ORG NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -*- org -*- Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. Please send Org bug reports to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org. * Version 7.9.1 ** Overview of the new keybindings | Keybinding | Speedy | Command | |-----------------+--------+-----------------------------| | =C-c C-x C-z= | | [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]] | | =C-c C-x C-q= | | [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]] | | =C-c C-x C-x= | | [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] | | =M-h= | | [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] | | =*= | | [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] | | =C-c C-M-l= | | [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]] | | =C-c C-x C-M-v= | | [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]] | | =C-c C-x E= | =E= | [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]] | | | =#= | [[doc::org-toggle-comment][org-toggle-comment]] | | | =:= | [[doc::org-columns][org-columns]] | | | =W= | Set =APPT_WARNTIME= | | =k= | | [[doc::org-agenda-capture][org-agenda-capture]] | ** New package and Babel langage *** =org-eshell.el= by Konrad Hinsen is now in Org =org-eshell.el= allows you to create links from [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eshell/index.html][Eshell]]. *** Support for execution of Scala code blocks (see ob-scala.el) *** Support for execution of IO code blocks (see ob-io.el) ** Incompatible changes - If your code relies on =org-write-agenda=, please use [[doc::org-agenda-write][org-agenda-write]] from now on. - If your code relies on =org-make-link=, please use =concat= instead. ** New features and user-visible changes *** Org Element =org-element.el= is a toolbox for parsing and analysing "elements" in an Org-mode buffer. This has been written by Nicolas Goaziou and has been tested for quite some time. It is now part of Org's core and many core functions rely on this package. Two functions might be particularily handy for users: =org-element-at-point= and =org-element-context=. See the docstrings for more details. Below is a list of editing and navigating commands that now rely on =org-element.el=. **** [[doc::org-fill-paragraph][org-fill-paragraph]] has been completely rewritten The filling mechanisms now rely on org-element, trying to do the right thing on each element in various contexts. E.g. filling in a list item will preserve indentation; filling in message-mode will fall back on the relevant filling functions; etc. **** [[doc::org-metaup][org-metaup]] and [[doc::org-metadown][org-metadown]] will drag the element backward/forward If you want to get the old behavior (i.e. moving a line up and down), you can first select the line as an active region, then =org-metaup= or =org-metadown= to move the region backward or forward. This also works with regions bigger than just one line. **** [[doc::org-up-element][org-up-element]] and [[doc::org-down-element][org-down-element]] (respectively =C-c C-^= and =C-c C-_=) This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements. **** [[doc::org-backward-element][org-backward-element]] and [[doc::org-forward-element][org-forward-element]] (respectively =M-{= and =M-}=) This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of elements. **** [[doc::org-narrow-to-element][org-narrow-to-element]] will narrow to the element at point **** [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] will mark the element at point This command is bound to =M-h= and will mark the element at point. If the point is at a paragraph, it will mark the paragraph. If the point is at a list item, it will mark the list item. Etc. Note that if point is at the beginning of a list, it will mark the whole list. To mark a subtree, you can either use =M-h= on the headline (since there is no ambiguity about the element you're at) or [[doc::org-mark-subtree][org-mark-subtree]] (=C-c @=) anywhere in the subtree. Invoking [[doc::org-mark-element][org-mark-element]] repeatedly will try to mark the next element on top of the previous one(s). E.g. hitting =M-h= twice on a headline will mark the current subtree and the next one on the same level. *** Org Agenda **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] There is a new option =org-agenda-sticky= which enables "sticky" agendas. Sticky agendas remain opened in the background so that you don't need to regenerate them each time you hit the corresponding keystroke. This is a big time saver. When [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is =non-nil=, the agenda buffer will be named using the agenda key and its description. In sticky agendas, the =q= key will just bury the agenda buffers and further agenda commands will show existing buffer instead of generating new ones. If [[doc::org-agenda-sticky][org-agenda-sticky]] is set to =nil=, =q= will kill the single agenda buffer. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts][org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts]] Setting this option allows you to define specific context where agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set to this value #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts '(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt")))) #+END_SRC then the =p= agenda command will only be available from buffers visiting *.txt files. See the docstring and the manual for more details on how to use this. **** Changes in bulk actions The set of commands starting with =k ...= as been deleted and the features have been merged into the "bulk action" feature. After you marked some entries in the agenda, if you call =B s=, the agenda entries will be rescheduled using the date at point if on a date header. If you are on an entry with a timestamp, you will be prompted for a date to reschedule your marked entries to, using the timestamp at point as the default prompt. You can now use =k= to capture the marked entry and use the date at point as an overriding date for the capture template. To bind this behavior to =M-x org-capture RET= (or its keybinding), set the new option [[doc::org-capture-use-agenda-date][org-capture-use-agenda-date]] to =t=. **** =N= and =P= in the agenda will move to the next/previous item **** New command [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-all][org-agenda-bulk-mark-all]] to mark all items This new command is bound to =*= in agenda mode. There is also a new option [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-mark-char][org-agenda-bulk-mark-char]] to set the character to use as a mark for bulk actions. **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-persistent-marks][org-agenda-persistent-marks]] When set to =non-nil=, marks will remain visible after a bulk action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressing =p= when invoking [[doc::org-agenda-bulk-action][org-agenda-bulk-action]]. Marks are deleted if your rebuild the agenda buffer or move to another date/span (e.g. with =f= or =w=). **** New option [[doc::org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown][org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown]] =Non-nil= means skip timestamp line if same entry shows because of deadline. In the agenda of today, an entry can show up multiple times because it has both a plain timestamp and has a nearby deadline. When this variable is t, then only the deadline is shown and the fact that the entry has a timestamp for or including today is not shown. When this variable is =nil=, the entry will be shown several times. **** New =todo-unblocked= and =nottodo-unblocked= skip conditions See the [[http://orgmode.org/w/?p%3Dorg-mode.git%3Ba%3Dcommit%3Bh%3Df426da][git commit]] for more explanations. **** Allow category filtering in the agenda You can now filter the agenda by category. Pressing "<" will filter by the category of the item on the current line, and pressing "<" again will remove the filter. You can combine tag filters and category filters. You can use =org-agenda-category-filter= in your custom agenda views and =org-agenda-category-filter-preset= in your main configuration. See also the new command [[doc::org-agenda-filter-by-top-category][org-agenda-filter-by-top-category]]: hitting =^= will filter by "Top" category: only show entries that are of the same category than the Top category of the entry at point. *** Org Links **** Inserting links When inserting links through [[doc::org-insert-link][org-insert-link]], the description is now displayed first, followed by the literal link, as the description is often more useful when you look for the link you want to insert. Completion now complete both literal links and description. If you complete a description, the literal link and its description will be inserted directly, whereas when you complete the literal link, you will be prompted for a description (as with Org 7.8.) In the completion buffer, links to the current buffer are now highlighted. **** New templates =%h= and =%(sexp)= for abbreviated links On top of =%s= template, which is replaced by the link tag in abbreviated links, you can now use =%h= (which does the same than =%s= but does not hexify the tag) and =%(sexp)= (which can run a function that takes the tag as its own argument.) **** New link type =help= You can now create links from =help= buffers. For example, if you request help for the command [[doc::org-agenda][org-agenda]] with =C-h f org-agenda RET=, creating a link from this buffer will let you go back to the same buffer. **** New command [[doc::org-insert-all-links][org-insert-all-links]] This will insert all links as list items. With a universal prefix argument, links will not be deleted from the variable =org-stored-links=. This new command is bound to =C-c C-M-l=. **** New option [[doc::org-url-hexify-p][org-url-hexify-p]] When set to =nil=, the =URL= part of a link will not be hexified. **** Org can now open multiple shell links **** New option [[doc::org-doi-server-url][org-doi-server-url]] to specify an alternate DOI server **** RET now follows time stamps links *** Org Editing **** [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] and =org-archive-*= can now loop in the active region When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, using [[doc::org-todo][org-todo]] or =org-archive-*= commands in the active region will loop over headlines. This is handy if you want to set the TODO keyword for several items, or archive them quickly. **** You can now set tags for headlines in a region If [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is =non-nil=, then selecting the region and hitting =C-c C-q= will set the tags for all headlines in the region. **** New command [[doc::org-insert-drawer][org-insert-drawer]] to insert a drawer interactively **** Comments start with "^[ \t]*# " anywhere on a line Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments with "^#+" are not supported anymore. **** New speed key =#= to toggle the COMMENT cookie on a headline **** =indent-region-function= is now set to [[doc::org-indent-region][org-indent-region]] =C-M-\= should now produce useful results. You can unindent the buffer with [[doc::org-unindent-buffer][org-unindent-buffer]]. **** New option [[doc::org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree][org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree]] When =non-nil=, =S-M-= will promote level-1 subtrees containing other subtrees. The level-1 headline will be commented out. You can revert to the previous state with =M-x undo RET=. *** Org Clock **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-z= for [[doc::org-clock-resolve][org-clock-resolve]] **** New keybinding =C-c C-x C-q= for [[doc::org-clock-cancel][org-clock-cancel]] **** New command [[doc::org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] to clock in the last clocked item This command is bound to =C-c C-x C-x= and will clock in the last clocked entry, if any. **** =C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-out][org-clock-out]] =RET= now prompts for a state to switch to **** =S-M-= on a clock timestamps adjusts the previous/next clock **** New option [[doc::org-clock-continuously][org-clock-continuously]] When set to =nil=, clocking in a task will first try to find the last clocked out task and restart from when that task was clocked out. You can temporarily activate continuous clocking with =C-u C-u C-u M-x= [[doc::org-clock-in][org-clock-in]] =RET= (three universal prefix arguments) and =C-u C-u M-x= [[org-clock-in-last][org-clock-in-last]] =RET= (two universal prefix arguments). **** New option [[doc::org-clock-frame-title-format][org-clock-frame-title-format]] This option sets the value of =frame-title-format= when clocking in. **** New options for controlling the clockreport display [[doc::org-clock-file-time-cell-format][org-clock-file-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the file time cells in clockreport. [[doc::org-clock-total-time-cell-format][org-clock-total-time-cell-format]]: Format string for the total time cells in clockreport. **** New options for controlling the clock/timer display [[doc::org-clock-clocked-in-display][org-clock-clocked-in-display]]: control whether the current clock is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title. [[doc::org-timer-display][org-timer-display]]: control whether the current timer is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title. This allows the clock and timer to be displayed in the frame title instead of, or as well as, the mode line. This is useful for people with limited space in the mode line but with ample space in the frame title. *** Org Appearance **** New option [[doc::org-custom-properties][org-custom-properties]] The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn on/off with [[doc::org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility][org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility]]. This might be useful for properties used by third-part tools or that you don't want to see temporarily. **** New command [[doc::org-redisplay-inline-images][org-redisplay-inline-images]] This will redisplay all images. It is bound to =C-c C-x C-M-v=. **** New entities in =org-entities.el= There are these new entities: : ("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "˜" "~" "~" "~") : ("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/") : ("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+") : ("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_") : ("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=") : ("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^") **** New face =org-list-dt= for definition terms **** New face =org-date-selected= for the selected calendar day **** New face value for =org-document-title= The face is back to a normal height. *** Org Columns **** New speed command =:= to activate the column view **** New special property =CLOCKSUM_T= to display today's clocked time You can use =CLOCKSUM_T= the same way you use =CLOCKSUM=. It will display the time spent on tasks for today only. **** Use the =:COLUMNS:= property in columnview dynamic blocks If the =:COLUMNS:= is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic block will use its value as the column format. **** Consider inline tasks when computing a sum *** Org Dates and Time Stamps **** Enhanced [[doc::org-sparse-tree][org-sparse-tree]] =C-c /= can now check for time ranges. When checking for dates with =C-c /= it is useful to change the type of dates that you are interested in. You can now do this interactively with =c= after =C-c /= and/or by setting [[doc::org-sparse-tree-default-date-type][org-sparse-tree-default-date-type]] to the default value you want. **** Support for hourly repeat cookies You can now use : SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h> if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry. **** =C-u C-u C-c .= inserts a time-stamp with no prompt **** When (setq [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] 'time), accept days in the prompt "8am Wed" and "Wed 8am" are now acceptable values when entering a date from the prompt. If [[doc::org-read-date-prefer-future][org-read-date-prefer-future]] is set to =time=, this will produce the expected prompt indication. **** New option [[doc::org-datetree-add-timestamp][org-datetree-add-timestamp]] When set to =non-nil=, datetree entries will also have a timestamp. This is useful if you want to see these entries in a sparse tree with =C-c /=. *** Org Capture **** New command [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]] M-x [[doc::org-capture-string][org-capture-string]] RET will prompt for a string and a capture template. The string will be used as an annotation for the template. This is useful when capturing in batch mode as it lets you define the content of the template without being in Emacs. **** New option [[doc::org-capture-templates-contexts][org-capture-templates-contexts]] Setting this option allows you to define specific context where capture templates should be available from. For example, when set to this value #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-capture-templates-contexts '(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode")))) #+END_SRC then the =c= capture template will only be available from =message-mode= buffers. See the docstring and the manual for more details on how to use this. **** New =%l= template to insert the literal link **** New option [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]] Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note. You can now turn this on by setting [[doc::org-capture-bookmark][org-capture-bookmark]] to =nil=. **** Expand =%= escape sequences into text entered for 'th =%^{PROMPT}= escape See the manual for more explanations. **** More control over empty lines You can use =:empty-lines-before= and =:empty-lines-after= to control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more explanations. **** New hook [[doc::org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook][org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook]] This new hook runs before the finalization process starts. *** Org Export **** New functions =orgtbl-to-table.el= and =orgtbl-to-unicode= =orgtbl-to-table.el= convert the table to a =table.el= table, and =orgtbl-to-unicode= will use =ascii-art-to-unicode.el= (when available) to print beautiful tables. **** [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]] now a bit clever about the target format When you specify a file name like =table.csv=, [[doc::org-table-export][org-table-export]] will now suggest =orgtbl-to-csv= the default method for exporting the table. **** New option [[doc::org-export-date-timestamp-format][org-export-date-timestamp-format]] The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps in the #+DATE option. **** LaTeX: New options for exporting table rules :tstart, :hline and :tend See [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-hline][org-export-latex-tables-hline]] and [[doc::org-export-latex-tables-tend][org-export-latex-tables-tend]]. **** LaTeX: You can now set =:hfmt= from =#+ATTR_LaTeX= **** Beamer: Add support and keybinding for the =exampleblock= environment Add support for these languages in [[doc::org-export-language-setup][org-export-language-setup]]. More languages are always welcome. **** Beamer: New option [[doc::org-beamer-inherited-properties][org-beamer-inherited-properties]] This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this. **** ODT: Add support for ODT export in org-bbdb.el **** ODT: Add support for indented tables (see [[http://orgmode.org/w/?p%3Dorg-mode.git%3Ba%3Dcommit%3Bh%3De9fd33][this commit]] for details) **** ODT: Improve the conversion from ODT to other formats **** ASCII: Swap the level-1/level-2 characters to underline the headlines **** Support for Chinese, simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese **** HTML: New option [[doc::org-export-html-date-format-string][org-export-html-date-format-string]] Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this patch. *** Miscellaneous **** [[doc::org-table-number-regexp][org-table-number-regexp]] can now accept comma as decimal mark **** Org allows a new property =APPT_WARNTIME= You can set it with the =W= speedy key or set it manually. When set, exporting to iCalendar and [[doc::org-agenda-to-appt][org-agenda-to-appt]] will use the value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning alarm. **** New command [[doc::org-inc-effort][org-inc-effort]] This will increment the effort value. It is bound to =C-c C-x E= and to =E= as a speedy command. **** Attach: Add support for creating symbolic links =org-attach-method= now supports a new method =lns=, allowing to attach symbolic links. **** Archive: you can now archive to a datetree **** New option [[doc::org-inlinetask-show-first-star][org-inlinetask-show-first-star]] =Non-nil= means display the first star of an inline task as additional marker. When =nil=, the first star is not shown. **** New option [[doc::org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory][org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory]] This lets you define the path for the =ltxpng/= directory. **** You can now use imagemagick instead of dvipng to preview LaTeX fragments **** You can now turn off [[doc::orgstruct++-mode][orgstruct++-mode]] safely **** =C-u C-c C-c= on list items to add check boxes =C-u C-c C-c= will add an empty check box on a list item. When hit from the top of the list, it will add check boxes for all top level list items. **** =org-list-ending-method= and =org-list-end-regexp= are now obsolete Fall back on using =org-list-end-re= only, which see. **** org-feed.el now expands =%(sexp)= templates **** New option [[doc::org-protocol-data-separator][org-protocol-data-separator]] **** New option [[doc::org-ditaa-jar-option][org-ditaa-jar-option]] to specify the ditaa jar file **** New possible value for [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] When [[doc::org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region][org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region]] is set to =start-level=, the command will loop over the active region but will only act upon entries that are of the same level than the first headline in the region. **** New option [[doc::org-habit-show-all-today][org-habit-show-all-today]] When set to =t=, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today's agenda. ** Important bug fixes *** M-TAB on options keywords perform completion correctly again If you hit =M-TAB= on keywords like =#+TITLE=, Org will try to perform completion with meaningful values. *** Add licenses to javascript embedded and external code snippets Embedded javascript code produced when exporting an Org file to HTML is now licensed under GPLv3 (or later), and the copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. The javascript code for embedding MathJax in the browser mentions the MathJax copyright and the Apache 2.0 license. The javascript code for embedding =org-injo.js= in the browser mentions the copyright of Sebastian Rose and the GPLv3 (or later) license. =org-export-html-scripts= is now a variable, so that you can adapt the code and the license to your needs. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for explanations on why these changes were necessary. * Version 7.8.11 ** 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. We were 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. *** 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). *** The Agenda =org-agenda-ndays= is now obsolete The variable =org-agenda-ndays= is obsolete - please use =org-agenda-span= instead. Thanks to Julien Danjou for this. *** 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. 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. 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. *** 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. *** =org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist= has changed Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly. *** Deleted =org-mode-p= This function has been deleted: please update your code. ** Important new features *** New Org to ODT exporter Jambunathan's Org to ODT exporter is now part of Org. To use it, it `C-c C-e o' in an Org file. See the documentation for more information on how to customize it. *** org-capture.el is now the default capture system 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. ** New libraries *** New Org libraries **** org-eshell.el (Konrad Hinsen) Implement links to eshell buffers. **** org-special-blocks (Carsten Dominik) This package generalizes the #+begin_foo and #+end_foo tokens. To use, put the following in your init file: #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE (require 'org-special-blocks) #+END_EXAMPLE The tokens #+begin_center, #+begin_verse, etc. existed previously. This package generalizes them (at least for the LaTeX and html exporters). When a #+begin_foo token is encountered by the LaTeX exporter, it is expanded into \begin{foo}. The text inside the environment is not protected, as text inside environments generally is. When #+begin_foo is encountered by the html exporter, a div with class foo is inserted into the HTML file. It is up to the user to add this class to his or her stylesheet if this div is to mean anything. **** org-taskjuggler.el (Christian Egli) 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. **** org-ctags.el (Paul Sexton) 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. **** org-docview.el (Jan Böcker) 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 Babel libraries - ob-picolisp.el (Thorsten Jolitz) - ob-fortran.el (Sergey Litvinov) - ob-shen.el (Eric Schulte) - ob-maxima.el (Eric S Fraga) - ob-java.el (Eric Schulte) - ob-lilypond.el (Martyn Jago) - ob-awk.el (Eric Schulte) ** Other new features and various enhancements *** Hyperlinks **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. *** Dates and time **** 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! **** 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 *** Agenda **** =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. **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. *** Exporting **** 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 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. **** 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. **** 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=. **** 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. *** Refiling **** 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=. **** 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. *** Completion **** In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegleys pcomplete.el Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code. *** Tables **** 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! **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. *** Lists **** 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! *** 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 *** 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 keybinding `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. *** Editing Convenience and Appearance **** 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! **** Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by =C-k= See the new variable =org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree=. This was a request by Scott Otterson. **** 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. **** 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. *** Clocking **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. **** 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. *** Misc **** 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. **** 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. **** 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 **** 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. This was requested by Tom. **** 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. * License This file is part of GNU Emacs. GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 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