ORG NEWS – history of user-visible changes. -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8 -*-
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Please send Org bug reports to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
Please remove calls to (require 'org-mac-message) and (require
'org-mac-link-grabber) in your .emacs initialization file. All you
need now is (require 'org-mac-link).
Additionally, replace any calls to ogml-grab-link to
org-mac-grab-link. For example, replace this line:
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'omgl-grab-link)
with this:
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-grab-link)
Some of the HTML specific export options in Org <8.1 are either nil or
t, like #+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE. We replaced these binary options with
option keywords like :html-include-style.
So you need to replace
#+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE: t
by
#+OPTIONS: :html-include-style t
Options affected by this change: HTML5_FANCY, HTML_INCLUDE_SCRIPTS
and HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE.
org-export-to-file and org-export-to-file can run in a different
process when provided a non-nil ASYNC optional argument, without
relying on org-export-async-start macro.
Since ASYNC is the first of optional arguments, you have to shift
the other optional arguments accordingly.
Export back-ends are now structures, and stored as such in the
communication channel during an export process. In other words, from
now on, (plist-get info :back-end) will return a structure instead
of a symbol.
Arguments in hooks and in filters are still symbols, though.
You can now have searches like SOMEPROP=”aaa/bbb”. Until now, this would break because the slash would be interpreted as the separator starting a TOTO match string.
See org-sort-list: hitting C-c ^ x will put checked items at the end
of the list.
- Support SVG images
- Support for .pgf files
- LaTeX Babel blocks can now be exported as
.tikzfiles - Allow
latexmkas an option for org-latex-pdf-process - When using
\usepackage[AUTO]{babel}, AUTO will automatically be replaced with a value compatible withorg-export-default-languageorLANGUAGEkeyword. - The dependency on the
latexsymLaTeX package has been removed, we now useamssymbsymbols by default instead.
The commands C-down and C-up now invoke special commands
that use knowledge from the org-elements parser to move the cursor
in a paragraph-like way.
Add support for ell, imath, jmath, varphi, varpi, aleph, gimel, beth, dalet, cdots, S (§), dag, ddag, colon, therefore, because, triangleq, leq, geq, lessgtr, lesseqgtr, ll, lll, gg, ggg, prec, preceq, preccurlyeq, succ, succeq, succurlyeq, setminus, nexist(s), mho, check, frown, diamond. Changes loz, vert, checkmark, smile and tilde.
org-export-create-backend can create anonymous export back-ends,
which can then be passed to export functions like
org-export-to-file, org-export-to-buffer or org-export-as.
It allows for quick translation of Org syntax without the overhead of registering a new back-end.
The agenda has not, in addition to day, week, month, and year views, also a fortnight view covering 14 days.
This allows to specify the names of automatic bookmarks.
This allows more flexibility when optimizing the agenda generation. See http://orgmode.org/worg/agenda-optimization.html for details.
This is an export/publishing option, and should be used either within
the #+OPTIONS line(s) or within a org-publish-project-alist.
Setting this option to t is needed when the HTML output does not
allow relative URLs. For example, the contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el
library produces a RSS feed, and RSS feeds need to use absolute URLs,
so a combination of :html-link-home "..." and :html-link-use-abs-url
t is required—see the configuration example in the comment section
of ox-rss.el.
This makes java executable configurable for ditaa blocks.
This enables SVG generation from latex code blocks.
See this message from Max Mikhanosha.
If you set this to the following
(setq org-babel-inline-result-wrap "$%s$")
then inline code snippets will be wrapped into the formatting string.
This variable can be used to turn off the special behavior of
C-o in tables.
ox-bibtex.elby Nicolas Goaziou- an utility to handle BibTeX export to both LaTeX and HTML exports. It uses the bibtex2html software.
org-screenshot.elby Max Mikhanosha- an utility to handle screenshots easily from Org, using the external tool scrot.
Installation instructions have been updated and simplified.
If you have troubles installing or updating Org, focus on these instructions:
- when updating via a
.zip/.tar.gzfile, you only need to set theload-pathin your.emacs. Set it before any other Org customization that would call autoloaded Org functions. - when updating by pulling Org’s Git repository, make sure to create the
correct autoloads. You can do this by running
~$ make autoloads(to only create the autoloads) or by running~$ make(to also compile the Emacs lisp files.)~$ make helpand~$ make helpallgives you detailed explanations. - when updating through ELPA (either from GNU ELPA or from Org ELPA), you have to install Org’s ELPA package in a session where no Org function has been called already.
When in doubt, run M-x org-version RET and see if you have a mixed-up
installation.
See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
Org 8.0 is the most disruptive major version of Org.
If you configured export options, you will have to update some of them.
If you used #+ATTR_* keywords, the syntax of the attributes changed and
you will have to update them.
Below is a list of changes for which you need to take action.
See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html for the most recent version of this list and for detailed instructions on how to migrate.
Org 8.0 comes with a new export engine written by Nicolas Goaziou. This
export engine relies on org-element.el (Org’s syntax parser), which was
already in Org’s core. This new export engine triggered the rewriting of
all export back-ends.
The most visible change is the export dispatcher, accessible through the
keybinding C-c C-e. By default, this menu only shows some of the
built-in export formats, but you can add more formats by loading them
directly (e.g., (require 'ox-texinfo) or by configuring the option
org-export-backends.
More contributed back-ends are available from the contrib/ directory, the
corresponding files start with the ox- prefix.
If you customized an export back-end (like HTML or LaTeX), you will need to
rename some options so that your customization is not lost. Typically, an
option starting with org-export-html- is now named org-html-. See the
manual for details and check this Worg page for directions.
#+ATTR_HTML width="200px"
should now be written
#+ATTR_HTML :width 200px
Keywords like #+ATTR_HTML and #+ATTR_LaTeX are defined in their
respective back-ends, and the list of supported parameters depends on
each backend. See Org’s manual for details.
You cannot use remember.el anymore to capture notes.
Support for remember templates has been obsoleted since long, it is now fully removed.
Use M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET to import your
remember templates into capture templates.
If you were requiring ox-jsinfo.el in your .emacs.el file, you
will have to remove this requirement from your initialization file.
The name of the files for export back-end have changed: we now use the
prefix ox- for those files (like we use the ob- prefix for Babel
files.) For example org-html.el is now ox-html.el.
If your code relies on these files, please update the names in your code.
Since packages in Org’s core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we try
to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For 8.0, we
moved some contributions into the contrib/ directory.
The rationale for deciding that these files should live in contrib/
is either because they rely on third-party software that is not
included in Emacs, or because they are not targeting a significant
user-base.
- org-colview-xemacs.el
- org-mac-message.el
- org-mew.el
- org-wl.el
- ox-freedmind.el
- ox-taskjuggler.el
Note that ox-freedmind.el has been rewritten by Jambunathan,
org-mew.el has been enhanced by Tokuya Kameshima and
ox-taskjuggler.el by Nicolas Goaziou and others.
Also, the Taskjuggler exporter now uses TJ3 by default. John Hendy wrote a tutorial on Worg for the TJ3 export.
ob-makefile.el implements Org Babel support for Makefile tangling.
ox-man.el allows you to export Org files to man pages.
ox-md.el allows you to export Org files to Markdown files, using the
vanilla Markdown syntax.
ox-texinfo.el allows you to export Org files to Texinfo files.
Julia is a new programming language.
ob-julia.el provides Org Babel support for evaluating Julia source
code.
mathomatic a portable, command-line, educational CAS and calculator software, written entirely in the C programming language.
ob-mathomatic.el provides Org Babel support for evaluating mathomatic
entries.
ob-tcl.el provides Org Babel support for evaluating Tcl source code.
Display bullets instead of stars for headlines.
Also see this updated FAQ on how to display another character than “*” for starting headlines.
org-favtable.el helps you to create and update a table of favorite
locations in org, keeping the most frequently visited lines right at
the top. This table is called “favtable”. See the documentation on
Worg.
ox-confluence.el lets you convert Org files to Confluence Wiki files.
deck.js is a javascript library for displaying HTML ages as
presentations. ox-deck.el exports Org files to HTML presentations
using deck.js.
s5 is a set of scripts which also allows to display HTML pages as
presentations. ox-s5.el exports Org files to HTML presentations
using s5.
The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou implemented ox-groff.el to allow
conversion from Org files to groff.
This back-end allow to export Org pages to the KOMA Scrlttr2 format.
This back-end lets you export Org pages to RSS 2.0 feeds. Combined with the HTML publishing feature, this allows you to build a blog entirely with Org.
If you use Org exporter, we advise you to re-read the manual section about it. It has been updated and includes new options.
Among the new/updated export options, three are of particular importance:
- org-export-allow-bind-keywords
- This option replaces the old option
org-export-allow-BINDand the default value isnil, notconfirm. You will need to explicitly set this totin your initialization file if you want to allow#+BINDkeywords. - org-export-with-planning
- This new option controls the export of
SCHEDULED:, DEADLINE:, CLOSED:lines, and planning information is now skipped by default during export. This use to be the job of org-export-with-timestamps, but this latter option has been given a new role: it controls the export of standalone time-stamps. When set tonil, Org will not export active and inactive time-stamps standing on a line by themselves or within a paragraph that only contains time-stamps.
To check if an option has been introduced or its default value changed in
Org 8.0, do C-h v [option] RET and check if the documentation says that
the variable has been introduced (or changed) in version 24.4 of Emacs.
See the new default value of org-html-style-default.
See the new default value of org-html-divs.
org-cycle-hook as a new function org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks which prevents the display of inline tasks when showing the content of a subtree.
This is the opposite of the previous behavior, where C-c - on a region
would create one item for the whole region, and where C-u C-c - would
create an item for each line. Now C-c - on the selected region creates
an item per line, and C-u C-c - creates a single item for the whole
region.
In Emacs, you can transpose words with M-t. Transposing *these*
_words__ will preserve markup.
This command allows you to quickly add both the property and its value. It
is useful in buffers where there are many properties and where C-c C-x p
can slow down the flow of editing too much.
These commands allow you to go to the previous block (C-c M-b or the
speedy key B) or to the next block (C-c M-f or the speedy key F.)
These commands emulate the old behavior of M-<down> and M-<up> but are
now bound to S-M-<down> and S-M-<up> respectively, since M-<down> and
M-<up> now drag the whole element at point (a paragraph, a table, etc.)
forward and backward.
Now Org will sort this list
- [[http://abc.org][B]] - [[http://def.org][A]]
like this:
- [[http://def.org][A]] - [[http://abc.org][B]]
by comparing the descriptions, not the links. Same when sorting headlines instead of list items.
For example, setting this option to “^;;; ” in Emacs lisp files and using
orgstruct-mode in those files will allow you to cycle through visibility
states as if lines starting with “;;; *…” where headlines.
In general, you want to set orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp as a file
local variable.
The default is now to ask for a time-shift only when there is a time-stamp.
When called with a universal prefix argument C-u, it will not ask for a
time-shift even if there is a time-stamp.
This defaults to t so that the whole subtree is highlighted when you
restrict the agenda view to it with C-c C-x < (or the speed command <).
The default setting helps ensuring that you are not adding tasks after the
restricted region. If you find this highlighting too intrusive, set this
option to nil.
When switching back from a DONE keyword to a TODO keyword, Org now
removes the CLOSED planning information, if any. It also removes this
information when going back to a non-TODO state (e.g., with C-c C-t SPC).
If you want to keep the CLOSED planning information when removing the
TODO keyword, set org-closed-keep-when-no-todo to t.
This option allows you to change the width of in-buffer displayed images. The default is to use the actual width of the image, but you can use a fixed value for all images, or fall back on an attribute like
#+attr_html: :width 300px
If you want to delay the display of a scheduled task in the agenda, you can
now use a delay cookie like this: SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>. The
task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear in your agenda starting
from two days later (i.e. from March 27th.)
Imagine for example that your co-workers are not done in due time and tell you “we need two more days”. In that case, you may want to delay the display of the task in your agenda by two days, but you still want the task to appear as scheduled on March 25th.
In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all
occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled
occurrence of the task, use --2d instead. See org-scheduled-delay-days
and org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline for details on how to
control this globally or per agenda.
See the previous section for why delay cookies may be useful.
C-u C-u C-c C-d now inserts a warning delay to deadlines.
By default, this new local map uses “.” to go to today’s date, like in the
normal M-x calendar RET. If you want to deactivate this and to reassign
the “@” key to calendar-goto-today, use this:
;; Unbind "." in Org's calendar:
(define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd ".") nil)
;; Bind "@" to `calendar-goto-today':
(define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
(kbd "@")
(lambda () (interactive) (org-eval-in-calendar '(calendar-goto-today))))This is useful when you want to check if you don’t already have an
appointment when setting new ones with C-c . or C-c s. ! will
call diary-view-entries and display the diary in a separate buffer.
org-diary returns diary information from Org files, but it returns it in a diary buffer, not in an Org mode buffer. When links are displayed, only show their description, not the full links.
When defining agenda custom commands, you can now use agenda*: this will
list entries that have both a date and a time. This is useful when you
want to build a list of appointments.
You can also set org-agenda-entry-types either globally or locally in
each agenda custom command and use :timestamp* and/or :deadline* there.
Another place where this is useful is your .diary file:
%%(org-diary :scheduled*) ~/org/rdv.org
This will list only entries from ~/org/rdv.org that are scheduled with a
time value (i.e. appointments).
org-agenda-sorting-strategy allows these new sorting strategies:
| Strategy | Explanations |
|---|---|
| timestamp-up | Sort by any timestamp, early first |
| timestamp-down | Sort by any timestamp, late first |
| scheduled-up | Sort by scheduled timestamp, early first |
| scheduled-down | Sort by scheduled timestamp, late first |
| deadline-up | Sort by deadline timestamp, early first |
| deadline-down | Sort by deadline timestamp, late first |
| ts-up | Sort by active timestamp, early first |
| ts-down | Sort by active timestamp, late first |
| tsia-up | Sort by inactive timestamp, early first |
| tsia-down | Sort by inactive timestamp, late first |
You can now limit the number of entries in an agenda view. This is different from filters: filters only hide the entries in the agenda, while limits are set while generating the list of agenda entries.
These new options are available:
- org-agenda-max-entries
- limit by number of entries.
- org-agenda-max-todos
- limit by number of TODOs.
- org-agenda-max-tags
- limit by number of tagged entries.
- org-agenda-max-effort
- limit by effort (minutes).
For example, if you locally set org-agenda-max-todos to 3 in an agenda view, the agenda will be limited to the first three todos. Other entries without a TODO keyword or beyond the third TODO headline will be ignored.
When setting a limit (e.g. about an effort’s sum), the default behavior is
to exclude entries that cannot be checked against (e.g. entries that have
no effort property.) To include other entries too, you can set the limit
to a negative number. For example (setq org-agenda-max-tags -3) will not
show the fourth tagged headline (and beyond), but it will also show
non-tagged headlines.
You can hit ~ in the agenda to temporarily set limits: this will
regenerate the agenda as if the limits were set. This is useful for
example when you want to only see a list of N tasks, or a list of tasks
that take only N minutes.
You can now filter agenda entries by regular expressions using =. C-u
= will filter entries out. Regexp filters are cumulative. You can set
org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset to suit your needs in each agenda view.
Since it’s common to combine tag filters, category filters, and now regexp
filters, there is a new command | to reset all filters at once.
You can now write an agenda view to an .org file. It copies the
headlines and their content (but not subheadings) into the new file.
This is useful when you want to quickly share an agenda containing the full list of notes.
It sometimes handy to move agenda lines around, just to quickly reorganize
your tasks, or maybe before saving the agenda to a file. Now you can use
M-<down> and M-<up> to move the line forward or backward.
This does not persist after a refresh of the agenda, and this does not
change the .org files who contribute to the agenda.
org-agenda-prefix-format now allows to use a %b formatter to tell Org
to display “breadcrumbs” in the agenda view.
This is useful when you want to display the task hierarchy in your agenda.
org-agenda-prefix-format allows to use a %l formatter to tell Org to
display entries with additional spaces corresponding to their level in the
outline tree.
M-x org-agenda-write RET (or C-c C-w from an agenda buffer) used to
overwrite preexisting file with the same name without confirmation. It now
asks for a confirmation.
- org-agenda-bulk-toggle
- this command is bound to
M-mand toggles the mark of the entry at point. - org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all
- this command is bound to
M-*and toggles all the marks in the current agenda.
This option sets the maximum outline level to display in search view. E.g. when this is set to 1, the search view will only show headlines of level 1.
This allows to compare times using seconds instead of days when honoring
options like org-agenda-todo-ignore-* in the agenda display.
This allows you to get rid of the “>” character that gets added in front of
entries excerpts when hitting E in the agenda view.
The default formatting for past deadlines is "%2d d. ago: ", which makes
it explicit that the deadline is in the past. You can configure this via
org-agenda-deadline-leaders. Note that the width of the formatting
string is important to keep the agenda alignment clean.
When org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown is set to
repeated-after-deadline, the agenda will skip scheduled items if they are
repeated beyond the current deadline.
This variable may be set to nil, t, the symbol `pre-scheduled’, or a number which will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when the prewarnings should resume. The symbol `pre-scheduled’ eliminates the deadline prewarning only prior to the scheduled date.
Read the full docstring for details.
For example, this task will now be skipped only on new year’s day:
* Task <%%(org-class 2012 1 1 2013 12 12 2 "New Year's Day")>
With a C-1 prefix, the capture mechanism will use the HH:MM value at
point (if any) or the current HH:MM time as the default time for the
capture template.
If you use a %:keyword construct within a %(sexp) construct, Org will
expand the keywords before expanding the %(sexp).
org-capture-templates-contexts and org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts allow you to define what capture templates and what agenda commands should be available in various contexts. It is now possible for the context to check against the name of the buffer.
Using #+TAGS: { Tag1 : Tag2 Tag3 } will define Tag1 as a group tag
(note the colon after Tag1). If you search for Tag1, it will return
headlines containing either Tag1, Tag2 or Tag3 (or any combination
of those tags.)
You can use group tags for sparse tree in an Org buffer, for creating agenda views, and for filtering.
See http://orgmode.org/org.html#Tag-groups for details.
Org knows how to store links from Org buffers, from info files and from other Emacs buffers. Org can be taught how to store links from any buffer through new link protocols (see “Adding hyperlink types” in the manual.)
Sometimes you want Org to ignore added link protocols and store the link as if the protocol was not known.
You can now do this with C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET.
Imagine for example that you want to store a link for every message in a
Gnus summary buffer. In that case C-x h C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link
RET will store a link for every line (i.e. message) if the region is
active.
C-c C-M-l inserts all stored links. If a link does not have a
description, this command now adds a default one, so that we are not mixing
with-description and without-description links when inserting them.
When storing a link to a headline like
* See [[http://orgmode.org][Org website]]
org-store-link used to convert the square brackets into curly brackets. It does not anymore, taking the link description or the link path, when there is no description.
If you have several #+TBLFM lines below a table, C-c C-c on a line will
apply the formulas from this line, and C-c C-c on another line will apply
those other formulas.
If empty fields are of interest, it is recommended to reread the section 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc of the manual because the description for the mode strings has been clarified and new examples have been added towards the end.
If your LOCALE is set so that Org time-stamps use another language than
english, and if you make time computations in Org’s table, it now works by
internally converting the time-stamps with a temporary LOCALE=C before
doing computation.
There are now three lookup functions:
- org-loopup-first
- org-loopup-last
- org-loopup-all
See the manual for details.
These new startup keywords are now available:
| Startup keyword | Option |
|---|---|
#+STARTUP: logdrawer | (setq org-log-into-drawer t) |
#+STARTUP: nologdrawer | (setq org-log-into-drawer nil) |
#+STARTUP: logstatesreversed | (setq org-log-states-order-reversed t) |
#+STARTUP: nologstatesreversed | (setq org-log-states-order-reversed nil) |
#+STARTUP: latexpreview | (setq org-startup-with-latex-preview t) |
#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview | (setq org-startup-with-latex-preview nil) |
E.g. if org-clock-rounding-minutes is set to 5, time is 14:47 and you clock in: then the clock starts at 14:45. If you clock out within the next 5 minutes, the clock line will be removed; if you clock out 8 minutes after your clocked in, the clock out time will be 14:50.
When non-nil, C-c C-x C-d uses effort durations. E.g., by default, one
day is considered to be a 8 hours effort, so a task that has been clocked
for 16 hours will be displayed as during 2 days in the clock display or in
the clocktable.
See org-effort-durations on how to set effort durations and org-time-clocksum-format for more on time clock formats.
This allows to set the name of the program which prints X11 idle time in
milliseconds. The default is to use x11idle.
When non-nil, use the last clock out time for org-todo. Note that this option has precedence over the combined use of org-use-effective-time and org-extend-today-until.
This allows you to quickly cancel editing a source block.
This is handy if you want to tangle all source code blocks that have the same target than the block at point.
When org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save is set to t, editing a source block
in a new window will turn on auto-save-mode and save the code in a new
file under the same directory than the base Org file.
When org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay is set to a number of minutes N,
the base Org buffer will be saved after this number of minutes of idle
time.
This header argument may be used to pass the results of the current code block through another code block for post-processing. See the manual for a usage example.
If you comment out a heading (with C-c ; anywhere on the heading or in
the subtree), code blocks from within this heading are now ignored when
collecting blocks for tangling.
Do not run org-babel-confirm-evaluate if source block has a cache and the cache value is current as there is no evaluation involved in this case.
When writing a new Babel file, you now only need to use (require 'ob)
instead of requiring each Babel library one by one.
- Org now fontifies radio link targets by default
- In the agenda, use org-todo-keyword-faces to highlight selected TODO keywords
- New face org-priority, enhanced fontification of priority cookies in agenda
- New face org-tag-group for group tags
- New speedy key
spour org-narrow-to-subtree - Handling of org-html-table-row has been updated (incompatible change)
- org-export-html-table-tag is replaced by org-html-table-default-attributes
- Support using
git-annexwith Org attachments - org-protocol: Pass optional value using query in url to capture from protocol
- When the refile history is empty, use the current filename as default
- When you cannot change the TODO state of a task, Org displays the blocking task
- New option org-mobile-allpriorities
- org-bibtex.el now use
visual-line-modeinstead of the deprecatedlonglines-mode - org-format-latex-options allows to set the foreground/background colors automatically
- New option org-archive-file-header-format
- New “neg” entity in org-entities
- New function org-docview-export to export docview links
- New
:epsheader argument for ditaa code blocks - New option org-gnus-no-server to start Gnus with
gnus-no-server - Org is now distributed with
htmlize.elversion 1.43 org-drill.elhas been updated to version 2.3.7org-mac-iCal.elnow supports MacOSX version up to 10.8- Various improvements to
org-contacts.elandorgpan.el
David (and others) translated the Org compact guide in spanish:
You can read the PDF guide.
Two new libraries (poporg.el by François Pinard and outorg.el by
Thorsten Jolitz) now enable editing of comment-sections from source-code
buffers in temporary Org-mode buffers, making the full editing power of
Org-mode available. outorg.el comes together with outshine.el and
navi-mode.el, two more libraries by Thorsten Jolitz with the goal to give
source-code buffers the look & feel of Org-mode buffers while greatly
improving navigation and structure editing. A detailed description can be
found here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
Here are two screencasts demonstrating Thorsten’s tools:
- “Modern conventions for Emacs Lisp files”
- Exploring Bernt Hansen’s Org-mode tutorial with ‘navi-mode’
MobileOrg for iOS back in the App Store The 1.6.0 release was focused on the new Dropbox API and minor bug fixes but also includes a new ability to launch in Capture mode. Track development and contribute on github.
org-use-tag-inheritance controls whether tags are inherited when
org-tags-view is called (either in tags, tags-tree or tags-todo
agenda views.)
When generating other agenda types such as agenda, todo and
todo-tree, tags inheritance is not used when selecting the entries
to display. Still, you might want to have all tag information correct
in the agenda buffer, e.g. for tag filtering. In that case, add the
agenda type to this variable.
Setting this variable to nil should considerably speeds up the agenda generation.
Note that the default was to display inherited tags in the agenda lines even if `org-use-tag-inheritance’ was nil. The default is now to never display inherited tags in agenda lines, but to know about them when the agenda type is listed in org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance.
Using `nil’ as the default value speeds up the agenda generation. You can hit `#’ (or `C-u #’) in agenda buffers to temporarily dim (or turn invisible) blocked tasks.
You can now use `:’ (instead of `;’) for setting tags—this is consistent with using the `:’ key in agenda view.
You can now use `=’ for org-columns.
Thanks to Achim for his work on enhancing Org’s compatibility with various Emacsen. Things may not be perfect, but Org should work okay in most environments.
You can now add the Org ELPA repository like this:
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)It contains both the org-*.tar package (the core Org distribution, also
available through http://elpa.gnu.org) and the org-plus*.tar package (the
extended Org distribution, with non-GNU packages from the contrib/
directory.)
| Keybinding | Speedy | Command |
|---|---|---|
C-c C-x C-z | org-clock-resolve | |
C-c C-x C-q | org-clock-cancel | |
C-c C-x C-x | org-clock-in-last | |
M-h | org-mark-element | |
* | org-agenda-bulk-mark-all | |
C-c C-M-l | org-insert-all-links | |
C-c C-x C-M-v | org-redisplay-inline-images | |
C-c C-x E | E | org-inc-effort |
# | org-toggle-comment | |
: | org-columns | |
W | Set APPT_WARNTIME | |
k | org-agenda-capture | |
| C-c , | , | org-priority |
org-eshell.el allows you to create links from Eshell.
- If your code relies on
org-write-agenda, please use org-agenda-write from now on. - If your code relies on
org-make-link, please useconcatinstead. org-link-to-org-use-idhas been renamed toorg-id-link-to-org-use-idand its default value is nil. The previous default wascreate-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id.
org-element.el is a toolbox for parsing and analyzing “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 particularly 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.
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.
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.
This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements.
This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of elements.
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
org-mark-subtree (C-c @) anywhere in the subtree.
Invoking 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.
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 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 org-agenda-sticky is set to nil, q will kill the single
agenda buffer.
Setting this option allows you to define specific context where agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set to this value
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts
'(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt"))))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.
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 org-capture-use-agenda-date to
t.
This new command is bound to * in agenda mode.
There is also a new option org-agenda-bulk-mark-char to set the character to use as a mark for bulk actions.
When set to non-nil, marks will remain visible after a bulk
action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressing p when
invoking 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).
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.
See the git commit for more explanations.
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 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.
When inserting links through 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.
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.)
You can now create links from help buffers.
For example, if you request help for the command org-agenda with
C-h f org-agenda RET, creating a link from this buffer will let
you go back to the same buffer.
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.
When set to nil, the URL part of a link will not be hexified.
When org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region is non-nil, using
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.
If 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.
Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments with “^#+” are not supported anymore.
C-M-\ should now produce useful results.
You can unindent the buffer with org-unindent-buffer.
When non-nil, S-M-<left> 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.
This command is bound to C-c C-x C-x and will clock in the last
clocked entry, if any.
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 org-clock-in RET (three universal prefix arguments)
and C-u C-u M-x org-clock-in-last RET (two universal prefix
arguments).
This option sets the value of frame-title-format when clocking
in.
org-clock-file-time-cell-format: Format string for the file time cells in clockreport.
org-clock-total-time-cell-format: Format string for the total time cells in clockreport.
org-clock-clocked-in-display: control whether the current clock is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
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.
The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn on/off with 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.
This will redisplay all images. It is bound to C-c C-x C-M-v.
There are these new entities:
("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "˜" "~" "~" "~")
("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/")
("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+")
("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_")
("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=")
("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^")
The face is back to a normal height.
You can use CLOCKSUM_T the same way you use CLOCKSUM. It
will display the time spent on tasks for today only.
If the :COLUMNS: is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic
block will use its value as the column format.
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
org-sparse-tree-default-date-type to the default value you want.
You can now use
SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h>
if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry.
“8am Wed” and “Wed 8am” are now acceptable values when entering a
date from the prompt. If org-read-date-prefer-future is set to
time, this will produce the expected prompt indication.
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 /.
M-x 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.
Setting this option allows you to define specific context where capture templates should be available from. For example, when set to this value
(setq org-capture-templates-contexts
'(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode"))))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.
Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note.
You can now turn this on by setting org-capture-bookmark to
nil.
See the manual for more explanations.
You can use :empty-lines-before and :empty-lines-after to
control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more
explanations.
This new hook runs before the finalization process starts.
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.
When you specify a file name like table.csv, org-table-export
will now suggest orgtbl-to-csv the default method for exporting
the table.
The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps in the #+DATE option.
See org-export-latex-tables-hline and org-export-latex-tables-tend.
Add support for these languages in org-export-language-setup. More languages are always welcome.
This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
ODT: Add support for indented tables (see this commit for details)
Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this patch.
:results drawer replaces :results wrap, which is deprecated but still
supported.
:results org used to put results in a #+BEGIN_ORG block but it now puts
results in a #+BEGIN_SRC org block, with comma-escaped lines.
#+BEGIN_ORG blocks are obsolete.
It used to exports the results of the code.
If you capture to an encrypted entry, it will be decrypted before inserting the template then re-encrypted after finalizing the capture.
Calc can do computation on active time-stamps like <2012-09-29 sat.>. Inactive time-stamps in a table’s cell are now internally deactivated so that Calc formulas can operate on them.
You can set it with the W speedy key or set it manually. When
set, exporting to iCalendar and org-agenda-to-appt will use the
value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning
alarm.
This will increment the effort value.
It is bound to C-c C-x E and to E as a speedy command.
org-attach-method now supports a new method lns, allowing to
attach symbolic links.
Non-nil means display the first star of an inline task as
additional marker. When nil, the first star is not shown.
This lets you define the path for the ltxpng/ directory.
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.
Fall back on using org-list-end-re only, which see.
When 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.
When set to t, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today’s
agenda.
If you hit M-TAB on keywords like #+TITLE, Org will try to
perform completion with meaningful values.
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.
Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use version 6.36c instead.
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.
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 variable org-agenda-ndays is obsolete - please use
org-agenda-span instead.
Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
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):
(setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)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:
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.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:
- Header from
org-export-latex-classes org-export-latex-default-packages-alistorg-export-latex-packages-alist- 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:
[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
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.
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.
Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
This function has been deleted: please update your code.
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.
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 chapter about remember.
The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more possibilities for capturing different types of data. See Carsten’s announcement for more details.
To switch over to the new system:
- Run
M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RETto 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 withM-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RETand convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the customization.
- Bind the command
org-captureto a key, similar to what you did with org-remember:(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)If your fingers prefer
C-c r, you can also use this key once you have decided to move over completely to the new implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong with using both system in parallel.
Implement links to eshell buffers.
This package generalizes the #+begin_foo and #+end_foo tokens.
To use, put the following in your init file:
(require 'org-special-blocks)
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.
Christian Egli’s org-taskjuggler.el module is now part of Org. He also wrote a tutorial for it.
Targets like <<my target>> 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.
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.
- 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)
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
typeof 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.
You can now create links from messages. This is particularly useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
David Maus worked on `org-link-escape’. See 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.
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.
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::<page number>, you can add the following entry
to org-file-apps:
Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\' Command: evince "%s" -p %1
Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
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!
So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
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.
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 fixing a small bug in the final implementation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS property can now be used to add a
class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export.
This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
org-format-latex-signal-error.
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 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.
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.
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.
Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code.
See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of Org’s core. Thanks to Juan!
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.
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 |
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.
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.
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.
Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
- 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.
- Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the variable `org-alphabetical-lists’. This also adds alphabetical counters like [@c] or [@W].
- 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’.
- 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.
- 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.
- `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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Requested by Michael Brand.
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.
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.
Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
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.
Using S-M-<up/down> on CLOCK log timestamps will
increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that
duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be
slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.
Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
Clock 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field. This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
org-table-get org-table-put org-table-current-line org-table-goto-line
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.
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.
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