This is org, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from org.texi. INFO-DIR-SECTION Emacs START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * Org Mode: (org). Outline-based notes management and organizer END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This manual is for Org-mode (version 5.13e). Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License." (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development."  File: org, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) Org Mode Manual *************** This manual is for Org-mode (version 5.13e). Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License." (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development." * Menu: * Introduction:: Getting started * Document structure:: A tree works like your brain * Tables:: Pure magic for quick formatting * Hyperlinks:: Notes in context * TODO items:: Every tree branch can be a TODO item * Tags:: Tagging headlines and matching sets of tags * Properties and columns:: Storing information about an entry * Timestamps:: Assign date and time to items * Remember:: Quickly adding nodes to the outline tree * Agenda views:: Collecting information into views * Embedded LaTeX:: LaTeX fragments and formulas * Exporting:: Sharing and publishing of notes * Publishing:: Create a web site of linked Org-mode files * Miscellaneous:: All the rest which did not fit elsewhere * Extensions and Hacking:: It is possible to write add-on code * History and Acknowledgments:: How Org-mode came into being * Index:: The fast road to specific information * Key Index:: Key bindings and where they are described --- The Detailed Node Listing --- Introduction * Summary:: Brief summary of what Org-mode does * Installation:: How to install a downloaded version of Org-mode * Activation:: How to activate Org-mode for certain buffers. * Feedback:: Bug reports, ideas, patches etc. Document Structure * Outlines:: Org-mode is based on outline-mode * Headlines:: How to typeset org-tree headlines * Visibility cycling:: Show and hide, much simplified * Motion:: Jumping to other headlines * Structure editing:: Changing sequence and level of headlines * Archiving:: Move done task trees to a different place * Sparse trees:: Matches embedded in context * Plain lists:: Additional structure within an entry * Drawers:: Tucking stuff away * orgstruct-mode:: Structure editing outside Org-mode Archiving * ARCHIVE tag:: Marking a tree as inactive * Moving subtrees:: Moving a tree to an archive file Tables * Built-in table editor:: Simple tables * Narrow columns:: Stop wasting space in tables * Column groups:: Grouping to trigger vertical lines * orgtbl-mode:: The table editor as minor mode * The spreadsheet:: The table editor has spreadsheet capabilities. The spreadsheet * References:: How to refer to another field or range * Formula syntax for Calc:: Using Calc to compute stuff * Formula syntax for Lisp:: Writing formulas in Emacs Lisp * Field formulas:: Formulas valid for a single field * Column formulas:: Formulas valid for an entire column * Editing and debugging formulas:: Fixing formulas * Updating the table:: Recomputing all dependent fields * Advanced features:: Field names, parameters and automatic recalc Hyperlinks * Link format:: How links in Org-mode are formatted * Internal links:: Links to other places in the current file * External links:: URL-like links to the world * Handling links:: Creating, inserting and following * Using links outside Org-mode:: Linking from my C source code? * Link abbreviations:: Shortcuts for writing complex links * Search options:: Linking to a specific location * Custom searches:: When the default search is not enough Internal links * Radio targets:: Make targets trigger links in plain text. TODO items * TODO basics:: Marking and displaying TODO entries * TODO extensions:: Workflow and assignments * Progress logging:: Dates and notes for progress * Priorities:: Some things are more important than others * Breaking down tasks:: Splitting a task into manageable pieces * Checkboxes:: Tick-off lists Extended use of TODO keywords * Workflow states:: From TODO to DONE in steps * TODO types:: I do this, Fred the rest * Multiple sets in one file:: Mixing it all, and still finding your way * Fast access to TODO states:: Single letter selection of a state * Per file keywords:: Different files, different requirements * Faces for TODO keywords:: Highlighting states Progress Logging * Closing items:: When was this entry marked DONE? * Tracking TODO state changes:: When did the status change? Tags * Tag inheritance:: Tags use the tree structure of the outline * Setting tags:: How to assign tags to a headline * Tag searches:: Searching for combinations of tags Properties and Columns * Property syntax:: How properties are spelled out * Special properties:: Access to other Org-mode features * Property searches:: Matching property values * Column view:: Tabular viewing and editing * Property API:: Properties for Lisp programmers Column View * Defining columns:: The COLUMNS format property * Using column view:: How to create and use column view * Capturing Column View:: A dynamic block for column view Defining Columns * Scope of column definitions:: Where defined, where valid? * Column attributes:: Appearance and content of a column Timestamps * Time stamps:: Assigning a time to a tree entry * Creating timestamps:: Commands which insert timestamps * Deadlines and scheduling:: Planning your work * Clocking work time:: Creating timestamps * The date/time prompt:: How org-mode helps you entering date and time * Custom time format:: Making dates look differently Deadlines and Scheduling * Inserting deadline/schedule:: Planning items * Repeated tasks:: Items that show up again and again Remember * Setting up remember:: Some code for .emacs to get things going * Remember templates:: Define the outline of different note types * Storing notes:: Directly get the note to where it belongs Agenda Views * Agenda files:: Files being searched for agenda information * Agenda dispatcher:: Keyboard access to agenda views * Built-in agenda views:: What is available out of the box? * Presentation and sorting:: How agenda items are prepared for display * Agenda commands:: Remote editing of org trees * Custom agenda views:: Defining special searches and views The built-in agenda views * Weekly/Daily agenda:: The calendar page with current tasks * Global TODO list:: All unfinished action items * Matching tags and properties:: Structured information with fine-tuned search * Timeline:: Time-sorted view for single file * Stuck projects:: Find projects you need to review Presentation and sorting * Categories:: Not all tasks are equal * Time-of-day specifications:: How the agenda knows the time * Sorting of agenda items:: The order of things Custom agenda views * Storing searches:: Type once, use often * Block agenda:: All the stuff you need in a single buffer * Setting Options:: Changing the rules * Exporting Agenda Views:: Writing agendas to files. * Extracting Agenda Information for other programs:: Embedded LaTeX * Math symbols:: TeX macros for symbols and Greek letters * Subscripts and Superscripts:: Simple syntax for raising/lowering text * LaTeX fragments:: Complex formulas made easy * Processing LaTeX fragments:: Previewing LaTeX processing * CDLaTeX mode:: Speed up entering of formulas Exporting * ASCII export:: Exporting to plain ASCII * HTML export:: Exporting to HTML * LaTeX export:: Exporting to LaTeX * XOXO export:: Exporting to XOXO * iCalendar export:: Exporting in iCalendar format * Text interpretation:: How the exporter looks at the file HTML export * HTML Export commands:: How to invoke LaTeX export * Quoting HTML tags:: Using direct HTML in Org-mode * Links:: Transformation of links for HTML * Images:: How to include images * CSS support:: Changing the appearence of the output LaTeX export * LaTeX export commands:: How to invoke LaTeX export * Quoting LaTeX code:: Incorporating literal LaTeX code Text interpretation by the exporter * Comment lines:: Some lines will not be exported * Initial text:: Text before the first headline * Footnotes:: Numbers like [1] * Enhancing text:: Subscripts, symbols and more * Export options:: How to influence the export settings Publishing * Configuration:: Defining projects * Sample configuration:: Example projects * Triggering publication:: Publication commands Configuration * Project alist:: The central configuration variable * Sources and destinations:: From here to there * Selecting files:: What files are part of the project? * Publishing action:: Setting the function doing the publishing * Publishing options:: Tweaking HTML export * Publishing links:: Which links keep working after publishing? * Project page index:: Publishing a list of project files Sample configuration * Simple example:: One-component publishing * Complex example:: A multi-component publishing example Miscellaneous * Completion:: M-TAB knows what you need * Customization:: Adapting Org-mode to your taste * In-buffer settings:: Overview of the #+KEYWORDS * The very busy C-c C-c key:: When in doubt, press C-c C-c * Clean view:: Getting rid of leading stars in the outline * TTY keys:: Using Org-mode on a tty * Interaction:: Other Emacs packages * Bugs:: Things which do not work perfectly Interaction with other packages * Cooperation:: Packages Org-mode cooperates with * Conflicts:: Packages that lead to conflicts Extensions, Hooks and Hacking * Extensions:: Existing 3rd-part extensions * Adding hyperlink types:: New custom link types * Tables in arbitrary syntax:: Orgtbl for LaTeX and other programs * Dynamic blocks:: Automatically filled blocks * Special agenda views:: Customized views * Using the property API:: Writing programs that use entry properties Tables in arbitrary syntax * Radio tables:: Sending and receiving * A LaTeX example:: Step by step, almost a tutorial * Translator functions:: Copy and modify  File: org, Node: Introduction, Next: Document structure, Prev: Top, Up: Top 1 Introduction ************** * Menu: * Summary:: Brief summary of what Org-mode does * Installation:: How to install a downloaded version of Org-mode * Activation:: How to activate Org-mode for certain buffers. * Feedback:: Bug reports, ideas, patches etc.  File: org, Node: Summary, Next: Installation, Prev: Introduction, Up: Introduction 1.1 Summary =========== Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, and doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system. Org-mode develops organizational tasks around NOTES files that contain lists or information about projects as plain text. Org-mode is implemented on top of outline-mode, which makes it possible to keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and structure editing help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created with a built-in table editor. Org-mode supports TODO items, deadlines, time stamps, and scheduling. It dynamically compiles entries into an agenda that utilizes and smoothly integrates much of the Emacs calendar and diary. Plain text URL-like links connect to websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related to the projects. For printing and sharing of notes, an Org-mode file can be exported as a structured ASCII file, as HTML, or (todo and agenda items only) as an iCalendar file. It can also serve as a publishing tool for a set of linked webpages. An important design aspect that distinguishes Org-mode from for example Planner/Muse is that it encourages to store every piece of information only once. In Planner, you have project pages, day pages and possibly other files, duplicating some information such as tasks. In Org-mode, you only have notes files. In your notes you mark entries as tasks, label them with tags and timestamps. All necessary lists like a schedule for the day, the agenda for a meeting, tasks lists selected by tags etc are created dynamically when you need them. Org-mode keeps simple things simple. When first fired up, it should feel like a straightforward, easy to use outliner. Complexity is not imposed, but a large amount of functionality is available when you need it. Org-mode is a toolbox and can be used in different ways, for example as: * outline extension with visibility cycling and structure editing * ASCII system and table editor for taking structured notes * ASCII table editor with spreadsheet-like capabilities * TODO list editor * full agenda and planner with deadlines and work scheduling * environment to implement David Allen's GTD system * a basic database application * simple hypertext system, with HTML export * publishing tool to create a set of interlinked webpages Org-mode's automatic, context sensitive table editor with spreadsheet capabilities can be integrated into any major mode by activating the minor Orgtbl-mode. Using a translation step, it can be used to maintain tables in arbitrary file types, for example in LaTeX. The structure editing and list creation capabilities can be used outside Org-mode with the minor Orgstruct-mode. There is a website for Org-mode which provides links to the newest version of Org-mode, as well as additional information, frequently asked questions (FAQ), links to tutorials etc. This page is located at `http://orgmode.org'.  File: org, Node: Installation, Next: Activation, Prev: Summary, Up: Introduction 1.2 Installation ================ Important: If Org-mode is part of the Emacs distribution or an XEmacs package, please skip this section and go directly to *Note Activation::. If you have downloaded Org-mode from the Web, you must take the following steps to install it: Go into the Org-mode distribution directory and edit the top section of the file `Makefile'. You must set the name of the Emacs binary (likely either `emacs' or `xemacs'), and the paths to the directories where local Lisp and Info files are kept. If you don't have access to the system-wide directories, create your own two directories for these files, enter them into the Makefile, and make sure Emacs finds the Lisp files by adding the following line to `.emacs': (setq load-path (cons "~/path/to/lispdir" load-path)) XEmacs users now need to install the file `noutline.el' from the `xemacs' subdirectory of the Org-mode distribution. Use the command: make install-noutline Now byte-compile and install the Lisp files with the shell commands: make make install If you want to install the info documentation, use this command: make install-info Then add to `.emacs': ;; This line only if org-mode is not part of the X/Emacs distribution. (require 'org-install)  File: org, Node: Activation, Next: Feedback, Prev: Installation, Up: Introduction 1.3 Activation ============== Add the following lines to your `.emacs' file. The last two lines define _global_ keys for the commands `org-store-link' and `org-agenda' - please choose suitable keys yourself. ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys. (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)) (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda) Furthermore, you must activate `font-lock-mode' in org-mode buffers, because significant functionality depends on font-locking being active. You can do this with either one of the following two lines (XEmacs user must use the second option): (global-font-lock-mode 1) ; for all buffers (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) ; org-mode buffers only With this setup, all files with extension `.org' will be put into Org-mode. As an alternative, make the first line of a file look like this: MY PROJECTS -*- mode: org; -*- which will select Org-mode for this buffer no matter what the file's name is. See also the variable `org-insert-mode-line-in-empty-file'.  File: org, Node: Feedback, Prev: Activation, Up: Introduction 1.4 Feedback ============ If you find problems with Org-mode, or if you have questions, remarks, or ideas about it, please contact the maintainer Carsten Dominik at . For bug reports, please provide as much information as possible, including the version information of Emacs (`C-h v emacs-version ') and Org-mode (`C-h v org-version '), as well as the Org-mode related setup in `.emacs'. If an error occurs, a backtrace can be very useful (see below on how to create one). Often a small example file helps, along with clear information about: 1. What exactly did you do? 2. What did you expect to happen? 3. What happened instead? Thank you for helping to improve this mode. How to create a useful backtrace ................................ If working with Org-mode produces an error with a message you don't understand, you may have hit a bug. The best way to report this is by providing, in addition to what was mentioned above, a _Backtrace_. This is information from the built-in debugger about where and how the error occurred. Here is how to produce a useful backtrace: 1. Start a fresh Emacs or XEmacs, and make sure that it will load the original Lisp code in `org.el' instead of the compiled version in `org.elc'. The backtrace contains much more information if it is produced with uncompiled code. To do this, either rename `org.elc' to something else before starting Emacs, or ask Emacs explicitly to load `org.el' by using the command line emacs -l /path/to/org.el 2. Go to the `Options' menu and select `Enter Debugger on Error' (XEmacs has this option in the `Troubleshooting' sub-menu). 3. Do whatever you have to do to hit the error. Don't forget to document the steps you take. 4. When you hit the error, a `*Backtrace*' buffer will appear on the screen. Save this buffer to a file (for example using `C-x C-w') and attach it to your bug report.  File: org, Node: Document structure, Next: Tables, Prev: Introduction, Up: Top 2 Document Structure ******************** Org-mode is based on outline mode and provides flexible commands to edit the structure of the document. * Menu: * Outlines:: Org-mode is based on outline-mode * Headlines:: How to typeset org-tree headlines * Visibility cycling:: Show and hide, much simplified * Motion:: Jumping to other headlines * Structure editing:: Changing sequence and level of headlines * Archiving:: Move done task trees to a different place * Sparse trees:: Matches embedded in context * Plain lists:: Additional structure within an entry * Drawers:: Tucking stuff away * orgstruct-mode:: Structure editing outside Org-mode  File: org, Node: Outlines, Next: Headlines, Prev: Document structure, Up: Document structure 2.1 Outlines ============ Org-mode is implemented on top of outline-mode. Outlines allow a document to be organized in a hierarchical structure, which (at least for me) is the best representation of notes and thoughts. An overview of this structure is achieved by folding (hiding) large parts of the document to show only the general document structure and the parts currently being worked on. Org-mode greatly simplifies the use of outlines by compressing the entire show/hide functionality into a single command `org-cycle', which is bound to the key.  File: org, Node: Headlines, Next: Visibility cycling, Prev: Outlines, Up: Document structure 2.2 Headlines ============= Headlines define the structure of an outline tree. The headlines in Org-mode start with one or more stars, on the left margin(1). For example: * Top level headline ** Second level *** 3rd level some text *** 3rd level more text * Another top level headline Some people find the many stars too noisy and would prefer an outline that has whitespace followed by a single star as headline starters. *Note Clean view:: describes a setup to realize this. An empty line after the end of a subtree is considered part of it and will be hidden when the subtree is folded. However, if you leave at least two empty lines, one empty line will remain visible after folding the subtree, in order to structure the collapsed view. See the variable `org-cycle-separator-lines' to modify this behavior. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) See the variable `org-special-ctrl-a/e' to configure special behavior of `C-a' and `C-e' in headlines.  File: org, Node: Visibility cycling, Next: Motion, Prev: Headlines, Up: Document structure 2.3 Visibility cycling ====================== Outlines make it possible to hide parts of the text in the buffer. Org-mode uses just two commands, bound to and `S-' to change the visibility in the buffer. `' _Subtree cycling_: Rotate current subtree among the states ,-> FOLDED -> CHILDREN -> SUBTREE --. '-----------------------------------' The cursor must be on a headline for this to work(1). When the cursor is at the beginning of the buffer and the first line is not a headline, then actually runs global cycling (see below)(2). Also when called with a prefix argument (`C-u '), global cycling is invoked. `S-' `C-u ' _Global cycling_: Rotate the entire buffer among the states ,-> OVERVIEW -> CONTENTS -> SHOW ALL --. '--------------------------------------' When `S-' is called with a numerical prefix N, the CONTENTS view up to headlines of level N will be shown. Note that inside tables, `S-' jumps to the previous field. `C-c C-a' Show all. `C-c C-r' Reveal context around point, showing the current entry, the following heading and the hierarchy above. Useful for working near a location exposed by a sparse tree command (*note Sparse trees::) or an agenda command (*note Agenda commands::). With prefix arg show, on each level, all sibling headings. `C-c C-x b' Show the current subtree in an indirect buffer(3). With numerical prefix ARG, go up to this level and then take that tree. If ARG is negative, go up that many levels. With `C-u' prefix, do not remove the previously used indirect buffer. When Emacs first visits an Org-mode file, the global state is set to OVERVIEW, i.e. only the top level headlines are visible. This can be configured through the variable `org-startup-folded', or on a per-file basis by adding one of the following lines anywhere in the buffer: #+STARTUP: overview #+STARTUP: content #+STARTUP: showall ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) see, however, the option `org-cycle-emulate-tab'. (2) see the option `org-cycle-global-at-bob'. (3) The indirect buffer (*note Indirect Buffers: (emacs)Indirect Buffers.) will contain the entire buffer, but will be narrowed to the current tree. Editing the indirect buffer will also change the original buffer, but without affecting visibility in that buffer.  File: org, Node: Motion, Next: Structure editing, Prev: Visibility cycling, Up: Document structure 2.4 Motion ========== The following commands jump to other headlines in the buffer. `C-c C-n' Next heading. `C-c C-p' Previous heading. `C-c C-f' Next heading same level. `C-c C-b' Previous heading same level. `C-c C-u' Backward to higher level heading. `C-c C-j' Jump to a different place without changing the current outline visibility. Shows the document structure in a temporary buffer, where you can use the following keys to find your destination: Cycle visibility. / Next/previous visible headline. n / p Next/previous visible headline. f / b Next/previous headline same level. u One level up. 0-9 Digit argument. Select this location.  File: org, Node: Structure editing, Next: Archiving, Prev: Motion, Up: Document structure 2.5 Structure editing ===================== `M-' Insert new heading with same level as current. If the cursor is in a plain list item, a new item is created (*note Plain lists::). To force creation of a new headline, use a prefix arg, or first press to get to the beginning of the next line. When this command is used in the middle of a line, the line is split and the rest of the line becomes the new headline. If the command is used at the beginning of a headline, the new headline is created before the current line. If at the beginning of any other line, the content of that line is made the new heading. If the command is used at the end of a folded subtree (i.e. behind the ellipses at the end of a headline), then a headline like the current one will be inserted after the end of the subtree. `C-' Insert a new heading after the current subtree, same level as the current headline. This command works from anywhere in the entry. `M-S-' Insert new TODO entry with same level as current heading. `M-' Promote current heading by one level. `M-' Demote current heading by one level. `M-S-' Promote the current subtree by one level. `M-S-' Demote the current subtree by one level. `M-S-' Move subtree up (swap with previous subtree of same level). `M-S-' Move subtree down (swap with next subtree of same level). `C-c C-x C-w' `C-c C-x C-k' Kill subtree, i.e. remove it from buffer but save in kill ring. With prefix arg, kill N sequential subtrees. `C-c C-x M-w' Copy subtree to kill ring. With prefix arg, copy N sequential subtrees. `C-c C-x C-y' Yank subtree from kill ring. This does modify the level of the subtree to make sure the tree fits in nicely at the yank position. The yank level can also be specified with a prefix arg, or by yanking after a headline marker like `****'. `C-c ^' Sort same-level entries. When there is an active region, all entries in the region will be sorted. Otherwise the children of the current headline are sorted. The command prompts for the sorting method, which can be alphabetically, numerically, by time (using the first time stamp in each entry), by priority, and each of these in reverse order. You can also supply your own function to extract the sorting key. With a `C-u' prefix, sorting will be case-sensitive. With two `C-u C-u' prefixes, duplicate entries will also be removed. When there is an active region (transient-mark-mode), promotion and demotion work on all headlines in the region. To select a region of headlines, it is best to place both point and mark at the beginning of a line, mark at the beginning of the first headline, and point at the line just after the last headline to change. Note that when the cursor is inside a table (*note Tables::), the Meta-Cursor keys have different functionality.  File: org, Node: Archiving, Next: Sparse trees, Prev: Structure editing, Up: Document structure 2.6 Archiving ============= When a project represented by a (sub)tree is finished, you may want to move the tree out of the way and to stop it from contributing to the agenda. Org-mode knows two ways of archiving. You can mark a tree with the ARCHIVE tag, or you can move an entire (sub)tree to a different location. * Menu: * ARCHIVE tag:: Marking a tree as inactive * Moving subtrees:: Moving a tree to an archive file  File: org, Node: ARCHIVE tag, Next: Moving subtrees, Prev: Archiving, Up: Archiving 2.6.1 The ARCHIVE tag --------------------- A headline that is marked with the ARCHIVE tag (*note Tags::) stays at its location in the outline tree, but behaves in the following way: - It does not open when you attempt to do so with a visibility cycling command (*note Visibility cycling::). You can force cycling archived subtrees with `C-', or by setting the option `org-cycle-open-archived-trees'. Also normal outline commands like `show-all' will open archived subtrees. - During sparse tree construction (*note Sparse trees::), matches in archived subtrees are not exposed, unless you configure the option `org-sparse-tree-open-archived-trees'. - During agenda view construction (*note Agenda views::), the content of archived trees is ignored unless you configure the option `org-agenda-skip-archived-trees'. - Archived trees are not exported (*note Exporting::), only the headline is. Configure the details using the variable `org-export-with-archived-trees'. The following commands help managing the ARCHIVE tag: `C-c C-x C-a' Toggle the ARCHIVE tag for the current headline. When the tag is set, the headline changes to a shadowish face, and the subtree below it is hidden. `C-u C-c C-x C-a' Check if any direct children of the current headline should be archived. To do this, each subtree is checked for open TODO entries. If none are found, the command offers to set the ARCHIVE tag for the child. If the cursor is _not_ on a headline when this command is invoked, the level 1 trees will be checked. `C-TAB' Cycle a tree even if it is tagged with ARCHIVE.  File: org, Node: Moving subtrees, Prev: ARCHIVE tag, Up: Archiving 2.6.2 Moving subtrees --------------------- Once an entire project is finished, you may want to move it to a different location, either in the current file, or even in a different file, the archive file. `C-c C-x C-s' Archive the subtree starting at the cursor position to the location given by `org-archive-location'. Context information that could be lost like the file name, the category, inherited tags, and the todo state will be store as properties in the entry. `C-u C-c C-x C-s' Check if any direct children of the current headline could be moved to the archive. To do this, each subtree is checked for open TODO entries. If none are found, the command offers to move it to the archive location. If the cursor is _not_ on a headline when this command is invoked, the level 1 trees will be checked. The default archive location is a file in the same directory as the current file, with the name derived by appending `_archive' to the current file name. For information and examples on how to change this, see the documentation string of the variable `org-archive-location'. There is also an in-buffer option for setting this variable, for example(1): #+ARCHIVE: %s_done:: If you would like to have a special ARCHIVE location for a single entry or a (sub)tree, give the entry an `:ARCHIVE:' property with the location as the value (*note Properties and columns::). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) If there are several such lines in the buffer, each will be valid for the entries below it. The first will also apply to any text before it. This method is only kept for backward compatibility. The preferred methods for setting multiple archive locations is using a property.  File: org, Node: Sparse trees, Next: Plain lists, Prev: Archiving, Up: Document structure 2.7 Sparse trees ================ An important feature of Org-mode is the ability to construct _sparse trees_ for selected information in an outline tree. A sparse tree means that the entire document is folded as much as possible, but the selected information is made visible along with the headline structure above it(1). Just try it out and you will see immediately how it works. Org-mode contains several commands creating such trees, all these commands can be accessed through a dispatcher: `C-c /' This prompts for an extra key to select a sparse-tree creating command. `C-c / r' Occur. Prompts for a regexp and shows a sparse tree with all matches. If the match is in a headline, the headline is made visible. If the match is in the body of an entry, headline and body are made visible. In order to provide minimal context, also the full hierarchy of headlines above the match is shown, as well as the headline following the match. Each match is also highlighted; the highlights disappear when the buffer is changed by an editing command, or by pressing `C-c C-c'. When called with a `C-u' prefix argument, previous highlights are kept, so several calls to this command can be stacked. For frequently used sparse trees of specific search strings, you can use the variable `org-agenda-custom-commands' to define fast keyboard access to specific sparse trees. These commands will then be accessible through the agenda dispatcher (*note Agenda dispatcher::). For example: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("f" occur-tree "FIXME"))) will define the key `C-c a f' as a shortcut for creating a sparse tree matching the string `FIXME'. The other sparse tree commands select headings based on TODO keywords, tags, or properties and will be discussed later in this manual. To print a sparse tree, you can use the Emacs command `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' which does not print invisible parts of the document (2). Or you can use the command `C-c C-e v' to export only the visible part of the document and print the resulting file. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) See also the variables `org-show-hierarchy-above', `org-show-following-heading', and `org-show-siblings' for detailed control on how much context is shown around each match. (2) This does not work under XEmacs, because XEmacs uses selective display for outlining, not text properties.  File: org, Node: Plain lists, Next: Drawers, Prev: Sparse trees, Up: Document structure 2.8 Plain lists =============== Within an entry of the outline tree, hand-formatted lists can provide additional structure. They also provide a way to create lists of checkboxes (*note Checkboxes::). Org-mode supports editing such lists, and the HTML exporter (*note Exporting::) does parse and format them. Org-mode knows ordered and unordered lists. Unordered list items start with `-', `+', or `*'(1) as bullets. Ordered list items start with `1.' or `1)'. Items belonging to the same list must have the same indentation on the first line. In particular, if an ordered list reaches number `10.', then the 2-digit numbers must be written left-aligned with the other numbers in the list. Indentation also determines the end of a list item. It ends before the next line that is indented like the bullet/number, or less. Empty lines are part of the previous item, so you can have several paragraphs in one item. If you would like an empty line to terminate all currently open plain lists, configure the variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists'. Here is an example: ** Lord of the Rings My favorite scenes are (in this order) 1. The attack of the Rohirrim 2. Eowyns fight with the witch king + this was already my favorite scene in the book + I really like Miranda Otto. 3. Peter Jackson being shot by Legolas - on DVD only He makes a really funny face when it happens. But in the end, not individual scenes matter but the film as a whole. Org-mode supports these lists by tuning filling and wrapping commands to deal with them correctly(2). The following commands act on items when the cursor is in the first line of an item (the line with the bullet or number). `' Items can be folded just like headline levels if you set the variable `org-cycle-include-plain-lists'. The level of an item is then given by the indentation of the bullet/number. Items are always subordinate to real headlines, however; the hierarchies remain completely separated. If `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' has not been set, fixes the indentation of the curent line in a heuristic way. `M-' Insert new item at current level. With prefix arg, force a new heading (*note Structure editing::). If this command is used in the middle of a line, the line is _split_ and the rest of the line becomes the new item. If this command is executed in the _whitespace before a bullet or number_, the new item is created _before_ the current item. If the command is executed in the white space before the text that is part of an item but does not contain the bullet, a bullet is added to the current line. `M-S-' Insert a new item with a checkbox (*note Checkboxes::). `S-' `S-' Jump to the previous/next item in the current list. `M-S-' `M-S-' Move the item including subitems up/down (swap with previous/next item of same indentation). If the list is ordered, renumbering is automatic. `M-S-' `M-S-' Decrease/increase the indentation of the item, including subitems. Initially, the item tree is selected based on current indentation. When these commands are executed several times in direct succession, the initially selected region is used, even if the new indentation would imply a different hierarchy. To use the new hierarchy, break the command chain with a cursor motion or so. `C-c C-c' If there is a checkbox (*note Checkboxes::) in the item line, toggle the state of the checkbox. If not, make this command makes sure that all the items on this list level use the same bullet. Furthermore, if this is an ordered list, make sure the numbering is ok. `C-c -' Cycle the entire list level through the different itemize/enumerate bullets (`-', `+', `*', `1.', `1)'). With prefix arg, select the nth bullet from this list. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) When using `*' as a bullet, lines must be indented or they will be seen as top-level headlines. Also, when you are hiding leading stars to get a clean outline view, plain list items starting with a star are visually indistinguishable from true headlines. In short: even though `*' is supported, it may be better not to use it for plain list items. (2) Org-mode only changes the filling settings for Emacs. For XEmacs, you should use Kyle E. Jones' `filladapt.el'. To turn this on, put into `.emacs': `(require 'filladapt)'  File: org, Node: Drawers, Next: orgstruct-mode, Prev: Plain lists, Up: Document structure 2.9 Drawers =========== Sometimes you want to keep information associated with an entry, but you normally don't want to see it. For this, Org-mode has _drawers_. Drawers need to be configured with the variable `org-drawers'(1), and look like this: ** This is a headline Still outside the drawer :DRAWERNAME: This is inside the drawer. :END: After the drawer. Visibility cycling (*note Visibility cycling::) on the headline will hide and show the entry, but keep the drawer collapsed to a single line. In order to look inside the drawer, you need to move the cursor to the drawer line and press there. Org-mode uses a drawer for storing properties (*note Properties and columns::). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) You can define drawers on a per-file basis with a line like `#+DRAWERS: HIDDEN PROPPERTIES STATE'  File: org, Node: orgstruct-mode, Prev: Drawers, Up: Document structure 2.10 The Orgstruct minor mode ============================= If you like the intuitive way the Org-mode structure editing and list formatting works, you might want to use these commands in other modes like text-mode or mail-mode as well. The minor mode Orgstruct-mode makes this possible. You can always toggle the mode with `M-x orgstruct-mode'. To turn it on by default, for example in mail mode, use (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-orgstruct) When this mode is active and the cursor is on a line that looks to Org-mode like a headline of the first line of a list item, most structure editing commands will work, even if the same keys normally have different functionality in the major mode you are using. If the cursor is not in one of those special lines, Orgstruct-mode lurks silently in the shadow.  File: org, Node: Tables, Next: Hyperlinks, Prev: Document structure, Up: Top 3 Tables ******** Org-mode has a very fast and intuitive table editor built-in. Spreadsheet-like calculations are supported in connection with the Emacs `calc' package. * Menu: * Built-in table editor:: Simple tables * Narrow columns:: Stop wasting space in tables * Column groups:: Grouping to trigger vertical lines * orgtbl-mode:: The table editor as minor mode * The spreadsheet:: The table editor has spreadsheet capabilities.  File: org, Node: Built-in table editor, Next: Narrow columns, Prev: Tables, Up: Tables 3.1 The built-in table editor ============================= Org-mode makes it easy to format tables in plain ASCII. Any line with `|' as the first non-whitespace character is considered part of a table. `|' is also the column separator. A table might look like this: | Name | Phone | Age | |-------+-------+-----| | Peter | 1234 | 17 | | Anna | 4321 | 25 | A table is re-aligned automatically each time you press or or `C-c C-c' inside the table. also moves to the next field ( to the next row) and creates new table rows at the end of the table or before horizontal lines. The indentation of the table is set by the first line. Any line starting with `|-' is considered as a horizontal separator line and will be expanded on the next re-align to span the whole table width. So, to create the above table, you would only type |Name|Phone|Age| |- and then press to align the table and start filling in fields. When typing text into a field, Org-mode treats , , and all character keys in a special way, so that inserting and deleting avoids shifting other fields. Also, when typing _immediately after the cursor was moved into a new field with `', `S-' or `'_, the field is automatically made blank. If this behavior is too unpredictable for you, configure the variables `org-enable-table-editor' and `org-table-auto-blank-field'. Creation and conversion ....................... `C-c |' Convert the active region to table. If every line contains at least one TAB character, the function assumes that the material is tab separated. If every line contains a comma, comma-separated values (CSV) are assumed. If not, lines are split at whitespace into fields. You can use a prefix argument to force a specific separator: `C-u' forces CSV, `C-u C-u' forces TAB, and a numeric argument N indicates that at least N consequtive spaces, or alternatively a TAB will be the separator. If there is no active region, this command creates an empty Org-mode table. But it's easier just to start typing, like `|Name|Phone|Age |- '. Re-aligning and field motion ............................ `C-c C-c' Re-align the table without moving the cursor. `' Re-align the table, move to the next field. Creates a new row if necessary. `S-' Re-align, move to previous field. `' Re-align the table and move down to next row. Creates a new row if necessary. At the beginning or end of a line, still does NEWLINE, so it can be used to split a table. Column and row editing ...................... `M-' `M-' Move the current column left/right. `M-S-' Kill the current column. `M-S-' Insert a new column to the left of the cursor position. `M-' `M-' Move the current row up/down. `M-S-' Kill the current row or horizontal line. `M-S-' Insert a new row above (with arg: below) the current row. `C-c -' Insert a horizontal line below current row. With prefix arg, the line is created above the current line. `C-c ^' Sort the table lines in the region. The position of point indicates the column to be used for sorting, and the range of lines is the range between the nearest horizontal separator lines, or the entire table. If point is before the first column, you will be prompted for the sorting column. If there is an active region, the mark specifies the first line and the sorting column, while point should be in the last line to be included into the sorting. The command prompts for the sorting type (alphabetically, numerically, or by time). When called with a prefix argument, alphabetic sorting will be case-sensitive. Regions ....... `C-c C-x M-w' Copy a rectangular region from a table to a special clipboard. Point and mark determine edge fields of the rectangle. The process ignores horizontal separator lines. `C-c C-x C-w' Copy a rectangular region from a table to a special clipboard, and blank all fields in the rectangle. So this is the "cut" operation. `C-c C-x C-y' Paste a rectangular region into a table. The upper right corner ends up in the current field. All involved fields will be overwritten. If the rectangle does not fit into the present table, the table is enlarged as needed. The process ignores horizontal separator lines. `C-c C-q' Wrap several fields in a column like a paragraph. If there is an active region, and both point and mark are in the same column, the text in the column is wrapped to minimum width for the given number of lines. A prefix ARG may be used to change the number of desired lines. If there is no region, the current field is split at the cursor position and the text fragment to the right of the cursor is prepended to the field one line down. If there is no region, but you specify a prefix ARG, the current field is made blank, and the content is appended to the field above. Calculations ............ `C-c +' Sum the numbers in the current column, or in the rectangle defined by the active region. The result is shown in the echo area and can be inserted with `C-y'. `S-' When current field is empty, copy from first non-empty field above. When not empty, copy current field down to next row and move cursor along with it. Depending on the variable `org-table-copy-increment', integer field values will be incremented during copy. This key is also used by CUA-mode (*note Cooperation::). Miscellaneous ............. `C-c `' Edit the current field in a separate window. This is useful for fields that are not fully visible (*note Narrow columns::). When called with a `C-u' prefix, just make the full field visible, so that it can be edited in place. `C-c ' This is an alias for `C-u C-c `' to make the current field fully visible. `M-x org-table-import' Import a file as a table. The table should be TAB- or whitespace separated. Useful, for example, to import an Excel table or data from a database, because these programs generally can write TAB-separated text files. This command works by inserting the file into the buffer and then converting the region to a table. Any prefix argument is passed on to the converter, which uses it to determine the separator. `C-c |' Tables can also be imported by pasting tabular text into the org-mode buffer, selecting the pasted text with `C-x C-x' and then using the `C-c |' command (see above under Creation and conversion. `M-x org-table-export' Export the table as a TAB-separated file. Useful for data exchange with, for example, Excel or database programs. If you don't like the automatic table editor because it gets in your way on lines which you would like to start with `|', you can turn it off with (setq org-enable-table-editor nil) Then the only table command that still works is `C-c C-c' to do a manual re-align.  File: org, Node: Narrow columns, Next: Column groups, Prev: Built-in table editor, Up: Tables 3.2 Narrow columns ================== The width of columns is automatically determined by the table editor. Sometimes a single field or a few fields need to carry more text, leading to inconveniently wide columns. To limit(1) the width of a column, one field anywhere in the column may contain just the string `' where `N' is an integer specifying the width of the column in characters. The next re-align will then set the width of this column to no more than this value. |---+------------------------------| |---+--------| | | | | | <6> | | 1 | one | | 1 | one | | 2 | two | ----\ | 2 | two | | 3 | This is a long chunk of text | ----/ | 3 | This=> | | 4 | four | | 4 | four | |---+------------------------------| |---+--------| Fields that are wider become clipped and end in the string `=>'. Note that the full text is still in the buffer, it is only invisible. To see the full text, hold the mouse over the field - a tool-tip window will show the full content. To edit such a field, use the command `C-c `' (that is `C-c' followed by the backquote). This will open a new window with the full field. Edit it and finish with `C-c C-c'. When visiting a file containing a table with narrowed columns, the necessary character hiding has not yet happened, and the table needs to be aligned before it looks nice. Setting the option `org-startup-align-all-tables' will realign all tables in a file upon visiting, but also slow down startup. You can also set this option on a per-file basis with: #+STARTUP: align #+STARTUP: noalign ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) This feature does not work on XEmacs.  File: org, Node: Column groups, Next: orgtbl-mode, Prev: Narrow columns, Up: Tables 3.3 Column groups ================= When Org-mode exports tables, it does so by default without vertical lines because that is visually more satisfying in general. Occasionally however, vertical lines can be useful to structure a table into groups of columns, much like horizontal lines can do for groups of rows. In order to specify column groups, you can use a special row where the first field contains only `/'. The further fields can either contain `<' to indicate that this column should start a group, `>' to indicate the end of a column, or `<>' to make a column a group of its own. Boundaries between colum groups will upon export be marked with vertical lines. Here is an example: | | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) | |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------| | / | <> | < | | > | < | > | | # | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | # | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 1.4142 | 1.1892 | | # | 3 | 9 | 27 | 81 | 1.7321 | 1.3161 | |---+----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------| #+TBLFM: $3=$2^2::$4=$2^3::$5=$2^4::$6=sqrt($2)::$7=sqrt(sqrt(($2)) It is also sufficient to just insert the colum group starters after every vertical line you'd like to have: | N | N^2 | N^3 | N^4 | sqrt(n) | sqrt[4](N) | |----+-----+-----+-----+---------+------------| | / | < | | | < | |  File: org, Node: orgtbl-mode, Next: The spreadsheet, Prev: Column groups, Up: Tables 3.4 The Orgtbl minor mode ========================= If you like the intuitive way the Org-mode table editor works, you might also want to use it in other modes like text-mode or mail-mode. The minor mode Orgtbl-mode makes this possible. You can always toggle the mode with `M-x orgtbl-mode'. To turn it on by default, for example in mail mode, use (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-orgtbl) Furthermore, with some special setup, it is possible to maintain tables in arbitrary syntax with Orgtbl-mode. For example, it is possible to construct LaTeX tables with the underlying ease and power of Orgtbl-mode, including spreadsheet capabilities. For details, see *Note Tables in arbitrary syntax::.  File: org, Node: The spreadsheet, Prev: orgtbl-mode, Up: Tables 3.5 The spreadsheet =================== The table editor makes use of the Emacs `calc' package to implement spreadsheet-like capabilities. It can also evaluate Emacs Lisp forms to derive fields from other fields. While fully featured, Org-mode's implementation is not identical to other spreadsheets. For example, Org-mode knows the concept of a _column formula_ that will be applied to all non-header fields in a column without having to copy the formula to each relevant field. * Menu: * References:: How to refer to another field or range * Formula syntax for Calc:: Using Calc to compute stuff * Formula syntax for Lisp:: Writing formulas in Emacs Lisp * Field formulas:: Formulas valid for a single field * Column formulas:: Formulas valid for an entire column * Editing and debugging formulas:: Fixing formulas * Updating the table:: Recomputing all dependent fields * Advanced features:: Field names, parameters and automatic recalc  File: org, Node: References, Next: Formula syntax for Calc, Prev: The spreadsheet, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.1 References ---------------- To compute fields in the table from other fields, formulas must reference other fields or ranges. In Org-mode, fields can be referenced by name, by absolute coordinates, and by relative coordinates. To find out what the coordinates of a field are, press `C-c ?' in that field, or press `C-c }' to toggle the display of a grid. Field references ................ Formulas can reference the value of another field in two ways. Like in any other spreadsheet, you may reference fields with a letter/number combination like `B3', meaning the 2nd field in the 3rd row. Org-mode also uses another, more general operator that looks like this: @row$column Column references can be absolute like `1', `2',...`N', or relative to the current column like `+1' or `-2'. The row specification only counts data lines and ignores horizontal separator lines (hlines). You can use absolute row numbers `1'...`N', and row numbers relative to the current row like `+3' or `-1'. Or specify the row relative to one of the hlines: `I' refers to the first hline, `II' to the second etc. `-I' refers to the first such line above the current line, `+I' to the first such line below the current line. You can also write `III+2' which is the second data line after the third hline in the table. Relative row numbers like `-3' will not cross hlines if the current line is too close to the hline. Instead, the value directly at the hline is used. `0' refers to the current row and column. Also, if you omit either the column or the row part of the reference, the current row/column is implied. Org-mode's references with _unsigned_ numbers are fixed references in the sense that if you use the same reference in the formula for two different fields, the same field will be referenced each time. Org-mode's references with _signed_ numbers are floating references because the same reference operator can reference different fields depending on the field being calculated by the formula. Here are a few examples: @2$3 2nd row, 3rd column C2 same as previous $5 column 5 in the current row E& same as previous @2 current column, row 2 @-1$-3 the field one row up, three columns to the left @-I$2 field just under hline above current row, column 2 Range references ................ You may reference a rectangular range of fields by specifying two field references connected by two dots `..'. If both fields are in the current row, you may simply use `$2..$7', but if at least one field is in a different row, you need to use the general `@row$column' format at least for the first field (i.e the reference must start with `@' in order to be interpreted correctly). Examples: $1..$3 First three fields in the current row. $P..$Q Range, using column names (see under Advanced) @2$1..@4$3 6 fields between these two fields. A2..C4 Same as above. @-1$-2..@-1 3 numbers from the column to the left, 2 up to current row Range references return a vector of values that can be fed into Calc vector functions. Empty fields in ranges are normally suppressed, so that the vector contains only the non-empty fields (but see the `E' mode switch below). If there are no non-empty fields, `[0]' is returned to avoid syntax errors in formulas. Named references ................ `$name' is interpreted as the name of a column, parameter or constant. Constants are defined globally through the variable `org-table-formula-constants', and locally (for the file) through a line like #+CONSTANTS: c=299792458. pi=3.14 eps=2.4e-6 Also properties (*note Properties and columns::) can be used as constants in table formulas: For a property `:XYZ:' use the name `$PROP_XYZ', and the property will be searched in the current outline entry and in the hierarchy above it. If you have the `constants.el' package, it will also be used to resolve constants, including natural constants like `$h' for Planck's constant, and units like `$km' for kilometers(1). Column names and parameters can be specified in special table lines. These are described below, see *Note Advanced features::. All names must start with a letter, and further consist of letters and numbers. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) `Constant.el' can supply the values of constants in two different unit systems, `SI' and `cgs'. Which one is used depends on the value of the variable `constants-unit-system'. You can use the `#+STARTUP' options `constSI' and `constcgs' to set this value for the current buffer.  File: org, Node: Formula syntax for Calc, Next: Formula syntax for Lisp, Prev: References, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc ----------------------------- A formula can be any algebraic expression understood by the Emacs `Calc' package. Note that `calc' has the non-standard convention that `/' has lower precedence than `*', so that `a/b*c' is interpreted as `a/(b*c)'. Before evaluation by `calc-eval' (*note calc-eval: (calc)Calling Calc from Your Programs.), variable substitution takes place according to the rules described above. The range vectors can be directly fed into the calc vector functions like `vmean' and `vsum'. A formula can contain an optional mode string after a semicolon. This string consists of flags to influence Calc and other modes during execution. By default, Org-mode uses the standard calc modes (precision 12, angular units degrees, fraction and symbolic modes off. The display format, however, has been changed to `(float 5)' to keep tables compact. The default settings can be configured using the variable `org-calc-default-modes'. p20 switch the internal precision to 20 digits n3 s3 e2 f4 normal, scientific, engineering, or fixed display format D R angle modes: degrees, radians F S fraction and symbolic modes N interpret all fields as numbers, use 0 for non-numbers T force text interpretation E keep empty fields in ranges In addition, you may provide a `printf' format specifier to reformat the final result. A few examples: $1+$2 Sum of first and second field $1+$2;%.2f Same, format result to two decimals exp($2)+exp($1) Math functions can be used $0;%.1f Reformat current cell to 1 decimal ($3-32)*5/9 Degrees F -> C conversion $c/$1/$cm Hz -> cm conversion, using `constants.el' tan($1);Dp3s1 Compute in degrees, precision 3, display SCI 1 sin($1);Dp3%.1e Same, but use printf specifier for display vmean($2..$7) Compute column range mean, using vector function vmean($2..$7);EN Same, but treat empty fields as 0 taylor($3,x=7,2) taylor series of $3, at x=7, second degree Calc also contains a complete set of logical operations. For example if($1<20,teen,string("")) "teen" if age $1 less than 20, else empty  File: org, Node: Formula syntax for Lisp, Next: Field formulas, Prev: Formula syntax for Calc, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.3 Emacs Lisp forms as formulas ---------------------------------- It is also possible to write a formula in Emacs Lisp; this can be useful for string manipulation and control structures, if the Calc's functionality is not enough. If a formula starts with a single quote followed by an opening parenthesis, then it is evaluated as a lisp form. The evaluation should return either a string or a number. Just as with `calc' formulas, you can specify modes and a printf format after a semicolon. With Emacs Lisp forms, you need to be concious about the way field references are interpolated into the form. By default, a reference will be interpolated as a Lisp string (in double quotes) containing the field. If you provide the `N' mode switch, all referenced elements will be numbers (non-number fields will be zero) and interpolated as Lisp numbers, without quotes. If you provide the `L' flag, all fields will be interpolated literally, without quotes. I.e., if you want a reference to be interpreted as a string by the Lisp form, enclode the reference operator itself in double quotes, like `"$3"'. Ranges are inserted as space-separated fields, so you can embed them in list or vector syntax. A few examples, note how the `N' mode is used when we do computations in lisp. Swap the first two characters of the content of column 1 '(concat (substring $1 1 2) (substring $1 0 1) (substring $1 2)) Add columns 1 and 2, equivalent to the Calc's `$1+$2' '(+ $1 $2);N Compute the sum of columns 1-4, like Calc's `vsum($1..$4)' '(apply '+ '($1..$4));N  File: org, Node: Field formulas, Next: Column formulas, Prev: Formula syntax for Lisp, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.4 Field formulas -------------------- To assign a formula to a particular field, type it directly into the field, preceded by `:=', for example `:=$1+$2'. When you press or or `C-c C-c' with the cursor still in the field, the formula will be stored as the formula for this field, evaluated, and the current field replaced with the result. Formulas are stored in a special line starting with `#+TBLFM:' directly below the table. If you typed the equation in the 4th field of the 3rd data line in the table, the formula will look like `@3$4=$1+$2'. When inserting/deleting/swapping column and rows with the appropriate commands, absolute references (but not relative ones) in stored formulas are modified in order to still reference the same field. Of cause this is not true if you edit the table structure with normal editing commands - then you must fix the equations yourself. Instead of typing an equation into the field, you may also use the following command `C-u C-c =' Install a new formula for the current field. The command prompts for a formula, with default taken from the `#+TBLFM:' line, applies it to the current field and stores it.  File: org, Node: Column formulas, Next: Editing and debugging formulas, Prev: Field formulas, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.5 Column formulas --------------------- Often in a table, the same formula should be used for all fields in a particular column. Instead of having to copy the formula to all fields in that column, org-mode allows to assign a single formula to an entire column. If the table contains horizontal separator hlines, everything before the first such line is considered part of the table _header_ and will not be modified by column formulas. To assign a formula to a column, type it directly into any field in the column, preceded by an equal sign, like `=$1+$2'. When you press or or `C-c C-c' with the cursor still in the field, the formula will be stored as the formula for the current column, evaluated and the current field replaced with the result. If the field contains only `=', the previously stored formula for this column is used. For each column, Org-mode will only remember the most recently used formula. In the `TBLFM:' line, column formulas will look like `$4=$1+$2'. Instead of typing an equation into the field, you may also use the following command: `C-c =' Install a new formula for the current column and replace current field with the result of the formula. The command prompts for a formula, with default taken from the `#+TBLFM' line, applies it to the current field and stores it. With a numerical prefix (e.g. `C-5 C-c =') will apply it to that many consecutive fields in the current column.  File: org, Node: Editing and debugging formulas, Next: Updating the table, Prev: Column formulas, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.6 Editing and Debugging formulas ------------------------------------ You can edit individual formulas in the minibuffer or directly in the field. Org-mode can also prepare a special buffer with all active formulas of a table. When offering a formula for editing, Org-mode converts references to the standard format (like `B3' or `D&') if possible. If you prefer to only work with the internal format (like `@3$2' or `$4'), configure the variable `org-table-use-standard-references'. `C-c =' `C-u C-c =' Edit the formula associated with the current column/field in the minibuffer. See *Note Column formulas:: and *Note Field formulas::. `C-u C-u C-c =' Re-insert the active formula (either a field formula, or a column formula) into the current field, so that you can edit it directly in the field. The advantage over editing in the minibuffer is that you can use the command `C-c ?'. `C-c ?' While editing a formula in a table field, highlight the field(s) referenced by the reference at the cursor position in the formula. `C-c }' Toggle the display of row and column numbers for a table, using overlays. These are updated each time the table is aligned, you can force it with `C-c C-c'. `C-c {' Toggle the formula debugger on and off. See below. `C-c '' Edit all formulas for the current table in a special buffer, where the formulas will be displayed one per line. If the current field has an active formula, the cursor in the formula editor will mark it. While inside the special buffer, Org-mode will automatically highlight any field or range reference at the cursor position. You may edit, remove and add formulas, and use the following commands: `C-c C-c' `C-x C-s' Exit the formula editor and store the modified formulas. With `C-u' prefix, also apply the new formulas to the entire table. `C-c C-q' Exit the formula editor without installing changes. `C-c C-r' Toggle all references in the formula editor between standard (like `B3') and internal (like `@3$2'). `' Pretty-print or indent lisp formula at point. When in a line containing a lisp formula, format the formula according to Emacs Lisp rules. Another collapses the formula back again. In the open formula, re-indents just like in Emacs-lisp-mode. `M-' Complete Lisp symbols, just like in Emacs-lisp-mode. `S-///' Shift the reference at point. For example, if the reference is `B3' and you press `S-', it will become `C3'. This also works for relative references, and for hline references. `M-S-/' Move the test line for column formulas in the Org-mode buffer up and down. `M-/' Scroll the window displaying the table. `C-c }' Turn the coordinate grid in the table on and off. Making a table field blank does not remove the formula associated with the field, because that is stored in a different line (the `TBLFM' line) - during the next recalculation the field will be filled again. To remove a formula from a field, you have to give an empty reply when prompted for the formula, or to edit the `#+TBLFM' line. You may edit the `#+TBLFM' directly and re-apply the changed equations with `C-c C-c' in that line, or with the normal recalculation commands in the table. Debugging formulas .................. When the evaluation of a formula leads to an error, the field content becomes the string `#ERROR'. If you would like see what is going on during variable substitution and calculation in order to find a bug, turn on formula debugging in the `Tbl' menu and repeat the calculation, for example by pressing `C-u C-u C-c = ' in a field. Detailed information will be displayed.  File: org, Node: Updating the table, Next: Advanced features, Prev: Editing and debugging formulas, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.7 Updating the Table ------------------------ Recalculation of a table is normally not automatic, but needs to be triggered by a command. See *Note Advanced features:: for a way to make recalculation at least semi-automatically. In order to recalculate a line of a table or the entire table, use the following commands: `C-c *' Recalculate the current row by first applying the stored column formulas from left to right, and all field formulas in the current row. `C-u C-c *' `C-u C-c C-c' Recompute the entire table, line by line. Any lines before the first hline are left alone, assuming that these are part of the table header. `C-u C-u C-c *' `C-u C-u C-c C-c' Iterate the table by recomputing it until no further changes occur. This may be necessary if some computed fields use the value of other fields that are computed later in the calculation sequence.  File: org, Node: Advanced features, Prev: Updating the table, Up: The spreadsheet 3.5.8 Advanced features ----------------------- If you want the recalculation of fields to happen automatically, or if you want to be able to assign names to fields and columns, you need to reserve the first column of the table for special marking characters. `C-#' Rotate the calculation mark in first column through the states `', `#', `*', `!', `$'. The meaning of these characters is discussed below. When there is an active region, change all marks in the region. Here is an example of a table that collects exam results of students and makes use of these features: |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------| | | Student | Prob 1 | Prob 2 | Prob 3 | Total | Note | |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------| | ! | | P1 | P2 | P3 | Tot | | | # | Maximum | 10 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 10.0 | | ^ | | m1 | m2 | m3 | mt | | |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------| | # | Peter | 10 | 8 | 23 | 41 | 8.2 | | # | Sara | 6 | 14 | 19 | 39 | 7.8 | | # | Sam | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1.8 | |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------| | | Average | | | | 29.7 | | | ^ | | | | | at | | | $ | max=50 | | | | | | |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------| #+TBLFM: $6=vsum($P1..$P3)::$7=10*$Tot/$max;%.1f::$at=vmean(@-II..@-I);%.1f Important: Please note that for these special tables, recalculating the table with `C-u C-c *' will only affect rows that are marked `#' or `*', and fields that have a formula assigned to the field itself. The column formulas are not applied in rows with empty first field. The marking characters have the following meaning: `!' The fields in this line define names for the columns, so that you may refer to a column as `$Tot' instead of `$6'. `^' This row defines names for the fields _above_ the row. With such a definition, any formula in the table may use `$m1' to refer to the value `10'. Also, if you assign a formula to a names field, it will be stored as `$name=...'. `_' Similar to `^', but defines names for the fields in the row _below_. `$' Fields in this row can define _parameters_ for formulas. For example, if a field in a `$' row contains `max=50', then formulas in this table can refer to the value 50 using `$max'. Parameters work exactly like constants, only that they can be defined on a per-table basis. `#' Fields in this row are automatically recalculated when pressing or or `S-' in this row. Also, this row is selected for a global recalculation with `C-u C-c *'. Unmarked lines will be left alone by this command. `*' Selects this line for global recalculation with `C-u C-c *', but not for automatic recalculation. Use this when automatic recalculation slows down editing too much. `' Unmarked lines are exempt from recalculation with `C-u C-c *'. All lines that should be recalculated should be marked with `#' or `*'. `/' Do not export this line. Useful for lines that contain the narrowing `' markers. Finally, just to whet your appetite on what can be done with the fantastic `calc' package, here is a table that computes the Taylor series of degree `n' at location `x' for a couple of functions (homework: try that with Excel :-) |---+-------------+---+-----+--------------------------------------| | | Func | n | x | Result | |---+-------------+---+-----+--------------------------------------| | # | exp(x) | 1 | x | 1 + x | | # | exp(x) | 2 | x | 1 + x + x^2 / 2 | | # | exp(x) | 3 | x | 1 + x + x^2 / 2 + x^3 / 6 | | # | x^2+sqrt(x) | 2 | x=0 | x*(0.5 / 0) + x^2 (2 - 0.25 / 0) / 2 | | # | x^2+sqrt(x) | 2 | x=1 | 2 + 2.5 x - 2.5 + 0.875 (x - 1)^2 | | * | tan(x) | 3 | x | 0.0175 x + 1.77e-6 x^3 | |---+-------------+---+-----+--------------------------------------| #+TBLFM: $5=taylor($2,$4,$3);n3  File: org, Node: Hyperlinks, Next: TODO items, Prev: Tables, Up: Top 4 Hyperlinks ************ Just like HTML, Org-mode provides links inside a file, and external links to other files, Usenet articles, emails, and much more. * Menu: * Link format:: How links in Org-mode are formatted * Internal links:: Links to other places in the current file * External links:: URL-like links to the world * Handling links:: Creating, inserting and following * Using links outside Org-mode:: Linking from my C source code? * Link abbreviations:: Shortcuts for writing complex links * Search options:: Linking to a specific location * Custom searches:: When the default search is not enough  File: org, Node: Link format, Next: Internal links, Prev: Hyperlinks, Up: Hyperlinks 4.1 Link format =============== Org-mode will recognize plain URL-like links and activate them as clickable links. The general link format, however, looks like this: [[link][description]] or alternatively [[link]] Once a link in the buffer is complete (all brackets present), Org-mode will change the display so that `description' is displayed instead of `[[link][description]]' and `link' is displayed instead of `[[link]]'. Links will be highlighted in the face `org-link', which by default is an underlined face. You can directly edit the visible part of a link. Note that this can be either the `link' part (if there is no description) or the `description' part. To edit also the invisible `link' part, use `C-c C-l' with the cursor on the link. If you place the cursor at the beginning or just behind the end of the displayed text and press , you will remove the (invisible) bracket at that location. This makes the link incomplete and the internals are again displayed as plain text. Inserting the missing bracket hides the link internals again. To show the internal structure of all links, use the menu entry `Org->Hyperlinks->Literal links'.  File: org, Node: Internal links, Next: External links, Prev: Link format, Up: Hyperlinks 4.2 Internal links ================== If the link does not look like a URL, it is considered to be internal in the current file. Links such as `[[My Target]]' or `[[My Target][Find my target]]' lead to a text search in the current file. The link can be followed with `C-c C-o' when the cursor is on the link, or with a mouse click (*note Handling links::). The preferred match for such a link is a dedicated target: the same string in double angular brackets. Targets may be located anywhere; sometimes it is convenient to put them into a comment line. For example # <> In HTML export (*note HTML export::), such targets will become named anchors for direct access through `http' links(1). If no dedicated target exists, Org-mode will search for the words in the link. In the above example the search would be for `my target'. Links starting with a star like `*My Target' restrict the search to headlines. When searching, Org-mode will first try an exact match, but then move on to more and more lenient searches. For example, the link `[[*My Targets]]' will find any of the following: ** My targets ** TODO my targets are bright ** my 20 targets are To insert a link targeting a headline, in-buffer completion can be used. Just type a star followed by a few optional letters into the buffer and press `M-'. All headlines in the current buffer will be offered as completions. *Note Handling links::, for more commands creating links. Following a link pushes a mark onto Org-mode's own mark ring. You can return to the previous position with `C-c &'. Using this command several times in direct succession goes back to positions recorded earlier. * Menu: * Radio targets:: Make targets trigger links in plain text. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Note that text before the first headline is usually not exported, so the first such target should be after the first headline.  File: org, Node: Radio targets, Prev: Internal links, Up: Internal links 4.2.1 Radio targets ------------------- Org-mode can automatically turn any occurrences of certain target names in normal text into a link. So without explicitly creating a link, the text connects to the target radioing its position. Radio targets are enclosed by triple angular brackets. For example, a target `<<>>' causes each occurrence of `my target' in normal text to become activated as a link. The Org-mode file is scanned automatically for radio targets only when the file is first loaded into Emacs. To update the target list during editing, press `C-c C-c' with the cursor on or at a target.  File: org, Node: External links, Next: Handling links, Prev: Internal links, Up: Hyperlinks 4.3 External links ================== Org-mode supports links to files, websites, Usenet and email messages, and BBDB database entries. External links are URL-like locators. They start with a short identifying string followed by a colon. There can be no space after the colon. The following list shows examples for each link type. http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik on the web file:/home/dominik/images/jupiter.jpg file, absolute path file:papers/last.pdf file, relative path news:comp.emacs Usenet link mailto:adent@galaxy.net Mail link vm:folder VM folder link vm:folder#id VM message link vm://myself@some.where.org/folder#id VM on remote machine wl:folder WANDERLUST folder link wl:folder#id WANDERLUST message link mhe:folder MH-E folder link mhe:folder#id MH-E message link rmail:folder RMAIL folder link rmail:folder#id RMAIL message link gnus:group GNUS group link gnus:group#id GNUS article link bbdb:Richard Stallman BBDB link shell:ls *.org A shell command elisp:(find-file-other-frame "Elisp.org") An elisp form to evaluate A link should be enclosed in double brackets and may contain a descriptive text to be displayed instead of the url (*note Link format::), for example: [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][GNU Emacs]] If the description is a file name or URL that points to an image, HTML export (*note HTML export::) will inline the image as a clickable button. If there is no description at all and the link points to an image, that image will be inlined into the exported HTML file. Org-mode also finds external links in the normal text and activates them as links. If spaces must be part of the link (for example in `bbdb:Richard Stallman'), or if you need to remove ambiguities about the end of the link, enclose them in angular brackets.  File: org, Node: Handling links, Next: Using links outside Org-mode, Prev: External links, Up: Hyperlinks 4.4 Handling links ================== Org-mode provides methods to create a link in the correct syntax, to insert it into an org-mode file, and to follow the link. `C-c l' Store a link to the current location. This is a _global_ command which can be used in any buffer to create a link. The link will be stored for later insertion into an Org-mode buffer (see below). For Org-mode files, if there is a `<>' at the cursor, the link points to the target. Otherwise it points to the current headline. For VM, RMAIL, WANDERLUST, MH-E, GNUS and BBDB buffers, the link will indicate the current article/entry. For W3 and W3M buffers, the link goes to the current URL. For any other files, the link will point to the file, with a search string (*note Search options::) pointing to the contents of the current line. If there is an active region, the selected words will form the basis of the search string. If the automatically created link is not working correctly or accurately enough, you can write custom functions to select the search string and to do the search for particular file types - see *Note Custom searches::. The key binding `C-c l' is only a suggestion - see *Note Installation::. `C-c C-l' Insert a link. This prompts for a link to be inserted into the buffer. You can just type a link, using text for an internal link, or one of the link type prefixes mentioned in the examples above. All links stored during the current session are part of the history for this prompt, so you can access them with and (or `M-p/n'). Completion, on the other hand, will help you to insert valid link prefixes like `http:' or `ftp:', including the prefixes defined through link abbreviations (*note Link abbreviations::). The link will be inserted into the buffer(1), along with a descriptive text. If some text was selected when this command is called, the selected text becomes the default description. Note that you don't have to use this command to insert a link. Links in Org-mode are plain text, and you can type or paste them straight into the buffer. By using this command, the links are automatically enclosed in double brackets, and you will be asked for the optional descriptive text. `C-u C-c C-l' When `C-c C-l' is called with a `C-u' prefix argument, a link to a file will be inserted and you may use file name completion to select the name of the file. The path to the file is inserted relative to the directory of the current org file, if the linked file is in the current directory or in a subdirectory of it, or if the path is written relative to the current directory using `../'. Otherwise an absolute path is used, if possible with `~/' for your home directory. You can force an absolute path with two `C-u' prefixes. `C-c C-l (with cursor on existing link)' When the cursor is on an existing link, `C-c C-l' allows you to edit the link and description parts of the link. `C-c C-o' Open link at point. This will launch a web browser for URLs (using `browse-url-at-point'), run vm/mh-e/wanderlust/rmail/gnus/bbdb for the corresponding links, and execute the command in a shell link. When the cursor is on an internal link, this commands runs the corresponding search. When the cursor is on a TAG list in a headline, it creates the corresponding TAGS view. If the cursor is on a time stamp, it compiles the agenda for that date. Furthermore, it will visit text and remote files in `file:' links with Emacs and select a suitable application for local non-text files. Classification of files is based on file extension only. See option `org-file-apps'. If you want to override the default application and visit the file with Emacs, use a `C-u' prefix. `mouse-2' `mouse-1' On links, `mouse-2' will open the link just as `C-c C-o' would. Under Emacs 22, also `mouse-1' will follow a link. `mouse-3' Like `mouse-2', but force file links to be opened with Emacs, and internal links to be displayed in another window(2). `C-c %' Push the current position onto the mark ring, to be able to return easily. Commands following an internal link do this automatically. `C-c &' Jump back to a recorded position. A position is recorded by the commands following internal links, and by `C-c %'. Using this command several times in direct succession moves through a ring of previously recorded positions. `C-c C-x C-n' `C-c C-x C-p' Move forward/backward to the next link in the buffer. At the limit of the buffer, the search fails once, and then wraps around. The key bindings for this are really too long, you might want to bind this also to `C-n' and `C-p' (add-hook 'org-load-hook (lambda () (define-key 'org-mode-map "\C-n" 'org-next-link) (define-key 'org-mode-map "\C-p" 'org-previous-link))) ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) After insertion of a stored link, the link will be removed from the list of stored links. To keep it in the list later use, use a triple `C-u' prefix to `C-c C-l', or configure the option `org-keep-stored-link-after-insertion'. (2) See the variable `org-display-internal-link-with-indirect-buffer'  File: org, Node: Using links outside Org-mode, Next: Link abbreviations, Prev: Handling links, Up: Hyperlinks 4.5 Using links outside Org-mode ================================ You can insert and follow links that have Org-mode syntax not only in Org-mode, but in any Emacs buffer. For this, you should create two global commands, like this (please select suitable global keys yourself): (global-set-key "\C-c L" 'org-insert-link-global) (global-set-key "\C-c o" 'org-open-at-point-global)  File: org, Node: Link abbreviations, Next: Search options, Prev: Using links outside Org-mode, Up: Hyperlinks 4.6 Link abbreviations ====================== Long URLs can be cumbersome to type, and often many similar links are needed in a document. For this you can use link abbreviations. An abbreviated link looks like this [[linkword:tag][description]] where the tag is optional. Such abbreviations are resolved according to the information in the variable `org-link-abbrev-alist' that relates the linkwords to replacement text. Here is an example: (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("bugzilla" . "http://10.1.2.9/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=") ("google" . "http://www.google.com/search?q=") ("ads" . "http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ nph-abs_connect?author=%s&db_key=AST"))) If the replacement text contains the string `%s', it will be replaced with the tag. Otherwise the tag will be appended to the string in order to create the link. You may also specify a function that will be called with the tag as the only argument to create the link. With the above setting, you could link to a specific bug with `[[bugzilla:129]]', search the web for `OrgMode' with `[[google:OrgMode]]' and find out what the Org-mode author is doing besides Emacs hacking with `[[ads:Dominik,C]]'. If you need special abbreviations just for a single Org-mode buffer, you can define them in the file with #+LINK: bugzilla http://10.1.2.9/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id= #+LINK: google http://www.google.com/search?q=%s In-buffer completion *note Completion:: can be used after `[' to complete link abbreviations.  File: org, Node: Search options, Next: Custom searches, Prev: Link abbreviations, Up: Hyperlinks 4.7 Search options in file links ================================ File links can contain additional information to make Emacs jump to a particular location in the file when following a link. This can be a line number or a search option after a double(1) colon. For example, when the command `C-c l' creates a link (*note Handling links::) to a file, it encodes the words in the current line as a search string that can be used to find this line back later when following the link with `C-c C-o'. Here is the syntax of the different ways to attach a search to a file link, together with an explanation: [[file:~/code/main.c::255]] [[file:~/xx.org::My Target]] [[file:~/xx.org::*My Target]] [[file:~/xx.org::/regexp/]] `255' Jump to line 255. `My Target' Search for a link target `<>', or do a text search for `my target', similar to the search in internal links, see *Note Internal links::. In HTML export (*note HTML export::), such a file link will become an HTML reference to the corresponding named anchor in the linked file. `*My Target' In an Org-mode file, restrict search to headlines. `/regexp/' Do a regular expression search for `regexp'. This uses the Emacs command `occur' to list all matches in a separate window. If the target file is in Org-mode, `org-occur' is used to create a sparse tree with the matches. As a degenerate case, a file link with an empty file name can be used to search the current file. For example, `[[file:::find me]]' does a search for `find me' in the current file, just as `[[find me]]' would. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) For backward compatibility, line numbers can also follow a single colon.  File: org, Node: Custom searches, Prev: Search options, Up: Hyperlinks 4.8 Custom Searches =================== The default mechanism for creating search strings and for doing the actual search related to a file link may not work correctly in all cases. For example, BibTeX database files have many entries like `year="1993"' which would not result in good search strings, because the only unique identification for a BibTeX entry is the citation key. If you come across such a problem, you can write custom functions to set the right search string for a particular file type, and to do the search for the string in the file. Using `add-hook', these functions need to be added to the hook variables `org-create-file-search-functions' and `org-execute-file-search-functions'. See the docstring for these variables for more information. Org-mode actually uses this mechanism for BibTeX database files, and you can use the corresponding code as an implementation example. Search for `BibTeX links' in the source file.  File: org, Node: TODO items, Next: Tags, Prev: Hyperlinks, Up: Top 5 TODO items ************ Org-mode does not maintain TODO lists as a separate document. TODO items are an integral part of the notes file, because TODO items usually come up while taking notes! With Org-mode, you simply mark any entry in a tree as being a TODO item. In this way, the information is not duplicated, and the entire context from which the item emerged is always present when you check. Of course, this technique causes TODO items to be scattered throughout your file. Org-mode provides methods to give you an overview over all things you have to do. * Menu: * TODO basics:: Marking and displaying TODO entries * TODO extensions:: Workflow and assignments * Progress logging:: Dates and notes for progress * Priorities:: Some things are more important than others * Breaking down tasks:: Splitting a task into manageable pieces * Checkboxes:: Tick-off lists  File: org, Node: TODO basics, Next: TODO extensions, Prev: TODO items, Up: TODO items 5.1 Basic TODO functionality ============================ Any headline can become a TODO item by starting it with the word TODO, for example: *** TODO Write letter to Sam Fortune The most important commands to work with TODO entries are: `C-c C-t' Rotate the TODO state of the current item among ,-> (unmarked) -> TODO -> DONE --. '--------------------------------' The same rotation can also be done "remotely" from the timeline and agenda buffers with the `t' command key (*note Agenda commands::). `C-u C-c C-t' Select a specific keyword using completion of (if it has been set up) the fast selection interface. `S-' `S-' Select the following/preceding TODO state, similar to cycling. Mostly useful if more than two TODO states are possible (*note TODO extensions::). `C-c C-c' Use the fast tag interface to quickly and directly select a specific TODO state. For this you need to assign keys to TODO state, like this: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) STARTED(s) WAITING(w) | DONE(d) See *Note Per file keywords:: and *Note Setting tags:: for more information. `C-c C-v' `C-c / t' View TODO items in a _sparse tree_ (*note Sparse trees::). Folds the entire buffer, but shows all TODO items and the headings hierarchy above them. With prefix arg, search for a specific TODO. You will be prompted for the keyword, and you can also give a list of keywords like `kwd1|kwd2|...'. With numerical prefix N, show the tree for the Nth keyword in the variable `org-todo-keywords'. With two prefix args, find all TODO and DONE entries. `C-c a t' Show the global TODO list. This collects the TODO items from all agenda files (*note Agenda views::) into a single buffer. The buffer is in `agenda-mode', so there are commands to examine and manipulate the TODO entries directly from that buffer (*note Agenda commands::). *Note Global TODO list::, for more information. `S-M-' Insert a new TODO entry below the current one.  File: org, Node: TODO extensions, Next: Progress logging, Prev: TODO basics, Up: TODO items 5.2 Extended use of TODO keywords ================================= The default implementation of TODO entries is just two states: TODO and DONE. You can use the TODO feature for more complicated things by configuring the variable `org-todo-keywords'. With special setup, the TODO keyword system can work differently in different files. Note that tags are another way to classify headlines in general and TODO items in particular (*note Tags::). * Menu: * Workflow states:: From TODO to DONE in steps * TODO types:: I do this, Fred the rest * Multiple sets in one file:: Mixing it all, and still finding your way * Fast access to TODO states:: Single letter selection of a state * Per file keywords:: Different files, different requirements * Faces for TODO keywords:: Highlighting states  File: org, Node: Workflow states, Next: TODO types, Prev: TODO extensions, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.1 TODO keywords as workflow states -------------------------------------- You can use TODO keywords to indicate different _sequential_ states in the process of working on an item, for example(1): (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "FEEDBACK" "VERIFY" "|" "DONE" "DELEGATED"))) The vertical bar separates the TODO keywords (states that _need action_) from the DONE states (which need _no further action_. If you don't provide the separator bar, the last state is used as the DONE state. With this setup, the command `C-c C-t' will cycle an entry from TODO to FEEDBACK, then to VERIFY, and finally to DONE and DELEGATED. You may also use a prefix argument to quickly select a specific state. For example `C-3 C-c C-t' will change the state immediately to VERIFY. If you define many keywords, you can use in-buffer completion (see *Note Completion::) to insert these words into the buffer. Changing a todo state can be logged with a timestamp, see *Note Tracking TODO state changes:: for more information. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Changing this variable only becomes effective after restarting Org-mode in a buffer.  File: org, Node: TODO types, Next: Multiple sets in one file, Prev: Workflow states, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.2 TODO keywords as types ---------------------------- The second possibility is to use TODO keywords to indicate different _types_ of action items. For example, you might want to indicate that items are for "work" or "home". Or, when you work with several people on a single project, you might want to assign action items directly to persons, by using their names as TODO keywords. This would be set up like this: (setq org-todo-keywords '((type "Fred" "Sara" "Lucy" "|" "DONE"))) In this case, different keywords do not indicate a sequence, but rather different types. So the normal work flow would be to assign a task to a person, and later to mark it DONE. Org-mode supports this style by adapting the workings of the command `C-c C-t'(1). When used several times in succession, it will still cycle through all names, in order to first select the right type for a task. But when you return to the item after some time and execute `C-c C-t' again, it will switch from any name directly to DONE. Use prefix arguments or completion to quickly select a specific name. You can also review the items of a specific TODO type in a sparse tree by using a numeric prefix to `C-c C-v'. For example, to see all things Lucy has to do, you would use `C-3 C-c C-v'. To collect Lucy's items from all agenda files into a single buffer, you would use the prefix arg as well when creating the global todo list: `C-3 C-c t'. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) This is also true for the `t' command in the timeline and agenda buffers.  File: org, Node: Multiple sets in one file, Next: Fast access to TODO states, Prev: TODO types, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.3 Multiple keyword sets in one file --------------------------------------- Sometimes you may want to use different sets of TODO keywords in parallel. For example, you may want to have the basic `TODO'/`DONE', but also a workflow for bug fixing, and a separate state indicating that an item has been canceled (so it is not DONE, but also does not require action). Your setup would then look like this: (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE") (sequence "REPORT" "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED") (sequence "|" "CANCELED"))) The keywords should all be different, this helps Org-mode to keep track of which subsequence should be used for a given entry. In this setup, `C-c C-t' only operates within a subsequence, so it switches from `DONE' to (nothing) to `TODO', and from `FIXED' to (nothing) to `REPORT'. Therefore you need a mechanism to initially select the correct sequence. Besides the obvious ways like typing a keyword or using completion, you may also apply the following commands: `C-S-' `C-S-' These keys jump from one TODO subset to the next. In the above example, `C-S-' would jump from `TODO' or `DONE' to `REPORT', and any of the words in the second row to `CANCELED'. `S-' `S-' `S-<>' and `S-<>' and walk through _all_ keywords from all sets, so for example `S-<>' would switch from `DONE' to `REPORT' in the example above.  File: org, Node: Fast access to TODO states, Next: Per file keywords, Prev: Multiple sets in one file, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.4 Fast access to TODO states -------------------------------- If you would like to quickly change an entry to an arbitrary TODO state instead of cycling through the states, you can set up keys for single-letter access to the states. This is done by adding the section key after each keyword, in parenthesis. For example: (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO(t)" "|" "DONE(d)") (sequence "REPORT(r)" "BUG(b)" "KNOWNCAUSE(k)" "|" "FIXED(f)") (sequence "|" "CANCELED(c)"))) If you then press `C-u C-c C-t' followed by the selection key, the entry will be switched to this state. can be used to remove any TODO keyword from an entry. Should you like this way of selecting TODO states a lot, you might want to set the variable `org-use-fast-todo-selection' to `t' and make this behavior the default. Check also the variable `org-fast-tag-selection-include-todo', it allows to change the TODO state through the tags interface (*note Setting tags::).  File: org, Node: Per file keywords, Next: Faces for TODO keywords, Prev: Fast access to TODO states, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.5 Setting up keywords for individual files ---------------------------------------------- It can be very useful to use different aspects of the TODO mechanism in different files. For file-local settings, you need to add special lines to the file which set the keywords and interpretation for that file only. For example, to set one of the two examples discussed above, you need one of the following lines, starting in column zero anywhere in the file: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO FEEDBACK VERIFY | DONE CANCELED or #+TYP_TODO: Fred Sara Lucy Mike | DONE A setup for using several sets in parallel would be: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO | DONE #+SEQ_TODO: REPORT BUG KNOWNCAUSE | FIXED #+SEQ_TODO: | CANCELED To make sure you are using the correct keyword, type `#+' into the buffer and then use `M-' completion. Remember that the keywords after the vertical bar (or the last keyword if no bar is there) must always mean that the item is DONE (although you may use a different word). After changing one of these lines, use `C-c C-c' with the cursor still in the line to make the changes known to Org-mode(1). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Org-mode parses these lines only when Org-mode is activated after visiting a file. `C-c C-c' with the cursor in a line starting with `#+' is simply restarting Org-mode for the current buffer.  File: org, Node: Faces for TODO keywords, Prev: Per file keywords, Up: TODO extensions 5.2.6 Faces for TODO keywords ----------------------------- Org-mode highlights TODO keywords with special faces: `org-todo' for keywords indicating that an item still has to be acted upon, and `org-done' for keywords indicating that an item is finished. If you are using more than 2 different states, you might want to use special faces for some of them. This can be done using the variable `org-todo-keyword-faces'. For example: (setq org-todo-keyword-faces '(("TODO" . org-warning) ("DEFERRED" . shadow) ("CANCELED" . (:foreground "blue" :weight bold))))  File: org, Node: Progress logging, Next: Priorities, Prev: TODO extensions, Up: TODO items 5.3 Progress Logging ==================== Org-mode can automatically record a time stamp and even a note when you mark a TODO item as DONE, or even each time you change the state of a TODO item. * Menu: * Closing items:: When was this entry marked DONE? * Tracking TODO state changes:: When did the status change?  File: org, Node: Closing items, Next: Tracking TODO state changes, Prev: Progress logging, Up: Progress logging 5.3.1 Closing items ------------------- If you want to keep track of _when_ a certain TODO item was finished, turn on logging with(1) (setq org-log-done t) Then each time you turn a TODO entry into DONE using either `C-c C-t' in the Org-mode buffer or `t' in the agenda buffer, a line `CLOSED: [timestamp]' will be inserted just after the headline. If you turn the entry back into a TODO item through further state cycling, that line will be removed again. In the timeline (*note Timeline::) and in the agenda (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::), you can then use the `l' key to display the TODO items closed on each day, giving you an overview of what has been done on a day. If you want to record a note along with the timestamp, use(2) (setq org-log-done '(done)) ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) The corresponding in-buffer setting is: `#+STARTUP: logdone'. You may also set this for the scope of a subtree by adding a `LOGGING' property with one or more of the logging keywords in the value. (2) The corresponding in-buffer setting is: `#+STARTUP: lognotedone'  File: org, Node: Tracking TODO state changes, Prev: Closing items, Up: Progress logging 5.3.2 Tracking TODO state changes --------------------------------- When TODO keywords are used as workflow states (*note Workflow states::), you might want to keep track of when a state change occurred and record a note about this change. With the setting(1) (setq org-log-done '(state)) each state change will prompt you for a note that will be attached to the current headline. If you press `C-c C-c' without typing anything into the note buffer, only the time of the state change will be noted. Very likely you do not want this verbose tracking all the time, so it is probably better to configure this behavior with in-buffer options. For example, if you are tracking purchases, put these into a separate file that contains: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o) INVOICE(i) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r) #+STARTUP: lognotestate If you only need to take a note for some of the states, mark those states with an additional `@', like this: #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) ORDERED(o@) INVOICE(i@) PAYED(p) | RECEIVED(r) #+STARTUP: lognotestate ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) The corresponding in-buffer setting is: `#+STARTUP: lognotestate'.  File: org, Node: Priorities, Next: Breaking down tasks, Prev: Progress logging, Up: TODO items 5.4 Priorities ============== If you use Org-mode extensively to organize your work, you may end up with a number of TODO entries so large that you'd like to prioritize them. This can be done by placing a _priority cookie_ into the headline, like this *** TODO [#A] Write letter to Sam Fortune With its standard setup, Org-mode supports priorities `A', `B', and `C'. `A' is the highest priority. An entry without a cookie is treated as priority `B'. Priorities make a difference only in the agenda (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::). `C-c ,' Set the priority of the current headline. The command prompts for a priority character `A', `B' or `C'. When you press instead, the priority cookie is removed from the headline. The priorities can also be changed "remotely" from the timeline and agenda buffer with the `,' command (*note Agenda commands::). `S-' `S-' Increase/decrease priority of current headline(1). Note that these keys are also used to modify time stamps (*note Creating timestamps::). Furthermore, these keys are also used by CUA-mode (*note Conflicts::). You can change the range of allowed priorities by setting the variables `org-highest-priority', `org-lowest-priority', and `org-default-priority'. For an individual buffer, you may set these values (highest, lowest, default) like this (please make sure that the highest priority is earlier in the alphabet than the lowest priority): #+PRIORITIES: A C B ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) See also the option `org-priority-start-cycle-with-default''.  File: org, Node: Breaking down tasks, Next: Checkboxes, Prev: Priorities, Up: TODO items 5.5 Breaking tasks down into subtasks ===================================== It is often advisable to break down large tasks into smaller, manageable subtasks. You can do this by creating an outline tree below a TODO item, with detailed subtasks on the tree(1). Another possibility is the use of checkboxes to identify (a hierarchy of) a large number of subtasks (*note Checkboxes::). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) To keep subtasks out of the global TODO list, see the `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels'.  File: org, Node: Checkboxes, Prev: Breaking down tasks, Up: TODO items 5.6 Checkboxes ============== Every item in a plain list (*note Plain lists::) can be made a checkbox by starting it with the string `[ ]'. This feature is similar to TODO items (*note TODO items::), but more lightweight. Checkboxes are not included into the global TODO list, so they are often great to split a task into a number of simple steps. Or you can use them in a shopping list. To toggle a checkbox, use `C-c C-c', or try Piotr Zielinski's `org-mouse.el'. Here is an example of a checkbox list. * TODO Organize party [3/6] - call people [1/3] - [ ] Peter - [X] Sarah - [ ] Sam - [X] order food - [ ] think about what music to play - [X] talk to the neighbors The `[3/6]' and `[1/3]' in the first and second line are cookies indicating how many checkboxes are present in this entry, and how many of them have been checked off. This can give you an idea on how many checkboxes remain, even without opening a folded entry. The cookies can be placed into a headline or into (the first line of) a plain list item. Each cookie covers all checkboxes structurally below that headline/item. You have to insert the cookie yourself by typing either `[/]' or `[%]'. In the first case you get an `n out of m' result, in the second case you get information about the percentage of checkboxes checked (in the above example, this would be `[50%]' and `[33%], respectively'). The following commands work with checkboxes: `C-c C-c' Toggle checkbox at point. With prefix argument, set it to `[-]', which is considered to be an intermediate state. `C-c C-x C-b' Toggle checkbox at point. - If there is an active region, toggle the first checkbox in the region and set all remaining boxes to the same status as the first. If you want to toggle all boxes in the region independently, use a prefix argument. - If the cursor is in a headline, toggle checkboxes in the region between this headline and the next (so _not_ the entire subtree). - If there is no active region, just toggle the checkbox at point. `M-S-' Insert a new item with a checkbox. This works only if the cursor is already in a plain list item (*note Plain lists::). `C-c #' Update the checkbox statistics in the current outline entry. When called with a `C-u' prefix, update the entire file. Checkbox statistic cookies are updated automatically if you toggle checkboxes with `C-c C-c' and make new ones with `M-S-'. If you delete boxes or add/change them by hand, use this command to get things back into synch. Or simply toggle any checkbox twice with `C-c C-c'.  File: org, Node: Tags, Next: Properties and columns, Prev: TODO items, Up: Top 6 Tags ****** If you wish to implement a system of labels and contexts for cross-correlating information, an excellent way is to assign tags to headlines. Org-mode has extensive support for using tags. Every headline can contain a list of tags, at the end of the headline. Tags are normal words containing letters, numbers, `_', and `@'. Tags must be preceded and followed by a single colon; like `:WORK:'. Several tags can be specified like `:WORK:URGENT:'. * Menu: * Tag inheritance:: Tags use the tree structure of the outline * Setting tags:: How to assign tags to a headline * Tag searches:: Searching for combinations of tags  File: org, Node: Tag inheritance, Next: Setting tags, Prev: Tags, Up: Tags 6.1 Tag inheritance =================== Tags make use of the hierarchical structure of outline trees. If a heading has a certain tag, all subheadings will inherit the tag as well. For example, in the list * Meeting with the French group :WORK: ** Summary by Frank :BOSS:NOTES: *** TODO Prepare slides for him :ACTION: the final heading will have the tags `:WORK:', `:BOSS:', `:NOTES:', and `:ACTION:'. When executing tag searches and Org-mode finds that a certain headline matches the search criterion, it will not check any sublevel headline, assuming that these likely also match, and that the list of matches can become very long. This may not be what you want, however, and you can influence inheritance and searching using the variables `org-use-tag-inheritance' and `org-tags-match-list-sublevels'.  File: org, Node: Setting tags, Next: Tag searches, Prev: Tag inheritance, Up: Tags 6.2 Setting tags ================ Tags can simply be typed into the buffer at the end of a headline. After a colon, `M-' offers completion on tags. There is also a special command for inserting tags: `C-c C-c' Enter new tags for the current headline. Org-mode will either offer completion or a special single-key interface for setting tags, see below. After pressing , the tags will be inserted and aligned to `org-tags-column'. When called with a `C-u' prefix, all tags in the current buffer will be aligned to that column, just to make things look nice. TAGS are automatically realigned after promotion, demotion, and TODO state changes (*note TODO basics::). Org will support tag insertion based on a _list of tags_. By default this list is constructed dynamically, containing all tags currently used in the buffer. You may also globally specify a hard list of tags with the variable `org-tag-alist'. Finally you can set the default tags for a given file with lines like #+TAGS: @WORK @HOME @TENNISCLUB #+TAGS: Laptop Car PC Sailboat If you have globally defined your preferred set of tags using the variable `org-tag-alist', but would like to use a dynamic tag list in a specific file: Just add an empty TAGS option line to that file: #+TAGS: The default support method for entering tags is minibuffer completion. However, Org-mode also implements a much better method: _fast tag selection_. This method allows to select and deselect tags with a single key per tag. To function efficiently, you should assign unique keys to most tags. This can be done globally with (setq org-tag-alist '(("@WORK" . ?w) ("@HOME" . ?h) ("Laptop" . ?l))) or on a per-file basis with #+TAGS: @WORK(w) @HOME(h) @TENNISCLUB(t) Laptop(l) PC(p) You can also group together tags that are mutually exclusive. With curly braces(1) #+TAGS: { @WORK(w) @HOME(h) @TENNISCLUB(t) } Laptop(l) PC(p) you indicate that at most one of `@WORK', `@HOME', and `@TENNISCLUB' should be selected. Don't forget to press `C-c C-c' with the cursor in one of these lines to activate any changes. If at least one tag has a selection key, pressing `C-c C-c' will automatically present you with a special interface, listing inherited tags, the tags of the current headline, and a list of all legal tags with corresponding keys(2). In this interface, you can use the following keys: `a-z...' Pressing keys assigned to tags will add or remove them from the list of tags in the current line. Selecting a tag in a group of mutually exclusive tags will turn off any other tags from that group. `' Enter a tag in the minibuffer, even if the tag is not in the predefined list. You will be able to complete on all tags present in the buffer. `' Clear all tags for this line. `' Accept the modified set. `C-g' Abort without installing changes. `q' If `q' is not assigned to a tag, it aborts like `C-g'. `!' Turn off groups of mutually exclusive tags. Use this to (as an exception) assign several tags from such a group. `C-c' Toggle auto-exit after the next change (see below). If you are using expert mode, the first `C-c' will display the selection window. This method lets you assign tags to a headline with very few keys. With the above setup, you could clear the current tags and set `@HOME', `Laptop' and `PC' tags with just the following keys: `C-c C-c h l p '. Switching from `@HOME' to `@WORK' would be done with `C-c C-c w ' or alternatively with `C-c C-c C-c w'. Adding the non-predefined tag `Sarah' could be done with `C-c C-c S a r a h '. If you find that most of the time, you need only a single keypress to modify your list of tags, set the variable `org-fast-tag-selection-single-key'. Then you no longer have to press to exit fast tag selection - it will immediately exit after the first change. If you then occasionally need more keys, press `C-c' to turn off auto-exit for the current tag selection process (in effect: start selection with `C-c C-c C-c' instead of `C-c C-c'). If you set the variable to the value `expert', the special window is not even shown for single-key tag selection, it comes up only when you press an extra `C-c'. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) In `org-mode-alist' use `'(:startgroup)' and `'(:endgroup)', respectively. Several groups are allowed. (2) Keys will automatically be assigned to tags which have no configured keys.  File: org, Node: Tag searches, Prev: Setting tags, Up: Tags 6.3 Tag searches ================ Once a tags system has been set up, it can be used to collect related information into special lists. `C-c \' `C-c / T' Create a sparse tree with all headlines matching a tags search. With a `C-u' prefix argument, ignore headlines that are not a TODO line. `C-c a m' Create a global list of tag matches from all agenda files. *Note Matching tags and properties::. `C-c a M' Create a global list of tag matches from all agenda files, but check only TODO items and force checking subitems (see variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels'). A tags search string can use Boolean operators `&' for AND and `|' for OR. `&' binds more strongly than `|'. Parenthesis are currently not implemented. A tag may also be preceded by `-', to select against it, and `+' is syntactic sugar for positive selection. The AND operator `&' is optional when `+' or `-' is present. Examples: `+WORK-BOSS' Select headlines tagged `:WORK:', but discard those also tagged `:BOSS:'. `WORK|LAPTOP' Selects lines tagged `:WORK:' or `:LAPTOP:'. `WORK|LAPTOP&NIGHT' Like before, but require the `:LAPTOP:' lines to be tagged also `NIGHT'. If you are using multi-state TODO keywords (*note TODO extensions::), it can be useful to also match on the TODO keyword. This can be done by adding a condition after a slash to a tags match. The syntax is similar to the tag matches, but should be applied with consideration: For example, a positive selection on several TODO keywords can not meaningfully be combined with boolean AND. However, _negative selection_ combined with AND can be meaningful. To make sure that only lines are checked that actually have any TODO keyword, use `C-c a M', or equivalently start the todo part after the slash with `!'. Examples: `WORK/WAITING' Select `:WORK:'-tagged TODO lines with the specific TODO keyword `WAITING'. `WORK/!-WAITING-NEXT' Select `:WORK:'-tagged TODO lines that are neither `WAITING' nor `NEXT' `WORK/+WAITING|+NEXT' Select `:WORK:'-tagged TODO lines that are either `WAITING' or `NEXT'. Any element of the tag/todo match can be a regular expression - in this case it must be enclosed in curly braces. For example, `WORK+{^BOSS.*}' matches headlines that contain the tag `WORK' and any tag starting with `BOSS'. You can also require a headline to be of a certain level, by writing instead of any TAG an expression like `LEVEL=3'. For example, a search `+LEVEL=3+BOSS/-DONE' lists all level three headlines that have the tag BOSS and are _not_ marked with the todo keyword DONE.  File: org, Node: Properties and columns, Next: Timestamps, Prev: Tags, Up: Top 7 Properties and Columns ************************ Properties are a set of key-value pairs associated with an entry. There are two main applications for properties in Org-mode. First, properties are like tags, but with a value. For example, in a file where you document bugs and plan releases of a piece of software, instead of using tags like `:release_1:', `:release_2:', it can be more efficient to use a property `RELEASE' with a value `1.0' or `2.0'. Second, you can use properties to implement (very basic) database capabilities in an Org-mode buffer, for example to create a list of Music CD's you own. You can edit and view properties conveniently in column view (*note Column view::). * Menu: * Property syntax:: How properties are spelled out * Special properties:: Access to other Org-mode features * Property searches:: Matching property values * Column view:: Tabular viewing and editing * Property API:: Properties for Lisp programmers  File: org, Node: Property syntax, Next: Special properties, Prev: Properties and columns, Up: Properties and columns 7.1 Property Syntax =================== Properties are key-value pairs. They need to be inserted into a special drawer (*note Drawers::) with the name `PROPERTIES'. Each property is specified on a single line, with the key (surrounded by colons) first, and the value after it. Here is an example: * CD collection ** Classic *** Goldberg Variations :PROPERTIES: :Title: Goldberg Variations :Composer: J.S. Bach :Artist: Glen Gould :Publisher: Deutsche Grammphon :NDisks: 1 :END: You may define the allowed values for a particular property `XYZ' by setting a property `XYZ_ALL'. This special property is _inherited_, so if you set it in a level 1 entry, it will apply to the entire tree. When allowed values are defined, setting the corresponding property becomes easier and is less prone to typing errors. For the example with the CD collection, we can predefine publishers and the number of disks in a box like this: * CD collection :PROPERTIES: :NDisks_ALL: 1 2 3 4 :Publisher_ALL: "Deutsche Grammophon" Phillips EMI :END: If you want to set properties that can be inherited by any entry in a file, use a line like #+PROPERTY: NDisks_ALL 1 2 3 4 Property values set with the global variable `org-global-properties' can be inherited by all entries in all Org-mode files. The following commands help to work with properties: `M-' After an initial colon in a line, complete property keys. All keys used in the current file will be offered as possible completions. `C-c C-x p' Set a property. This prompts for a property name and a value. If necessary, the property drawer is created as well. `M-x org-insert-property-drawer' Insert a property drawer into the current entry. The drawer will be inserted early in the entry, but after the lines with planning information like deadlines. `C-c C-c' With the cursor in a property drawer, this executes property commands. `C-c C-c s' Set a property in the current entry. Both the property and the value can be inserted using completion. `S-/' Switch property at point to the next/previous allowed value. `C-c C-c d' Remove a property from the current entry. `C-c C-c D' Globally remove a property, from all entries in the current file. `C-c C-c c' Compute the property at point, using the operator and scope from the nearest column format definition.  File: org, Node: Special properties, Next: Property searches, Prev: Property syntax, Up: Properties and columns 7.2 Special Properties ====================== Special properties provide alternative access method to Org-mode features discussed in the previous chapters, like the TODO state or the priority of an entry. This interface exists so that you can include these states into columns view (*note Column view::). The following property names are special and should not be used as keys in the properties drawer: TODO The TODO keyword of the entry. TAGS The tags defined directly in the headline. ALLTAGS All tags, including inherited ones. PRIORITY The priority of the entry, a string with a single letter. DEADLINE The deadline time string, without the angular brackets. SCHEDULED The scheduling time stamp, without the angular brackets.  File: org, Node: Property searches, Next: Column view, Prev: Special properties, Up: Properties and columns 7.3 Property searches ===================== To create sparse trees and special lists with selection based on properties, the same commands are used as for tag searches (*note Tag searches::), and the same logic applies. For example, a search string +WORK-BOSS+PRIORITY="A"+coffee="unlimited"+with={Sarah\|Denny} finds entries tagged `:WORK:' but not `:BOSS:', which also have a priority value `A', a `:coffee:' property with the value `unlimited', and a `:with:' property that is matched by the regular expression `Sarah\|Denny'. During a search, properties will be inherited from parent entries only if you configure the variable `org-use-property-inheritance'. There is also a special command for creating sparse trees based on a single property: `C-c / p' Create a sparse tree based on the value of a property. This first prompts for the name of a property, and then for a value. A sparse tree is created with all entries that define this property with the given value. If you enclose the value into curly braces, it is interpreted as a regular expression and matched against the property values.  File: org, Node: Column view, Next: Property API, Prev: Property searches, Up: Properties and columns 7.4 Column View =============== A great way to view and edit properties in an outline tree is _column view_. In column view, each outline item is turned into a table row. Columns in this table provide access to properties of the entries. Org-mode implements columns by overlaying a tabular structure over the headline of each item. While the headlines have been turned into a table row, you can still change the visibility of the outline tree. For example, you get a compact table by switching to CONTENTS view (`S- S-', or simply `c' while column view is active), but you can still open, read, and edit the entry below each headline. Or, you can switch to column view after executing a sparse tree command and in this way get a table only for the selected items. Column view also works in agenda buffers (*note Agenda views::) where queries have collected selected items, possibly from a number of files. * Menu: * Defining columns:: The COLUMNS format property * Using column view:: How to create and use column view * Capturing Column View:: A dynamic block for column view  File: org, Node: Defining columns, Next: Using column view, Prev: Column view, Up: Column view 7.4.1 Defining Columns ---------------------- Setting up a column view first requires defining the columns. This is done by defining a column format line. * Menu: * Scope of column definitions:: Where defined, where valid? * Column attributes:: Appearance and content of a column  File: org, Node: Scope of column definitions, Next: Column attributes, Prev: Defining columns, Up: Defining columns 7.4.1.1 Scope of column definitions ................................... To define a column format for an entire file, use a line like #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %TAGS %PRIORITY %TODO To specify a format that only applies to a specific tree, add a COLUMNS property to the top node of that tree, for example ** Top node for columns view :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %TAGS %PRIORITY %TODO :END: If a `COLUMNS' property is present in an entry, it defines columns for the entry itself, and for the entire subtree below it. Since the column definition is part of the hierarchical structure of the document, you can define columns on level 1 that are general enough for all sublevels, and more specific columns further down, when you edit a deeper part of the tree.  File: org, Node: Column attributes, Prev: Scope of column definitions, Up: Defining columns 7.4.1.2 Column attributes ......................... A column definition sets the attributes of a column. The general definition looks like this: %[width]property[(title)][{summary-type}] Except for the percent sign and the property name, all items are optional. The individual parts have the following meaning: width An integer specifying the width of the column in characters. If omitted, the width will be determined automatically. property The property that should be edited in this column. (title) The header text for the column. If omitted, the property name is used. {summary-type} The summary type. If specified, the column values for parent nodes are computed from the children. Supported summary types are: {+} Sum numbers in this column. {:} Sum times, HH:MM:SS, plain numbers are hours. {X} Checkbox status, [X] if all children are [X]. Here is an example for a complete columns definition, along with allowed values. :COLUMNS: %20ITEM %9Approved(Approved?){X} %Owner %11Status %10Time_Spent{:} :Owner_ALL: Tammy Mark Karl Lisa Don :Status_ALL: "In progress" "Not started yet" "Finished" "" :Approved_ALL: "[ ]" "[X]" The first column, `%25ITEM', means the first 25 characters of the item itself, i.e. of the headline. You probably always should start the column definition with the ITEM specifier. The other specifiers create columns `Owner' with a list of names as allowed values, for `Status' with four different possible values, and for a checkbox field `Approved'. When no width is given after the `%' character, the column will be exactly as wide as it needs to be in order to fully display all values. The `Approved' column does have a modified title (`Approved?', with a question mark). Summaries will be created for the `Time_Spent' column by adding time duration expressions like HH:MM, and for the `Approved' column, by providing an `[X]' status if all children have been checked.  File: org, Node: Using column view, Next: Capturing Column View, Prev: Defining columns, Up: Column view 7.4.2 Using Column View ----------------------- Turning column view on and off .............................. `C-c C-x C-c' Create the column view for the local environment. This command searches the hierarchy, up from point, for a `COLUMNS' property that defines a format. When one is found, the column view table is established for the entire tree, starting from the entry that contains the `COLUMNS' property. If none is found, the format is taken from the `#+COLUMNS' line or from the variable `org-columns-default-format', and column view is established for the current entry and its subtree. `q' Exit column view. Editing values .............. ` ' Move through the column view from field to field. `S-/' Switch to the next/previous allowed value of the field. For this, you have to have specified allowed values for a property. `n / p' Same as `S-/' `e' Edit the property at point. For the special properties, this will invoke the same interface that you normally use to change that property. For example, when editing a TAGS property, the tag completion or fast selection interface will pop up. `C-c C-c' When there is a checkbox at point, toggle it. `v' View the full value of this property. This is useful if the width of the column is smaller than that of the value. `a' Edit the list of allowed values for this property. If the list is found in the hierarchy, the modified values is stored there. If no list is found, the new value is stored in the first entry that is part of the current column view. Modifying the table structure ............................. `< / >' Make the column narrower/wider by one character. `S-M-' Insert a new column, to the right of the current column. `S-M-' Delete the current column.  File: org, Node: Capturing Column View, Prev: Using column view, Up: Column view 7.4.3 Capturing Column View --------------------------- Since column view is just an overlay over a buffer, it cannot be exported or printed directly. If you want to capture a column view, use the dynamic block (*note Dynamic blocks::). The frame of this block looks like this: * The column view #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id "label" #+END: This dynamic block has the following parameters: `:id' This is most important parameter. Column view is a feature that is often localized to a certain (sub)tree, and the capture block might be in a different location in the file. To identify the tree whose view to capture, you can use 3 values: local use the tree in which the capture block is located global make a global view, including all headings in the file "label" call column view in the tree that has and `:ID:' property with the value label `:hlines' When `t', insert a hline after every line. When a number N, insert a hline before each headline with level `<= N'. `:vlines' When set to `t', enforce column groups to get vertical lines. The following commands insert or update the dynamic block: `C-c C-x r' Insert a dynamic block capturing a column view. You will be prompted for the scope or id of the view. `C-c C-c' `C-c C-x C-u' Update dynamical block at point. The cursor needs to be in the `#+BEGIN' line of the dynamic block. `C-u C-c C-x C-u' Update all dynamic blocks (*note Dynamic blocks::). This is useful if you have several clocktable blocks in a buffer.  File: org, Node: Property API, Prev: Column view, Up: Properties and columns 7.5 The Property API ==================== There is a full API for accessing and changing properties. This API can be used by Emacs Lisp programs to work with properties and to implement features based on them. For more information see *Note Using the property API::.  File: org, Node: Timestamps, Next: Remember, Prev: Properties and columns, Up: Top 8 Timestamps ************ Items can be labeled with timestamps to make them useful for project planning. * Menu: * Time stamps:: Assigning a time to a tree entry * Creating timestamps:: Commands which insert timestamps * Deadlines and scheduling:: Planning your work * Clocking work time::  File: org, Node: Time stamps, Next: Creating timestamps, Prev: Timestamps, Up: Timestamps 8.1 Time stamps, deadlines and scheduling ========================================= A time stamp is a specification of a date (possibly with time or a range of times) in a special format, either `<2003-09-16 Tue>' or `<2003-09-16 Tue 09:39>' or `<2003-09-16 Tue 12:00-12:30>'(1). A time stamp can appear anywhere in the headline or body of an org-tree entry. Its presence causes entries to be shown on specific dates in the agenda (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::). We distinguish: PLAIN TIME STAMP, EVENT, APPOINTMENT A simple time stamp just assigns a date/time to an item. This is just like writing down an appointment or event in a paper agenda. In the timeline and agenda displays, the headline of an entry associated with a plain time stamp will be shown exactly on that date. * Meet Peter at the movies <2006-11-01 Wed 19:15> * Discussion on climate change <2006-11-02 Thu 20:00-22:00> TIME STAMP WITH REPEATER INTERVAL A time stamp may contain a _repeater interval_, indicating that it applies not only on the given date, but again and again after a certain interval of N days (d), weeks (w), months(m), or years(y). The following will show up in the agenda every Wednesday: * Pick up Sam at school <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 +1w> DIARY-STYLE SEXP ENTRIES For more complex date specifications, Org-mode supports using the special sexp diary entries implemented in the Emacs calendar/diary package. For example * The nerd meeting on every 2nd Thursday of the month <%%(diary-float t 4 2)> TIME/DATE RANGE Two time stamps connected by `--' denote a range. The headline will be shown on the first and last day of the range, and on any dates that are displayed and fall in the range. Here is an example: ** Meeting in Amsterdam <2004-08-23 Mon>--<2004-08-26 Thu> INACTIVE TIME STAMP Just like a plain time stamp, but with square brackets instead of angular ones. These time stamps are inactive in the sense that they do _not_ trigger an entry to show up in the agenda. * Gillian comes late for the fifth time [2006-11-01 Wed] ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) This is the standard ISO date/time format. If you cannot get used to these, see *Note Custom time format::  File: org, Node: Creating timestamps, Next: Deadlines and scheduling, Prev: Time stamps, Up: Timestamps 8.2 Creating timestamps ======================= For Org-mode to recognize time stamps, they need to be in the specific format. All commands listed below produce time stamps in the correct format. `C-c .' Prompt for a date and insert a corresponding time stamp. When the cursor is at a previously used time stamp, it is updated to NOW. When this command is used twice in succession, a time range is inserted. `C-u C-c .' Like `C-c .', but use the alternative format which contains date and time. The default time can be rounded to multiples of 5 minutes, see the option `org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes'. `C-c !' Like `C-c .', but insert an inactive time stamp that will not cause an agenda entry. `C-c <' Insert a time stamp corresponding to the cursor date in the Calendar. `C-c >' Access the Emacs calendar for the current date. If there is a timestamp in the current line, goto the corresponding date instead. `C-c C-o' Access the agenda for the date given by the time stamp or -range at point (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::). `S-' `S-' Change date at cursor by one day. These key bindings conflict with CUA-mode (*note Conflicts::). `S-' `S-' Change the item under the cursor in a timestamp. The cursor can be on a year, month, day, hour or minute. Note that if the cursor is in a headline and not at a time stamp, these same keys modify the priority of an item. (*note Priorities::). The key bindings also conflict with CUA-mode (*note Conflicts::). `C-c C-y' Evaluate a time range by computing the difference between start and end. With prefix arg, insert result after the time range (in a table: into the following column). * Menu: * The date/time prompt:: How org-mode helps you entering date and time * Custom time format:: Making dates look differently  File: org, Node: The date/time prompt, Next: Custom time format, Prev: Creating timestamps, Up: Creating timestamps 8.2.1 The date/time prompt -------------------------- When Org-mode prompts for a date/time, the prompt suggests to enter an ISO date. But it will in fact accept any string containing some date and/or time information. You can, for example, use `C-y' to paste a (possibly multi-line) string copied from an email message. Org-mode will find whatever information is in there and will replace anything not specified with the _default date and time_. The default is usually the current date and time, but when modifying an existing time stamp, or when entering the second stamp of a range, it is taken from the stamp in the buffer. For example: 3-2-5 --> 2003-02-05 feb 15 --> defaultyear-02-15 sep 12 9 --> 2009-09-12 12:45 --> default-date 12:45 22 sept 0:34 --> defaultyear-09-22 0:34 12 --> defaultyear-defaultmonth-12 Fri --> nearest Friday (defaultdate or later) Furthermore you can specify a relative date by giving, as the _first_ thing in the input: a plus/minus sign, a number and a letter [dwmy] to indicate change in days weeks, months, years. With a single plus or minus, the date is always relative to today. With a double plus or minus, it is relative to the default date. If instead of a single letter, you use the abbreviation of day name, the date will be the nth such day. E.g. +4d --> four days from today +4 --> same as above +2w --> two weeks from today ++5 --> five days from default date +2tue --> second tuesday from now. The function understands English month and weekday abbreviations. If you want to use unabbreviated names and/or other languages, configure the variables `parse-time-months' and `parse-time-weekdays'. Parallel to the minibuffer prompt, a calendar is popped up(1). When you exit the date prompt, either by clicking on a date in the calendar, or by pressing , the date selected in the calendar will be combined with the information entered at the prompt. You can control the calendar fully from the minibuffer: `<' Scroll calendar backwards by one month. `>' Scroll calendar forwards by one month. `mouse-1' Select date by clicking on it. `S-' One day forward. `S-' One day back. `S-' One week forward. `S-' One week back. `M-S-' One month forward. `M-S-' One month back. `' Choose date in calendar (only if nothing was typed into minibuffer). ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) If you don't need/want the calendar, configure the variable `org-popup-calendar-for-date-prompt'.  File: org, Node: Custom time format, Prev: The date/time prompt, Up: Creating timestamps 8.2.2 Custom time format ------------------------ Org-mode uses the standard ISO notation for dates and times as it is defined in ISO 8601. If you cannot get used to this and require another representation of date and time to keep you happy, you can get it by customizing the variables `org-display-custom-times' and `org-time-stamp-custom-formats'. `C-c C-x C-t' Toggle the display of custom formats for dates and times. Org-mode needs the default format for scanning, so the custom date/time format does not _replace_ the default format - instead it is put _over_ the default format using text properties. This has the following consequences: * You cannot place the cursor onto a time stamp anymore, only before or after. * The `S-/' keys can no longer be used to adjust each component of a time stamp. If the cursor is at the beginning of the stamp, `S-/' will change the stamp by one day, just like `S-/'. At the end of the stamp, the time will be changed by one minute. * If the time stamp contains a range of clock times or a repeater, these will not be overlayed, but remain in the buffer as they were. * When you delete a time stamp character-by-character, it will only disappear from the buffer after _all_ (invisible) characters belonging to the ISO timestamp have been removed. * If the custom time stamp format is longer than the default and you are using dates in tables, table alignment will be messed up. If the custom format is shorter, things do work as expected.  File: org, Node: Deadlines and scheduling, Next: Clocking work time, Prev: Creating timestamps, Up: Timestamps 8.3 Deadlines and Scheduling ============================ A time stamp may be preceded by special keywords to facilitate planning of work: DEADLINE The task (most likely a TODO item) is supposed to be finished on that date, and it will be listed then. In addition, the compilation for _today_ will carry a warning about the approaching or missed deadline, starting `org-deadline-warning-days' before the due date, and continuing until the entry is marked DONE. An example: *** TODO write article about the Earth for the Guide The editor in charge is [[bbdb:Ford Prefect]] DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun> You can specify a different lead time for warnings for a specific deadlines using the following syntax. Here is an example with a warning period of 5 days `DEADLINE: <2004-02-29 Sun -5d>'. SCHEDULED You are planning to start working on that task on the given date. The headline will be listed under the given date(1). In addition, a reminder that the scheduled date has passed will be present in the compilation for _today_, until the entry is marked DONE. I.e., the task will automatically be forwarded until completed. *** TODO Call Trillian for a date on New Years Eve. SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat> Important: Scheduling an item in Org-mode should not be understood like Scheduling a meeting. Setting a date for a meeting is just a simple appointment, you should mark this entry with a simple plain time stamp, to get this item shown on the date where it applies. This is a frequent mis-understanding from Org-users. In Org-mode, Scheduling means setting a date when you want to start working on an action item. * Menu: * Inserting deadline/schedule:: Planning items * Repeated tasks:: Items that show up again and again ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) It will still be listed on that date after it has been marked DONE. If you don't like this, set the variable `org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done'.  File: org, Node: Inserting deadline/schedule, Next: Repeated tasks, Prev: Deadlines and scheduling, Up: Deadlines and scheduling 8.3.1 Inserting deadline/schedule --------------------------------- The following commands allow to quickly insert a deadline or to schedule an item: `C-c C-d' Insert `DEADLINE' keyword along with a stamp. The insertion will happen in the line directly following the headline. When called with a prefix arg, an existing deadline will be removed from the entry. `C-c C-w' Create a sparse tree with all deadlines that are either past-due, or which will become due within `org-deadline-warning-days'. With `C-u' prefix, show all deadlines in the file. With a numeric prefix, check that many days. For example, `C-1 C-c C-w' shows all deadlines due tomorrow. `C-c C-s' Insert `SCHEDULED' keyword along with a stamp. The insertion will happen in the line directly following the headline. Any CLOSED timestamp will be removed. When called with a prefix argument, remove the scheduling date from the entry.  File: org, Node: Repeated tasks, Prev: Inserting deadline/schedule, Up: Deadlines and scheduling 8.3.2 Repeated Tasks -------------------- Some tasks need to be repeated again and again, and Org-mode therefore allows to use a repeater in a DEADLINE or SCHEDULED time stamp, for example: ** TODO Pay the rent DEADLINE: <2005-10-01 Sat +1m> Deadlines and scheduled items produce entries in the agenda when they are over-due, so it is important to be able to mark such an entry as completed once you have done so. When you mark a DEADLINE or a SCHEDULE with the todo keyword DONE, it will no longer produce entries in the agenda. The problem with this is, however, that then also the _next_ instance of the repeated entry will not be active. Org-mode deals with this in the following way: When you try to mark such an entry DONE (using `C-c C-t'), it will shift the base date of the repeating time stamp by the repeater interval, and immediately set the entry state back to TODO. In the example above, setting the state to DONE would actually switch the date like this: ** TODO Pay the rent DEADLINE: <2005-11-01 Tue +1m> You will also be prompted for a note(1) that will be put under the DEADLINE line to keep a record that you actually acted on the previous instance of this deadline. As a consequence of shifting the base date, this entry will no longer be visible in the agenda when checking past dates, but all future instances will be visible. You may have both scheduling and deadline information for a specific task - just make sure that the repeater intervals on both are the same. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) You can change this using the option `org-log-repeat', or the `#+STARTUP' options `logrepeat' and `nologrepeat'.  File: org, Node: Clocking work time, Prev: Deadlines and scheduling, Up: Timestamps 8.4 Clocking work time ====================== Org-mode allows you to clock the time you spent on specific tasks in a project. When you start working on an item, you can start the clock. When you stop working on that task, or when you mark the task done, the clock is stopped and the corresponding time interval is recorded. It also computes the total time spent on each subtree of a project. `C-c C-x C-i' Start the clock on the current item (clock-in). This inserts the CLOCK keyword together with a timestamp. If this is not the first clocking of this item, the multiple CLOCK lines will be wrapped into a `:CLOCK:' drawer (see also the variable `org-clock-into-drawer'. `C-c C-x C-o' Stop the clock (clock-out). The inserts another timestamp at the same location where the clock was last started. It also directly computes the resulting time in inserts it after the time range as `=> HH:MM'. See the variable `org-log-done' for the possibility to record an additional note together with the clock-out time stamp(1). `C-c C-y' Recompute the time interval after changing one of the time stamps. This is only necessary if you edit the time stamps directly. If you change them with `S-' keys, the update is automatic. `C-c C-t' Changing the TODO state of an item to DONE automatically stops the clock if it is running in this same item. `C-c C-x C-x' Cancel the current clock. This is useful if a clock was started by mistake, or if you ended up working on something else. `C-c C-x C-j' Jump to the entry that contains the currently running clock, an another window. `C-c C-x C-d' Display time summaries for each subtree in the current buffer. This puts overlays at the end of each headline, showing the total time recorded under that heading, including the time of any subheadings. You can use visibility cycling to study the tree, but the overlays disappear when you change the buffer (see variable `org-remove-highlights-with-change') or press `C-c C-c'. `C-c C-x C-r' Insert a dynamic block (*note Dynamic blocks::) containing a clock report as an org-mode table into the current file. When the cursor is at an existing clock table, just update it. When called with a prefix argument, jump to the first clock report in the current document and update it. #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 2 :emphasize nil :scope file #+END: clocktable If such a block already exists at point, its content is replaced by the new table. The `BEGIN' line can specify options: :maxlevel Maximum level depth to which times are listed in the table. :emphasize When `t', emphasize level one and level two items :scope The scope to consider. This can be any of the following: nil the current buffer or narrowed region file the full current buffer subtree the subtree where the clocktable is located treeN the surrounding level N tree, for example `tree3' tree the surrounding level 1 tree agenda all agenda files ("file"..) scan these files :block The time block to consider. This block is specified relative to the current time and may be any of these keywords: `today', `yesterday', `thisweek', `lastweek', `thismonth', `lastmonth', `thisyear', or `lastyear'. :tstart A time string specifying when to start considering times :tend A time string specifying when to stop considering times So to get a clock summary of the current level 1 tree, for the current day, you could write #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 2 :block today :scope tree1 #+END: clocktable and to use a specific time range you could write(2) #+BEGIN: clocktable :tstart "<2006-08-10 Thu 10:00>" :tend "<2006-08-10 Thu 12:00>" #+END: clocktable `C-c C-c' `C-c C-x C-u' Update dynamical block at point. The cursor needs to be in the `#+BEGIN' line of the dynamic block. `C-u C-c C-x C-u' Update all dynamic blocks (*note Dynamic blocks::). This is useful if you have several clocktable blocks in a buffer. The `l' key may be used in the timeline (*note Timeline::) and in the agenda (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::) to show which tasks have been worked on or closed during a day. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) The corresponding in-buffer setting is: `#+STARTUP: lognoteclock-out' (2) Note that all parameters must be specified in a single line - the line is broken here only to fit it onto the manual.  File: org, Node: Remember, Next: Agenda views, Prev: Timestamps, Up: Top 9 Remember ********** The Remember package by John Wiegley lets you store quick notes with little interruption of your work flow. See `http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RememberMode' for more information. It is an excellent way to add new notes and TODO items to Org-mode files. Org-mode significantly expands the possibilities of remember: You may define templates for different note types, and associate target files and headlines with specific templates. It also allows you to select the location where a note should be stored interactively, on the fly. * Menu: * Setting up remember:: Some code for .emacs to get things going * Remember templates:: Define the outline of different note types * Storing notes:: Directly get the note to where it belongs  File: org, Node: Setting up remember, Next: Remember templates, Prev: Remember, Up: Remember 9.1 Setting up remember ======================= The following customization will tell remember to use org files as target, and to create annotations compatible with Org-mode links. (require 'remember) (setq org-directory "~/path/to/my/orgfiles/") (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org")) (setq remember-annotation-functions '(org-remember-annotation)) (setq remember-handler-functions '(org-remember-handler)) (add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'org-remember-apply-template)  File: org, Node: Remember templates, Next: Storing notes, Prev: Setting up remember, Up: Remember 9.2 Remember templates ====================== In combination with Org-mode, you can use templates to generate different types of remember notes. For example, if you would like to use one template to create general TODO entries, another one for journal entries, and a third one for collecting random ideas, you could use: (setq org-remember-templates '(("Todo" ?t "* TODO %?\n %i\n %a" "~/org/TODO.org" "Tasks") ("Journal" ?j "* %U %?\n\n %i\n %a" "~/org/JOURNAL.org") ("Idea" ?i "* %^{Title}\n %i\n %a" "~/org/JOURNAL.org" "New Ideas"))) In these entries, the first string is just a name, and the character specifies how to select the template. It is useful if the character is also the first letter of the name. The next string specifies the template. Two more (optional) strings give the file in which, and the headline under which the new note should be stored. The file defaults (if not present or `nil') to `org-default-notes-file', the heading to `org-remember-default-headline'. Both defaults help to get to the storing location quickly, but you can change the location interactively while storing the note. When you call `M-x remember' (or `M-x org-remember') to remember something, org will prompt for a key to select the template (if you have more than one template) and then prepare the buffer like * TODO [[file:link to where you called remember]] During expansion of the template, special `%'-escapes allow dynamic insertion of content: %^{prompt} prompt the user for a string and replace this sequence with it. %t time stamp, date only %T time stamp with date and time %u, %U like the above, but inactive time stamps %^t like `%t', but prompt for date. Similarly `%^T', `%^u', `%^U' You may define a prompt like `%^{Birthday}t' %n user name (taken from `user-full-name') %a annotation, normally the link created with `org-store-link' %A like `%a', but prompt for the description part %i initial content, the region when remember is called with C-u. The entire text will be indented like `%i' itself. %^g prompt for tags, with completion on tags in target file. %^G prompt for tags, with completion all tags in all agenda files. %:keyword specific information for certain link types, see below For specific link types, the following keywords will be defined(1): Link type | Available keywords -------------------+---------------------------------------------- bbdb | %:name %:company vm, wl, mh, rmail | %:type %:subject %:message-id | %:from %:fromname %:fromaddress | %:to %:toname %:toaddress | %:fromto (either "to NAME" or "from NAME")(2) gnus | %:group, for messages also all email fields w3, w3m | %:url info | %:file %:node calendar | %:date" To place the cursor after template expansion use: %? After completing the template, position cursor here. If you change you mind about which template to use, call `org-remember' in the remember buffer. You may then select a new template that will be filled with the previous context information. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) If you define your own link types (*note Adding hyperlink types::), any property you store with `org-store-link-props' can be accessed in remember templates in a similar way. (2) This will always be the other, not the user. See the variable `org-from-is-user-regexp'.  File: org, Node: Storing notes, Prev: Remember templates, Up: Remember 9.3 Storing notes ================= When you are finished preparing a note with remember, you have to press `C-c C-c' to file the note away. The handler will store the note in the file and under the headline specified in the template, or it will use the default file and headlines. The window configuration will be restored, and you are back in the working context before the call to `remember'. To re-use the location found during the last call to `remember', exit the remember buffer with `C-u C-u C-c C-c', i.e. specify a double prefix argument to `C-c C-c'. If you want to store the note to a different place, use `C-u C-c C-c' instead to exit remember(1). The handler will then first prompt for a target file - if you press , the value specified for the template is used. Then the command offers the headings tree of the selected file, with the cursor position at the default headline (if you had specified one in the template). You can either immediately press to get the note placed there. Or you can use the following keys to find a different location: Cycle visibility. / Next/previous visible headline. n / p Next/previous visible headline. f / b Next/previous headline same level. u One level up. Pressing or or then leads to the following result. Cursor Key Note gets inserted position on headline as sublevel of the heading at cursor, first or last depending on `org-reverse-note-order'. /as same level, before/after current heading buffer-start as level 2 heading at end of file or level 1 at beginning depending on `org-reverse-note-order'. not on at cursor position, level taken from context. headline Before inserting the text into a tree, the function ensures that the text has a headline, i.e. a first line that starts with a `*'. If not, a headline is constructed from the current date and some additional data. If you have indented the text of the note below the headline, the indentation will be adapted if inserting the note into the tree requires demotion from level 1. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Configure the variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt' to make this behavior the default.  File: org, Node: Agenda views, Next: Embedded LaTeX, Prev: Remember, Up: Top 10 Agenda Views *************** Due to the way Org-mode works, TODO items, time-stamped items, and tagged headlines can be scattered throughout a file or even a number of files. To get an overview over open action items, or over events that are important for a particular date, this information must be collected, sorted and displayed in an organized way. Org-mode can select items based on various criteria, and display them in a separate buffer. Six different view types are provided: * an _agenda_ that is like a calendar and shows information for specific dates, * a _TODO list_ that covers all unfinished action items, * a _tags view_, showings headlines based on the tags associated with them, * a _timeline view_ that shows all events in a single Org-mode file, in time-sorted view, * a _stuck projects view_ showing projects that currently don't move along, and * _custom views_ that are special tag/keyword searches and combinations of different views. The extracted information is displayed in a special _agenda buffer_. This buffer is read-only, but provides commands to visit the corresponding locations in the original Org-mode files, and even to edit these files remotely. Two variables control how the agenda buffer is displayed and whether the window configuration is restored when the agenda exits: `org-agenda-window-setup' and `org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit'. * Menu: * Agenda files:: Files being searched for agenda information * Agenda dispatcher:: Keyboard access to agenda views * Built-in agenda views:: What is available out of the box? * Presentation and sorting:: How agenda items are prepared for display * Agenda commands:: Remote editing of org trees * Custom agenda views:: Defining special searches and views  File: org, Node: Agenda files, Next: Agenda dispatcher, Prev: Agenda views, Up: Agenda views 10.1 Agenda files ================= The information to be shown is collected from all _agenda files_, the files listed in the variable `org-agenda-files'(1). If a directory is part of this list, all files with the extension `.org' in this directory will be part of the list. Thus even if you only work with a single Org-mode file, this file should be put into that list(2). You can customize `org-agenda-files', but the easiest way to maintain it is through the following commands `C-c [' Add current file to the list of agenda files. The file is added to the front of the list. If it was already in the list, it is moved to the front. With prefix arg, file is added/moved to the end. `C-c ]' Remove current file from the list of agenda files. `C-,' `C-'' Cycle through agenda file list, visiting one file after the other. The Org menu contains the current list of files and can be used to visit any of them. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) If the value of that variable is not a list, but a single file name, then the list of agenda files will be maintained in that external file. (2) When using the dispatcher, pressing `<' before selecting a command will actually limit the command to the current file, and ignore `org-agenda-files' until the next dispatcher command.  File: org, Node: Agenda dispatcher, Next: Built-in agenda views, Prev: Agenda files, Up: Agenda views 10.2 The agenda dispatcher ========================== The views are created through a dispatcher that should be bound to a global key, for example `C-c a' (*note Installation::). In the following we will assume that `C-c a' is indeed how the dispatcher is accessed and list keyboard access to commands accordingly. After pressing `C-c a', an additional letter is required to execute a command. The dispatcher offers the following default commands: `a' Create the calendar-like agenda (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::). `t / T' Create a list of all TODO items (*note Global TODO list::). `m / M' Create a list of headlines matching a TAGS expression (*note Matching tags and properties::). `L' Create the timeline view for the current buffer (*note Timeline::). `# / !' Create a list of stuck projects (*note Stuck projects::). `/' Search for a regular expression in all agenda files and additionally in the files listed in `org-agenda-multi-occur-extra-files'. This uses the Emacs command `multi-occur'. A prefix argument can be used to specify the number of context lines for each match, default is 1. `<' Restrict an agenda command to the current buffer(1). After pressing `<', you still need to press the character selecting the command. `< <' If there is an active region, restrict the following agenda command to the region. Otherwise, restrict it to the current subtree(2). After pressing `< <', you still need to press the character selecting the command. You can also define custom commands that will be accessible through the dispatcher, just like the default commands. This includes the possibility to create extended agenda buffers that contain several blocks together, for example the weekly agenda, the global TODO list and a number of special tags matches. *Note Custom agenda views::. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) For backward compatibility, you can also press `1' to restrict to the current buffer. (2) For backward compatibility, you can also press `0' to restrict to the current buffer.  File: org, Node: Built-in agenda views, Next: Presentation and sorting, Prev: Agenda dispatcher, Up: Agenda views 10.3 The built-in agenda views ============================== In this section we describe the built-in views. * Menu: * Weekly/Daily agenda:: The calendar page with current tasks * Global TODO list:: All unfinished action items * Matching tags and properties:: Structured information with fine-tuned search * Timeline:: Time-sorted view for single file * Stuck projects:: Find projects you need to review  File: org, Node: Weekly/Daily agenda, Next: Global TODO list, Prev: Built-in agenda views, Up: Built-in agenda views 10.3.1 The weekly/daily agenda ------------------------------ The purpose of the weekly/daily _agenda_ is to act like a page of a paper agenda, showing all the tasks for the current week or day. `C-c a a' Compile an agenda for the current week from a list of org files. The agenda shows the entries for each day. With a numeric prefix(1) (like `C-u 2 1 C-c a a') you may set the number of days to be displayed (see also the variable `org-agenda-ndays') Remote editing from the agenda buffer means, for example, that you can change the dates of deadlines and appointments from the agenda buffer. The commands available in the Agenda buffer are listed in *Note Agenda commands::. Calendar/Diary integration .......................... Emacs contains the calendar and diary by Edward M. Reingold. The calendar displays a three-month calendar with holidays from different countries and cultures. The diary allows you to keep track of anniversaries, lunar phases, sunrise/set, recurrent appointments (weekly, monthly) and more. In this way, it is quite complementary to Org-mode. It can be very useful to combine output from Org-mode with the diary. In order to include entries from the Emacs diary into Org-mode's agenda, you only need to customize the variable (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) After that, everything will happen automatically. All diary entries including holidays, anniversaries etc will be included in the agenda buffer created by Org-mode. , , and can be used from the agenda buffer to jump to the diary file in order to edit existing diary entries. The `i' command to insert new entries for the current date works in the agenda buffer, as well as the commands `S', `M', and `C' to display Sunrise/Sunset times, show lunar phases and to convert to other calendars, respectively. `c' can be used to switch back and forth between calendar and agenda. If you are using the diary only for sexp entries and holidays, it is faster to not use the above setting, but instead to copy or even move the entries into an Org-mode file. Org-mode evaluates diary-style sexp entries, and does it faster because there is no overhead for first creating the diary display. Note that the sexp entries must start at the left margin, no white space is allowed before them. For example, the following segment of an Org-mode file will be processed and entries will be made in the agenda: * Birthdays and similar stuff #+CATEGORY: Holiday %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names #+CATEGORY: Ann %%(diary-anniversary 14 5 1956) Arthur Dent is %d years old %%(diary-anniversary 2 10 1869) Mahatma Gandhi would be %d years old Appointment reminders ..................... Org can interact with Emacs appointments notification facility. To add all the appointments of your agenda files, use the command `org-agenda-to-appt'. This commands also lets you filter through the list of your appointments and add only those belonging to a specific category or matching a regular expression. See the docstring for details. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) For backward compatibility, the universal prefix `C-u' causes all TODO entries to be listed before the agenda. This feature is deprecated, use the dedicated TODO list, or a block agenda instead.  File: org, Node: Global TODO list, Next: Matching tags and properties, Prev: Weekly/Daily agenda, Up: Built-in agenda views 10.3.2 The global TODO list --------------------------- The global TODO list contains all unfinished TODO items, formatted and collected into a single place. `C-c a t' Show the global TODO list. This collects the TODO items from all agenda files (*note Agenda views::) into a single buffer. The buffer is in `agenda-mode', so there are commands to examine and manipulate the TODO entries directly from that buffer (*note Agenda commands::). `C-c a T' Like the above, but allows selection of a specific TODO keyword. You can also do this by specifying a prefix argument to `C-c a t'. With a `C-u' prefix you are prompted for a keyword, and you may also specify several keywords by separating them with `|' as boolean OR operator. With a numeric prefix, the Nth keyword in `org-todo-keywords' is selected. The `r' key in the agenda buffer regenerates it, and you can give a prefix argument to this command to change the selected TODO keyword, for example `3 r'. If you often need a search for a specific keyword, define a custom command for it (*note Agenda dispatcher::). Matching specific TODO keywords can also be done as part of a tags search (*note Tag searches::). Remote editing of TODO items means that you can change the state of a TODO entry with a single key press. The commands available in the TODO list are described in *Note Agenda commands::. Normally the global todo list simply shows all headlines with TODO keywords. This list can become very long. There are two ways to keep it more compact: - Some people view a TODO item that has been _scheduled_ for execution (*note Time stamps::) as no longer _open_. Configure the variable `org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled' to exclude scheduled items from the global TODO list. - TODO items may have sublevels to break up the task into subtasks. In such cases it may be enough to list only the highest level TODO headline and omit the sublevels from the global list. Configure the variable `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' to get this behavior.  File: org, Node: Matching tags and properties, Next: Timeline, Prev: Global TODO list, Up: Built-in agenda views 10.3.3 Matching Tags and Properties ----------------------------------- If headlines in the agenda files are marked with _tags_ (*note Tags::), you can select headlines based on the tags that apply to them and collect them into an agenda buffer. `C-c a m' Produce a list of all headlines that match a given set of tags. The command prompts for a selection criterion, which is a boolean logic expression with tags, like `+WORK+URGENT-WITHBOSS' or `WORK|HOME' (*note Tags::). If you often need a specific search, define a custom command for it (*note Agenda dispatcher::). `C-c a M' Like `C-c a m', but only select headlines that are also TODO items and force checking subitems (see variable `org-tags-match-list-sublevels'). Matching specific todo keywords together with a tags match is also possible, see *Note Tag searches::. The commands available in the tags list are described in *Note Agenda commands::.  File: org, Node: Timeline, Next: Stuck projects, Prev: Matching tags and properties, Up: Built-in agenda views 10.3.4 Timeline for a single file --------------------------------- The timeline summarizes all time-stamped items from a single Org-mode file in a _time-sorted view_. The main purpose of this command is to give an overview over events in a project. `C-c a L' Show a time-sorted view of the org file, with all time-stamped items. When called with a `C-u' prefix, all unfinished TODO entries (scheduled or not) are also listed under the current date. The commands available in the timeline buffer are listed in *Note Agenda commands::.  File: org, Node: Stuck projects, Prev: Timeline, Up: Built-in agenda views 10.3.5 Stuck projects --------------------- If you are following a system like David Allen's GTD to organize your work, one of the "duties" you have is a regular review to make sure that all projects move along. A _stuck_ project is a project that has no defined next actions, so it will never show up in the TODO lists Org-mode produces. During the review, you need to identify such projects and define next actions for them. `C-c a #' List projects that are stuck. `C-c a !' Customize the variable `org-stuck-projects' to define what a stuck project is and how to find it. You almost certainly will have to configure this view before it will work for you. The built-in default assumes that all your projects are level-2 headlines, and that a project is not stuck if it has at least one entry marked with a todo keyword TODO or NEXT or NEXTACTION. Lets assume that you, in your own way of using Org-mode, identify projects with a tag PROJECT, and that you use a todo keyword MAYBE to indicate a project that should not be considered yet. Lets further assume that the todo keyword DONE marks finished projects, and that NEXT and TODO indicate next actions. The tag @SHOP indicates shopping and is a next action even without the NEXT tag. Finally, if the project contains the special word IGNORE anywhere, it should not be listed either. In this case you would start by identifying eligible projects with a tags/todo match `+PROJECT/-MAYBE-DONE', and then check for TODO, NEXT, @SHOP, and IGNORE in the subtree to identify projects that are not stuck. The correct customization for this is (setq org-stuck-projects '("+PROJECT/-MAYBE-DONE" ("NEXT" "TODO") ("@SHOP") "\\"))  File: org, Node: Presentation and sorting, Next: Agenda commands, Prev: Built-in agenda views, Up: Agenda views 10.4 Presentation and sorting ============================= Before displaying items in an agenda view, Org-mode visually prepares the items and sorts them. Each item occupies a single line. The line starts with a _prefix_ that contains the _category_ (*note Categories::) of the item and other important information. You can customize the prefix using the option `org-agenda-prefix-format'. The prefix is followed by a cleaned-up version of the outline headline associated with the item. * Menu: * Categories:: Not all tasks are equal * Time-of-day specifications:: How the agenda knows the time * Sorting of agenda items:: The order of things  File: org, Node: Categories, Next: Time-of-day specifications, Prev: Presentation and sorting, Up: Presentation and sorting 10.4.1 Categories ----------------- The category is a broad label assigned to each agenda item. By default, the category is simply derived from the file name, but you can also specify it with a special line in the buffer, like this(1): #+CATEGORY: Thesis If you would like to have a special CATEGORY for a single entry or a (sub)tree, give the entry a `:CATEGORY:' property with the location as the value (*note Properties and columns::). The display in the agenda buffer looks best if the category is not longer than 10 characters. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) If there are several such lines in a file, each specifies the category for the text below it. The first category also applies to any text before the first CATEGORY line. This method is only kept for backward compatibility. The preferred method for setting multiple categories in a buffer is using a property.  File: org, Node: Time-of-day specifications, Next: Sorting of agenda items, Prev: Categories, Up: Presentation and sorting 10.4.2 Time-of-Day Specifications --------------------------------- Org-mode checks each agenda item for a time-of-day specification. The time can be part of the time stamp that triggered inclusion into the agenda, for example as in `<2005-05-10 Tue 19:00>'. Time ranges can be specified with two time stamps, like `<2005-05-10 Tue 20:30>--<2005-05-10 Tue 22:15>'. In the headline of the entry itself, a time(range) may also appear as plain text (like `12:45' or a `8:30-1pm'. If the agenda integrates the Emacs diary (*note Weekly/Daily agenda::), time specifications in diary entries are recognized as well. For agenda display, Org-mode extracts the time and displays it in a standard 24 hour format as part of the prefix. The example times in the previous paragraphs would end up in the agenda like this: 8:30-13:00 Arthur Dent lies in front of the bulldozer 12:45...... Ford Prefect arrives and takes Arthur to the pub 19:00...... The Vogon reads his poem 20:30-22:15 Marwin escorts the Hitchhikers to the bridge If the agenda is in single-day mode, or for the display of today, the timed entries are embedded in a time grid, like 8:00...... ------------------ 8:30-13:00 Arthur Dent lies in front of the bulldozer 10:00...... ------------------ 12:00...... ------------------ 12:45...... Ford Prefect arrives and takes Arthur to the pub 14:00...... ------------------ 16:00...... ------------------ 18:00...... ------------------ 19:00...... The Vogon reads his poem 20:00...... ------------------ 20:30-22:15 Marwin escorts the Hitchhikers to the bridge The time grid can be turned on and off with the variable `org-agenda-use-time-grid', and can be configured with `org-agenda-time-grid'.  File: org, Node: Sorting of agenda items, Prev: Time-of-day specifications, Up: Presentation and sorting 10.4.3 Sorting of agenda items ------------------------------ Before being inserted into a view, the items are sorted. How this is done depends on the type of view. * For the daily/weekly agenda, the items for each day are sorted. The default order is to first collect all items containing an explicit time-of-day specification. These entries will be shown at the beginning of the list, as a _schedule_ for the day. After that, items remain grouped in categories, in the sequence given by `org-agenda-files'. Within each category, items are sorted by priority (*note Priorities::), which is composed of the base priority (2000 for priority `A', 1000 for `B', and 0 for `C'), plus additional increments for overdue scheduled or deadline items. * For the TODO list, items remain in the order of categories, but within each category, sorting takes place according to priority (*note Priorities::). * For tags matches, items are not sorted at all, but just appear in the sequence in which they are found in the agenda files. Sorting can be customized using the variable `org-agenda-sorting-strategy'.  File: org, Node: Agenda commands, Next: Custom agenda views, Prev: Presentation and sorting, Up: Agenda views 10.5 Commands in the agenda buffer ================================== Entries in the agenda buffer are linked back to the org file or diary file where they originate. You are not allowed to edit the agenda buffer itself, but commands are provided to show and jump to the original entry location, and to edit the org-files "remotely" from the agenda buffer. In this way, all information is stored only once, removing the risk that your agenda and note files may diverge. Some commands can be executed with mouse clicks on agenda lines. For the other commands, the cursor needs to be in the desired line. Motion ...... `n' Next line (same as and `C-p'). `p' Previous line (same as and `C-n'). View/GoTo org file .................. `mouse-3' `' Display the original location of the item in another window. `L' Display original location and recenter that window. `mouse-2' `mouse-1' `' Go to the original location of the item in another window. Under Emacs 22, `mouse-1' will also works for this. `' Go to the original location of the item and delete other windows. `f' Toggle Follow mode. In Follow mode, as you move the cursor through the agenda buffer, the other window always shows the corresponding location in the org file. The initial setting for this mode in new agenda buffers can be set with the variable `org-agenda-start-with-follow-mode'. `b' Display the entire subtree of the current item in an indirect buffer. With numerical prefix ARG, go up to this level and then take that tree. If ARG is negative, go up that many levels. With `C-u' prefix, do not remove the previously used indirect buffer. `l' Toggle Logbook mode. In Logbook mode, entries that where marked DONE while logging was on (variable `org-log-done') are shown in the agenda, as are entries that have been clocked on that day. Change display .............. `o' Delete other windows. `d w m y' Switch to day/week/month/year view. When switching to day or week view, this setting becomes the default for subseqent agenda commands. Since month and year views are slow to create, the do not become the default. `D' Toggle the inclusion of diary entries. See *Note Weekly/Daily agenda::. `g' Toggle the time grid on and off. See also the variables `org-agenda-use-time-grid' and `org-agenda-time-grid'. `r' Recreate the agenda buffer, for example to reflect the changes after modification of the time stamps of items with S- and S-. When the buffer is the global todo list, a prefix argument is interpreted to create a selective list for a specific TODO keyword. `s' `C-x C-s' Save all Org-mode buffers in the current Emacs session. `' Display the following `org-agenda-ndays' days. For example, if the display covers a week, switch to the following week. With prefix arg, go forward that many times `org-agenda-ndays' days. `' Display the previous dates. `.' Goto today. Remote editing .............. `0-9' Digit argument. `C-_' Undo a change due to a remote editing command. The change is undone both in the agenda buffer and in the remote buffer. `t' Change the TODO state of the item, both in the agenda and in the original org file. `C-k' Delete the current agenda item along with the entire subtree belonging to it in the original Org-mode file. If the text to be deleted remotely is longer than one line, the kill needs to be confirmed by the user. See variable `org-agenda-confirm-kill'. `$' Archive the subtree corresponding to the current headline. `T' Show all tags associated with the current item. Because of inheritance, this may be more than the tags listed in the line itself. `:' Set tags for the current headline. If there is an active region in the agenda, change a tag for all headings in the region. `a' Toggle the ARCHIVE tag for the current headline. `,' Set the priority for the current item. Org-mode prompts for the priority character. If you reply with , the priority cookie is removed from the entry. `P' Display weighted priority of current item. `+' `S-' Increase the priority of the current item. The priority is changed in the original buffer, but the agenda is not resorted. Use the `r' key for this. `-' `S-' Decrease the priority of the current item. `C-c C-s' Schedule this item `C-c C-d' Set a deadline for this item. `S-' Change the time stamp associated with the current line by one day into the future. With prefix argument, change it by that many days. For example, `3 6 5 S-' will change it by a year. The stamp is changed in the original org file, but the change is not directly reflected in the agenda buffer. Use the `r' key to update the buffer. `S-' Change the time stamp associated with the current line by one day into the past. `>' Change the time stamp associated with the current line to today. The key `>' has been chosen, because it is the same as `S-.' on my keyboard. `I' Start the clock on the current item. If a clock is running already, it is stopped first. `O' Stop the previously started clock. `X' Cancel the currently running clock. `J' Jump to the running clock in another window. Calendar commands ................. `c' Open the Emacs calendar and move to the date at the agenda cursor. `c' When in the calendar, compute and show the Org-mode agenda for the date at the cursor. `i' Insert a new entry into the diary. Prompts for the type of entry (day, weekly, monthly, yearly, anniversary, cyclic) and creates a new entry in the diary, just as `i d' etc. would do in the calendar. The date is taken from the cursor position. `M' Show the phases of the moon for the three months around current date. `S' Show sunrise and sunset times. The geographical location must be set with calendar variables, see documentation of the Emacs calendar. `C' Convert the date at cursor into many other cultural and historic calendars. `H' Show holidays for three month around the cursor date. `C-c C-x C-c' Export a single iCalendar file containing entries from all agenda files. Exporting to a file ................... `C-x C-w' Write the agenda view to a file. Depending on the extension of the selected file name, the view will be exported as HTML (extension `.html' or `.htm'), Postscript (extension `.ps'), or plain text (any other extension). Use the variable `org-agenda-exporter-settings' to set options for `ps-print' and for `htmlize' to be used during export. Quit and Exit ............. `q' Quit agenda, remove the agenda buffer. `x' Exit agenda, remove the agenda buffer and all buffers loaded by Emacs for the compilation of the agenda. Buffers created by the user to visit org files will not be removed.  File: org, Node: Custom agenda views, Prev: Agenda commands, Up: Agenda views 10.6 Custom agenda views ======================== Custom agenda commands serve two purposes: to store and quickly access frequently used TODO and tags searches, and to create special composite agenda buffers. Custom agenda commands will be accessible through the dispatcher (*note Agenda dispatcher::), just like the default commands. * Menu: * Storing searches:: Type once, use often * Block agenda:: All the stuff you need in a single buffer * Setting Options:: Changing the rules * Exporting Agenda Views:: Writing agendas to files. * Extracting Agenda Information for other programs::  File: org, Node: Storing searches, Next: Block agenda, Prev: Custom agenda views, Up: Custom agenda views 10.6.1 Storing searches ----------------------- The first application of custom searches is the definition of keyboard shortcuts for frequently used searches, either creating an agenda buffer, or a sparse tree (the latter covering of course only the current buffer). Custom commands are configured in the variable `org-agenda-custom-commands'. You can customize this variable, for example by pressing `C-c a C'. You can also directly set it with Emacs Lisp in `.emacs'. The following example contains all valid search types: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("w" todo "WAITING") ("W" todo-tree "WAITING") ("u" tags "+BOSS-URGENT") ("v" tags-todo "+BOSS-URGENT") ("U" tags-tree "+BOSS-URGENT") ("f" occur-tree "\\") ("h" . "HOME+Name tags searches") ; description for "h" prefix ("hl" tags "+HOME+Lisa") ("hp" tags "+HOME+Peter") ("hk" tags "+HOME+Kim"))) The initial string in each entry defines the keys you have to press after the dispatcher command `C-c a' in order to access the command. Usually this will be just a single character, but if you have many similar commands, you can also define two-letter combinations where the first character is the same in several combinations and serves as a prefix key(1). The second parameter is the search type, followed by the string or regular expression to be used for the matching. The example above will therefore define: `C-c a w' as a global search for TODO entries with `WAITING' as the TODO keyword `C-c a W' as the same search, but only in the current buffer and displaying the results as a sparse tree `C-c a u' as a global tags search for headlines marked `:BOSS:' but not `:URGENT:' `C-c a v' as the same search as `C-c a u', but limiting the search to headlines that are also TODO items `C-c a U' as the same search as `C-c a u', but only in the current buffer and displaying the result as a sparse tree `C-c a f' to create a sparse tree (again: current buffer only) with all entries containing the word `FIXME' `C-c a h' as a prefix command for a HOME tags search where you have to press an additional key (`l', `p' or `k') to select a name (Lisa, Peter, or Kim) as additional tag to match. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) You can provide a description for a prefix key by inserting a cons cell with the prefix and the description.  File: org, Node: Block agenda, Next: Setting Options, Prev: Storing searches, Up: Custom agenda views 10.6.2 Block agenda ------------------- Another possibility is the construction of agenda views that comprise the results of _several_ commands, each of which creates a block in the agenda buffer. The available commands include `agenda' for the daily or weekly agenda (as created with `C-c a a'), `alltodo' for the global todo list (as constructed with `C-c a t'), and the matching commands discussed above: `todo', `tags', and `tags-todo'. Here are two examples: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "HOME") (tags "GARDEN"))) ("o" "Agenda and Office-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "WORK") (tags "OFFICE"))))) This will define `C-c a h' to create a multi-block view for stuff you need to attend to at home. The resulting agenda buffer will contain your agenda for the current week, all TODO items that carry the tag `HOME', and also all lines tagged with `GARDEN'. Finally the command `C-c a o' provides a similar view for office tasks.  File: org, Node: Setting Options, Next: Exporting Agenda Views, Prev: Block agenda, Up: Custom agenda views 10.6.3 Setting Options for custom commands ------------------------------------------ Org-mode contains a number of variables regulating agenda construction and display. The global variables define the behavior for all agenda commands, including the custom commands. However, if you want to change some settings just for a single custom view, you can do so. Setting options requires inserting a list of variable names and values at the right spot in `org-agenda-custom-commands'. For example: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("w" todo "WAITING" ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down)) (org-agenda-prefix-format " Mixed: "))) ("U" tags-tree "+BOSS-URGENT" ((org-show-following-heading nil) (org-show-hierarchy-above nil))))) Now the `C-c a w' command will sort the collected entries only by priority, and the prefix format is modified to just say ` Mixed:' instead of giving the category of the entry. The sparse tags tree of `C-c a U' will now turn out ultra-compact, because neither the headline hierarchy above the match, nor the headline following the match will be shown. For command sets creating a block agenda, `org-agenda-custom-commands' has two separate spots for setting options. You can add options that should be valid for just a single command in the set, and options that should be valid for all commands in the set. The former are just added to the command entry, the latter must come after the list of command entries. Going back to the block agenda example (*note Block agenda::), let's change the sorting strategy for the `C-c a h' commands to `priority-down', but let's sort the results for GARDEN tags query in the opposite order, `priority-up'. This would look like this: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "HOME") (tags "GARDEN" ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-up))))) ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down)))) ("o" "Agenda and Office-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "WORK") (tags "OFFICE"))))) As you see, the values and parenthesis setting is a little complex. When in doubt, use the customize interface to set this variable - it fully supports its structure. Just one caveat: When setting options in this interface, the _values_ are just lisp expressions. So if the value is a string, you need to add the double quotes around the value yourself.  File: org, Node: Exporting Agenda Views, Next: Extracting Agenda Information for other programs, Prev: Setting Options, Up: Custom agenda views 10.6.4 Exporting Agenda Views ----------------------------- If you are away from your computer, it can be very useful to have a printed version of some agenda views to carry around. Org-mode can export custom agenda views as plain text, HTML(1) and postscript. If you want to do this only occasionally, use the command `C-x C-w' Write the agenda view to a file. Depending on the extension of the selected file name, the view will be exported as HTML (extension `.html' or `.htm'), Postscript (extension `.ps'), or plain text (any other extension). Use the variable `org-agenda-exporter-settings' to set options for `ps-print' and for `htmlize' to be used during export, for example (setq org-agenda-exporter-settings '((ps-number-of-columns 2) (ps-landscape-mode t) (htmlize-output-type 'css))) If you need to export certain agenda views frequently, you can associate any custom agenda command with a list of output file names (2). Here is an example that first does define custom commands for the agenda and the global todo list, together with a number of files to which to export them. Then we define two block agenda commands and specify filenames for them as well. File names can be relative to the current working directory, or absolute. (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("X" agenda "" nil ("agenda.html" "agenda.ps")) ("Y" alltodo "" nil ("todo.html" "todo.txt" "todo.ps")) ("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "HOME") (tags "GARDEN")) nil ("~/views/home.html")) ("o" "Agenda and Office-related tasks" ((agenda) (tags-todo "WORK") (tags "OFFICE")) nil ("~/views/office.ps")))) The extension of the file name determines the type of export. If it is `.html', Org-mode will use the `htmlize.el' package to convert the buffer to HTML and save it to this file name. If the extension is `.ps', `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' is used to produce postscript output. Any other extension produces a plain ASCII file. The export files are _not_ created when you use one of those commands interactively. Instead, there is a special command to produce _all_ specified files in one step: `C-c a e' Export all agenda views that have export filenames associated with them. You can use the options section of the custom agenda commands to also set options for the export commands. For example: (setq org-agenda-custom-commands '(("X" agenda "" ((ps-number-of-columns 2) (ps-landscape-mode t) (org-agenda-prefix-format " [ ] ") (org-agenda-with-colors nil) (org-agenda-remove-tags t)) ("theagenda.ps")))) This command sets two options for the postscript exporter, to make it print in two columns in landscape format - the resulting page can be cut in two and then used in a paper agenda. The remaining settings modify the agenda prefix to omit category and scheduling information, and instead include a checkbox to check off items. We also remove the tags to make the lines compact, and we don't want to use colors for the black-and-white printer. Settings specified in `org-agenda-exporter-settings' will also apply, but the settings in `org-agenda-custom-commands' take precedence. From the command line you may also use emacs -f org-batch-store-agenda-views -kill or, if you need to modify some parameters emacs -eval '(org-batch-store-agenda-views \ org-agenda-ndays 30 \ org-agenda-include-diary nil \ org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/project.org")))' \ -kill which will create the agenda views restricted to the file `~/org/project.org', without diary entries and with 30 days extent. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) You need to install Hrvoje Niksic' `htmlize.el'. (2) If you want to store standard views like the weekly agenda or the global TODO list as well, you need to define custom commands for them in order to be able to specify filenames.  File: org, Node: Extracting Agenda Information for other programs, Prev: Exporting Agenda Views, Up: Custom agenda views 10.6.5 Extracting Agenda Information for other programs ------------------------------------------------------- Org-mode provides commands to access agenda information for the command line in emacs batch mode. This extracted information can be sent directly to a printer, or it can be read by a program that does further processing of the data. The first of these commands is the function `org-batch-agenda', that produces an agenda view and sends it as ASCII text to STDOUT. The command takes a single string as parameter. If the string has length 1, it is used as a key to one of the commands you have configured in `org-agenda-custom-commands', basically any key you can use after `C-c a'. For example, to directly print the current TODO list, you could use emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-batch-agenda "t")' | lpr If the parameter is a string with 2 or more characters, it is used as a tags/todo match string. For example, to print your local shopping list (all items with the tag `shop', but excluding the tag `NewYork'), you could use emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs \ -eval '(org-batch-agenda "+shop-NewYork")' | lpr You may also modify parameters on the fly like this: emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs \ -eval '(org-batch-agenda "a" \ org-agenda-ndays 30 \ org-agenda-include-diary nil \ org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/project.org")))' \ | lpr which will produce a 30 day agenda, fully restricted to the Org file `~/org/projects.org', not even including the diary. If you want to process the agenda data in more sophisticated ways, you can use the command `org-batch-agenda-csv' to get a comma-separated list of values for each agenda item. Each line in the output will contain a number of fields separated by commas. The fields in a line are: category The category of the item head The headline, without TODO kwd, TAGS and PRIORITY type The type of the agenda entry, can be todo selected in TODO match tagsmatch selected in tags match diary imported from diary deadline a deadline scheduled scheduled timestamp appointment, selected by timestamp closed entry was closed on date upcoming-deadline warning about nearing deadline past-scheduled forwarded scheduled item block entry has date block including date todo The todo keyword, if any tags All tags including inherited ones, separated by colons date The relevant date, like 2007-2-14 time The time, like 15:00-16:50 extra String with extra planning info priority-l The priority letter if any was given priority-n The computed numerical priority Time and date will only be given if a timestamp (or deadline/scheduled) lead to the selection of the item. A CSV list like this is very easy to use in a post processing script. For example, here is a Perl program that gets the TODO list from Emacs/org-mode and prints all the items, preceded by a checkbox: #!/usr/bin/perl # define the Emacs command to run $cmd = "emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-batch-agenda-csv \"t\")'"; # run it and capture the output $agenda = qx{$cmd 2>/dev/null}; # loop over all lines foreach $line (split(/\n/,$agenda)) { # get the individual values ($category,$head,$type,$todo,$tags,$date,$time,$extra, $priority_l,$priority_n) = split(/,/,$line); # proccess and print print "[ ] $head\n"; }  File: org, Node: Embedded LaTeX, Next: Exporting, Prev: Agenda views, Up: Top 11 Embedded LaTeX ***************** Plain ASCII is normally sufficient for almost all note taking. One exception, however, are scientific notes which need to be able to contain mathematical symbols and the occasional formula. LaTeX(1) is widely used to typeset scientific documents. Org-mode supports embedding LaTeX code into its files, because many academics are used to read LaTeX source code, and because it can be readily processed into images for HTML production. It is not necessary to mark LaTeX macros and code in any special way. If you observe a few conventions, Org-mode knows how to find it and what to do with it. * Menu: * Math symbols:: TeX macros for symbols and Greek letters * Subscripts and Superscripts:: Simple syntax for raising/lowering text * LaTeX fragments:: Complex formulas made easy * Processing LaTeX fragments:: Previewing LaTeX processing * CDLaTeX mode:: Speed up entering of formulas ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) LaTeX is a macro system based on Donald E. Knuth's TeX system. Many of the features described here as "LaTeX" are really from TeX, but for simplicity I am blurring this distinction.  File: org, Node: Math symbols, Next: Subscripts and Superscripts, Prev: Embedded LaTeX, Up: Embedded LaTeX 11.1 Math symbols ================= You can use LaTeX macros to insert special symbols like `\alpha' to indicate the Greek letter, or `\to' to indicate an arrow. Completion for these macros is available, just type `\' and maybe a few letters, and press `M-' to see possible completions. Unlike LaTeX code, Org-mode allows these macros to be present without surrounding math delimiters, for example: Angles are written as Greek letters \alpha, \beta and \gamma. During HTML export (*note HTML export::), these symbols are translated into the proper syntax for HTML, for the above examples this is `α' and `→', respectively.  File: org, Node: Subscripts and Superscripts, Next: LaTeX fragments, Prev: Math symbols, Up: Embedded LaTeX 11.2 Subscripts and Superscripts ================================ Just like in LaTeX, `^' and `_' are used to indicate super- and subscripts. Again, these can be used without embedding them in math-mode delimiters. To increase the readability of ASCII text, it is not necessary (but OK) to surround multi-character sub- and superscripts with curly braces. For example The mass if the sun is M_sun = 1.989 x 10^30 kg. The radius of the sun is R_{sun} = 6.96 x 10^8 m. To avoid interpretation as raised or lowered text, you can quote `^' and `_' with a backslash: `\_' and `\^'. During HTML export (*note HTML export::), subscript and superscripts are surrounded with `' and `' tags, respectively.  File: org, Node: LaTeX fragments, Next: Processing LaTeX fragments, Prev: Subscripts and Superscripts, Up: Embedded LaTeX 11.3 LaTeX fragments ==================== With symbols, sub- and superscripts, HTML is pretty much at its end when it comes to representing mathematical formulas(1). More complex expressions need a dedicated formula processor. To this end, Org-mode can contain arbitrary LaTeX fragments. It provides commands to preview the typeset result of these fragments, and upon export to HTML, all fragments will be converted to images and inlined into the HTML document(2). For this to work you need to be on a system with a working LaTeX installation. You also need the `dvipng' program, available at `http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng/'. The LaTeX header that will be used when processing a fragment can be configured with the variable `org-format-latex-header'. LaTeX fragments don't need any special marking at all. The following snippets will be identified as LaTeX source code: * Environments of any kind. The only requirement is that the `\begin' statement appears on a new line, preceded by only whitespace. * Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters. To avoid conflicts with currency specifications, single `$' characters are only recognized as math delimiters if the enclosed text contains at most two line breaks, is directly attached to the `$' characters with no whitespace in between, and if the closing `$' is followed by whitespace or punctuation. For the other delimiters, there is no such restriction, so when in doubt, use `\(...\)' as inline math delimiters. For example: \begin{equation} % arbitrary environments, x=\sqrt{b} % even tables, figures \end{equation} % etc If $a^2=b$ and \( b=2 \), then the solution must be either $$ a=+\sqrt{2} $$ or \[ a=-\sqrt{2} \]. If you need any of the delimiter ASCII sequences for other purposes, you can configure the option `org-format-latex-options' to deselect the ones you do not wish to have interpreted by the LaTeX converter. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Yes, there is MathML, but that is not yet fully supported by many browsers, and there is no decent converter for turning LaTeX or ASCII representations of formulas into MathML. So for the time being, converting formulas into images seems the way to go. (2) The LaTeX export will not use images for displaying LaTeX fragments but include these fragments directly into the LaTeX code.  File: org, Node: Processing LaTeX fragments, Next: CDLaTeX mode, Prev: LaTeX fragments, Up: Embedded LaTeX 11.4 Processing LaTeX fragments =============================== LaTeX fragments can be processed to produce a preview images of the typeset expressions: `C-c C-x C-l' Produce a preview image of the LaTeX fragment at point and overlay it over the source code. If there is no fragment at point, process all fragments in the current entry (between two headlines). When called with a prefix argument, process the entire subtree. When called with two prefix arguments, or when the cursor is before the first headline, process the entire buffer. `C-c C-c' Remove the overlay preview images. During HTML export (*note HTML export::), all LaTeX fragments are converted into images and inlined into the document if the following setting is active: (setq org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments t)  File: org, Node: CDLaTeX mode, Prev: Processing LaTeX fragments, Up: Embedded LaTeX 11.5 Using CDLaTeX to enter math ================================ CDLaTeX-mode is a minor mode that is normally used in combination with a major LaTeX mode like AUCTeX in order to speed-up insertion of environments and math templates. Inside Org-mode, you can make use of some of the features of cdlatex-mode. You need to install `cdlatex.el' and `texmathp.el' (the latter comes also with AUCTeX) from `http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/cdlatex'. Don't turn cdlatex-mode itself under Org-mode, but use the light version `org-cdlatex-mode' that comes as part of Org-mode. Turn it on for the current buffer with `M-x org-cdlatex-mode', or for all Org-mode files with (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-org-cdlatex) When this mode is enabled, the following features are present (for more details see the documentation of cdlatex-mode): * Environment templates can be inserted with `C-c {'. * The key will do template expansion if the cursor is inside a LaTeX fragment(1). For example, will expand `fr' to `\frac{}{}' and position the cursor correctly inside the first brace. Another will get you into the second brace. Even outside fragments, will expand environment abbreviations at the beginning of a line. For example, if you write `equ' at the beginning of a line and press , this abbreviation will be expanded to an `equation' environment. To get a list of all abbreviations, type `M-x cdlatex-command-help'. * Pressing `_' and `^' inside a LaTeX fragment will insert these characters together with a pair of braces. If you use to move out of the braces, and if the braces surround only a single character or macro, they are removed again (depending on the variable `cdlatex-simplify-sub-super-scripts'). * Pressing the backquote ``' followed by a character inserts math macros, also outside LaTeX fragments. If you wait more than 1.5 seconds after the backquote, a help window will pop up. * Pressing the normal quote `'' followed by another character modifies the symbol before point with an accent or a font. If you wait more than 1.5 seconds after the backquote, a help window will pop up. Character modification will work only inside LaTeX fragments, outside the quote is normal. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Org-mode has a method to test if the cursor is inside such a fragment, see the documentation of the function `org-inside-LaTeX-fragment-p'.  File: org, Node: Exporting, Next: Publishing, Prev: Embedded LaTeX, Up: Top 12 Exporting ************ Org-mode documents can be exported into a variety of other formats. For printing and sharing of notes, ASCII export produces a readable and simple version of an Org-mode file. HTML export allows you to publish a notes file on the web, while the XOXO format provides a solid base for exchange with a broad range of other applications. LaTeX export lets you use Org-mode and its structured editing functions to easily create LaTeX files. To incorporate entries with associated times like deadlines or appointments into a desktop calendar program like iCal, Org-mode can also produce extracts in the iCalendar format. Currently Org-mode only supports export, not import of these different formats. When exporting, Org-mode uses special conventions to enrich the output produced. *Note Text interpretation::, for more details. `C-c C-e' Dispatcher for export and publishing commands. Displays a help-window listing the additional key(s) needed to launch an export or publishing command. * Menu: * ASCII export:: Exporting to plain ASCII * HTML export:: Exporting to HTML * LaTeX export:: Exporting to LaTeX * XOXO export:: Exporting to XOXO * iCalendar export:: Exporting in iCalendar format * Text interpretation:: How the exporter looks at the file  File: org, Node: ASCII export, Next: HTML export, Prev: Exporting, Up: Exporting 12.1 ASCII export ================= ASCII export produces a simple and very readable version of an Org-mode file. `C-c C-e a' Export as ASCII file. For an org file `myfile.org', the ASCII file will be `myfile.txt'. The file will be overwritten without warning. If there is an active region, only the region will be exported. If the selected region is a single tree, the tree head will become the document title. If the tree head entry has or inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that name will be used for the export. `C-c C-e v a' Export only the visible part of the document. In the exported version, the first 3 outline levels will become headlines, defining a general document structure. Additional levels will be exported as itemized lists. If you want that transition to occur at a different level, specify it with a prefix argument. For example, C-1 C-c C-e a creates only top level headlines and does the rest as items. When headlines are converted to items, the indentation of the text following the headline is changed to fit nicely under the item. This is done with the assumption that the first bodyline indicates the base indentation of the body text. Any indentation larger than this is adjusted to preserve the layout relative to the first line. Should there be lines with less indentation than the first, these are left alone.  File: org, Node: HTML export, Next: LaTeX export, Prev: ASCII export, Up: Exporting 12.2 HTML export ================ Org-mode contains an HTML (XHTML 1.0 strict) exporter with extensive HTML formatting, in ways similar to John Grubers _markdown_ language, but with additional support for tables. * Menu: * HTML Export commands:: How to invoke LaTeX export * Quoting HTML tags:: Using direct HTML in Org-mode * Links:: Transformation of links for HTML * Images:: How to include images * CSS support:: Changing the appearence of the output  File: org, Node: HTML Export commands, Next: Quoting HTML tags, Prev: HTML export, Up: HTML export 12.2.1 HTML export commands --------------------------- `C-c C-e h' Export as HTML file `myfile.html'. For an org file `myfile.org', the ASCII file will be `myfile.html'. The file will be overwritten without warning. If there is an active region, only the region will be exported. If the selected region is a single tree, the tree head will become the document title. If the tree head entry has or inherits an EXPORT_FILE_NAME property, that name will be used for the export. `C-c C-e b' Export as HTML file and immediately open it with a browser. `C-c C-e H' Export to a temporary buffer, do not create a file. `C-c C-e H' Export the active region to a temporary buffer. With prefix arg, do not produce file header and foot, but just the plain HTML section for the region. This is good for cut-and-paste operations. `C-c C-e v h' `C-c C-e v b' `C-c C-e v H' `C-c C-e v R' Export only the visible part of the document. `M-x org-export-region-as-html' Convert the region to HTML under the assumption that it was org-mode syntax before. This is a global command that can be invoked in any buffer. `M-x org-replace-region-by-HTML' Replace the active region (assumed to be in Org-mode syntax) by HTML code. In the exported version, the first 3 outline levels will become headlines, defining a general document structure. Additional levels will be exported as itemized lists. If you want that transition to occur at a different level, specify it with a prefix argument. For example, C-2 C-c C-e b creates two levels of headings and does the rest as items.  File: org, Node: Quoting HTML tags, Next: Links, Prev: HTML Export commands, Up: HTML export 12.2.2 Quoting HTML tags ------------------------ Plain `<' and `>' are always transformed to `<' and `>' in HTML export. If you want to include simple HTML tags which should be interpreted as such, mark them with `@' as in `@bold text@'. Note that this really works only for simple tags. For more extensive HTML that should be copied verbatim to the exported file use either #+HTML: Literal HTML code for export or #+BEGIN_HTML All lines between these markers are exported literally #+END_HTML  File: org, Node: Links, Next: Images, Prev: Quoting HTML tags, Up: HTML export 12.2.3 Links ------------ Internal links (*note Internal links::) will continue to work in HTML files only if they match a dedicated `<>'. Automatic links created by radio targets (*note Radio targets::) will also work in the HTML file. Links to external files will still work if the HTML file is in the same directory as the Org-mode file. Links to other `.org' files will be translated into HTML links under the assumption that an HTML version also exists of the linked file. For information related to linking files while publishing them to a publishing directory see *Note Publishing links::.  File: org, Node: Images, Next: CSS support, Prev: Links, Up: HTML export 12.2.4 Images ------------- HTML export can inline images given as links in the Org-mode file, and it can make an image the clickable part of a link. By default(1), images are inlined if a link does not have a description. So `[[file:myimg.jpg]]' will be inlined, while `[[file:myimg.jpg][the image]]' will just produce a link `the image' that points to the image. If the description part itself is a `file:' link or a `http:' URL pointing to an image, this image will be inlined and activated so that clicking on the image will activate the link. For example, to include a thumbnail that will link to a high resolution version of the image, you could use: [[file:highres.jpg][file:thumb.jpg]] and you could use `http' addresses just as well. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) but see the variable `org-export-html-inline-images'  File: org, Node: CSS support, Prev: Images, Up: HTML export 12.2.5 CSS support ------------------ You can also give style information for the exported file. The HTML exporter assigns the following CSS classes to appropriate parts of the document - your style specifications may change these: .todo TODO keywords .done the DONE keyword .timestamp time stamp .timestamp-kwd keyword associated with a time stamp, like SCHEDULED .tag tag in a headline .target target for links The default style specification can be configured through the option `org-export-html-style'. If you want to use a file-local style, you may use file variables, best wrapped into a COMMENT section at the end of the outline tree. For example(1): * COMMENT html style specifications # Local Variables: # org-export-html-style: " " # End: Remember to execute `M-x normal-mode' after changing this to make the new style visible to Emacs. This command restarts org-mode for the current buffer and forces Emacs to re-evaluate the local variables section in the buffer. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) Under Emacs 21, the continuation lines for a variable value should have no `#' at the start of the line.  File: org, Node: LaTeX export, Next: XOXO export, Prev: HTML export, Up: Exporting 12.3 LaTeX export ================= Org-mode contains a LaTeX exporter written by Bastien Guerry. * Menu: * LaTeX export commands:: How to invoke LaTeX export * Quoting LaTeX code:: Incorporating literal LaTeX code  File: org, Node: LaTeX export commands, Next: Quoting LaTeX code, Prev: LaTeX export, Up: LaTeX export 12.3.1 LaTeX export commands ---------------------------- `C-c C-e l' Export as LaTeX file `myfile.tex'. `C-c C-e L' Export to a temporary buffer, do not create a file. `C-c C-e v l' `C-c C-e v L' Export only the visible part of the document. `M-x org-export-region-as-latex' Convert the region to LaTeX under the assumption that it was org-mode syntax before. This is a global command that can be invoked in any buffer. `M-x org-replace-region-by-latex' Replace the active region (assumed to be in Org-mode syntax) by LaTeX code. In the exported version, the first 3 outline levels will become headlines, defining a general document structure. Additional levels will be exported as description lists. The exporter can ignore them or convert them to a custom string depending on `org-latex-low-levels'. If you want that transition to occur at a different level, specify it with a prefix argument. For example, C-2 C-c C-e l creates two levels of headings and does the rest as items.  File: org, Node: Quoting LaTeX code, Prev: LaTeX export commands, Up: LaTeX export 12.3.2 Quoting LaTeX code ------------------------- Embedded LaTeX as described in *Note Embedded LaTeX:: will be correctly inserted into the LaTeX file. Forthermore, you can add special code that should only be present in LaTeX export with the following constructs: #+LaTeX: Literal LaTeX code for export or #+BEGIN_LaTeX All lines between these markers are exported literally #+END_LaTeX  File: org, Node: XOXO export, Next: iCalendar export, Prev: LaTeX export, Up: Exporting 12.4 XOXO export ================ Org-mode contains an exporter that produces XOXO-style output. Currently, this exporter only handles the general outline structure and does not interpret any additional Org-mode features. `C-c C-e x' Export as XOXO file `myfile.html'. `C-c C-e v x' Export only the visible part of the document.  File: org, Node: iCalendar export, Next: Text interpretation, Prev: XOXO export, Up: Exporting 12.5 iCalendar export ===================== Some people like to use Org-mode for keeping track of projects, but still prefer a standard calendar application for anniversaries and appointments. In this case it can be useful to have deadlines and other time-stamped items in Org-mode files show up in the calendar application. Org-mode can export calendar information in the standard iCalendar format. If you also want to have TODO entries included in the export, configure the variable `org-icalendar-include-todo'. `C-c C-e i' Create iCalendar entries for the current file and store them in the same directory, using a file extension `.ics'. `C-c C-e I' Like `C-c C-e i', but do this for all files in `org-agenda-files'. For each of these files, a separate iCalendar file will be written. `C-c C-e c' Create a single large iCalendar file from all files in `org-agenda-files' and write it to the file given by `org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file'. The export will honor SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION and LOCATION properties if the selected entries have them. If not, the summary will be derived from the headline, and the description from the body (limited to `org-icalendar-include-body' characters). How this calendar is best read and updated, depends on the application you are using. The FAQ covers this issue.  File: org, Node: Text interpretation, Prev: iCalendar export, Up: Exporting 12.6 Text interpretation by the exporter ======================================== The exporter backends interpret additional structure in the Org-mode file in order to produce better output. * Menu: * Comment lines:: Some lines will not be exported * Initial text:: Text before the first headline * Footnotes:: Numbers like [1] * Enhancing text:: Subscripts, symbols and more * Export options:: How to influence the export settings  File: org, Node: Comment lines, Next: Initial text, Prev: Text interpretation, Up: Text interpretation 12.6.1 Comment lines -------------------- Lines starting with `#' in column zero are treated as comments and will never be exported. Also entire subtrees starting with the word `COMMENT' will never be exported. `C-c ;' Toggle the COMMENT keyword at the beginning of an entry.  File: org, Node: Initial text, Next: Footnotes, Prev: Comment lines, Up: Text interpretation 12.6.2 Text before the first headline ------------------------------------- Org-mode normally ignores any text before the first headline when exporting, leaving this region for internal links to speed up navigation etc. However, in publishing-oriented files, you might want to have some text before the first headline, like a small introduction, special HTML code with a navigation bar, etc. You can ask to have this part of the file exported as well by setting the variable `org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading' to `nil'. On a per-file basis, you can get the same effect with #+OPTIONS: skip:nil The text before the first headline will be fully processed (*note Enhancing text::), and the first non-comment line becomes the title of the exported document. If you need to include literal HTML, use the special constructs described in *Note Quoting HTML tags::. The table of contents is normally inserted directly before the first headline of the file. If you would like to get it to a different location, insert the string `[TABLE-OF-CONTENTS]' on a line by itself at the desired location. Finally, if you want to use the space before the first headline for internal purposes, but _still_ want to place something before the first headline when exporting the file, you can use the `#+TEXT' construct: #+OPTIONS: skip:t #+TEXT: This text will go before the *first* headline. #+TEXT: We place the table of contents here: #+TEXT: [TABLE-OF-CONTENTS] #+TEXT: This goes between the table of contents and the first headline  File: org, Node: Footnotes, Next: Enhancing text, Prev: Initial text, Up: Text interpretation 12.6.3 Footnotes ---------------- Numbers in square brackets are treated as footnotes, so that you can use the Emacs package `footnote.el' to create footnotes. For example: The org-mode homepage[1] clearly needs help from a good web designer. [1] The link is: http://orgmode.org Note that the `footnote' package uses `C-c !' to invoke its commands. This binding conflicts with the org-mode command for inserting inactive time stamps. You could use the variable `footnote-prefix' to switch footnotes commands to another key. Or, if you are too used to this binding, you could use `org-replace-disputed-keys' and `org-disputed-keys' to change the settings in Org-mode.  File: org, Node: Enhancing text, Next: Export options, Prev: Footnotes, Up: Text interpretation 12.6.4 Enhancing text for export -------------------------------- Some of the export backends of Org-mode allow for sophisticated text formatting, this is true in particular for the HTML and LaTeX backends. Org-mode has a number of typing conventions that allow to produce a richly formatted output. * Plain lists `-', `*' or `+' as bullet, or with `1.' or `2)' as enumerator will be recognized and transformed if the backend supports lists. See *Note Plain lists::. * You can make words *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, `=code=', and even `+strikethrough+'(1). * A line consisting of only dashes, and at least 5 of them, will be exported as a horizontal line (`
' in HTML). * Many TeX macros and entire LaTeX fragments are converted into HTML entities or images (*note Embedded LaTeX::). * Tables are transformed into native tables under the exporter, if the export backend supports this. Data fields before the first horizontal separator line will be formatted as table header fields. * If a headline starts with the word `QUOTE', the text below the headline will be typeset as fixed-width, to allow quoting of computer codes etc. Lines starting with `:' are also typeset in fixed-width font. `C-c :' Toggle fixed-width for entry (QUOTE) or region, see below. * A double backslash _at the end of a line_ enforces a line break at this position. If these conversions conflict with your habits of typing ASCII text, they can all be turned off with corresponding variables. See the customization group `org-export-general', and the following section which explains how to set export options with special lines in a buffer. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) but remember that strikethrough is typographically evil and should never be used.  File: org, Node: Export options, Prev: Enhancing text, Up: Text interpretation 12.6.5 Export options --------------------- The exporter recognizes special lines in the buffer which provide additional information. These lines may be put anywhere in the file. The whole set of lines can be inserted into the buffer with `C-c C-e t'. For individual lines, a good way to make sure the keyword is correct is to type `#+' and then use `M-' completion (*note Completion::). `C-c C-e t' Insert template with export options, see example below. #+TITLE: the title to be shown (default is the buffer name) #+AUTHOR: the author (default taken from `user-full-name') #+DATE: A date, fixed, of a format string for `format-time-string' #+EMAIL: his/her email address (default from `user-mail-address') #+LANGUAGE: language for HTML, e.g. `en' (`org-export-default-language') #+TEXT: Some descriptive text to be inserted at the beginning. #+TEXT: Several lines may be given. #+OPTIONS: H:2 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t f:t TeX:t ... The OPTIONS line is a compact form to specify export settings. Here you can: H: set the number of headline levels for export num: turn on/off section-numbers toc: turn on/off table of contents, or set level limit (integer) \n: turn on/off linebreak-preservation @: turn on/off quoted HTML tags :: turn on/off fixed-width sections |: turn on/off tables ^: turn on/off TeX-like syntax for sub- and superscripts. If you write "^:{}", `a_{b}' will be interpreted, but the simple `a_b' will be left as it is. f: turn on/off foototes like this[1]. *: turn on/off emphasized text (bold, italic, underlined) TeX: turn on/off simple TeX macros in plain text LaTeX: turn on/off LaTeX fragments skip: turn on/off skipping the text before the first heading author: turn on/off inclusion of author name/email into exported file timestamp: turn on/off inclusion creation time into exported file d: turn on/off inclusion of drawers These options take effect in both the HTML and LaTeX export, except for `TeX' and `LaTeX', which are respectively `t' and `nil' for the LaTeX export.  File: org, Node: Publishing, Next: Miscellaneous, Prev: Exporting, Up: Top 13 Publishing ************* Org-mode includes(1) a publishing management system that allows you to configure automatic HTML conversion of _projects_ composed of interlinked org files. This system is called _org-publish_. You can also configure org-publish to automatically upload your exported HTML pages and related attachments, such as images and source code files, to a web server. Org-publish turns org-mode into a web-site authoring tool. You can also use Org-publish to convert files into LaTeX, or even combine HTML and LaTeX conversion so that files are available in both formats on the server(2). Org-publish has been contributed to Org-mode by David O'Toole. * Menu: * Configuration:: Defining projects * Sample configuration:: Example projects * Triggering publication:: Publication commands ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) `org-publish.el' is not distributed with Emacs 21, if you are still using Emacs 21, you need you need to download this file separately. (2) Since LaTeX files on a server are not that helpful, you surely want to perform further conversion on them - e.g. convert them to `PDF' format.  File: org, Node: Configuration, Next: Sample configuration, Prev: Publishing, Up: Publishing 13.1 Configuration ================== Publishing needs significant configuration to specify files, destination and many other properties of a project. * Menu: * Project alist:: The central configuration variable * Sources and destinations:: From here to there * Selecting files:: What files are part of the project? * Publishing action:: Setting the function doing the publishing * Publishing options:: Tweaking HTML export * Publishing links:: Which links keep working after publishing? * Project page index:: Publishing a list of project files  File: org, Node: Project alist, Next: Sources and destinations, Prev: Configuration, Up: Configuration 13.1.1 The variable `org-publish-project-alist' ----------------------------------------------- Org-publish is configured almost entirely through setting the value of one variable, called `org-publish-project-alist'. Each element of the list configures one project, and may be in one of the two following forms: ("project-name" :property value :property value ...) or ("project-name" :components ("project-name" "project-name" ...)) In both cases, projects are configured by specifying property values. A project defines the set of files that will be published, as well as the publishing configuration to use when publishing those files. When a project takes the second form listed above, the individual members of the "components" property are taken to be components of the project, which group together files requiring different publishing options. When you publish such a "meta-project" all the components will also publish.  File: org, Node: Sources and destinations, Next: Selecting files, Prev: Project alist, Up: Configuration 13.1.2 Sources and destinations for files ----------------------------------------- Most properties are optional, but some should always be set. In particular, org-publish needs to know where to look for source files, and where to put published files. `:base-directory' Directory containing publishing source files `:publishing-directory'Directory (possibly remote) where output files will be published. `:preparation-function'Function called before starting publishing process, for example to run `make' for updating files to be published.  File: org, Node: Selecting files, Next: Publishing action, Prev: Sources and destinations, Up: Configuration 13.1.3 Selecting files ---------------------- By default, all files with extension `.org' in the base directory are considered part of the project. This can be modified by setting the properties `:base-extension' Extension (without the dot!) of source files. This actually is a regular expression. `:exclude' Regular expression to match file names that should not be published, even though they have been selected on the basis of their extension. `:include' List of files to be included regardless of `:base-extension' and `:exclude'.  File: org, Node: Publishing action, Next: Publishing options, Prev: Selecting files, Up: Configuration 13.1.4 Publishing Action ------------------------ Publishing means that a file is copied to the destination directory and possibly transformed in the process. The default transformation is to export Org-mode files as HTML files, and this is done by the function `org-publish-org-to-html' which calls the HTML exporter (*note HTML export::). But you also can publish your files in LaTeX by using the function `org-publish-org-to-latex' instead. Other files like images only need to be copied to the publishing destination. For non-Org-mode files, you need to specify the publishing function. `:publishing-function' Function executing the publication of a file. This may also be a list of functions, which will all be called in turn. The function must accept two arguments: a property list containing at least a `:publishing-directory' property, and the name of the file to be published. It should take the specified file, make the necessary transformation (if any) and place the result into the destination folder. You can write your own publishing function, but `org-publish' provides one for attachments (files that only need to be copied): `org-publish-attachment'.  File: org, Node: Publishing options, Next: Publishing links, Prev: Publishing action, Up: Configuration 13.1.5 Options for the HTML/LaTeX exporters ------------------------------------------- The property list can be used to set many export options for the HTML and LaTeX exporters. In most cases, these properties correspond to user variables in Org-mode. The table below lists these properties along with the variable they belong to. See the documentation string for the respective variable for details. `:language' `org-export-default-language' `:headline-levels' `org-export-headline-levels' `:section-numbers' `org-export-with-section-numbers' `:table-of-contents' `org-export-with-toc' `:archived-trees' `org-export-with-archived-trees' `:emphasize' `org-export-with-emphasize' `:sub-superscript' `org-export-with-sub-superscripts' `:TeX-macros' `org-export-with-TeX-macros' `:LaTeX-fragments' `org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments' `:fixed-width' `org-export-with-fixed-width' `:timestamps' `org-export-with-timestamps' . `:tags' `org-export-with-tags' . `:tables' `org-export-with-tables' `:table-auto-headline' `org-export-highlight-first-table-line' `:style' `org-export-html-style' `:convert-org-links' `org-export-html-link-org-files-as-html' `:inline-images' `org-export-html-inline-images' `:expand-quoted-html' `org-export-html-expand' `:timestamp' `org-export-html-with-timestamp' `:publishing-directory'`org-export-publishing-directory' `:preamble' `org-export-html-preamble' `:postamble' `org-export-html-postamble' `:auto-preamble' `org-export-html-auto-preamble' `:auto-postamble' `org-export-html-auto-postamble' `:author' `user-full-name' `:email' `user-mail-address' Most of the `org-export-with-*' variables have the same effect in both HTML and LaTeX exporters, except for `:TeX-macros' and `:LaTeX-fragments', respectively `nil' and `t' in the LaTeX export. When a property is given a value in org-publish-project-alist, its setting overrides the value of the corresponding user variable (if any) during publishing. Options set within a file (*note Export options::), however, override everything.  File: org, Node: Publishing links, Next: Project page index, Prev: Publishing options, Up: Configuration 13.1.6 Links between published files ------------------------------------ To create a link from one Org-mode file to another, you would use something like `[[file:foo.org][The foo]]' or simply `file:foo.org.' (*note Hyperlinks::). Upon publishing this link becomes a link to `foo.html'. In this way, you can interlink the pages of your "org web" project and the links will work as expected when you publish them to HTML. You may also link to related files, such as images. Provided you are careful with relative pathnames, and provided you have also configured org-publish to upload the related files, these links will work too. *Note Complex example:: for an example of this usage. Sometime an Org-mode file to be published may contain links that are only valid in your production environment, but not in the publishing location. In this case, use the property `:link-validation-function' Function to validate links to define a function for checking link validity. This function must accept two arguments, the file name and a directory relative to which the file name is interpreted in the production environment. If this function returns `nil', then the HTML generator will only insert a description into the HTML file, but no link. One option for this function is `org-publish-validate-link' which checks if the given file is part of any project in `org-publish-project-alist'.  File: org, Node: Project page index, Prev: Publishing links, Up: Configuration 13.1.7 Project page index ------------------------- The following properties may be used to control publishing of an index of files or summary page for a given project. `:auto-index' When non-nil, publish an index during org-publish-current-project or org-publish-all. `:index-filename' Filename for output of index. Defaults to `index.org' (which becomes `index.html'). `:index-title' Title of index page. Defaults to name of file. `:index-function' Plugin function to use for generation of index. Defaults to `org-publish-org-index', which generates a plain list of links to all files in the project.  File: org, Node: Sample configuration, Next: Triggering publication, Prev: Configuration, Up: Publishing 13.2 Sample configuration ========================= Below we provide two example configurations. The first one is a simple project publishing only a set of Org-mode files. The second example is more complex, with a multi-component project. * Menu: * Simple example:: One-component publishing * Complex example:: A multi-component publishing example  File: org, Node: Simple example, Next: Complex example, Prev: Sample configuration, Up: Sample configuration 13.2.1 Example: simple publishing configuration ----------------------------------------------- This example publishes a set of Org-mode files to the `public_html' directory on the local machine. (setq org-publish-project-alist '(("org" :base-directory "~/org/" :publishing-directory "~/public_html" :section-numbers nil :table-of-contents nil :style "")))  File: org, Node: Complex example, Prev: Simple example, Up: Sample configuration 13.2.2 Example: complex publishing configuration ------------------------------------------------ This more complicated example publishes an entire website, including org files converted to HTML, image files, emacs lisp source code, and stylesheets. The publishing-directory is remote and private files are excluded. To ensure that links are preserved, care should be taken to replicate your directory structure on the web server, and to use relative file paths. For example, if your org files are kept in `~/org' and your publishable images in `~/images', you'd link to an image with file:../images/myimage.png On the web server, the relative path to the image should be the same. You can accomplish this by setting up an "images" folder in the right place on the webserver, and publishing images to it. (setq org-publish-project-alist '(("orgfiles" :base-directory "~/org/" :base-extension "org" :publishing-directory "/ssh:user@host:~/html/notebook/" :publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html :exclude "PrivatePage.org" ;; regexp :headline-levels 3 :section-numbers nil :table-of-contents nil :style "" :auto-preamble t :auto-postamble nil) ("images" :base-directory "~/images/" :base-extension "jpg\\|gif\\|png" :publishing-directory "/ssh:user@host:~/html/images/" :publishing-function org-publish-attachment) ("other" :base-directory "~/other/" :base-extension "css\\|el" :publishing-directory "/ssh:user@host:~/html/other/" :publishing-function org-publish-attachment) ("website" :components ("orgfiles" "images" "other"))))  File: org, Node: Triggering publication, Prev: Sample configuration, Up: Publishing 13.3 Triggering publication =========================== Once org-publish is properly configured, you can publish with the following functions: `C-c C-e C' Prompt for a specific project and publish all files that belong to it. `C-c C-e P' Publish the project containing the current file. `C-c C-e F' Publish only the current file. `C-c C-e A' Publish all projects. Org uses timestamps to track when a file has changed. The above functions normally only publish changed files. You can override this and force publishing of all files by giving a prefix argument.  File: org, Node: Miscellaneous, Next: Extensions and Hacking, Prev: Publishing, Up: Top 14 Miscellaneous **************** * Menu: * Completion:: M-TAB knows what you need * Customization:: Adapting Org-mode to your taste * In-buffer settings:: Overview of the #+KEYWORDS * The very busy C-c C-c key:: When in doubt, press C-c C-c * Clean view:: Getting rid of leading stars in the outline * TTY keys:: Using Org-mode on a tty * Interaction:: Other Emacs packages * Bugs:: Things which do not work perfectly  File: org, Node: Completion, Next: Customization, Prev: Miscellaneous, Up: Miscellaneous 14.1 Completion =============== Org-mode supports in-buffer completion. This type of completion does not make use of the minibuffer. You simply type a few letters into the buffer and use the key to complete text right there. `M-' Complete word at point * At the beginning of a headline, complete TODO keywords. * After `\', complete TeX symbols supported by the exporter. * After `*', complete headlines in the current buffer so that they can be used in search links like `[[*find this headline]]'. * After `:' in a headline, complete tags. The list of tags is taken from the variable `org-tag-alist' (possibly set through the `#+TAGS' in-buffer option, *note Setting tags::), or it is created dynamically from all tags used in the current buffer. * After `:' and not in a headline, complete property keys. The list of keys is constructed dynamically from all keys used in the current buffer. * After `[', complete link abbreviations (*note Link abbreviations::). * After `#+', complete the special keywords like `TYP_TODO' or `OPTIONS' which set file-specific options for Org-mode. When the option keyword is already complete, pressing `M-' again will insert example settings for this keyword. * In the line after `#+STARTUP: ', complete startup keywords, i.e. valid keys for this line. * Elsewhere, complete dictionary words using ispell.  File: org, Node: Customization, Next: In-buffer settings, Prev: Completion, Up: Miscellaneous 14.2 Customization ================== There are more than 180 variables that can be used to customize Org-mode. For the sake of compactness of the manual, I am not describing the variables here. A structured overview of customization variables is available with `M-x org-customize'. Or select `Browse Org Group' from the `Org->Customization' menu. Many settings can also be activated on a per-file basis, by putting special lines into the buffer (*note In-buffer settings::).  File: org, Node: In-buffer settings, Next: The very busy C-c C-c key, Prev: Customization, Up: Miscellaneous 14.3 Summary of in-buffer settings ================================== Org-mode uses special lines in the buffer to define settings on a per-file basis. These lines start with a `#+' followed by a keyword, a colon, and then individual words defining a setting. Several setting words can be in the same line, but you can also have multiple lines for the keyword. While these settings are described throughout the manual, here is a summary. After changing any of those lines in the buffer, press `C-c C-c' with the cursor still in the line to activate the changes immediately. Otherwise they become effective only when the file is visited again in a new Emacs session. `#+ARCHIVE: %s_done::' This line sets the archive location for the agenda file. It applies for all subsequent lines until the next `#+ARCHIVE' line, or the end of the file. The first such line also applies to any entries before it. The corresponding variable is `org-archive-location'. `#+CATEGORY:' This line sets the category for the agenda file. The category applies for all subsequent lines until the next `#+CATEGORY' line, or the end of the file. The first such line also applies to any entries before it. `#+COLUMNS: %25ITEM .....' Set the default format for columns view. This format applies when columns view is invoked in location where no COLUMNS property applies. `#+CONSTANTS: name1=value1 ...' Set file-local values for constants to be used in table formulas. This line set the local variable `org-table-formula-constants-local'. The global version of this variable is `org-table-formula-constants'. `#+DRAWERS: NAME1 .....' Set the file-local set of drawers. The corresponding global variable is `org-drawers'. `#+LINK: linkword replace' These lines (several are allowed) specify link abbreviations. *Note Link abbreviations::. The corresponding variable is `org-link-abbrev-alist'. `#+PRIORITIES: highest lowest default' This line sets the limits and the default for the priorities. All three must be either letters A-Z or numbers 0-9. The highest priority must have a lower ASCII number that the lowest priority. `#+PROPERTY: Property_Name Value' This line sets a default inheritance value for entries in the current buffer, most useful for specifying the allowed values of a property. `#+STARTUP:' This line sets options to be used at startup of Org-mode, when an Org-mode file is being visited. The first set of options deals with the initial visibility of the outline tree. The corresponding variable for global default settings is `org-startup-folded', with a default value `t', which means `overview'. overview top-level headlines only content all headlines showall no folding at all, show everything Then there are options for aligning tables upon visiting a file. This is useful in files containing narrowed table columns. The corresponding variable is `org-startup-align-all-tables', with a default value `nil'. align align all tables noalign don't align tables on startup Logging TODO state changes and clock intervals (variables `org-log-done' and `org-log-repeat') can be configured using these options. logging record a timestamp when an item is marked DONE nologging don't record when items are marked DONE lognotedone record timestamp and a note when DONE lognotestate record timestamp and a note when TODO state changes logrepeat record a note when re-instating a repeating item nologrepeat do not record when re-instating repeating item lognoteclock-out record timestamp and a note when clocking out Here are the options for hiding leading stars in outline headings. The corresponding variables are `org-hide-leading-stars' and `org-odd-levels-only', both with a default setting `nil' (meaning `showstars' and `oddeven'). hidestars make all but one of the stars starting a headline invisible. showstars show all stars starting a headline odd allow only odd outline levels (1,3,...) oddeven allow all outline levels To turn on custom format overlays over time stamps (variables `org-put-time-stamp-overlays' and `org-time-stamp-overlay-formats'), use customtime overlay custom time format The following options influence the table spreadsheet (variable `constants-unit-system'). constcgs `constants.el' should use the c-g-s unit system constSI `constants.el' should use the SI unit system `#+TAGS: TAG1(c1) TAG2(c2)' These lines (several such lines are allowed) specify the legal tags in this file, and (potentially) the corresponding _fast tag selection_ keys. The corresponding variable is `org-tag-alist'. `#+TBLFM:' This line contains the formulas for the table directly above the line. `#+TITLE:, #+AUTHOR:, #+EMAIL:, #+LANGUAGE:, #+TEXT:, #+OPTIONS, #+DATE:' These lines provide settings for exporting files. For more details see *Note Export options::. `#+SEQ_TODO: #+TYP_TODO:' These lines set the TODO keywords and their interpretation in the current file. The corresponding variables are `org-todo-keywords' and `org-todo-interpretation'.  File: org, Node: The very busy C-c C-c key, Next: Clean view, Prev: In-buffer settings, Up: Miscellaneous 14.4 The very busy C-c C-c key ============================== The key `C-c C-c' has many purposes in org-mode, which are all mentioned scattered throughout this manual. One specific function of this key is to add _tags_ to a headline (*note Tags::). In many other circumstances it means something like _Hey Org-mode, look here and update according to what you see here_. Here is a summary of what this means in different contexts. - If there are highlights in the buffer from the creation of a sparse tree, or from clock display, remove these highlights. - If the cursor is in one of the special `#+KEYWORD' lines, this triggers scanning the buffer for these lines and updating the information. - If the cursor is inside a table, realign the table. This command works even if the automatic table editor has been turned off. - If the cursor is on a `#+TBLFM' line, re-apply the formulas to the entire table. - If the cursor is inside a table created by the `table.el' package, activate that table. - If the current buffer is a remember buffer, close the note and file it. With a prefix argument, file it, without further interaction, to the default location. - If the cursor is on a `<<>>', update radio targets and corresponding links in this buffer. - If the cursor is in a property line or at the start or end of a property drawer, offer property commands. - If the cursor is in a plain list item with a checkbox, toggle the status of the checkbox. - If the cursor is on a numbered item in a plain list, renumber the ordered list. - If the cursor is on the `#+BEGIN' line of a dynamical block, the block is updated.  File: org, Node: Clean view, Next: TTY keys, Prev: The very busy C-c C-c key, Up: Miscellaneous 14.5 A cleaner outline view =========================== Some people find it noisy and distracting that the Org-mode headlines are starting with a potentially large number of stars. For example the tree from *Note Headlines::: * Top level headline ** Second level *** 3rd level some text *** 3rd level more text * Another top level headline Unfortunately this is deeply ingrained into the code of Org-mode and cannot be easily changed. You can, however, modify the display in such a way that all leading stars become invisible and the outline more easy to read. To do this, customize the variable `org-hide-leading-stars' like this: (setq org-hide-leading-stars t) or change this on a per-file basis with one of the lines (anywhere in the buffer) #+STARTUP: showstars #+STARTUP: hidestars Press `C-c C-c' with the cursor in a `STARTUP' line to activate the modifications. With stars hidden, the tree becomes: * Top level headline * Second level * 3rd level some text * 3rd level more text * Another top level headline Note that the leading stars are not truly replaced by whitespace, they are only fontified with the face `org-hide' that uses the background color as font color. If you are not using either white or black background, you may have to customize this face to get the wanted effect. Another possibility is to set this font such that the extra stars are almost invisible, for example using the color `grey90' on a white background. Things become cleaner still if you skip all the even levels and use only odd levels 1, 3, 5..., effectively adding two stars to go from one outline level to the next: * Top level headline * Second level * 3rd level some text * 3rd level more text * Another top level headline In order to make the structure editing and export commands handle this convention correctly, use (setq org-odd-levels-only t) or set this on a per-file basis with one of the following lines (don't forget to press `C-c C-c' with the cursor in the startup line to activate changes immediately). #+STARTUP: odd #+STARTUP: oddeven You can convert an Org-mode file from single-star-per-level to the double-star-per-level convention with `M-x org-convert-to-odd-levels RET' in that file. The reverse operation is `M-x org-convert-to-oddeven-levels'.  File: org, Node: TTY keys, Next: Interaction, Prev: Clean view, Up: Miscellaneous 14.6 Using org-mode on a tty ============================ Org-mode uses a number of keys that are not accessible on a tty. This applies to most special keys like cursor keys, and , when these are combined with modifier keys like and/or . Org-mode uses these bindings because it needs to provide keys for a large number of commands, and because these keys appeared particularly easy to remember. In order to still be able to access the core functionality of Org-mode on a tty, alternative bindings are provided. Here is a complete list of these bindings, which are obviously more cumbersome to use. Note that sometimes a work-around can be better. For example changing a time stamp is really only fun with `S-' keys. On a tty you would rather use `C-c .' to re-insert the timestamp. Default Alternative 1 Alternative 2 `S-' `C-u ' `M-' `C-c C-x l' ` ' `M-S-'`C-c C-x L' `M-' `C-c C-x r' ` ' `M-S-'`C-c C-x R' `M-' `C-c C-x u' ` ' `M-S-' `C-c C-x U' `M-' `C-c C-x d' ` ' `M-S-'`C-c C-x D' `S-' `C-c C-x c' `M-' `C-c C-x m' ` ' `M-S-' `C-c C-x M' `S-' `C-c ' `S-' `C-c ' `S-' `C-c ' `S-' `C-c ' `C-S-'`C-c C-x ' `C-S-'`C-c C-x '  File: org, Node: Interaction, Next: Bugs, Prev: TTY keys, Up: Miscellaneous 14.7 Interaction with other packages ==================================== Org-mode lives in the world of GNU Emacs and interacts in various ways with other code out there. * Menu: * Cooperation:: Packages Org-mode cooperates with * Conflicts:: Packages that lead to conflicts  File: org, Node: Cooperation, Next: Conflicts, Prev: Interaction, Up: Interaction 14.7.1 Packages that Org-mode cooperates with --------------------------------------------- `calc.el' by Dave Gillespie Org-mode uses the calc package for implementing spreadsheet functionality in its tables (*note The spreadsheet::). Org-mode checks for the availability of calc by looking for the function `calc-eval' which should be autoloaded in your setup if calc has been installed properly. As of Emacs 22, calc is part of the Emacs distribution. Another possibility for interaction between the two packages is using calc for embedded calculations. *Note Embedded Mode: (calc)Embedded Mode. `constants.el' by Carsten Dominik In a table formula (*note The spreadsheet::), it is possible to use names for natural constants or units. Instead of defining your own constants in the variable `org-table-formula-constants', install the `constants' package which defines a large number of constants and units, and lets you use unit prefixes like `M' for `Mega' etc. You will need version 2.0 of this package, available at `http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools'. Org-mode checks for the function `constants-get', which has to be autoloaded in your setup. See the installation instructions in the file `constants.el'. `cdlatex.el' by Carsten Dominik Org-mode can make use of the cdlatex package to efficiently enter LaTeX fragments into Org-mode files. See *Note CDLaTeX mode::. `remember.el' by John Wiegley Org mode cooperates with remember, see *Note Remember::. `Remember.el' is not part of Emacs, find it on the web. `table.el' by Takaaki Ota Complex ASCII tables with automatic line wrapping, column- and row-spanning, and alignment can be created using the Emacs table package by Takaaki Ota (`http://sourceforge.net/projects/table', and also part of Emacs 22). When or `C-c C-c' is pressed in such a table, Org-mode will call `table-recognize-table' and move the cursor into the table. Inside a table, the keymap of Org-mode is inactive. In order to execute Org-mode-related commands, leave the table. `C-c C-c' Recognize `table.el' table. Works when the cursor is in a table.el table. `C-c ~' Insert a table.el table. If there is already a table at point, this command converts it between the table.el format and the Org-mode format. See the documentation string of the command `org-convert-table' for the restrictions under which this is possible. `table.el' is part of Emacs 22. `footnote.el' by Steven L. Baur Org-mode recognizes numerical footnotes as provided by this package (*note Footnotes::).  File: org, Node: Conflicts, Prev: Cooperation, Up: Interaction 14.7.2 Packages that lead to conflicts with Org-mode ---------------------------------------------------- `allout.el' by Ken Manheimer Startup of Org-mode may fail with the error message `(wrong-type-argument keymapp nil)' when there is an outdated version `allout.el' on the load path, for example the version distributed with Emacs 21.x. Upgrade to Emacs 22 and this problem will disappear. If for some reason you cannot do this, make sure that org.el is loaded _before_ `allout.el', for example by putting `(require 'org)' early enough into your `.emacs' file. `CUA.el' by Kim. F. Storm Keybindings in Org-mode conflict with the `S-' keys used by CUA-mode (as well as pc-select-mode and s-region-mode) to select and extend the region. If you want to use one of these packages along with Org-mode, configure the variable `org-CUA-compatible'. When set, Org-mode will move the following keybindings in Org-mode files, and in the agenda buffer (but not during date selection). S-UP -> M-p S-DOWN -> M-n S-LEFT -> M-- S-RIGHT -> M-+ Yes, these are unfortunately more difficult to remember. If you want to have other replacement keys, look at the variable `org-disputed-keys'. `windmove.el' by Hovav Shacham Also this package uses the `S-' keys, so everything written in the paragraph above about CUA mode also applies here. `footnote.el' by Steven L. Baur Org-mode supports the syntax of the footnote package, but only the numerical footnote markers. Also, the default key for footnote commands, `C-c !' is already used by Org-mode. You could use the variable `footnote-prefix' to switch footnotes commands to another key. Or, you could use `org-replace-disputed-keys' and `org-disputed-keys' to change the settings in Org-mode.  File: org, Node: Bugs, Prev: Interaction, Up: Miscellaneous 14.8 Bugs ========= Here is a list of things that should work differently, but which I have found too hard to fix. * If a table field starts with a link, and if the corresponding table column is narrowed (*note Narrow columns::) to a width too small to display the link, the field would look entirely empty even though it is not. To prevent this, Org-mode throws an error. The work-around is to make the column wide enough to fit the link, or to add some text (at least 2 characters) before the link in the same field. * Narrowing table columns does not work on XEmacs, because the `format' function does not transport text properties. * Text in an entry protected with the `QUOTE' keyword should not autowrap. * When the application called by `C-c C-o' to open a file link fails (for example because the application does not exist or refuses to open the file), it does so silently. No error message is displayed. * Recalculating a table line applies the formulas from left to right. If a formula uses _calculated_ fields further down the row, multiple recalculation may be needed to get all fields consistent. You may use the command `org-table-iterate' (`C-u C-c *') to recalculate until convergence. * A single letter cannot be made bold, for example `*a*'. * The exporters work well, but could be made more efficient.  File: org, Node: Extensions and Hacking, Next: History and Acknowledgments, Prev: Miscellaneous, Up: Top Appendix A Extensions, Hooks and Hacking **************************************** This appendix lists extensions for Org-mode written by other authors. It also covers some aspects where users can extend the functionality of Org-mode. * Menu: * Extensions:: Existing 3rd-part extensions * Adding hyperlink types:: New custom link types * Tables in arbitrary syntax:: Orgtbl for LaTeX and other programs * Dynamic blocks:: Automatically filled blocks * Special agenda views:: Customized views * Using the property API:: Writing programs that use entry properties  File: org, Node: Extensions, Next: Adding hyperlink types, Prev: Extensions and Hacking, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.1 Third-party extensions for Org-mode ======================================= The following extensions for Org-mode have been written by other people: `org-publish.el' by David O'Toole This package provides facilities for publishing related sets of Org-mode files together with linked files like images as webpages. It is highly configurable and can be used for other publishing purposes as well. As of Org-mode version 4.30, `org-publish.el' is part of the Org-mode distribution. It is not yet part of Emacs, however, a delay caused by the preparations for the 22.1 release. In the mean time, `org-publish.el' can be downloaded from David's site: `http://dto.freeshell.org/e/org-publish.el'. `org-mouse.el' by Piotr Zielinski This package implements extended mouse functionality for Org-mode. It allows you to cycle visibility and to edit the document structure with the mouse. Best of all, it provides a context-sensitive menu on that changes depending on the context of a mouse-click. As of Org-mode version 4.53, `org-mouse.el' is part of the Org-mode distribution. It is not yet part of Emacs, however, a delay caused by the preparations for the 22.1 release. In the mean time, `org-mouse.el' can be downloaded from Piotr's site: `http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pz215/files/org-mouse.el'. `org-blog.el' by David O'Toole A blogging plug-in for `org-publish.el'. `http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgMode.html'. `blorg.el' by Bastien Guerry Publish Org-mode files as blogs. `http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/blorg.html'. `org2rem.el' by Bastien Guerry Translates Org-mode files into something readable by Remind. `http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org2rem.el'. `org-toc.el' by Bastien Guerry Produces a simple table of contents of an Org-mode file, for easy navigation. `http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org2rem.el'. `org-registry.el' by Bastien Guerry Find which Org-file link to a certain document. `http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org2rem.el'.  File: org, Node: Adding hyperlink types, Next: Tables in arbitrary syntax, Prev: Extensions, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.2 Adding hyperlink types ========================== Org-mode has a large number of hyperlink types built-in (*note Hyperlinks::). If you would like to add new link types, it provides an interface for doing so. Lets look at an example file `org-man.el' that will add support for creating links like `[[man:printf][The printf manpage]]' to show unix manual pages inside emacs: ;;; org-man.el - Support for links to manpages in Org-mode (require 'org) (org-add-link-type "man" 'org-man-open) (add-hook 'org-store-link-functions 'org-man-store-link) (defcustom org-man-command 'man "The Emacs command to be used to display a man page." :group 'org-link :type '(choice (const man) (const woman))) (defun org-man-open (path) "Visit the manpage on PATH. PATH should be a topic that can be thrown at the man command." (funcall org-man-command path)) (defun org-man-store-link () "Store a link to a manpage." (when (memq major-mode '(Man-mode woman-mode)) ;; This is a man page, we do make this link (let* ((page (org-man-get-page-name)) (link (concat "man:" page)) (description (format "Manpage for %s" page))) (org-store-link-props :type "man" :link link :description description)))) (defun org-man-get-page-name () "Extract the page name from the buffer name." ;; This works for both `Man-mode' and `woman-mode'. (if (string-match " \\(\\S-+\\)\\*" (buffer-name)) (match-string 1 (buffer-name)) (error "Cannot create link to this man page"))) (provide 'org-man) ;;; org-man.el ends here You would activate this new link type in `.emacs' with (require 'org-man) Lets go through the file and see what it does. 1. It does `(require 'org)' to make sure that `org.el' has been loaded. 2. The next line calls `org-add-link-type' to define a new link type with prefix `man'. The call also contains the name of a function that will be called to follow such a link. 3. The next line adds a function to `org-store-link-functions', in order to allow the command `C-c l' to record a useful link in a buffer displaying a man page. The rest of the file defines the necessary variables and functions. First there is a customization variable that determines which emacs command should be used to display manpages. There are two options, `man' and `woman'. Then the function to follow a link is defined. It gets the link path as an argument - in this case the link path is just a topic for the manual command. The function calls the value of `org-man-command' to display the man page. Finally the function `org-man-store-link' is defined. When you try to store a link with `C-c l', also this function will be called to try to make a link. The function must first decide if it is supposed to create the link for this buffer type, we do this by checking the value of the variable `major-mode'. If not, the function must exit and retunr the value `nil'. If yes, the link is created by getting the manual tpoic from the buffer name and prefixing it with the string `man:'. Then it must call the command `org-store-link-props' and set the `:type' and `:link' properties. Optionally you can also set the `:description' property to provide a default for the link description when the link is later inserted into tan Org-mode buffer with `C-c C-l'.  File: org, Node: Tables in arbitrary syntax, Next: Dynamic blocks, Prev: Adding hyperlink types, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.3 Tables in arbitrary syntax ============================== Since Orgtbl-mode can be used as a minor mode in arbitrary buffers, a frequent feature request has been to make it work with native tables in specific languages, for example LaTeX. However, this is extremely hard to do in a general way, would lead to a customization nightmare, and would take away much of the simplicity of the Orgtbl-mode table editor. This appendix describes a different approach. We keep the Orgtbl-mode table in its native format (the source table), and use a custom function to translate the table to the correct syntax, and to install it in the right location (the target table). This puts the burden of writing conversion functions on the user, but it allows for a very flexible system. * Menu: * Radio tables:: Sending and receiving * A LaTeX example:: Step by step, almost a tutorial * Translator functions:: Copy and modify  File: org, Node: Radio tables, Next: A LaTeX example, Prev: Tables in arbitrary syntax, Up: Tables in arbitrary syntax A.3.1 Radio tables ------------------ To define the location of the target table, you first need to create two lines that are comments in the current mode, but contain magic words for Orgtbl-mode to find. Orgtbl-mode will insert the translated table between these lines, replacing whatever was there before. For example: /* BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL table_name */ /* END RECEIVE ORGTBL table_name */ Just above the source table, we put a special line that tells Orgtbl-mode how to translate this table and where to install it. For example: #+ORGTBL: SEND table_name translation_function arguments.... `table_name' is the reference name for the table that is also used in the receiver lines. `translation_function' is the Lisp function that does the translation. Furthermore, the line can contain a list of arguments (alternating key and value) at the end. The arguments will be passed as a property list to the translation function for interpretation. A few standard parameters are already recognized and acted upon before the translation function is called: `:skip N' Skip the first N lines of the table. Hlines do count! `:skipcols (n1 n2 ...)' List of columns that should be skipped. If the table has a column with calculation marks, that column is automatically discarded as well. Please note that the translator function sees the table _after_ the removal of these columns, the function never knows that there have been additional columns. The one problem remaining is how to keep the source table in the buffer without disturbing the normal workings of the file, for example during compilation of a C file or processing of a LaTeX file. There are a number of different solutions: * The table could be placed in a block comment if that is supported by the language. For example, in C-mode you could wrap the table between `/*' and `*/' lines. * Sometimes it is possible to put the table after some kind of END statement, for example `\bye' in TeX and `\end{document}' in LaTeX. * You can just comment the table line by line whenever you want to process the file, and uncomment it whenever you need to edit the table. This only sounds tedious - the command `M-x orgtbl-toggle-comment' does make this comment-toggling very easy, in particular if you bind it to a key.  File: org, Node: A LaTeX example, Next: Translator functions, Prev: Radio tables, Up: Tables in arbitrary syntax A.3.2 A LaTeX example --------------------- The best way to wrap the source table in LaTeX is to use the `comment' environment provided by `comment.sty'. It has to be activated by placing `\usepackage{comment}' into the document header. Orgtbl-mode can insert a radio table skeleton(1) with the command `M-x orgtbl-insert-radio-table'. You will be prompted for a table name, lets say we use `salesfigures'. You will then get the following template: % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures % END RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND salesfigures orgtbl-to-latex | | | \end{comment} The `#+ORGTBL: SEND' line tells orgtbl-mode to use the function `orgtbl-to-latex' to convert the table into LaTeX and to put it into the receiver location with name `salesfigures'. You may now fill in the table, feel free to use the spreadsheet features(2): % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures % END RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND salesfigures orgtbl-to-latex | Month | Days | Nr sold | per day | |-------+------+---------+---------| | Jan | 23 | 55 | 2.4 | | Feb | 21 | 16 | 0.8 | | March | 22 | 278 | 12.6 | #+TBLFM: $4=$3/$2;%.1f % $ (optional extra dollar to keep font-lock happy, see footnote) \end{comment} When you are done, press `C-c C-c' in the table to get the converted table inserted between the two marker lines. Now lets assume you want to make the table header by hand, because you want to control how columns are aligned etc. In this case we make sure that the table translator does skip the first 2 lines of the source table, and tell the command to work as a splice, i.e. to not produce header and footer commands of the target table: \begin{tabular}{lrrr} Month & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Days} & Nr.\ sold & per day\\ % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures % END RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures \end{tabular} % \begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND salesfigures orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 2 | Month | Days | Nr sold | per day | |-------+------+---------+---------| | Jan | 23 | 55 | 2.4 | | Feb | 21 | 16 | 0.8 | | March | 22 | 278 | 12.6 | #+TBLFM: $4=$3/$2;%.1f \end{comment} The LaTeX translator function `orgtbl-to-latex' is already part of Orgtbl-mode. It uses a `tabular' environment to typeset the table and marks horizontal lines with `\hline'. Furthermore, it interprets the following parameters: `:splice nil/t' When set to t, return only table body lines, don't wrap them into a tabular environment. Default is nil. `:fmt fmt' A format to be used to wrap each field, should contain `%s' for the original field value. For example, to wrap each field value in dollars, you could use `:fmt "$%s$"'. This may also be a property list with column numbers and formats. for example `:fmt (2 "$%s$" 4 "%s\\%%")'. `:efmt efmt' Use this format to print numbers with exponentials. The format should have `%s' twice for inserting mantissa and exponent, for example `"%s\\times10^{%s}"'. The default is `"%s\\,(%s)"'. This may also be a property list with column numbers and formats, for example `:efmt (2 "$%s\\times10^{%s}$" 4 "$%s\\cdot10^{%s}$")'. After `efmt' has been applied to a value, `fmt' will also be applied. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) By default this works only for LaTeX, HTML, and TeXInfo. Configure the variable `orgtbl-radio-tables' to install templates for other modes. (2) If the `#+TBLFM' line contains an odd number of dollar characters, this may cause problems with font-lock in latex-mode. As shown in the example you can fix this by adding an extra line inside the `comment' environment that is used to balance the dollar expressions. If you are using AUCTeX with the font-latex library, a much better solution is to add the `comment' environment to the variable `LaTeX-verbatim-environments'.  File: org, Node: Translator functions, Prev: A LaTeX example, Up: Tables in arbitrary syntax A.3.3 Translator functions -------------------------- Orgtbl-mode has several translator functions built-in: `orgtbl-to-latex', `orgtbl-to-html', and `orgtbl-to-texinfo'. Except for `orgtbl-to-html'(1), these all use a generic translator, `orgtbl-to-generic'. For example, `orgtbl-to-latex' itself is a very short function that computes the column definitions for the `tabular' environment, defines a few field and line separators and then hands over to the generic translator. Here is the entire code: (defun orgtbl-to-latex (table params) "Convert the orgtbl-mode TABLE to LaTeX." (let* ((alignment (mapconcat (lambda (x) (if x "r" "l")) org-table-last-alignment "")) (params2 (list :tstart (concat "\\begin{tabular}{" alignment "}") :tend "\\end{tabular}" :lstart "" :lend " \\\\" :sep " & " :efmt "%s\\,(%s)" :hline "\\hline"))) (orgtbl-to-generic table (org-combine-plists params2 params)))) As you can see, the properties passed into the function (variable PARAMS) are combined with the ones newly defined in the function (variable PARAMS2). The ones passed into the function (i.e. the ones set by the `ORGTBL SEND' line) take precedence. So if you would like to use the LaTeX translator, but wanted the line endings to be `\\[2mm]' instead of the default `\\', you could just overrule the default with #+ORGTBL: SEND test orgtbl-to-latex :lend " \\\\[2mm]" For a new language, you can either write your own converter function in analogy with the LaTeX translator, or you can use the generic function directly. For example, if you have a language where a table is started with `!BTBL!', ended with `!ETBL!', and where table lines are started with `!BL!', ended with `!EL!' and where the field separator is a TAB, you could call the generic translator like this (on a single line!): #+ORGTBL: SEND test orgtbl-to-generic :tstart "!BTBL!" :tend "!ETBL!" :lstart "!BL! " :lend " !EL!" :sep "\t" Please check the documentation string of the function `orgtbl-to-generic' for a full list of parameters understood by that function and remember that you can pass each of them into `orgtbl-to-latex', `orgtbl-to-texinfo', and any other function using the generic function. Of course you can also write a completely new function doing complicated things the generic translator cannot do. A translator function takes two arguments. The first argument is the table, a list of lines, each line either the symbol `hline' or a list of fields. The second argument is the property list containing all parameters specified in the `#+ORGTBL: SEND' line. The function must return a single string containing the formatted table. If you write a generally useful translator, please post it on `emacs-orgmode@gnu.org' so that others can benefit from your work. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) The HTML translator uses the same code that produces tables during HTML export.  File: org, Node: Dynamic blocks, Next: Special agenda views, Prev: Tables in arbitrary syntax, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.4 Dynamic blocks ================== Org-mode documents can contain _dynamic blocks_. These are specially marked regions that are updated by some user-written function. A good example for such a block is the clock table inserted by the command `C-c C-x C-r' (*note Clocking work time::). Dynamic block are enclosed by a BEGIN-END structure that assigns a name to the block and can also specify parameters for the function producing the content of the block. #+BEGIN: myblock :parameter1 value1 :parameter2 value2 ... #+END: Dynamic blocks are updated with the following commands `C-c C-x C-u' Update dynamic block at point. `C-u C-c C-x C-u' Update all dynamic blocks in the current file. Updating a dynamic block means to remove all the text between BEGIN and END, parse the BEGIN line for parameters and then call the specific writer function for this block to insert the new content. For a block with name `myblock', the writer function is `org-dblock-write:myblock' with as only parameter a property list with the parameters given in the begin line. Here is a trivial example of a block that keeps track of when the block update function was last run: #+BEGIN: block-update-time :format "on %m/%d/%Y at %H:%M" #+END: The corresponding block writer function could look like this: (defun org-dblock-write:block-update-time (params) (let ((fmt (or (plist-get params :format) "%d. %m. %Y"))) (insert "Last block update at: " (format-time-string fmt (current-time))))) If you want to make sure that all dynamic blocks are always up-to-date, you could add the function `org-update-all-dblocks' to a hook, for example `before-save-hook'. `org-update-all-dblocks' is written in a way that is does nothing in buffers that are not in Org-mode.  File: org, Node: Special agenda views, Next: Using the property API, Prev: Dynamic blocks, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.5 Special Agenda Views ======================== Org-mode provides a special hook that can be used to narrow down the selection made by any of the agenda views. You may specify a function that is used at each match to verify if the match should indeed be part of the agenda view, and if not, how much should be skipped. Let's say you want to produce a list of projects that contain a WAITING tag anywhere in the project tree. Let's further assume that you have marked all tree headings that define a project with the todo keyword PROJECT. In this case you would run a todo search for the keyword PROJECT, but skip the match unless there is a WAITING tag anywhere in the subtree belonging to the project line. To achieve this, you must write a function that searches the subtree for the tag. If the tag is found, the function must return `nil' to indicate that this match should not be skipped. If there is no such tag, return the location of the end of the subtree, to indicate that search should continue from there. (defun my-skip-unless-waiting () "Skip trees that are not waiting" (let ((subtree-end (save-excursion (org-end-of-subtree t)))) (if (re-search-forward ":WAITING:" subtree-end t) nil ; tag found, do not skip subtree-end))) ; tag not found, continue after end of subtree Now you may use this function in an agenda custom command, for example like this: (org-add-agenda-custom-command '("b" todo "PROJECT" ((org-agenda-skip-function 'my-org-waiting-projects) (org-agenda-overriding-header "Projects waiting for something: ")))) Note that this also binds `org-agenda-overriding-header' to get a meaningful header in the agenda view. You may also put a Lisp form into `org-agenda-skip-function'. In particular, you may use the functions `org-agenda-skip-entry-if' and `org-agenda-skip-subtree-if' in this form, for example: `'(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'scheduled)' Skip current entry if it has been scheduled. `'(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notscheduled)' Skip current entry if it has not been scheduled. `'(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'deadline)' Skip current entry if it has a deadline. `'(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'scheduled 'deadline)' Skip current entry if it has a deadline, or if it is scheduled. `'(org-agenda-skip-entry 'regexp "regular expression")' Skip current entry if the regular expression matches in the entry. `'(org-agenda-skip-entry 'notregexp "regular expression")' Skip current entry unless the regular expression matches. `'(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "regular expression")' Same as above, but check and skip the entire subtree. Therefore we could also have written the search for WAITING projects like this, even without defining a special function: (org-add-agenda-custom-command '("b" todo "PROJECT" ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp ":WAITING:")) (org-agenda-overriding-header "Projects waiting for something: "))))  File: org, Node: Using the property API, Prev: Special agenda views, Up: Extensions and Hacking A.6 Using the property API ========================== Here is a description of the functions that can be used to work with properties. -- Function: org-entry-properties &optional pom which Get all properties of the entry at point-or-marker POM. This includes the TODO keyword, the tags, time strings for deadline, scheduled, and clocking, and any additional properties defined in the entry. The return value is an alist, keys may occur multiple times if the property key was used several times. POM may also be nil, in which case the current entry is used. If WHICH is nil or `all', get all properties. If WHICH is `special' or `standard', only get that subclass. -- Function: org-entry-get pom property &optional inherit Get value of PROPERTY for entry at point-or-marker POM. If INHERIT is non-nil and the entry does not have the property, then also check higher levels of the hierarchy. -- Function: org-entry-delete pom property Delete the property PROPERTY from entry at point-or-marker POM. -- Function: org-entry-put pom property value Set PROPERTY to VALUE for entry at point-or-marker POM. -- Function: org-buffer-property-keys &optional include-specials Get all property keys in the current buffer. -- Function: org-insert-property-drawer Insert a property drawer at point.  File: org, Node: History and Acknowledgments, Next: Index, Prev: Extensions and Hacking, Up: Top Appendix B History and Acknowledgments ************************************** Org-mode was borne in 2003, out of frustration over the user interface of the Emacs outline-mode. I was trying to organize my notes and projects, and using Emacs seemed to be the natural way to go. However, having to remember eleven different commands with two or three keys per command, only to hide and unhide parts of the outline tree, that seemed entirely unacceptable to me. Also, when using outlines to take notes, I constantly want to restructure the tree, organizing it parallel to my thoughts and plans. _Visibility cycling_ and _structure editing_ were originally implemented in the package `outline-magic.el', but quickly moved to the more general `org.el'. As this environment became comfortable for project planning, the next step was adding _TODO entries_, basic _time stamps_, and _table support_. These areas highlight the two main goals that Org-mode still has today: To create a new, outline-based, plain text mode with innovative and intuitive editing features, and to incorporate project planning functionality directly into a notes file. Since the first release, literally thousands of emails to me or on `emacs-orgmode@gnu.org' have provided a constant stream of bug reports, feedback, new ideas, and sometimes patches and add-on code. Many thanks to everyone who has helped to improve this package. I am trying to keep here a list of the people who had significant influence in shaping one or more aspects of Org-mode. The list may not be complete, if I have forgotten someone, please accept my apologies and let me know. * Russel Adams came up with the idea for drawers. * Thomas Baumann contributed the code for links to the MH-E email system. * Alex Bochannek provided a patch for rounding time stamps. * Charles Cave's suggestion sparked the implementation of templates for Remember. * Pavel Chalmoviansky influenced the agenda treatment of items with specified time. * Gregory Chernov patched support for lisp forms into table calculations and improved XEmacs compatibility, in particular by porting `nouline.el' to XEmacs. * Sacha Chua suggested to copy some linking code from Planner. * Eddward DeVilla proposed and tested checkbox statistics. He also came up with the idea of properties, and that there should be an API for them. * Kees Dullemond used to edit projects lists directly in HTML and so inspired some of the early development, including HTML export. He also asked for a way to narrow wide table columns. * Christian Egli converted the documentation into TeXInfo format, patched CSS formatting into the HTML exporter, and inspired the agenda. * David Emery provided a patch for custom CSS support in exported HTML agendas. * Nic Ferrier contributed mailcap and XOXO support. * John Foerch figured out how to make incremental search show context around a match in a hidden outline tree. * Niels Giesen had the idea to automatically archive DONE trees. * Bastien Guerry wrote the LaTeX exporter and has been prolific with patches, ideas, and bug reports. * Kai Grossjohann pointed out key-binding conflicts with other packages. * Scott Jaderholm proposed footnotes, control over whitespace between folded entries, and column view for properties. * Shidai Liu ("Leo") asked for embedded LaTeX and tested it. He also provided frequent feedback and some patches. * Jason F. McBrayer suggested agenda export to CSV format. * Dmitri Minaev sent a patch to set priority limits on a per-file basis. * Stefan Monnier provided a patch to keep the Emacs-Lisp compiler happy. * Rick Moynihan proposed to allow multiple TODO sequences in a file. * Todd Neal provided patches for links to Info files and elisp forms. * Tim O'Callaghan suggested in-file links, search options for general file links, and TAGS. * Takeshi Okano translated the manual and David O'Toole's tutorial into Japanese. * Oliver Oppitz suggested multi-state TODO items. * Scott Otterson sparked the introduction of descriptive text for links, among other things. * Pete Phillips helped during the development of the TAGS feature, and provided frequent feedback. * T.V. Raman reported bugs and suggested improvements. * Matthias Rempe (Oelde) provided ideas, Windows support, and quality control. * Kevin Rogers contributed code to access VM files on remote hosts. * Frank Ruell solved the mystery of the `keymapp nil' bug, a conflict with `allout.el'. * Jason Riedy sent a patch to fix a bug with export of TODO keywords. * Philip Rooke created the Org-mode reference card and provided lots of feedback. * Christian Schlauer proposed angular brackets around links, among other things. * Linking to VM/BBDB/GNUS was inspired by Tom Shannon's `organizer-mode.el'. * Daniel Sinder came up with the idea of internal archiving by locking subtrees. * Dale Smith proposed link abbreviations. * Adam Spiers asked for global linking commands and inspired the link extension system. support mairix. * David O'Toole wrote `org-publish.el' and drafted the manual chapter about publishing. * Ju"rgen Vollmer contributed code generating the table of contents in HTML output. * Chris Wallace provided a patch implementing the `QUOTE' keyword. * David Wainberg suggested archiving, and improvements to the linking system. * John Wiegley wrote `emacs-wiki.el' and `planner.el'. The development of Org-mode was fully independent, and both systems are really different beasts in their basic ideas and implementation details. I later looked at John's code, however, and learned from his implementation of (i) links where the link itself is hidden and only a description is shown, and (ii) popping up a calendar to select a date. John has also contributed a number of great ideas directly to Org-mode. * Carsten Wimmer suggested some changes and helped fix a bug in linking to GNUS. * Roland Winkler requested additional keybindings to make Org-mode work on a tty. * Piotr Zielinski wrote `org-mouse.el', proposed agenda blocks and contributed various ideas and code snippets.  File: org, Node: Index, Next: Key Index, Prev: History and Acknowledgments, Up: Top Index ***** [index] * Menu: * abbreviation, links: Link abbreviations. (line 6) * acknowledgments: History and Acknowledgments. (line 6) * action, for publishing: Publishing action. (line 6) * activation: Activation. (line 6) * active region <1>: ASCII export. (line 9) * active region <2>: Structure editing. (line 71) * active region <3>: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * active region: HTML Export commands. (line 6) * agenda: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 6) * agenda dispatcher: Agenda dispatcher. (line 6) * agenda files: Agenda files. (line 6) * agenda files, removing buffers: Agenda commands. (line 244) * agenda views: Agenda views. (line 6) * agenda views, custom: Custom agenda views. (line 6) * agenda views, exporting <1>: Agenda commands. (line 233) * agenda views, exporting: Exporting Agenda Views. (line 12) * agenda views, user-defined: Special agenda views. (line 6) * agenda, pipe: Extracting Agenda Information for other programs. (line 6) * agenda, with block views: Block agenda. (line 6) * align, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 72) * allout.el: Conflicts. (line 6) * angular brackets, around links: External links. (line 43) * API, for properties <1>: Property API. (line 6) * API, for properties: Using the property API. (line 6) * appointment reminders: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 65) * appt.el: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 65) * archive locations: Moving subtrees. (line 23) * archiving: Archiving. (line 6) * ASCII export: ASCII export. (line 6) * author: Feedback. (line 6) * author info, in export: Export options. (line 26) * autoload: Activation. (line 6) * backtrace of an error: Feedback. (line 27) * BBDB links: External links. (line 6) * block agenda: Block agenda. (line 6) * blorg.el: Extensions. (line 32) * bold text: Enhancing text. (line 15) * Boolean logic, for tag searches: Tag searches. (line 24) * bug reports: Feedback. (line 6) * bugs: Bugs. (line 6) * C-c C-c, overview: The very busy C-c C-c key. (line 6) * calc package: The spreadsheet. (line 6) * calc.el: Cooperation. (line 6) * calculations, in tables <1>: The spreadsheet. (line 6) * calculations, in tables: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * calendar commands, from agenda: Agenda commands. (line 196) * calendar integration: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 23) * calendar, for selecting date: The date/time prompt. (line 42) * category: Categories. (line 6) * CDLaTeX: CDLaTeX mode. (line 6) * cdlatex.el: Cooperation. (line 29) * checkbox statistics: Checkboxes. (line 23) * checkboxes: Checkboxes. (line 6) * children, subtree visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * clean outline view: Clean view. (line 6) * column formula: Column formulas. (line 6) * column view, for properties: Defining columns. (line 6) * commands, in agenda buffer: Agenda commands. (line 6) * comment lines: Comment lines. (line 6) * completion, of dictionary words: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of file names: Handling links. (line 44) * completion, of link abbreviations: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of links: Handling links. (line 25) * completion, of option keywords <1>: Per file keywords. (line 23) * completion, of option keywords <2>: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of option keywords: Export options. (line 6) * completion, of property keys: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of tags <1>: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of tags: Setting tags. (line 11) * completion, of TeX symbols: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of TODO keywords <1>: Completion. (line 6) * completion, of TODO keywords: Workflow states. (line 15) * constants, in calculations: References. (line 82) * constants.el: Cooperation. (line 14) * constcgs, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 98) * constSI, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 98) * content, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 65) * contents, global visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * copying, of subtrees: Structure editing. (line 6) * creating timestamps: Creating timestamps. (line 6) * CUA.el: Conflicts. (line 15) * custom agenda views: Custom agenda views. (line 6) * custom date/time format: Custom time format. (line 6) * custom search strings: Custom searches. (line 6) * customization: Customization. (line 6) * customtime, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 95) * cutting, of subtrees: Structure editing. (line 6) * cycling, of TODO states: TODO basics. (line 13) * cycling, visibility: Visibility cycling. (line 6) * daily agenda: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 6) * date format, custom: Custom time format. (line 6) * date range: Time stamps. (line 40) * date stamps <1>: Timestamps. (line 6) * date stamps: Time stamps. (line 6) * date, reading in minibuffer: The date/time prompt. (line 6) * DEADLINE keyword: Deadlines and scheduling. (line 10) * deadlines: Time stamps. (line 6) * debugging, of table formulas: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 97) * demotion, of subtrees: Structure editing. (line 6) * diary entries, creating from agenda: Agenda commands. (line 201) * diary integration: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 23) * dictionary word completion: Completion. (line 6) * directories, for publishing: Sources and destinations. (line 6) * dispatching agenda commands: Agenda dispatcher. (line 6) * display changing, in agenda: Agenda commands. (line 65) * document structure: Document structure. (line 6) * DONE, final TODO keyword: Per file keywords. (line 26) * drawer, for properties: Property syntax. (line 6) * drawers: Drawers. (line 6) * dynamic blocks: Dynamic blocks. (line 6) * editing tables: Tables. (line 6) * editing, of table formulas: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 6) * elisp links: External links. (line 6) * emphasized text: Export options. (line 26) * enhancing text: Enhancing text. (line 6) * evaluate time range: Creating timestamps. (line 48) * even, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 88) * exporting: Exporting. (line 6) * exporting agenda views <1>: Agenda commands. (line 233) * exporting agenda views: Exporting Agenda Views. (line 12) * exporting, not: Comment lines. (line 6) * extended TODO keywords: TODO extensions. (line 6) * extension, third-party: Extensions. (line 6) * external archiving: Moving subtrees. (line 6) * external links: External links. (line 6) * external links, in HTML export: Links. (line 6) * faces, for TODO keywords: Faces for TODO keywords. (line 6) * FAQ: Summary. (line 56) * feedback: Feedback. (line 6) * field formula: Field formulas. (line 6) * field references: References. (line 15) * file links: External links. (line 6) * file links, searching: Search options. (line 6) * file name completion: Handling links. (line 44) * files for agenda: Agenda files. (line 6) * files, adding to agenda list: Agenda files. (line 15) * files, selecting for publishing: Selecting files. (line 6) * fixed width: Enhancing text. (line 28) * fixed-width sections: Export options. (line 26) * folded, subtree visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * folding, sparse trees: Sparse trees. (line 6) * following links: Handling links. (line 59) * footnote.el <1>: Cooperation. (line 56) * footnote.el <2>: Footnotes. (line 6) * footnote.el: Conflicts. (line 35) * footnotes <1>: Export options. (line 26) * footnotes: Footnotes. (line 6) * format specifier: Formula syntax for Calc. (line 14) * format, of links: Link format. (line 6) * formula debugging: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 97) * formula editing: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 6) * formula syntax, Calc: Formula syntax for Calc. (line 6) * formula, for individual table field: Field formulas. (line 6) * formula, for table column: Column formulas. (line 6) * formula, in tables: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * global cycling: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * global keybindings: Activation. (line 6) * global TODO list: Global TODO list. (line 6) * global visibility states: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * GNUS links: External links. (line 6) * grouping columns in tables: Column groups. (line 6) * hand-formatted lists: Enhancing text. (line 11) * headline levels: Export options. (line 26) * headline levels, for exporting <1>: ASCII export. (line 21) * headline levels, for exporting <2>: LaTeX export commands. (line 26) * headline levels, for exporting: HTML Export commands. (line 44) * headline navigation: Motion. (line 6) * headline tagging: Tags. (line 6) * headline, promotion and demotion: Structure editing. (line 6) * headlines: Headlines. (line 6) * hide text: Visibility cycling. (line 6) * hidestars, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 88) * hiding leading stars: Clean view. (line 6) * history: History and Acknowledgments. (line 6) * horizontal rules, in exported files: Enhancing text. (line 18) * HTML export: HTML export. (line 6) * HTML, and orgtbl-mode: Translator functions. (line 6) * hyperlinks: Hyperlinks. (line 6) * hyperlinks, adding new types: Adding hyperlink types. (line 6) * iCalendar export: iCalendar export. (line 6) * images, inline in HTML: Images. (line 6) * in-buffer settings: In-buffer settings. (line 6) * inactive timestamp: Time stamps. (line 49) * index, of published pages: Project page index. (line 6) * Info links: External links. (line 6) * inheritance, of properties: Property searches. (line 6) * inheritance, of tags: Tag inheritance. (line 6) * inlining images in HTML: Images. (line 6) * inserting links: Handling links. (line 25) * installation: Installation. (line 6) * internal archiving: ARCHIVE tag. (line 6) * internal links: Internal links. (line 6) * internal links, in HTML export: Links. (line 6) * introduction: Introduction. (line 6) * italic text: Enhancing text. (line 15) * jumping, to headlines: Motion. (line 6) * keybindings, global: Activation. (line 6) * keyword options: Per file keywords. (line 6) * LaTeX export: LaTeX export. (line 6) * LaTeX fragments <1>: LaTeX fragments. (line 6) * LaTeX fragments: Export options. (line 26) * LaTeX fragments, export: Enhancing text. (line 21) * LaTeX fragments, preview: Processing LaTeX fragments. (line 6) * LaTeX interpretation: Embedded LaTeX. (line 6) * LaTeX, and orgtbl-mode: A LaTeX example. (line 6) * level, require for tags match: Tag searches. (line 69) * linebreak preservation: Export options. (line 26) * linebreak, forced: Enhancing text. (line 35) * link abbreviations: Link abbreviations. (line 6) * link abbreviations, completion of: Completion. (line 6) * link completion: Handling links. (line 25) * link format: Link format. (line 6) * links, external: External links. (line 6) * links, finding next/previous: Handling links. (line 92) * links, handling: Handling links. (line 6) * links, in HTML export: Links. (line 6) * links, internal: Internal links. (line 6) * links, publishing: Publishing links. (line 6) * links, radio targets: Radio targets. (line 6) * links, returning to: Handling links. (line 86) * Lisp forms, as table formulas: Formula syntax for Lisp. (line 6) * lists, hand-formatted: Enhancing text. (line 11) * lists, ordered: Plain lists. (line 6) * lists, plain: Plain lists. (line 6) * logdone, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * logging, of progress: Progress logging. (line 6) * lognoteclock-out, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * lognotedone, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * lognotestate, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * logrepeat, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * maintainer: Feedback. (line 6) * mark ring: Handling links. (line 82) * marking characters, tables: Advanced features. (line 40) * matching, of properties: Matching tags and properties. (line 6) * matching, of tags: Matching tags and properties. (line 6) * matching, tags: Tags. (line 6) * math symbols: Math symbols. (line 6) * MH-E links: External links. (line 6) * minor mode for structure editing: orgstruct-mode. (line 6) * minor mode for tables: orgtbl-mode. (line 6) * mode, for calc: Formula syntax for Calc. (line 14) * motion commands in agenda: Agenda commands. (line 19) * motion, between headlines: Motion. (line 6) * name, of column or field: References. (line 82) * named references: References. (line 82) * names as TODO keywords: TODO types. (line 6) * narrow columns in tables: Narrow columns. (line 6) * noalign, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 72) * nologging, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * nologrepeat, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 77) * occur, command: Sparse trees. (line 6) * odd, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 88) * option keyword completion: Completion. (line 6) * options, for custom agenda views: Setting Options. (line 6) * options, for customization: Customization. (line 6) * options, for export: Export options. (line 6) * options, for publishing: Publishing options. (line 6) * ordered lists: Plain lists. (line 6) * org-agenda, command: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 9) * org-blog.el: Extensions. (line 28) * org-mode, turning on: Activation. (line 22) * org-mouse.el: Extensions. (line 16) * org-publish-project-alist: Project alist. (line 6) * org-publish.el: Extensions. (line 8) * org2rem.el: Extensions. (line 36) * orgstruct-mode: orgstruct-mode. (line 6) * orgtbl-mode <1>: orgtbl-mode. (line 6) * orgtbl-mode: Tables in arbitrary syntax. (line 6) * outline tree: Headlines. (line 6) * outline-mode: Outlines. (line 6) * outlines: Outlines. (line 6) * overview, global visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * overview, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 65) * packages, interaction with other: Interaction. (line 6) * pasting, of subtrees: Structure editing. (line 6) * per file keywords: Per file keywords. (line 6) * plain lists: Plain lists. (line 6) * plain text external links: External links. (line 43) * presentation, of agenda items: Presentation and sorting. (line 6) * printing sparse trees: Sparse trees. (line 46) * priorities: Priorities. (line 6) * priorities, of agenda items: Sorting of agenda items. (line 6) * progress logging: Progress logging. (line 6) * projects, for publishing: Project alist. (line 6) * promotion, of subtrees: Structure editing. (line 6) * properties: Properties and columns. (line 6) * properties, API <1>: Using the property API. (line 6) * properties, API: Property API. (line 6) * properties, column view: Defining columns. (line 6) * properties, inheritance: Property searches. (line 6) * properties, searching: Property searches. (line 6) * properties, special: Special properties. (line 6) * property syntax: Property syntax. (line 6) * publishing: Publishing. (line 6) * quoted HTML tags: Export options. (line 26) * radio tables: Radio tables. (line 6) * radio targets: Radio targets. (line 6) * range references: References. (line 60) * ranges, time: Time stamps. (line 6) * recomputing table fields: Updating the table. (line 6) * references: References. (line 6) * references, named: References. (line 82) * references, to fields: References. (line 15) * references, to ranges: References. (line 60) * region, active <1>: ASCII export. (line 9) * region, active <2>: Structure editing. (line 71) * region, active <3>: HTML Export commands. (line 6) * region, active: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * regular expressions, with tags search: Tag searches. (line 64) * remember.el <1>: Remember. (line 6) * remember.el: Cooperation. (line 33) * remote editing, from agenda: Agenda commands. (line 107) * remote editing, undo: Agenda commands. (line 108) * richer text: Enhancing text. (line 6) * RMAIL links: External links. (line 6) * SCHEDULED keyword: Deadlines and scheduling. (line 26) * scheduling: Time stamps. (line 6) * Scripts, for agenda processing: Extracting Agenda Information for other programs. (line 6) * search option in file links: Search options. (line 6) * search strings, custom: Custom searches. (line 6) * searching for tags: Tag searches. (line 6) * searching, of properties: Property searches. (line 6) * section-numbers: Export options. (line 26) * setting tags: Setting tags. (line 6) * SHELL links: External links. (line 6) * show all, command: Visibility cycling. (line 33) * show all, global visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * show hidden text: Visibility cycling. (line 6) * showall, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 65) * showstars, STARTUP keyword: In-buffer settings. (line 88) * sorting, of agenda items: Sorting of agenda items. (line 6) * sparse tree, for deadlines: Inserting deadline/schedule. (line 13) * sparse tree, for TODO: TODO basics. (line 38) * sparse tree, tag based: Tags. (line 6) * sparse trees: Sparse trees. (line 6) * special keywords: In-buffer settings. (line 6) * spreadsheet capabilities: The spreadsheet. (line 6) * statistics, for checkboxes: Checkboxes. (line 23) * storing links: Handling links. (line 9) * structure editing: Structure editing. (line 6) * structure of document: Document structure. (line 6) * sublevels, inclusion into tags match: Tag inheritance. (line 6) * sublevels, inclusion into todo list: Global TODO list. (line 34) * subscript: Subscripts and Superscripts. (line 6) * subtree cycling: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * subtree visibility states: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * subtree, cut and paste: Structure editing. (line 6) * subtree, subtree visibility state: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * subtrees, cut and paste: Structure editing. (line 6) * summary: Summary. (line 6) * superscript: Subscripts and Superscripts. (line 6) * syntax, of formulas: Formula syntax for Calc. (line 6) * table editor, built-in: Built-in table editor. (line 6) * table editor, table.el: Cooperation. (line 37) * table of contents: Export options. (line 26) * table.el: Cooperation. (line 34) * tables <1>: Tables. (line 6) * tables: Export options. (line 26) * tables, export: Enhancing text. (line 24) * tables, in other modes: Tables in arbitrary syntax. (line 6) * tag completion: Completion. (line 6) * tag inheritance: Tag inheritance. (line 6) * tag searches: Tag searches. (line 6) * tags: Tags. (line 6) * tags view: Matching tags and properties. (line 6) * tags, setting: Setting tags. (line 6) * targets, for links: Internal links. (line 6) * targets, radio: Radio targets. (line 6) * tasks, breaking down: Breaking down tasks. (line 6) * templates, for remember: Remember templates. (line 6) * TeX interpretation: Embedded LaTeX. (line 6) * TeX macros <1>: Math symbols. (line 6) * TeX macros: Export options. (line 26) * TeX macros, export: Enhancing text. (line 21) * TeX symbol completion: Completion. (line 6) * TeX-like syntax for sub- and superscripts: Export options. (line 26) * thanks: History and Acknowledgments. (line 6) * time format, custom: Custom time format. (line 6) * time grid: Time-of-day specifications. (line 26) * time info, in export: Export options. (line 26) * time stamps <1>: Timestamps. (line 6) * time stamps: Time stamps. (line 6) * time, reading in minibuffer: The date/time prompt. (line 6) * time-of-day specification: Time-of-day specifications. (line 6) * time-sorted view: Timeline. (line 6) * timeline, single file: Timeline. (line 6) * timerange: Time stamps. (line 40) * timestamp: Time stamps. (line 14) * timestamp, inactive: Time stamps. (line 49) * timestamp, with repeater interval: Time stamps. (line 24) * timestamps, creating: Creating timestamps. (line 6) * TODO items: TODO items. (line 6) * TODO keyword matching: Global TODO list. (line 17) * TODO keyword matching, with tags search: Tag searches. (line 41) * todo keyword sets: Multiple sets in one file. (line 6) * TODO keywords completion: Completion. (line 6) * TODO list, global: Global TODO list. (line 6) * TODO types: TODO types. (line 6) * TODO workflow: Workflow states. (line 6) * transient-mark-mode <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * transient-mark-mode <2>: Structure editing. (line 71) * transient-mark-mode <3>: ASCII export. (line 9) * transient-mark-mode: HTML Export commands. (line 6) * translator function: Translator functions. (line 6) * trees, sparse: Sparse trees. (line 6) * trees, visibility: Visibility cycling. (line 6) * tty keybindings: TTY keys. (line 6) * types as TODO keywords: TODO types. (line 6) * underlined text: Enhancing text. (line 15) * undoing remote-editing events: Agenda commands. (line 108) * updating, table: Updating the table. (line 6) * URL links: External links. (line 6) * USENET links: External links. (line 6) * variables, for customization: Customization. (line 6) * vectors, in table calculations: Formula syntax for Calc. (line 11) * visibility cycling: Visibility cycling. (line 6) * visibility cycling, drawers: Drawers. (line 6) * visible text, printing: Sparse trees. (line 46) * VM links: External links. (line 6) * WANDERLUST links: External links. (line 6) * weekly agenda: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 6) * windmove.el: Conflicts. (line 32) * workflow states as TODO keywords: Workflow states. (line 6) * XEmacs: Installation. (line 6) * XOXO export: XOXO export. (line 6)  File: org, Node: Key Index, Prev: Index, Up: Top Key Index ********* [index] * Menu: * $: Agenda commands. (line 122) * ': CDLaTeX mode. (line 43) * +: Agenda commands. (line 145) * ,: Agenda commands. (line 137) * -: Agenda commands. (line 151) * .: Agenda commands. (line 99) * :: Agenda commands. (line 130) * < <1>: The date/time prompt. (line 48) * <: Using column view. (line 57) * : Agenda commands. (line 96) * <1>: Agenda commands. (line 39) * <2>: Setting tags. (line 76) * <3>: The date/time prompt. (line 73) * : Built-in table editor. (line 64) * : Agenda commands. (line 91) * <1>: Agenda commands. (line 28) * : Setting tags. (line 73) * <1>: CDLaTeX mode. (line 23) * <2>: Visibility cycling. (line 10) * <3>: Setting tags. (line 68) * <4>: Agenda commands. (line 33) * <5>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 57) * <6>: Built-in table editor. (line 57) * : Plain lists. (line 41) * > <1>: The date/time prompt. (line 49) * > <2>: Using column view. (line 57) * >: Agenda commands. (line 173) * ^: CDLaTeX mode. (line 33) * _: CDLaTeX mode. (line 33) * `: CDLaTeX mode. (line 39) * a <1>: Agenda commands. (line 134) * a: Using column view. (line 46) * b: Agenda commands. (line 49) * C: Agenda commands. (line 216) * c: Agenda commands. (line 196) * C-#: Advanced features. (line 9) * C-': Agenda files. (line 21) * C-,: Agenda files. (line 21) * C-: Structure editing. (line 18) * C-_: Agenda commands. (line 108) * C-c ! <1>: Footnotes. (line 14) * C-c !: Creating timestamps. (line 19) * C-c #: Checkboxes. (line 57) * C-c %: Handling links. (line 82) * C-c &: Handling links. (line 86) * C-c ': Editing and debugging formulas. (line 36) * C-c *: Updating the table. (line 13) * C-c +: Built-in table editor. (line 143) * C-c ,: Priorities. (line 18) * C-c - <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 92) * C-c -: Plain lists. (line 88) * C-c .: Creating timestamps. (line 10) * C-c /: Sparse trees. (line 15) * C-c / p: Property searches. (line 23) * C-c / r: Sparse trees. (line 17) * C-c / T: Tag searches. (line 9) * C-c / t: TODO basics. (line 38) * C-c :: Enhancing text. (line 32) * C-c ;: Comment lines. (line 10) * C-c <: Creating timestamps. (line 23) * C-c : Built-in table editor. (line 163) * C-c = <1>: Column formulas. (line 26) * C-c =: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 14) * C-c >: Creating timestamps. (line 27) * C-c ?: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 24) * C-c [: Agenda files. (line 15) * C-c \: Tag searches. (line 9) * C-c ]: Agenda files. (line 18) * C-c ^ <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 96) * C-c ^: Structure editing. (line 58) * C-c `: Built-in table editor. (line 159) * C-c a !: Stuck projects. (line 14) * C-c a #: Stuck projects. (line 13) * C-c a a: Weekly/Daily agenda. (line 9) * C-c a C: Storing searches. (line 9) * C-c a e: Exporting Agenda Views. (line 57) * C-c a L: Timeline. (line 10) * C-c a m: Tag searches. (line 13) * C-c a M <1>: Matching tags and properties. (line 15) * C-c a M: Tag searches. (line 17) * C-c a m: Matching tags and properties. (line 10) * C-c a T: Global TODO list. (line 14) * C-c a t <1>: TODO basics. (line 49) * C-c a t: Global TODO list. (line 9) * C-c C-a: Visibility cycling. (line 33) * C-c C-b: Motion. (line 15) * C-c C-c <1>: Processing LaTeX fragments. (line 15) * C-c C-c <2>: Cooperation. (line 37) * C-c C-c <3>: Built-in table editor. (line 56) * C-c C-c <4>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 46) * C-c C-c <5>: Plain lists. (line 81) * C-c C-c <6>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 90) * C-c C-c <7>: Capturing Column View. (line 39) * C-c C-c <8>: Cooperation. (line 46) * C-c C-c <9>: TODO basics. (line 30) * C-c C-c <10>: Clocking work time. (line 89) * C-c C-c <11>: Checkboxes. (line 37) * C-c C-c <12>: Using column view. (line 39) * C-c C-c <13>: Property syntax. (line 58) * C-c C-c <14>: Setting tags. (line 10) * C-c C-c: The very busy C-c C-c key. (line 6) * C-c C-d <1>: Agenda commands. (line 158) * C-c C-d: Inserting deadline/schedule. (line 9) * C-c C-e: Exporting. (line 20) * C-c C-e a: ASCII export. (line 9) * C-c C-e b: HTML Export commands. (line 13) * C-c C-e c: iCalendar export. (line 21) * C-c C-e h: HTML Export commands. (line 6) * C-c C-e H: HTML Export commands. (line 16) * C-c C-e I: iCalendar export. (line 16) * C-c C-e i: iCalendar export. (line 14) * C-c C-e l: LaTeX export commands. (line 6) * C-c C-e L: LaTeX export commands. (line 7) * C-c C-e R: HTML Export commands. (line 19) * C-c C-e t: Export options. (line 13) * C-c C-e v <1>: Sparse trees. (line 46) * C-c C-e v: XOXO export. (line 11) * C-c C-e v a: ASCII export. (line 16) * C-c C-e v b: HTML Export commands. (line 24) * C-c C-e v h: HTML Export commands. (line 24) * C-c C-e v H: HTML Export commands. (line 24) * C-c C-e v l: LaTeX export commands. (line 10) * C-c C-e v L: LaTeX export commands. (line 10) * C-c C-e v R: HTML Export commands. (line 24) * C-c C-e x: XOXO export. (line 10) * C-c C-f: Motion. (line 12) * C-c C-j: Motion. (line 21) * C-c C-l: Handling links. (line 25) * C-c C-n: Motion. (line 8) * C-c C-o <1>: Creating timestamps. (line 31) * C-c C-o: Handling links. (line 59) * C-c C-p: Motion. (line 9) * C-c C-q <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 127) * C-c C-q: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 50) * C-c C-r <1>: Visibility cycling. (line 34) * C-c C-r: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 53) * C-c C-s <1>: Agenda commands. (line 155) * C-c C-s: Inserting deadline/schedule. (line 20) * C-c C-t <1>: Clocking work time. (line 30) * C-c C-t: TODO basics. (line 13) * C-c C-u: Motion. (line 18) * C-c C-v: TODO basics. (line 38) * C-c C-w: Inserting deadline/schedule. (line 13) * C-c C-x b: Visibility cycling. (line 41) * C-c C-x C-a: ARCHIVE tag. (line 28) * C-c C-x C-b: Checkboxes. (line 39) * C-c C-x C-c <1>: Using column view. (line 9) * C-c C-x C-c: Agenda commands. (line 223) * C-c C-x C-d: Clocking work time. (line 42) * C-c C-x C-i: Clocking work time. (line 12) * C-c C-x C-j: Clocking work time. (line 38) * C-c C-x C-k: Structure editing. (line 43) * C-c C-x C-l: Processing LaTeX fragments. (line 9) * C-c C-x C-n: Handling links. (line 92) * C-c C-x C-o: Clocking work time. (line 17) * C-c C-x C-p: Handling links. (line 92) * C-c C-x C-r: Clocking work time. (line 50) * C-c C-x C-s: Moving subtrees. (line 10) * C-c C-x C-t: Custom time format. (line 12) * C-c C-x C-u <1>: Capturing Column View. (line 42) * C-c C-x C-u <2>: Dynamic blocks. (line 21) * C-c C-x C-u: Clocking work time. (line 91) * C-c C-x C-w <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 116) * C-c C-x C-w: Structure editing. (line 43) * C-c C-x C-x: Clocking work time. (line 34) * C-c C-x C-y <1>: Structure editing. (line 52) * C-c C-x C-y: Built-in table editor. (line 120) * C-c C-x M-w <1>: Structure editing. (line 48) * C-c C-x M-w: Built-in table editor. (line 113) * C-c C-x p: Property syntax. (line 49) * C-c C-x r: Capturing Column View. (line 37) * C-c C-y <1>: Clocking work time. (line 25) * C-c C-y: Creating timestamps. (line 48) * C-c l: Handling links. (line 9) * C-c { <1>: CDLaTeX mode. (line 21) * C-c {: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 33) * C-c |: Built-in table editor. (line 40) * C-c }: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 79) * C-c ~: Cooperation. (line 48) * C-k: Agenda commands. (line 116) * C-S-: Multiple sets in one file. (line 25) * C-S-: Multiple sets in one file. (line 25) * C-TAB: ARCHIVE tag. (line 38) * C-u C-c *: Updating the table. (line 16) * C-u C-c .: Creating timestamps. (line 14) * C-u C-c = <1>: Field formulas. (line 24) * C-u C-c =: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 14) * C-u C-c C-c: Updating the table. (line 19) * C-u C-c C-l: Handling links. (line 44) * C-u C-c C-t: TODO basics. (line 22) * C-u C-c C-x C-a: ARCHIVE tag. (line 31) * C-u C-c C-x C-s: Moving subtrees. (line 14) * C-u C-c C-x C-u <1>: Clocking work time. (line 93) * C-u C-c C-x C-u <2>: Capturing Column View. (line 44) * C-u C-c C-x C-u: Dynamic blocks. (line 22) * C-u C-u C-c *: Updating the table. (line 22) * C-u C-u C-c =: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 18) * C-u C-u C-c C-c: Updating the table. (line 22) * C-x C-s <1>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 46) * C-x C-s: Agenda commands. (line 87) * C-x C-w <1>: Exporting Agenda Views. (line 11) * C-x C-w: Agenda commands. (line 232) * D: Agenda commands. (line 72) * d: Agenda commands. (line 66) * e: Using column view. (line 33) * f: Agenda commands. (line 42) * g: Agenda commands. (line 76) * H: Agenda commands. (line 220) * I: Agenda commands. (line 178) * i: Agenda commands. (line 201) * J: Agenda commands. (line 190) * l: Agenda commands. (line 55) * L: Agenda commands. (line 30) * M: Agenda commands. (line 207) * m: Agenda commands. (line 66) * M- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 82) * M-: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 76) * M- <1>: Structure editing. (line 25) * M-: Built-in table editor. (line 74) * M- <1>: Structure editing. (line 6) * M-: Plain lists. (line 49) * M- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 74) * M-: Structure editing. (line 28) * M- <1>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 64) * M- <2>: Completion. (line 10) * M- <3>: Per file keywords. (line 23) * M- <4>: Property syntax. (line 46) * M-: Setting tags. (line 6) * M- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 82) * M-: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 76) * M-S- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 89) * M-S- <2>: Plain lists. (line 66) * M-S- <3>: Structure editing. (line 40) * M-S-: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 72) * M-S- <1>: Structure editing. (line 31) * M-S- <2>: The date/time prompt. (line 70) * M-S- <3>: Plain lists. (line 72) * M-S-: Built-in table editor. (line 76) * M-S- <1>: Checkboxes. (line 54) * M-S- <2>: Structure editing. (line 22) * M-S-: Plain lists. (line 59) * M-S- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 79) * M-S- <2>: The date/time prompt. (line 67) * M-S- <3>: Plain lists. (line 72) * M-S-: Structure editing. (line 34) * M-S- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 86) * M-S- <2>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 72) * M-S- <3>: Plain lists. (line 66) * M-S-: Structure editing. (line 37) * mouse-1 <1>: Agenda commands. (line 33) * mouse-1 <2>: Handling links. (line 73) * mouse-1: The date/time prompt. (line 52) * mouse-2 <1>: Agenda commands. (line 33) * mouse-2: Handling links. (line 73) * mouse-3 <1>: Agenda commands. (line 28) * mouse-3: Handling links. (line 78) * n <1>: Agenda commands. (line 19) * n: Using column view. (line 30) * O: Agenda commands. (line 182) * o: Agenda commands. (line 65) * p <1>: Agenda commands. (line 20) * p: Using column view. (line 30) * P: Agenda commands. (line 142) * q <1>: Agenda commands. (line 243) * q: Using column view. (line 17) * r <1>: Global TODO list. (line 22) * r: Agenda commands. (line 80) * s: Agenda commands. (line 87) * S: Agenda commands. (line 211) * S- <1>: Plain lists. (line 62) * S- <2>: Creating timestamps. (line 40) * S- <3>: Priorities. (line 23) * S- <4>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 67) * S- <5>: The date/time prompt. (line 61) * S-: Agenda commands. (line 151) * S- <1>: Multiple sets in one file. (line 29) * S- <2>: Using column view. (line 26) * S- <3>: Agenda commands. (line 169) * S- <4>: The date/time prompt. (line 58) * S- <5>: TODO basics. (line 26) * S- <6>: Property syntax. (line 66) * S- <7>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 67) * S-: Creating timestamps. (line 35) * S-: Built-in table editor. (line 146) * S- <1>: Multiple sets in one file. (line 29) * S- <2>: Using column view. (line 26) * S- <3>: Agenda commands. (line 161) * S- <4>: Creating timestamps. (line 35) * S- <5>: Property syntax. (line 66) * S- <6>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 67) * S- <7>: The date/time prompt. (line 55) * S-: TODO basics. (line 26) * S- <1>: Built-in table editor. (line 61) * S-: Visibility cycling. (line 22) * S- <1>: Editing and debugging formulas. (line 67) * S- <2>: Plain lists. (line 62) * S- <3>: The date/time prompt. (line 64) * S- <4>: Creating timestamps. (line 40) * S- <5>: Agenda commands. (line 145) * S-: Priorities. (line 23) * S-M-: Using column view. (line 61) * S-M-: TODO basics. (line 57) * S-M-: Using column view. (line 58) * t: Agenda commands. (line 112) * T: Agenda commands. (line 125) * v: Using column view. (line 42) * w: Agenda commands. (line 66) * X: Agenda commands. (line 185) * x: Agenda commands. (line 244) * y: Agenda commands. 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