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Org-mode list of user-visible changes
Version 6.17 (in preparation)
Details
Capture column view into a different file.
The :id parameter for the dynamic block capturing column view
can now truly be an ID that will also be found in a
different file. Also, it can be like file:path/to/file
, to
capture the global column view from a different file.
Thanks to Francois Lagarde for his report that IDs outside the current file would not work.
Version 6.16
Cleanup of many small bugs, and one new feature.
Details
References to last table row with special names
Fields in the last row of a table can now be referenced with $LR1, $LR2, etc. These references can appear both on the left hand side and right hand side of a formula.
Version 6.15f
This version reverses the introduction of @0 as a reference to the last rwo in a table, because of a conflict with the use of @0 for the current row.
Version 6.15
Overview
- All known LaTeX export issues fixed
- Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
- Better implementation for entry IDs
- Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
- Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
Incompatible changes
Old syntax for link attributes abandoned
There used to be a syntax for setting link attributes for HTML export by enclosing the attributes into double braces and adding them to the link itself, like
[[./img/a.jpg{{alt="an image"}}] ]
This syntax is not longer supported, use instead
#+ATTR_HTML: alt="an image"
[[./img/a.jpg] ]
Details
All known LaTeX export issues fixed
All the remaining issues with the LaTeX exporter have hopefully been addressed in this release. In particular, this covers quoting of special characters in tables and problems with exporting files where the headline is in the first line, or with an active region.
Captions and attributes for figures and tables.
Tables, and Hyperlinks that represent inlined images, can now be equipped with additional information that will be used during export. The information will be taken from the following special lines in the buffer and apply to the first following table or link.
- #+CAPTION:
- The caption of the image or table. This string should be processed according to the export backend, but this is not yet done.
- #+LABEL:
- A label to identify the figure/table for cross
references. For HTML export, this string will become the
ID for the
<div class="figure">
element that encapsulates the image tag and the caption. For LaTeX export, this string will be used as the argument of a\label{...}
macro. These labels will be available for internal links like[[label][Table] ]
. - #+ATTR_HTML:
- Attributes for HTML export of image, to be
added as attributes into the
<img...>
tag. This string will not be processed, so it should have immediately the right format. - #+ATTR_LaTeX:
- Attributes for LaTeX export of images and
tables.
For images, this string is directly inserted into the optional argument of the\includegraphics[...]{file}
command, to specify scaling, clipping and other options. This string will not be processed, so it should have immediately the right format, likewidth=5cm,angle=90
.
For tables, this can currently contain the keywordlongtable
, to request typesetting of the table using the longtable package, which automatically distributes the table over several pages if needed. Also, the attributes line may contain an alignment string for the tabular environment, likelongtable,align=l|lrl
For LaTeX export, if either a caption or a label is given, the element will be exported as a float, i.e. wrapped into a figure or table environment.
Better implementation for entry IDs
Unique identifiers for entries can now be used more efficiently. Internally, a hash array has replaced the alist used so far to keep track of the files in which an ID is defined. This makes it quite fast to find an entry by ID.
There is a new link type which looks like this:
id:GLOBALLY-UNIQUE-IDENTIFIER
This link points to a specific entry. When you move the entry to a different file, for example if you move it to an archive file, the link will continue to work.
The file org-id.el contains an API that can be used to write code using these identifiers, including creating IDs and finding them wherever they are.
Org has its own method to create unique identifiers, but if the system
has uuidgen command installed (Mac's and Linux systems generally
do), it will be used by default (a change compared to the earlier
implmentation, where you explicitdly had to opt for uuidgen). You can
also select the method by hand, using the variable org-id-method
.
If the ID system ever gets confused about where a certain ID is, it
initiates a global scan of all agenda files with associated archives,
all files previously known containing any IDs, and all currently
visited Org-mode files to rebuild the hash. You can also initiate
this by hand: M-x org-id-update-id-locations
. Running this command
will also dump into the *Messages*
buffer information about any
duplicate IDs. These should not exist, and Org will never make the
same ID twice, but if you copy an entry with its properties,
duplicate IDs will inevitably be produced. Unfortunately, this is
unavoidable in a plain text system that allows you to edit the text in
arbitrary ways, and a portion of care on your side is needed to keep
this system clean.
The hash is stored in the file ~/.emacs.d/.org-id-locations
.
This is also a change from previous versions where the file was
~/.org=id-locations
. Therefore, you can remove this old file
if you have it. I am not sure what will happen if the .emacs.d
directory does not exists in your setup, but in modern Emacsen, I
believe it should exist. If you do not want to use IDs across
files, you can avoid the overhead with tracking IDs by
customizing the variable org-id-track-globally
. IDs can then
still be used for links inside a single file.
IDs will also be used when you create a new link to an Org-mode
buffer. If you use org-store-link
(normally at C-c l
) inside
en entry in an Org-mode buffer, and ID property will be created
if it does not exist, and the stored link will be an id:
link.
If you prefer the much less secure linking to headline text, you
can configure the variable org-link-to-org-use-id
. The default
setting for this variable is create-if-interactive
, meaning
that an ID will be created when you store a link interactively,
but not if you happen to be in an Org-mode file while you create
a remember note (which usually has a link to the place where you
were when starting remember).
Spreadsheet references to the last table line.
You may now use @0
to reference the last dataline in a table
in a stable way. This is useful in particular for automatically
generated tables like the ones using org-collector.el by Eric
Schulte.
Version 6.14
Overview
- New relative timer to support timed notes
- Special faces can be set for individual tags
- The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
- Exclude some tags from inheritance.
- More special values for time comparisons in property searches
- Control for exporting meta data
- Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
- LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
- Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
Incompatible Changes
Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
Relative row references in tables look like this: "@-4" which means the forth row above this one. These row references are not allowed to cross horizontal separator lines (hlines). So far, when a row reference violates this policy, Org would silently choose the field just next to the hline.
Tassilo Horn pointed out that this kind of hidden magic is actually confusing and may cause incorrect formulas, and I do agree. Therefore, trying to cross a hline with a relative reference will now throw an error.
If you need the old behavior, customize the variable `org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline'.
Details
New relative timer to support timed notes
Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.
-
C-c C-x .
- Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time you use this, the timer will be started. When called with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.
-
C-c C-x -
- Insert a description list item with the current relative time. With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
-
M-RET
- Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.
-
C-c C-x 0
-
Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
By default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a
C-u
prefix, reset the timer to specific starting offset. The user is prompted for the offset, with a default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the process. When called with a double prefix argumentC-c C-u
, change all timer strings in the active region by a certain amount. This can be used to fix timer strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right moment.
Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for contributions to this idea.
Special faces can be set for individual tags
You may now use the variable org-tag-faces
to define the
face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
do for TODO keywords.
Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.
The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
This request has come up often, most recently it was formulated by Tassilo Horn.
If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
tags, customize the variable org-agenda-show-inherited-tags
.
Exclude some tags from inheritance.
So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using one of the more complex settings for `org-use-tag-inheritance'. It may actually be better to allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult to achieve with this methodology.
A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.
More special values for time comparisons in property searches
In addition to <now>
, <today>
, <yesterday>
, and
<tomorrow>
, there are more special values accepted now in
time comparisons in property searches: You may use strings
like <+3d>
or <-2w>
, with units d, w, m, and y for day,
week, month, and year, respectively
Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.
Control for exporting meta data
All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from export with appropriate options:
Variable | Publishing property | OPTIONS switch |
---|---|---|
org-export-with-todo-keywords | :todo-keywords | todo: |
org-export-with-tags | :tags | tags: |
org-export-with-priority | :priority | pri: |
Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
You can now use the key C-c C-x M-w
in a w3m buffer with
HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
a special way. When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
under Org-mode.
For this to work you need to load the new file org-w3m.el. Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this is turned on.
Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for the implementation.
LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
export if you configure org-use-property-inheritance
like
this:
(setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))
Version 6.13
Overview
- Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
- Support for ido completion
- New face for date lines in agenda column view
- Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
- New contributed file org-exp-blocks.el
- New contributed file org-eval-light.el
- Link translation
- BBDB links may use regular expressions.
- Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
- Improved XHTML compliance
Details
Keybindings in Remember buffers can be configured
The remember buffers created with Org's extensions are in
Org-mode, which is nice to prepare snippets that will
actually be stored in Org-mode files. However, this makes it
hard to configure key bindings without modifying the Org-mode
keymap. There is now a minor mode active in these buffers,
`org-remember-mode', and its keymap org-remember-mode-map can
be used for key bindings. By default, this map only contains
the bindings for C-c C-c
to store the note, and C-c C-k
to abort it. Use `org-remember-mode-hook' to define your own
bindings like
(add-hook
'org-remember-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(define-key org-remember-mode-map
"\C-x\C-s" 'org-remember-finalize)))
If you wish, you can also use this to free the C-c C-c
binding (by binding this key to nil in the minor mode map),
so that you can use C-c C-c
again to set tags.
This modification is based on a request by Tim O'Callaghan.
Support for ido completion
You can now get the completion interface from ido.el for
many of Org's internal completion commands by turning on the
variable org-completion-use-ido
. ido-mode
must also be
active before you can use this.
This change is based upon a request by Samuel Wales.
New face for date lines in agenda column view
When column view is active in the agenda, and when you have
summarizing properties, the date lines become normal column
lines and the separation between different days becomes
harder to see. If this bothers you, you can now customize
the face org-agenda-column-dateline
.
This is based on a request by George Pearson.
Invisible targets become now anchors in headlines.
These anchors can be used to jump to a directly with an HTML
link, just like the sec-xxx
IDs. For example, the
following will make a http link
//domain/path-to-my-file.html#dummy
work:
,# <<dummy>>
*** a headline
This is based on a request by Matt Lundin.
New contributed file org-exp-blocks.el
This new file implements special export behavior of user-defined blocks. The currently supported blocks are
- comment
- Comment blocks with author-specific markup
- ditaa
- conversion of ASCII art into pretty png files
using Stathis Sideris' ditaa.jar program
- dot
- creation of graphs in the dot language
- R
- Sweave type exporting using the R program
For more details and examples, see the file commentary in org-exp-blocks.el.
Kudos to Eric Schulte for this new functionality, after org-plot.el already his second major contribution. Thanks to Stathis for this excellent program, and for allowing us to bundle it with Org-mode.
New contributed file org-eval-light.el
This module gives control over execution Emacs Lisp code blocks included in a file.
Thanks to Eric Schulte also for this file.
Link translation
You can now configure Org to understand many links created
with the Emacs Planner package, so you can cut text from
planner pages and paste them into Org-mode files without
having to re-write the links. Among other things, this means
that the command org-open-at-point-global
which follows
links not only in Org-mode, but in arbitrary files like
source code files etc, will work also with links created by
planner. The following customization is needed to make all of
this work
(setq org-link-translation-function
'org-translate-link-from-planner)
I guess an inverse translator could be written and integrated into Planner.
BBDB links may use regular expressions.
This did work all along, but only now I have documented it.
yank-pop
works again after yanking an outline tree
Samuel Wales had noticed that org-yank
did mess up this
functionality. Now you can use yank-pop
again, the only
restriction is that the so-yanked text will not be
pro/demoted or folded.
Link abbreviations can use %h to insert a url-encoded target value
Thanks to Steve Purcell for a patch to this effect.
Improved XHTML compliance
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this.
Many bug fixes again.
Version 6.12
Overview
- A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
- Fine-tuning the behavior of `org-yank'
- Formulas for clocktables
- Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
- More languages for HTML export.
Details
A region of entries can now be refiled with a single command
With transient-make-mode
active (zmacs-regions
under
XEmacs), you can now select a region of entries and refile
them all with a single C-c C-w
command.
Thanks to Samuel Wales for this useful proposal.
Fine-tuning the behavior of org-yank
The behavior of Org's yanking command has been further fine-tuned in order to avoid some of the small annoyances this command caused.
- Calling
org-yank
with a prefix arg will stop any special treatment and directly pass through to the normalyank
command. Therefore, you can now force a normal yank withC-u C-y
. - Subtrees will only be folded after a yank if doing so will now swallow any non-white characters after the yanked text. This is, I think a really important change to make the command work more sanely.
Formulas for clocktables
You can now add formulas to a clock table, either by hand, or
with a :formula
parameter. These formulas can be used to
create additional columns with further analysis of the
measured times.
Thanks to Jurgen Defurne for triggering this addition.
Better implementation of footnotes for HTML export
The footnote export in 6.11 really was not good enough. Now
it works fine. If you have customized
footnote-section-tag
, make sure that your customization is
matched by footnote-section-tag-regexp
.
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this change.
More languages for HTML export.
More languages are supported during HTML export. This is only relevant for the few special words Org inserts, like "Table of Contents", or "Footnotes". Also the encoding issues with this feature seem to be solved now.
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing me to fix the encoding problems.
Version 6.11
Overview
- Yanking subtree with
C-y
now adjusts the tree level - State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
- Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
- HTML export now validates again as XHTML
- The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
- Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
- Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app
- Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~"
- Links to attachment files
- Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
- Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
Details
Yanking subtree with C-y
now adjusts the tree level
When yanking a cut/copied subtree or a series of trees, the
normal yank key C-y
now adjusts the level of the tree to
make it fit into the current outline position, without losing
its identity, and without swallowing other subtrees.
This uses the command org-past-subtree
. An additional
change in that command has been implemented: Normally, this
command picks the right outline level from the surrounding
visible headlines, and uses the smaller one. So if the
cursor is between a level 4 and a level 3 headline, the tree
will be pasted as level 3. If the cursor is actually at
the beginning of a headline, the level of that headline will
be used. For example, lets say you have a tree like this:
* Level one
** Level two
,(1)
,(2)* Level one again
with (1) and (2) indicating possible cursor positions for the insertion. When at (1), the tree will be pasted as level 2. When at (2), it will be pasted as level 1.
If you do not want C-y
to behave like this, configure the
variable org-yank-adjusted-subtrees
.
Thanks to Samuel Wales for this idea and a partial implementation.
State changes can now be shown in the log mode in the agenda
If you configure the variable org-agenda-log-mode-items
,
you can now request that all logged state changes be included
in the agenda when log mode is active. If you find this too
much for normal applications, you can also temporarily
request the inclusion of state changes by pressing C-u l
in
the agenda.
This was a request by Hsiu-Khuern Tang.
You can also press `C-u C-u l' to get only log items in the agenda, withour any timestamps/deadlines etc.
Footnote in HTML export are now collected at the end of the document
Previously, footnotes would be left in the document where
they are defined, now they are all collected and put into a
special <div>
at the end of the document.
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for this request.
HTML export now validates again as XHTML.
Thanks to Sebastian Rose for pushing this cleanup.
The clock can now be resumed after exiting and re-starting Emacs
If the option org-clock-in-resume
is t, and the first clock
line in an entry is unclosed, clocking into that task resumes
the clock from that time.
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
Clock-related data can be saved and resumed across Emacs sessions
The data saved include the contents of org-clock-history
,
and the running clock, if there is one.
To use this, you will need to add to your .emacs
(setq org-clock-persist t)
(setq org-clock-in-resume t)
(org-clock-persistence-insinuate)
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
Following file links can now use C-u C-u to force use of an external app.
So far you could only bypass your setup in `org-file-apps'
and force opening a file link in Emacs by using a C-u
prefix arg
with C-c C-o
. Now you can call C-u C-u C-c C-o
to force
an external application. Which external application depends
on your system. On Mac OS X and Windows, open
is used. On
a GNU/Linux system, the mailcap settings are used.
This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.
Inserting absolute files names now abbreviates links with "~".
Inserting file links with C-u C-c C-l
was buggy if the
setting of `org-link-file-path-type' was `adaptive' (the
default). Absolute file paths were not abbreviated relative
to the users home directory. This bug has been fixed.
Thanks to Matt Lundin for the report.
Links to attachment files
Even though one of the purposes of entry attachments was to reduce the number of links in an entry, one might still want to have the occasional link to one of those files. You can now use link abbreviations to set up a special link type that points to attachments in the current entry. Note that such links will only work from within the same entry that has the attachment, because the directory path is entry specific. Here is the setup you need:
(setq org-link-abbrev-alist '(("att" . org-attach-expand-link)))
After this, a link like this will work
[[att:some-attached-file.txt]]
This was a proposal by Lindsay Todd.
Completed repeated tasks listed briefly in agenda
When a repeating task, listed in the daily/weekly agenda under today's date, is completed from the agenda, it is listed as DONE in the agenda until the next update happens. After the next update, the task will have disappeared, of course, because the new date is no longer today.
Remove buffers created during publishing are removed
Buffers that are created during publishing are now deleted when the publishing is over. At least I hope it works like this.
Version 6.10
Overview
- Secondary agenda filtering is becoming a killer feature
- Setting tags has now its own binding,
C-c C-q
- Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
- C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
- Customize org-mouse.el feature set to free up mouse events
- New commands for export all the way to PDF (through LaTeX)
- Some bug fixed for LaTeX export, more bugs remain.
Details
Enhancements to secondary agenda filtering
This is, I believe, becoming a killer feature. It allows you to define fewer and more general custom agenda commands, and then to do the final narrowing to specific tasks you are looking for very quickly, much faster than calling a new agenda command.
If you have not tries this yet, you should!
You can now refining the current filter by an additional criterion
When filtering an existing agenda view with /
, you can
now narrow down the existing selection by an additional
condition. Do do this, use \
instead of /
to add the
additional criterion. You can also press +
or -
after
/
to add a positive or negative condition. A condition
can be a TAG, or an effort estimate limit, see below.
It is now possible to filter for effort estimates
This means to filter the agenda for the value of the Effort property. For this you should best set up global allowed values for effort estimates, with
(setq org-global-properties
'(("Effort_ALL" . "0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00")))
You may then select effort limits with single keys in the
filter. It works like this: After /
or \
, first select
the operator which you want to use to compare effort
estimates:
< Select entries with effort smaller than or equal to the limit > Select entries with effort larger than or equal to the limit = Select entries with effort equal to the limit
After that, you can press a single digit number which is used as an index to the allowed effort estimates.
If you do not use digits to fast-select tags, you can even
skip the operator, which will then default to
`org-agenda-filter-effort-default-operator', which is by
default <
.
Thanks to Manish for the great idea to include fast effort filtering into the agenda filtering process.
The mode line will show the active filter
For example, if there is a filter in place that does select
for HOME tags, against EMAIL tags, and for tasks with an
estimated effort smaller than 30 minutes, the mode-line with
show +HOME-EMAIL+<0:30
The filter now persists when the agenda view is refreshed
All normal refresh commands, including those that move the weekly agenda from one week to the next, now keep the current filter in place.
You need to press / /
to turn off the filter. However,
when you run a new agenda command, for example going from
the weekly agenda to the TODO list, the filter will be
switched off.
Setting tags has now its own binding, C-c C-q
You can still use C-c C-c
on a headline, but the new
binding should be considered as the main binding for this
command. The reasons for this change are:
- Using
C-c C-c
for tags is really out of line with other uses ofC-c C-c
. - I hate it in Remember buffers when I try to set tags and I
cannot, because
C-c C-c
exits the buffer :-( C-c C-q
will also work when the cursor is somewhere down in the entry, it does not have to be on the headline.
Todo state changes can trigger tag changes
The new option org-todo-state-tags-triggers
can be used to
define automatic changes to tags when a TODO state changes.
For example, the setting
(setq org-todo-state-tags-triggers '((done ("Today" . nil) ("NEXT" . nil)) ("WAITING" ("Today" . t))))
will make sure that any change to any of the DONE states will remove tags "Today" and "NEXT", while switching to the "WAITING" state will trigger the tag "Today" to be added.
I use this mostly to get rid of TODAY and NEXT tags which I apply to select an entry for execution in the near future, which I often prefer to specific time scheduling.
C-RET will now always insert a new headline, never an item.
The new headline is inserted after the current subtree.
Thanks to Peter Jones for patches to fine-tune this behavior.
Customize org-mouse.el feature set
There is a new variable org-mouse-features
which gives you
some control about what features of org-mouse you want to
use. Turning off some of the feature will free up the
corresponding mouse events, or will avoid activating special
regions for mouse clicks. By default I have urned off the
feature to use drag mouse events to move or promote/demote
entries. You can of course turn them back on if you wish.
This variable may still change in the future, allowing more fine-grained control.
New commands for export to PDF
This is using LaTeX export, and then processes it to PDF using pdflatex.
C-c C-e p process to PDF. C-c C-e d process to PDF, and open the file.
LaTeX export
- \usepackage{graphicx} is now part of the standard class definitions.
- Several bugs fixed, but definitely not all of them :-(
New option `org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers'
Set this to t
if you want state change notes to be inserted
after any initial drawers, i.e drawers the immediately follow
the headline and the planning line (the one with
DEADLINE/SCHEDULED/CLOSED information).
Version 6.09
Incompatible
org-file-apps
now uses regular expressions, see below
Details
org-file-apps
now uses regular repressions instead of extensions
Just like in auto-mode-alist
, car's in the variable
org-file-apps
that are strings are now interpreted as
regular expressions that are matched against a file name. So
instead of "txt", you should now write "\\.txt\\'" to make
sure the matching is done correctly (even though "txt" will
be recognized and still be interpreted as an extension).
There is now a shortcut to get many file types visited by Emacs. If org-file-apps contains `(auto-mode . emacs)', then any files that are matched by `auto-mode-alist' will be visited in emacs.
Changes to the attachment system
- The default method to attach a file is now to copy it instead of moving it.
- You can modify the default method using the variable `org-attach-method'. I believe that most Unix people want to set it to `ln' to create hard links.
- The keys
c
,m
, andl
specifically selectcopy
,move
, orlink
, respectively, as the attachment method for a file, overruling `org-attach-method'. - To create a new attachment as an Emacs buffer, you have not
now use
n
instead ofc
. - The file list is now always retrieved from the directory
itself, not from the "Attachments" property. We still
keep this property by default, but you can turn it off, by
customizing the variable
org-attach-file-list-property
.
Version 6.08
Incompatible changes
Details
The default structure of IDs has changed
IDs created by Org have changed a bit:
- By default, there is no prefix on the ID. There used to be an "Org" prefix, but I now think this is not necessary.
- IDs use only lower-case letters, no upper-case letters anymore. The reason for this is that IDs are now also used as directory names for org-attach, and some systems do not distinguish upper and lower case in the file system.
- The ID string derived from the current time is now reversed to become an ID. This assures that the first two letters of the ID change fast, so hat it makes sense to split them off to create subdirectories to balance load.
- You can now set the `org-id-method' to `uuidgen' on systems which support it.
C-c C-a
no longer calls `show-all'
The reason for this is that C-c C-a
is now used for the
attachment system. On the rare occasions that this command
is needed, use M-x show-all
, or C-u C-u C-u TAB
.
New attachment system
You can now attach files to each node in the outline tree. This works by creating special directories based on the ID of an entry, and storing files in these directories. Org can keep track of changes to the attachments by automatically committing changes to git. See the manual for more information.
Thanks to John Wiegley who contributed this fantastic new concept and wrote org-attach.el to implement it.
New remember template escapes
%^{prop}p to insert a property %k the heading of the item currently being clocked %K a link to the heading of the item currently being clocked
Also, when you exit remember with C-2 C-c C-c
, the item
will be filed as a child of the item currently being
clocked. So the idea is, if you are working on something and
think of a new task related to this or a new note to be
added, you can use this to quickly add information to that
task.
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
Clicking with mouse-2 on clock info in mode-line visits the clock.
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
New file in contrib: lisp/org-checklist.el
This module deals with repeated tasks that have checkbox lists below them.
Thanks to James TD Smith for this contribution.
New in-buffer setting #+STYLE
It can be used to locally set the variable `org-export-html-style-extra'. Several such lines are allowed-, they will all be concatenated. For an example on how to use it, see the publishing tutorial.
Version 6.07
Overview
- Filtering existing agenda views with respect to a tag
- Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
- org-plot.el is now part of Org
- Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
- Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
- Yanking inserts folded subtrees
- Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
- In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
- The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
- Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
- Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
- New face
org-scheduled
for entries scheduled in the future. - Remember templates for gnus links can use the :to escape.
- The file specification in a remember template may be a function
- Categories in iCalendar export include local tags
- It is possible to define filters for column view
- Disabling integer increment during table Field copy
- Capturing column view is on `C-c C-x i'
- And tons of bugs fixed.
Incompatible changes
Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes has changed
The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a remember process is now interpreted differently:
C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note in its new location. C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
This was requested by John Wiegley.
Capturing column view is now on `C-c C-x i'
The reason for this change was that `C-c C-x r' is also used as a tty key replacement.
Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
category is now the last category in this list. Configure
the variable org-icalendar-categories
to modify or revert
this behavior.
This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
Details
Secondary filtering of agenda views.
You can now easily and interactively filter an existing
agenda view with respect to a tag. This command is executed
with the /
key in the agenda. You will be prompted for a
tag selection key, and all entries that do not contain or
inherit the corresponding tag will be hidden. With a prefix
argument, the opposite filter is applied: entries that
do have the tag will be hidden.
This operation only hides lines in the agenda buffer, it does not remove them. Changing the secondary filtering does not require a new search and is very fast.
If you press TAB at the tag selection prompt, you will be switched to a completion interface to select a tag. This is useful when you want to select a tag that does not have a direct access character.
A double / /
will restore the original agenda view by
unhiding any hidden lines.
This functionality was John Wiegley's idea. It is a simpler implementation of some of the query-editing features proposed and implemented some time ago by Christopher League (see the file contrib/lisp/org-interactive-query.el).
Editing fixed-width regions with picture or artist mode
The command @<code>C-c '@</code> (that is C-c
followed by a
single quote) can now also be used to switch to a special
editing mode for fixed-width sections. The default mode is
artist-mode
which allows you to create ASCII drawings.
It works like this: Enter the editing mode with @<code>C-c '@</code>. An indirect buffer will be created and narrowed to the fixed-width region. Edit the drawing, and press @<code>C-c '@</code> again to exit.
Lines in a fixed-width region should be preceded by a colon followed by at least one space. These will be removed during editing, and then added back when you exit the editing mode.
Using the command in an empty line will create a new fixed-width region.
This new feature arose from a discussion involving Scott Otterson, Sebastian Rose and Will Henney.
org-plot.el is now part of Org.
You can run it by simple calling org-plot/gnuplot. Documentation is not yet included with Org, please refer to http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master until we have moved the docs into Org or Worg.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for this great contribution.
Tags can be used to select the export part of a document
You may now use tags to select parts of a document for
inclusion into the export, and to exclude other parts. This
behavior is governed by two new variables:
org-export-select-tags
and org-export-exclude-tags
.
These default to ("export")
and ("noexport")
, but can be
changed, even to include a list of several tags.
Org first checks if any of the select tags is present in the buffer. If yes, all trees that do not carry one of these tags will be excluded. If a selected tree is a subtree, the heading hierarchy above it will also be selected for export, but not the text below those headings. If none of the select tags is found anywhere in the buffer, the whole buffer will be selected for export. Finally, all subtrees that are marked by any of the exclude tags will be removed from the export buffer.
You may set these tags with in-buffer options
EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS
and EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS
.
I love this feature. Thanks to Richard G Riley for coming up with the idea.
Prefix interpretation when storing remember notes
The prefix argument to the `C-c C-c' command that finishes a remember process is now interpreted differently:
C-c C-c Store the note to predefined file and headline C-u C-c C-c Like C-c C-c, but immediately visit the note in its new location. C-1 C-c C-c Select the storage location interactively C-0 C-c C-c Re-use the last used location
This was requested by John Wiegley.
Yanking inserts folded subtrees
If the kill is a subtree or a sequence of subtrees, yanking
them with C-y
will leave all the subtrees in a folded
state. This basically means, that kill and yank are now
much more useful in moving stuff around in your outline. If
you do not like this, customize the variable
org-yank-folded-subtrees
.
Right now, I am only binding C-y
to this new function,
should I modify all bindings of yank? Do we need to amend
yank-pop
as well?
This feature was requested by John Wiegley.
Column view capture tables can have formulas, plotting info
If you attach formulas and plotting instructions to a table capturing column view, these extra lines will now survive an update of the column view capture, and any formulas will be re-applied to the captured table. This works by keeping any continuous block of comments before and after the actual table.
In column view, date stamps can be changed with S-cursor keys
If a property value is a time stamp, S-left and S-right can now be used to shift this date around while in column view.
This was a request by Chris Randle.
The note buffer for clocking out now mentions the task
This was a request by Peter Frings.
Sorting entries alphabetically ignores TODO keyword and priority
Numerical and alphanumerical sorting now skips any TODO keyword or priority cookie when constructing the comparison string. This was a request by Wanrong Lin.
Agenda views can sort entries by TODO state
You can now define a sorting strategy for agenda entries that does look at the TODO state of the entries. Sorting by TODO entry does first separate the non-done from the done states. Within each class, the entries are sorted not alphabetically, but in definition order. So if you have a sequence of TODO entries defined, the entries will be sorted according to the position of the keyword in this sequence.
This follows an idea and sample implementation by Christian Egli.
New face org-scheduled
for entries scheduled in the future.
This was a request by Richard G Riley.
Remember templates for gnus links can now use the :to escape.
Thanks to Tommy Lindgren for a patch to this effect.
The file specification in a remember template may now be a function
Thanks to Gregory Sullivan for a patch to this effect.
Categories in iCalendar export now include local tags
The locally defined tags are now listed as categories when
exporting to iCalendar format. Org's traditional file/tree
category is now the last category in this list. Configure
the variable org-icalendar-categories
to modify or revert
this behavior.
This was a request by Charles Philip Chan.
It is now possible to define filters for column view
The filter can modify the value that will be displayed in a
column, for example it can cut out a part of a time stamp.
For more information, look at the variable
org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function
.
Disabling integer increment during table field copy
Prefix arg 0 to S-RET does the trick.
This was a request by Chris Randle.