ORG NEWS -*- org -*- * Version 7.8 ** Summary - Jambunathan's ODT exporter is now part of Org's core. - Nicolas' new export engine is now part of =contrib/= - Standard code block keywords - 10 new committers - Many bugfixes See below for details. ** New committers who signed the FSF copyright assigment Here is the list of new contributors who signed the FSF papers since Org 7.7 - welcome, and thanks for your contributions! - Andreas Leha - Christian Moe - Julian Gehring - Max Mikhanosha - Michael Brand - Niels Giessen - Pieter Praet - Sergey Litvinov - Thomas Holst - Thorsten Jolitz ** The ODT exporter is now part of Org's core - Full refresh of the OpenDocument Text section in the manual. All new features listed below are fully-documented. - Associate custom styles on per-file basis using =#+ODT_STYLES_FILE:= directive. - Fontify code listings using an enhanced version of =htmlfontify.el= and generate line numbers natively. - Embed MathML and OpenDocument formula files. - Use LaTeX to MathML converter -- say MathToWeb (http://www.mathtoweb.com/) -- for handling LaTeX Math fragments. - In tables, use column width cookies to control relative width of columns. - Also for tables, you can specify custom styles using =#+ATTR_ODT:= lines. - Lots of bug fixes. *Experimental* The following features are /experimental/. These features are specific to the ODT export engine and their implementation and usage could change considerably in future versions. - Support for list tables -- see this [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00017.html][message on the list]]. - Support for annotation blocks -- see this [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg01251.html][message on the list]]. Special thanks to Jambunathan for his work and his patience through the process of integrating this vital contribution into Org's core. ** New export engine by Nicolas See the comment sections in org-element.el and in org-export.el (in =contrib/lisp/=). Also check the experimental LaTeX exporter using in =EXPERIMENTAL/org-e-latex.el=. Check Nicolas' announcement [[http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/49416][on the list]] and hack around! Thanks a lot to Nicolas for this great and promising achievement. ** Incompatible changes *** Standardized code block keywords Following a round of on-list discussion, many code block synonyms have been removed. You can safely move forward the following syntax: - call lines are specified with #+call: - code blocks are named with #+name: - results are named with #+name:, however results generated by a code block may still be labeled with #+results:, and tables named with #+tblname: will be considered to be named results The following function may be used to update an existing Org-mode buffer to the new syntax: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun update-org-buffer () "Update an Org-mode buffer to the new data, code block and call line syntax." (interactive) (save-excursion (flet ((to-re (lst) (concat "^[ \t]*#\\+" (regexp-opt lst t) "\\(\\[\\([[:alnum:]]+\\)\\]\\)?\\:[ \t]*")) (update (re new) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward re nil t) (replace-match new nil nil nil 1)))) (let ((old-re (to-re '("RESULTS" "DATA" "SRCNAME" "SOURCE"))) (lob-re (to-re '("LOB"))) (case-fold-search t)) (update old-re "name") (update lob-re "call"))))) #+end_src *Note*: If an old version of Org-mode (e.g., the one shipped with Emacs) is installed on your system, many of the important variables will be pre-defined with a =defvar= and *will not* have their values automatically updated -- these include the following: - =org-babel-data-names= - =org-babel-result-regexp= - =org-babel-src-block-regexp= - =org-babel-src-name-regexp= - =org-babel-src-name-w-name-regexp= It may be necessary to either remove the source code of older versions of Org-mode or to explicitly evaluate the ob.el file. *** Removed the =#+BABEL:= keyword Code block header arguments may now be specified using the standard =#+Property:= keyword. See [[#accumulating-property-keywords][Property names ending in =+= accumulate]] for more information on the extended property syntax. *** Deleted =org-mode-p= This function has been deleted: please update your hacks if you relied on it. ** New features and user-visible improvements *** Day names are optional when you type timestamps manually You can type "<2011-12-12>" or [2011-12-12] and modify this timestamps with S- like other timestamps. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this. *** Improved filtering through =org-agenda-to-appt= The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries to pass to =org-agenda-get-day-entries= and allows to filter out entries using a function. Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for [[git:68ffb7a7][fixing a small bug]] in the final implementation. *** =org-agenda-date-later= jumps to today when modifying past date The command =org-agenda-date-later= ( in the Agenda Mode) directly jumps to today. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this. *** Use prefix arg 0 to inhibit note taking for TODO change See Carsten's comment: "Sometimes I want to quickly make a few TODOs done in the agenda and I want to bypass the note taking I have normally set up. With this change, I can press `0 t d' in the agenda to do this." Thanks to Carsten for implementing this. *** Various improvements to =org-indent.el= Nicolas Goaziou worked on refactoring and improving =org-indent.el=, which should now be faster. It also better combines with =visual-line-mode=. *** Property names ending in =+= accumulate This results in the following behavior. #+begin_src org ,#+property: var foo=1 ,#+property: var+ bar=2 ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (+ foo bar) ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: 3 ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: foo=1 bar=2 ,* overwriting a file-wide property , :PROPERTIES: , :var: foo=7 , :END: ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , foo ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: 7 ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: foo=7 ,* appending to a file-wide property , :PROPERTIES: , :var+: baz=3 , :END: ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (+ foo bar baz) ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: 6 ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: foo=1 bar=2 baz=3 #+end_src *** =org-agenda-custom-commands= has a default value This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for details. Thanks to Carsten for this. *** =outline-demote/promote= points to =org-demote/promote-subtree= Users who use this outline commands in =outline-mode= will want them to behave the Org way in Org. Thanks to Michael Brand for the suggestion. *** New escape characters for =org-log-note-headings= The option =org-log-note-headings= now supports %d and %D for inactive and active timestamps. This affect the behavior of the command =org-store-log-note=. Thanks to John J Foerch for a patch for this. *** New command =org-table-transpose-table-at-point= See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of Org's core. Thanks to Juan! *** Allow recursive edit of minibuffer You can now use the command =C-c != (=org-time-stamp-inactive=) when prompted e.g. for a link name. This is because the central function =org-completing-read= now support recursive edit. Only =C-c != is available at the moment, but if you can think of a useful command to use, please let me know. Thanks to Skip Collins for the idea and to Nick Dokos for the implementation. *** Allow dynamic construction of the publishing destination Thanks to Kai Tetzlaff for adding this. *** Set the capture default time to the prompt time In the file+datetree+promt target type, the user is being asked for a date, where to file an entry. In the template, he can use the escape placeholders for active and inactive time stamps. So far, these were filled with todays date. This behavior changed so that, also at %t and %u, the date to use is the one entered at the prompt. Reported by Erik Hetzner and fixed by Carsten. *** =org-agenda-skip-additional-timestamps-same-entry= defaults to `nil' *** org-sudoku.el -- small sudoku solver Carsten wrote org-sudoku.el, a little sudoku solver, which lives in the contrib/ directory. From [[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/45474][his message]]: "my daughter got stuck with a couple of SUDOKU puzzles during the vacation (where wh had no internet connection), so I hacked a small SUDOKU solver that reads a 9x9 Org table and solves it as a sudoku puzzle. A little silly, but maybe fun for someone - I have pushed it into the contrib/lisp directory." ** Code Block related features and improvements *** Added [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tikzDevice/index.html][tikzDevice]] support to ob-R.el *** Support for Pico Lisp code blocks Thanks to Thorsten Jolitz Pico Lisp code blocks are now supported. See =ob-picolisp.el= for more information. *** Extension to the =eval= code block header argument The =eval= code block header argument now accepts four (six) possible values the meaning of which is shown in the table below. | never or no | The code block will not be evaluated under any | | | circumstances. | | query | Evaluation of the code block will require a query. | | never-export or no-export | The code block will not be evaluated during export | | | but may still be called | | query-export | Evaluation of the code block during export will | | | require a query. | *** Update of intermediate results during code block evaluation When set to t, the new =org-babel-update-intermediate= variable will update in-buffer results for code blocks which are evaluated in the resolution of a variable reference. This can be used to ensure that the latest returned results are always shown in buffer. *** Support for Fortran code block is now in the core Thanks to Sergey Litvinov for contributing this support. *** The =sbe= function allows header argument specification If first variable is a string and not a cons cell, then interpret it as a string of header arguments to be passed to the code block. *** Support for Shen code blocks See http://www.shenlanguage.org/ for information on Shen. A major mode for shen code blocks is available through the GNU ELPA. ** New options and faces *** New option =org-export-html-headline-anchor-format= Format for anchors in HTML headlines. It requires to %s: both will be replaced by the anchor referring to the headline (e.g. "sec-2"). When set to `nil', don't insert HTML anchors in headlines. This was requested by Alan L Tyree. *** New option =org-table-formula-field-format= Format for fields which contain the result of a formula. For example, using \"~%s~\" will display the result within tilde characters. Beware that modifying the display can prevent the field from being used in another formula. Thanks to Dov Grobgeld for this idea. *** New option =org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region= When set to `t', some commands will loop over the active region. Currently, =org-schedule= and =org-deadline= uses this option: pressing =C-c C-s= or =C-c C-d= when the region is active will let you schedule/deadline all the visible headlines in the region. Thanks a lot to David Maus for implementing this. *** New option =org-catch-invisible-edits= This option makes it possible to check what is the right thing to do before editing invisible regions. Here are the possible values of this option: : +nil Do not check, so just do invisible edits. : +error Throw an error and do nothing. : +show Make point visible, and do the requested edit. : +show-and-error Make point visible, then throw an error and abort the edit. : +smart Make point visible, and do insertion/deletion if it is : adjacent to visible text and the change feels predictable. See the docstring for more details. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this. *** New option =org-export-latex-table-caption-above= Let the user place a caption above its table in LaTeX. Thanks to Thomas Dye for a patch to this effect. *** New option =org-agenda-follow-indirect= By setting `org-agenda-follow-indirect' to a non-nil value, `org-agenda-follow-mode' will use an indirect buffer to display only the current item, rather than the whole agenda file in which it lives. Thanks to Dave Abrahams for implementing this. *** New option =org-refile-active-region-within-subtree= Non-nil means also refile active region within a subtree. By default =org-refile= doesn't allow refiling regions if they don't contain a set of subtrees, but it might be convenient to do so sometimes: in that case, the first line of the region is converted to a headline before refiling. Thanks to Jeff Horn for raising the issue of refiling a list item, and to Nicolas Goaziou, Nick Dokos and Suvayu Ali for discussing them patiently. *** New option =org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command= This option lets you specify a way to convert LaTeX fragments to MathML. See also =org-latex-to-mathml-jar-file= and the docstring of =org-create-math-formula=. Thanks to Jambunathan K for implementing this. *** New option =org-properties-postprocess-alist= See its docstring: : Alist of properties and functions to adjust inserted values. : Elements of this alist must be of the form : : ([string] [function]) : : where [string] must be a property name and [function] must be a : lambda expression: this lambda expression must take one argument, : the value to adjust, and return the new value as a string. : : For example, this element will allow the property "Remaining" : to be updated wrt the relation between the "Effort" property : and the clock summary: : : (("Remaining" : (lambda(value) : (let ((clocksum (org-clock-sum-current-item)) : (effort (org-duration-string-to-minutes : (org-entry-get (point) "Effort")))) : (org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string (- effort clocksum)))))) This is inspired by a request from Pascal Mattia. *** New options =org-habit-today-glyph= and =org-habit-completed-glyph= This gives you control over the character used for displaying today (default is `!') and days on which a task has been completed (default is `*'). Thanks to John Wiegley for this. *** New option =org-bibtex-type-property-name= Configurable property name for bibtex entry types. Thanks to Eric Schulte for this. *** New face =org-agenda-filter-tags= This face is used for highlighting the tag(s) filter in the modeline. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this idea and its implementation. *** New faces =org-agenda-calendar-event= and =org-agenda-calendar-sexp= =org-agenda-calendar-event= is the face used to show events and appointments in the agenda, and =org-agenda-calendar-sexp= the one used to show events computed from a S-expression. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this addition. ** Important bugfixes *** Respect =org-export-with-tags= when exporting a subtree Thanks to Suvayu Ali for spotting this problem and fixing it. *** Fix XEmacs compatibility issue when creating an indirect buffer Thanks to Michael Sperber for this fix. ** Testing *** New test function =org-test-with-temp-text-in-file= * Version 7.7 ** COMMENT Incompatible changes ** New features and user-visible improvements *** New command =org-copy-visible= (=C-c C-x v=) This command will copy the visible text in the region into the kill ring. Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it! *** New hook =org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-final-hook= This hook will be called when nothing special can be performed by the busy =C-c C-c= key. Thanks to Paul Sexton for this idea! *** Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w" when calling =org-schedule= or =org-deadline=: it will schedule (or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any. You can use this programmatically: =(org-schedule nil "+2d")= will work on the current entry. You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda. Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this! *** New functions: =org-todo-yesterday= and =org-agenda-todo-yesterday= This is useful when you need to mark things done yesterday. Thanks to Max Mikhanosha for this patch. *** =org-set-property= defaults to the last interactively modified property When setting a property with =C-c C-x p=, it will offered the last interactively modified property as a default choice. If this command is called on a property line, the property in this line will take precedence over the last set property. *** Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log Using =S-M-= on CLOCK log timestamps will increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding. Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea. *** Clock: New function =org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer= This function removes empty =CLOCK= drawers and has been added to =org-clock-out-hook=: when clocking out, if no CLOCK log has been inserted and the drawer is empty, the drawer will be removed. *** Capture: new escape sequence =%F= for templates Using =%F= in capture templates will insert the full path of the file or the directory the capture mechanism was called from (whereas =%f= only insert the filename.) Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for this change. *** Agenda: new variable =org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions= for custom bulk functions When using =org-agenda-bulk-action= in agenda view, the user could already call custom functions by pressing =f= and entering the function's name. This variable lets the user add custom choices and reach them more quickly. Set the variable to an alist of keys (chars) and functions, and these keys will be accessible through the =org-agenda-bulk-action= interface. If there is a conflict between custom keys and hardcoded choices, the latter ones take precedence. Thanks to Julien Cubizolles for triggering this idea. *** Refile: exclude irrelevant headings When refiling from an org-mode buffer, the current heading and its subheadings will be excluded from the list of possible targets. This only works when =org-refile-use-cache= is =nil= and in org-mode buffers, not in agenda buffers. Thanks to Jason Dunsmore for this idea! *** Lists: new variable =org-list-use-circular-motion= This variable allows some commands to consider lists as cyclic structures. For example, when non-nil, moving past the last item of a list with S-down will bring you back to the first one. *** Lists: New variable =org-list-indent-offset= This variable helps improving readability of sub-items by increasing their indentation. E.g., if =org-list-indent-offset= is set to 2, you may see the following list: #+begin_example - First item - Sub-item 1 - Sub-item 2 - Second item #+end_example *** Table: New flag ";t" to tailor the display of computed durations See the new variable =org-table-duration-custom-format= and the updated example from the manual: | Task 1 | Task 2 | Total | |---------+----------+-------| | 3:02:20 | -2:07:00 | 0.92 | #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;t In this example, =0.92= is a fraction of hour, the default for =org-table-duration-custom-format=. Thanks to Daniel E. Doherty for discussions about this. *** Table: display field's coordinates when editing it with =C-c `= When editing a field with =C-c `=, the field's coordinate will the displayed in the buffer. Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect. *** Babel: support for =java= code blocks Evaluation of blocks of Java code is now possible. Currently only external evaluation of Java code is supported (i.e., no session evaluation) and only the =:results output= results are collected. Code blocks are compiled to a Java class file which are then evaluated and the values printed to STDOUT are returned. Java code blocks required a =:classname= header argument which is used by the compiler to name =.java= and =.class= files. Example Java code block: #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src java :classname myfirstjavaprog , class myfirstjavaprog , { , public static void main(String args[]) , { , System.out.println("Hello World!"); , } , } ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: Hello World! #+end_src *** Babel: support for =fortran= code blocks by Sergey Litvinov The =contrib/babel/langs/= contains the new library =ob-fortran.el= by Sergey Litvinov. Thanks to him for this addition. *** Babel: support for the [[http://fomus.sourceforge.net/][fomus]] language by Torsten Anders =ob-fomus.el= has been added to =contrib/babel/langs/=. Thanks to Torsten Anders for contributing this functionality. *** Publish: hide .orgx files and use theindex.org directly When :makeindex is `non-nil' in the publishing options, Org will export an index. It populates the directory with .orgx files: those files are now hidden (.file.orgx). Also the index is directly stored in the file =theindex.org=, not in the file =theindex.inc= (which you can delete). Thanks to Nathan Neff and Carsten for pointing at the problems and solutions. *** Export: new variable =org-export-html-divs= to allow custom divs The default value of =org-export-html-divs= is =("preamble" "content" "postamble")= and is used to define the =
= for the main structure of the exported HTML file. Note that modifying the default value will break compatibility with the =org-info.js= script. Also note that the variable =org-export-html-content-div= will still be checked for compatibility reasons but is not a custom variable anymore. Thanks to Sébastian Vauban for a preliminary version of this patch. *** Export: new variable =org-export-latex-quotes= to customize quotes in LaTeX export This allows users to define what quotes they want to use as a replacement of english double-quotes while exporting to LaTeX. In particular, if you use the csquote package, you can configure Org to output something like \endquote{some quoted text} instead of "some quoted text". Thanks to Frederik for bringing this issue up, and to Thomas S. Dye, Nick Dokos and Stefan Nobis for elaborating this solution. ** Important bugfixes *** Duration computations now work for complex ranges in tables Thanks to Christian Moe for signaling this problem. *** Handle recursive setup files correctly Thanks to Stefan Vollmar for mentioning this problem. ** Details *** =org-map-entries= can now have 'region as its scope Thanks to David Maus for suggesting related improvements to =org-map-entries=. This one prepares the possibility of letting some commands to loop over the active region. *** org-depend.el: new chain-find-next trigger option See the updated docstring of this file. Thanks a lot to Max Mikhanosha for this! *** Export: new experimental exporter to MoinMoin by Puneeth Chaganti. The =EXPERIMENTAL/= directory contains a new file org-mm.el that allows you to export an Org file to a MoinMoin file. Thanks to Puneeth Chaganti for this addition. *** Export: new default for =org-export-html-preamble= The default value included the title. It now defaults to the empty string, as the title is hardcoded and included in the "content" div. Including the title here is necessary to let =org-info.js= find it and display the page properly. *** Export: new variable =org-lparse-use-flashy-warning= defaulting to =nil= Flashy and verbose warnings while exporting to ODT have been disabled. Set this to =t= if you want it back. *** Export: new default value for =org-export-latex-image-default-option= This used to be =width=10em= and this is now width=.9\linewidth, which makes more sense. Thanks to Sebastien Vauban for this suggestion. *** Export: allow =org-export-latex-href-format= to have only one "%s" This is useful when you want to use \url{link} instead of the default \href{link}{path}. Thanks to Henri-Paul Indiogine for bringing this up. ** Known issues *** The ODT exporter will choke when using some Org-defined strings For example, using the hungarian version of the table of contents, as defined in =org-export-language-setup=, the ODT exporter will complain about a problem with the translated string. The workaround is to customize =org-export-language-setup= and to use accents directly. * Version 7.6 ** Incompatible changes ** New features and user-visible improvements *** Integration of Jambunathan's OpenDocumentText Exporter **** Activation Org-mode 7.6 supports exporting to OpenDocument Text (=odt=) format using org-odt.el. Depending on how you installed Org, this module can be enabled in one of the following ways: 1. If you have downloaded the Org from the Web, either as a distribution =.zip= or =.tar.gz= file, or as a Git archive, enable the =odt= option in the variable =org-modules=. 2. If you are using Org-mode 7.6 that comes bundled with Emacs-24.0.50 (or future Emacs-24.1), then you can install the OpenDocumentText exporter using the package manager. Check the list of available packages with =M-x list-packages= and install the =org-odt= package. Thanks a lot to Jambunathan K for this great contribution. **** Keybindings The following interactive commands are provided: 1. =C-c C-e o= (=org-export-as-odt=): Export as an =odt= file. 2. =C-c C-e O= (=org-export-as-odt-and-open=): Export as an =odt= file and open the resulting file. See the =contrib/odt/README.org= file for further details; you may check in particular the commands =M-x org-lparse= and =M-x org-export-convert=. *** Ob-Lilypond -- new Babel language to allow score generation ob-lilypond - an org-babel language, provided to allow LilyPond music score generation, complete with optional auditioning via midi, whilst leveraging the full power of org mode, and literate programming. See https://github.com/mjago/ob-lilypond for more documentation. Thanks to Martyn Jago for this addition. *** Org-Bibtex -- major improvements Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all standard bibtex reference types and fields. The key new functions are - org-bibtex-check :: queries the user to flesh out all required (and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available for the specific reference =type= of the current headline. - org-bibtex-create :: Create a new entry at the given level, using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields. - org-bibtex-yank :: Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a formatted Org-mode headline into the current buffer - org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring :: Export the current headline to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry. *** Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values If you want to compute time values use the =T= flag, either in Calc formulas or Elisp formulas: | Task 1 | Task 2 | Total | |--------+--------+---------| | 35:00 | 35:00 | 1:10:00 | #+TBLFM: @2$3=$1+$2;T Values must be of the form =[HH:]MM:SS=, where hours are optional. Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and feedback on this. *** Links within inlined footnotes. It as also possible to have footnotes side-by-side correctly exported. New variables =org-export-latex-footnote-separator=, =org-export-html-footnote-separator= and =org-export-docbook-footnote-separator= are used to separate them in that case. Fontification of footnotes is also more accurate. *** New variable =org-export-with-tasks= Non-nil means include TODO items for export. This may have the following values: - t include tasks independent of state. - todo include only tasks that are not yet done. - done include only tasks that are already done. - nil remove all tasks before export - list of TODO kwds keep only tasks with these keywords Thanks to Carsten for implementing this! *** New variable =org-export-latex-timestamp-inactive-markup= This variable allows the user to define the LaTeX markup for inactive timestamps. It defaults to the same markup than active timestamps. Thanks to Eric S Fraga for this patch. *** New =org-default= face =M-x customize-face RET org-default RET= will let you define the default face for =org-mode= buffers. *** Babel improvements **** In line code block call syntax It is now possible to call code blocks from within blocks of prose. The new syntax is exactly analogous to the existing =#+call:= line syntax, only it may be present embedded in a block of prose for example =call_double(num=8)= would call the =double= code block assigning the =num= variable to the value =8=. **** Optional variable names in code block calls Variable names are now optional when passing variables to a code block reference. Un-named variables will be assigned in order as shown below. : #+source: minus : #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var a=0 :var b=0 : (- a b) : #+end_src : : #+call: minus(a=8, b=4) : : #+call: minus(8,4) **** Sub-tree ID as valid code block variable reference It is now possible to assign the textual contents of an Org-mode subtree to a code block variable using the ID of the subtree. Both custom IDs and Org-mode IDs may be used. For example; #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src sh :var text=foo , echo "$text"|wc ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,: 8 58 415 ,* example foo , :PROPERTIES: , :CUSTOM_ID: foo , :END: ,Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec ,hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam ,nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus. Cum sociis ,natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus ,mus. Nulla posuere. Donec vitae dolor. Nullam tristique diam non ,turpis. Cras placerat accumsan nulla. Nullam rutrum. Nam vestibulum ,accumsan nisl. #+end_src **** =org-babel-tangle-body-hook= for reprocessing code block bodies during tangling **** =padline= header argument controls newline padding during tangling **** Maxima code blocks are now supported Thanks to Eric Fraga for contributing this support. **** =awk= code blocks are now supported **** Added =xmpfilter= to Ruby code blocks for annotated code output **** New =noweb-ref= header argument This header argument may be used to concatenate the bodies of many code blocks into a single noweb reference. This brings Org-mode's tangling functionality in line with traditional noweb tangling. A no web reference like the following #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src sh , <> ,#+end_src #+end_src will now expand to include the bodies of all code blocks which are named =the-ref=, as well as all code blocks which have a =:noweb-ref= header argument set to the value =the-ref=. *** New tests The =tests/= directory has been extensively updated. ** Important bugfixes *** Org-exp-blocks --- proper handling of recursively nested blocks During export pre-processing org-exp-blocks will now ensure that all matched blocks contain a proper balanced number of recursively nested blocks. Before this fix nested blocks such as the following would break during export. #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src org , ,#+begin_example , , nested example , ,#+end_example ,#+end_src #+end_src *** List handling Fix an infinite loop when a list has an end of block string without the corresponding beginning. Auto-filling cannot happen at a location where it would otherwise insert a new item. ** Details *** Footnotes have gone through some bug-fixing: - properly ignore footnotes in comments, - export calls to previously defined footnotes in LaTeX using \footnotemark, - export footnotes before first heading (LaTeX), - export footnotes when selecting a subtree not holding their definition (LaTeX). *** Many small bug fixes have been applied to list handling - fix `org-timer-item', - fix insertion of a new item with a non-nil `indent-tabs-mode', - fix use of `fill-region' in an item, - correct export lists within footnotes and footnotes within lists, - correctly export lists containing macros, - don't ignore with-case specification when sorting a list, - better indentation handling when changing an item to an headline or the other way, - fix check-boxes' cookies updating. * Version 7.5 ** Incompatible changes *** Code block variable initialized with Emacs Lisp code in tables and lists It is no longer possible to assign code block variables using executable Emacs Lisp statements contained in tables or lists. As per the following example. #+tblname: table | (a b c) | #+begin_src perl :var data=table[0,0] $data #+end_src #+results: : (a b c) Thanks to Vladimir Alexiev for raising this issue. *** `org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist' has changed Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly. ** New features and user-visible improvements *** Implement formulas applying to field ranges Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas. : A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define : row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows : things like : : @3= : @2$2..@5$7= : @I$2..@II$4= : : as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that : is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a : table. Thanks a lot to Carsten for this. *** Improved handling of lists Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists. 1. Indentation of text determines again end of items in lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more indented than it. 2. Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical counters like [@c] or [@W]. 3. Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and `org-list-export-context'. 4. Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text and make paragraphs and still not break the list. 5. Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and make every line in region an item. It permits to easily integrate paragraphs inside a list. 6. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no blank line around, without breaking list structure. Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this! *** Modified link escaping David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See [[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888][his message]]: : Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters : in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets : in link target oder description) or are not allowed to appear in : a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http: : link). : : With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and : unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters. : Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning : percent escaped links are solved. Thanks a lot to David for this work. *** Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring the =org-export-email/author/creator-info= variables. When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the docstring of these variable for details about available %-sequences. You can set =:html-preamble= in publishing project in the same way: `t' means to honor =:email/creator/author-info=, and a formatting string will insert a string. *** New command `org-agenda-append-agenda' You can now use `org-agenda-append-agenda' to dynamically add new agendas views to the current one. It is particularily useful to compare multiple small agendas. *** Localized clock tables Clock tables now support a new new =:lang= parameter, allowing the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See the variable =org-clock-clocktable-language-setup= which controls available translated strings. *** New sorting options when publishing projects The =:sitemap-sort-file= option now allows sorting the sitemap file (anti-)alphabetically and (anti-)chronogically. Thanks a lot to Manuel Giraud for a patch to this effet. *** Testing with ERT Martyn Jago added new tests to =testing/= - thanks to him! *** New file in contrib/: org-notmuch.el Org is now distributed with =org-notmuch.el=, by Matthieu Lemerre. See explanations in the header of =org-notmuch.el=: : =org-notmuch.el= implements links to notmuch messages and : "searchs". A search is a query to be performed by notmuch; it is : the equivalent to folders in other mail clients. Similarly, mails : are refered to by a query, so both a link can refer to several : mails. *** org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages You can now create links from messages. This is particularily useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch. ** Important bug fixes *** Capturing to narrowed buffers You can now safely capture entries to narrowed buffers. Thanks a lot to Memnon Anon for bringing this up. *** Better handling of the new `org-agenda-span' variable Agendas were a bit confused by the introduction of this variable, in particular block agendas. This is now fixed. Thanks to Julien and Carsten for helping find the right fix for this issue, and to Michael Brand and Matt Lundin for their patient testing and reporting. *** Security warning: using org-crypt with auto-save To prevent Emacs from auto-saving encrypted entries in clear text, the user should not use auto-save with org-crypt.el. We now send a warning when users are both using auto-saving and org-crypt.el. Thanks to Peter Jones for bringing this up. ** Details *** Babel **** :file argument causes results to be written to file for all languages :file should be understood as saying "write the result to and return a link to ". This works for all languages. For graphics languages (e.g. ditaa, dot, gnuplot) there is no change in behavior: "result" in the above is the graphics, and a link to the image is placed in the org buffer. For general-purpose languages (e.g. emacs-lisp, python, R, ruby, shell), the "result" written to file is the normal org-babel result (string, number, table). In order to return a file link from a src block without telling babel to save any results to that file, use :results and do not use :file. The code block can of course write arbitrary content to . Some examples: Save the output of ls -l as a .csv file (recall that :results value is the default): #+begin_src sh :file dirlisting.csv :sep , ls -l #+end_src Send the text output of ls -l directly to file: #+begin_src sh :results output :file dirlisting.txt ls -l #+end_src **** R requires :results graphics :file filename when generating graphics ":results graphics" is now required in addition to ":file filename" in order for graphical output to be sent automatically to file. If :file is supplied, but not ":results graphics", then non-graphical, "value" or "output" results are written to file, depending on which of those options is in effect. **** Calc code blocks can now accept vectors For example; #+begin_src calc :var y=[1 2 3] 3 y #+end_src #+results: : [3, 6, 9] Thanks to Eric S. Fraga for raising this issue **** Code blocks with empty bodies are now acceptable Previously these caused errors on export. Thanks to Martyn Jago for this patch. **** Emacs Lisp variable assignments which don't eval cleanly passed literally This makes it possible to easily pass through non-elisp variable assignments which may initially look like valid elisp. **** Unified naming of =c++= functions to =C++= Thanks to Martyn Jago for this patch. **** `org-babel-execute-buffer' and `org-babel-execute-subtree' now eval inline code blocks as well **** New :mkdirp header argument creates parent dirs of tangle targets **** New ":comments noweb" option for wrapping noweb references in comment links This can be useful to allow backward linking from tangle code files to the original code block holding noweb-expanded content. **** Allow detangling of text containing '\'s -- Thanks to Seth Burleigh **** =:sep= specifies table separator when opening or writing tabular results **** `org-edit-src-content-indentation' can now be a buffer-local variable *** All export configuration variables can now be buffer-local variables *** org-complete.el has been renamed to org-pcomplete.el In case you were manually loading =org-complete.el= (which is *not* necessary anyway), please be aware that the name of this library was changed to =org-pcomplete.el=. *** New user options for LaTeX source code export via minted and listings packages New variables `org-export-latex-listings-options' and `org-export-latex-minted-options' allow package options to be controlled; `org-export-latex-custom-lang-environments' allows arbitrary configuration on a per-language basis. *** Effort durations now support 2d, 2m, etc. Effort duration can now be set as 2h (for 2 hours), etc. This will be converted to minutes automatically when clocking in an entry with an effort property. See the =org-effort-durations= variable. Thanks a lot to Lawrence Mitchell for this patch. *** New option :clock-keep for capture templates A capture template with =:clock-keep t= will prevent the refiling process from clocking out the entry. If =:clock-resume= is also `t', =:clock-keep= will take precedence and =:clock-resume= will be ignored. So now =:immediate-finish t :clock-in t :clock-keep t= makes sense: it will capture a new task and clock it. *** Misc **** New command `org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp' =M-x org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp RET= will mark agenda entries which headings match against a regular expression. You can call this command with the `%' key from an agenda buffer. **** New command `org-agenda-reset-view' Julien Danjou implemented this: : This new command lets you switch to day/week/month/year view. : : When switching to day or week view, this setting becomes the default for : subsequent agenda refreshes. Since month and year views are slow to : create, they do not become the default. A numeric prefix argument may be : used to jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month, or : year, respectively. For example, `32 d' jumps to February 1st, `9 w' to : ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or month view, a year may be : encoded in the prefix argument as well. For example, `200712 w' will jump : to week 12 in 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two : digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037. `v SPC'' will reset to : what is set in `org-agenda-span'. Thanks a lot to Julien for this. **** New options for ignoring past or future items in the global todo list This patch gives users greater control over which past or future items they would like to ignore in the global todo list. By setting org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled to 7, for instance, a user can ignore all items scheduled 7 or more days in the future. Similarly, by setting org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled to -1, a user can ignore all items that are truly in the past (unlike the 'past setting, which ignores items scheduled today). See the docstrings of these variables: - org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines - org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled - org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp Thanks a lot to Matt Lundin for implementing this and to Paul Sexton for the idea. **** New variable `org-export-table-remove-empty-lines' When set to `nil', don't remove empty tables when exporting tables. This was requested by Eric S Fraga. **** New variable `org-table-fix-formulas-confirm' Sometime, editing the structure of a table should not edit the corresponding formulas. This new variable lets the user decide whether he wants to confirm formula fixes or not. **** New variable `org-export-initial-scope' This variable controls the initial scope when exporting with `org-export'. It can be set to 'buffer or 'subtree. If there is an active region, tell it when prompting the user for an export command. **** Show and use the default refile location M-x org-refile RET now shows the default refile location. Thanks to Tassilo Horn for a patch to this effect. **** New variable `org-archive-subtree-add-inherited-tags' Non-nil means append inherited tags when archiving a subtree. **** New variable `org-export-current-backend' This variable is dynamically set by exporters. You can check against its value anytime in your code to see if you are exporting to HTML, LaTeX, etc. Possible values are 'html, 'latex, 'ascii, 'docbook. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Dan Davison for ideas and patches in this area. **** New hook `org-clock-before-select-task-hook' Hook called in task selection just before prompting the user. Thanks to Benjamin Drieu for the patch. **** = = emphasis now uses \protectedtexttt **** Author's email now included in the LaTeX title When `org-export-email-info' is non-nil, the LaTeX title will also include the author's email. Thanks to Lawrence Mitchell for the patch. **** Update contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar to ditaa v0.9 of 2009-11-24 **** New variable `org-mobile-files-exclude-regexp' This variable lets you exclude files that you don't want in org-mobile-files. **** New variable `org-confirm-elisp-link-not-regexp' Set this to a regexp if you want to skip the confirmation step for Elisp/Shell code matching this regexp. **** New variable `org-attach-store-link-p' When set to `t', store link to the attached file, at its original location. **** `org-table-use-standard-references' now defaults to 'from **** Better `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all' When this is set to a list of TODO keywords, the agenda will only show occurrences of repeating stamps for these TODO keywords. **** New command `org-narrow-to-block' This command (`C-x n b') will narrow the buffer to the current block. * Version 7.4 ** Incompatible changes *** Agenda: rework ndays and span handling The variable =org-agenda-ndays= is obsolete - please use =org-agenda-span= instead. Thanks to Julien Danjou for this. ** Details *** Improvements with inline tasks and indentation There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks. See the new variable =org-inlinetask-export-templates=. Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes. *** Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command =B S= in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a random number of days into the future, with 7 as the default. This is useful if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today, you realize you'll never deal with them all, and you just want them to be distributed across the next N days. When called with a prefix arg, rescheduling will avoid weekend days. Thanks to John Wiegley for this. *** In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegleys pcomplete.el Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code. *** Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also, there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent. Thanks to Seweryn Kokot. *** Command names shown in manual The reference manual now lists command names for most commands. Thanks to Andreas Röhler who started this project. *** Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See the new variable =org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm=. Thanks to C. A. Webber for a patch to this effect. *** Rewriten clock table code The entire clocktable code has been rewritten to add more options and to make hacking time reports easier. Thanks to Erwin Vrolijk for a patch introducing clock tables for quarters. *** Babel **** Add =msosql= engine to sql code blocks SQL code blocks can now be executed using the =myosql= engine using the osql command (from MS SQL Server) on Windows systems. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this contribution. **** Python code blocks now accept a =preamble= header argument This allows specification of coding declarations and library imports which must take place in the beginning of a file of executed python code (note this header argument is used during code block evaluation unlike the =shebang= header argument which is used during tangling). For example #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src python :preamble # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- :return s ,s = "é" ,#+end_src #+end_src Thanks to Vincent Beffara for this idea. **** Code block name is shown during evaluation query When the user is queried about the evaluation of a named code block the name of the code block is now displayed. Thanks to Tom Dye for this suggestion. **** Clojure code blocks results insertion The results of Clojure code blocks have been improved in two ways. 1. lazy sequences are now expanded for insertion into the Org-mode buffer 2. pretty printing of results is now possible with both "code" and "data" pretty print formats Thanks to Rick Moynihan for suggesting these changes. **** Python code blocks now accept a =:return= header argument This alleviates the need to explicitly insert return statements into the bode of Python code blocks. This change both - allows the same python code blocks to be run both in sessions and externally - removes the floating =return= statements which violated python syntax Thanks to Darlan Cavalcante for proposing this feature. **** =:results wrap= header argument wraps code block results The new =:results wrap= wraps code blocks results in a custom environment making it possible to offset their contents during export. For example #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results wrap , "code block results" ,#+end_src ,#+results: ,#+BEGIN_RESULT ,: code block results ,#+END_RESULT #+end_src Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for persistently suggesting this enhancement. **** Code block error buffer wiped clean between executions Previously the code block error buffer accumulated errors making it difficult to distinguish between previous and current errors. This buffer is now cleaned before every interactive code block evaluation. **** Lists now recognized by code blocks It is now possible for code blocks to both read and write list contents from and to Org-mode buffers. For example #+begin_src org ,#+results: a-list ,- babel ,- and ,- org-mode ,#+source: a-list ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var lst=a-list :results list , (reverse lst) ,#+end_src #+end_src **** Calc added as a supported code block language The Emacs Calc package can be used through =calc= code blocks allowing both regular arithmetic operations as well as stack based calculation. For example #+begin_src org ,#+source: calc-stack ,#+begin_src calc , 8 , 1 , '+ , 9 , '* ,#+end_src ,#+results: calc-stack ,: 81 ,#+source: calc-arithmetic ,#+begin_src calc :var in=calc-stack , in / 9 ,#+end_src ,#+results: calc-arithmetic ,: 9 #+end_src **** "org-babel-detangle" propagates change to source code files into code blocks `org-babel-detangle' can be used to propagate changes to pure source code files tangled from embedded code blocks in Org-mode files back to the original code blocks in the Org-mode file. This can be used on collaborative projects to keep embedded code blocks up to date with edits made in pure source code files. * Version 7.02 ** Incompatible Changes *** Code block hashes Due to changes in the code resolving code block header arguments hashing of code block results should now re-run a code block when an argument to the code block has changed. As a result of this change *all* code blocks with cached results will be re-run after upgrading to the latest version. *** Testing update Anyone using the org-mode test suite will need to update the jump repository for test navigation by executing the following from the root of the org-mode repository. : git submodule update Failure to update this repository will cause loading of org-test.el to throw errors. ** Details *** Org-babel speed commands All Org-babel commands (behind the C-c C-v key prefix) are now available as speed commands when the point is on the first line of a code block. This uses the existing Org-mode speed key mechanisms. Thanks to Jambunathan K for implementation this new feature. *** Fontify code in code blocks. Source code in code blocks can now be fontified. Please customize the varable =org-src-fontify-natively=. For very large blocks (several hundreds of lines) there can be delays in editing such fontified blocks, in which case C-c ' should be used to bring up a dedicated edit buffer. Thanks to Dan Davison for this. *** Language-mode commands are available in the Org-buffer The most general machinery for doing this is the macro `org-babel-do-in-edit-buffer'. There is also the convenience function `org-babel-do-key-sequence-in-edit-buffer' which makes use of this macro, and is bound to C-c C-v C-x and C-c C-v x. If there is an active region contained within the code block, then this is inherited by the edit buffer. Some examples of the sorts of usage this permits are C-c C-v C-x M-; comment region according to language C-c C-v C-x C-M-\ indent region according to language Users can make these more convenient, e.g. (defun my/org-comment-dwim (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (or (org-babel-do-key-sequence-in-edit-buffer "\M-;") (comment-dwim arg))) (define-key org-mode-map "\M-;" 'my/org-comment-dwim) A common instance of this general pattern is built in to Org-mode, controlled by the variable `org-src-tab-acts-natively': if this variable is set, then TAB in a code block has the effect that it would have in the language major mode buffer. *** Org-babel commands are available in language-mode edit buffer Mirroring the language-native commands in Org buffers above, a new macro `org-src-do-at-code-block' and convenience function `org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block' provide the converse. When used in a language major-mode edit buffer (i.e. a buffer generated by C-c '), `org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block' executes a key sequence at the code block in the source Org buffer. The command bound to the key sequence in the Org-babel key map is executed remotely with point temporarily at the start of the code block in the Org buffer. The command is not bound to a key by default, to avoid conflicts with language major mode bindings. To bind it to C-c @ in all language major modes, you could use (add-hook 'org-src-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key org-src-mode-map "\C-c@" 'org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block))) In that case, for example, C-c @ t issued in code edit buffers would tangle the current Org code block, C-c @ e would execute the block and C-c @ h would display the other available Org-babel commands. *** Multi-line header arguments to code blocks Code block header arguments can now span multiple lines using the new =#+header:= or =#+headers:= lines preceding a code block or nested in between the name and body of a named code block. Examples are given below. - multi-line header arguments on an un-named code block : #+headers: :var data1=1 : #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var data2=2 : (message "data1:%S, data2:%S" data1 data2) : #+end_src : : #+results: : : data1:1, data2:2 - multi-line header arguments on a named code block : #+source: named-block : #+header: :var data=2 : #+begin_src emacs-lisp : (message "data:%S" data) : #+end_src : : #+results: named-block : : data:2 *** Unified handling of variable expansion for code blocks The code used to resolve variable references in code block header arguments has now been consolidated. This both simplifies the code base (especially the language-specific files), and ensures that the arguments to a code block will not be evaluated multiple times. This change should not be externally visible to the Org-mode user. *** Improved Caching Code block caches now notice if the value of a variable argument to the code block has changed, if this is the case the cache is invalidated and the code block is re-run. The following example can provide intuition for the new behavior. #+begin_src org :exports code ,#+srcname: random ,#+begin_src R :cache yes ,runif(1) ,#+end_src ,#+results[a2a72cd647ad44515fab62e144796432793d68e1]: random ,: 0.4659510825295 ,#+srcname: caller ,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var x=random :cache yes ,x ,#+end_src ,#+results[bec9c8724e397d5df3b696502df3ed7892fc4f5f]: caller ,: 0.254227238707244 #+end_src *** Added :headers header argument for LaTeX code blocks This makes it possible to set LaTeX options which must take place in the document pre-amble for LaTeX code blocks. This header argument accepts either a single string or a list, e.g. #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src latex :headers \usepackage{lmodern} :file name1.pdf , latex body ,#+end_src ,#+begin_src latex :headers '("\\usepackage{mathpazo}" "\\usepackage{fullpage}") :file name2.pdf , latex body ,#+end_src #+end_src *** New function `org-export-string' Allows exporting directly from a string to the specified export format. *** Code block header argument ":noweb tangle" Only expands <> syntax references when tangling, not during export (weaving). *** New function `org-babel-switch-to-session-with-code' C-c C-v z (`org-babel-switch-to-session-with-code') is a variant of C-c C-v C-z (`org-babel-switch-to-session'): instead of switching to the session buffer, it splits the window between (a) the session buffer and (b) a language major-mode edit buffer for the code block in question. This can be convenient for using language major mode for interacting with the session buffer. *** Improvements to R sessions R now uses standard ESS code evaluation machinery in the :results value case, which avoids unnecessary output to the comint buffer. In addition, the R command responsible for writing the result to file is hidden from the user. Finally, the R code edit buffer generated by C-c ' is automatically linked to the ESS session if the current code block is using :session. *** Temporary file directory All babel temporary files are now kept in a single sub-directory in the /tmp directory and are cleaned up when Emacs exits. *** Function for demarcating blocks `org-babel-demarcate-block' Can be called to wrap the region in a block, or to split the block around point, bound to (C-c C-v d). *** Function for marking code block contents `org-babel-mark-block' Bound to C-M-h in the babel key map (i.e. C-c C-v C-M-h by default). This can be useful in conjunction with `org-babel-do-in-edit-buffer', for example for language-native commenting or indenting of the whole block. *** Lists of anniversaries are now handeled better When several anniversaries are defined in the bbdb anniversaries field (separated by semicolon), this is now handled nicely by the agenda. Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for a patch to this effect. *** Table fields are now aligned better, new cookie. In HTML export, table fields are now properly aligned in accord with automatic alignment in org, or as set by the ==, ==, and == cookies. The == cookie is new and has no effect in Org, but it does do the right thing in HTML export. A LaTeX export implementation will follow, but is currently still missing. *** Update freemind converter to include body text The freemind exporter now incorporates body text into the mind map. Thanks to Lennard Borgman for this patch. *** Make footnotes work correctly in message-mode The footnotes code now searches for =message-signature-separator= (which is "-- " by default) in order to place footnotes before the signature. Thanks to Tassilo Horn for this patch. *** Improve XEmacs compatibility Org-mode 7.02 now runs again in 21.4.22 if the new XEmacs base package is installed. Thanks to Uwe Bauer, Volker Ziegler, Michael Sperber and others for a discussion that lead to this nice result. *** Make it configurable wether agenda jumping prefers the future When jumping to a date from the agenda using the =j= key, you may or may not like the property of Org's date reader to prefer the future when you enter incomplete dates. This can now be configured using the variable =org-agenda-jump-prefer-future'. *** Add publishing functions for ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8 There are now publishing functions =org-publish-org-to-ascii=, =org-publish-org-to-latin1=, and =org-publish-org-to-utf8=. Thanks to Matthias Danzl for showing how to do this. *** Indentation and headline insertion after inline tasks Indentation in inline tasks, and headline insertion after inline tasks now behave as expected. *** Encryption in MobileOrg finally works As soon as MobilOrg 1.5 hits the Apple's AppStore, you can encrypt your org files on public servers. Please see the documentation of MobileOrg and Appendix B of the manual for more details. *** MobileOrg: Do not force to insert IDs If you dislike the property of MobileOrg to insert ID properties for in all entries being part of an agenda view, you can now turn this off using the variable =org-mobile-force-id-on-agenda-items=. When this variable is set to =nil=, MobileOrg will use outline paths to identify entries. Note that this may fail if several entries have identical outline paths. *** LaTeX minted package for fontified source code export Patch by Dan Davison. A non-nil value of `org-export-latex-minted' means to export source code using the minted package, which will fontify source code with color. If you want to use this, you need to make LaTeX use the minted package. Add minted to `org-export-latex-packages-alist', for example using customize, or with something like (require 'org-latex) (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-packages-alist '("" "minted")) In addition, it is neccessary to install pygments (http://pygments.org), and to configure `org-latex-to-pdf-process' so that the -shell-escape option is passed to pdflatex. *** Allow to use texi2dvi or rubber for processing LaTeX to pdf Please see the variable =org-export-latex-to-pdf-process= for more information. Thanks to Olivier Schwander for the rubber part. *** New STARTUP keywords to turn on inline images If you want to inline images whenever you visit an Org file, use : #+STARTUP: inlineimages *** Support for user-extensible speed commands. There is a new hook =org-speed-command-hook=. Thanks to Jambunathan for a patch to this effect. *** Add macro to insert property values into exported text you can use {{{property{NAME}}}} to insert the value of a property upon export. Thanks to David Maus for a patch to this effect. *** LaTeX package fixes We updated the list of default packages loaded by LaTeX exported files. *** Allow "#" and "%" in tags Tags can now also contain the characters =#= and =%=, in addition to =@= and letters. *** Show command names in manual Andreas Röhler is adding command names to keys in the manual. This will take a while to complete, but a start has been made. *** Make backslash escape "-" in property matches When entering a tags/property query, "-" is a logical operator. However, "-" is also allowed in property names. So you can now write "SOME\-NAME" to work around this issue. This was a request by Ilya Shlyakhter. *** Document quick insertion of empty structural elements Org-mode has a built-in template mechanism for inserting block templates. This was undocumented until now. Thanks to Jambunathan K for the patch. *** Implement MathJax support Org-mode now uses MathJax to display math on web pages. We serve MathJax from the orgmode.org server, at least for the time being (thanks Bastien!). If you are going to use this for pages which are viewed often, please install MathJax on your own webserver. To return to the old way of creating images and inserting them into web pages, you would have to set : (setq org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments 'dvipng) or on a per-file basis : #+OPTIONS: LaTeX:dvipng *** Agenda: Allow compact two-column display in agenda dispatcher If you have many custom agenda commands, you can have the display in the dispatcher use two columns with the following settings : (setq org-agenda-menu-show-match nil : org-agenda-menu-two-column t) This was a request by John Wiegley. *** Add org-wikinodes.el as a contributed package One frequent request has been to be able to use CamelCase words for automatic cross links in a Wiki created by Org. THis is now possible with org-wikinodes.el, which is available in the contrib directory. We also have some [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-wikinodes.php][documentation]] for this feature up on Worg. *** Timer/clock enhancements =org-timer-set-timer= displays a countdown timer in the modeline. From the agenda, `J' invokes =org-agenda-clock-goto=. * Version 7.01 ** Incompatible Changes *** Emacs 21 support has been dropped Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use [[http://orgmode.org/org-6.36c.zip][version 6.36c]] instead. *** XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer version of XEmacs. I was about to drop XEmacs support entirely, but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this last-minute save. I had hoped to be able to remove xemacs/noutline.el from release 7 by moving it into XEmacs, but this is not yet done. *** Org-babel configuration changes Babel took the integration into Org-mode as an opportunity to do some much needed house cleaning. Most importantly we have simplified the enabling of language support, and cleared out unnecessary configuration variables -- which is great unless you already have a working configuration under the old model. The most important changes regard the /location/ and /enabling/ of Babel (both core functionality and language specific support). - Babel :: Babel is now part of the core of Org-mode, so it is now loaded along with the rest of Org-mode. That means that there is /no configuration/ required to enable the main Babel functionality. For current users, this means that statements like #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'org-babel) #+end_src or #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'org-babel-init) #+end_src that may by lying around in your configuration must now be removed. - load path :: Babel (including all language specific files -- aside from those which are located in the =contrib/= directory for reasons of licencing) now lives in the base of the Org-mode lisp directory, so /no additional directories/ need to be added to your load path to use babel. For Babel users this means that statements adding babel-specific directories to your load-path should now be removed from your config. - language support :: It is no longer necessary to require language specific support on a language-by-language basis. Specific language support should now be managed through the `org-babel-load-languages' variable. This variable can be customized using the Emacs customization interface, or through the addition of something like the following to your configuration (note: any language not mentioned will /not/ be enabled, aside from =emacs-lisp= which is enabled by default) #+begin_src emacs-lisp (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((R . t) (ditaa . t) (dot . t) (emacs-lisp . t) (gnuplot . t) (haskell . nil) (ocaml . nil) (python . t) (ruby . t) (screen . nil) (sh . t) (sql . nil) (sqlite . t))) #+end_src Despite this change it is still possible to add language support through the use of =require= statements, however to conform to Emacs file-name regulations all Babel language files have changed prefix from =org-babel-*= to =ob-*=, so the require lines must also change e.g. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'org-babel-R) #+end_src should be changed to #+begin_src emacs-lisp (require 'ob-R) #+end_src We have eliminated the =org-babel-tangle-w-comments= variable as well as the two main internal lists of languages, namely - =org-babel-interpreters= and - =org-babel-tangle-langs= so any config lines which mention those variables, can/should be stripped out in their entirety. This includes any calls to the =org-babel-add-interpreter= function, whose sole purpose was to add languages to the =org-babel-interpreters= variable. With those calls stripped out, we may still in some cases want to associate a file name extension with certain languages, for example we want all of our emacs-lisp files to end in a =.el=, we can do this will the =org-babel-tangle-lang-exts= variable. In general you shouldn't need to touch this as it already has defaults for most common languages, and if a language is not present in org-babel-tangle-langs, then babel will just use the language name, so for example a file of =c= code will have a =.c= extension by default, shell-scripts (identified with =sh=) will have a =.sh= extension etc... The configuration of /shebang/ lines now lives in header arguments. So the shebang for a single file can be set at the code block level, e.g. #+begin_src org ,#+begin_src clojure :shebang #!/usr/bin/env clj , (println "with a shebang line, I can be run as a script!") ,#+end_src #+end_src Note that whenever a file is tangled which includes a /shebang/ line, Babel will make the file executable, so there is good reason to only add /shebangs/ at the source-code block level. However if you're sure that you want all of your code in some language (say shell scripts) to tangle out with shebang lines, then you can customize the default header arguments for that language, e.g. #+begin_src emacs-lisp ;; ensure this variable is defined defined (unless (boundp 'org-babel-default-header-args:sh) (setq org-babel-default-header-args:sh '())) ;; add a default shebang header argument (add-to-list 'org-babel-default-header-args:sh '(:shebang . "#!/bin/bash")) #+end_src The final important change included in this release is the addition of new security measures into Babel. These measures are in place to protect users from the accidental or uninformed execution of code. Along these lines /every/ execution of a code block will now require an explicit confirmation from the user. These confirmations can be stifled through customization of the `org-confirm-babel-evaluate' variable, e.g. #+begin_src emacs-lisp ;; I don't want to be prompted on every code block evaluation (setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil) #+end_src In addition, it is now possible to remove code block evaluation form the =C-c C-c= keybinding. This can be done by setting the =org-babel-no-eval-on-ctrl-c-ctrl-c= variable to a non-nil value, e.g. #+begin_src emacs-lisp ;; I don't want to execute code blocks with C-c C-c (setq org-babel-no-eval-on-ctrl-c-ctrl-c t) #+end_src An additional keybinding has been added for code block evaluation, namely =C-c C-v e=. Whew! that seems like a lot of effort for a /simplification/ of configuration. *** New keys for TODO sparse trees The key =C-c C-v= is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO sparse trees can still be made with =C-c / t= (all not-done states) and =C-c / T= (specific states). *** Customizable variable changes for DocBook exporter To make it more flexible for users to provide DocBook exporter related commands, we start to use format-spec to format the commands in this release. If you use DocBook exporter and use it to export Org files to PDF and/or FO format, the settings of the following two customizable variables need to be changed: - =org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command= - =org-export-docbook-xsl-fo-proc-command= Instead of using =%s= in the format control string for all arguments, now we use /three/ different format spec characters: - =%i=: input file argument - =%o=: output file argument - =%s=: XSLT stylesheet argument For example, if you set =org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command= to : java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o %s %s /path/to/docbook.xsl in the past, now you need to change it to : java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o %o %i %s and set a new customizable variable called =org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet= to =/path/to/docbook.xsl=. Please check the documentation of these two variables for more details and other examples. Along with the introduction of variable =org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet=, we also added a new in-buffer setting called =#+XSLT:=. You can use this setting to specify the XSLT stylesheet that you want to use on a per-file basis. This setting overrides =org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet=. ** Details *** Org Babel is now part of the Org core See [[#ob-configuration-changes][Org-babel configuration changes]] for instructions on how to update your babel configuration. The most significant result of this change is that Babel now has documentation! It is part of Org-mode's documentation, see Chapter 14 [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-source-code.html#Working-with-source-code][Working With Source Code]]. The Babel keybindings are now listed in the refcard, and can be viewed from any Org-mode buffer by pressing =C-c C-v h=. In addition this integration has included a number of bug fixes, and a significant amount of internal code cleanup. *** The default capture system for Org mode is now called org-capture This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual section [[http://orgmode.org/org-remember.pdf][chapter about remember]]. The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more possibilities for capturing different types of data. See [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/26441/focus%3D26441][Carsten's announcement]] for more details. To switch over to the new system: 1. Run : M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET to get a translated version of your remember templates into the new variable =org-capture-templates=. This will "mostly" work, but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good place to modify your templates. After running this command, enter the customize buffer for this variable with : M-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the customization. 2. Bind the command =org-capture= to a key, similar to what you did with org-remember: : (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture) If your fingers prefer =C-c r=, you can also use this key once you have decided to move over completely to the new implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong with using both system in parallel. *** Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts. The command =C-c C-x \= toggles the display of Org's special entities like =\alpha= as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and superscripts, see the variable =org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts=. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible. *** Help system for finding entities The new command =M-x org-entities-help= creates a structured buffer that lists all entities available in Org. Thanks to Ulf Stegeman for adding the necessary structure to the internal entity list. *** New module to create Gantt charts Christian Egli's /org-taskjuggler.el/ module is now part of Org. He also wrote a [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-taskjuggler.php][tutorial]] for it. *** Refile targets can now be cached You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable =org-refile-use-cache=. This should speed up refiling if you have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still offers a deleted one, press =C-0 C-c C-w=. *** Enhanced functionality of the clock resolver Here are the new options for the clock resolver: : i/q/C-g Ignore this question; the same as keeping all the idle time. : : k/K Keep X minutes of the idle time (default is all). If this : amount is less than the default, you will be clocked out : that many minutes after the time that idling began, and then : clocked back in at the present time. : g/G Indicate that you \"got back\" X minutes ago. This is quite : different from 'k': it clocks you out from the beginning of : the idle period and clock you back in X minutes ago. : s/S Subtract the idle time from the current clock. This is the : same as keeping 0 minutes. : C Cancel the open timer altogether. It will be as though you : never clocked in. : j/J Jump to the current clock, to make manual adjustments. For all these options, using uppercase makes your final state to be CLOCKED OUT. Thanks to John Wiegley for making these changes. *** A property value of "nil" now means to unset a property This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a property) back. Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this change. *** The problem with comment syntax has finally been fixed Thanks to Leo who has been on a year-long quest to get this fixed and finally found the right way to do it. *** Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by =C-k= This was a request by Scott Otterson. See the new variable =org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree=. *** New module org-mac-link-grabber.el This module allows to grab links to all kinds of applications on a mac. It is available in the contrib directory. Thanks to Anthony Lander for this contribution. *** LaTeX export: Implement table* environment for wide tables Thanks to Chris Gray for a patch to this effect. *** When cloning entries, remove or renew ID property Thanks to David Maus for this change. * Version 6.36 ** Details *** Inline display of linked images Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links that have no description part will be inlined. *** Implement offsets for ordered lists If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different from 1, you can now do it like this: : 1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12 *** Extensions to storing and opening links to Wanderlust messages - Remove filter conditions for messages in a filter folder If customization variable `org-wl-link-remove-filter' is non-nil, filter conditions are stripped of the folder name. - Create web links for messages in a Shimbun folder If customization variable `org-wl-shimbun-prefer-web-links' is non-nil, calling `org-store-link' on a Shimbun message creates a web link to the messages source, indicated in the Xref: header field. - Create web links for messages in a nntp folder If customization variable `org-wl-nntp-prefer-web-links' is non-nil, calling `org-store-link' on a nntp message creates a web link either to gmane.org if the group can be read trough gmane or to googlegroups otherwise. In both cases the message-id is used as reference. - Open links in namazu search folder If `org-wl-open' is called with one prefix, WL opens a namazu search folder for message's message-id using `org-wl-namazu-default-index' as search index. If this variable is nil or `org-wl-open' is called with two prefixes Org asks for the search index to use. Thanks to David Maus for these changes. *** Org-babel: code block body expansion for table and preview In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents, augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes into account all header arguments, and variables. A new key-binding C-c M-b p bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block' can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging). tangling The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc…) in headline properties or in tables. Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column names, and rownames across all languages. * Version 6.35 ** Incompatible Changes *** Changes to the intended use of =org-export-latex-classes= So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header of the LaTeX document, including all the =\usepackage= calls necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call, for example for the special symbol support it needs. Each time I have to add a package, I have to ask people to revise the configuration of this variable. In this release, I have tried to fix this. First of all, you can *opt out of this change* in the following way: You can say: /I want to have full control over headers, and I will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs/. If that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip the rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the =[EXTRA]= place holder): #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil org-export-latex-packages-alist nil) #+end_src /Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified setup./ There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX packages that need to be included in all classes. The header definition in =org-export-latex-classes= should then not contain the corresponding =\usepackage= calls (see below). The two new variables are: 1. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist= :: This is the variable where Org-mode itself puts the packages it needs. Normally you should not change this variable. The only reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using Org-mode functionality that needs it. 2. =org-export-latex-packages-alist= :: This is the variable where you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all classes. For example, I am putting =amsmath= and =tikz= here, because I always want to have them. The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX document are: 1. Header from =org-export-latex-classes= 2. =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist= 3. =org-export-latex-packages-alist= 4. Buffer-specific things set with =#+LaTeX_HEADER:= If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can put the following macro-like place holders into the header: #+begin_example [DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff #+end_example If you have currently customized =org-export-latex-classes=, you should revise that customization and remove any package calls that are covered by =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. This applies to the following packages: - inputenc - fontenc - fixltx2e - graphicx - longtable - float - wrapfig - soul - t1enc - textcomp - marvosym - wasysym - latexsym - amssymb - hyperref If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package you are using, you can remove it from =org-export-latex-default-packages-alist=. But then you risk that some of the advertised export features of Org will not work properly. You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes to =org-export-latex-packages-alist=. If necessary, put the place holders so that the packages get loaded in the right sequence. As said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit the place holders, all the variables will dump their content at the end of the header. Damn, this has become more complex than I wanted it to be. I hope that in practice, this will not be complicated at all. *** The constant =org-html-entities= is obsolete Its content is now part of the new constant =org-entities=, which is defined in the file org-entities.el. =org-html-entities= was an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did write code using it - this is why I am mentioning it here. ** Editing Convenience and Appearance *** New faces for title, date, author and email address lines. The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the following new faces: org-document-title org-document-info org-document-info-keyword In addition, the variable =org-hidden-keywords= can be used to make the corresponding keywords disappear. Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature. *** Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords The variables =org-todo-keyword-faces=, =org-tag-faces=, and =org-priority-faces= now accept simple color names as specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the variable =org-faces-easy-properties=, which governs which face property is affected by this setting. This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces. The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson. *** in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width Requested by Michael Brand. *** Better level cycling function =TAB= in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement. *** Adaptive filling For paragraph text, =org-adaptive-fill-function= did not handle the base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is now fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">" comments to be filled correctly. Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch. *** `org-reveal' (=C-c C-r=) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el) Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change. *** Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords. Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch. ** Export *** Much better handling of entities for LaTeX export Special entities like =\therefore= and =\alpha= now know if they need to be in LaTeX math mode and are formatted accordingly. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the tedious work to make this possible. *** LaTeX export: Set coding system automatically The coding system of the LaTeX class will now be set to the value corresponding to the buffer's file coding system. This happens if your setup sets up the file to have a line =\usepackage[AUTO]{inputenc}= (the default setup does this). *** New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8 While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new exporters can be reached with the commands =C-c C-e n= and =C-c C-e u=, respectively. When there is no representation for a given symbol in the targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For example, =\simeq= could be represented as "[approx. equal to]". Please use the variable =org-entities-ascii-explanatory= to state your preference. *** Full label/reference support in HTML, Docbook, and LaTeX backends =#+LABEL= definitions for tables and figures are now fully implemented in the LaTeX, Docbook, and HTML interfaces. =\ref{xxx}= is expanded to a valid link in all backends. *** BEAMER export: Title of the outline frame is now customizable The new option =org-outline-frame-title= allows to set the title for outline frames in Beamer presentations. Patch by Łukasz Stelmach. *** BEAMER export: fragile frames are better recognized A =lstlisting= environment now also triggers the fragile option in a beamer frame, just like =verbatim= environments do. Thanks to Eric Schulte for this patch. *** BEAMER export: Protect <...> macro arguments Macros for the BEAMER package can have arguments in angular brackets. These are now protected just like normal arguments. Requested by Bill Jackson. *** HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property The =HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS= property can now be used to add a class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export. *** New option =org-export-email-info= to turn off export of the email address Default is actually off now. *** Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails This behavior can be configured with the new option variable =org-format-latex-signal-error=. ** Index generation Org-mode can now produce a 2-level subject index spanning an entire publishing project. Write index entries in your files as #+begin_src org ,* What is org-mode? #+index: Org-mode #+index: Definitions!Org-mode #+end_src where the first line will produce an index entry /Org-mode/, while the second line will create /Definitions/ with a sub-item /Org-mode/. Three-level entries are not supported. To produce the index, set #+begin_src emacs-lisp :makeindex t #+end_src in the project definition in =org-publish-project-alist=. You may have to force re-export of all files to get the index by using a =C-u= prefix to the publishing command: #+begin_example C-u M-x org-publish-all #+end_example Whenever an Org file is published in this project, a new file with the extension "orgx" will be written. It contains the index entries and corresponding jump target names. When all project files are published, Org will produce a new file "theindex.inc" containing the index as a to-level tree. This file can be included into any project file using #+begin_src org ,#+include: "theindex.inc" #+end_src Org-mode will also create a file "theindex.org" with this include statement, and you can build a more complex structure (for example style definitions, top and home links, etc) around this statement. When this file already exists, it will not be overwritten by Org. Thanks to Stefan Vollmar for initiating and driving this feature. *** TODO Still need to do the LaTeX portion ** MobileOrg *** Encrypting stage files for MobileOrg Since the use of (often pubic) servers is needed for MobileOrg, it is now possible to encrypt the files to be staged for MobileOrg. Version 1.2 of MobileOrg will be needed for this feature, and Richard Moreland will show instructions on his website once that is available. Basically, on the Org-side this will require the following settings: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq org-mobile-use-encryption t org-mobile-encryption-password "My_MobileOrg_Password") #+end_src So the password will be visible in your local setup, but since the encryption is only for the public server, this seems acceptable. ** Agenda *** Specify entry types as an option Custom Agenda commands can now limit the sets of entry types considered for this command by binding =org-agenda-entry-types= temporarily in the options section of the command. This can lead to significant speedups, because instead of laboriously finding entries and then rejecting them, a whole search cycle is skipped. For more information see the new section in [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-custom-agenda-commands.php#sec-5][Matt Lundin's agenda custom command tutorial]]. Thanks to Matt Lundin for this feature. *** Speed up multiple calls to org-diary by only doing buffer prep once Also a patch by Matt Lundin. *** Show and hide deadlines in the agenda You can now hide all deadline entries in the agenda by pressing =!=. Thanks to John Wiegley for this feature. *** Agenda: Allow to suppress deadline warnings for entries also scheduled The the docstring of the variable =org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled=. *** Expand file names in org-agenda-files (external file case) If you are using a file to manage the list of agenda files, the names in this file can now contain environment variables and "~" to write them more compactly and portable. Thanks to Mikael Fornius for a patch to this effect. *** Agenda: Allow TODO conditions in the skip functions The agenda skip function has now special support for skipping based on the TODO state. Here are just two examples, see the manual for more information. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'todo '(\"TODO\" \"WAITING\")) (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'nottodo 'done) #+end_src Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for this patch. *** Extracting the time-of-day when adding diary entries The time of day can now be extracted from new diary entries made from the agenda with (for example) =i d=. When =org-agenda-insert-diary-extract-time= is set, this is done, and the time is moved into the time stamp. Thanks to Stephen Eglen for this feature. *** The customization group org-font-lock has been renamed The new name is `org-appearance'. Thanks to Dan Davison for a patch to this effect. *** The TODO list: Allow skipping scheduled or deadlined entries Skipping TODO entries in the global TODO list based on whether they are scheduled or have a deadline can now be controlled in more detail. Please see the docstrings of =org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled= and =org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadline=. Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for patches to this effect. ** Hyperlinks *** Make =org-store-link= point to directory in a dired buffer When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory. Patch by Stephen Eglen. *** Allow regexps in =org-file-apps= to capture link parameters The way extension regexps in =org-file-apps= are handled has changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command string to be executed. For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax =file:/doc.pdf::=, you can add the following entry to org-file-apps: #+begin_example Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\' Command: evince "%s" -p %1 #+end_example Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect. ** Clocking *** Show clock overruns in mode line When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example using the new face =org-mode-line-clock-overrun=, or by adding an extra string given by =org-task-overrun-text=. Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect. ** Tables *** Repair the broken support for table.el tables again. Tables created with the table.el package now finally work again in Org-mode. While you cannot edit the table directly in the buffer, you can use =C-c '= to edit it nicely in a temporary buffer. Export of these tables to HTML seem to work without problems. Export to LaTeX is imperfect. If fails if the table contains special characters that will be replaced by the exporter before formatting the table. The replacement operation changes the length of some lines, breaking the alignment of the table fields. Unfortunately this is not easy to fix. It is also not an option to not do these replacements. The table.el LaTeX exporter will for example not escape "&" in table fields, causing the exported tables to be broken. ** Misc *** New logging support for refiling Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be added to this entry. For details, see the new option =org-log-refile=. Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea. *** New helper functions in org-table.el There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field. This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people. #+begin_example org-table-get org-table-put org-table-current-line org-table-goto-line #+end_example *** Tables: Field coordinates for formulas, and improved docs Calc and Emacs-Lisp formulas for tables can access the current field coordinates with =@#= and =$#= for row and column, respectively. These can be useful in some formulas. For example, to sequentially number the fields in a column, use ~=@#~ as column equation. One application is to copy a column from a different table. See the manual for details. Thanks to Michael Brand for this feature. *** Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node The new option =org-archive-reversed-order= allows to have archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target node. Requested by Tom. *** Better documentation on calc accuracy in tables Thanks to Michael Brand for this fix. *** Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting of =org-clock-report-include-clocking-task=. The default is =nil=. Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition. *** American-style dates are now understood by =org-read-date= So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this #+begin_example 2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05 2/5 --> -02-05 #+end_example *** org-timer.el now allows just one timer There is now only a single free timer supported by org-timer.el. Thanks to Bastien for cleaning this up, after a bug report in this area by Frédéric Couchet. *** Remember: Allow to file as sibling of current clock =C-3 C-c C-c= will file the remember entry as a sibling of the last filed entry. Patch by Łukasz Stelmach. *** Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for example by viewing from the agenda. This was a request by Matt Lundin. *** Add org-secretary.el by Juan Reyero to the contrib directory org-secretary.el is a possible setup for group work using Org-mode. Thanks to Juan Reyero for this contribution. ** Babel Eric and Dan have compiled the following list of changes in and around org-babel. - Added support for Matlab and Octave. - Added support for C and C++ code blocks. - Added support for the Oz programming language. Thanks to Torsten Anders for this contribution - Can now force literal interpretation of table cell contents with extra "$" in table formula. Thanks to Maurizio Vitale for this suggestion. - Variable references which look like lisp forms are now evaluated. - No longer adding extension during tangling when filename is provided. Thanks to Martin G. Skjæveland and Nicolas Girard for prompting this. - Added `org-babel-execute-hook' which runs after code block execution. - Working directories and remote execution This introduces a new header argument :dir. For the duration of source block execution, default-directory is set to the value of this header argument. Consequences include: - external interpreter processes run in that directory - new session processes run in that directory (but existing ones are unaffected) - relative paths for file output are relative to that directory The name of a directory on a remote machine may be specified with tramp syntax (/user@host:path), in which case the interpreter executable will be sought in tramp-remote-path, and if found will execute on the remote machine in the specified remote directory. - Tramp syntax can be used to tangle to remote files. Thanks to Maurizio Vitale and Rémi Vanicat. - org-R removed from contrib. - gnuplot can now return it's string output -- when session is set to "none". - Now including source code block arguments w/source name on export. - Now able to reference file links as results. - Allow pdf/png generation directly from latex source blocks with :file header argument. * Version 6.34 ** Incompatible changes *** Tags in org-agenda-auto-exclude-function must be lower case. When defining an =org-agenda-auto-exclude-function=, you need to be aware that tag that is being passed into the function is always lower case - even if it was defined in upper case originally. ** Details *** Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org-mode documents Org-mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some support to make richer presentations as well. See the [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export][BEAMER section]] in the manual for more details. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example for how this community can achieve a much better result than any individual could. *** Hyperlinks **** Add Paul Sexton's org-ctags.el Targets like =<>= can now be found by Emacs' etag functionality, and Org-mode links can be used to to link to etags, also in non-Org-mode files. For details, see the file /org-ctags.el/. This feature uses a new hook =org-open-link-functions= which will call function to do something special with text links. Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution. **** Add Jan Böcker's org-docview.el This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the Org-mode manual: : [[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org-Mode Manual]] Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution. **** New link types that force special ways of opening the file - =file+sys:/path/to/file= will use the system to open the file, like double-clicking would. - file+emacs:/path/to/file will force opening the linked file with Emacs. This was a request by John Wiegley. **** Open all links in a node When using =C-c C-o= on a headline to get a list of links in the entry, pressing =RET= will open *all* links. This allows something like projects to be defined, with a number of files that have to be opened by different applications. This was a request by John Wiegley. *** Agenda Views **** Improve the logic of the search view. The logic of search views is changed a bit. See the docstring of the function =or-search-view=. These changes resulted from a discussion with Matt Lundin. **** New face for entries from the Emacs diary Entries that enter the Agenda through the Emacs diary now get the face =org-agenda-diary=. This was a request by Thierry Volpiatto. **** New function `org-diary-class' to schedule classes with skipped weeks. This was a request by Daniel Martins. **** Empty matcher means prompt in agenda custom commands When an agenda custom command has an empty string as MATCH element, so far this would lead to a meaningless search using an empty matcher. Now an empty (or white) string will be interpreted just like a nil matcher, i.e. the user will be prompted for the match. **** Agenda: Selectively remove some tags from agenda display If you use tags very extensively, you might want to exclude some from being displayed in the agenda, in order to keep the display compact. See the new option =org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp= for details. This was largely a patch by Martin Pohlack. *** Export **** Direct export of only the current subtree Pressing =1= after =C-c C-e= and before the key that selects the export backend, only the current subtree will be exported, exactly as it you had selected it first with =C-c @=. So for example, =C-c C-e 1 b= will export the current subtree to HTML and open the result in the browser. **** Direct export of enclosing node Pressing =SPC= after =C-c C-e= and before the key that selects the export backend, the enclosing subree that is set up for subtree export will be exported, exactly as it you had selected it first with =C-c @=. So for example, =C-c C-e SPC d= will find the enclosing node with a LaTeX_CLASS property or an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property and export that. **** Caching export images Images that are created for example using LaTeX or ditaa for inclusion into exported files are now cached. This works by adding a hash to the image name, that reflects the source code and all relevant settings. So as long as the hash does not change, the image does not have to be made again. His can lead to a substantial reduction in export/publishing times. Thanks to Eric Schulte for a patch to this effect. **** Preserving line breaks for export no longer works ASCII export always preserves them - no other export format does. We had attempted to use =\obeylines= for this in LaTeX, but that does create too many problems. **** New symbols =\EUR= and =\checkmark= =\EUR= symbols from Marvosym package, and =\checkmark= are now supported symbols in Org-mode, i.e. they will be exported properly to the various backends. **** Allow LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS to set options, also from a property You can set the options to the =\documentclass= command on a per-file basis, using : #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [11pt] or on a per-tree basis using the corresponding property. The defined string will replace the default options entirely. **** The encoding of LaTeX files is now handled property Org now makes sure that the encoding used by the file created through the export mechanism is reflected correctly in the : \usepackage[CODINGSYSTEM]{inputenc} command. So as long as the =org-export-latex-classes= definition contains an =\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}= statement, that statement will be modified so that the correct option is used. If you wan to use special encodings, for example =utf8x= instead of =utf8=, see the variable =org-export-latex-inputenc-alist=. This was a request by Francesco Pizzolante. *** Property API enhancements **** Make a new special property BLOCKED, indicating if entry is blocked A new special property BLOCKED returns "t" when the entry is blocked from switching the TODO state to a DONE state. This was a request by John Wiegley. **** New hooks for external support for allowed property values It is now possible to hook into Org in order to provide the allowed values for any property with a lisp function. See the docstring of the variable =org-property-allowed-value-functions= **** Allow unrestricted completion on properties When listing the allowed values for a property, for example with a =:name_ALL:= property, completion on these values enforces that one of the values will be chosen. Now, if you add ":ETC" to the list of allowed values, it will be interpreted as a switch, and the completion will be non-restrictive, so you can also choose to type a new value. *** Changes to Org-babel - The documentation for Org-babel has been drastically improved and is available on Worg at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/ - Source-code block names are now exported to HTML and LaTeX - Org-babel functions are now bound to keys behind a common key prefix (see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/reference.php#sec-5) - Results are now foldable with TAB - Header argument values can now be lisp forms - Readable aliases for #+srcname: and #+resname: - Sha1 hash based caching of results in buffer - Can now index into variable values - org-babel-clojure now supports multiple named sessions *** Miscellaneous changes **** Make =C-c r C= customize remember templates =C-c r C= is now a shortcut for : M-x customize-variable RET org-remember-templates RET This was a proposal by Adam Spiers. **** Use John Gruber's regular expression for URL's We now use a better regexp to spot plain links in text. This regexp is adopted from [[http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls][John Gruber's blogpost]]. Thanks to William Henney for the pointer. **** Implement tag completion of all tags in all agenda files The new option =org-complete-tags-always-offer-all-agenda-tags= makes Org complete all tags from all agenda files if non-nil. Usually, setting it locally to t in org-remember buffers is the most useful application of this new feature. Thanks to Tassilo Horn for a patch to this effect.