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Version 6.30
Inconsistent changes
Agenda now uses f
and b
to move through time
Up to now, the Org-mode agenda used the cursor keys left
and
right
to switch the agenda view forward an backward through
time. However, many people found this confusing, and others
wanted to be able to do cursor motion in the agenda, for example
to select text. Therefore, after an extensive discussion on
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
, it was decided to use the b
and
f
keys instead, and to let the cursor keys do cursor motion
again.
Agenda follow mode is now on the F
key
This was necessary to free up the f
key, see above.
Details
Maintenance
New command to submit a bug report
There is now a special command M-x org-submit-bug-report
. This
command will create a mail buffer with lots of useful details.
In particular, it contains complete version information for Emacs
and Org-mode. It will also (if you agree to it) contain all
non-standard settings of org-mode and outline-mode related
variables. Even if you do not sent your emails from within
Emacs, please still use this command to generate the information
and then copy it into your mail program.
The command will not generate and include a *Backtrace*
buffer,
please do this yourself if you have hit an error. For more
information, see the feedback section of the manual.
New contributed package org-track.el
This package allows to keep up-to-date with current Org
development, using only Emacs on-board means. So if you don't
want or cannot use git
, but still want to run the latest and
hottest Org-mode, this is for you.
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this contribution.
Agenda
Agenda now uses f
and b
to move through time
Up to now, the Org-mode agenda used the cursor keys left
and
right
to switch the agenda view forward an backward through
time. However, many people found this confusing, and others
wanted to be able to do cursor motion in the agenda, for example
to select text. Therefore, after an extensive discussion on
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
, it was decided to use the b
and
f
keys instead, and to let the cursor keys do cursor motion
again.
Agenda follow mode is now on the F
key
This was necessary to free up the f
key, see above.
The agenda can be put into a dedicated frame
When the variable org-agenda-window-setup
has the value
separate-frame
, then the new frame created to show the agenda
will now have the window marked as dedicated. As a
consequence, exiting the agenda while the agenda is the only
window on the frame will kill that frame.
This was a request by Henry Atting.
New mode to show some entry body text in the agenda
There is now a new agenda sub-mode called
org-agenda-entry-text-mode
. It is toggled with the E
key.
When active, all entries in the agenda will be accompanied by a
few lines from the outline entry. The amount of text can be
customized with the variable org-agenda-entry-text-maxlines
.
This was a request by Anthony Fairchild, Manish, and others.
Improve following links from the agenda
C-c C-o
in the agenda will now offer all links in the headline
and text of an entry. If there is only a single link, it will be
followed immediately.
Avoid some duplicate entries
There is a new variable that can be used to avoid some duplicate
agenda entries: org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown
If that is set, it avoids that an entry shows up in the agenda for
today for both a scheduling and a deadline entry. See the
docstring of the variables for more details.
This partially addresses a request by Samuel Wales.
Mark the running clock in the agenda.
If the entry currently being clocked is present in the agenda, it
will be highlighted with the face org-agenda-clocking
.
This was a request by Rainer Stengele.
Export
Allow LaTeX export to use the listings package
The LaTeX listings
package can now be used for formatting
fontified source code in many programming languages. For more
information, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/16269 and
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#fontified_source_code_w_latex
Thanks to Eric Schulte for this patch.
Remove table rows that only contain width and alignment markers
The width and alignment in table columns can be set with a cookie like "<10>" or "<r>" or "<r10>". In order to keep Org from exporting such lines, the first column of a line should contain only "/". However, for convenience, there is now a special case: If the entire row contains only such markers, the line will automatically be discarded during export, even is the first column is not "/".
Allow Macro calls to span several lines.
Macro calls may now span several lines, to write several arguments in a cleaner way. The result of a macro call can also span several lines, by inserting the string "\n" (backslash followed by n) into the value in the macro definition.
These were requests by Stefan Vollmar.
Misc
Quick access to all links in an entry
If C-c C-o
is called while the cursor is in a headline, but not
directly on a link, then all links in the entry will be offered
in a small menu. If there is only a single link, it will be
followed without a prompt.
Visibility Cycling: Allow to show all empty lines after a headline
org-cycle-separator-lines
can now be set to a negative value,
to indicate that, if the number of empty lines before a visible
entry is greater than the specified number, then all empty
lines should be shown.
This was a request by "PT" whatever this means.
Allow language names to replace some strange major mode names
Sometimes a language uses a major mode which can't be guessed
from it's name. There is now a new variable org-src-lang-modes
which can be used to map language names to major modes when this
is the case. This is used when editing a source-code
block, or when exporting fontified source-code with htmlize.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for a patch to this effect.
iswitchb support for many completion prompts
This is enabled using org-completion-use-iswitchb
, and follows
the same model of usage as for ido users.
Thanks to John Wiegley for a patch to this effect.
New commands to set the effort property of an entry
There is now a special command, C-c C-x e
to set the Effort
property of an entry. From the agenda you can even use e
.
If you have set up allowed values for the Effort
property, then
using a prefix argument will directly select the nth allowed
value. For example, in the agenda, 5 e
will select the 5th
allowed value.
This was a request by Michael Gilbert
Edit src works now better with killing buffer
Thanks to Dan Davison for a patch to this effect
Version 6.29
Structure editing and cycling
New minor mode org-indent-mode
This mode implements outline indentation similar to clean view, but in a dynamic and virtual way, at display time. I have wanted this functionality for years and tried several implementations, all unworkable. Emacs 23 has finally made it possible. So this solution is for Emacs 23 only, and I am not sure yet how stable it really is. Time will tell.
Currently I do not recommend to turn it on globally using
the variable org-startup-indented
. But you can turn it on
for a particular buffer using
#+STARTUP: indent
Turning on this minor mode automatically turns on
org-hide-leading-stars
, and it turns off
org-adapt-indentation
.
Skip CHILDREN state if there are no children
When a subtree does not have any children, visibility
cycling now skips the CHILDREN state. You can customize
this behavior with the variable
org-cycle-skip-children-state-if-no-children
.
Nodes without keyword can now be counted for statistics
See the variable org-provide-todo-statistics
for details.
It can be the symbol all-headings
, or a list of TODO
states to consider.
This was requested by David A. Gershman.
New function org-list-make-subtree
This function converts the plain list at point into a
subtree, preserving the list structure. The key for this
command is C-c C-*
. Thanks to Ilya Shlyakhter for this
suggestion.
Headlines can be fontified to the right window border
Use the variable org-fontify-whole-heading-line
to turn
this on. Then headline fontification will include the final
newline. If your setup for headline faces includes a
background different from the default background, this setup
creates a visual line across the window.
Inline tasks have become better citizens
The new key C-c C-x t
inserts an inline task including an
END line. Inline tasks play along with (i,e, are ignored
by) link creation and footnotes. Inline tasks with an END
line can be refiled and archived. During the refile/archive
operation, the tasks become normal tasks and the END
line
disappears.
These improvements reflect reports and requests by Peter Westlake and Matt Lundin.
Archive subtree and move to next visible task
When archiving a task, the cursor now ends up on the next headline, so the repeated application of the archiving command will archive successive tasks.
Thanks to Bernt Hansen for a patch to this effect.
Renumbering the fn:N-like footnotes
The new footnote action r
will renumber simple fn:N
footnotes in the current document. The action S
will
first do the renumbering and then sort the footnotes (the
s
action).
This was a request by Andreas Röhler.
Automatic sorting and renumbering
Customize the new variable org-footnote-auto-adjust
or use
the #+STARTUP
option fnadjust
to get automatic
renumbering and sorting of footnotes after each
insertion/deletion.
This was a request by Andreas Röhler.
Improvements to plain-list-cycling with TAB.
TAB now by default cycles visibility in plain lists if the
cursor is at a plain list item. This corresponds to the new
default value t
of org-cycle-include-plain-lists
. If
you want to treat plain list items as part of the outline
hierarchy during cycling of outline headings (this is what a
t
value used to mean), set this variable to integrate
.
Force bullet type changes during plain list demotion
We now have a mechanism to force a particular bullet type
when demoting a plain list item. See the variable
org-list-demote-modify-bullet
for details.
This was a request by Rainer Stengele.
Tables
Relative row references may now cross hlines
A relative row reference like @-1 in a table may now reach across a horizontal separator line. I hope this will not break any important tables out there, but I think it is the right thing to do.
The sole original reason for not allowing such crossing was to implement running averages of one column in the next. This can now be done using field formulas near the beginning and end of the column, and a column formula for the central part.
See the variable org-table-relative-ref-may-cross-hline
for more details.
Cut or copy single fields
C-c C-x C-w
and C-c C-x M-w
now act on single table
fields if there is no active region defined.
Links
Find agenda files linking to the current location
The new command org-occur-link-in-agenda-files
creates a
link like org=store-link
would, and then searches all
agenda files for this link. So for example, you could be in
a GNUS message, trying to find tasks that have links to this
message.
Include stored links into link completion
When inserting a link with C-c C-l
, TAB completion will
now not only access link prefixes, but also the stored
links.
Agenda
Bulk commands: Add Schedule and Deadline processing
Agenda bulk commands on marked entries now can also set the scheduling date or a deadline. Normally, all entries will be set to the specified date. However, when writing the change as "++5d" or "++2w", then each time stamp will independently be shifted by that amount.
Tags-todo searches: No longer force to list sublevels
For historic reasons, org-tags-match-list-sublevels
was
forced to t
in tags-todo agenda searches. Now we no
longer do this and accept the user setting of this variable.
Thanks to Patrick Bahr for bringing this up.
Export
Use file-source.org format instead of file.org-source
When publishing the source Org file to the source directory
(i.e. if the publishing directory is the same as the source
directory), then the file name will now look like
file-source.org
and file-source.org.html
. Note that if you
do use this kind of setup, you probably want to specify
:exclude "-source\.org"
in your publishing project, to avoid that a new generation of
-source
files is created each time you publish the project.
LaTeX export: Skip title command when there is no title
Using #+TITLE:
without a value makes the LaTeX export
ignore the value of org-export-latex-title-command
.
New option org-export-html-footnote-format
This defines the format for footnote references. This
string must contain %s
which will be replaced by the
footnote label.
More export options for source code examples
Allow whitespace in code references. Allow the -r
switch
to remove the references in the source code even when the
lines are not numbered: the labels can be explicit enough.
Note that -r -k
is the same as no switch at all.
Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for bring this up.
LaTeX export: Allow more environment for low-level headings
The user can now define a non-standard environment or macro to handle export of low-level headings to LaTeX.
For details, see the variable org-export-latex-low-levels
.
LaTeX export: Add postscript file extensions for images
Some people process LaTeX files not directly to pdf, but go through dvi and then to ps or pdf. In that case, allowed images are ps and eps files, not pdf and jpg.
This commit adds the two extensions, so that export using that alternative path can be supported better. However, it is up to the user to make sure that the images are actually compatible with the backend.
HTML export: Show UP and HOME links
org-export-html-link-up
and org-export-html-link-home
are now also inserted into normal HTML export, above the
page title.
General mechanism for local variable settings
Many different people want to set many different variables in a buffer-local way for export. This cannot be done with file variables, because the Org buffer is not current while the exporter is running.
Lots of variables can be set with the #+OPTIONS
lines, but
finding abbreviations goes only so far.
Therefore we have now a general mechanism that can be used to bind variables during export operations.
A line like:
#+BIND: variable value
will bind the variable to value. For example, the line
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
can now equivalently be written as
#+BIND: org-export-with-toc nil
Clean out publishing timestamp directory
When changing the publishing setup, old timestamp files can
be left behind. Forcing publishing of all projects with
C-u C-c C-e E
will remove all existing timestamp files.
Miscellaneous
Calendar for reading a date forced into current frame.
Separate-frame setup for calendar had caused problems in AquaEmacs.
Set timers for headlines
You can now set a timer related to any headline, like an alarm clock. Three new commands have been defined:
- org-timer-set-timer
- bound to
C-c C-x ;
in Org buffers and to;
in Org agenda buffers. This function sets a timer for the headline the cursor is currently it. Up to three timers can be used at any time. - org-timer-show-remaining-time
- Show the remaining time for the last timer set.
- org-timer-cancel-timers
- Cancel all timers.
This functionality was requested by Samuel Wales and emulates that of tea-time.el – see the emacswiki doc at
Clock reports may include a time stamp
Using :timetamp t
as an option in a clock report now
allows insertion of the timestamp for the clocked entry.
Timestamps are searched for in this order: SCHEDULING
,
TIMESTAMP
, DEADLINE
and TIMESTAMP_IA
.
New option org-id-uuid-program
On some systems, uuidgen
is named uuid
.
Clock notification handler made configurable
See the variable org-show-notification-handler
.
New option org-tags-sort-function
.
This allows tags to be sorted by string<
, string>
, or a
custom function.
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
Improvements for org-feed.el
But fixes, and allowing to choose between wget
and curl
.
Thanks to Christopher League for a patch to this effect.
Version 6.28
Agenda changes
Refiling now works from the agenda
The command C-c C-w
can be executed to refile an entry shown in
the agenda. After the command, the entry will no longer be shown
in the agenda. It it is still in an agenda file, refresh the
agenda to bring it up from it's new context.
Bulk action
You can now use the m
key to mark entries in the agenda. u
will unmark the etry at point, and U
will unmark everything.
When one or more entries have been selected, the B
key will
execute an action on all selected entries. I believe this bulk
action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
interactive prompts. So far the supported actions are
- Refile all selected entries to a single destination
- Archive all selected entries
- Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any blocking or note-taking.
- Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
Modified keys
To make room for the new Bulk action commands, some keys in the agenda buffer had to move:
There is a new command bound to the v
key, it dispatches
various view mode changes. Month and year view are now only
available as v m
and v y
, respectively. Turning on
inclusion of archive trees and files (unsed to be on v
) is
now on v a
and v A
.
Improvements related to #+begin
blocks
Indented blocks
#+begin_ ... +#end_...
blocks may now be indented along
with the structure of your document. So the #+
lines no
longer need to start in column 0, these lines can be, along
with the block contents, indented arbitrarily. Org supports
this during editing with "C-c '", and now finally treats them
consistently during export across all backends. This makes
these blocks work much better with plain list structure
editing, and it also looks better if you like to indent text
under outline headings. For example:
*** This is some headline
#+begin_example
, here we have an example
#+end_example
,
, - a plain list
, - a sublist item
, - a second sublist item
#+begin_center
, centering within the plain list item
#+end_center
#+begin_example
, This example does terminate the sublist,
, the indentation of the #+begin line counts.
#+end_example
, - but the top level plain lists continues here
From now on, the indentation of such a block decides whether it is part of a plain list item or if it is actually terminating the list. This was so far inconsistent between editing behavior and export, now it is consistent.
The content of the block, i.e. the text between the #+ lines
gets an extra indentation of two space characters, which I
find visually pleasing. You can change the amount of extra
indentation using the variable
org-src-content-indentation
.
This was a pretty complex change, achieved in many small steps over the last couple of weeks. It cleans up one of the more annoying inconsistencies in Org. I hope it will work, but I am sure you will let me know if not.
Indented tables
Also tables can be fully indented now. What is new here is
that the #+TBLFM
line, and also things like #+caption
,
#+label
, #+attr_...
etc can be indented along with the
table. Again, this makes the look of the document better and
allows for proper plain list structure editing.
Protected blocks
Some #+begin_ ... +#end_...
blocks contain text that should not
be processed like normal Org-mode text. example
and src
block fall into this class, and so do ditaa
blocks, for
example. The content in such blocks is now properly fontified in
a single face (called org-block
). This was a frequently
requested feature. The list of blocks that should be protected
from normal Org-mode fontification is defined in the variable
org-protecting-blocks
. Modules defining new blocks should add
to this variable when needed. org-exp-blocks.el
does this
already.
Hide and show the contents of blocks
Blocks can now be folded and unfolded with TAB
. If you
want to have all blocks folded on startup, customize
org-hide-block-startup
or use the #+STARTUP
options
hideblocks
or showblocks
to overrule this variable on a
per-file basis.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for a patch to this effect.
Moved Eric Schulte's org-exp-blocks.el into the core
This seems to be getting a lot of use now, so it is now part of
the core and loaded automatically. This package can now also be
used to define new blocks. Customize the variable
org-export-blocks
or use the function
org-export-blocks-add-block
.
New and updated contributed modules
org-export-generic.el is now a contributed package.
This new module allows users to export an Org page to any type of
output by constructing the output using a list of prefixes,
format specifications and suffixes for the various types of org
data (headlines, paragraphs, list bullets, etc). Use the
org-set-generic-type
function to define your own export types
and have them bound to a key (use an upper-case letter for user
export definitions).
Thanks to Wes Hardaker for this contribution with a lot of potential.
New contributed modules org-mac-iCal.el by Christopher Suckling
See the documentation on Worg.
org-jira.el: New file, by Jonathan Arkell
Links to Jira tickets.
org-R.el: Updated.
org-R.el has been updated, thanks to Dan Davison for this.
[ TABLE-OF-CONTENTS]
is now also used for LaTeX export
This cookie will mark the location of the \tableofcontents
macro. Triggered by a report by Yuva.
Changes to the clocking system
New option `org-clock-out-switch-to-state'.
Clocking out can now switch the task to a particular state.
This was a request by Manish.
More control about what time is shown in mode line while clocking
- If you have an
Effort
property defined, its value is also shown in the mode line, and you can configureorg-clock-sound
to get an alert when your planned time for a particular item is over. - When an entry has been clocked earlier, the time shown in the mode line while the item is being clocked is now the sum of all previous, and the current clock.
- The exception to the previous rule are repeating entries: There
the clock time will only be clocking instances recorded since
the last time the entry when through a repeat event. The time
of that event is now recorded in the
LAST_REPEAT
property - You can use the property CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL to get control over what times are displayed in the mode line, see the manual for more information.
- The new command
C-c C-x C-e
can be used to change the Effort estimate and therefore to change the moment when the clock sound will go off. - The clock string in the modeline now has a special font,
org-mode-line-clock
. This was a proposal by Samuel Wales. - Clicking on the mode line display of the clock now offers a menu with important clock functions like clocking out, or switching the clock to a different task.
Thanks to Konstantin Antipin for part of the implementation, and thanks to Bernt Hansen for helping to iron out the issues related to repeated tasks.
Miscellaneous changes
Allow to specify the alignment in table columns by hand
Similar to the <20>
cookies that allow to specify a maximum
width for a table column, you can now also specify the alignment
in order to overrule the automatic alignment choice based on the
dominance of number or non-number fields in a column. The
corresponding cookies are <l>
and <r>
for left and right side
alignment, respectively. These can be combined with maximum
width specification like this: <r15>
.
This was a proposal by Michael Brand.
Stop logging and blocking when selecting a TODO state
Sometimes you want to quickly select or change a TODO state of an item, without being bothered by your setup for blocking state changes and logging entries. So in this case, you don't want the change be seen as a true state change.
You can now set the variable
org-treat-S-cursor-todo-selection-as-state-change
to nil.
Then, when you use S-left
and S-right
to quickly flip through
states, blocking and logging will be temporarily disabled.
Export BBDB anniversaries to iCalendar
See the variable `org-icalendar-include-bbdb-anniversaries'.
This was a request by Richard Riley, thanks to Thomas Baumann for the prompt implementation.
Macro definitions can be collected in an #+SETUPFILE
If you want to use many macros in different files, collect the
#+macro
lines into a file and link to them with
#+SETUPFILE: path/to-file
Subtree cloning now also shifts inactive dates
When using the command org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
, time
stamps will be shifted for each clone. So far, this applied only
to active timestamps, but now it does apply to inactive
ones as well.
HTML table export: Assign alternating classes to rows
The new variable org-export-table-row-tags
can now be set up in
a way so that different table lines get special CSS classes
assigned. This can be used for example to choose different
background colors for odd and even lines, respectively. The
docstring of the variable contains this example:
(setq org-export-table-row-tags
(cons '(if head
"<tr>"
(if (= (mod nline 2) 1)
"<tr class=\"tr-odd\">"
"<tr class=\"tr-even\">"))
"</tr>"))
It makes use of the local variables head
and nline
which are
used to check whether the current line is a header line, and whether
it is an odd or an even line. Since this is fully programmable,
you can do other things as well.
This was a request by Xin Shi.
Remember: target headline may be a function
When setting up remember templates, the target headline may now be a function, similarly to what is allowed for the target file. The functions needs to return the headline that should be used.
Remove flyspell overlays in places where they are not wanted
We now keep flyspell from highlighting non-words in links.
Update targets in the Makefile
Some new targets in the default Makefile make it easier to update
through git to the latest version: update
and up2
. Here are
the definitions.
update:
git pull
${MAKE} clean
${MAKE} all
up2: update
sudo ${MAKE} install
This was a request by Konstantin Antipin.
Version 6.27
Details
Macros for export
Macro processing for export has been enhanced:
- You can use arguments in a macro, for example
#+macro hello Greet the $1: Hello $1
which would turn {{{hello(world)}}}
into Greet the world: Hello world
- The macro value can be an emacs-lisp for to be evaluated at the time of export:
#+macro: datetime (eval (format-time-string "$1"))
-
More built-in default macros:
- date(FORMAT_TIME_STRING)
- Time/Date of export
- time(FORMAT_TIME_STRING)
- Same as date
- modification-time(FORMAT_TIME_STRING)
- Last modification of file
- input-file
- Name of the input file
The new built-in macros have been requested by Daniel Clemente.
Link completion for files and bbdb names
Org now has a general mechanism how modules can provide enhanced
support (for example through completion) when adding a link. For
example, when inserting a link with C-c C-l
, you can now type
file:
followed by RET
to get completion support for inserting
a file. After entering bbdb:
and RET
, a completion interface
will allow to complete names in the BBDB database. These are the
only ones implemented right now, but modules that add a link type
xyz:
can simple define org-xyz-complete-link
that should
return the full link with prefix after aiding the used to create
the link. For example, if you have http
links that you have to
insert very often, you could define a function
org-http-complete-link
to help selecting the most common ones.
Source file publishing
It is now easy to publish the Org sources along with, for example, HTML files. In your publishing project, replace
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html
with
:publishing-function (org-publish-org-to-html org-publish-org-to-org) :plain-source t :htmlized-source t
to get both the plain org file and an htmlized version that looks like your editing buffer published along with the HTML exported version.
Push exported stuff to kill ring
All exporters now push the produced material onto the kill-ring in Emacs, and also to the external clipboard and the primary selection to make it easy to paste this under many circumstances.
Tables in LaTeX without centering
Set the variable `org-export-latex-tables-centered' to nil if you prefer tables not to be horizontally centered. Note that longtable tables are always centered.
LaTeX export: TODO markup configurable
The markup for TODO keywords in LaTeX export is now configurable
using the variable org-export-latex-todo-keyword-markup
.
ASCII export to buffer
ASCII export has now the same command variations as the other export backends, for example exporting to a temporary buffer instead of a file.
The was a request by Samuel Wales.
Accessibility improvements for HTTP tables
When exporting tables to HTML, Org now adds scope
attributes to
all header fields, in order to support screen readers.
Setting the variable
org-export-html-table-use-header-tags-for-first-column
will
request using <th>
instead of <td>
also in the entire first
column, so that also row information can be scoped. This was
triggered by a request by Jan Buchal, and as usually Sebastian
Rose came up with the right implementation.
Timezone information in iCalendar files
The timezone information in iCalendar files is now written in the
correct format, and can be set in the variable
org-ical-timezone
. This variable is initialized from the TZ
environment variable.
New contributed package org-special-blocks.el
The package turns any "undefined" #+begin_...
blocks into LaTeX
environments for LaTeX export, and into <div>
tags for HTML
export.
Thanks to Chris Gray for this contribution.
More flexibility about placing logging notes.
Logging into a drawer can now also be set for individual
subtrees using the LOG_INTO_DRAWER
property.
Requested by Daniel J. Sinder
New reload key
Reloading Org has moved to a new key, C-c C-x !
, and is now
also available in the agenda.
Start Agenda with log mode active
Set the new option org-agenda-start-with-log-mode
to have
log mode turned on from the start. Or set this option for
specific custom commands.
Thanks to Benjamin Andresen for a patch to this effect.
Agenda speed optimizations
Depending on circumstances, construction the agenda has become a lot faster.
Triggered by Eric S Fraga's reports about using Org on a slow computer like a netbook.
New face for today in agenda
The date that is today can now be highlighted in the agenda by
customizing the face org-agenda-date-today
.
Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.
Properties to disambiguate statistics
When an entry has both check boxes and TODO children, it is not
clear what kind of statistics a cookie should show You can now use
the COOKIE_DATA
property to disambiguate, by giving it a value
"todo" or "checkbox".
Thanks to Ulf Stegeman, who was persistent enough to push this change past my initial resistance.
Checkboxes and TODO items: recursive statistics
Setting the variable org-hierarchical-checkbox-statistics
to
nil
will make statistics cookies count all checkboxes in the
lit hierarchy below it.
Setting the variable org-hierarchical-todo-statistics
to
nil
will do the same for TODO items.
To turn on recursive statistics only for a single subtree, add the
word "recursive" to the COOKIE_DATA
property. Note that you
can have such a property containing both "todo" or "checkbox" for
disambiguation, and the word "recursive", separated by a space
character.
The change for checkboxes was a patch by Richard Klinda.
New operators for column view
Column view has new operators for computing the minimum, maximum, and mean of property values.
Thanks to Mikael Fornius for a patch to this effect.
Version 6.26
Details
custom IDs
Entries can now define a CUSTOM_ID
property. This property
must be a valid ID according to HTML rules, and it will be used
in HTML export as the main target ID for this entry. That means,
both the table of conents and other internal links will
automatically point to this ID instead of the automatic ID like
sec-1.1
. This is useful to create humar-readable permanent
links to these location in a document.
The user is responsible to make sure that custom IDs are unique within a file.
Links written like [[#my-target-name] ]
can be used to target a
custom ID.
When using C-c l
to store a link to a headline that has a
custom ID, Org will now create two links at the same time. One
link will be to the custom ID. The other will be to the globaly
unique ID property. When inserting the line with C-c C-l
, you
need to decide which one you want to use. Use the ID links for
entries that are expected to move from one file to the next. Use
custom ID links publishing projects, when you are sure that te
entry will stay in that file. See also the variable
org-link-to-org-use-id
.
Remember to non-org files
If the target headline part of a remember template definition
entry is top
or bottom
, the target file may now be a
non-Org-mode file. In this case, the content of the remember
buffer will be added to that file without enforcing an Org-like
headline. Sorry, Russel, that this took so long.
New property to turn off todo dependencies locally
Setting the property NOBLOCKING
will turn off TODO dependency
checking for this entry.
Refile verify
A new function is called to verify tasks that are about to be
selected as remember targets. See the new variable
org-refile-target-verify-function
.
New version org ditaa.jar
Thanks to Stathis Sideris.
htmlize.el is now in the contrib directory
The latest version of htmlize.el is now the in the contrib directory of Org. Thanks to Hrvoje Niksic for allowing this.
Version 6.25
Major new features
DocBook export
We now do have a fully functional DocBook exporter, contributed by
Baoqiu Cui. Simple press C-c e D
to export the current file to
DocBook format. You can also get direct conversion to PDF if you have
made the correct setup, please see the manual for details.
Kudos to Baoqiu for this fantastic addition, and my personal thanks for doing this in a such a smooth way that I did not have to do anything myself.
Protocols for external access to Emacs and Org
org-protocol.el is a new module that supersedes both
org-annotation-helper.el and org-browser.el and replaces them
with a more abstracted interface. org-protocol intercepts
calls from emacsclient to trigger custom actions without external
dependencies. Only one protocol has to be configured with your
external applications or the operating system, to trigger an
arbitrary number of custom actions. Just register your custom
sub-protocol and handler with the new variable
org-protocol-protocol-alist
.
org-protocol comes the with three standard protocol handlers (in parenthesis the name of the sub-protocol):
-
org-protocol-remember
(remember
) - Trigger remember
-
org-protocol-store-link
(store-link
) - Store a link
-
org-protocol-open-source
(open-source
) - Find the local source of a remote web page.
Passing data to emacs is now as easy as calling
emacsclient org-protocol://sub-protocol://data
For more information see the online documentation
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this really beautiful module.
Inline tasks
Inline tasks are tasks that have all the properties of normal outline nodes, including the ability to store meta data like scheduling dates, TODO state, tags and properties. But these tasks are not meant to introduce additional outline structure, at least as far as visibility cycling and export is concerned. They are useful for adding tasks in extensive pieces of text where interruption of the flow or restructuring is unwanted.
This feature is not turned on by default, you need to configure
org-modules
to turn it on, or simply add to you .emacs file:
(require 'org-inlinetask)
After that, tasks with level 15 (30 stars when using org-odd-levels-only) will be treated as inline tasks, and fontification will make obvious which tasks are treated in this way.
Input from RSS feeds
Org can now collect tasks from an RSS feed, a great method to get
stuff from online call and note-taking services into your trusted
system. You need to configure the feeds in the variable
org-feed-alist
. The manual contains a short description, more
detailed information is available on Worg.
Full credit goes to Brad Bozarth who really paved the way for this exciting new feature.
Export
Allow modification of table attributes in HTML export
The #+ATTR_HTML line can now be used to set attributes for a
table. Attributes listed in that line will replace existing
attributes in org-export-html-table-tag
, or will add new ones.
For example
#+ATTR_HTML: border="2" rules="all" frame="all" #+CAPTION: Finally a table with lines! | a | b | |---|---| | 1 | 2 |
LaTeX low levels are now exported as itemize lists
LaTeX export now treats hierarchy levels 4,5, etc as itemize
lists, not as description lists as before. This is more
consistent with the behavior of HTML export. You can configure
this behavior using the variable org-export-latex-low-levels
.
Markup for centering.
Text can be exported centered with
#+BEGIN_CENTER
,Everything should be made as simple as possible, \\
,but not any simpler
#+END_CENTER
Sitemap file is now sitemap.org
Org-publish can produce a list of all files in a project. Previously the file containing this list was called "index.org", really a brain-dead default because during publication it would overwrite the "index.html" file of the website.
The default file name is now "sitemap.org"
Protect explicit target links in HTML export
If a link is [[#name] [desc]]
, the href produced when exporting
the file will be exactly href="#name". So starting a link target
with # will indicate that there will be an explicit target for
this.
HTML export: Allow "- _" to explicitly terminate a list
If a list contains "- _" (three underscores) as an item, this terminates the list, ignoring this item. This is an experimental feature, it may disappear again if we find other ways to deal with literal examples right after lists.
See this mailing list thread for context.
Agenda
Changing the time of an entry from the agenda
We now have a way to change not only the date, but also the start time of an entry from the agenda. The date is normally changed with S-right/left. Now, if you add a C-u prefix, the hour will be changed. If you immediately press S-right/left again, hours will continue to be changed. A double prefix will do the same for minutes. If the entry has a time range like 14:40-16:00, then both times will change, preserving the length of the appointment.
Show saved PDF agenda view with prefix arg
When writing an agenda view to a PDF file, supplying a a prefix
argument (C-u C-x C-w
) will get the new file displayed
immediately.
This was a request by Alan E Davis.
Filter for entries with no effort defined
During secondary agenda filtering, pressing "?" now will install a filter that selects entries which do not have an effort defined.
This new model was necessary because we needed to stop interpreting
entries with no effort defines as 0 effort. This was inconsistent,
because for normal agenda sorting, the treatment of these entries
depends on the variable org-sort-agenda-noeffort-is-high
. Now this
variable is also respected during filtering.
This new feature resulted from a discussion with Matt Lundin and Bernt Hansen.
Introduce user-defined sorting operators
The new variable org-agenda-cmp-user-defined
can contain a
function to test how two entries should be compared during
sorting. The symbols user-defined-up
and user-defined-down
can then be part of any sorting strategy.
This was a request by Samuel Wales.
Indentation of subitems in the agenda
When a tags/property match does match an entry and it's sublevels, the sublevels used to be indented by dots, to indicate that the matches likely result from tag inheritance. This is now no longer the default, so the subitems will not get special indentation. You can get this behavior back with
(setq org-tags-match-list-sublevels 'indented)
Stuck projects search now searches subtrees of unstuck projects
When, during a stuck-project search, a project tree is identified as not stuck, so far the search would continue after the end of the project tree. From now on, the search continues in the subtree, so that stuck subprojects can still be identified.
Miscellaneous
Citations: Use RefTeX to insert citations
RefTeX can now be used to create a citation in Org-mode buffers. Setup the buffer with
#+BIBLIOGRAPHY: bibbase style
and create citations with C-c C-x [
.
Together with org-exp-bibtex.el by Taru Karttunen (available as a contributed package), this provides a great environment for including citations into HTML and LaTeX documents.
Changing time ranges as a block
When using the S-cursor keys to change the first time in a time range like
<2009-04-01 Wed 14:40-16:40>
then the end time will change along, so that the duration of the event will stay the same.
This was a request by Anupam Sengupta.
New sparse tree command
A new sparse tree command shows entries with times after a certain
date. Keys are C-c / a
, this command is for symmetry
with C-c / b
.
Cloning tasks
A new command allows to create clone copies of the current entry, with shifted dates in all stamps in the entry. This is useful to create, for example, a series of entries for a limited time period. I am using it to prepare lectures, for example.
New face for checkboxes
Checkboxes now have their own face, org-checkbox
. This can be
used for nice effects, for example choosing a face with a box
around it:
(custom-set-faces
(org-checkbox ((t (:background "#444444" :foreground "white"
:box (:line-width 1 :style released-button)))))
M-a and M-e for navigation in a table field
In tables fields, the sentence commands M-a
and M-e
are
redefined to jump to the beginning or end of the field.
This was a request by Bastien Guerry.
Backup files for remember buffers
Sometimes users report that they lost data when not immediately storing a new remember note, and then later exiting Emacs or starting a new remember process.
Now you can set the variable org-remember-backup-directory
.
Each remember buffer created will then get its own unique file
name in that directory, and the file will be removed only if the
storing of the note to an Org files was successful.
org-mac-message.el: New functions to access flagged mail
Christopher Suckling has added functionality to org-mac-message.el. In particular, you can now select a number of messages and easily get links to all of them with a single command. For details, see the online documentation.
Read-date: New hook
The new hook org-read-date-minibuffer-setup-hook
is called when
setting up the minibuffer for reading a date. If can be used to
install new keys into the temporary keymap used there.
Version 6.24
Incompatible changes
Tag searches are now case-sensitive
From this release on, tag searches will be case sensitive. While I still think it would be nice to have them case-insensitive, this was both an inconsistency (TODO keyword searches have always been case-sensitive), and trouble for coding some efficient algorithms. So please make sure that you give the tags with correct casing when prompted for a match expression.
New key for creating tags/property sparse trees
The key to produce a sparse tree matching tags and properties is
now C-c / m
instead of C-c a T
. This is also more consistent
with the C-c a m
key for the corresponding agenda view.
C-c / T
will still work for now, but it is no longer advertised
in the documentation and may go away at any time in the future.
IDs in HTML have "ID-" prefix when generated by uuidgen
uuidgen generates IDs that often start with a number, not a latter. However, IDs and names in XHTML must start with a letter. Therefore, IDs in HTML files will now get an "ID-" prefix if they have been generated by uuidgen. This means that id links from one file to another may stop working until all files have been exported again.
In agenda, only priority cookies get the special face
So far, an entire task would get a special face when
org-agenda-fontify-priorities
was set. Now, the default value
for this variable is the symbol cookies
, which means that on
the cookie is fontified. Set it to t
if you want the entire
task headline to be fontified.
Details
PDF export of agenda views
Agenda views can now be exported to PDF files by writing them to
a file with extension ".pdf". Internally this works by first
producing the postscript version and then converting that to PDF
using the ghostview utility ps2pdf
. Make sure that this
utility is installed on your system.
The postscript version will not be removed, it will stay around.
Inline some entry text for Agenda View export
When exporting an agenda view to HTML or PDF for printing or remote access, one of the problems can be that information stored in entries below the headline is not accessible in that format.
You can now copy some of that information to the agenda view
before exporting it. For this you need to set the variable
org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines
to a number greater than 0.
(setq org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines 20)
Or you can do this with the settings in a custom agenda view, for example
("A" "" agenda ""
((org-agenda-ndays 1)
(org-agenda-add-entry-text-maxlines 5))
("agenda-today.pdf"))
Improved ASCII export of links
ASCII export of links works now much better. If a link has a link and a description part which are different, then the description will remain in the text while the link part will be moved to the end of the current section, before the next heading, as a footnote-like construct.
Configure the variable org-export-ascii-links-to-notes
if you
prefer the links to be shown in the text. In this case, Org will
make an attempt to wrap the line which may have become
significantly longer by showing the link.
Thanks to Samuel Wales for pointing out the bad state of ASCII link export.
Custom agenda commands can specify a filter preset
If a custom agenda command specifies a value for
org-agenda-filter-preset
in its options, the initial view of
the agenda will be filterd by the specified tags. Applying a
filter with /
will then always add to that preset filter,
clearing the filter with / /
will set it back to the preset.
Here is an example of a custom agenda view that will display the
agenda, but hide all entries with tags FLUFF
or BLUFF
:
("A" "" agenda ""
((org-agenda-filter-preset '("-FLUFF" "-BLUFF"))))
This is in response to a thread on the mailing list, started by Daniel Clemente and with great contributions by Bernt Hansen and Matt Lundin.
Exporting of citations to LaTeX and HTML, using BibTeX
Citations can now me made using BibTeX, and will be exported to LaTeX and HTML. This is implemented in a contributed package by Taru Karttunen, org-exp-bibtex.el. Kudos to Taru for this really nice addition.
Finally a way to specify keywords and description for HTML export
Use something like
#+DESCRIPTION: This page is all about ....
#+KEYWORDS: org-mode, indexing, publishing
To specify the content of the description and keywords meta tags for HTML output.
org-collector.el is now a contributed package
org-collector.el provides functions to create tables by collecting and processing properties from entries in a specific scope like the current tree or file, or even from all agenda files. General lisp expressions can be used to manipulate the property values before they are inserted into an org-mode table, for example as a dynamic block that is easy to update.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for yet another great contribution to Org.
Update of org2rem.el
org2rem.el has been updated significantly and now does a more comprehensive job of exporting Org events to remind.
Thanks to Sharad Pratap for this update.
New div around the entire page in HTMP export
A new <div id=content>
is wrapped around the entire page,
everything that is inside <body>
.
This means that you need to update org-info.js (if you have a local copy). It will be safe todo so, because the new org-info.js still handles older pages correctly. Thanks to Sebastian Rose for making these changes so quicky.
Clustering characters for undo
When typing in Org-mode, undo will now remove up to 20 characters at a time with a single undo command. This is how things work normally in Emacs, but the special binding of characters in Org-mode made this impossible until now.
Thanks to Martin Pohlack for a patch which mimicks the behavior
of the Emacs command loop for the Org version of
self-insert-command
. Note that this will not work in headlines
and tables because typing there will do a lot of extra work.
There might be a small typing performance hit resulting from this change - please report in the mailing list if this is noticeable and annoying.
Separate settings for special C-a and C-e
The variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' now allows separate settings
for C-a
and C-e
. For example
(setq org-special-ctrl-a/e '(reversed . t))
Thanks to Alan Davis for this proposal.
orgstruct++-mode improvements
In addition to orgstruct-mode
which allows to use some Org-mode
structure commands in other major modes, there is a more invasive
version of this mode: orgstruct++-mode
. This mode will import
all paragraph and line wrapping variables into the major mode, so
that, for example, during typing the auto-fill wrapping of items
will work just like in Org-mode. This change is not reversible,
so turning off orgstruct++-mode
will not remove these settings
again. orgstruct++-mode
is most useful in text modes like
message-mode or magit-log-edit-mode
. Furthermore,
orgstruct++-mode
will recognize plain list context not only in
the first line of an item, but also further down, so that M-RET
will correctly insert new items.
Thanks to Austin Frank for requesting some of these changes.
Promotion and demotion works for regions now
M-right
and M-left
now do demote and promote all headlines in
an active region.
Match syntax for tags/properties is now described in a single place
The manual chapters about tags and about properties now only refer to the section about agenda views, where the general syntax of tag/property matches is described.
Macro replacement
A string like {{{ title }}}
will be replaced by the title of
the document, {{{ email }}}
by the email setting of the author
and similarly for other export settings given in #+...
lines.
In addition to that, you can define an arbitrary number of
macros, for example:
#+MACRO: myaddress 41 Onestreet, 12345 New York, NY
...
,my address is {{{myaddress}}}, see you there.
Macro replacement is the very first thing that happens during export, and macros will be replaced even in source code and other protected regions.
New reload command, with keyboard access
There is now a special command to reload all Org Lisp files, so
that you can stay in your Emacs session while pulling and
compiling changes to Org. The command to reload the compiled
files (if available) is C-c C-x r
. If no compiled files are
found, uncompiled ones will be loaded. If you want to force
loading of uncompiled code (great for producing backtraces), use
a prefix arg: C-u C-c C-x r
. Both commands are available in
the menu as well.
This new command was inspired by one written earlier by Bernt Hansen.
Faces for priority cookies can now be set freely
The new variable org-priority-faces
can be used to set faces
for each priority.
New key for creating tags/property sparse trees
The key to produce a sparse tree matching tags and properties is
now C-c / m
instead of C-c a T
. This is more consistent with
the C-c a m
key for the corresponding agenda view. C-c / T
will still work for now, but it is no longer advertised in the
documentation and may go away at any time in the future.
IDs in HTML have "ID-" prefix when generated by uuidgen
uuidgen generates IDs that often start with a number, not a letter. However, IDs and names in XHTML must start with a letter. Therefore, IDs in HTML files will now get an "ID-" prefix if they have been generated by uuidgen. This means that id links from one file to another may stop working until all files have been exported again, so that both links and targets have the new prefix.
In agenda, only priority cookies get the special face
So far, an entire task would get a special face when
org-agenda-fontify-priorities
was set. Now, the default value
for this variable is the symbol cookies
, which means that on
the cookie is fontified. Set it to t
if you want the entire
task headline to be fontified.
Turning off time-of-day search in headline
Some people like to put a creation time stamp into a headline and
then get confused if the time-of-day found in there shows up as
the time-of-day of the deadline/scheduling entry for this
headline. The reason for this is that Org searches the headline
for a free-format time when trying to sort the entry into the
agenda, and that search accidentally finds the time in the
creation time stamp or something else that happens to look like a
time. If this is more painful than useful for you, configure the
new variable org-agenda-search-headline-for-time
.
Version 6.23
Overview
- Capture state change notes into a drawer
- Clock lines are now captured into the LOGBOOK drawer as well
- Added org-R.el to contrib directory
- Allow individual formatting of each TODO keyword in HTML export
- New hooks for add-ons to tap into context-sensitive commands
- Publishing files irrespective of extension
- New variable index in the manual
- The ORDERED property also influences checkboxes
- The ORDERED property can be tracked with a tag
- You may now specify line breaks in the fast tags interface
- When a TODO is blocked by checkboxes, keep it visible in agenda
- LaTeX can import Org's in-buffer definitions for TITLE, EMAIL etc.
Incompatible changes
- CLOCK lines will now be captured into the LOGBOOK drawer. See below for details.
Details
Capture state change notes into a drawer
State change notes can now be captured into a drawer LOGBOOK
,
to keep the entry tidy. If this is what you want, you will need
this configuration:
(setq org-log-into-drawer "LOGBOOK")
Thanks to Wanrong Lin for this proposal.
Clock lines are now captured into the LOGBOOK drawer as well
The CLOCK
drawer will be abandoned, clock lines will now also
end up in a drawer LOGBOOK
. The reason for this is that it's a
bit useless to have two different drawers for state change notes
and clock lines. If you wish to keep the old way, use
(setq org-clock-into-drawer "CLOCK")
Added org-R.el to contrib directory
Dan Davison has contributed org-R.el which is now in the
contrib directory. Org-R performs numerical computations and
generates graphics. Data can come from org tables, or from csv
files; numerical output can be stored in the org buffer as org
tables, and links are created to files containing graphical
output. Although, behind the scenes, it uses R, you do not need
to know anything about R. Common operations, such as tabulating
discrete values in a column of an org table, are available "off
the shelf" by specifying options on lines starting with #+R:
.
However, you can also provide raw R code to be evaluated. The
documentation is currently the worg tutorial at
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-R/org-R.php
Thanks to Dan for this great contribution.
Allow individual formatting of TODO keyword and tags in HTML export
TODO keywords in HTML export have the CSS class todo
or done
.
Tags have the CSS class tag
. In addition to this, each keyword
has now itself as class, so you could do this in your CSS file:
.todo { font-weight:bold; }
.done { font-weight:bold; }
.TODO { color:red; }
.WAITING { color:orange; }
.DONE { color:green; }
If any of your keywords causes conflicts with CSS classes used
for different purposes (for example a tag "title" would cause a
conflict with the class used for formatting the document title),
then you can use the variables org-export-html-tag-class-prefix
and org-export-html-todo-kwd-class-prefix
to define prefixes
for the class names for keywords, for example "kwd-".
Thanks to Wanrong Lin for this request, and to Sebastian Rose for help with the implementation.
New hooks for add-ons to tap into context-sensitive commands
Some commands in Org are context-sensitive, they will execute
different functions depending on context. The most important
example is of course C-c C-c
, but also the M-cursor
keys fall
into this category.
Org has now a system of hooks that can be used by add-on packages
to install their own functionality into these keys. See the
docstring of org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook
for details. The other
hooks are named like org-metaleft-hook
or
org-shiftmetaright-hook
.
Publishing files irrespective of extension
If you set the :base-extension
property for a publishing
project to the symbol any
, all files in the directory will be
published, irrespective of extension.
Thanks to Richard Klinda for a patch to this effect.
New variable index in the manual
A new index in the manual lists all variables mentioned in the manual, about 200 variables in total.
The ORDERED property also influences checkboxes
When an entry has the ORDERED property set, checkboxes in the entry must be completed in order. This was already the case for children TODO items, now it also applies for checkboxes.
Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this proposal.
The ORDERED property can be tracked with a tag
The ORDERED
property is used to flag an entry so that subtasks
(both children TODO items and checkboxes) must be completed in
order. This property is most easily toggled with the command
C-c C-x o
. A property was chosen for this functionality,
because this should be a behavior local to the current task, not
inherited like tags. However, properties are normally
invisible. If you would like visual feedback on the state of
this property, configure the variable
org-track-ordered-property-with-tag
. If you then use C-c C-x
o
to toggle the property, a tag will be toggled as well, for
visual feedback.
Note that the tag itself has no meaning for the behavior of TODO items and checkboxes, and that changing the tag with the usual tag commands will not influence the property and therefore the behavior of TODO and checkbox commands.
You may now specify line breaks in the fast tags interface
Up to now, the fast tags interface tried to lump as many tags as possible into a single line, with the exception that groups would always be on a line by themselves.
Now, if you use several lines to define your tags, like
#+TAGS: aa(a) bb(b) cc(c)
#+TAGS: dd(d) ee(e) ff(f)
then there will also be a line break after the "cc" tag in the fast tag selection interface. You may also write
#+TAGS: aa(a) bb(b) cc(c) \n dd(d) ee(e) ff(f)
to achieve the same effect, and you can use \n
several times in
order to produce empty lines. In org-tag-alist
, newlines are
represented as (:newline)
.
Thanks to Christopher Suckling for a patch to this effect.
When a TODO is blocked by checkboxes, keep it visible in agenda
When the variable org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks
is set to
invisible
, tasks that are blocked will not be visible in the
agenda. If the blocking is due to child TODO entries, this does
make sense because the children themselves will show up in the
TODO list.
However, as John Rakestraw has pointed out, if the blocking is
done by checkboxes, no trace of these subtasks is left.
Therefore, when the blocking is done by checkboxes, we now
overrule the invisible
setting and replace it with mere dimming
of the task.
LaTeX can import Org's in-buffer definitions for TITLE, EMAIL etc.
If you configure org-export-latex-import-inbuffer-stuff
,
in-buffer definitions like #+TITLE will be made available in the
LaTeX file as \orgTITLE
.
This was a request by Russel Adams.
Version 6.22
Details
org-choose.el by Tom Breton is now included
Org-choose helps documenting a decision-making process by using TODO keywords for different degrees of chosenness, and by automatically keeping a set of alternatives in a consistent state.
Documentation for org-choose.el is available here.
This package inserts itself into Org using hooks, so if other people would like to do interesting stuff with TODO keywords for special purposes, looking at Tom's code might be a good way to start.
Thanks to Tom for this interesting contribution!
orgmode.org and Worg css works now better on IE
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for making these changes.
When exporting a subtree, headline levels are now relative to parent
This was reported as a bug by William Henney and is fixed now.
Inactive dates in tables can be used for sorting.
When sorting table fields or entries by date, Org first tries to find an active date, and, if none exist, uses a passive date if present.
This was a request by Hsui-Khuen Tang
The default for org-return-follows-link
is back to nil
Setting it to t
violates Emacs rules to some extent. The
internal implementation of this has been improved, so setting it
to t
should now be pretty stable.
Automatic scheduling of siblings with org-depend.el
The sibling of a DONE task can now automatically be scheduled.
This was a patch by Andrew Hyatt.
New skipping conditions
The functions org-agenda-skip-entry-if
and
org-agenda-skip-subtree-if
now accept timestamp
and
nottimestamp
as additional conditions.
This was in response to a request by Saurabh Agrawal.
Version 6.21
Details
Changes to some default values of variables:
Here are the new default values:
(setq org-return-follows-link t) (setq org-use-fast-todo-selection t) (setq org-yank-adjusted-subtrees nil) (setq org-tags-column -77) (setq org-agenda-sorting-strategy '((agenda time-up priority-down category-keep) (todo time-up priority-down category-keep) (tags time-up priority-down category-keep) (search category-keep)))
Final cleanup for Emacs 21.1 pretest
Version 6.20
Details
Support for simple TODO dependencies
John Wiegley's code for enforcing simple TODO dependencies has been integrated into Org-mode. Thanks John!
The structure of Org files (hierarchy and lists) makes it easy to
define TODO dependencies. A parent TODO task should not be
marked DONE until all subtasks (defined as children tasks) are
marked as DONE. And sometimes there is a logical sequence to a
number of (sub)tasks, so that one task cannot be acted upon
before all siblings above it are done. If you customize the
variable org-enforce-todo-dependencies
, Org will block entries
from changing state while they have children that are not DONE.
Furthermore, if an entry has a property ORDERED
, each of its
children will be blocked until all earlier siblings are marked
DONE. Here is an example:
* TODO Blocked until (two) is done
** DONE one
** TODO two
* Parent
, :PROPERTIES:
, :ORDERED: t
, :END:
** TODO a
** TODO b, needs to wait for (a)
** TODO c, needs to wait for (a) and (b)
The command C-c C-x o
toggles the value of the ORDERED
property.
The variable org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks
controls how blocked
entries should appear in the agenda, where they can be dimmed or
even made invisible.
Furthermore, you can use the variable
org-enforce-todo-checkbox-dependencies
to block TODO entries
from switching to DONE while any checkboxes are unchecked in the entry.
Support for shift-selection in Emacs 23
Customize the variable org-support-shift-select
to use S-cursor
key for selecting text. Make sure that you carefully read the
docstring of that variable first.
Adding and removing checkboxes from many lines
The command C-c C-x C-b
normally toggles checkbox status in the
current line, or in all lines in the region. With prefix
argument it now either adds or removes the checkbox.
This was a requested by Daniel Clemente.
Older changes
For older Changes, see /tec/org-mode/src/commit/24e840e0a19fe0f272ffead44645d5be1a051704/ORGWEBPAGE/Changes_old.org