2))
  1631. A table row with with nothing but "/" in the first field is
  1632. never exported, but can be used to place column group
  1633. information into the table. In this table, we create a
  1634. group for column 2, one for columns 3-5 and one for columns
  1635. 6-7. HTML export will render a vertical line between these
  1636. groups.
  1637. Because HTML does not require closing <colgroup> tags with
  1638. </colgroup>), you can also simply start a new column
  1639. wherever you want a vertical line:
  1640. | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N0 |
  1641. |---+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------|
  1642. | / | < | < | | < | |
  1643. - Vertical lines are now also omitted in ASCII export, unless
  1644. grouping explicitly requests these lines.
  1645. - The default for `org-show-following-heading' is now nil,
  1646. meaning that sparse trees will be more compact. This has
  1647. become possible due to in important remark by Jason Dunsmore
  1648. who pointed out that TAB should behave differently in the
  1649. inconsistent trees produced by the sparse tree commands.
  1650. TAB does now make sure that the heading after a freshly
  1651. unfolded tree is made visible at all, removing the confusing
  1652. behavior we had before.
  1653. - Several bugs fixed. In particular:
  1654. + Strings produced by agenda batch processing with
  1655. `org-batch-agenda' and `org-batch-agenda-csv' are now
  1656. properly encoded, so that you should be able to use
  1657. special characters in other languages as along as your
  1658. post-processing program handles them correctly. At least
  1659. for Emacs this should work now, but have not yet figured
  1660. out how to do this in XEmacs.
  1661. Version 4.76
  1662. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1663. Overview
  1664. ========
  1665. - Exporting Footnotes to HTML
  1666. Details
  1667. =======
  1668. - Footnotes like[1] are now exported to HTML
  1669. [1]This is a footnote
  1670. Thanks to Scott Jaderholm for this proposal and a detailed
  1671. HTML example on how the exported text should look like.
  1672. - Special version of the reference card, for letter paper.
  1673. - Switching to OVERVIEW with S-TAB no loner moves the cursor,
  1674. so after three `S-TAB' commands, you will be back where you
  1675. started.
  1676. - Bug fixes, lots of them again.
  1677. Version 4.75
  1678. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1679. Overview
  1680. ========
  1681. - Cyclic time stamps that repeat after an interval.
  1682. - Special timestamps for appointments like "every 2nd Thursday
  1683. in a month".
  1684. - Completion of link abbreviation prefixes inside `C-c C-l'.
  1685. - Replacing a region of org-mode syntax with HTML.
  1686. - iCalendar export now honors ARCHIVE etc.
  1687. - New command to add/change emphasis markers.
  1688. Incompatible Changes
  1689. ====================
  1690. - The REPEAT(...) cookie is no longer supported, the repeater
  1691. interval now goes directly into the time stamp.
  1692. Details
  1693. =======
  1694. - Time stamps can contain a repeater code, like +1w for once
  1695. every week, +2d for every two days, etc. For example,
  1696. <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w>
  1697. will apply to every Wednesday, starting from the date given.
  1698. I believe this syntax was actually suggested by someone on
  1699. the mailing list, but I cannot find the email back. To
  1700. collect your credit, let me know!
  1701. - You can use an sexp diary entry (with the syntax used by the
  1702. Emacs calendar/diary) in a time stamp, like this:
  1703. *** The nerd club meets on 2nd Thursday of every month
  1704. <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
  1705. - You can put diary-style sexp entries directly into an
  1706. org-mode file, where they will be interpreted just like they
  1707. would in the diary. For example
  1708. * Birthdays and similar stuff
  1709. #+CATEGORY: Holiday
  1710. %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names
  1711. #+CATEGORY: Ann
  1712. %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Artur Dent %d is years old
  1713. %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi
  1714. These entries must start at column 0 to be evaluated.
  1715. It turns out that evaluating the entries in an org-mode file
  1716. is actually faster than in the diary itself, because using
  1717. the diary has some overhead (creating fancy diary display,
  1718. then reading and re-interpreting the entries). I have moved
  1719. all the sexp entries from my diary into an org-mode file,
  1720. put in a few categories, and then turned off
  1721. `org-agenda-include-diary'. This has led to a noticeably
  1722. faster agenda display.
  1723. - New command `org-replace-region-by-html' that converts the
  1724. current region from org-mode syntax into HTML. For example,
  1725. you might write an itemized list in plain text in an HTML
  1726. buffer, and then invoke this command to convert it. Thanks
  1727. to Raman for this idea.
  1728. - When inserting a link with `C-c C-l', completion will now
  1729. fill in all valid link prefixes, like http or ftp, but also
  1730. link abbreviation prefixes. This is based on an idea by
  1731. Bastien.
  1732. - Highest, lowest, and default priority can be set on a
  1733. per-file basis with #+PRIORITIES: H L D
  1734. For example, to use priorities from 1 to 9, you could use
  1735. #+PRIORITIES: 1 9 9
  1736. Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
  1737. - iCalendar export now honors (i.e. skips) subtrees marked as
  1738. ARCHIVE, COMMENT, or QUOTE.
  1739. - There is a new command to add or change the emphasis (like
  1740. bold or italic) of a piece of text. For lack of better
  1741. available keys the command is at `C-c C-x C-f', but you may
  1742. well want to choose a more convenient key like `C-c f' in
  1743. your private setup:
  1744. (add-hook 'org-load-hook
  1745. (lambda () (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cf" 'org-emphasize)))
  1746. The command will prompt for an emphasis type, and you may
  1747. reply either with the marker that triggers the emphasis, or
  1748. with the first letter of the corresponding HTML tag. For
  1749. example, to select italic, press either "/" or "i".
  1750. If there is an active region, the emphasis of this region
  1751. will be set or changed. If there is no region, only the
  1752. emphasis markers will be inserted and the cursor positioned
  1753. between them. Thanks to Bastien for proposing this feature.
  1754. - Bug fixes, everything where I have replied "fixed" on the
  1755. mailing list. Thanks to all of you for keeping these reports
  1756. coming.
  1757. Version 4.74
  1758. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1759. Overview
  1760. ========
  1761. This release is about exporting agenda views, to HTML, to
  1762. postscript for printing, and to a special format (CSV) for
  1763. further processing in scripts.
  1764. Incompatible Changes
  1765. ====================
  1766. - The variable `org-agenda-remove-tags-when-in-prefix' has
  1767. been renamed to `org-agenda-remove-tags'.
  1768. Details
  1769. =======
  1770. - Agenda views can be exported as plain text, as HTML, and as
  1771. Postscript(R). This can simply be done from the agenda
  1772. buffer with `C-x C-w' and then specifying a filename like
  1773. `myagenda.html' or `myagenda.ps'. See section 8.6.4 of the
  1774. manual.
  1775. - Each custom agenda view can specify a list of associated
  1776. files names. The command `C-c a e' then creates all views
  1777. that have associated file names and exports the views to
  1778. these files. This is great for producing paper versions of
  1779. your views, to take with you when you don't have your
  1780. computer. The manual has an example on how to do this, and
  1781. in particular on how to customize the format of the printed
  1782. version. See section 8.6.4 of the manual.
  1783. - You can produce a CSV format of agenda information with an
  1784. Emacs batch command. This is greate for further processing
  1785. in scipts. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for this idea.
  1786. See section 8.6.5 of the manual.
  1787. - New variable `org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done'. When set,
  1788. a deadline associated with a DONE item will not be shown in
  1789. the agenda. This is based upon a report by Denis Bueno.
  1790. - Quite a few bug fixes.
  1791. Version 4.73
  1792. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1793. Minor bug fixes.
  1794. Version 4.72
  1795. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1796. Overview
  1797. ========
  1798. - Control over blank lines between trees in collapsed view.
  1799. - Info about the running clock is shown in the modeline.
  1800. - C-a can behave specially in headlines.
  1801. - Better color and scaling defaults for LaTeX fragments.
  1802. - Customizable list of keys in org-mode to be replaced.
  1803. - Stuck project descriptions have been extended.
  1804. - Emphasis code has been modified to fix some issues.
  1805. - Bug fixes.
  1806. Incompatible changes
  1807. ====================
  1808. - The option `org-format-latex-options' has changed. If you
  1809. have customized it, please revert to default and then redo
  1810. your customization.
  1811. - `org-CUA-compatible' no longer modifies S-RET by default,
  1812. because newer versions of CUA don't use this key anymore.
  1813. If you need this replacement, customize the variable
  1814. `org-disputed-keys'.
  1815. - The variable `org-CUA-compatible' is obsolete, please use
  1816. `org-replace-disputed-keys' instead. `org-CUA-compatible'
  1817. is still an alias for this new variable, though.
  1818. Details
  1819. =======
  1820. - Better control over blank lines between trees in collapsed
  1821. view. This has come up several times in the past and most
  1822. recently by Scott Jaderholm. There is now a new variable
  1823. `org-cycle-separator-lines' with default value 2. It says
  1824. how many empty lines there need to be after the end of a
  1825. subtree to get an empty line in collapsed view. So with the
  1826. default, if you leave only one empty line it will disappear
  1827. in collapsed view. If you leave two, one empty line will
  1828. remain so that you can use double empty lines to structure
  1829. the collapsed views of a file. I love it, so many thanks to
  1830. Scott fro bringing this up again.
  1831. One property of the new setup is that you will never get
  1832. more than one blank line in collapsed view. We could do
  1833. something special to allow *several* empty lines in
  1834. collapsed view, but I think this is counter-productive.
  1835. In Emacs 22, if you want to make full use of this, make sure
  1836. that you have not set `outline-blank-line'.
  1837. - When the clock is running, Org-mode will put info about it
  1838. into the modeline. The info consists of the elapsed time
  1839. and the heading of the clocked item. This was a proposal
  1840. from Bastien who got the idea from Muse.
  1841. - C-a can behave specially in headlines when you set the
  1842. variable `org-special-ctrl-a'. It will bring the cursor
  1843. first back only to the beginning of the headline *text*,
  1844. i.e. after the stars and the TODO keyword, if any. A second
  1845. C-a will then move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
  1846. If the cursor is already at the beginning of the line, C-a
  1847. will spring *forward* to the headline text. This was a
  1848. proposal from Leo, based on a request from Scott Jaderholm.
  1849. I have not turned this turned this on by default, should I?
  1850. - When LaTeX fragments are processed into images, there is now
  1851. more control and (hopefully) betters defaults for colors and
  1852. scaling. Special values can be set for HTML export, so that
  1853. these values can differ from what is used for display in an
  1854. emacs buffer. The default foreground and background colors
  1855. for images embedded in emacs are now taken from the default
  1856. emacs face. Thanks to Xiao-Yong Jin for proposing these
  1857. changes.
  1858. - There is now a much better mechanism to change some keys in
  1859. org-mode if these keys clash with other modes you use. Turn
  1860. this on by setting `org-replace-disputed-keys' (aliased to
  1861. `org-CUA-compatible'). The list of keys to replace is now
  1862. fully customizable, see the option `org-disputed-keys'.
  1863. Many thanks to Meciej Katafiasz for a patch implementing
  1864. this.
  1865. - Stuck project descriptions have been extended. You can now
  1866. use "*" as a TODO keyword or tag to say that *any* TODO
  1867. keyword or TAG marks a project as non-stuck. You also can
  1868. give an arbitrary regular expression that, if it matches,
  1869. indicates a non-stuck project.
  1870. - The code for emphasis like bold, italic etc has been
  1871. modified - I might have broken something in the process,
  1872. please let me know if you find problems.
  1873. - A number of bugs have been fixed - those where I have
  1874. replied "Fixed" on the mailing list.
  1875. Version 4.71
  1876. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1877. Overview
  1878. ========
  1879. Incompatible changes
  1880. ====================
  1881. Details
  1882. =======
  1883. - New variables to customize the header and data tags in
  1884. exported HTML. These are the variables
  1885. `org-export-table-header-tags' and
  1886. `org-export-table-data-tags'. This follows a request from
  1887. Scott Otterson.
  1888. - New option `org-format-latex-header' for customizing the
  1889. header of the LaTeX file used to convert embedded LaTeX to
  1890. images. Thanks to `Matthieu Lemerre' for the suggestion.
  1891. - The prefix version of `org-todo-list' works again. This
  1892. means that `C-1 C-c a t' produces the list of TODO entries
  1893. for the first TODO keyword. If you use different TODO setups
  1894. in different agenda files, be careful: This number now
  1895. refers to the list of *all* todo keywords used in files
  1896. that are scanned for the agenda.
  1897. - Many bug fixes.
  1898. Version 4.70
  1899. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1900. Overview
  1901. ========
  1902. - Dust settles after revamp of TODO keyword system.
  1903. - The export title can be taken from the first text line.
  1904. - TTY replacement keys have changed.
  1905. Incompatible changes
  1906. ====================
  1907. - Some TTY replacement keys are changed, see below.
  1908. Details
  1909. =======
  1910. - Further development concerning TODO keywords.
  1911. + You can now have several DONE states in a sequence, like
  1912. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE DELEGATED
  1913. The difference to the proposal discussed on the mailing
  1914. list (and which is also works!)
  1915. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO VERIFY | DONE
  1916. #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED
  1917. is that in the first case, the extra DONE states will be
  1918. reached with `C-c C-t' (or with `t' from the agenda), while
  1919. in the second case you need S-<right> to get to the special
  1920. states. I guess both ideas can be useful - I am leaning
  1921. toward using the latter.
  1922. + Setting up TODO keywords in Lisp previously used two
  1923. separate variables: `org-todo-keywords' and
  1924. `org-todo-interpretation'. The preferred way is now to use
  1925. only `org-todo-keywords', with a new structure:
  1926. (setq org-todo-keywords
  1927. '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE")
  1928. (sequence "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED" "IGNORED")
  1929. (type "Fred" "Lisa" "Peter" "|" "DONE")
  1930. (sequence "CANCELED") ; for things we decide to not do.
  1931. ))
  1932. If your setting has this new structure,
  1933. `org-todo-interpretation' will be ignored. This change
  1934. does not break backward compatibility. The old way of
  1935. using a flat list in `org-todo-keywords' and taking the
  1936. interpretation from the other variable still works.
  1937. + When listing *specific* TODO entries via a sparse tree
  1938. (`C-u C-c C-v') or via the agenda (`C-c a T' or `C-u C-c a
  1939. t'), you can now specify several keywords to be selected,
  1940. like "TODO|VERIFY|WAITING". This also works for custom
  1941. agenda commands. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer for pointing
  1942. out this omission.
  1943. - If you have configured Org-mode to export also the text
  1944. before the first headline (this is done by setting the
  1945. variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil),
  1946. then the first normal text line in the buffer becomes the
  1947. title of the exported document. A title set with #+TITLE
  1948. overules this default, and the first line then belongs to the
  1949. normal text. Thanks to David House for this proposal.
  1950. - TTY replacement keys. Some of the key bindings used by
  1951. Org-mode do not work on a tty, so replacement key sequences
  1952. are provided on ttys. In version 4.70, there are some
  1953. changes in the tty replacements. Thanks to Jason F. McBrayer
  1954. for coming up with the idea to use C-c <cursor> keys.
  1955. Command Old TTY New TTY
  1956. org-..... Main Key Replacement Replacement
  1957. -------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------
  1958. shiftleft S-left C-c C-x left C-c left
  1959. shiftright S-right C-c C-x right C-c right
  1960. shiftup S-up C-c C-x up C-c up
  1961. shiftdown S-down C-c C-x down C-c down
  1962. shiftcontrolleft C-S-left C-c C-x left
  1963. shiftcontrolright C-s-right C-c C-x right
  1964. Version 4.69
  1965. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1966. Overview
  1967. ========
  1968. This time the changes affect the following areas:
  1969. - TODO keywords: Multiple sequences in a single file.
  1970. - Export: More control over text before the first heading.
  1971. - Export: More control over sub/superscript interpretation.
  1972. - Plain lists: Option to let empty lines terminate lists.
  1973. - Tables: New command to insert hline and move into line below.
  1974. - REPEATing items: Turn of note taking.
  1975. - Bug fixes.
  1976. Incompatible changes
  1977. ====================
  1978. - It used to be possible to spread the list of TODO keywords
  1979. over several lines, like
  1980. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO
  1981. #+SEQ_TODO: PROGRESS
  1982. #+SEQ_TODO: DONE
  1983. This is no longer possible. Each such line now specifies an
  1984. independent set of TODO keywords, with its own DONE state.
  1985. See below for details.
  1986. - The #+TEXT construct has been used to insert unchanged HTML
  1987. into an exported file. This is no longer possible, the TEXT
  1988. lines will be processed like any other lines. However,
  1989. there are now much better ways of getting quoted HTML into
  1990. the exported file.
  1991. Details
  1992. =======
  1993. - You can now use multiple sets of TODO keywords in the same
  1994. buffer. For example, you may put the following three lines
  1995. into a file:
  1996. #+SEQ_TODO: TODO DONE
  1997. #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE RESOLVED
  1998. #+TYP_TODO: Fred Laura Peter Me OK
  1999. Each sub-sequence has its own DONE state. It is best to use
  2000. different keywords in all sequences, to make sure Org-mode
  2001. does not loose track in which specific sequence it is
  2002. working. You could use the same word for all DONE states,
  2003. but then cycling through to a TODO state might not bring you
  2004. where you want to be.
  2005. After initially setting a keyword, `C-c C-t' cycles through
  2006. a sublist, i.e. is cycles from TODO to DONE or from
  2007. KNOWNCAUSE to RESOLVED and further to (nothing) and back to
  2008. REPORT.
  2009. S-right and S-left allow to select any keyword, so they move
  2010. from DONE to REPORT and from RESOLVED to Fred.
  2011. C-S-right and C-S-left jump from one sub-sequence to the
  2012. next, for example from TODO or DONE to REPORT to Fred.
  2013. Thanks to Rick Moynihan for triggering this development.
  2014. - Text before the first headline can now be exported if you
  2015. configure Org-mode accordingly. Either set the variable
  2016. `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to nil, or use the
  2017. new in-buffer option
  2018. #+OPTION: skip:nil
  2019. - Export content specified via the #+TEXT construct is now
  2020. fully processed, i.e. links, emphasis etc. are all
  2021. interpreted. #+TEXT lines may include
  2022. #+BEGIN_HTML...#+END_HTML sections to embed literal HTML.
  2023. - During HTML export, you can request to have a_{b}
  2024. interpreted as a subscript, but to leave a_b as it is. This
  2025. can be done by setting the variable
  2026. org-export-sub-superscript to the symbol `{}' with
  2027. (setq org-export-sub-superscript '{})
  2028. or by using
  2029. #+OPTIONS: ^:{}
  2030. Thanks to Eddward DeVilla for this idea.
  2031. - New variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'.
  2032. Default is nil, meaning that empty lines are part of the
  2033. previous list item, and that you can have several paragraphs
  2034. in one such item. Set this to t if you want an empty line
  2035. terminate all levels of plain list items.
  2036. Thanks to Mike Newman for triggering this development.
  2037. - C-c RET does insert a horizontal separator line and move the
  2038. cursor into the table line below it. Thanks to Bastien for
  2039. this proposal.
  2040. - Org-mode always offers you to record a note when a TODO item
  2041. automatically repeats, even if you are not logging state
  2042. changes. The new variable `org-log-repeat' allows to turn
  2043. this off, so that notes are really only been taken if you
  2044. are logging all state changes.
  2045. - Various Bug fixes, thanks to everyone who reported.
  2046. Version 4.68
  2047. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2048. Overview
  2049. ========
  2050. - Priority handling in the tags view
  2051. - Date/time prompt follows the popup calender, and accepts AM/PM times.
  2052. - Standard references like B4 in the spreadsheet.
  2053. - Improvements to the formula editor.
  2054. - C-j does better indentation.
  2055. - Bug fixes
  2056. Details
  2057. =======
  2058. - Priority handling in the tags view
  2059. + Agenda lists selected by tag are now sorted by priority.
  2060. Thanks to Andrew Korty for reporting this omission.
  2061. - Improvements to the date/time prompt.
  2062. + When you move (using S-cursor keys) the cursor in the pop-up
  2063. calendar window while responding to a date/time prompt, the
  2064. prompt is updated with the new default date (Emacs only).
  2065. + You can now enter AM/PM times at this prompt.
  2066. - Changes in the spreadsheet
  2067. + You can now also write B4 instead of @4$2 as a reference in
  2068. formulas. The column references without specified row can be
  2069. written as C& instead of $3. Such references make formulas
  2070. easier to read and are now the default way how references are
  2071. shown when you edit existing formulas. To get the old behavior
  2072. back (i.e. only @row$col references), set the variable
  2073. `org-table-use-standard-references' to nil.
  2074. Relative references like @-3$-2 or @II..III continue to use the
  2075. internal format.
  2076. - Changes in the formula editor (the one you get with "C-c '")
  2077. + The formulas are organized in a more logical way.
  2078. + There is now a menu with commands.
  2079. + When starting the formula editor with "C-c '", the cursor
  2080. immediately moves to the formula for the current field.
  2081. + With the cursor on a reference in the formula, you can use
  2082. S-cursor keys to change the field being referenced.
  2083. - C-j indents the following line correctly whe used in a headline
  2084. or in aplain list item. Thanks to Leo for this suggestion.
  2085. - Bug fixes
  2086. + Flyspell now knows about special org-mode commands.
  2087. Thanks to Vinod Valsalam for reporting this problem, and to
  2088. Andrew Korty for showing how to fix it.
  2089. + Most other bugs discussed recently on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
  2090. should be fixed, except the problem with non-ASCII characters
  2091. in tags....
  2092. Version 4.67
  2093. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2094. - Expert mode for fast tag selection.
  2095. When org-fast-tag-selection-single-key is `expert', not even
  2096. the selection window is shown, only the prompt. One more C-c
  2097. gets you the window, another one goes to multiple selection mode.
  2098. - Synchronized with Emacs once more: Emacs CVS has now org-mode
  2099. 4.67. At least until it causes a problem, then the Emacs people
  2100. will switch back to 4.56. Lets hope there will be no problem.
  2101. - Code cleanup
  2102. - Bug fixes
  2103. Version 4.66
  2104. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2105. Overview
  2106. ========
  2107. - Sorting of top-level entries works now if the region contains
  2108. top-level entries, or if the cursor is before the first headline.
  2109. Thanks to "redblue" for reporting this bug.
  2110. - When entering date and time at the prompt, you can now mix
  2111. entering text and selecting something in the calendar. For
  2112. example, enter 22:15 at the prompt without pressing RET, and then
  2113. click on a date in the calendar. Both pieces of information will
  2114. be included in the resulting time stamp. You can also use
  2115. S-curser to move the cursor in the calendar to the desired date
  2116. and then enter 22:15 and press RET at the prompt.
  2117. - When setting a deadline or a schedule, entering a time now
  2118. automatically selects the time stamp format that includes the
  2119. time. Bug report (by means of a question) from Bastre.
  2120. - C-c C-l can be used to convert a plain link into a bracket link.
  2121. - Internal links now match inside (the visible part of) other
  2122. links. Thanks to Scott Otterson for reporting this bug.
  2123. - iCalendar export of TODO items fixed, see also the variable
  2124. `org-icalendar-include-todo'. Thanks to Philipp Raschdorf.
  2125. - The number of levels in the table of contents of an exported
  2126. document can now be set independently of the number of headline
  2127. levels. For example:
  2128. #+OPTIONS: H:4 toc:2
  2129. - The command `C-c }' toggles the display of row and column numbers
  2130. the the current table, to aid constructing formulas. To try it,
  2131. move the cursor to a table and press `C-c }', or use the menu
  2132. entry.
  2133. - Orgtbl translation functions (introduced in 4.65) have been
  2134. simplified using a generic function `orgtbl-to-generic' that can
  2135. be used for very general languanges. Writing your own translator
  2136. should be very easy now. More info in the manual.
  2137. - CONTENTS visibility can be limited to a certain level. The
  2138. command `C-3 S-TAB' will switch to CONTENTS view and show the
  2139. first 3 levels.
  2140. - Bug fixes.
  2141. Version 4.65
  2142. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2143. Overview
  2144. ========
  2145. - Orgtbl can be used to maintain tables in LaTeX, and in any other mode
  2146. - Editing Lisp formulas for tables improved.
  2147. - Better structure for HTML exported tables.
  2148. - New "calculation" marker "/" to mark lines that should not be exported.
  2149. Detailed description of changes
  2150. ===============================
  2151. - You can use orgtbl mode to maintain a LaTeX table, or pretty much
  2152. any table in any mode.
  2153. This does *not* work by making Orgtbl aware of LaTeX syntax. That
  2154. would be a box of Pandora I am not willing to open. Instead, you
  2155. use a normal Orgtbl-mode table, and a converter program to
  2156. automatically place a LaTeX version of the table into the correct
  2157. spot in the LaTeX file. The orgtbl-mode table can be maintained
  2158. inside the same file, in a block comment.
  2159. I am providing translators for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. For
  2160. other applications, you need to write one yourself - but that is
  2161. not hard if you start from the LaTeX version and just modify it.
  2162. Thanks to Thomas Baumann for triggering this development through
  2163. a request for a table-to-LaTeX converter.
  2164. - In the special buffer to edit the formulas of a table (created
  2165. with "C-c '"), there is now better support for editing Lisp
  2166. formulas. TAB and M-TAB work like in an Emacs Lisp buffer,
  2167. indenting lines and completing lisp symbols. With the cursor on
  2168. a line defining a complex Lisp formula, a first press on TAB will
  2169. convert the formula into a pretty-printed version with proper
  2170. linebreaks and indentation. A second TAB folds the line back to
  2171. the compact form.
  2172. - Tables in HTML export have now additional structure elements
  2173. defined. The header (before the first hline) is wrapped into
  2174. <thead>..</thead>, and each part of the body (as separated in
  2175. org-mode by hlines) is wrapped into <tbody>..</tbody> tags. I
  2176. have also changed the CSS style for <td> fields and the value of
  2177. `org-export-html-table-tag' to get cleaner tables. Basically,
  2178. tables now have horizontal lines only where needed, and no
  2179. vertical lines at all, as generally recommended for tables in
  2180. printed text. I like the new look, but I am not sure if this
  2181. change will find general approval, please throw in your view if
  2182. you like. Thanks to Scott for driving this, and to goud-H for
  2183. pointing me to the row grouping in tables.
  2184. - In a table with calculation markers in the first column, you can
  2185. now also put "/" into the first column. It indicates that this
  2186. line should not be exported. The foremost application for this
  2187. are lines containing only "<N>" markers for narrowing columns.
  2188. Version 4.64
  2189. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2190. Overview
  2191. ========
  2192. - Email links get better, configurable descriptions
  2193. - When inserting a link, selected text becomes the description
  2194. - Easier access to the list of stored links.
  2195. - Horizontal lines in HTML export.
  2196. - Remember templates and storing of notes improved.
  2197. Detailed description of changes
  2198. ===============================
  2199. - The descriptive part of links to email messages can be configured
  2200. using the variable `org-email-link-description-format'. The new
  2201. default is "Email %c: %.30s" and leads to
  2202. Email from NAME: SUBJECT
  2203. If you configure the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'
  2204. correctly, then for email you *sent* this will actually change to
  2205. Email to NAME: SUBJECT
  2206. The subject is limited to 30 characters. If you have become
  2207. attached to the previous default (look twice, the new one is
  2208. better), use "%f on: %s" as your format.
  2209. - Selecting text before entering a new link with C-c C-l now really
  2210. works, the selected text becomes the description part of the
  2211. link. Requested by Scott, buggy 4.62 implementation is now fixed.
  2212. - Stored links are part of the history list for C-c C-l, so to
  2213. reach them, you can use up/down rather than completion. Thanks
  2214. to Raman for this excellent idea.
  2215. - A line consisting only of "-", and at least 5 of them, is
  2216. exported into HTML as <hr/>, as proposed by Giovanni Ridolfi.
  2217. - Several changes to org <-> remember integration
  2218. - You can use `org-remember' as your default command to start
  2219. remember. It will automatically detect if there is an active
  2220. region and use it as initial content (we will probably make
  2221. remember.el work like this as well).
  2222. Also, when calling `org-remember' in a remember buffer that
  2223. was created with a template, you will again be asked to
  2224. select a template. The buffer is then re-created with the
  2225. new template, but the old context information. This is
  2226. useful if you change your mind about the template to use
  2227. (Leo's idea).
  2228. - Besides specifying a default *target* file for a note, you
  2229. can also give a default *heading* of which the note should
  2230. become a subitem. In many cases this avoids or speeds up
  2231. navigating to the right location. Both file and heading can
  2232. be different for each template. Both are non-binding, you
  2233. can change them while storing the note. However, when you
  2234. exit remember with C-u C-c C-c, these defaults will be used
  2235. without interaction.
  2236. - Templates can specify interactive fields. During expansion
  2237. of the template, you will be prompted for the information in
  2238. that field. For example %^t will pop up a calendar and ask
  2239. you to select a date. This new feature follows a proposal
  2240. from Leo, who in the mean time has said he does not need it
  2241. anymore. But I liked it, so here it is :-)
  2242. - Templates can access information specific to the link type
  2243. created, for example the author and subject of an email.
  2244. Syntax is %:fromname, %:fromaddress, %:subject etc, details
  2245. in the manual. Proposed by Peder O. Klingenberg.
  2246. - I have been considering to move, at some stage, the template
  2247. functionality into remember.el itself - which would of course
  2248. require consent of the remember.el maintainers. I am not
  2249. sure how well this would work though, since some things like
  2250. the interactive time stamps are org.el specific, so treating
  2251. them would require special hooks. Comments?
  2252. Version 4.63
  2253. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2254. - Bug fixes
  2255. Version 4.62
  2256. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2257. - Many changes to the spreadsheet functions in the table editor.
  2258. For details, please re-read the manual section 3.4.
  2259. + New Features
  2260. - It is much easier to assign formulas to individual fields.
  2261. - References to arbitrary fields and ranges.
  2262. - Absolute references are modified in row-editing commands.
  2263. - Formula editor that highlights referenced fields.
  2264. + Incompatible changes
  2265. - Empty fields are excluded in range references, see "E" mode flag.
  2266. - &... ranges no longer supported, use new @... ranges.
  2267. - Variable insertion into Lisp formulas work differently.
  2268. - Selected text becomes the default description for C-c C-l links.(Scott)
  2269. - The date format in the agenda/timeline views is now customizable.
  2270. See the new option `org-agenda-date-format'. (request by Victor)
  2271. - Link abbreviations no longer need a double colon, single colon is fine.
  2272. - Bug fixes.
  2273. Version 4.61
  2274. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2275. - Avoiding keybinding clashes with flyspell
  2276. - Archiving is now also on `C-C C-x C-s' (was just `C-c $')
  2277. - Cycling through agenda files is now also on "C-'" (was just "C-,")
  2278. - Colon is considered part of number, to align times in clock tables.
  2279. - Fixed bug for list of stuck projects.
  2280. - Fixed several bugs/problems concerning linking to gnus.
  2281. - Block agendas can contain the list of stuck projects.
  2282. - #+ARCHIVE may now appear several times in the buffer.
  2283. - More bug fixes.
  2284. Version 4.60
  2285. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2286. - HTML export: inlining images, clickable images (manual 10.2.4).
  2287. - Incremental search now shows proper context when exiting.
  2288. - Tables calculation and Calc package.
  2289. - Calc is no longer needed when using only elisp formulas.
  2290. - Proper error messages when calc is needed and not available.
  2291. - Tracking TODO state changes with time stamps and notes.
  2292. - Empty entries go full circle.
  2293. - Links in iCalendar export cleaned up.
  2294. - Bug fixes.
  2295. Version 4.59
  2296. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2297. - Cleanup code, bug fixes.
  2298. Version 4.58
  2299. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2300. - Full undo support in the agenda buffer.
  2301. - Listing stuck GTD projects (projects without any NEXT ACTIONS).
  2302. Configure `org-stuck-projects' before using it.
  2303. - C-c C-x b shows the current subtree in an indirect buffer, in
  2304. another, dedicated frame.
  2305. - Custom agenda commands take precedence over builtin commands.
  2306. - auto-fill for comments works on the Emacs side, XEmacs not yet.
  2307. Version 4.57
  2308. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2309. - Sorting of outline items on same level.
  2310. - Sorting tables automatically selects line range between hlines.
  2311. - Changes in Agenda buffer
  2312. - `C-c C-o' follows a link in the current line.
  2313. - `C-c $' archives the subtree corresponding to the line.
  2314. - Changing dates with S-left and S-right show new date in agenda,
  2315. but still do not move the entry to the new date.
  2316. - new option `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.
  2317. - Agenda and sparse tree construction using tag matches can now
  2318. use regular expressions.
  2319. - When prompted for a date/time, entering "+7" indicates a date
  2320. 7 days from now - but only this is the only thing you give.
  2321. - Custom time formats also apply to exported html and ascii.
  2322. - Bug fixes.
  2323. Version 4.56
  2324. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2325. - `C-k' in agenda kills current line and corresponding subtree in file.
  2326. - XEmacs compatibility issues fixed, in particular tag alignment.
  2327. - M-left/right now in/outdents plain list items, no Shift needed.
  2328. - Bug fixes.
  2329. Version 4.55
  2330. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2331. - Bug fixes.
  2332. Version 4.54
  2333. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2334. - Improvements to fast tag selection
  2335. + show status also in target line.
  2336. + option to auto-exit after first change to tags list (see manual).
  2337. - Tags sparse trees now also respect the settings in
  2338. `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'.
  2339. - Bug fixes.
  2340. Version 4.53
  2341. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2342. - Custom time formats can be overlayed over time stamps.
  2343. - New option `org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines'.
  2344. - Work-around for flyspell bug (CVS Emacs has this fixed in flyspell.el).
  2345. - Work-around for session.el problem with circular data structures.
  2346. - Bug fixes.
  2347. Version 4.52
  2348. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2349. - TAG matches can also specify conditions on TODO keywords.
  2350. - The fast tag interface allows setting tags that are not in the
  2351. predefined list.
  2352. - Bug fixes.
  2353. Version 4.51
  2354. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2355. - Link abbreviations (manual section 4.5).
  2356. - More control over how agenda is displayed. See the new variables
  2357. `org-agenda-window-setup', `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'.
  2358. - Bug fixes.
  2359. Version 4.50
  2360. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2361. - Closing a TODO item can record an additional note.
  2362. See variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-note-headings'.
  2363. - Inserting headlines and bullets can leave an extra blank line.
  2364. See variable `org-blank-before-new-entry'. (Ed Hirgelt patch)
  2365. - [bracket links] in the agenda are active just as in org-mode buffers.
  2366. - C-c C-o on a date range displays the agenda for exactly this range.
  2367. - The default for `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' is back to nil.
  2368. - Calls to `org-occur' can be stacked by using a prefix argument.
  2369. - The options `org-show-hierarchy-above' and `org-show-following-heading'
  2370. now always default to `t', but can be customized differently for
  2371. different types of sparse trees or jump commands.
  2372. - Bug fixes.
  2373. Version 4.49
  2374. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2375. - Agenda views can be made in batch mode from the command line.
  2376. - `org-store-link' does the right thing in dired-mode.
  2377. - File links can contain environment variables.
  2378. - Full Emacs 21 compatibility has been restored.
  2379. - Bug fixes.
  2380. Version 4.47
  2381. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2382. - Custom commands may produce an agenda which contains several blocks,
  2383. each block created by a different agenda command.
  2384. - Agenda commands can be restricted to the current file, region, subtree.
  2385. - The timeline command must now be called through the agenda
  2386. dispatcher (C-c a L). `C-c C-r' no longer works.
  2387. - Agenda items can be sorted by tag. The *last* tag is used for this.
  2388. - The prefix and the sorting strategy for agenda items can depend
  2389. upon the agenda type.
  2390. - The handling of `mailto:' links can be customized, see the new
  2391. variable `org-link-mailto-program'.
  2392. - `mailto' links can specify a subject after a double colon,
  2393. like [mailto:carsten@orgmode.org::Org-mode is buggy].
  2394. - In the #+STARTUP line, M-TAB completes valid keywords.
  2395. - In the #+TAGS: line, M-TAB after ":" inserts all currently used tags.
  2396. - Again full Emacs 21 support: Checkboxes and publishing are fixed.
  2397. - More minor bug fixes.
  2398. Version 4.45
  2399. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2400. - Checkbox lists can show statistics about checked items.
  2401. - C-TAB will cycle the visibility of archived subtrees.
  2402. - Documentation about checkboxes has been moved to chapter 5.
  2403. - Bux fixes.
  2404. Version 4.44
  2405. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2406. - Clock table can be done for a limited time interval.
  2407. - Obsolete support for the old outline mode has been removed.
  2408. - Bug fixes and code cleaning.
  2409. Version 4.43
  2410. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2411. - Bug fixes
  2412. - `s' key in the agenda saves all org-mode buffers.
  2413. Version 4.41
  2414. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2415. - Shift-curser keys can modify inactive time stamps (inactive time
  2416. stamps are the ones in [...] brackets.
  2417. - Toggle all checkboxes in a region/below a headline.
  2418. - Bug fixes.
  2419. Version 4.40
  2420. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2421. - Bug fixes.
  2422. Version 4.39
  2423. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2424. - Special tag ARCHIVE keeps a subtree closed and away from agenda lists.
  2425. - LaTeX code in Org-mode files can be converted to images for HTML.
  2426. - Bug fixes.
  2427. - CDLaTeX-mode features can be used in Org-mode to help inserting
  2428. LaTeX environment and math.
  2429. Version 4.38
  2430. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2431. - noutline.el is now required (important for XEmacs users only).
  2432. - Dynamic blocks.
  2433. - Archiving of all level 1 trees without open TODO items.
  2434. - Clock reports can be inserted into the file in a special section.
  2435. - FAQ removed from the manual, now only on the web.
  2436. - Bug fixes.
  2437. Version 4.37
  2438. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2439. - Clock-feature for measuring time spent on specific items.
  2440. - Improved emphasizing allows configuration and stacking.
  2441. Version 4.36
  2442. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2443. - Improved indentation of ASCII export, when headlines become items.
  2444. - Handling of 12am and 12pm fixed. Times beyond 24:00 can be used
  2445. and will not lead to conflicts.
  2446. - Support for mutually exclusive TAGS with the fast tags interface.
  2447. - Bug fixes.
  2448. Version 4.35
  2449. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2450. - HTML export is now valid XHTML.
  2451. - Timeline can also show dates without entries. See new option
  2452. `org-timeline-show-empty-dates'.
  2453. - The bullets created by the ASCII exporter can now be configured.
  2454. See the new option `org-export-ascii-bullets'.
  2455. - New face `org-upcoming-deadline' (was `org-scheduled-previously').
  2456. - New function `org-context' to allow testing for local context.
  2457. Version 4.34
  2458. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2459. - Bug fixes.
  2460. Version 4.33
  2461. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2462. - New commands to move through plain lists: S-up and S-down.
  2463. - Bug fixes and documentation update.
  2464. Version 4.32
  2465. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2466. - Fast (single-key-per-tag) interface for setting TAGS.
  2467. - The list of legal tags can be configured globally and locally.
  2468. - Elisp and Info links (thanks to Todd Neal).
  2469. - `org-export-publishing-directory' can be an alist, with different
  2470. directories for different export types.
  2471. - All context-sensitive commands use `call-interactively' to dispatch.
  2472. - `org-confirm-shell-links' renamed to `org-confirm-shell-link-function'.
  2473. - Bug fixes.
  2474. Version 4.31
  2475. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2476. - Bug fixes.
  2477. Version 4.30
  2478. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2479. - Modified installation: Autoloads have been collected in org-install.el.
  2480. - Logging (org-log-done) is now a #+STARTUP option.
  2481. - Checkboxes in plain list items, following up on Frank Ruell's idea.
  2482. - File links inserted with C-c C-l will use relative paths if the linked
  2483. file is in the current directory or a subdirectory of it.
  2484. - New variable `org-link-file-path-type' to specify preference for
  2485. relative and absolute paths.
  2486. - New CSS classes for tags, timestamps, timestamp keywords.
  2487. - Bug and typo fixes.
  2488. Version 4.29
  2489. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2490. - Inlining images in HTML export now depends on wheather the link
  2491. contains a description or not.
  2492. - TODO items can be scheduled from the global TODO list using C-c C-s.
  2493. - TODO items already scheduled can be made to disappear from the global
  2494. todo list, see `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled'.
  2495. - In Tables, formulas may also be Lisp forms.
  2496. - Exporting the visible part of an outline with `C-c C-x v' works now
  2497. for all available exporters.
  2498. - Bug fixes, lots of them :-(
  2499. Version 4.28
  2500. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2501. - Bug fixes.
  2502. Version 4.27
  2503. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2504. - HTML exporter generalized to receive external options.
  2505. As part of the process, author, email and date have been moved to the
  2506. end of the HTML file.
  2507. - Support for customizable file search in file links.
  2508. - BibTeX database links as first application of the above.
  2509. - New option `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to turn off listing TODO
  2510. entries that are sublevels of another TODO entry.
  2511. Version 4.26
  2512. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2513. - Bug fixes.
  2514. Version 4.25
  2515. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2516. - Revision of the font-lock faces section, with better tty support.
  2517. - TODO keywords in Agenda buffer are fontified.
  2518. - Export converts links between .org files to links between .html files.
  2519. - Better support for bold/italic/underline emphasis.
  2520. Version 4.24
  2521. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2522. - Bug fixes.
  2523. Version 4.23
  2524. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2525. - Bug fixes.
  2526. Version 4.22
  2527. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2528. - Bug fixes.
  2529. - In agenda buffer, mouse-1 no longer follows link.
  2530. See `org-agenda-mouse-1-follows-link' and `org-mouse-1-follows-link'.
  2531. Version 4.20
  2532. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2533. - Links use now the [description] format by default.
  2534. When inserting links, the user is prompted for a description.
  2535. - If a link has a description, only the description is displayed
  2536. the link part is hidden. Use C-c C-l to edit the link part.
  2537. - TAGS are now bold, but in the same color as the headline.
  2538. - The width of a table column can be limited by using a field "<N>".
  2539. - New structure for the customization tree.
  2540. - Bug fixes.
  2541. Version 4.13
  2542. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2543. - The list of agenda files can be maintainted in an external file.
  2544. - Bug fixes.
  2545. Version 4.12
  2546. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2547. - Templates for remember buffer. Note that the remember setup changes.
  2548. To set up templates, see `org-remember-templates'.
  2549. - The time in new time stamps can be rounded, see new option
  2550. `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'.
  2551. - Bug fixes (there are *always* more bugs).
  2552. [...]
  2553. Version 4.00
  2554. - Headlines can contain TAGS, and Org-mode can produced a list
  2555. of matching headlines based on a TAG search expression.
  2556. - `org-agenda' has now become a dispatcher that will produce the agenda
  2557. and other views on org-mode data with an additional keypress.
  2558. Version 3.24
  2559. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2560. - Switching and item to DONE records a time stamp when the variable
  2561. `org-log-done' is turned on. Default is off.
  2562. Version 3.23
  2563. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2564. - M-RET makes new items as well as new headings.
  2565. - Various small bug fixes
  2566. Version 3.22
  2567. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2568. - CamelCase words link to other locations in the same file.
  2569. - File links accept search options, to link to specific locations.
  2570. - Plain list items can be folded with `org-cycle'. See new option
  2571. `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'.
  2572. - Sparse trees for specific TODO keywords through numeric prefix
  2573. argument to `C-c C-v'.
  2574. - Global TODO list, also for specific keywords.
  2575. - Matches in sparse trees are highlighted (highlights disappear with
  2576. next buffer change due to editing).
  2577. Version 3.21
  2578. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2579. - Improved CSS support for the HTML export. Thanks to Christian Egli.
  2580. - Editing support for hand-formatted lists
  2581. - M-S-cursor keys handle plain list items
  2582. - C-c C-c renumbers ordered plain lists
  2583. Version 3.20
  2584. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2585. - There is finally an option to make TAB jump over horizontal lines
  2586. in tables instead of creating a new line before that line.
  2587. The option is `org-table-tab-jumps-over-hlines', default nil.
  2588. - New command for sorting tables, on `C-c ^'.
  2589. - Changes to the HTML exporter
  2590. - hand-formatted lists are exported correctly, similar to
  2591. markdown lists. Nested lists are possible. See the docstring
  2592. of the variable `org-export-plain-list-max-depth'.
  2593. - cleaned up to produce valid HTML 4.0 (transitional).
  2594. - support for cascading style sheets.
  2595. - New command to cycle through all agenda files, on C-,
  2596. - C-c [ can now also be used to change the sequence of agenda files.
  2597. Version 3.19
  2598. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2599. - Bug fixes
  2600. Version 3.18
  2601. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2602. - Export of calendar information in the standard iCalendar format.
  2603. - Some bug fixes.
  2604. Version 3.17
  2605. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2606. - HTML export specifies character set depending on coding-system.
  2607. Version 3.16
  2608. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2609. - In tables, directly after the field motion commands like TAB and RET,
  2610. typing a character will blank the field. Can be turned off with
  2611. variable `org-table-auto-blank-field'.
  2612. - Inactive timestamps with `C-c !'. These do not trigger the agenda
  2613. and are not linked to the calendar.
  2614. - Additional key bindings to allow Org-mode to function on a tty emacs.
  2615. - `C-c C-h' prefix key replaced by `C-c C-x', and `C-c C-x C-h' replaced
  2616. by `C-c C-x b' (b=Browser). This was necessary to recover the
  2617. standard meaning of C-h after a prefix key (show prefix bindings).
  2618. Version 3.15
  2619. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2620. - QUOTE keyword at the beginning of an entry causes fixed-width export
  2621. of unmodified entry text. `C-c :' toggles this keyword.
  2622. - New face `org-special-keyword' which is used for COMMENT, QUOTE,
  2623. DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, and priority cookies. Default is only a weak
  2624. color, to reduce the amount of aggressive color in the buffer.
  2625. Version 3.14
  2626. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2627. - Formulas for individual fields in table.
  2628. - Automatic recalculation in calculating tables.
  2629. - Named fields and columns in tables.
  2630. - Fixed bug with calling `org-archive' several times in a row.
  2631. Version 3.13
  2632. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2633. - Efficiency improvements: Fewer table re-alignments needed.
  2634. - New special lines in tables, for defining names for individual cells.
  2635. Version 3.12
  2636. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2637. - Tables can store formulas (one per column) and compute fields.
  2638. Not quite like a full spreadsheet, but very powerful.
  2639. - table.el keybinding is now `C-c ~'.
  2640. - Numeric argument to org-cycle does `show-subtree' above on level ARG.
  2641. - Small changes to keys in agenda buffer. Affected keys:
  2642. [w] weekly view; [d] daily view; [D] toggle diary inclusion.
  2643. - Bug fixes.
  2644. Version 3.11
  2645. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2646. - Links inserted with C-c C-l are now by default enclosed in angle
  2647. brackets. See the new variable `org-link-format'.
  2648. - ">" terminates a link, this is a way to have several links in a line.
  2649. Both "<" and ">" are no longer allowed as characters in a link.
  2650. - Archiving of finished tasks.
  2651. - C-<up>/<down> bindings removed, to allow access to paragraph commands.
  2652. - Compatibility with CUA-mode (see variable `org-CUA-compatible').
  2653. - Compatibility problems with viper-mode fixed.
  2654. - Improved html export of tables.
  2655. - Various clean-up changes.
  2656. Version 3.10
  2657. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2658. - Using `define-derived-mode' to derive `org-mode' from `outline-mode'.
  2659. Version 3.09
  2660. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2661. - Time-of-day specifications in agenda are extracted and placed
  2662. into the prefix. Timed entries can be placed into a time grid for
  2663. day.
  2664. Version 3.08
  2665. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2666. - "|" no longer allowed as part of a link, to allow links in tables.
  2667. - The prefix of items in the agenda buffer can be configured.
  2668. - Cleanup.
  2669. Version 3.07
  2670. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2671. - Some folding inconsistencies removed.
  2672. - BBDB links to company-only entries.
  2673. - Bug fixes and global cleanup.
  2674. Version 3.06
  2675. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2676. - M-S-RET inserts a new TODO heading.
  2677. - New startup option `content'.
  2678. - Better visual response when TODO items in agenda change status.
  2679. - Window positioning after visibility state changes optimized and made
  2680. configurable. See `org-cycle-hook' and `org-occur-hook'.
  2681. Version 3.05
  2682. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2683. - Agenda entries from the diary are linked to the diary file, so
  2684. adding and editing diary entries can be done directly from the agenda.
  2685. - Many calendar/diary commands available directly from agenda.
  2686. - Field copying in tables with S-RET does increment.
  2687. - C-c C-x C-v extracts the visible part of the buffer for printing.
  2688. - Moving subtrees up and down preserves the whitespace at the tree end.
  2689. Version 3.04
  2690. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2691. - Table editor optimized to need fewer realignments, and to keep
  2692. table shape when typing in fields.
  2693. - A new minor mode, orgtbl-mode, introduces the Org-mode table editor
  2694. into arbitrary major modes.
  2695. - Fixed bug with realignment in XEmacs.
  2696. - Startup options can be set with special #+STARTUP line.
  2697. - Heading following a match in org-occur can be suppressed.
  2698. Version 3.03
  2699. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2700. - Copyright transfer to the FSF.
  2701. - Effect of C-u and C-u C-u in org-timeline swapped.
  2702. - Timeline now always contains today, and `.' jumps to it.
  2703. - Table editor:
  2704. - cut and paste of rectangular regions in tables
  2705. - command to convert org-mode table to table.el table and back
  2706. - command to treat several cells like a paragraph and fill it
  2707. - command to convert a buffer region to a table
  2708. - import/export tables as tab-separated files (exchange with Excel)
  2709. - Agenda:
  2710. - Sorting mechanism for agenda items rewritten from scratch.
  2711. - Sorting fully configurable.
  2712. - Entries specifying a time are sorted together.
  2713. - Completion also covers option keywords after `#-'.
  2714. - Bug fixes.
  2715. Version 3.01
  2716. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2717. - New reference card, thanks to Philip Rooke for creating it.
  2718. - Single file agenda renamed to "Timeline". It no longer shows
  2719. warnings about upcoming deadlines/overdue scheduled items.
  2720. That functionality is now limited to the (multifile) agenda.
  2721. - When reading a date, the calendar can be manipulated with keys.
  2722. - Link support for RMAIL and Wanderlust (from planner.el, untested).
  2723. - Minor bug fixes and documentation improvements.
  2724. Version 3.00
  2725. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2726. - Multifile Agenda shows current entries from many different files.
  2727. - TeXInfo documentation (thanks to Christian Egli for the conversion).
  2728. - Additional applications for TODO keywords, see documentation.
  2729. Different files may have different TODO keywords etc.
  2730. - Priorities for TODO items.
  2731. - The browser mode used by `org-remember-handler' is improved.
  2732. - Images get inlined in HTML export (thanks to Carsten Wimmer).
  2733. - File links can contain line numbers, like [file:/usr/etc/config:255]
  2734. - Minor bug fixes.
  2735. Version 2.10
  2736. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2737. - TODO entries can have additional states besides TODO and DONE.
  2738. See new variable `org-todo-keywords'.
  2739. - TODO keywords can be interpreted as categories. See variable
  2740. `org-todo-interpretation'.
  2741. - M-TAB completion on TODO keywords, TeX symbols, and normal words.
  2742. - All keywords (like TODO, DEADLINE etc) are configurable.
  2743. - Cursor positioning optimized after pro/demotion and TODO cycling.
  2744. - Emphasizing in HTML works now for *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_.
  2745. - New commands to kill, copy and yank entire subtrees. Yanking
  2746. modifies the level of the tree before insertion.
  2747. - New command `org-goto' (C-c C-j) to quickly move to other locations
  2748. in the buffer without affecting outline visibility.
  2749. - Hooks for John Wiegley's remember.el.
  2750. - `org-read-date' pops up calendar for date selection with the mouse.
  2751. See variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.
  2752. Version 2.6
  2753. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  2754. - TODO items can be SCHEDULED to a certain date.
  2755. - Expired DEADLINEs are ignored if in an entry marked DONE.
  2756. - From the diary or time-sorted view (C-c C-r), C-c C-t can be used to
  2757. change the TODO state of an item remotely.
  2758. - Horizontal computations in table editor. See `org-table-eval-formula'.
  2759. - Fixed bug with summing tables (command `org-table-sum', `C-c +').
  2760. - Calendar window follows the timestamp when a timestamp is changed.
  2761. New variable `org-calendar-follow-timestamp-change'.
  2762. - Time-sorted view (`org-diary-view', C-c C-r) now uses the prefix
  2763. argument to force inclusion of unscheduled TODO items.
  2764. - New variable `org-confirm-shell-links' to turn of safety query.
  2765. - New variable `org-open-non-existing-files'.
  2766. Version 2.4
  2767. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  2768. - A time-sorted view on all time stamps can be created with C-c C-r.
  2769. - Timestamps and Deadlines can be shown in the Emacs diary.
  2770. - Date ranges introduced.
  2771. - Time-string formats are no longer configurable.
  2772. - Vertical lines in tables can be made invisible with `C-c |'.
  2773. - New "link" type to execute shell commands, like "[shell:ls] *.org"
  2774. - Upon export, "myfile.org" becomes "myfile.html" or "myfile.txt",
  2775. instead of "myfile.org.html" or "myfile.org.txt".
  2776. - When the cursor is in the white space at the beginning of a line,
  2777. TAB removes the whitespace before indenting again.
  2778. Version 2.0
  2779. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  2780. - Windows (NT/2000) support.
  2781. - Works with both Emacs and XEmacs.
  2782. - Fully automatic table editor.
  2783. - New link types into Gnus, VM and BBDB.
  2784. - Other link system changes
  2785. - Time stamps are treated as links to the calendar.
  2786. - Easy creation of links with global command `org-store-link'.
  2787. - Insertion of links with `C-c C-l' works differently now.
  2788. - Space characters allowed as part of a link.
  2789. - Options in `org-file-apps' extended. The command may now be
  2790. symbol 'emacs', or a lisp form.
  2791. Please re-read the manual section about links.
  2792. - Timestamp changes
  2793. - `org-deadline' now prompts for a date.
  2794. - A line can now contain several timestamps. Updating of a
  2795. timestamp only happens if the cursor is at the timestamp.
  2796. - Changed the time-stamp-format to ISO, to make sure it will
  2797. always work (non-English month names had caused problems
  2798. with `parse-time-string'.). Changing the time stamp format
  2799. is not recommended.
  2800. - Picture mode enhancements have been removed from org.el
  2801. Version 1.4
  2802. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  2803. - Some option name changes, not backward compatible.
  2804. - ASCII exporter upgrade: Table of contents.
  2805. - HTML exporter upgrade: fixed-width regions, better
  2806. sub/superscripts, many TeX symbols supported.
  2807. - Calendar support.
  2808. Version 1.3
  2809. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  2810. - HTML exporter upgrade, in particular table of contents