Old Release notes | Org mode
Version 9.3
Incompatible changes
Change bracket link escaping syntax
Org used to percent-encode sensitive characters in the URI part of the bracket links.
Now, escaping mechanism uses the usual backslash character, according to the following rules, applied in order:
- All consecutive
\
characters at the end of the link must be escaped; - Any
]
character at the very end of the link must be escaped; - All consecutive
\
characters preceding][
or]]
patterns must be escaped; - Any
]
character followed by either[
or]
must be escaped; - Others
]
and\
characters need not be escaped.
When in doubt, use the function org-link-escape
in order to turn
a link string into its properly escaped form.
The following function will help switching your links to the new syntax:
(defun org-update-link-syntax (&optional no-query) "Update syntax for links in current buffer. Query before replacing a link, unless optional argument NO-QUERY is non-nil." (interactive "P") (org-with-point-at 1 (let ((case-fold-search t)) (while (re-search-forward "\\[\\[[^]]*?%\\(?:2[05]\\|5[BD]\\)" nil t) (let ((object (save-match-data (org-element-context)))) (when (and (eq 'link (org-element-type object)) (= (match-beginning 0) (org-element-property :begin object))) (goto-char (org-element-property :end object)) (let* ((uri-start (+ 2 (match-beginning 0))) (uri-end (save-excursion (goto-char uri-start) (re-search-forward "\\][][]" nil t) (match-beginning 0))) (uri (buffer-substring-no-properties uri-start uri-end))) (when (or no-query (y-or-n-p (format "Possibly obsolete URI syntax: %S. Fix? " uri))) (setf (buffer-substring uri-start uri-end) (org-link-escape (org-link-decode uri)))))))))))
The old org-link-escape
and org-link-unescape
functions have been
renamed into org-link-encode
and org-link-decode
.
Change match group number in org-link-bracket-re
Link description, if any, is located in match group 2 instead of match group 3.
ob-clojure does not auto prepend (ns ..)
statement anymore
When tangling, user usually just wants to tangle literally code instead
of prepend inserting a (ns ..)
statement before source block
code. Now, when you have no :ns
header argument specified, this
behavior will not happen automatically.
Change in behavior on exit from an Org edit buffer
Org will no longer attempt to restore the window configuration in the
frame to which the user returns after editing a source block with
org-edit-src-code
. Instead, the window configuration will remain as
it is.
Change default value for org-email-link-description-format
When linking from a mail buffer, Org used to truncate the subject of the message to 30 characters in order to build the description of the link. This behavior was considered as too surprising. As a consequence, Org no longer truncates subjects.
You can get the old behaviour back with the following:
(setq org-email-link-description-format "Email %c: %.30s")
:file
header argument no longer assume "file" :results
The "file" :results
value is now mandatory for a code block
returning a link to a file. The :file
or :file-ext
header
arguments no longer imply a "file" result is expected.
Plain numbers are hours in Column View mode
All LaTeX preview backends use now xcolor
The dvipng backend was previously relying on fg and bg parameters to be passed to the CLI. This didn't work when xcolor was directly or indirectly used in the document (e.g. tkiz is a user of xcolor). Since every other backend was already using xcolor to set fg and bg, the CLI alternative was removed and there is no more a :use-xcolor options since now it's implicitly always true.
Org-Attach Git commit
Refactoring of Org-Attach affected the Git commit functionality. Not much, but the following changes are required if you still need to auto-commit attachments to git:
- Customization of
org-attach-annex-auto-get
needs to be renamed toorg-attach-git-annex-auto-get
. - Customization of
org-attach-commit
is no longer needed. Instead one need to require theorg-attach-git
module in the startup.
New features
New option to wrap source code lines in HTML export
When new option html-wrap-src-lines
(with variable
org-html-wrap-src-lines
) is non-nil, HTML export wraps source code
lines in HTML code
elements.
New option to handle schedules and deadlines in iCalendar export
Export ignore done tasks with a deadline when
org-icalendar-use-deadline
contains event-if-todo-not-done
.
Likewise, scheduled done tasks are also ignored when
org-icalendar-use-scheduled
contains the same symbol.
Add split-window-right option for src block edit window placement
Given the increasing popularity of wide screen monitors, splitting
horizontally may make more sense than splitting vertically. An
option, split-window-right
, to request horizontal splitting has been
added to org-src-window-setup
.
Org-Attach has been refactored and extended
Org attach has been refactored and the functionality extended. It should now be easier to understand how it works. A few improvements and extra options have been added as well.
From the initial comment in org-attach source-code:
- Attachments are managed either by using a custom property DIR or by
using property ID from org-id. When DIR is defined, a location in
the filesystem is directly attached to the outline node. When
org-id is used, attachments are stored in a folder named after the
ID, in a location defined by
org-attach-id-dir
. DIR has precedence over ID when both parameters are defined for the current outline node (also when inherited parameters are taken into account).
From now on inheritance requires no extra property and will adhere to
org-attach-use-inheritance
by default. Inheritance can be
customized to always be activated or never be activated in
org-attach-use-inheritance
.
The ATTACHDIR property is deprecated in favour of the shorter
property DIR. Links to folders inside the DIR property can now be
declared as relative links. This is not enabled by default, but can
be set in org-attach-dir-relative
.
When adding new attachment to the outline node the preferred way of
doing so can be customized. Take a look at
org-attach-preferred-new-method
. It defaults to using ID since that
was the behaviour before this change.
If both DIR and ID properties are set on the same node, DIR has precedence and will be used.
One can now also choose to build attachment-directory-paths in a
customized way. This is an advanced topic, but in some case it makes
sense to parse an ID in a different way than the default one. Create
your own function and add it to the beginning of
org-attach-id-to-path-function~list
if you want to customize the ID
based folder structure.
If you've used ATTACHDIR properties to manage attachments, use the following code to rename that property to DIR which supports the same functionality. ATTACHDIRINHERIT is no longer supported and is removed.
(defun org-update-attach-properties () "Change properties for Org-Attach." (interactive) (org-with-point-at 1 (while (outline-next-heading) (let ((DIR (org--property-local-values "ATTACH_DIR" nil))) (when DIR (org-set-property "DIR" (car DIR)) (org-delete-property "ATTACH_DIR")))) (org-delete-property-globally "ATTACH_DIR_INHERIT")))
For those who hate breaking changes, even though the changes are made to clean things up; fear not. ATTACHDIR will still continue to work. It's just not documented any longer. When you get the chance, run the code above to clean things up anyways!
New link-type: Attachment
Attachment-links are now first-class citizens. They mimic file-links
in everything they do but use the existing attachment-folder as a base
when expanding the links. Both DIR
and ID
properties are used to
try to resolve the links, in exactly the same way as Org-Attach uses
those properties.
Handle overlay specification for notes in Beamer export
This aligns Beamer notes with slide overlays.
Add support for lettered lists in Texinfo
Using :enum A
or :enum a
Texinfo attribute switches an otherwise
numbered list to a lettered list.
Add a dispatcher command to insert dynamic blocks
You can add new dynamic blocks with function
org-dynamic-block-define
. All such dynamic blocks can be used by
org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock
command.
Babel
New minor mode to display headline numbering
Use <M-x org-num-mode>
to get a visual indication of the numbering
in the outline. The numbering is also automatically updated upon
changes in the buffer.
New property HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS
in HTML export
The new property HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS
assigns a class attribute to
a headline.
Allow LaTeX attributes and captions for "table.el" tables
Supported LaTeX attributes are :float
, :center
, :font
and
:caption
.
Attach buffer contents to headline
With <b>
key from attachment dispatcher (<C-c C-a>
), it is now
possible to write the contents of a buffer to a file in the headline
attachment directory.
iCalendar export respects a CLASS
property
Set the CLASS
property on an entry to specify a visibility class for
that entry only during iCalendar export. The property can be set to
anything the calendar server supports. The iCalendar standard defines
the values PUBLIC
, CONFIDENTIAL
, PRIVATE
, which can be
interpreted as publicly visible, accessible to a specific group, and
private respectively.
This property can be inherited during iCalendar export, depending on
the value of org-use-property-inheritance
.
New parameter for INCLUDE
keyword
Add :coding CODING-SYSTEM
to include files using a different coding
system than the main Org document. For example:
#+INCLUDE: "myfile.cmd" src cmd :coding cp850-dos
New values in clock tables' step: month
and year
ODT export handles numbers cookies in lists
New cell movement functions in tables
S-<UP>
, S-<DOWN>
, S-<RIGHT>
, and S-<LEFT>
now move cells in
the corresponding direction by swapping with the adjacent cell.
New option to natively fontify LaTeX snippets and environments
A 'native option was added to org-highlight-latex-and-related. It matches the same structures than 'latex but it calls org-src-font-lock-fontify-block instead, thus bringing about full LaTeX font locking.
org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
learnt to shift backward in time
<C-c C-x c>
(org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
) now takes a
negative value as a valid repeater to shift time stamps in backward
in cloned subtrees. You can give, for example, ‘-3d’ to shift three
days in the past.
Toggle display of all vs. undone scheduled habits conveniently
<C-u K>
(org-habit-toggle-display-in-agenda
) in an agenda toggles
the display of all habits to those which are undone and scheduled.
This is a function for convenience.
New parameter for SQL Babel blocks: :dbconnection
The new parameter :dbconnection
allows to specify a connection name
in a SQL block header: this name is used to look up connection
parameters in sql-connection-alist
.
New :scale
attribute supported by LaTeX exporters
The builtin "latex" exporters now accept and use a :scale
attribute,
which scales an image by a given factor.
This attribute is wrapped adound the scale
parameter of LaTeX's
\includegraphics
(bitmap images) or a TiKZ's \scalebox
.
Therefore, its value should be some string palatable to LaTeX as
a positive float Its default value is an empty string (i.e. disabled).
This attribute overrides the :width
and :height
attributes.
#+name: Beastie #+caption: I think I saw this curious horse already, but where ? #+LATEX_ATTR: :scale 2 [[https://orgmode.org/img/org-mode-unicorn-logo.png]]
Allow specifying the target for a table of contents
The +TOC
keyword now accepts a :target:
attribute that specifies
the headline to use for making the table of contents.
* Target :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: TargetSection :END: ** Heading A ** Heading B * Another section #+TOC: headlines 1 :target "#TargetSection"
New functions
org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock
Use default keybinding <C-c C-x x>
to run command
org-dynamic-block-insert-dblock
. It will prompt user to select
dynamic block in org-dynamic-block-alist
.
org-table-cell-up
org-table-cell-down
org-table-cell-left
org-table-cell-right
org-habit-toggle-display-in-agenda
Removed functions and variables
Removed Org Drill
You can install it back from MELPA.
org-babel-set-current-result-hash
org-capture-insert-template-here
org-attach-directory
It has been deprecated in favour of org-attach-id-dir
which is less
ambiguous given the restructured org-attach.
org-enable-fixed-width-editor
This variable was not used through the code base.
Miscellaneous
Change signature for org-list-to-subtree
The function now accepts the level of the subtree as an optional argument. It no longer deduces it from the current level.
LaTeX preview is simplified
Function org-latex-preview
, formerly known as
org-toggle-latex-fragment
, has a hopefully simpler and more
predictable behavior. See its docstring for details.
org-table-copy-down
supports patterns
When org-table-copy-increment
is non-nil, it is now possible to
increment fields like A1
, or 0A
, i.e., any string prefixed or
suffixed with a whole number.
No more special indentation for description items
Descriptions items are indented like regular ones, i.e., text starts after the bullet. Special indentation used to introduce bugs when inserting sub-items in a description list.
New hook: org-todo-repeat-hook
This hook was actually introduced in Org 9.2.1, but wasn't advertised.
Org Table reads numbers starting with 0 as strings
Disable fast tag selection interface via prefix arg
A call of org-set-tags-command
with prefix argument C-u C-u avoids
the fast tag selection interface and instead offers the plain
interface.
:mkdirp
now supports create directory for :dir
path
The :mkdirp
header argument used to only work for :tangle
tangle
files. Now :mkdirp
works for :dir
too. This is more convenient for
specify default directory and with :file
header argument.
New variable: org-agenda-breadcrumbs-separator
If breadcrumbs are showed in org-agenda with the help of "%b" format
in org-agenda-prefix-format
, user can customize breadcrumbs's
separator using org-agenda-breadcrumbs-separator
.
New variable org-attach-commands
This variable makes it possible to customize the list of commands for the attachment dispatcher.
New ID method based on timestamp
If one chooses, it is now possible to create ID's based on timestamp (ISO8601) instead of UUID by changing org-id-method to ts.
For an improved folder structure when using timestamp as ID, make sure
to promote org-attach-id-ts-folder-format
to the first element of
org-attach-id-to-path-function-list
in your configuration at the
same time.
New customization: org-id-locations-relative
New customization to make the persisting of org-id-locations between sessions to store links to files as relative instead of absolute. The links will be stored as relative to the path of org-id-locations-file.
org-ctrl-c-tab
is functional before the first headline
I.e. treat the whole file as if it was a subtree.
Also fold everything below the chosen level. Former behavior was to leave unfolded subtrees unfolded.
org-kill-note-or-show-branches
is functional before the first headline
I.e. treat the whole file as if it was a subtree.
Respect narrowing when agenda command is restricted to buffer
Version 9.2
Incompatible changes
Removal of OrgStruct mode mode and radio lists
OrgStruct minor mode and radio lists mechanism (org-list-send-list
and org-list-radio-lists-templates
) are removed from the code base.
Note that only radio lists have been removed, not radio tables.
If you want to manipulate lists like in Org in other modes, we suggest to use orgalist.el, which you can install from GNU ELPA.
If you want to use Org folding outside of Org buffers, you can have a look at the outshine package in the MELPA repository.
Change in the structure template expansion
Org 9.2 comes with a new template expansion mechanism, combining
org-insert-structure-template
bound to C-c C-,
.
If you customized the org-structure-template-alist
option manually,
you probably need to udpate it, see the docstring for accepted values.
If you prefer using previous patterns, e.g. <s
, you can activate
them again by requiring Org Tempo library:
(require 'org-tempo)
or add it to org-modules
.
If you need complex templates, look at the tempo-define-template
function or at solutions like Yasnippet.
Change to Noweb expansion
Expansion check :noweb-ref
only if no matching named block is found
in the buffer. As a consequence, any :noweb-ref
value matching the
name of a source block in the buffer is ignored. A simple fix is to
give every concerned source-block, including the named one, a new,
unique, Noweb reference.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 1 #+END_SRC #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref foo 2 #+END_SRC #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb yes <<foo>> #+END_SRC
should become
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref bar 1 #+END_SRC #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb-ref bar 2 #+END_SRC #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :noweb yes <<bar>> #+END_SRC
Default/accepted values of org-calendar-to-agenda-key
The default value and accepted value of org-calendar-to-agenda-key
changed. This is an excerpt of the new docstring:
When set to ‘default’, bind the function to ‘c’, but only if it is available in the Calendar keymap. This is the default choice because ‘c’ can then be used to switch back and forth between agenda and calendar. When nil, ‘org-calendar-goto-agenda’ is not bound to any key.
Check the full docstring for more.
Change the signature of the org-set-effort
function
Here is the new docstring:
(org-set-effort &optional INCREMENT VALUE) Set the effort property of the current entry. If INCREMENT is non-nil, set the property to the next allowed value. Otherwise, if optional argument VALUE is provided, use it. Eventually, prompt for the new value if none of the previous variables is set.
Placeholders in (eval ...)
macros are always strings
Within (eval ...)
macros, $1
-like placeholders are always replaced
with a string. As a consequence, they must not be enclosed within
quotes. As an illustration, consider the following, now valid,
examples:
#+macro: join (eval (concat $1 $2)) #+macro: sum (eval (+ (string-to-number $1) (string-to-number $2))) {{{join(a,b)}}} => ab {{{sum(1,2)}}} => 3
However, there is no change in non-eval macros:
#+macro: disp argument: $1 {{{disp(text)}}} => argument: text
align
STARTUP value no longer narrow table columns
Columns narrowing (or shrinking) is now dynamic. See Dynamically narrow table columns for details. In particular, it is decoupled from aligning.
If you need to automatically shrink columns upon opening an Org
document, use shrink
value instead, or in addition to align:
#+STARTUP: align shrink
org-get-tags
meaning change
Function org-get-tags
used to return local tags to the current
headline. It now returns all the inherited tags in addition to the
local tags. In order to get the old behaviour back, you can use:
(org-get-tags nil t)
Alphabetic sorting in tables and lists
When sorting alphabetically, org-table-sort-lines
and org-sort-list
now sort according to the locale’s collation rules instead of by
code-point.
Change the name of the :tags clocktable option to :match
The :match
(renamed from :tags
) option allows to limit clock entries
to those matching a todo-tags matcher.
The old :tags
option can be set to t
to display a headline's tags in a
dedicated column.
This is consistent with the naming of org-dblock-write:columnview
options, where :match
is also used as a headlines filter.
New features
Add :results link
support for Babel
With this output format, create a link to the file specified in
:file
header argument, without actually writing any result to it:
#+begin_src shell :dir "data/tmp" :results link :file "crackzor_1.0.c.gz" wget -c "http://ben.akrin.com/crackzor/crackzor_1.0.c.gz" #+end_src #+results: [[file:data/tmp/crackzor_1.0.c.gz]]
Add :session
support of ob-js for js-comint
console.log("stardiviner")
Add :session
support of ob-js for Indium
console.log("stardiviner")
Add :session
support of ob-js for skewer-mode
console.log("stardiviner")
Add support for links to LaTeX equations in HTML export
Use MathJax links when enabled (by org-html-with-latex
), otherwise
add a label to the rendered equation.
Org Tempo may used for snippet expansion of structure template.
See manual and the commentary section in org-tempo.el
for details.
Exclude unnumbered headlines from table of contents
Set their UNNUMBERED
property to the special notoc
value. See
manual for details.
org-archive
functions update status cookies
Archiving headers through org-archive-subtree
and
org-archive-to-archive-sibling
such as the ones listed below:
* Top [1/2] ** DONE Completed ** TODO Working
Will update the status cookie in the top level header.
Disable org-agenda-overriding-header
by setting to empty string
The org-agenda-overriding-header
inserted into agenda views can now
be disabled by setting it to an empty string.
Dynamically narrow table columns
With C-c TAB
, it is now possible to narrow a column to the width
specified by a width cookie in the column, or to 1 character if there
is no such cookie. The same keybinding expands a narrowed column to
its previous state.
Editing the column automatically expands the whole column to its full size.
org-columns-summary-types
entries can take an optional COLLECT function
You can use this to make collection of a property from an entry conditional on another entry. E.g. given this configuration:
(defun custom/org-collect-confirmed (property) "Return `PROPERTY' for `CONFIRMED' entries" (let ((prop (org-entry-get nil property)) (confirmed (org-entry-get nil "CONFIRMED"))) (if (and prop (string= "[X]" confirmed)) prop "0"))) (setq org-columns-summary-types '(("X+" org-columns--summary-sum custom/org-collect-confirmed)))
You can have a file bananas.org
containing:
* All shipments ** Shipment 1 :PROPERTIES: :CONFIRMED: [X] :Bananas: 4 :END: ** Shipment 2 :PROPERTIES: :CONFIRMED: [ ] :BANANAS: 7 :END:
… and when going to the top of that file and entering column view you should expect to see something like:
ITEM | CONFIRMED | Bananas | Confirmed Bananas |
---|---|---|---|
All shipments | 11 | 4 | |
Shipment 1 | [X] | 4 | 4 |
Shipment 2 | [ ] | 7 | 7 |
#+STARTUP: shrink
Allow to filter by tags/property when capturing colview
You can now use :match
to filter entries using a todo/tags/properties
matcher.
Add support for Oracle's database alias in Babel blocks
ob-sql
library already support running SQL blocks against an Oracle
database using sqlplus
. Now it's possible to use alias names
defined in TNSNAMES
file instead of specifying full connection
parameters. See example bellow.
you can use the previous full connection parameters #+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine oracle :dbuser me :dbpassword my_insecure_password :database my_db_name :dbhost my_db_host :dbport 1521 select sysdate from dual; #+END_SRC or the alias defined in your TNSNAMES file #+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine oracle :dbuser me :dbpassword my_insecure_password :database my_tns_alias select sysdate from dual; #+END_SRC
org-agenda-set-restriction-lock
toggle agenda restriction at point
You can set an agenda restriction lock with C-x C-x <
or with <
at the
beginning of a headline when using Org speed commands. Now, if there
is already a restriction at point, hitting <
again (or C-x C-x <
) will
remove it.
New commands and functions
org-insert-structure-template
This function can be used to wrap existing text of Org elements in a #+BEGINFOO/#+ENDFOO block. Bound to C-c C-x w by default.
org-export-excluded-from-toc-p
See docstring for details.
org-timestamp-to-time
org-timestamp-from-string
org-timestamp-from-time
org-attach-dired-to-subtree
See docstring for details.
org-toggle-narrow-to-subtree
Toggle the narrowing state of the buffer: when in a narrowed state,
widen, otherwise call org-narrow-to-subtree
to narrow.
This is attached to the "s" speed command, so that hitting "s" twice will go back to the widen state.
org-browse-news
Browse https://orgmode.org/Changes.html to let users read informations about the last major release.
There is a new menu entry for this in the "Documentation" menu item.
org-info-find-node
From an Org file or an agenda switch to a suitable info page depending on the context.
The function is bound to C-c C-x I
.
Removed commands and functions
org-outline-overlay-data
Use org-save-outline-visibility
instead.
org-set-outline-overlay-data
Use org-save-outline-visibility
instead.
org-get-string-indentation
It was not used throughout the code base.
org-fix-indentation
It was not used throughout code base.
org-context-p
Use org-element-at-point
instead.
org-preserve-lc
It is no longer used in the code base.
org-try-structure-completion
Org Tempo may be used as a replacement. See details above.
Removed options
org-babel-use-quick-and-dirty-noweb-expansion
See Change to Noweb expansion for explanations.
Miscellaneous
New default value for org-texinfo-table-scientific-notation
It is now nil, which means numbers in scientific notation are not handled specially by default.
New default value for org-latex-table-scientific-notation
It is now nil, which means numbers in scientific notation are not handled specially by default.
New face: org-upcoming-distant-deadline
It is meant to be used as the face for distant deadlines, see
org-agenda-deadline-faces
org-paste-subtree
no longer breaks sections
Unless point is at the beginning of a headline, org-paste-subtree
now pastes the tree before the next visible headline. If you need to
break the section, use org-yank
instead.
org-table-insert-column
inserts a column to the right
It used to insert it on the left. With this change,
org-table-insert-column
and org-table-delete-column
are
reciprocal.
org-publish-resolve-external-link
accepts a new optional argument.
org-irc.el
now supports exporting irc:
links properly
Previously, irc links were exported by ox-md
and ox-html
as normal
file links, which lead to them being broken in web browsers. Now both
of these exporters will properly export to irc:
links, which will
open properly in irc clients from web browsers.
org-comment-dwim
(bound to M-;
) now comments headings, if point is on a heading
Add support for open source block in window below
Set option org-src-window-setup
to split-window-below
.
Alphabetic sorting in headings and tags now uses the locale’s sorting rules
When sorting alphabetically, org-sort-entries
and
org-tags-sort-function
now sort according to the locale’s collation
rules instead of by code-point.
New speed command "k" to kill (cut) the subtree at point
Version 9.1
Incompatible changes
Variables relative to clocksum duration are obsolete
org-time-clocksum-format
, org-time-clocksum-use-fractional
and
org-time-clocksum-fractional-format
are obsolete. If you changed
them, consider modifying org-duration-format
instead.
Variable org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations
is also obsolete.
Consider setting org-duration-units
instead.
org-at-timestamp-p
optional argument accepts different values
See docstrings for the allowed values. For backward compatibility,
(org-at-timestamp-p t)
is still supported, but should be updated
accordingly.
org-capture-templates
no longer accepts S-expressions as file names
Since functions are allowed there, a straightforward way to migrate is to turn, e.g.,
(file (sexp))
into
(file (lambda () (sexp)))
Deleted contributed packages
org-ebib.el, =org-bullets.el
and org-mime.el
have been deleted
from the contrib/ directory.
You can now find them here :
Change org-texinfo-classes
value
The value cannot support functions to create sectionning commands anymore. Also, the sectionning commands should include commands for appendices. See the docstring for more information.
Removal of :sitemap-sans-extension
The publishing property is no longer recognized, as a consequence of changes to site-map generation.
You can get the same functionality by setting :sitemap-format-entry
to the following
(lambda (entry style project) (cond ((not (directory-name-p entry)) (format "[[file:%s][%s]]" (file-name-sans-extension entry) (org-publish-find-title entry project))) ((eq style 'tree) (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name entry))) (t entry)))
Change signature for :sitemap-function
:sitemap-function
now expects to be called with two arguments. See
org-publish-project-alist
for details.
Change signature for some properties in org-list-to-generic
:istart
, :icount
, :iend
and :isep
now expect the type of the
list as their first argument.
Change signature for org-get-repeater
The optional argument is now a string to extract the repeater from. See docstring for details.
Change signature for org-time-string-to-time
See docstring for changes.
Change order of items in org-agenda-time-grid
org-agenda-time-grid
gained an extra item to allow users to customize
the string displayed after times in the agenda. See docstring for
details.
tags-todo
custom searches now include DONE keywords
Use "/!" markup when filtering TODO keywords to get only not-done TODO keywords.
Removal of ob-scala.el
See this github issue.
You can use ob-scala.el
as packaged in scala-mode, available from the
MELPA repository.
New features
iCalendar export uses inheritance for TIMEZONE and LOCATION properties
Both these properties can be inherited during iCalendar export,
depending on the value of org-use-property-inheritance
.
iCalendar export respects a TIMEZONE property
Set the TIMEZONE property on an entry to specify a time zone for that entry only during iCalendar export. The property value should be specified as in "Europe/London".
org-attach
can move directory contents
When setting a new directory for an entry, org-attach offers to move files over from the old directory. Using a prefix arg will reset the directory to old, ID based one.
New Org duration library
This new library implements tools to read and print time durations in various formats (e.g., "H:MM", or "1d 2h 3min"…).
See org-duration-to-minutes
and org-duration-from-minutes
docstrings.
Agenda
- New variable :
org-agenda-show-future-repeats
- New variable :
org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat
- New variable :
org-deadline-past-days
See docstring for details.
- Binding C-c C-x < for
org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda
- New auto-align default setting for
org-agenda-tags-column
org-agenda-tags-column
can now be set toauto
, which will automatically align tags to the right edge of the window. This is now the default setting.
New value for org-publish-sitemap-sort-folders
The new ignore
value effectively allows toggling inclusion of
directories in published site-maps.
Babel
- Scheme: support for tables
- Scheme: new variable:
org-babel-scheme-null-to
This new custom option allows to use a empty list or null symbol to format the table output, initially assigned to
hlines
. - Scheme: new header
:prologue
A new block code header has been created for Org Babel that enables developers to prepend code to the scheme block being processed.
Multiple
:prologue
headers can be added each of them using a string with the content to be added.The scheme blocks are prepared by surronding the code in the block with a let form. The content of the
:prologue
headers are prepended before this let form. - Support for hledger accounting reports added
- Clojure: new setting
org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout
Creation of a new setting to specify the Cider timeout. By setting the
org-babel-clojure-sync-nrepl-timeout
setting option. The value is in seconds and if set tonil
then no timeout will occur. - Clojure: new header
:show-process
A new block code header has been created for Org Babel that enables developers to output the process of an ongoing process into a new window/buffer.
You can tell Org Babel to output the process of a running code block.
To show that output you only have to specify the
:show-process
option in the code block's header like this:#+BEGIN_SRC clojure :results output :show-process t (dotimes [n 10] (println n ".") (Thread/sleep 500)) #+END_SRC
If
:show-process
is specified that way, then when you will run the code usingC-c C-c
a new window will open in Emacs. Everything that is output by the REPL will immediately be added to that new window.When the processing of the code is finished, then the window and its buffer will be closed and the results will be reported in the
#+RESULTS
section.Note that the
:results
parameter's behavior is not changed. Ifsilent
is specified, then no result will be displayed. Ifoutput
is specified then all the output from the window will appears in the results section. Ifvalue
is specified, then only the last returned value of the code will be displayed in the results section. - Maxima: new headers
:prologue
and:epilogue
Babel options
:prologue
and:epilogue
have been implemented for Maxima src blocks which prepend and append, respectively, the given code strings. This can be useful for specifying formatting settings which would add clutter to exported code. For instance, you can use this:prologue "fpprintprec: 2; linel: 50;"
for presenting Maxima results in a beamer presentation. - PlantUML: add support for header arguments
- SQL: new engine added
sqsh
A new engine was added to support
sqsh
command line utility for use against Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase SQL server.More information on
sqsh
can be found here: sourceforge/sqshTo use
sqsh
in an sqlSRC_BLK
set the:engine
like this:#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine sqsh :dbhost my_host :dbuser master :dbpassword pass :database support Select * From Users Where clue > 0 #+END_SRC
- SQL: new engine added
vertica
A new engine was added to support vsql command line utility for use against HP Vertica.
More information on
vsql
can be found here: my.vertica.comTo use
vertica
in an sqlSRC_BLK
set the:engine
like this:#+BEGIN_SRC sql :engine vertica :dbhost my_host :dbuser dbadmin :dbpassword pw :database vmart SELECT * FROM nodes; #+END_SRC
- C++: New header
:namespaces
The new
:namespaces
export option can be used to specify namespaces to be used within a C++ org source block. Its usage is similar to:includes
, in that it can accept multiple, space-separated namespaces to use. This header is equivalent to addingusing namespace <name>;
in the source block. Here is a "Hello World" in C++ using:namespaces
:#+BEGIN_SRC C++ :results output :namespaces std :includes <iostream> cout << "Hello World" << endl; #+END_SRC
- Support for Vala language
Vala language blocks support two special header arguments:
:flags
passes arguments to the compiler:cmdline
passes commandline arguments to the generated executable
Support for
:var
does not exist yet, also there is no:session
support because Vala is a compiled language.The Vala compiler binary can be changed via the
defcustom
org-babel-vala-compiler
.
New function
scope argument for the Clock Table
Added a nullary function that returns a list of files as a possible argument for the scope of the clock table.
Export
- Implement vernacular table of contents in Markdown exporter
Global table of contents are generated using vanilla Markdown syntax instead of HTML. Also #+TOC keyword, including local table of contents, are now supported.
- Add Slovanian translations
- Implement
org-export-insert-image-links
This new function is meant to be used in back-ends supporting images as descriptions of links, a.k.a. image links. See its docstring for details.
- New macro :
{{{n}}}
This macro creates and increment multiple counters in a document. See manual for details.
- Add global macros through
org-export-global-macros
With this variable, one can define macros available for all documents.
- New keyword
#+EXPORT_FILE_NAME
Similarly to
:EXPORT_FILE_NAME:
property, this keyword allows the user to specify the name of the output file upon exporting the document. This also has an effect on publishing. - Horizontal rules are no longer ignored in LaTeX table math mode
- Use
compilation-mode
for compilation output - Plain lists accept a new
:separator
attribute in Texinfo
The new
:separator
attribute splits a tag from a description list item into multiple parts. This allows to have two-column tables with multiple entries in the first column. See manual for more details. latex-environment
elements supportcaption
keywords for LaTeX export
org-edit-special
can edit LaTeX environments
Using C-c '
on a LaTeX environment opens a sub-editing buffer. By
default, major mode in that buffer is latex-mode
, but it can be
changed by configuring org-src-lang-modes
.
org-list-to-generic
includes a new property: :ifmt
:ifmt
is a function to be called on the body of each item. See
org-list-to-generic
documentation for details.
New variable : org-bibtex-headline-format-function
This allow to use a different title than entry title.
org-attach
supports attaching files from URLs
Using C-c C-a u
prompts for a URL pointing to a file to be attached
to the document.
New option for org-refile-use-outline-path
org-refile-use-outline-path
now supports the setting buffer-name
,
which causes refile targets to be prefixed with the buffer’s
name. This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with
uniquify.el
.
org-file-contents
now allows the FILE argument to be a URL.
This allows #+SETUPFILE:
to accept a URL instead of a local file
path. The URL contents are auto-downloaded and saved to a temporary
cache org--file-cache
. A new optional argument NOCACHE
is added
to org-file-contents
.
org-mode-restart
now resets the newly added org--file-cache
.
Using C-c C-c
on any keyword (like #+SETUPFILE
) will reset the
that file cache.
New option : org-table-duration-hour-zero-padding
This variable allow computed durations in tables to be zero-padded.
New mode switch for table formulas : U
This mode omits seconds in durations.
Removed functions
Org Timeline
This feature has been removed. Use a custom agenda view, possibly narrowed to current buffer to achieve a similar functionality.
org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches
is obsolete
Use org-agenda-skip-if
instead.
org-agenda-skip-subtree-when-regexp-matches
is obsolete
Use org-agenda-skip-if
instead.
org-agenda-skip-entry-when-regexp-matches-in-subtree
is obsolete
Use org-agenda-skip-if
instead.
org-minutes-to-clocksum-string
is obsolete
Use org-duration-from-minutes
instead.
org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes
is obsolete
Use org-duration-to-minutes
instead.
org-duration-string-to-minutes
is obsolete
Use org-duration-to-minutes
instead.
org-gnus-nnimap-cached-article-number
is removed.
This function relied on nnimap-group-overview-filename
, which was
removed from Gnus circa September 2010.
Removed options
org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all
is removed.
For an equivalent to a nil
value, set
org-agenda-show-future-repeats
to nil and
org-agenda-prefer-last-repeat
to t
.
org-gnus-nnimap-query-article-no-from-file
is removed.
This variable has no effect, as it was relying on a function that was removed from Gnus circa September 2010.
org-usenet-links-prefer-google
is obsolete.
Use org-gnus-prefer-web-links
instead.
org-publish-sitemap-file-entry-format
is deprecated
One can provide new :sitemap-format-entry
property for a function
equivalent to the removed format string.
org-enable-table-editor
is removed.
Setting it to a nil
value broke some other features (e.g., speed
keys).
org-export-use-babel
cannot be set to inline-only
The variable is now a boolean.
org-texinfo-def-table-markup
is obsolete
Use org-texinfo-table-default-markup
instead.
New functions
org-publish-find-property
This function can be used as a tool to format entries in a site-map,
in addition to org-publish-find-title
and org-publish-find-date
.
org-list-to-org
It is the reciprocal of org-list-to-lisp
, which see.
org-agenda-set-restriction-lock-from-agenda
Call org-agenda-set-restriction-lock
from the agenda.
Miscellaneous
The Library of Babel now on Worg
The library-of-babel.org used to be accessible from the doc/
directory, distributed with Org’s core. It is now accessible
from the Worg community-driven documentation here.
If you want to contribute to it, please see how to contribute.
Allow multiple columns view
Columns view is not limited to a single buffer anymore.
Org Attach obeys dired-dwim-target
When a Dired buffer is opened next to the Org document being edited, the prompt for file to attach can start in the Dired buffer's directory if `dired-dwim-target' in non-nil.
org-fill-paragraph
can now fill a whole region
More specific anniversary descriptions
Anniversary descriptions (used in the agenda view, for instance) include the point in time, when the anniversary appears. This is, in its most general form, just the date of the anniversary. Or more specific terms, like "today", "tomorrow" or "in n days" are used to describe the time span.
This feature allows to automatically change the description of an anniversary, depending on if it occurs in the next few days or far away in the future.
Computed dates in tables appear as inactive time stamps
Save point before opening a file with an unknown search option
When following a file link with a search option (e.g., ::#custom-id
)
that doesn't exist in the target file, save positon before raising an
error. As a consequence, it is possible to jump back to the original
document with org-mark-ring-goto
(default binding C-c &
).
org-get-heading
accepts two more optional arguments
See docstring for details.
New option org-babel-uppercase-example-markers
This variable is a defcustom
and replaces the variable
org-babel-capitalize-example-region-markers
, which is a defvar
and
is now obselete.
INCLUDE
keywords in commented trees are now ignored.
Default value for org-texinfo-text-markup-alist
changed.
Now =...=
markup uses @samp{}
instead of @verb{}
. You can use
@verb{}
again by customizing the variable.
Texinfo exports example blocks as @example
Texinfo exports inline src blocks as @code{}
Texinfo default table markup is @asis
It used to be @samp
but @asis
is neutral and, therefore, more
suitable as a default value.
Texinfo default process includes --no-split
option
New entities : \dollar
and \USD
org-parse-time-string
accepts a new optional argument
ZONE
specifies the current time zone.
org-time-string-to-seconds
now accepts an optional ZONE
argument
Support for date style URLs in org-protocol://open-source
URLs like https://cool-blog.com/2017/05/20/cool-post/
are
covered by rewrite rules.
Add (C) COMMENT
support to org-structure-template-alist
Version 9.0
Incompatible changes
Emacs 23 support has been dropped
From now on, Org expects at least Emacs 24.3, although Emacs 24.4 or above is suggested.
XEmacs support has been dropped
Incomplete compatibility layer with XEmacs has been removed. If you want to take over maintainance of this compatibility, please contact our mailing list.
New syntax for export blocks
Export blocks are explicitly marked as such at the syntax level to disambiguate their parsing from special blocks. The new syntax is
#+BEGIN_EXPORT backend ... #+END_EXPORT
instead of
#+BEGIN_backend ... #+END_backend
As a consequence, INCLUDE
keywords syntax is modified, e.g.,
becomes
The following function repairs export blocks and INCLUDE
keywords
using previous syntax:
(defun org-repair-export-blocks () "Repair export blocks and INCLUDE keywords in current buffer." (interactive) (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (let ((case-fold-search t) (back-end-re (regexp-opt '("HTML" "ASCII" "LATEX" "ODT" "MARKDOWN" "MD" "ORG" "MAN" "BEAMER" "TEXINFO" "GROFF" "KOMA-LETTER") t))) (org-with-wide-buffer (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((block-re (concat "^[ \t]*#\\+BEGIN_" back-end-re))) (save-excursion (while (re-search-forward block-re nil t) (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point)))) (when (eq (org-element-type element) 'special-block) (save-excursion (goto-char (org-element-property :end element)) (save-match-data (search-backward "_")) (forward-char) (insert "EXPORT") (delete-region (point) (line-end-position))) (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1)))))) (let ((include-re (format "^[ \t]*#\\+INCLUDE: .*?%s[ \t]*$" back-end-re))) (while (re-search-forward include-re nil t) (let ((element (save-match-data (org-element-at-point)))) (when (and (eq (org-element-type element) 'keyword) (string= (org-element-property :key element) "INCLUDE")) (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1)))))))))
Moreover, :export-block
keyword used in org-export-define-backend
and
org-export-define-derived-backend
is no longer used and needs to be
removed.
org-file-apps
no longer accepts S-expressions as commands
The variable now accepts functions of two arguments instead of plain S-expressions. Replacing a S-expresion with an appropriate function is straightforward. For example
("pdf" . (foo))
becomes
("pdf" . (lambda (file link) (foo)))
The {{{modification-time}}}
macro can get time via vc
The modification time will be determined via vc.el
if the second
argument is non-nil. See the manual for details.
Preparation and completion functions in publishing projects change signature
Preparation and completion functions are now called with an argument,
which is the project property list. It used to be dynamically scoped
through the project-plist
variable.
Old Babel header properties are no longer supported
Using header arguments as property names is no longer possible. As such, the following
* Headline :PROPERTIES: :exports: code :var: a=1 b=2 :var+: c=3 :END:
should be written instead
* Headline :PROPERTIES: :header-args: :exports code :header-args: :var a=1 b=2 :header-args+: :var c=3 :END:
Please note that, however, old properties were defined at the source block definition. Current ones are defined where the block is called.
New features
org-eww
has been moved into core
New org-protocol key=value syntax
Org-protocol can now handle query-style parameters such as:
org-protocol://store-link?url=http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html&title=The%20title org-protocol://capture?template=x&title=Hello&body=World&url=http:%2F%2Fexample.com
Old-style links such as
org-protocol://store-link:/http:%2F%2Flocalhost%2Findex.html/The%20title
continue to be supported.
If you have defined your own handler functions for
org-protocol-protocol-alist
, change them to accept either a property
list (for new-style links) or a string (for old-style links). Use
org-protocol-parse-parameters
to convert old-style links into property
lists.
New Org linter library
org-lint
can check syntax and report common issues in Org documents.
New option date-tree-last
for org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy
When org-agenda-insert-diary-strategy
is set to date-tree-last
, diary
entries are added to last in the date tree.
New vbar
entity
\vbar
or \vbar{}
will be exported unconditionnally as a |
,
unlike to existing \vert
, which is expanded as |
when using
a HTML derived export back-end.
Export
- New
#+latex_compiler
keyword to set LaTeX compiler.
PDFLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaLaTeX are supported. See the manual for details.
- New option
org-export-with-broken-links
This option tells the export process how to behave when encountering a broken internal link. See its docstring for more information.
- Attributes support in custom language environments for LaTeX export
Custom language environments for LaTeX export can now define the string to be inserted during export, using attributes to indicate the position of the elements. See variable
org-latex-custom-lang-environments
for more details. - New Texinfo
options
attribute on special blocks
Using
:options
as a Texinfo attribute, it is possible to add information to custom environments. See manual for details. - New HTML
id
attributes on special, example and quote blocks
If the block has a
#+NAME:
attribute assigned, then the HTML element will have anid
attribute with that name in the HTML export. This enables one to create links to these elements in other places, e.g.,<a href="#name">text</a>
. - Listings with captions are now numbered in HTML export
The class associated to the numbering is "listing-number". If you don't want these blocks to be numbered, as it was the case until now, You may want to add
.listing-number { display: none; }
to the CSS used. - Line Numbering in SRC/EXAMPLE blocks support arbitrary start number
The
-n
option toSRC
andEXAMPLE
blocks can now take a numeric argument to specify the staring line number for the source or example block. The+n
option can now take a numeric argument that will be added to the last line number from the previous block as the starting point for the SRC/EXAMPLE block.#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp -n 20 ;; this will export with line number 20 (message "This is line 21") #+END_SRC #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp +n 10 ;; This will be listed as line 31 (message "This is line 32") #+END_SRC
- Allow toggling center for images in LaTeX export
With the global variable
org-latex-images-centered
or the local attribute:center
it is now possible to center an image in LaTeX export. - Default CSS class
org-svg
for SVG images in HTML export
SVG images exported in HTML are now by default assigned a CSS class
org-svg
if no CSS class is specified with the:class
attribute. By default, the CSS styling of classorg-svg
specifies an image width of 90 % of the container the image. - Markdown footnote export customization
Variables
org-md-footnotes-section
andorg-md-footnote-format
introduced forox-md.el
. Both new variables define template strings which can be used to customize the format of the exported footnotes section and individual footnotes, respectively.
Babel
- Blocks with coderefs labels can now be evaluated
The labels are removed prior to evaluating the block.
- Support for Lua language
- Support for SLY in Lisp blocks
See
org-babel-lisp-eval-fn
to activate it. - Support for Stan language
New ob-stan.el library.
Evaluating a Stan block can produce two different results.
Dump the source code contents to a file.
This file can then be used as a variable in other blocks, which allows interfaces like RStan to use the model.
Compile the contents to a model file.
This provides access to the CmdStan interface. To use this, set
org-babel-stan-cmdstan-directory
and provide a:file
argument that does not end in ".stan".
For more information and usage examples, visit https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-stan.html
- Support for Oracle databases via
sqlplus
ob-sql
library supports running SQL blocks against an Oracle database usingsqlplus
. Use with properties like this (all mandatory)::engine oracle :dbhost <host.com> :dbport <1521> :dbuser <username> :database <database> :dbpassword <secret>
- Improved support to Microsoft SQL Server via
sqlcmd
ob-sql
library removes support to themsosql
engine which uses the deprecatedosql
command line tool, and replaces it withmssql
engine which uses thesqlcmd
command line tool. Use with properties like this::engine mssql :dbhost <host.com> :dbuser <username> :dbpassword <secret> :database <database>
If you want to use the trusted connection feature, omit both the
dbuser
anddbpassword
properties and addcmdline -E
to the properties.If your Emacs is running in a Cygwin environment, the
ob-sql
library can pass the converted path to thesqlcmd
tool. - Improved support of header arguments for postgresql
The postgresql engine in a sql code block supports now
:dbport
nd:dbpassword
as header arguments. - Support for additional plantuml output formats
The support for output formats of plantuml has been extended to now include:
All Diagrams:
- png
- svg
- eps
- vdx
- txt
- ASCII art
- utxt
- ASCII art using unicode characters
Class Diagrams:
- xmi
- html
State Diagrams:
- scxml
The output formats are determined by the file extension specified using the :file property, e.g.:
@startuml Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request Alice <-- Bob: another authentication Response @enduml
Please note that pdf does not work out of the box and needs additional setup in addition to plantuml. See http://plantuml.com/pdf.html for details and setup information.
Rewrite of radio lists
Radio lists, i.e, Org plain lists in foreign buffers, have been rewritten to be on par with Radio tables. You can use a large set of parameters to control how a given list should be rendered. See manual for details.
org-bbdb-anniversaries-future
Used like org-bbdb-anniversaries
, it provides a few days warning for
upcoming anniversaries (default: 7 days).
Clear non-repeated SCHEDULED upon repeating a task
If the task is repeated, and therefore done at least one, scheduling information is no longer relevant. It is therefore removed.
See commit message for more information.
Support for ISO week trees
ISO week trees are an alternative date tree format that orders entries by ISO week and not by month.
For example:
* 2015 ** 2015-W35 ** 2015-W36 *** 2015-08-31 Monday
They are supported in org-capture via file+weektree
and
file+weektree+prompt
target specifications.
Accept :indent
parameter when capturing column view
When defining a "columnview" dynamic block, it is now possible to add an :indent parameter, much like the one in the clock table.
On the other hand, stars no longer appear in an ITEM field.
Columns view
org-columns
accepts a prefix argument
When called with a prefix argument,
org-columns
apply to the whole buffer unconditionally.- New variable :
org-agenda-view-columns-initially
The variable used to be a
defvar
, it is now adefcustom
. - Allow custom summaries
It is now possible to add new summary types, or override those provided by Org by customizing
org-columns-summary-types
, which see. - Allow multiple summaries for any property
Columns can now summarize the same property using different summary types.
Preview LaTeX snippets in buffers not visiting files
New option org-attach-commit
When non-nil, commit attachments with git, assuming the document is in a git repository.
Allow conditional case-fold searches in org-occur
When set to smart
, the new variable org-occur-case-fold-search
allows
to mimic isearch.el
: if the regexp searched contains any upper case
character (or character class), the search is case sensitive.
Otherwise, it is case insensitive.
More robust repeated ox-latex
footnote handling
Repeated footnotes are now numbered by referring to a label in the first footnote.
The org-block
face is inherited by src-blocks
This works also when org-src-fontify-natively
is non-nil. It is also
possible to specify per-languages faces. See org-src-block-faces
and
the manual for details.
Links are now customizable
Links can now have custom colors, tooltips, keymaps, display behavior,
etc. Links are now centralized in org-link-parameters
.
New functions
org-next-line-empty-p
It replaces the deprecated next
argument to org-previous-line-empty-p
.
org-show-children
It is a faster implementation of outline-show-children
.
Removed functions
org-agenda-filter-by-tag-refine
has been removed.
Use org-agenda-filter-by-tag
instead.
org-agenda-todayp
is deprecated.
Use org-agenda-today-p
instead.
org-babel-get-header
is removed.
Use org-babel--get-vars
or assq
instead, as applicable.
org-babel-trim
is deprecated.
Use org-trim
instead.
org-element-remove-indentation
is deprecated.
Use org-remove-indentation
instead.
org-image-file-name-regexp
is deprecated
Use image-file-name-regexp
instead.
The never-used-in-core extensions
argument has been dropped.
org-list-parse-list
is deprecated
Use org-list-to-lisp
instead.
org-on-heading-p
is deprecated
A comment to this effect was in the source code since 7.8.03, but now a byte-compiler warning will be generated as well.
org-table-p
is deprecated
Use org-at-table-p
instead.
org-table-recognize-table.el
is deprecated
It was not called by any org code since 2010.
Various reimplementations of cl-lib functions are deprecated
The affected functions are:
org-count
org-remove-if
org-remove-if-not
org-reduce
org-every
org-some
Additionally, org-sublist
is deprecated in favor of cl-subseq
. Note
the differences in indexing conventions: org-sublist
is 1-based and
end-inclusive; cl-subseq
is 0-based and end-exclusive.
Removed options
Remove all options related to ido
or iswitchb
This includes org-completion-use-iswitchb
and org-completion-use-ido
.
Instead Org uses regular functions, e.g., completion-read
so as to
let those libraries operate.
Remove org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists
Two consecutive blank lines always terminate all levels of current plain list.
fixltx2e
is removed from org-latex-default-packages-alist
fixltx2e is obsolete, see LaTeX News 22.
Miscellaneous
Add Icelandic smart quotes
Allow multiple receiver locations in radio tables and lists
Allow angular links within link descriptions
It is now allowed to write, e.g.,
[[http:orgmode.org][<file:unicorn.png>]]
as an equivalent to
[[http:orgmode.org][file:unicorn.png]]
. The advantage of the former
is that spaces are allowed within the path.
Beamer export back-ends uses org-latex-prefer-user-labels
:preparation-function
called earlier during publishing
Functions in this list are called before any file is associated to the current projet. Thus, they can be used to generate to be published Org files.
Function org-remove-indentation
changes.
The new algorithm doesn't remove TAB characters not used for indentation.
Secure placeholders in capture templates
Placeholders in capture templates are no longer expanded recursively.
However, %(...)
constructs are expanded very late, so you can fill
the contents of the S-exp with the replacement text of non-interactive
placeholders. As before, interactive ones are still expanded as the
very last step, so the previous statement doesn't apply to them.
Note that only %(...)
placeholders initially present in the
template, or introduced using a file placeholder, i.e., %[...]
are
expanded. This prevents evaluating potentially malicious code when
another placeholder, e.g., %i
expands to a S-exp.
Links stored by org-gnus-store-link
in nnir groups
Since gnus nnir groups are temporary, org-gnus-store-link
now refers
to the article's original group.
org-babel-check-confirm-evaluate
is now a function instead of a macro
The calling convention has changed.
HTML export table row customization changes
Variable org-html-table-row-tags
has been split into
org-html-table-row-open-tag
and org-html-table-row-close-tag
.
Both new variables can be either a string or a function which will be
called with 6 parameters.
ITEM
special property returns headline without stars
Rename org-insert-columns-dblock
into org-columns-insert-dblock
The previous name is, for the time being, kept as an obsolete alias.
org-trim
can preserve leading indentation.
When setting a new optional argument to a non-nil value, org-trim
preserves leading indentation while removing blank lines at the
beginning of the string. The behavior is identical for white space at
the end of the string.
Function org-info-export
changes.
HTML links created from certain info links now point to gnu.org
URL's rather
than just to local files. For example info links such as info:emacs#List
Buffers
used to be converted to HTML links like this:
<a href="emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
where local file emacs.html
is referenced.
For most folks this file does not exist.
Thus the new behavior is to generate this HTML link instead:
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#List-Buffers">emacs#List Buffers</a>
All emacs related info links are similarly translated plus few other
gnu.org
manuals.
Repeaters with a ++
interval and a time can be shifted to later today
Previously, if a recurring task had a timestamp of
<2016-01-01 Fri 20:00 ++1d>
and was completed on 2016-01-02
at
08:00
, the task would skip 2016-01-02
and would be rescheduled for
2016-01-03
. Timestamps with ++
cookies and a specific time will
now shift to the first possible future occurrence, even if the
occurrence is later the same day the task is completed. (Timestamps
already in the future are still shifted one time further into the
future.)
org-mobile-action-alist
is now a defconst
It used to be a defcustom, with a warning that it shouldn't be modified anyway.
file+emacs
and file+sys
link types are deprecated
They are still supported in Org 9.0 but will eventually be removed in
a later release. Use file
link type along with universal arguments
to force opening it in either Emacs or with system application.
New defcustom org-babel-J-command
stores the j command
New defalias org-babel-execute:j
Allows J source blocks be indicated by letter j. Previously the indication letter was solely J.
org-open-line
ignores tables at the very beginning of the buffer
When org-special-ctrl-o
is non-nil, it is impractical to create
a blank line above a table at the beginning of the document. Now, as
a special case, org-open-line
behaves normally in this situation.
org-babel-hash-show-time
is now customizable
The experimental variable used to be more or less confidential, as
a defvar
.
New :format
property to parsed links
It defines the format of the original link. Possible values are:
plain
, bracket
and angle
.
Version 8.3
Incompatible changes
Properties drawers syntax changes
Properties drawers are now required to be located right after a headline and its planning line, when applicable.
It will break some documents as TODO states changes were sometimes logged before the property drawer.
The following function will repair them:
(defun org-repair-property-drawers () "Fix properties drawers in current buffer. Ignore non Org buffers." (when (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (org-with-wide-buffer (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((case-fold-search t) (inline-re (and (featurep 'org-inlinetask) (concat (org-inlinetask-outline-regexp) "END[ \t]*$")))) (org-map-entries (lambda () (unless (and inline-re (org-looking-at-p inline-re)) (save-excursion (let ((end (save-excursion (outline-next-heading) (point)))) (forward-line) (when (org-looking-at-p org-planning-line-re) (forward-line)) (when (and (< (point) end) (not (org-looking-at-p org-property-drawer-re)) (save-excursion (and (re-search-forward org-property-drawer-re end t) (eq (org-element-type (save-match-data (org-element-at-point))) 'drawer)))) (insert (delete-and-extract-region (match-beginning 0) (min (1+ (match-end 0)) end))) (unless (bolp) (insert "\n"))))))))))))
#+CATEGORY
keywords no longer apply partially to document
It was possible to use several such keywords and have them apply to the text below until the next one, but strongly deprecated since Org 5.14 (2008).
#+CATEGORY
keywords are now global to the document. You can use node
properties to set category for a subtree, e.g.,
* Headline :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: some category :END:
New variable to control visibility when revealing a location
org-show-following-heading
, org-show-siblings
,
org-show-entry-below
and org-show-hierarchy-above
no longer exist.
Instead, visibility is controlled through a single variable:
org-show-context-detail
, which see.
Replace disputed keys again when reading a date
org-replace-disputed-keys
has been ignored when reading date since
version 8.1, but the former behavior is restored again.
Keybinding for reading date can be customized with a new variable
org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
.
No default title is provided when TITLE
keyword is missing
Skipping TITLE
keyword no longer provides the current file name, or
buffer name, as the title. Instead, simply ignore the title.
Functions signature changes
The following functions require an additional argument. See their docstring for more information.
org-export-collect-footnote-definitions
org-html-format-headline-function
org-html-format-inlinetask-function
org-latex-format-headline-function
org-latex-format-inlinetask-function
org-link-search
Default bindings of C-c C-n
and C-c C-p
changed
The key sequences C-c C-n
and C-c C-p
are now bound to
org-next-visible-heading
and org-next-visible-heading
respectively, rather than the outline-mode
versions of these
functions. The Org version of these functions skips over inline tasks
(and even-level headlines when org-odd-levels-only
is set).
org-element-context
no longer return objects in keywords
org-element-context
used to return objects on some keywords, i.e.,
TITLE
, DATE
and AUTHOR
. It now returns only the keyword.
Behavior of org-return
changed
If point is before or after the headline title, insert a new line without changing the headline.
org-timer-default-timer
type changed from number to string
If you have, in your configuration, something like (setq
org-timer-default-timer 10)
replace it with (setq
org-timer-default-timer "10")
.
New features
Hierarchies of tags
The functionality of nesting tags in hierarchies is added to org-mode. This is the generalization of what was previously called "Tag groups" in the manual. That term is now changed to "Tag hierarchy".
The following in-buffer definition:
Should be seen as the following tree of tags:
- Group
- SubOne
- SubOne1
- SubOne2
- SubTwo
- SubTwo1
- SubTwo2
- SubOne
Searching for "Group" should return all tags defined above. Filtering on SubOne filters also it's sub-tags. Etc.
There is no limit on the depth for the tag hierarchy.
Additional syntax for non-unique grouptags
Additional syntax is defined for grouptags if the tags in the group don't have to be distinct on a heading.
Grouptags had to previously be defined with { }. This syntax is already used for exclusive tags and Grouptags need their own, non-exclusive syntax. This behaviour is achieved with [ ]. Note: { } can still be used also for Grouptags but then only one of the given tags can be used on the headline at the same time. Example:
[ group : sub1 sub2 ]
* Test :sub1:sub2:
This is a more general case than the already existing syntax for grouptags; { }.
Define regular expression patterns as tags
Tags can be defined as grouptags with regular expressions as "sub-tags".
The regular expressions in the group must be marked up within { }. Example use:
#+TAGS: [ Project : {P@.+} ]
Searching for the tag Project will now list all tags also including regular expression matches for P@.+. Good for example if tags for a certain project is tagged with a common project-identifier, i.e. P@2014OrgTags.
Filtering in the agenda on grouptags (Tag hierarchies)
Filtering in the agenda on grouptags filter all of the related tags. Exception if filter is applied with a (double) prefix-argument.
Filtering in the agenda on subcategories does not filter the "above" levels anymore.
If a grouptag contains a regular expression the regular expression is also used as a filter.
Minor refactoring of org-agenda-filter-by-tag
Now uses the argument arg and optional argument exclude instead of strip and narrow. ARG because the argument has multiple purposes and makes more sense than strip now. The term narrowing is changed to exclude.
The main purpose is for the function to make more logical sense when filtering on tags now when tags can be structured in hierarchies.
Babel: support for sed scripts
Thanks to Bjarte Johansen for this feature.
Babel: support for Processing language
New ob-processing.el library.
This library implements necessary functions for implementing editing of Processing code blocks, viewing the resulting sketches in an external viewer, and HTML export of the sketches.
Check the documentation for more.
Thanks to Jarmo Hurri for this feature.
New behaviour for `org-toggle-latex-fragment'
The new behaviour is the following:
- With a double prefix argument or with a single prefix argument when point is before the first headline, toggle overlays in the whole buffer;
- With a single prefix argument, toggle overlays in the current subtree;
- On latex code, toggle overlay at point;
- Otherwise, toggle overlays in the current section.
Additional markup with #+INCLUDE
keyword
The content of the included file can now be optionally marked up, for instance as HTML. See the documentation for details.
File links with #+INCLUDE
keyword
Objects can be extracted via #+INCLUDE
using file links. It is
possible to include only the contents of the object. See manual for
more information.
Drawers do not need anymore to be referenced in #+DRAWERS
One can use a drawer without listing it in the #+DRAWERS
keyword,
which is now obsolete. As a consequence, this change also deprecates
org-drawers
variable.
org-edit-special
can edit export blocks
Using C-c ' on an export block now opens a sub-editing buffer. Major
mode in that buffer is determined by export backend name (e.g.,
"latex" → "latex-mode"). You can define exceptions to this rule by
configuring org-src-lang-modes
, which see.
Additional :hline
processing to ob-shell
If the argument :hlines yes
is present in a babel call, an optional
argument :hlines-string
can be used to define a string to use as a
representation for the lisp symbol 'hline
in the shell program. The
default is hline
.
Markdown export supports switches in source blocks
For example, it is now possible to number lines using the -n
switch
in a source block.
New option in ASCII export
Plain lists can have an extra margin by setting
org-ascii-list-margin
variable to an appopriate integer.
New blocks in ASCII export
ASCII export now supports #+BEGIN_JUSTIFYRIGHT
and
#+BEGIN_JUSTIFYLEFT
blocks. See documentation for details.
More back-end specific publishing options
The number of publishing options specific to each back-end has been increased. See manual for details.
Export inline source blocks
Inline source code was used to be removed upon exporting. They are now handled as standard code blocks, i.e., the source code can appear in the output, depending on the parameters.
Extend org-export-first-sibling-p
and org-export-last-sibling-p
These functions now support any element or object, not only headlines.
New function: org-export-table-row-in-header-p
New function: org-export-get-reference
New function: org-element-lineage
This function deprecates org-export-get-genealogy
. It also provides
more features. See docstring for details.
New function: org-element-copy
New filter: org-export-filter-body-functions
Functions in this filter are applied on the body of the exported document, befor wrapping it within the template.
Various improvements on radio tables
Radio tables feature now relies on Org's export framework ("ox.el").
:no-escape
parameter no longer exists, but additional global
parameters are now supported: :raw
, :backend
. Moreover, there are
new parameters specific to some pre-defined translators, e.g.,
:environment
and :booktabs
for orgtbl-to-latex
. See translators
docstrings (including orgtbl-to-generic
) for details.
Non-floating minted listings in Latex export
It is not possible to specify #+attr_latex: :float nil
in conjunction with
source blocks exported by the minted package.
Field formulas can now create columns as needed
Previously, evaluating formulas that referenced out-of-bounds columns
would throw an error. A new variable
org-table-formula-create-columns
was added to adjust this
behavior. It is now possible to silently add new columns, to do so
with a warning or to explicitly ask the user each time.
ASCII plot
Ability to plot values in a column through ASCII-art bars. See manual for details.
New hook: org-archive-hook
This hook is called after successfully archiving a subtree, with point on the original subtree, not yet deleted.
New option: org-attach-archive-delete
When non-nil, attachments from archived subtrees are removed.
New option: org-latex-caption-above
This variable generalizes org-latex-table-caption-above
, which is
now deprecated. In addition to tables, it applies to source blocks,
special blocks and images. See docstring for more information.
New option: org-latex-prefer-user-labels
See docstring for more information.
Export unnumbered headlines
Headlines, for which the property UNNUMBERED
is non-nil, are now
exported without section numbers irrespective of their levels. The
property is inherited by children.
Tables can be sorted with an arbitrary function
It is now possible to specify a function, both programatically,
through a new optional argument, and interactively with f
or F
keys, to sort a table.
Table of contents can be local to a section
The TOC
keywords now accepts an optional local
parameter. See
manual for details.
Countdown timers can now be paused
org-timer-pause-time
now pauses and restarts both relative and
countdown timers.
New option only-window
for org-agenda-window-setup
When org-agenda-window-setup
is set to only-window
, the agenda is
displayed as the sole window of the current frame.
{{{date}}}
macro supports optional formatting argument
It is now possible to supply and optional formatting argument to
{{{date}}}
. See manual for details.
{{{property}}}
macro supports optional search argument
It is now possible to supply an optional search option to
{{{property}}}
in order to retrieve remote properties optional. See
manual for details.
New option org-export-with-title
It is possible to suppress the title insertion with #+OPTIONS:
title:nil
or globally using the variable org-export-with-title
.
New entities family: " "
" " are used to insert up to 20 contiguous spaces in various back-ends. In particular, this family can be used to introduce leading spaces within table cells.
New MathJax configuration options
Org uses the MathJax CDN by default. See the manual and the docstring
of org-html-mathjax-options
for details.
New behaviour in `org-export-options-alist'
When defining a back-end, it is now possible to specify to give `parse' behaviour on a keyword. It is equivalent to call `org-element-parse-secondary-string' on the value.
However, parsed KEYWORD
is automatically associated to an
:EXPORT_KEYWORD:
property, which can be used to override the keyword
value during a subtree export. Moreover, macros are expanded in such
keywords and properties.
Viewport support in html export
Viewport for mobile-optimized website is now automatically inserted
when exporting to html. See org-html-viewport
for details.
New #+SUBTITLE
export keyword
Org can typeset a subtitle in some export backends. See the manual for details.
Remotely edit a footnote definition
Calling org-edit-footnote-reference
(C-c ') on a footnote reference
allows to edit its definition, as long as it is not anonymous, in
a dedicated buffer. It works even if buffer is currently narrowed.
New function org-delete-indentation
bound to M-^
Work as delete-indentation
unless at heading, in which case text is
added to headline text.
Support for images in Texinfo export
Texinfo
back-end now handles images. See manual for details.
Support for captions in Texinfo export
Tables and source blocks can now have captions. Additionally, lists
of tables and lists of listings can be inserted in the document with
#+TOC
keyword.
Countdown timer support hh:mm:ss format
In addition to setting countdown timers in minutes, they can also be set using the hh:mm:ss format.
Extend org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
now accepts 0 as an argument for
the number of clones, which removes the repeater from the original
subtree and creates one shifted, repeating clone.
New time block for clock tables: untilnow
It encompasses all past closed clocks.
Support for the polyglossia
LaTeX package
See the docstring of org-latex-classes
and
org-latex-guess-polyglossia-language
for details.
None-floating tables, graphics and blocks can have captions
`org-insert-heading' can be forced to insert top-level headline
Removed functions
Removed function org-translate-time
Use org-timestamp-translate
instead.
Removed function org-beamer-insert-options-template
This function inserted a Beamer specific template at point or in
current subtree. Use org-export-insert-default-template
instead, as
it provides more features and covers all export back-ends. It is also
accessible from the export dispatcher.
Removed function org-timer-cancel-timer
org-timer-stop
now stops both relative and countdown timers.
Removed function org-export-solidify-link-text
This function, being non-bijective, introduced bug in internal
references. Use org-export-get-reference
instead.
Removed function org-end-of-meta-data-and-drawers
The function is superseded by org-end-of-meta-data
, called with an
optional argument.
Removed functions org-table-colgroup-line-p
, org-table-cookie-line-p
These functions were left-over from pre 8.0 era. They are not correct anymore. Since they are not needed, they have no replacement.
Removed options
org-list-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists
is deprecated
It will be kept in code base until next release, for backward compatibility.
If you need to separate consecutive lists with blank lines, always use two of them, as if this option was nil (default value).
org-export-with-creator
is a boolean
Special comment
value is no longer allowed. It is possible to use
a body filter to add comments about the creator at the end of the
document instead.
Removed option org-babel-sh-command
This undocumented option defaulted to the value of shell-file-name
at the time of loading ob-shell
. The new behaviour is to use the
value of shell-file-name
directly when the shell langage is shell
.
To chose a different shell, either customize shell-file-name
or bind
this variable locally.
Removed option org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt
This undocumented option was supposed to provide different quoting styles when changing the shell type. Changing the shell type can now be done directly from the source block and the quoting style has to be compatible across all shells, so a customization doesn't make sense anymore. The chosen hard coded quoting style conforms to POSIX.
Removed option org-insert-labeled-timestamps-at-point
Setting this option to anything else that the default value (nil) would create invalid planning info. This dangerous option is now removed.
Removed option org-koma-letter-use-title
Use org-export-with-title instead. See also below.
Removed option org-entities-ascii-explanatory
This variable has no effect since Org 8.0.
Removed option org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline
This variable has no effect since August 2009.
Removed MathML-related options from org-html-mathjax-options
MathJax automatically chooses the best display technology based on the
end-users browser. You may force initial usage of MathML via
org-html-mathjax-template
or by setting the path
property of
org-html-mathjax-options
.
Removed comment-related filters
org-export-filter-comment-functions
and
org-export-filter-comment-block-functions
variables do not exist
anymore.
Miscellaneous
Strip all meta data from ITEM special property
ITEM special property does not contain TODO, priority or tags anymore.
File names in links accept are now compatible with URI syntax
Absolute file names can now start with ///
in addition to /
. E.g.,
[[file:///home/me/unicorn.jpg]]
.
Footnotes in included files are now local to the file
As a consequence, it is possible to include multiple Org files with footnotes in a master document without being concerned about footnote labels colliding.
Mailto links now use regular URI syntax
This change deprecates old Org syntax for mailto links:
mailto:user@domain::Subject
.
QUOTE
keywords do not exist anymore
QUOTE
keywords have been deprecated since Org 8.2.
Select tests to perform with the build system
The build system has been enhanced to allow test selection with a
regular expression by defining BTEST_RE
during the test invocation.
This is especially useful during bisection to find just when a
particular test failure was introduced.
Exact heading search for external links ignore spaces and cookies
Exact heading search for links now ignore spaces and cookies. This is
the case for links of the form file:projects.org::*task title
, as
well as links of the form file:projects.org::some words
when org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline
is not nil.
org-latex-hyperref-template
, org-latex-title-command
formatting
New formatting keys are supported. See the respective docstrings.
Note, org-latex-hyperref-template
has a new default value.
float, wasysym, marvosym
are removed from org-latex-default-packages-alist
If you require any of these package add them to your preamble via
org-latex-packages-alist
. Org also uses default LaTeX \tolerance
now.
When exporting, throw an error on unresolved id/fuzzy links and code refs
This helps spotting wrong links.
Version 8.2
Incompatible changes
xdg-open
has been removed again from org-file-apps-defaults-gnu
This did not work properly in some environments as xdg-open is desktop specific.
Important bug fixes
Match string for sparse trees can now contain a slash in a property value
You can now have searches like SOMEPROP="aaa/bbb". Until now, this would break because the slash would be interpreted as the separator starting a TOTO match string.
New features
Changes in the default packages loaded for LaTeX
rotating
is now a default package, to support sideways tables.amsmath
is a default packageeucal
package removed, no longer needed since amsmath is present
Furthermore, the manual now specifically notes if an additional package is needed for one of the documented attributes.
Microsoft Outlook support has been added to org-mac-link.el
Thanks to Marc McLean for this patch.
Lazy autoloading of org-id.el to follow links
When following a link that has an id:
prefix, org-id.el will
now automatically be loaded.
Thanks to Oleh for this patch
New functions for paragraph motion
The commands C-down
and C-up
now invoke special commands
that use knowledge from the org-elements parser to move the cursor
in a paragraph-like way.
Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for the implementation.
New agenda fortnight view
The agenda has now, in addition to day, week, month, and year views, also a fortnight view covering 14 days.
Thanks to Michael Gauland for the implementation.
New options
New option: org-special-ctrl-o
This variable can be used to turn off the special behavior of
C-o
in tables.
Version 8.1
Incompatible changes
Combine org-mac-message.el and org-mac-link-grabber into org-mac-link.el
Please remove calls to (require 'org-mac-message)
and (require
'org-mac-link-grabber)
in your .emacs
initialization file. All you
need now is (require 'org-mac-link)
.
Additionally, replace any calls to ogml-grab-link
to
org-mac-grab-link
. For example, replace this line:
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'omgl-grab-link)
with this:
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-grab-link)
HTML export: Replace HTML_HTML5_FANCY
by :html-html5-fancy
(…)
Some of the HTML specific export options in Org <8.1 are either nil or
t, like #+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE
. We replaced these binary options with
option keywords like :html-include-style.
So you need to replace
#+HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE: t
by
#+OPTIONS: :html-include-style t
Options affected by this change: HTML5_FANCY
, HTML_INCLUDE_SCRIPTS
and HTML_INCLUDE_STYLE
.
Important bugfixes
org-insert-heading has been rewritten and bugs are now fixed
The replacement of disputed keys is now turned of when reading a date
New features
You can now use xdg-open
to control how to open files
C-c ^ x
will now sort checklist items by their checked status
See org-sort-list: hitting C-c ^ x
will put checked items at the end
of the list.
Various LaTeX export enhancements
- Support SVG images
- Support for .pgf files
- LaTeX Babel blocks can now be exported as
.tikz
files - Allow
latexmk
as an option for org-latex-pdf-process - When using
\usepackage[AUTO]{inputenc}
, AUTO will automatically be replaced with a coding system derived frombuffer-file-coding-system
. - The dependency on the
latexsym
LaTeX package has been removed, we now useamssymb
symbols by default instead.
Remapping forward-paragraph
and backward-paragraph
forward-paragraph
and backward-paragraph
are now remapped to
org-forward-element and org-backward-element respectively.
E.g. hitting C-<down>
on a headline will move to the next headline.
New entities in org-entities.el
Add support for ell, imath, jmath, varphi, varpi, aleph, gimel, beth, dalet, cdots, S (§), dag, ddag, colon, therefore, because, triangleq, leq, geq, lessgtr, lesseqgtr, ll, lll, gg, ggg, prec, preceq, preccurleyeq, succ, succeq, succurleyeq, setminus, nexist(s), mho, check, frown, diamond. Changes loz, vert, checkmark, smile and tilde.
New options
New option org-bookmark-names-plist
This allows to specify the names of automatic bookmarks.
New option org-agenda-ignore-drawer-properties
This allows more flexibility when optimizing the agenda generation. See https://orgmode.org/worg/agenda-optimization.html for details.
New option: org-html-link-use-abs-url to force using absolute URLs
This is an export/publishing option, and should be used either within
the #+OPTIONS
line(s) or within a org-publish-project-alist.
Setting this option to t
is needed when the HTML output does not
allow relative URLs. For example, the contrib/lisp/ox-rss.el
library produces a RSS feed, and RSS feeds need to use absolute URLs,
so a combination of :html-link-home "..." and :html-link-use-abs-url
t
is required—see the configuration example in the comment section
of ox-rss.el
.
New option org-babel-ditaa-java-cmd
This makes java executable configurable for ditaa blocks.
New options org-babel-latex-htlatex and org-babel-latex-htlatex-packages
This enables SVG generation from latex code blocks.
New option: org-habit-show-done-alwyays-green
See this message from Max Mikhanosha.
New option: org-babel-inline-result-wrap
If you set this to the following
(setq org-babel-inline-result-wrap "$%s$")
then inline code snippets will be wrapped into the formatting string.
New contributed packages
ox-bibtex.el
by Nicolas Goaziou- an utility to handle BibTeX export to both LaTeX and HTML exports. It uses the bibtex2html software.
org-screenshot.el
by Max Mikhanosha- an utility to handle screenshots easily from Org, using the external tool scrot.
Version 8.0.3
Installation
Installation instructions have been updated and simplified.
If you have troubles installing or updating Org, focus on these instructions:
- when updating via a
.zip/.tar.gz
file, you only need to set theload-path
in your.emacs
. Set it before any other Org customization that would call autoloaded Org functions. - when updating by pulling Org's Git repository, make sure to create the
correct autoloads. You can do this by running
~$ make autoloads
(to only create the autoloads) or by running~$ make
(to also compile the Emacs lisp files.)~$ make help
and~$ make helpall
gives you detailed explanations. - when updating through ELPA (either from GNU ELPA or from Org ELPA), you have to install Org's ELPA package in a session where no Org function has been called already.
When in doubt, run M-x org-version RET
and see if you have a mixed-up
installation.
See https://orgmode.org/org.html#Installation for details.
Incompatible changes
Org 8.0 is the most disruptive major version of Org.
If you configured export options, you will have to update some of them.
If you used #+ATTR_*
keywords, the syntax of the attributes changed and
you will have to update them.
Below is a list of changes for which you need to take action.
See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html for the most recent version of this list and for detailed instructions on how to migrate.
- New export engine
Org 8.0 comes with a new export engine written by Nicolas Goaziou. This export engine relies on
org-element.el
(Org's syntax parser), which was already in Org's core. This new export engine triggered the rewriting of all export back-ends.The most visible change is the export dispatcher, accessible through the keybinding
C-c C-e
. By default, this menu only shows some of the built-in export formats, but you can add more formats by loading them directly (e.g.,(require 'ox-texinfo)
or by configuring the option org-export-backends.More contributed back-ends are available from the
contrib/
directory, the corresponding files start with theox-
prefix.If you customized an export back-end (like HTML or LaTeX), you will need to rename some options so that your customization is not lost. Typically, an option starting with
org-export-html-
is now namedorg-html-
. See the manual for details and check this Worg page for directions. - New syntax for #+ATTRHTML/LaTeX/… options
#+ATTR_HTML width="200px"
should now be written
#+ATTR_HTML :width 200px
Keywords like
#+ATTR_HTML
and#+ATTR_LaTeX
are defined in their respective back-ends, and the list of supported parameters depends on each backend. See Org's manual for details. org-remember.el
has been removed
You cannot use
remember.el
anymore to capture notes.Support for remember templates has been obsoleted since long, it is now fully removed.
Use
M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
to import your remember templates into capture templates.org-jsinfo.el
has been merged intoox-html.el
If you were requiring
ox-jsinfo.el
in your.emacs.el
file, you will have to remove this requirement from your initialization file.- Note for third-party developers
The name of the files for export back-end have changed: we now use the prefix
ox-
for those files (like we use theob-
prefix for Babel files.) For exampleorg-html.el
is nowox-html.el
.If your code relies on these files, please update the names in your code.
- Packages moved from core to contrib
Since packages in Org's core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we try to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For 8.0, we moved some contributions into the
contrib/
directory.The rationale for deciding that these files should live in
contrib/
is either because they rely on third-part softwares that are not included in Emacs, or because they are not targeting a significant user-base.- org-colview-xemacs.el
- org-mac-message.el
- org-mew.el
- org-wl.el
- ox-freedmind.el
- ox-taskjuggler.el
Note that
ox-freedmind.el
has been rewritten by Jambunathan,org-mew.el
has been enhanced by Tokuya Kameshima andox-taskjuggler.el
by Nicolas Goaziou and others.Also, the Taskjuggler exporter now uses TJ3 by default. John Hendy wrote a tutorial on Worg for the TJ3 export.
New packages in core
ob-makefile.el
by Eric Schulte and Thomas S. Dye
ob-makefile.el
implements Org Babel support for Makefile tangling.
ox-man.el
by Luis Anaya
ox-man.el
allows you to export Org files to man
pages.
ox-md.el
by Nicolas Goaziou
ox-md.el
allows you to export Org files to Markdown files, using the
vanilla Markdown syntax.
ox-texinfo.el
by Jonathan Leech-Pepin
ox-texinfo.el
allows you to export Org files to Texinfo files.
New packages in contrib
ob-julia.el
by G. Jay Kerns
Julia is a new programming language.
ob-julia.el
provides Org Babel support for evaluating Julia source
code.
ob-mathomatic.el
by Luis Anaya
mathomatic a portable, command-line, educational CAS and calculator software, written entirely in the C programming language.
ob-mathomatic.el
provides Org Babel support for evaluating mathomatic
entries.
ob-tcl.el
by Luis Anaya
ob-tcl.el
provides Org Babel support for evaluating Tcl source code.
org-bullets.el
by Evgeni Sabof
Display bullets instead of stars for headlines.
Also see this updated FAQ on how to display another character than "*" for starting headlines.
ox-confluence.el
by Sébastien Delafond
ox-confluence.el
lets you convert Org files to Confluence Wiki files.
ox-deck.el
and ox-s5.el
by Rick Frankel
ox-groff.el
by Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou
The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
Luis Anaya and Nicolas Goaziou implemented ox-groff.el
to allow
conversion from Org files to groff.
ox-koma-letter.el
by Nicolas Goaziou and Alan Schmitt
This back-end allow to export Org pages to the KOMA Scrlttr2
format.
ox-rss.el
by Bastien
This back-end lets you export Org pages to RSS 2.0 feeds. Combined with the HTML publishing feature, this allows you to build a blog entirely with Org.
New features
Export
- New export generic options
If you use Org exporter, we advise you to re-read the manual section about it. It has been updated and includes new options.
Among the new/updated export options, three are of particular importance:
- org-export-allow-bind-keywords
- This option replaces the old option
org-export-allow-BIND
and the default value isnil
, notconfirm
. You will need to explicitly set this tot
in your initialization file if you want to allow#+BIND
keywords. - org-export-with-planning
- This new option controls the export of
SCHEDULED:, DEADLINE:, CLOSED:
lines, and planning information is now skipped by default during export. This use to be the job of org-export-with-timestamps, but this latter option has been given a new role: it controls the export of standalone time-stamps. When set tonil
, Org will not export active and inactive time-stamps standing on a line by themselves or within a paragraph that only contains time-stamps.
To check if an option has been introduced or its default value changed in Org 8.0, do
C-h v [option] RET
and check if the documentation says that the variable has been introduced (or changed) in version 24.4 of Emacs. - Enhanced default stylesheet for the HTML exporter
See the new default value of org-html-style-default.
- New tags, classes and ids for the HTML exporter
See the new default value of org-html-divs.
- Support for tikz pictures in LaTeX export
org-man.el
: New export function for "man" linksorg-docview.el
: New export function for docview links
Structure editing
C-u C-u M-RET
inserts a heading at the end of the parent subtree- Cycling to the
CONTENTS
view keeps inline tasks folded
org-cycle-hook as a new function org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks which prevents the display of inline tasks when showing the content of a subtree.
C-c -
in a region makes a list item for each line
This is the opposite of the previous behavior, where
C-c -
on a region would create one item for the whole region, and whereC-u C-c -
would create an item for each line. NowC-c -
on the selected region creates an item per line, andC-u C-c -
creates a single item for the whole region.- When transposing words, markup characters are now part of the words
In Emacs, you can transpose words with
M-t
. Transposing*these* _words__
will preserve markup. - New command org-set-property-and-value bound to
C-c C-x P
This command allows you to quickly add both the property and its value. It is useful in buffers where there are many properties and where
C-c C-x p
can slow down the flow of editing too much. - New commands org-next-block and org-previous-block
These commands allow you to go to the previous block (
C-c M-b
or the speedy keyB
) or to the next block (C-c M-f
or the speedy keyF
.) - New commands org-drag-line-forward and org-drag-line-backward
These commands emulate the old behavior of
M-<down>
andM-<up>
but are now bound toS-M-<down>
andS-M-<up>
respectively, sinceM-<down>
andM-<up>
now drag the whole element at point (a paragraph, a table, etc.) forward and backward. - When a list item has a checkbox, inserting a new item uses a checkbox too
- When sorting entries/items, only the description of links is considered
Now Org will sort this list
- [[http://abc.org][B]] - [[http://def.org][A]]
like this:
- [[http://def.org][A]] - [[http://abc.org][B]]
by comparing the descriptions, not the links. Same when sorting headlines instead of list items.
- New option
orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp
For example, setting this option to "^;;; " in Emacs lisp files and using
orgstruct-mode
in those files will allow you to cycle through visibility states as if lines starting with ";;; *…" where headlines.In general, you want to set
orgstruct-heading-prefix-regexp
as a file local variable. - New behavior of org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift
The default is now to ask for a time-shift only when there is a time-stamp. When called with a universal prefix argument
C-u
, it will not ask for a time-shift even if there is a time-stamp. - New option org-agenda-restriction-lock-highlight-subtree
This defaults to
t
so that the whole subtree is highlighted when you restrict the agenda view to it withC-c C-x <
(or the speed command<
). The default setting helps ensuring that you are not adding tasks after the restricted region. If you find this highlighting too intrusive, set this option tonil
. - New option org-closed-keep-when-no-todo
When switching back from a
DONE
keyword to aTODO
keyword, Org now removes theCLOSED
planning information, if any. It also removes this information when going back to a non-TODO state (e.g., withC-c C-t SPC
). If you want to keep theCLOSED
planning information when removing the TODO keyword, set org-closed-keep-when-no-todo tot
. - New option org-image-actual-width
This option allows you to change the width of in-buffer displayed images. The default is to use the actual width of the image, but you can use a fixed value for all images, or fall back on an attribute like
#+attr_html: :width 300px
Scheduled/deadline
- Implement "delay" cookies for scheduled items
If you want to delay the display of a scheduled task in the agenda, you can now use a delay cookie like this:
SCHEDULED: <2004-12-25 Sat -2d>
. The task is still scheduled on the 25th but will appear in your agenda starting from two days later (i.e. from March 27th.)Imagine for example that your co-workers are not done in due time and tell you "we need two more days". In that case, you may want to delay the display of the task in your agenda by two days, but you still want the task to appear as scheduled on March 25th.
In case the task contains a repeater, the delay is considered to affect all occurrences; if you want the delay to only affect the first scheduled occurrence of the task, use
--2d
instead. See org-scheduled-delay-days and org-agenda-skip-scheduled-delay-if-deadline for details on how to control this globally or per agenda. - Use
C-u C-u C-c C-s
will insert a delay cookie for scheduled tasks
See the previous section for why delay cookies may be useful.
- Use
C-u C-u C-c C-d
will insert a warning delay for deadline tasks
C-u C-u C-c C-d
now inserts a warning delay to deadlines.
Calendar, diary and appts
- New variable org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map
By default, this new local map uses "." to go to today's date, like in the normal
M-x calendar RET
. If you want to deactivate this and to reassign the "@" key tocalendar-goto-today
, use this:;; Unbind "." in Org's calendar: (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd ".") nil) ;; Bind "@" to `calendar-goto-today': (define-key org-read-date-minibuffer-local-map (kbd "@") (lambda () (interactive) (org-eval-in-calendar '(calendar-goto-today))))
- In Org's calendar,
!
displays diary entries of the date at point
This is useful when you want to check if you don't already have an appointment when setting new ones with
C-c .
orC-c s
.!
will calldiary-view-entries
and display the diary in a separate buffer. - org-diary: only keep the descriptions of links
org-diary returns diary information from Org files, but it returns it in a diary buffer, not in an Org mode buffer. When links are displayed, only show their description, not the full links.
Agenda
- New agenda type
agenda*
and entry types:scheduled* :deadline*
When defining agenda custom commands, you can now use
agenda*
: this will list entries that have both a date and a time. This is useful when you want to build a list of appointments.You can also set org-agenda-entry-types either globally or locally in each agenda custom command and use
:timestamp*
and/or:deadline*
there.Another place where this is useful is your
.diary
file:%%(org-diary :scheduled*) ~/org/rdv.org
This will list only entries from
~/org/rdv.org
that are scheduled with a time value (i.e. appointments). - New agenda sorting strategies
org-agenda-sorting-strategy allows these new sorting strategies:
Strategy Explanations timestamp-up Sort by any timestamp, early first timestamp-down Sort by any timestamp, late first scheduled-up Sort by scheduled timestamp, early first scheduled-down Sort by scheduled timestamp, late first deadline-up Sort by deadline timestamp, early first deadline-down Sort by deadline timestamp, late first ts-up Sort by active timestamp, early first ts-down Sort by active timestamp, late first tsia-up Sort by inactive timestamp, early first tsia-down Sort by inactive timestamp, late first - New options to limit the number of agenda entries
You can now limit the number of entries in an agenda view. This is different from filters: filters only hide the entries in the agenda, while limits are set while generating the list of agenda entries.
These new options are available:
- org-agenda-max-entries
- limit by number of entries.
- org-agenda-max-todos
- limit by number of TODOs.
- org-agenda-max-tags
- limit by number of tagged entries.
- org-agenda-max-effort
- limit by effort (minutes).
For example, if you locally set org-agenda-max-todos to 3 in an agenda view, the agenda will be limited to the first three todos. Other entries without a TODO keyword or beyond the third TODO headline will be ignored.
When setting a limit (e.g. about an effort's sum), the default behavior is to exclude entries that cannot be checked against (e.g. entries that have no effort property.) To include other entries too, you can set the limit to a negative number. For example
(setq org-agenda-max-tags -3)
will not show the fourth tagged headline (and beyond), but it will also show non-tagged headlines. ~
in agenda view sets temporary limits
You can hit
~
in the agenda to temporarily set limits: this will regenerate the agenda as if the limits were set. This is useful for example when you want to only see a list ofN
tasks, or a list of tasks that take onlyN
minutes.- "=" in agenda view filters by regular expressions
You can now filter agenda entries by regular expressions using
=
.C-u =
will filter entries out. Regexp filters are cumulative. You can set org-agenda-regexp-filter-preset to suit your needs in each agenda view. |
in agenda view resets all filters
Since it's common to combine tag filters, category filters, and now regexp filters, there is a new command
|
to reset all filters at once.- Allow writing an agenda to an
.org
file
You can now write an agenda view to an
.org
file. It copies the headlines and their content (but not subheadings) into the new file.This is useful when you want to quickly share an agenda containing the full list of notes.
- New commands to drag an agenda line forward (
M-<down>
) or backward (M-<up>
)
It sometimes handy to move agenda lines around, just to quickly reorganize your tasks, or maybe before saving the agenda to a file. Now you can use
M-<down>
andM-<up>
to move the line forward or backward.This does not persist after a refresh of the agenda, and this does not change the
.org
files who contribute to the agenda. - Use
%b
for displaying "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view
org-agenda-prefix-format now allows to use a
%b
formatter to tell Org to display "breadcrumbs" in the agenda view.This is useful when you want to display the task hierarchy in your agenda.
- Use
%l
for displaying the headline's level in the agenda view
org-agenda-prefix-format allows to use a
%l
formatter to tell Org to display entries with additional spaces corresponding to their level in the outline tree. - org-agenda-write will ask before overwriting an existing file
M-x org-agenda-write RET
(orC-c C-w
from an agenda buffer) used to overwrite preexisting file with the same name without confirmation. It now asks for a confirmation. - New commands
M-m
andM-*
to toggle (all) mark(s) for bulk action
- org-agenda-bulk-toggle
- this command is bound to
M-m
and toggles the mark of the entry at point. - org-agenda-bulk-toggle-all
- this command is bound to
M-*
and toggles all the marks in the current agenda.
- New option org-agenda-search-view-max-outline-level
This option sets the maximum outline level to display in search view. E.g. when this is set to 1, the search view will only show headlines of level 1.
- New option org-agenda-todo-ignore-time-comparison-use-seconds
This allows to compare times using seconds instead of days when honoring options like
org-agenda-todo-ignore-*
in the agenda display. - New option org-agenda-entry-text-leaders
This allows you to get rid of the ">" character that gets added in front of entries excerpts when hitting
E
in the agenda view. - New formatting string for past deadlines in org-agenda-deadline-leaders
The default formatting for past deadlines is
"%2d d. ago: "
, which makes it explicit that the deadline is in the past. You can configure this via org-agenda-deadline-leaders. Note that the width of the formatting string is important to keep the agenda alignment clean. - New allowed value
repeated-after-deadline
for org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown
When org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown is set to
repeated-after-deadline
, the agenda will skip scheduled items if they are repeated beyond the current dealine. - New option for org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled
This variable may be set to nil, t, the symbol `pre-scheduled', or a number which will then give the number of days before the actual deadline when the prewarnings should resume. The symbol `pre-scheduled' eliminates the deadline prewarning only prior to the scheduled date.
Read the full docstring for details.
- org-class now supports holiday strings in the skip-weeks parameter
For example, this task will now be skipped only on new year's day:
* Task <%%(org-class 2012 1 1 2013 12 12 2 "New Year's Day")>
Capture
- Allow
C-1
as a prefix for org-agenda-capture and org-capture
With a
C-1
prefix, the capture mechanism will use theHH:MM
value at point (if any) or the currentHH:MM
time as the default time for the capture template. - Expand keywords within %(sexp) placeholder in capture templates
If you use a
%:keyword
construct within a%(sexp)
construct, Org will expand the keywords before expanding the%(sexp)
. - Allow to contextualize capture (and agenda) commands by checking the name of the buffer
org-capture-templates-contexts and org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts allow you to define what capture templates and what agenda commands should be available in various contexts. It is now possible for the context to check against the name of the buffer.
Tag groups
Using #+TAGS: { Tag1 : Tag2 Tag3 }
will define Tag1
as a group tag
(note the colon after Tag1
). If you search for Tag1
, it will return
headlines containing either Tag1
, Tag2
or Tag3
(or any combination
of those tags.)
You can use group tags for sparse tree in an Org buffer, for creating agenda views, and for filtering.
See https://orgmode.org/org.html#Tag-groups for details.
Links
C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET
will ignore non-core link functions
Org knows how to store links from Org buffers, from info files and from other Emacs buffers. Org can be taught how to store links from any buffer through new link protocols (see "Adding hyperlink types" in the manual.)
Sometimes you want Org to ignore added link protocols and store the link as if the protocol was not known.
You can now do this with
C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET
.C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET
on an active region will store links for each lines
Imagine for example that you want to store a link for every message in a Gnus summary buffer. In that case
C-x h C-u C-u C-u M-x org-store-link RET
will store a link for every line (i.e. message) if the region is active.C-c C-M-l
will add a default description for links which don't have one
C-c C-M-l
inserts all stored links. If a link does not have a description, this command now adds a default one, so that we are not mixing with-description and without-description links when inserting them.- No curly braces to bracket links within internal links
When storing a link to a headline like
* See [[https://orgmode.org][Org website]]
org-store-link used to convert the square brackets into curly brackets. It does not anymore, taking the link description or the link path, when there is no description.
Table
- Switching between #+TBLFM lines
If you have several
#+TBLFM
lines below a table,C-c C-c
on a line will apply the formulas from this line, andC-c C-c
on another line will apply those other formulas. - You now use "nan" for empty fields in Calc formulas
If empty fields are of interest, it is recommended to reread the section 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc of the manual because the description for the mode strings has been clarified and new examples have been added towards the end.
- Handle localized time-stamps in formulas evaluation
If your
LOCALE
is set so that Org time-stamps use another language than english, and if you make time computations in Org's table, it now works by internally converting the time-stamps with a temporaryLOCALE=C
before doing computation. - New lookup functions
There are now three lookup functions:
See the manual for details.
Startup keywords
These new startup keywords are now available:
Startup keyword | Option |
---|---|
#+STARTUP: logdrawer |
(setq org-log-into-drawer t) |
#+STARTUP: nologdrawer |
(setq org-log-into-drawer nil) |
#+STARTUP: logstatesreversed |
(setq org-log-states-order-reversed t) |
#+STARTUP: nologstatesreversed |
(setq org-log-states-order-reversed nil) |
#+STARTUP: latexpreview |
(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview t) |
#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview |
(setq org-startup-with-latex-preview nil) |
Clocking
- New option org-clock-rounding-minutes
E.g. if org-clock-rounding-minutes is set to 5, time is 14:47 and you clock in: then the clock starts at 14:45. If you clock out within the next 5 minutes, the clock line will be removed; if you clock out 8 minutes after your clocked in, the clock out time will be 14:50.
- New option org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations
When non-nil,
C-c C-x C-d
uses effort durations. E.g., by default, one day is considered to be a 8 hours effort, so a task that has been clocked for 16 hours will be displayed as during 2 days in the clock display or in the clocktable.See org-effort-durations on how to set effort durations and org-time-clocksum-format for more on time clock formats.
- New option org-clock-x11idle-program-name
This allows to set the name of the program which prints X11 idle time in milliseconds. The default is to use
x11idle
. - New option org-use-last-clock-out-time-as-effective-time
When non-nil, use the last clock out time for org-todo. Note that this option has precedence over the combined use of org-use-effective-time and org-extend-today-until.
S-<left/right>
on a clocksum column will update the sum by updating the last clockC-u 3 C-S-<up/down>
will update clock timestamps synchronously by 3 units- New parameter
:wstart
for clocktables to define the week start day - New parameter
:mstart
to state the starting day of the month - Allow relative times in clocktable tstart and tend options
- The clocktable summary is now a caption
:tstart
and:tend
and friends allow relative times like "<-1w>" or "<now>"
Babel
- You can now use
C-c C-k
for org-edit-src-abort
This allows you to quickly cancel editing a source block.
C-u C-u M-x org-babel-tangle RET
tangles by the target file of the block at point
This is handy if you want to tangle all source code blocks that have the same target than the block at point.
- New options for auto-saving the base buffer or the source block editing buffer
When org-edit-src-turn-on-auto-save is set to
t
, editing a source block in a new window will turn onauto-save-mode
and save the code in a new file under the same directory than the base Org file.When org-edit-src-auto-save-idle-delay is set to a number of minutes
N
, the base Org buffer will be saved after this number of minutes of idle time. - New
:post
header argument post-processes results
This header argument may be used to pass the results of the current code block through another code block for post-processing. See the manual for a usage example.
- Commented out heading are ignored when collecting blocks for tangling
If you comment out a heading (with
C-c ;
anywhere on the heading or in the subtree), code blocks from within this heading are now ignored when collecting blocks for tangling. - New option org-babel-hash-show-time to show a time-stamp in the result hash
- Do not ask for confirmation if cached value is current
Do not run org-babel-confirm-evaluate if source block has a cache and the cache value is current as there is no evaluation involved in this case.
ob-sql.el
andob-python.el
have been improved.- New Babel files only need to
(require 'ob)
When writing a new Babel file, you now only need to use
(require 'ob)
instead of requiring each Babel library one by one.
Faces
- Org now fontifies radio link targets by default
- In the agenda, use org-todo-keyword-faces to highlight selected TODO keywords
- New face org-priority, enhanced fontification of priority cookies in agenda
- New face org-tag-group for group tags
Miscellaneous
- New speedy key
s
pour org-narrow-to-subtree - Handling of org-html-table-row has been updated (incompatible change)
- org-export-html-table-tag is replaced by org-html-table-default-attributes
- Support using
git-annex
with Org attachments - org-protocol: Pass optional value using query in url to capture from protocol
- When the refile history is empty, use the current filename as default
- When you cannot change the TODO state of a task, Org displays the blocking task
- New option org-mobile-allpriorities
- org-bibtex.el now use
visual-line-mode
instead of the deprecatedlonglines-mode
- org-format-latex-options allows to set the foreground/background colors automatically
- New option org-archive-file-header-format
- New "neg" entity in org-entities
- New function org-docview-export to export docview links
- New
:eps
header argument for ditaa code blocks - New option org-gnus-no-server to start Gnus with
gnus-no-server
- Org is now distributed with
htmlize.el
version 1.43 org-drill.el
has been updated to version 2.3.7org-mac-iCal.el
now supports MacOSX version up to 10.8- Various improvements to
org-contacts.el
andorgpan.el
Outside Org
Spanish translation of the Org guide by David Arroyo Menéndez
David (and others) translated the Org compact guide in Spanish:
You can read the PDF guide.
poporg.el
and outorg.el
Two new libraries (poporg.el
by François Pinard and outorg.el
by
Thorsten Jolitz) now enable editing of comment-sections from source-code
buffers in temporary Org-mode buffers, making the full editing power of
Org-mode available. outorg.el
comes together with outshine.el
and
navi-mode.el
, two more libraries by Thorsten Jolitz with the goal to give
source-code buffers the look & feel of Org-mode buffers while greatly
improving navigation and structure editing. A detailed description can be
found here: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
Here are two screencasts demonstrating Thorsten's tools:
MobileOrg for iOS
MobileOrg for iOS back in the App Store The 1.6.0 release was focused on the new Dropbox API and minor bug fixes but also includes a new ability to launch in Capture mode. Track development and contribute on github.
Version 7.9.4
This is bug-fix release.
Version 7.9.3
No need to require org-install
anymore
You don't need to require org-install
anymore. If you load Org from a
directory extracted from the .tar.gz
or .zip
sources, or if you are
using it from a git clone, setting the load-paths
is enough.
If you want to make sure the correct autoloads are in place, you can do:
(require 'org-loaddefs.el)
New option org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance
org-use-tag-inheritance controls whether tags are inherited when
org-tags-view is called (either in tags
, tags-tree
or tags-todo
agenda views.)
When generating other agenda types such as agenda
, todo
and
todo-tree
, tags inheritance is not used when selecting the entries
to display. Still, you might want to have all tag information correct
in the agenda buffer, e.g. for tag filtering. In that case, add the
agenda type to this variable.
Setting this variable to nil should considerably speeds up the agenda generation.
Note that the default was to display inherited tags in the agenda lines even if `org-use-tag-inheritance' was nil. The default is now to never display inherited tags in agenda lines, but to know about them when the agenda type is listed in org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance.
New default value nil for org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks
Using `nil' as the default value speeds up the agenda generation. You can hit `#' (or `C-u #') in agenda buffers to temporarily dim (or turn invisible) blocked tasks.
New speedy keys for org-speed-commands-default
You can now use `:' (instead of `;') for setting tags—this is consistent with using the `:' key in agenda view.
You can now use `=' for org-columns.
org-float
is now obsolete, use diary-float
instead
No GPL manual anymore
There used to be a GPL version of the Org manual, but this is not the case anymore, the Free Software Foundation does not permit this.
The GNU FDL license is now included in the manual directly.
Enhanced compatibility with Emacs 22 and XEmacs
Thanks to Achim for his work on enhancing Org's compatibility with various Emacsen. Things may not be perfect, but Org should work okay in most environments.
Version 7.9.2
This page describes changes against the 7.8[.x] versions of Org. It includes changes in previous 7.9[.x] releases.
New committers who signed the FSF copyright assigment
Welcome and thanks to these new core contributors:
- Abdó Roig-Maranges
- Andrew Hyatt
- Andrzej Lichnerowicz
- Ethan Ligon
- Feng Shu
- George Kettleborough
- Henning Dietmar Weiss
- Ilya Shlyakhter
- Ivan Kanis
- Konrad Hinsen
- Madan Ramakrishnan
- Max Mikhanosha
- Moritz Ulrich
- Rick Frankel
- Toby Cubitt
Online documentation for hooks, commands and options
You can read the documentation for hooks, commands (i.e. interactive functions) and options (i.e. customizable variables) online. Clicking on a command/option in this ChangeLog will take you to the online documentation for that command/option.
New ELPA repository for Org packages
You can now add the Org ELPA repository like this:
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
It contains both the org-*.tar
package (the core Org distribution, also
available through http://elpa.gnu.org) and the org-plus*.tar
package (the
extended Org distribution, with non-GNU packages from the contrib/
directory.)
Overview of the new keybindings
Keybinding | Speedy | Command |
---|---|---|
C-c C-x C-z |
org-clock-resolve | |
C-c C-x C-q |
org-clock-cancel | |
C-c C-x C-x |
org-clock-in-last | |
M-h |
org-mark-element | |
* |
org-agenda-bulk-mark-all | |
C-c C-M-l |
org-insert-all-links | |
C-c C-x C-M-v |
org-redisplay-inline-images | |
C-c C-x E |
E |
org-inc-effort |
# |
org-toggle-comment | |
: |
org-columns | |
W |
Set APPT_WARNTIME |
|
k |
org-agenda-capture | |
C-c , | , | org-priority |
New build system and new packages
New build system
Achim implemented a new build system.
The basic method for installing Org is the same:
- Download or clone Org.
- run `make install' from the Org directory.
- Add (require 'org-install) in your .emacs.el.
But the build system is now more flexible and can be more easily adapted to suit your needs.
See https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-build-system.html for details.
New packages in core
org-eshell.el
by Konrad Hinsen is now in Org's core
org-eshell.el
allows you to create links from Eshell.
New packages in contrib/
Note: The EXPERIMENTAL/
directory has been deleted. The files
have been moved to the contrib/lisp/
directory.
org-notify.el
by Peter Münster
From the comment section:
Get notifications, when there is something to do. Sometimes, you need a reminder a few days before a deadline, e.g. to buy a present for a birthday, and then another notification one hour before to have enough time to choose the right clothes. For other events, e.g. rolling the dustbin to the roadside once per week, you probably need another kind of notification strategy. This package tries to satisfy the various needs.
org-bibtex-extras.el
by Eric Schulte
From the comment section:
This file add some extra functionality to your bibtex entries which are stored as Org-mode headlines using org-bibtex.el. Most features expect that you keep all of your reading notes in a single file, set the `obe-bibtex-file' variable to the path to this file.
New exporters in contrib/
Nicolas export engine org-export.el lives in the contrib/lisp/
directory.
To use it:
Make sure contrib/lisp/ is in your load-path M-: (require 'org-export) RET M-: (require 'org-e-latex) RET ; or any other library M-x org-export-dispatch RET
These are the currently available exporters:
org-e-ascii.el
by Nicolasorg-e-beamer.el
by Nicolasorg-e-groff.el
by Luis Anayaorg-e-html.el
by Jambunathanorg-e-latex.el
by Nicolasorg-e-man.el
by Luis Anayaorg-e-odt.el
by Jambunathanorg-e-texinfo.el
by Jonathan Leech-Pepinorg-md.el
by Nicolas
If we have enough testers, the new export engine is very likely to replace the current one for the next major release. Please report any problem on the mailing list!
If you want to write a new export backend based on this export engine, please check the online documentation.
Incompatible changes
- If your code relies on
org-write-agenda
, please use org-agenda-write from now on. - If your code relies on
org-make-link
, please useconcat
instead. org-link-to-org-use-id
has been renamed toorg-id-link-to-org-use-id
and its default value is nil. The previous default wascreate-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id
.
New features and user-visible changes
Org Element
org-element.el is a toolbox for parsing and analysing "elements" in an Org-mode buffer. This has been written by Nicolas Goaziou and has been tested for quite some time. It is now part of Org's core and many core functions rely on this package.
Two functions might be particularily handy for users: org-element-at-point
and org-element-context
. See the docstrings for more details.
Below is a list of editing and navigating commands that now rely on org-element.el.
- org-fill-paragraph has been completely rewritten
The filling mechanisms now rely on org-element, trying to do the right thing on each element in various contexts. E.g. filling in a list item will preserve indentation; filling in message-mode will fall back on the relevant filling functions; etc.
- org-metaup and org-metadown will drag the element backward/forward
If you want to get the old behavior (i.e. moving a line up and down), you can first select the line as an active region, then
org-metaup/down
to move the region backward/forward. This also works with regions bigger than just one line. - org-up-element and org-down-element (respectively
C-c C-^
andC-c C-_
)
This will move the point up/down in the hierarchy of elements.
- org-backward-element and org-forward-element (respectively
M-{
andM-}
)
This will move the point backward/forward in the hierarchy of elements.
- org-narrow-to-element will narrow to the element at point
- org-mark-element will mark the element at point
This command is bound to
M-h
and will mark the element at point. If the point is at a paragraph, it will mark the paragraph. If the point is at a list item, it will mark the list item. Etc.Note that if point is at the beginning of a list, it will mark the whole list.
To mark a subtree, you can either use
M-h
on the headline (since there is no ambiguity about the element you're at) or org-mark-subtree (C-c @
) anywhere in the subtree.Invoking org-mark-element repeatedly will try to mark the next element on top of the previous one(s). E.g. hitting
M-h
twice on a headline will mark the current subtree and the next one on the same level.
Org Agenda
- New option org-agenda-sticky
There is a new option
org-agenda-sticky
which enables "sticky" agendas. Sticky agendas remain opened in the background so that you don't need to regenerate them each time you hit the corresponding keystroke. This is a big time saver.When org-agenda-sticky is
non-nil
, the agenda buffer will be named using the agenda key and its description. In sticky agendas, theq
key will just bury the agenda buffers and further agenda commands will show existing buffer instead of generating new ones.If org-agenda-sticky is set to
nil
,q
will kill the single agenda buffer. - New option org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts
Setting this option allows you to define specific context where agenda commands should be available from. For example, when set to this value
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands-contexts '(("p" (in-file . "\\.txt"))))
then the
p
agenda command will only be available from buffers visiting *.txt files. See the docstring and the manual for more details on how to use this. - Changes in bulk actions
The set of commands starting with
k ...
as been deleted and the features have been merged into the "bulk action" feature.After you marked some entries in the agenda, if you call
B s
, the agenda entries will be rescheduled using the date at point if on a date header. If you are on an entry with a timestamp, you will be prompted for a date to reschedule your marked entries to, using the timestamp at point as the default prompt.You can now use
k
to capture the marked entry and use the date at point as an overriding date for the capture template.To bind this behavior to
M-x org-capture RET
(or its keybinding), set the new option org-capture-use-agenda-date tot
. N
andP
in the agenda will move to the next/previous item- New command org-agenda-bulk-mark-all to mark all items
This new command is bound to
*
in agenda mode.There is also a new option org-agenda-bulk-mark-char to set the character to use as a mark for bulk actions.
- New option org-agenda-persistent-marks
When set to
non-nil
, marks will remain visible after a bulk action. You can temporarily toggle this by pressingp
when invoking org-agenda-bulk-action. - New option org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-deadline-is-shown
Non-nil
means skip timestamp line if same entry shows because of deadline.In the agenda of today, an entry can show up multiple times because it has both a plain timestamp and has a nearby deadline. When this variable is t, then only the deadline is shown and the fact that the entry has a timestamp for or including today is not shown. When this variable is
nil
, the entry will be shown several times. - New
todo-unblocked
andnottodo-unblocked
skip conditions
See the git commit for more explanations.
- Allow category filtering in the agenda
You can now filter the agenda by category. Pressing "<" will filter by the category of the item on the current line, and pressing "<" again will remove the filter. You can combine tag filters and category filters.
You can use
org-agenda-category-filter
in your custom agenda views andorg-agenda-category-filter-preset
in your main configuration.See also the new command org-agenda-filter-by-top-category: hitting `^' will filter by "Top" category: only show entries that are of the same category than the Top category of the entry at point.
Org Links
- Inserting links
When inserting links through org-insert-link, the description is now displayed first, followed by the literal link, as the description is often more useful when you look for the link you want to insert.
Completion now complete both literal links and description. If you complete a description, the literal link and its description will be inserted directly, whereas when you complete the literal link, you will be prompted for a description (as with Org 7.8.)
In the completion buffer, links to the current buffer are now highlighted.
- New templates
%h
and%(sexp)
for abbreviated links
On top of
%s
template, which is replaced by the link tag in abbreviated links, you can now use%h
(which does the same than%s
but does not hexify the tag) and%(sexp)
(which can run a function that takes the tag as its own argument.) - New link type
help
You can now create links from
help
buffers.For example, if you request help for the command org-agenda with
C-h f org-agenda RET
, creating a link from this buffer will let you go back to the same buffer. - New command org-insert-all-links
This will insert all links as list items. With a universal prefix argument, links will not be deleted from
org-stored-links
.This new command is bound to
C-c C-M-l
. - New option org-url-hexify-p
When set to
nil
, theURL
part of a link will not be hexified. - Org can now open multiple shell links
- New option org-doi-server-url to specify an alternate DOI server
- RET now follows time stamps links
Org Editing
- org-todo and
org-archive-*
can now loop in the active region
When org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region is
non-nil
, using org-todo ororg-archive-*
commands in the active region will loop over headlines. This is handy if you want to set the TODO keyword for several items, or archive them quickly. - You can now set tags for headlines in a region
If org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region is
non-nil
, then selecting the region and hittingC-c C-q
will set the tags for all headlines in the region. - New command org-insert-drawer to insert a drawer interactively
- Comments start with "^[ \t]*# " anywhere on a line
Note that the space after the hashtag is mandatory. Comments with "^#+" are not supported anymore.
- New speed key
#
to toggle the COMMENT cookie on a headline indent-region-function
is now set to org-indent-region
C-M-\
should now produce useful results.You can unindent the buffer with org-unindent-buffer.
- New option org-allow-promoting-top-level-subtree
When
non-nil
,S-M-<left>
will promote level-1 subtrees containing other subtrees. The level-1 headline will be commented out. You can revert to the previous state withM-x undo RET
.
Org Clock
- New keybinding
C-c C-x C-z
for org-clock-resolve - New keybinding
C-c C-x C-q
for org-clock-cancel - New command org-clock-in-last to clock in the last clocked item
This command is bound to
C-c C-x C-x
and will clock in the last clocked entry, if any. C-u M-x
org-clock-outRET
now prompts for a state to switch toS-M-<up/down>
on a clock timestamps adjusts the previous/next clock- New option org-clock-continuously
When set to
nil
, clocking in a task will first try to find the last clocked out task and restart from when that task was clocked out.You can temporarily activate continuous clocking with
C-u C-u C-u M-x
org-clock-inRET
(three universal prefix arguments) andC-u C-u M-x
org-clock-in-lastRET
(two universal prefix arguments). - New option org-clock-frame-title-format
This option sets the value of
frame-title-format
when clocking in. - New options for controlling the clockreport display
org-clock-file-time-cell-format: Format string for the file time cells in clockreport.
org-clock-total-time-cell-format: Format string for the total time cells in clockreport.
- New options for controlling the clock/timer display
org-clock-clocked-in-display: control whether the current clock is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
org-timer-display: control whether the current timer is displayed in the mode line and/or frame title.
This allows the clock and timer to be displayed in the frame title instead of, or as well as, the mode line. This is useful for people with limited space in the mode line but with ample space in the frame title.
Org Appearance
- New option org-custom-properties
The visibility of properties listed in this options can be turn on/off with org-toggle-custom-properties-visibility. This might be useful for properties used by third-part tools or that you don't want to see temporarily.
- New command org-redisplay-inline-images
This will redisplay all images. It is bound to
C-c C-x C-M-v
. - New entities in
org-entities.el
There are these new entities:
("tilde" "\\~{}" nil "˜" "~" "~" "~") ("slash" "/" nil "/" "/" "/" "/") ("plus" "+" nil "+" "+" "+" "+") ("under" "\\_" nil "_" "_" "_" "_") ("equal" "=" nil "=" "=" "=" "=") ("asciicirc" "\\textasciicircum{}" nil "^" "^" "^" "^")
- New face
org-list-dt
for definition terms - New face
org-date-selected
for the selected calendar day - New face value for
org-document-title
The face is back to a normal height.
Org Columns
- New speed command
:
to activate the column view - New special property
CLOCKSUM_T
to display today's clocked time
You can use
CLOCKSUM_T
the same way you useCLOCKSUM
. It will display the time spent on tasks for today only. - Use the
:COLUMNS:
property in columnview dynamic blocks
If the
:COLUMNS:
is set in a subtree, the columnview dynamic block will use its value as the column format. - Consider inline tasks when computing a sum
Org Dates and Time Stamps
- Enhanced org-sparse-tree
C-c /
can now check for time ranges.When checking for dates with
C-c /
it is useful to change the type of dates that you are interested in. You can now do this interactively withc
afterC-c /
and/or by setting org-sparse-tree-default-date-type to the default value you want. - Support for hourly repeat cookies
You can now use
SCHEDULED: <2012-08-20 lun. 08:00 +1h>
if you want to add an hourly repeater to an entry.
C-u C-u C-c .
inserts a time-stamp with no prompt- When (setq org-read-date-prefer-future 'time), accept days in the prompt
"8am Wed" and "Wed 8am" are now acceptable values when entering a date from the prompt. If org-read-date-prefer-future is set to
time
, this will produce the expected prompt indication. - New option org-datetree-add-timestamp
When set to
non-nil
, datetree entries will also have a timestamp. This is useful if you want to see these entries in a sparse tree withC-c /
.
Org Capture
- New command org-capture-string
M-x org-capture-string RET will prompt for a string and a capture template. The string will be used as an annotation for the template. This is useful when capturing in batch mode as it lets you define the content of the template without being in Emacs.
- New option org-capture-templates-contexts
Setting this option allows you to define specific context where capture templates should be available from. For example, when set to this value
(setq org-capture-templates-contexts '(("c" (in-mode . "message-mode"))))
then the
c
capture template will only be available frommessage-mode
buffers. See the docstring and the manual for more details on how to use this. - New
%l
template to insert the literal link - New option org-capture-bookmark
Org used to automatically add a bookmark with capture a note. You can now turn this on by setting org-capture-bookmark to
nil
. - Expand
%<num>
escape sequences into text entered for <num>'th%^{PROMPT}
escape
See the manual for more explanations.
- More control over empty lines
You can use
:empty-lines-before
and:empty-lines-after
to control the insertion of empty lines. Check the manual for more explanations. - New hook org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook
This new hook runs before the finalization process starts.
Org Export
- New functions
orgtbl-to-table.el
andorgtbl-to-unicode
orgtbl-to-table.el
convert the table to atable.el
table, andorgtbl-to-unicode
will useascii-art-to-unicode.el
(when available) to print beautiful tables. - org-table-export now a bit clever about the target format
When you specify a file name like
table.csv
, org-table-export will now suggestorgtbl-to-csv
the default method for exporting the table. - New option org-export-date-timestamp-format
The option allows to set a time string format for Org timestamps in the #+DATE option.
- LaTeX: New options for exporting table rules :tstart, :hline and :tend
- LaTeX: You can now set
:hfmt
from#+ATTR_LaTeX
- Beamer: Add support and keybinding for the
exampleblock
environment
Add support for these languages in org-export-language-setup. More languages are always welcome.
- Beamer: New option org-beamer-inherited-properties
This option allows Beamer export to inherit some properties. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
- ODT: Add support for ODT export in org-bbdb.el
- ODT: Add support for indented tables (see this commit for details)
- ODT: Improve the conversion from ODT to other formats
- ASCII: Swap the level-1/level-2 characters to underline the headlines
- Support for Chinese, simplified Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese
- HTML: New option org-export-html-date-format-string
Format string to format the date and time in HTML export. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this patch.
Org Babel
- New
:results drawer
parameter
:results drawer
replaces:results wrap
, which is deprecated but still supported. :results org
now put results in a#+BEGIN_SRC org
block
:results org
used to put results in a#+BEGIN_ORG
block but it now puts results in a#+BEGIN_SRC org
block, wich comma-escaped lines.#+BEGIN_ORG
blocks are obsolete.- Exporting
#+BEGIN_SRC org
blocks exports the code
It used to exports the results of the code.
Miscellaneous
- New menu entry for org-refile
- Allow capturing to encrypted entries
If you capture to an encrypted entry, it will be decrpyted before inserting the template then re-encrypted after finalizing the capture.
- Inactive timestamps are now handled in tables
Calc can do computation on active time-stamps like
. Inactive time-stamps in a table's cell are now internally deactivated so that Calc formulas can operate on them. - org-table-number-regexp accept comma as a decimal mark to represent numbers
- Org allows a new property
APPT_WARNTIME
You can set it with the
W
speedy key or set it manually. When set, exporting to iCalendar and org-agenda-to-appt will use the value of this property as the number of minutes for the warning alarm. - New command org-inc-effort
This will increment the effort value.
It is bound to
C-c C-x E
and toE
as a speedy command. - Attach: Add support for creating symbolic links
`org-attach-method' now supports a new method
lns
, allowing to attach symbolic links. - Archive: you can now archive to a datetree
- New option org-inlinetask-show-first-star
Non-nil
means display the first star of an inline task as additional marker. Whennil
, the first star is not shown. - New option org-latex-preview-ltxpng-directory
This lets you define the path for the
ltxpng/
directory. - You can now use imagemagick instead of dvipng to preview LaTeX fragments
- You can now turn off orgstruct++-mode safely
C-u C-c C-c
on list items to add check boxes
C-u C-c C-c
will add an empty check box on a list item.When hit from the top of the list, it will add check boxes for all top level list items.
org-list-ending-method
andorg-list-end-regexp
are now obsolete
Fall back on using
org-list-end-re
only, which see.- org-feed.el now expands
%(sexp)
templates - New option org-protocol-data-separator
- New option org-ditaa-jar-option to specify the ditaa jar file
- New possible value for org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region
When org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region is set to
start-level
, the command will loop over the active region but will only act upon entries that are of the same level than the first headline in the region. - New option org-habit-show-all-today
When set to
t
, show all (even unscheduled) habits on today's agenda.
Important bug fixes
M-TAB on options keywords perform completion correctly again
If you hit M-TAB
on keywords like #+TITLE
, Org will try to
perform completion with meaningful values.
Add licenses to javascript embedded and external code snippets
Embedded javascript code produced when exporting an Org file to HTML is now licensed under GPLv3 (or later), and the copyright is owned by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The javascript code for embedding MathJax in the browser mentions the MathJax copyright and the Apache 2.0 license.
The javascript code for embedding org-injo.js
in the browser mentions the
copyright of Sebastian Rose and the GPLv3 (or later) license.
org-export-html-scripts
is now a variable, so that you can
adapt the code and the license to your needs.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for explanations on why these changes were necessary.
Version 7.8.11
Incompatible changes
Emacs 21 support has been dropped
Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use version 6.36c instead.
XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version
To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer version of XEmacs. We were about to drop XEmacs support entirely, but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this last-minute save.
New keys for TODO sparse trees
The key C-c C-v
is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO
sparse trees can still be made with C-c / t
(all not-done
states) and C-c / T
(specific states).
The Agenda org-agenda-ndays
is now obsolete
The variable org-agenda-ndays
is obsolete - please use
org-agenda-span
instead.
Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
Changes to the intended use of org-export-latex-classes
So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header
of the LaTeX document, including all the \usepackage
calls
necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to
maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call,
for example for the special symbol support it needs.
First of all, you can opt out of this change in the following
way: You can say: I want to have full control over headers, and I
will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs. If
that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip the
rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the
[EXTRA]
place holder):
(setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)
Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified setup.
There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX
packages that need to be included in all classes. The header
definition in org-export-latex-classes
should then not contain
the corresponding \usepackage
calls (see below).
The two new variables are:
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
:: This is the variable where Org-mode itself puts the packages it needs. Normally you should not change this variable. The only reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using Org-mode functionality that needs it.org-export-latex-packages-alist
:: This is the variable where you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all classes.
The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX document are:
- Header from
org-export-latex-classes
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
org-export-latex-packages-alist
- Buffer-specific things set with
#+LaTeX_HEADER:
If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can put the following macro-like place holders into the header:
[DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff
If you have currently customized org-export-latex-classes
, you
should revise that customization and remove any package calls that
are covered by org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
. This
applies to the following packages:
- inputenc
- fontenc
- fixltx2e
- graphicx
- longtable
- float
- wrapfig
- soul
- t1enc
- textcomp
- marvosym
- wasysym
- latexsym
- amssymb
- hyperref
If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package
you are using, you can remove it from
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
. But then you risk that
some of the advertised export features of Org will not work
properly.
You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes
to org-export-latex-packages-alist
. If necessary, put the place
holders so that the packages get loaded in the right sequence. As
said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit the place
holders, all the variables will dump their content at the end of
the header.
The constant org-html-entities
is obsolete
Its content is now part of the new constant org-entities
, which
is defined in the file org-entities.el. org-html-entities
was
an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did write
code using it.
org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist
has changed
Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
Deleted org-mode-p
This function has been deleted: please update your code.
Important new features
New Org to ODT exporter
Jambunathan's Org to ODT exporter is now part of Org.
To use it, it `C-c C-e o' in an Org file. See the documentation for more information on how to customize it.
org-capture.el is now the default capture system
This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual section chapter about remember.
The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more possibilities for capturing different types of data. See Carsten's announcement for more details.
To switch over to the new system:
Run
M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
to get a translated version of your remember templates into the new variable
org-capture-templates
. This will "mostly" work, but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good place to modify your templates. After running this command, enter the customize buffer for this variable withM-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET
and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the customization.
Bind the command
org-capture
to a key, similar to what you did with org-remember:(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
If your fingers prefer
C-c r
, you can also use this key once you have decided to move over completely to the new implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong with using both system in parallel.
New libraries
New Org libraries
- org-eshell.el (Konrad Hinsen)
Implement links to eshell buffers.
- org-special-blocks (Carsten Dominik)
This package generalizes the #+beginfoo and #+endfoo tokens.
To use, put the following in your init file:
(require 'org-special-blocks)
The tokens #+begincenter, #+beginverse, etc. existed previously. This package generalizes them (at least for the LaTeX and html exporters). When a #+beginfoo token is encountered by the LaTeX exporter, it is expanded into \begin{foo}. The text inside the environment is not protected, as text inside environments generally is. When #+beginfoo is encountered by the html exporter, a div with class foo is inserted into the HTML file. It is up to the user to add this class to his or her stylesheet if this div is to mean anything.
- org-taskjuggler.el (Christian Egli)
Christian Egli's org-taskjuggler.el module is now part of Org. He also wrote a tutorial for it.
- org-ctags.el (Paul Sexton)
Targets like
<<my target>>
can now be found by Emacs' etag functionality, and Org-mode links can be used to to link to etags, also in non-Org-mode files. For details, see the file org-ctags.el.This feature uses a new hook
org-open-link-functions
which will call function to do something special with text links.Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution.
- org-docview.el (Jan Böcker)
This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the Org-mode manual:
[[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org-Mode Manual]]
Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution.
New Babel libraries
- ob-picolisp.el (Thorsten Jolitz)
- ob-fortran.el (Sergey Litvinov)
- ob-shen.el (Eric Schulte)
- ob-maxima.el (Eric S Fraga)
- ob-java.el (Eric Schulte)
- ob-lilypond.el (Martyn Jago)
- ob-awk.el (Eric Schulte)
Other new features and various enhancements
Hyperlinks
- Org-Bibtex – major improvements
Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all standard bibtex reference types and fields.
The key new functions are
- org-bibtex-check
- queries the user to flesh out all required
(and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available
for the specific reference
type
of the current headline. - org-bibtex-create
- Create a new entry at the given level, using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields.
- org-bibtex-yank
- Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a formatted Org-mode headline into the current buffer
- org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring
- Export the current headline to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry.
- org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages
You can now create links from messages. This is particularly useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
- Modified link escaping
David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See his message:
Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets in link target oder description) or are not allowed to appear in a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http: link). With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters. Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning percent escaped links are solved.
Thanks a lot to David for this work.
- Make
org-store-link
point to directory in a dired buffer
When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory.
Patch by Stephen Eglen.
- Allow regexps in
org-file-apps
to capture link parameters
The way extension regexps in
org-file-apps
are handled has changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command string to be executed.For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
file:/doc.pdf::<page number>
, you can add the following entry to org-file-apps:Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\' Command: evince "%s" -p %1
Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
Dates and time
- Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline
You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w" when calling
org-schedule
ororg-deadline
: it will schedule (or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any.You can use this programmatically:
(org-schedule nil "+2d")
will work on the current entry.You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda.
Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this!
- American-style dates are now understood by
org-read-date
So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
Agenda
org-agenda-custom-commands
has a default value
This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for details. Thanks to Carsten for this.
- Improved filtering through
org-agenda-to-appt
The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries to pass to
org-agenda-get-day-entries
and allows to filter out entries using a function.Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for fixing a small bug in the final implementation.
- Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid
Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See the new variable
org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm
. Thanks to C. A. Webber for a patch to this effect. - Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command
B S
in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a random number of days into the future, with 7 as the default. This is useful if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today, you realize you'll never deal with them all, and you just want them to be distributed across the next N days. When called with a prefix arg, rescheduling will avoid weekend days.Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
Exporting
- Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble
When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring the
org-export-email/author/creator-info
variables.When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the docstring of these variable for details about available %-sequences.
You can set
:html-preamble
in publishing project in the same way: `t' means to honor:email/creator/author-info
, and a formatting string will insert a string. - New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8
While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new exporters can be reached with the commands
C-c C-e n
andC-c C-e u
, respectively.When there is no representation for a given symbol in the targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For example,
\simeq
could be represented as "[approx. equal to]". Please use the variableorg-entities-ascii-explanatory
to state your preference. - HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property
The
HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS
property can now be used to add a class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export. - Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails
This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
org-format-latex-signal-error
. - Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org-mode documents
Org-mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some support to make richer presentations as well. See the BEAMER section in the manual for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example for how this community can achieve a much better result than any individual could.
Refiling
- Refile targets can now be cached
You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable
org-refile-use-cache
. This should speed up refiling if you have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still offers a deleted one, pressC-0 C-c C-w
. - New logging support for refiling
Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be added to this entry. For details, see the new option
org-log-refile
.Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea.
Completion
Tables
- New command
org-table-transpose-table-at-point
See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of Org's core. Thanks to Juan!
- Display field's coordinates when editing it with
C-c `
When editing a field with
C-c `
, the field's coordinate will the displayed in the buffer.Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect.
- Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values
If you want to compute time values use the
T
flag, either in Calc formulas or Elisp formulas:Task 1 Task 2 Total 35:00 35:00 1:10:00 Values must be of the form
[HH:]MM:SS
, where hours are optional.Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and feedback on this.
- Implement formulas applying to field ranges
Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas.
A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows things like @3= @2$2..@5$7= @I$2..@II$4= as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a table.
Thanks a lot to Carsten for this.
- Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed
Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also, there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent.
Thanks to Seweryn Kokot.
Lists
- Improved handling of lists
Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
- Indentation of text determines again end of items in lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more indented than it.
- Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical counters like [@c] or [@W].
- Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and `org-list-export-context'.
- Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text and make paragraphs and still not break the list.
- Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and make every line in region an item. It permits to easily integrate paragraphs inside a list.
- `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no blank line around, without breaking list structure.
Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this!
Inline display of linked images
Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links that have no description part will be inlined.
Implement offsets for ordered lists
If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different from 1, you can now do it like this:
1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12
Babel: code block body expansion for table and preview
In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents, augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes into account all header arguments, and variables.
A new keybinding `C-c M-b p' bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block' can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging). tangling
The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc…) in headline properties or in tables.
Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column names, and rownames across all languages.
Editing Convenience and Appearance
- New command
org-copy-visible
(C-c C-x v
)
This command will copy the visible text in the region into the kill ring. Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it!
- Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by
C-k
See the new variable
org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree
. This was a request by Scott Otterson. - Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts.
The command
C-c C-x \
toggles the display of Org's special entities like\alpha
as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and superscripts, see the variableorg-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts
.Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible.
- New faces for title, date, author and email address lines
The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the following new faces:
org-document-title
org-document-info
org-document-info-keyword
In addition, the variable
org-hidden-keywords
can be used to make the corresponding keywords disappear.Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
- Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords
The variables
org-todo-keyword-faces
,org-tag-faces
, andorg-priority-faces
now accept simple color names as specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the variableorg-faces-easy-properties
, which governs which face property is affected by this setting.This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces. The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson.
- <N> in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width
Requested by Michael Brand.
- Better level cycling function
TAB
in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement. - Adaptive filling
For paragraph text,
org-adaptive-fill-function
did not handle the base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is now fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">" comments to be filled correctly.Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch.
- `org-reveal' (
C-c C-r
) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el)
Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
- Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords
When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords.
Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch.
Clocking
- Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log
Using
S-M-<up/down>
on CLOCK log timestamps will increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
- Localized clock tables
Clock tables now support a new new
:lang
parameter, allowing the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See the variableorg-clock-clocktable-language-setup
which controls available translated strings. - Show clock overruns in mode line
When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example using the new face
org-mode-line-clock-overrun
, or by adding an extra string given byorg-task-overrun-text
.Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect.
- Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock
If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting of
org-clock-report-include-clocking-task
. The default isnil
.Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition.
Misc
- Improvements with inline tasks and indentation
There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks. See the new variable
org-inlinetask-export-templates
.Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes.
- A property value of "nil" now means to unset a property
This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a property) back.
Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this change.
- New helper functions in org-table.el
There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field. This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
org-table-get org-table-put org-table-current-line org-table-goto-line
- Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node
The new option
org-archive-reversed-order
allows to have archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target node.This was requested by Tom.
- Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent
This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for example by viewing from the agenda.
This was a request by Matt Lundin.
Version 7.8
Summary
- Jambunathan's ODT exporter is now part of Org's core.
- Nicolas' new export engine is now part of
contrib/
- Standard code block keywords
- 10 new committers
- Many bugfixes
See below for details.
New committers who signed the FSF copyright assigment
Here is the list of new contributors who signed the FSF papers since Org 7.7 - welcome, and thanks for your contributions!
- Andreas Leha
- Christian Moe
- Julian Gehring
- Max Mikhanosha
- Michael Brand
- Niels Giessen
- Pieter Praet
- Sergey Litvinov
- Thomas Holst
- Thorsten Jolitz
The ODT exporter is now part of Org's core
- Full refresh of the OpenDocument Text section in the manual. All new features listed below are fully-documented.
- Associate custom styles on per-file basis using
#+ODT_STYLES_FILE:
directive. - Fontify code listings using an enhanced version of
htmlfontify.el
and generate line numbers natively. - Embed MathML and OpenDocument formula files.
- Use LaTeX to MathML converter – say MathToWeb (http://www.mathtoweb.com/) – for handling LaTeX Math fragments.
- In tables, use column width cookies to control relative width of columns.
- Also for tables, you can specify custom styles using
#+ATTR_ODT:
lines. - Lots of bug fixes.
Experimental
The following features are experimental. These features are specific to the ODT export engine and their implementation and usage could change considerably in future versions.
- Support for list tables – see this message on the list.
- Support for annotation blocks – see this message on the list.
Special thanks to Jambunathan for his work and his patience through the process of integrating this vital contribution into Org's core.
New export engine by Nicolas
See the comment sections in org-element.el and in org-export.el
(in contrib/lisp/
). Also check the experimental LaTeX exporter
using in EXPERIMENTAL/org-e-latex.el
.
Check Nicolas' announcement on the list and hack around!
Thanks a lot to Nicolas for this great and promising achievement.
Incompatible changes
Standardized code block keywords
Following a round of on-list discussion, many code block synonyms have been removed. You can safely move forward the following syntax:
- call lines are specified with #+call:
- code blocks are named with #+name:
- results are named with #+name:, however results generated by a code block may still be labeled with #+results:, and tables named with #+tblname: will be considered to be named results
The following function may be used to update an existing Org mode buffer to the new syntax:
(defun update-org-buffer () "Update an Org mode buffer to the new data, code block and call line syntax." (interactive) (save-excursion (flet ((to-re (lst) (concat "^[ \t]*#\\+" (regexp-opt lst t) "\\(\\[\\([[:alnum:]]+\\)\\]\\)?\\:[ \t]*")) (update (re new) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward re nil t) (replace-match new nil nil nil 1)))) (let ((old-re (to-re '("RESULTS" "DATA" "SRCNAME" "SOURCE"))) (lob-re (to-re '("LOB"))) (case-fold-search t)) (update old-re "name") (update lob-re "call")))))
Note: If an old version of Org mode (e.g., the one shipped with
Emacs) is installed on your system, many of the important
variables will be pre-defined with a defvar
and will not have
their values automatically updated – these include the
following:
org-babel-data-names
org-babel-result-regexp
org-babel-src-block-regexp
org-babel-src-name-regexp
org-babel-src-name-w-name-regexp
It may be necessary to either remove the source code of older versions of Org mode or to explicitly evaluate the ob.el file.
Removed the #+BABEL:
keyword
Code block header arguments may now be specified using the
standard #+Property:
keyword. See Property names ending in +
accumulate for more information on the extended property syntax.
Deleted org-mode-p
(git)
This function has been deleted: please update your hacks if you relied on it.
New features and user-visible improvements
Day names are optional when you type timestamps manually (git)
You can type "
" or and modify this timestamps with S-<right> like other timestamps. Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.Improved filtering through org-agenda-to-appt
(git)
The new function allows the user to refine the scope of entries
to pass to org-agenda-get-day-entries
and allows to filter out
entries using a function.
Thanks to Peter Münster for raising a related issue and to Tassilo Horn for this idea. Also thanks to Peter Münster for fixing a small bug in the final implementation.
org-agenda-date-later
jumps to today when modifying past date (git)
The command org-agenda-date-later
(<S-right> in the Agenda
Mode) directly jumps to today. Thanks to Carsten for
implementing this.
Use prefix arg 0 to inhibit note taking for TODO change (git)
See Carsten's comment: "Sometimes I want to quickly make a few TODOs done in the agenda and I want to bypass the note taking I have normally set up. With this change, I can press `0 t d' in the agenda to do this."
Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
Various improvements to org-indent.el
Nicolas Goaziou worked on refactoring and improving
org-indent.el
, which should now be faster. It also better
combines with visual-line-mode
.
Property names ending in +
accumulate
This results in the following behavior.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp , (+ foo bar) #+end_src ,: 3 #+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) #+end_src ,: foo=1 bar=2 * overwriting a file-wide property , :PROPERTIES: , :var: foo=7 , :END: #+begin_src emacs-lisp , foo #+end_src ,: 7 #+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) #+end_src ,: foo=7 * appending to a file-wide property , :PROPERTIES: , :var+: baz=3 , :END: #+begin_src emacs-lisp , (+ foo bar baz) #+end_src ,: 6 #+begin_src emacs-lisp , (org-entry-get (point) "var" t) #+end_src ,: foo=1 bar=2 baz=3
org-agenda-custom-commands
has a default value (git)
This option used to be `nil' by default. This now has a default value, displaying an agenda and all TODOs. See the docstring for details. Thanks to Carsten for this.
outline-demote/promote
points to org-demote/promote-subtree
Users who use this outline commands in outline-mode
will want
them to behave the Org way in Org. Thanks to Michael Brand for
the suggestion.
New escape characters for org-log-note-headings
(git)
The option org-log-note-headings
now supports %d and %D for
inactive and active timestamps. This affect the behavior of the
command org-store-log-note
. Thanks to John J Foerch for a
patch for this.
New command org-table-transpose-table-at-point
(git)
See the docstring. This hack from Juan Pechiar is now part of Org's core. Thanks to Juan!
Allow recursive edit of minibuffer (git)
You can now use the command C-c !
(org-time-stamp-inactive
)
when prompted e.g. for a link name. This is because the central
function org-completing-read
now support recursive edit. Only
C-c !
is available at the moment, but if you can think of a
useful command to use, please let me know.
Thanks to Skip Collins for the idea and to Nick Dokos for the implementation.
Allow dynamic construction of the publishing destination (git)
Thanks to Kai Tetzlaff for adding this.
Set the capture default time to the prompt time (git)
In the file+datetree+promt target type, the user is being asked for a date, where to file an entry. In the template, he can use the escape placeholders for active and inactive time stamps. So far, these were filled with todays date. This behavior changed so that, also at %t and %u, the date to use is the one entered at the prompt.
Reported by Erik Hetzner and fixed by Carsten.
org-agenda-skip-additional-timestamps-same-entry
defaults to `nil' (git)
org-sudoku.el – small sudoku solver
Carsten wrote org-sudoku.el, a little sudoku solver, which lives in the contrib/ directory.
From his message: "my daughter got stuck with a couple of SUDOKU puzzles during the vacation (where wh had no internet connection), so I hacked a small SUDOKU solver that reads a 9x9 Org table and solves it as a sudoku puzzle. A little silly, but maybe fun for someone - I have pushed it into the contrib/lisp directory."
Code Block related features and improvements
Added tikzDevice support to ob-R.el
Support for Pico Lisp code blocks
Thanks to Thorsten Jolitz Pico Lisp code blocks are now
supported. See ob-picolisp.el
for more information.
Extension to the eval
code block header argument
The eval
code block header argument now accepts four (six)
possible values the meaning of which is shown in the table below.
never or no | The code block will not be evaluated under any |
circumstances. | |
query | Evaluation of the code block will require a query. |
never-export or no-export | The code block will not be evaluated during export |
but may still be called | |
query-export | Evaluation of the code block during export will |
require a query. |
Update of intermediate results during code block evaluation
When set to t, the new org-babel-update-intermediate
variable
will update in-buffer results for code blocks which are evaluated
in the resolution of a variable reference. This can be used to
ensure that the latest returned results are always shown in
buffer.
Support for Fortran code block is now in the core
Thanks to Sergey Litvinov for contributing this support.
The sbe
function allows header argument specification
If first variable is a string and not a cons cell, then interpret it as a string of header arguments to be passed to the code block.
Support for Shen code blocks
See http://www.shenlanguage.org/ for information on Shen.
A major mode for shen code blocks is available through the GNU ELPA.
New options and faces
New option org-export-html-headline-anchor-format
(git)
Format for anchors in HTML headlines.
It requires to %s: both will be replaced by the anchor referring to the headline (e.g. "sec-2"). When set to `nil', don't insert HTML anchors in headlines.
This was requested by Alan L Tyree.
New option org-table-formula-field-format
(git)
Format for fields which contain the result of a formula.
For example, using \"%s
\" will display the result within tilde
characters. Beware that modifying the display can prevent the
field from being used in another formula.
Thanks to Dov Grobgeld for this idea.
New option org-loop-over-headlines-in-active-region
(git)
When set to `t', some commands will loop over the active
region. Currently, org-schedule
and org-deadline
uses this
option: pressing C-c C-s
or C-c C-d
when the region is active
will let you schedule/deadline all the visible headlines in the
region.
Thanks a lot to David Maus for implementing this.
New option org-catch-invisible-edits
(git)
This option makes it possible to check what is the right thing to do before editing invisible regions. Here are the possible values of this option:
+nil Do not check, so just do invisible edits. +error Throw an error and do nothing. +show Make point visible, and do the requested edit. +show-and-error Make point visible, then throw an error and abort the edit. +smart Make point visible, and do insertion/deletion if it is adjacent to visible text and the change feels predictable.
See the docstring for more details.
Thanks to Carsten for implementing this.
New option org-export-latex-table-caption-above
Let the user place a caption above its table in LaTeX. Thanks to Thomas Dye for a patch to this effect.
New option org-agenda-follow-indirect
(git)
By setting `org-agenda-follow-indirect' to a non-nil value, `org-agenda-follow-mode' will use an indirect buffer to display only the current item, rather than the whole agenda file in which it lives.
Thanks to Dave Abrahams for implementing this.
New option org-refile-active-region-within-subtree
(git)
Non-nil means also refile active region within a subtree.
By default org-refile
doesn't allow refiling regions if they
don't contain a set of subtrees, but it might be convenient to do
so sometimes: in that case, the first line of the region is
converted to a headline before refiling.
Thanks to Jeff Horn for raising the issue of refiling a list item, and to Nicolas Goaziou, Nick Dokos and Suvayu Ali for discussing them patiently.
New option org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command
This option lets you specify a way to convert LaTeX fragments to
MathML. See also org-latex-to-mathml-jar-file
and the
docstring of org-create-math-formula
.
Thanks to Jambunathan K for implementing this.
New option org-properties-postprocess-alist
(git)
See its docstring:
Alist of properties and functions to adjust inserted values. Elements of this alist must be of the form ([string] [function]) where [string] must be a property name and [function] must be a lambda expression: this lambda expression must take one argument, the value to adjust, and return the new value as a string. For example, this element will allow the property "Remaining" to be updated wrt the relation between the "Effort" property and the clock summary: (("Remaining" (lambda(value) (let ((clocksum (org-clock-sum-current-item)) (effort (org-duration-string-to-minutes (org-entry-get (point) "Effort")))) (org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string (- effort clocksum))))))
This is inspired by a request from Pascal Mattia.
New options org-habit-today-glyph
and org-habit-completed-glyph
(git)
This gives you control over the character used for displaying today (default is `!') and days on which a task has been completed (default is `*'). Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
New option org-bibtex-type-property-name
(git)
Configurable property name for bibtex entry types. Thanks to Eric Schulte for this.
New face org-agenda-filter-tags
(git)
This face is used for highlighting the tag(s) filter in the modeline. Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this idea and its implementation.
New faces org-agenda-calendar-event
and org-agenda-calendar-sexp
(git)
org-agenda-calendar-event
is the face used to show events and
appointments in the agenda, and org-agenda-calendar-sexp
the
one used to show events computed from a S-expression.
Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this addition.
Important bugfixes
Respect org-export-with-tags
when exporting a subtree (git)
Thanks to Suvayu Ali for spotting this problem and fixing it.
Fix XEmacs compatibility issue when creating an indirect buffer (git)
Thanks to Michael Sperber for this fix.
Testing
New test function org-test-with-temp-text-in-file
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=1f206ed4)
Version 7.7
New features and user-visible improvements
New command org-copy-visible
(C-c C-x v
)
This command will copy the visible text in the region into the kill ring.
Thanks to Florian Beck for this function and to Carsten for adding it to org.el and documenting it!
New hook org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-final-hook
This hook will be called when nothing special can be performed by
the busy C-c C-c
key. Thanks to Paul Sexton for this idea!
Allow relative time when scheduling/adding a deadline
You can now use relative duration strings like "-2d" or "++3w"
when calling org-schedule
or org-deadline
: it will schedule
(or set the deadline for) the item respectively two days before
today and three weeks after the current timestamp, if any.
You can use this programmatically: (org-schedule nil "+2d")
will work on the current entry.
You can also use this while (bulk-)rescheduling and (bulk-)resetting the deadline of (several) items from the agenda.
Thanks to Memnon Anon for a heads up about this!
New functions: org-todo-yesterday
and org-agenda-todo-yesterday
This is useful when you need to mark things done yesterday.
Thanks to Max Mikhanosha for this patch.
org-set-property
defaults to the last interactively modified property
When setting a property with C-c C-x p
, it will offered the
last interactively modified property as a default choice. If
this command is called on a property line, the property in this
line will take precedence over the last set property.
Clock: Allow synchronous update of timestamps in CLOCK log
Using S-M-<up/down>
on CLOCK log timestamps will
increase/decrease the two timestamps on this line so that
duration will keep the same. Note that duration can still be
slightly modified in case a timestamp needs some rounding.
Thanks to Rainer Stengele for this idea.
Clock: New function org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer
This function removes empty CLOCK
drawers and has been added to
org-clock-out-hook
: when clocking out, if no CLOCK log has been
inserted and the drawer is empty, the drawer will be removed.
Capture: new escape sequence %F
for templates
Using %F
in capture templates will insert the full path of the
file or the directory the capture mechanism was called from
(whereas %f
only insert the filename.)
Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for this change.
Agenda: new variable org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions
for custom bulk functions
When using org-agenda-bulk-action
in agenda view, the user
could already call custom functions by pressing f
and entering
the function's name.
This variable lets the user add custom choices and reach them
more quickly. Set the variable to an alist of keys (chars) and
functions, and these keys will be accessible through the
org-agenda-bulk-action
interface.
If there is a conflict between custom keys and hardcoded choices, the latter ones take precedence.
Thanks to Julien Cubizolles for triggering this idea.
Refile: exclude irrelevant headings
When refiling from an org-mode buffer, the current heading and its subheadings will be excluded from the list of possible targets.
This only works when org-refile-use-cache
is nil
and in
org-mode buffers, not in agenda buffers.
Thanks to Jason Dunsmore for this idea!
Lists: new variable org-list-use-circular-motion
This variable allows some commands to consider lists as cyclic structures. For example, when non-nil, moving past the last item of a list with S-down will bring you back to the first one.
Lists: New variable org-list-indent-offset
This variable helps improving readability of sub-items by
increasing their indentation. E.g., if org-list-indent-offset
is set to 2, you may see the following list:
- First item - Sub-item 1 - Sub-item 2 - Second item
Table: New flag ";t" to tailor the display of computed durations
See the new variable org-table-duration-custom-format
and the
updated example from the manual:
Task 1 | Task 2 | Total |
---|---|---|
3:02:20 | -2:07:00 | 0.92 |
In this example, 0.92
is a fraction of hour, the default for
org-table-duration-custom-format
.
Thanks to Daniel E. Doherty for discussions about this.
Table: display field's coordinates when editing it with C-c `
When editing a field with C-c `
, the field's coordinate will
the displayed in the buffer.
Thanks to Michael Brand for a patch to this effect.
Babel: support for java
code blocks
Evaluation of blocks of Java code is now possible. Currently
only external evaluation of Java code is supported (i.e., no
session evaluation) and only the :results output
results are
collected. Code blocks are compiled to a Java class file which
are then evaluated and the values printed to STDOUT are returned.
Java code blocks required a :classname
header argument which is
used by the compiler to name .java
and .class
files.
Example Java code block:
#+begin_src java :classname myfirstjavaprog , class myfirstjavaprog , { , public static void main(String args[]) , { , System.out.println("Hello World!"); , } , } #+end_src ,: Hello World!
Babel: support for fortran
code blocks by Sergey Litvinov
The contrib/babel/langs/
contains the new library
ob-fortran.el
by Sergey Litvinov.
Thanks to him for this addition.
Babel: support for the fomus language by Torsten Anders
ob-fomus.el
has been added to contrib/babel/langs/
.
Thanks to Torsten Anders for contributing this functionality.
Publish: hide .orgx files and use theindex.org directly
When :makeindex is `non-nil' in the publishing options, Org will
export an index. It populates the directory with .orgx files:
those files are now hidden (.file.orgx). Also the index is
directly stored in the file theindex.org
, not in the file
theindex.inc
(which you can delete).
Thanks to Nathan Neff and Carsten for pointing at the problems and solutions.
Export: new variable org-export-html-divs
to allow custom divs
The default value of org-export-html-divs
is ("preamble"
"content" "postamble")
and is used to define the <div "%s">
for the main structure of the exported HTML file.
Note that modifying the default value will break compatibility
with the org-info.js
script.
Also note that the variable org-export-html-content-div
will
still be checked for compatibility reasons but is not a custom
variable anymore.
Thanks to Sébastian Vauban for a preliminary version of this patch.
Export: new variable org-export-latex-quotes
to customize quotes in LaTeX export
This allows users to define what quotes they want to use as a replacement of english double-quotes while exporting to LaTeX.
In particular, if you use the csquote package, you can configure Org to output something like \endquote{some quoted text} instead of "some quoted text".
Thanks to Frederik for bringing this issue up, and to Thomas S. Dye, Nick Dokos and Stefan Nobis for elaborating this solution.
Important bugfixes
Duration computations now work for complex ranges in tables
Thanks to Christian Moe for signaling this problem.
Handle recursive setup files correctly
Thanks to Stefan Vollmar for mentioning this problem.
Details
org-map-entries
can now have 'region as its scope
Thanks to David Maus for suggesting related improvements to
org-map-entries
. This one prepares the possibility of letting
some commands to loop over the active region.
org-depend.el: new chain-find-next trigger option
Export: new experimental exporter to MoinMoin by Puneeth Chaganti.
The EXPERIMENTAL/
directory contains a new file org-mm.el that
allows you to export an Org file to a MoinMoin file.
Thanks to Puneeth Chaganti for this addition.
Export: new default for org-export-html-preamble
The default value included the title. It now defaults to the
empty string, as the title is hardcoded and included in the
"content" div. Including the title here is necessary to let
org-info.js
find it and display the page properly.
Export: new variable org-lparse-use-flashy-warning
defaulting to nil
Flashy and verbose warnings while exporting to ODT have been
disabled. Set this to t
if you want it back.
Export: new default value for org-export-latex-image-default-option
This used to be width=10em
and this is now width=.9\linewidth,
which makes more sense.
Thanks to Sebastien Vauban for this suggestion.
Export: allow org-export-latex-href-format
to have only one "%s"
This is useful when you want to use \url{link} instead of the default \href{link}{path}.
Thanks to Henri-Paul Indiogine for bringing this up.
Known issues
The ODT exporter will choke when using some Org-defined strings
For example, using the hungarian version of the table of
contents, as defined in org-export-language-setup
, the ODT
exporter will complain about a problem with the translated
string.
The workaround is to customize org-export-language-setup
and to use accents directly.
Version 7.6
Incompatible changes
New features and user-visible improvements
Integration of Jambunathan's OpenDocumentText Exporter
- Activation
Org mode 7.6 supports exporting to OpenDocument Text (
odt
) format using org-odt.el. Depending on how you installed Org, this module can be enabled in one of the following ways:- If you have downloaded the Org from the Web, either as a
distribution
.zip
or.tar.gz
file, or as a Git archive, enable theodt
option in the variableorg-modules
. - If you are using Org mode 7.6 that comes bundled with
Emacs-24.0.50 (or future Emacs-24.1), then you can install the
OpenDocumentText exporter using the package manager. Check
the list of available packages with
M-x list-packages
and install theorg-odt
package.
Thanks a lot to Jambunathan K for this great contribution.
- If you have downloaded the Org from the Web, either as a
distribution
- Keybindings
The following interactive commands are provided:
C-c C-e o
(org-export-as-odt
): Export as anodt
file.C-c C-e O
(org-export-as-odt-and-open
): Export as anodt
file and open the resulting file.
See the
contrib/odt/README.org
file for further details; you may check in particular the commandsM-x org-lparse
andM-x org-export-convert
.
Ob-Lilypond – new Babel language to allow score generation
ob-lilypond - an org-babel language, provided to allow LilyPond music score generation, complete with optional auditioning via midi, whilst leveraging the full power of org mode, and literate programming. See https://github.com/mjago/ob-lilypond for more documentation.
Thanks to Martyn Jago for this addition.
Org-Bibtex – major improvements
Provides support for managing bibtex bibliographical references data in headline properties. Each headline corresponds to a single reference and the relevant bibliographic meta-data is stored in headline properties, leaving the body of the headline free to hold notes and comments. Org-bibtex is aware of all standard bibtex reference types and fields.
The key new functions are
- org-bibtex-check
- queries the user to flesh out all required
(and with prefix argument optional) bibtex fields available
for the specific reference
type
of the current headline. - org-bibtex-create
- Create a new entry at the given level, using org-bibtex-check to flesh out the relevant fields.
- org-bibtex-yank
- Yank a bibtex entry on the kill ring as a formatted Org mode headline into the current buffer
- org-bibtex-export-to-kill-ring
- Export the current headline to the kill ring as a formatted bibtex entry.
Spreadsheet computation of durations and time values
If you want to compute time values use the T
flag, either in
Calc formulas or Elisp formulas:
Task 1 | Task 2 | Total |
---|---|---|
35:00 | 35:00 | 1:10:00 |
Values must be of the form [HH:]MM:SS
, where hours are
optional.
Thanks to Martin Halder, Eric Schulte and Carsten for code and feedback on this.
Links within inlined footnotes.
It as also possible to have footnotes side-by-side correctly
exported. New variables org-export-latex-footnote-separator
,
org-export-html-footnote-separator
and
org-export-docbook-footnote-separator
are used to separate them
in that case.
Fontification of footnotes is also more accurate.
New variable org-export-with-tasks
Non-nil means include TODO items for export.
This may have the following values:
- t include tasks independent of state.
- todo include only tasks that are not yet done.
- done include only tasks that are already done.
- nil remove all tasks before export
- list of TODO kwds keep only tasks with these keywords
Thanks to Carsten for implementing this!
New variable org-export-latex-timestamp-inactive-markup
This variable allows the user to define the LaTeX markup for inactive timestamps. It defaults to the same markup than active timestamps. Thanks to Eric S Fraga for this patch.
New org-default
face
M-x customize-face RET org-default RET
will let you define the
default face for org-mode
buffers.
Babel improvements
- In line code block call syntax
It is now possible to call code blocks from within blocks of prose.
The new syntax is exactly analogous to the existing
#+call:
line syntax, only it may be present embedded in a block of prose for examplecall_double(num=8)
would call thedouble
code block assigning thenum
variable to the value8
. - Optional variable names in code block calls
Variable names are now optional when passing variables to a code block reference. Un-named variables will be assigned in order as shown below.
#+source: minus #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var a=0 :var b=0 (- a b) #+end_src #+call: minus(a=8, b=4) #+call: minus(8,4)
- Sub-tree ID as valid code block variable reference
It is now possible to assign the textual contents of an Org mode subtree to a code block variable using the ID of the subtree. Both custom IDs and Org mode IDs may be used. For example;
#+begin_src sh :var text=foo , echo "$text"|wc #+end_src ,: 8 58 415 * example foo , :PROPERTIES: , :CUSTOM_ID: foo , :END: ,Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec ,hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam ,nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus. Cum sociis ,natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus ,mus. Nulla posuere. Donec vitae dolor. Nullam tristique diam non ,turpis. Cras placerat accumsan nulla. Nullam rutrum. Nam vestibulum ,accumsan nisl.
org-babel-tangle-body-hook
for reprocessing code block bodies during tanglingpadline
header argument controls newline padding during tangling- Maxima code blocks are now supported
Thanks to Eric Fraga for contributing this support.
awk
code blocks are now supported- Added
xmpfilter
to Ruby code blocks for annotated code output - New
noweb-ref
header argument
This header argument may be used to concatenate the bodies of many code blocks into a single noweb reference. This brings Org mode's tangling functionality in line with traditional noweb tangling.
A no web reference like the following
#+begin_src sh , <<the-ref>> #+end_src
will now expand to include the bodies of all code blocks which are named
the-ref
, as well as all code blocks which have a:noweb-ref
header argument set to the valuethe-ref
.
New tests
The tests/
directory has been extensively updated.
Important bugfixes
Org-exp-blocks — proper handling of recursively nested blocks
During export pre-processing org-exp-blocks will now ensure that all matched blocks contain a proper balanced number of recursively nested blocks.
Before this fix nested blocks such as the following would break during export.
#+begin_src org , ,#+begin_example , , nested example , ,#+end_example #+end_src
List handling
Fix an infinite loop when a list has an end of block string without the corresponding beginning.
Auto-filling cannot happen at a location where it would otherwise insert a new item.
Details
Footnotes have gone through some bug-fixing:
- properly ignore footnotes in comments,
- export calls to previously defined footnotes in LaTeX using \footnotemark,
- export footnotes before first heading (LaTeX),
- export footnotes when selecting a subtree not holding their definition (LaTeX).
Many small bug fixes have been applied to list handling
- fix `org-timer-item',
- fix insertion of a new item with a non-nil `indent-tabs-mode',
- fix use of `fill-region' in an item,
- correct export lists within footnotes and footnotes within lists,
- correctly export lists containing macros,
- don't ignore with-case specification when sorting a list,
- better indentation handling when changing an item to an headline or the other way,
- fix check-boxes' cookies updating.
Version 7.5
Incompatible changes
Code block variable initialized with Emacs Lisp code in tables and lists
It is no longer possible to assign code block variables using executable Emacs Lisp statements contained in tables or lists. As per the following example.
(a b c) |
$data
Thanks to Vladimir Alexiev for raising this issue.
`org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist' has changed
Please check the docstring and update your settings accordingly.
New features and user-visible improvements
Implement formulas applying to field ranges
Carsten implemented this field-ranges formulas.
A frequently requested feature for tables has been to be able to define row formulas in a way similar to column formulas. The patch below allows things like @3= @2$2..@5$7= @I$2..@II$4= as the left hand side for table formulas in order to write a formula that is valid for an entire column or for a rectangular section in a table.
Thanks a lot to Carsten for this.
Improved handling of lists
Nicolas Goaziou extended and improved the way Org handles lists.
- Indentation of text determines again end of items in lists. So, some text less indented than the previous item doesn't close the whole list anymore, only all items more indented than it.
- Alphabetical bullets are implemented, through the use of the variable `org-alphabetical-lists'. This also adds alphabetical counters like [@c] or [@W].
- Lists can now safely contain drawers, inline tasks, or various blocks, themselves containing lists. Two variables are controlling this: `org-list-forbidden-blocks', and `org-list-export-context'.
- Improve `newline-and-indent' (C-j): used in an item, it will keep text from moving at column 0. This allows to split text and make paragraphs and still not break the list.
- Improve `org-toggle-item' (C-c -): used on a region with standard text, it will change the region into one item. With a prefix argument, it will fallback to the previous behavior and make every line in region an item. It permits to easily integrate paragraphs inside a list.
- `fill-paragraph' (M-q) now understands lists. It can freely be used inside items, or on text just after a list, even with no blank line around, without breaking list structure.
Thanks a lot to Nicolas for all this!
Modified link escaping
David Maus worked on `org-link-escape'. See his message:
Percent escaping is used in Org mode to escape certain characters in links that would either break the parser (e.g. square brackets in link target oder description) or are not allowed to appear in a particular link type (e.g. non-ascii characters in a http: link). With this change in place Org will apply percent escaping and unescaping more consistently especially for non-ascii characters. Additionally some of the outstanding bugs or glitches concerning percent escaped links are solved.
Thanks a lot to David for this work.
Simplification of org-export-html-preamble/postamble
When set to `t', export the preamble/postamble as usual, honoring
the org-export-email/author/creator-info
variables.
When set to a formatting string, insert this string. See the docstring of these variable for details about available %-sequences.
You can set :html-preamble
in publishing project in the same
way: `t' means to honor :email/creator/author-info
, and a
formatting string will insert a string.
New command `org-agenda-append-agenda'
You can now use `org-agenda-append-agenda' to dynamically add new agendas views to the current one. It is particularily useful to compare multiple small agendas.
Localized clock tables
Clock tables now support a new new :lang
parameter, allowing
the user to customize the localization of the table headers. See
the variable org-clock-clocktable-language-setup
which controls
available translated strings.
New sorting options when publishing projects
The :sitemap-sort-file
option now allows sorting the sitemap
file (anti-)alphabetically and (anti-)chronogically. Thanks a
lot to Manuel Giraud for a patch to this effet.
Testing with ERT
Martyn Jago added new tests to testing/
- thanks to him!
New file in contrib/: org-notmuch.el
Org is now distributed with org-notmuch.el
, by Matthieu
Lemerre. See explanations in the header of org-notmuch.el
:
=org-notmuch.el= implements links to notmuch messages and "searchs". A search is a query to be performed by notmuch; it is the equivalent to folders in other mail clients. Similarly, mails are refered to by a query, so both a link can refer to several mails.
org-gnus.el now allows link creation from messages
You can now create links from messages. This is particularily useful when the user wants to stored messages that he sends, for later check. Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the patch.
Important bug fixes
Capturing to narrowed buffers
You can now safely capture entries to narrowed buffers. Thanks a lot to Memnon Anon for bringing this up.
Better handling of the new `org-agenda-span' variable
Agendas were a bit confused by the introduction of this variable, in particular block agendas. This is now fixed.
Thanks to Julien and Carsten for helping find the right fix for this issue, and to Michael Brand and Matt Lundin for their patient testing and reporting.
Security warning: using org-crypt with auto-save
To prevent Emacs from auto-saving encrypted entries in clear text, the user should not use auto-save with org-crypt.el. We now send a warning when users are both using auto-saving and org-crypt.el. Thanks to Peter Jones for bringing this up.
Details
Babel
- :file argument causes results to be written to file for all languages
:file <filename> should be understood as saying "write the result to <filename> and return a link to <filename>".
This works for all languages. For graphics languages (e.g. ditaa, dot, gnuplot) there is no change in behavior: "result" in the above is the graphics, and a link to the image is placed in the org buffer. For general-purpose languages (e.g. emacs-lisp, python, R, ruby, shell), the "result" written to file is the normal org-babel result (string, number, table).
In order to return a file link from a src block without telling babel to save any results to that file, use :results <filename> and do not use :file. The code block can of course write arbitrary content to <filename>.
Some examples:
Save the output of ls -l as a .csv file (recall that :results value is the default):
ls -l
Send the text output of ls -l directly to file:
ls -l
- R requires :results graphics :file filename when generating graphics
":results graphics" is now required in addition to ":file filename" in order for graphical output to be sent automatically to file. If :file is supplied, but not ":results graphics", then non-graphical, "value" or "output" results are written to file, depending on which of those options is in effect.
- Calc code blocks can now accept vectors
For example;
3 y
Thanks to Eric S. Fraga for raising this issue
- Code blocks with empty bodies are now acceptable
Previously these caused errors on export. Thanks to Martyn Jago for this patch.
- Emacs Lisp variable assignments which don't eval cleanly passed literally
This makes it possible to easily pass through non-elisp variable assignments which may initially look like valid elisp.
- Unified naming of
c++
functions toC++
Thanks to Martyn Jago for this patch.
- `org-babel-execute-buffer' and `org-babel-execute-subtree' now eval inline code blocks as well
- New :mkdirp header argument creates parent dirs of tangle targets
- New ":comments noweb" option for wrapping noweb references in comment links
This can be useful to allow backward linking from tangle code files to the original code block holding noweb-expanded content.
- Allow detangling of text containing '\'s – Thanks to Seth Burleigh
:sep
specifies table separator when opening or writing tabular results- `org-edit-src-content-indentation' can now be a buffer-local variable
All export configuration variables can now be buffer-local variables
org-complete.el has been renamed to org-pcomplete.el
In case you were manually loading org-complete.el
(which is
not necessary anyway), please be aware that the name of this
library was changed to org-pcomplete.el
.
New user options for LaTeX source code export via minted and listings packages
New variables `org-export-latex-listings-options' and `org-export-latex-minted-options' allow package options to be controlled; `org-export-latex-custom-lang-environments' allows arbitrary configuration on a per-language basis.
Effort durations now support 2d, 2m, etc.
Effort duration can now be set as 2h (for 2 hours), etc. This
will be converted to minutes automatically when clocking in an
entry with an effort property. See the org-effort-durations
variable.
Thanks a lot to Lawrence Mitchell for this patch.
New option :clock-keep for capture templates
A capture template with :clock-keep t
will prevent the refiling
process from clocking out the entry. If :clock-resume
is also
`t', :clock-keep
will take precedence and :clock-resume
will
be ignored.
So now :immediate-finish t :clock-in t :clock-keep t
makes
sense: it will capture a new task and clock it.
Misc
- New command `org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp'
M-x org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp RET
will mark agenda entries which headings match against a regular expression. You can call this command with the `%' key from an agenda buffer. - New command `org-agenda-reset-view'
Julien Danjou implemented this:
This new command lets you switch to day/week/month/year view. When switching to day or week view, this setting becomes the default for subsequent agenda refreshes. Since month and year views are slow to create, they do not become the default. A numeric prefix argument may be used to jump directly to a specific day of the year, ISO week, month, or year, respectively. For example, `32 d' jumps to February 1st, `9 w' to ISO week number 9. When setting day, week, or month view, a year may be encoded in the prefix argument as well. For example, `200712 w' will jump to week 12 in 2007. If such a year specification has only one or two digits, it will be mapped to the interval 1938-2037. `v SPC'' will reset to what is set in `org-agenda-span'.
Thanks a lot to Julien for this.
- New options for ignoring past or future items in the global todo list
This patch gives users greater control over which past or future items they would like to ignore in the global todo list. By setting org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled to 7, for instance, a user can ignore all items scheduled 7 or more days in the future. Similarly, by setting org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled to -1, a user can ignore all items that are truly in the past (unlike the 'past setting, which ignores items scheduled today).
See the docstrings of these variables:
- org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines
- org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled
- org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp
Thanks a lot to Matt Lundin for implementing this and to Paul Sexton for the idea.
- New variable `org-export-table-remove-empty-lines'
When set to `nil', don't remove empty tables when exporting tables. This was requested by Eric S Fraga.
- New variable `org-table-fix-formulas-confirm'
Sometime, editing the structure of a table should not edit the corresponding formulas. This new variable lets the user decide whether he wants to confirm formula fixes or not.
- New variable `org-export-initial-scope'
This variable controls the initial scope when exporting with `org-export'. It can be set to 'buffer or 'subtree. If there is an active region, tell it when prompting the user for an export command.
- Show and use the default refile location
M-x org-refile RET now shows the default refile location. Thanks to Tassilo Horn for a patch to this effect.
- New variable `org-archive-subtree-add-inherited-tags'
Non-nil means append inherited tags when archiving a subtree.
- New variable `org-export-current-backend'
This variable is dynamically set by exporters. You can check against its value anytime in your code to see if you are exporting to HTML, LaTeX, etc. Possible values are 'html, 'latex, 'ascii, 'docbook. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Dan Davison for ideas and patches in this area.
- New hook `org-clock-before-select-task-hook'
Hook called in task selection just before prompting the user.
Thanks to Benjamin Drieu for the patch.
- = = emphasis now uses \protectedtexttt
- Author's email now included in the LaTeX title
When `org-export-email-info' is non-nil, the LaTeX title will also include the author's email. Thanks to Lawrence Mitchell for the patch.
- Update contrib/scripts/ditaa.jar to ditaa v0.9 of 2009-11-24
- New variable `org-mobile-files-exclude-regexp'
This variable lets you exclude files that you don't want in org-mobile-files.
- New variable `org-confirm-elisp-link-not-regexp'
Set this to a regexp if you want to skip the confirmation step for Elisp/Shell code matching this regexp.
- New variable `org-attach-store-link-p'
When set to `t', store link to the attached file, at its original location.
- `org-table-use-standard-references' now defaults to 'from
- Better `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'
When this is set to a list of TODO keywords, the agenda will only show occurrences of repeating stamps for these TODO keywords.
- New command `org-narrow-to-block'
This command (`C-x n b') will narrow the buffer to the current block.
Version 7.4
Incompatible changes
Agenda: rework ndays and span handling
The variable org-agenda-ndays
is obsolete - please use
org-agenda-span
instead.
Thanks to Julien Danjou for this.
Details
Improvements with inline tasks and indentation
There is now a configurable way on how to export inline tasks. See
the new variable org-inlinetask-export-templates
.
Thanks to Nicolas Goaziou for coding these changes.
Agenda: Added a bulk "scattering" command
B S
in the agenda buffer will cause tasks to be rescheduled a random
number of days into the future, with 7 as the default. This is useful
if you've got a ton of tasks scheduled for today, you realize you'll
never deal with them all, and you just want them to be distributed
across the next N days. When called with a prefix arg, rescheduling
will avoid weekend days.
Thanks to John Wiegley for this.
In-buffer completion is now done using John Wiegleys pcomplete.el
Thanks to John Wiegley for much of this code.
Sending radio tables from org buffers is now allowed
Org radio tables can no also be sent inside Org buffers. Also, there is a new hook which get called after a table has been sent.
Thanks to Seweryn Kokot.
Command names shown in manual
The reference manual now lists command names for most commands. Thanks to Andreas Röhler who started this project.
Allow ap/pm times in agenda time grid
Times in the agenda can now be displayed in am/pm format. See the new
variable org-agenda-timegrid-use-ampm
. Thanks to C. A. Webber for
a patch to this effect.
Rewriten clock table code
The entire clocktable code has been rewritten to add more options and to make hacking time reports easier.
Thanks to Erwin Vrolijk for a patch introducing clock tables for quarters.
Babel
- Add
msosql
engine to sql code blocks
SQL code blocks can now be executed using the
myosql
engine using the osql command (from MS SQL Server) on Windows systems.Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for this contribution.
- Python code blocks now accept a
preamble
header argument
This allows specification of coding declarations and library imports which must take place in the beginning of a file of executed python code (note this header argument is used during code block evaluation unlike the
shebang
header argument which is used during tangling). For example#+begin_src python :preamble # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- :return s ,s = "é" #+end_src
Thanks to Vincent Beffara for this idea.
- Code block name is shown during evaluation query
When the user is queried about the evaluation of a named code block the name of the code block is now displayed.
Thanks to Tom Dye for this suggestion.
- Clojure code blocks results insertion
The results of Clojure code blocks have been improved in two ways.
- lazy sequences are now expanded for insertion into the Org mode buffer
- pretty printing of results is now possible with both "code" and "data" pretty print formats
Thanks to Rick Moynihan for suggesting these changes.
- Python code blocks now accept a
:return
header argument
This alleviates the need to explicitly insert return statements into the bode of Python code blocks. This change both
- allows the same python code blocks to be run both in sessions and externally
- removes the floating
return
statements which violated python syntax
Thanks to Darlan Cavalcante for proposing this feature.
:results wrap
header argument wraps code block results
The new
:results wrap
wraps code blocks results in a custom environment making it possible to offset their contents during export. For example#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results wrap , "code block results" #+end_src #+BEGIN_RESULT ,: code block results #+END_RESULT
Thanks to Sébastien Vauban for persistently suggesting this enhancement.
- Code block error buffer wiped clean between executions
Previously the code block error buffer accumulated errors making it difficult to distinguish between previous and current errors. This buffer is now cleaned before every interactive code block evaluation.
- Lists now recognized by code blocks
It is now possible for code blocks to both read and write list contents from and to Org mode buffers. For example
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var lst=a-list :results list , (reverse lst) #+end_src
,- babel ,- and ,- org-mode - Calc added as a supported code block language
The Emacs Calc package can be used through
calc
code blocks allowing both regular arithmetic operations as well as stack based calculation. For example#+begin_src calc , 8 , 1 , '+ , 9 , '* #+end_src ,: 81 #+begin_src calc :var in=calc-stack , in / 9 #+end_src ,: 9
- "org-babel-detangle" propagates change to source code files into code blocks
`org-babel-detangle' can be used to propagate changes to pure source code files tangled from embedded code blocks in Org mode files back to the original code blocks in the Org mode file. This can be used on collaborative projects to keep embedded code blocks up to date with edits made in pure source code files.
Version 7.02
:CUSTOMID: v7.02
Incompatible Changes
Code block hashes
Due to changes in the code resolving code block header arguments hashing of code block results should now re-run a code block when an argument to the code block has changed. As a result of this change all code blocks with cached results will be re-run after upgrading to the latest version.
Testing update
Anyone using the org-mode test suite will need to update the jump repository for test navigation by executing the following from the root of the org-mode repository.
git submodule update
Failure to update this repository will cause loading of org-test.el to throw errors.
Details
Org-babel speed commands
All Org-babel commands (behind the C-c C-v key prefix) are now available as speed commands when the point is on the first line of a code block. This uses the existing Org mode speed key mechanisms.
Thanks to Jambunathan K for implementation this new feature.
Fontify code in code blocks.
Source code in code blocks can now be fontified. Please customize the
varable org-src-fontify-natively
. For very large blocks (several
hundreds of lines) there can be delays in editing such fontified
blocks, in which case C-c ' should be used to bring up a dedicated
edit buffer.
Thanks to Dan Davison for this.
Language-mode commands are available in the Org-buffer
The most general machinery for doing this is the macro `org-babel-do-in-edit-buffer'. There is also the convenience function `org-babel-do-key-sequence-in-edit-buffer' which makes use of this macro, and is bound to C-c C-v C-x and C-c C-v x. If there is an active region contained within the code block, then this is inherited by the edit buffer. Some examples of the sorts of usage this permits are
C-c C-v C-x M-; comment region according to language C-c C-v C-x C-M-\ indent region according to language
Users can make these more convenient, e.g.
(defun my/org-comment-dwim (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (or (org-babel-do-key-sequence-in-edit-buffer "\M-;") (comment-dwim arg)))
(define-key org-mode-map "\M-;" 'my/org-comment-dwim)
A common instance of this general pattern is built in to Org mode, controlled by the variable `org-src-tab-acts-natively': if this variable is set, then TAB in a code block has the effect that it would have in the language major mode buffer.
Org-babel commands are available in language-mode edit buffer
Mirroring the language-native commands in Org buffers above, a new macro `org-src-do-at-code-block' and convenience function `org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block' provide the converse. When used in a language major-mode edit buffer (i.e. a buffer generated by C-c '), `org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block' executes a key sequence at the code block in the source Org buffer. The command bound to the key sequence in the Org-babel key map is executed remotely with point temporarily at the start of the code block in the Org buffer.
The command is not bound to a key by default, to avoid conflicts with language major mode bindings. To bind it to C-c @ in all language major modes, you could use
(add-hook 'org-src-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key org-src-mode-map "\C-c@" 'org-src-do-key-sequence-at-code-block)))
In that case, for example, C-c @ t issued in code edit buffers would tangle the current Org code block, C-c @ e would execute the block and C-c @ h would display the other available Org-babel commands.
Multi-line header arguments to code blocks
Code block header arguments can now span multiple lines using the
new #+header:
or #+headers:
lines preceding a code block or
nested in between the name and body of a named code block.
Examples are given below.
multi-line header arguments on an un-named code block
#+headers: :var data1=1 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var data2=2 (message "data1:%S, data2:%S" data1 data2) #+end_src #+results: : data1:1, data2:2
multi-line header arguments on a named code block
#+source: named-block #+header: :var data=2 #+begin_src emacs-lisp (message "data:%S" data) #+end_src #+results: named-block : data:2
Unified handling of variable expansion for code blocks
The code used to resolve variable references in code block header arguments has now been consolidated. This both simplifies the code base (especially the language-specific files), and ensures that the arguments to a code block will not be evaluated multiple times. This change should not be externally visible to the Org mode user.
Improved Caching
Code block caches now notice if the value of a variable argument to the code block has changed, if this is the case the cache is invalidated and the code block is re-run. The following example can provide intuition for the new behavior.
#+begin_src R :cache yes ,runif(1) #+end_src ,: 0.4659510825295 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var x=random :cache yes ,x #+end_src ,: 0.254227238707244
Added :headers header argument for LaTeX code blocks
This makes it possible to set LaTeX options which must take place in the document pre-amble for LaTeX code blocks. This header argument accepts either a single string or a list, e.g.
#+begin_src latex :headers \usepackage{lmodern} :file name1.pdf , latex body #+end_src #+begin_src latex :headers '("\\usepackage{mathpazo}" "\\usepackage{fullpage}") :file name2.pdf , latex body #+end_src
New function `org-export-string'
Allows exporting directly from a string to the specified export format.
Code block header argument ":noweb tangle"
New function `org-babel-switch-to-session-with-code'
C-c C-v z (`org-babel-switch-to-session-with-code') is a variant of C-c C-v C-z (`org-babel-switch-to-session'): instead of switching to the session buffer, it splits the window between (a) the session buffer and (b) a language major-mode edit buffer for the code block in question. This can be convenient for using language major mode for interacting with the session buffer.
Improvements to R sessions
R now uses standard ESS code evaluation machinery in the :results value case, which avoids unnecessary output to the comint buffer. In addition, the R command responsible for writing the result to file is hidden from the user. Finally, the R code edit buffer generated by C-c ' is automatically linked to the ESS session if the current code block is using :session.
Temporary file directory
All babel temporary files are now kept in a single sub-directory in the /tmp directory and are cleaned up when Emacs exits.
Function for demarcating blocks `org-babel-demarcate-block'
Can be called to wrap the region in a block, or to split the block around point, bound to (C-c C-v d).
Function for marking code block contents `org-babel-mark-block'
Bound to C-M-h in the babel key map (i.e. C-c C-v C-M-h by default). This can be useful in conjunction with `org-babel-do-in-edit-buffer', for example for language-native commenting or indenting of the whole block.
Lists of anniversaries are now handeled better
When several anniversaries are defined in the bbdb anniversaries field (separated by semicolon), this is now handled nicely by the agenda.
Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for a patch to this effect.
Table fields are now aligned better, new <c> cookie.
In HTML export, table fields are now properly aligned in accord
with automatic alignment in org, or as set by the <r>
, <l>
, and
<c>
cookies. The <c>
cookie is new and has no effect in
Org, but it does do the right thing in HTML export. A LaTeX export
implementation will follow, but is currently still missing.
Update freemind converter to include body text
The freemind exporter now incorporates body text into the mind map.
Thanks to Lennard Borgman for this patch.
Make footnotes work correctly in message-mode
The footnotes code now searches for message-signature-separator
(which is "– " by default) in order to place footnotes before the
signature. Thanks to Tassilo Horn for this patch.
Improve XEmacs compatibility
Org mode 7.02 now runs again in 21.4.22 if the new XEmacs base package is installed.
Thanks to Uwe Bauer, Volker Ziegler, Michael Sperber and others for a discussion that lead to this nice result.
Make it configurable wether agenda jumping prefers the future
When jumping to a date from the agenda using the j
key, you may
or may not like the property of Org's date reader to prefer the
future when you enter incomplete dates. This can now be
configured using the variable =org-agenda-jump-prefer-future'.
Add publishing functions for ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8
There are now publishing functions org-publish-org-to-ascii
,
org-publish-org-to-latin1
, and org-publish-org-to-utf8
.
Thanks to Matthias Danzl for showing how to do this.
Indentation and headline insertion after inline tasks
Indentation in inline tasks, and headline insertion after inline tasks now behave as expected.
Encryption in MobileOrg finally works
As soon as MobilOrg 1.5 hits the Apple's AppStore, you can encrypt your org files on public servers. Please see the documentation of MobileOrg and Appendix B of the manual for more details.
MobileOrg: Do not force to insert IDs
If you dislike the property of MobileOrg to insert ID properties
for in all entries being part of an agenda view, you can now turn
this off using the variable
org-mobile-force-id-on-agenda-items
. When this variable is set
to nil
, MobileOrg will use outline paths to identify entries.
Note that this may fail if several entries have identical outline
paths.
LaTeX minted package for fontified source code export
Patch by Dan Davison.
A non-nil value of `org-export-latex-minted' means to export source code using the minted package, which will fontify source code with color. If you want to use this, you need to make LaTeX use the minted package. Add minted to `org-export-latex-packages-alist', for example using customize, or with something like
(require 'org-latex) (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-packages-alist '("" "minted"))
In addition, it is neccessary to install pygments (http://pygments.org), and to configure `org-latex-to-pdf-process' so that the -shell-escape option is passed to pdflatex.
Allow to use texi2dvi or rubber for processing LaTeX to pdf
Please see the variable org-export-latex-to-pdf-process
for
more information.
Thanks to Olivier Schwander for the rubber part.
New STARTUP keywords to turn on inline images
If you want to inline images whenever you visit an Org file, use
#+STARTUP: inlineimages
Support for user-extensible speed commands.
There is a new hook org-speed-command-hook
. Thanks to
Jambunathan for a patch to this effect.
Add macro to insert property values into exported text
you can use {{{property{NAME}}}} to insert the value of a property upon export.
Thanks to David Maus for a patch to this effect.
LaTeX package fixes
We updated the list of default packages loaded by LaTeX exported files.
Allow "#" and "%" in tags
Tags can now also contain the characters #
and %
, in addition
to @
and letters.
Show command names in manual
Andreas Röhler is adding command names to keys in the manual. This will take a while to complete, but a start has been made.
Make backslash escape "-" in property matches
When entering a tags/property query, "-" is a logical operator. However, "-" is also allowed in property names. So you can now write "SOMENAME" to work around this issue.
This was a request by Ilya Shlyakhter.
Document quick insertion of empty structural elements
Org mode has a built-in template mechanism for inserting block templates. This was undocumented until now.
Thanks to Jambunathan K for the patch.
Implement MathJax support
Org mode now uses MathJax to display math on web pages. We serve MathJax from the orgmode.org server, at least for the time being (thanks Bastien!). If you are going to use this for pages which are viewed often, please install MathJax on your own webserver.
To return to the old way of creating images and inserting them into web pages, you would have to set
(setq org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments 'dvipng)
or on a per-file basis
#+OPTIONS: LaTeX:dvipng
Agenda: Allow compact two-column display in agenda dispatcher
If you have many custom agenda commands, you can have the display in the dispatcher use two columns with the following settings
(setq org-agenda-menu-show-match nil org-agenda-menu-two-column t)
This was a request by John Wiegley.
Add org-wikinodes.el as a contributed package
One frequent request has been to be able to use CamelCase words for automatic cross links in a Wiki created by Org. THis is now possible with org-wikinodes.el, which is available in the contrib directory. We also have some documentation for this feature up on Worg.
Timer/clock enhancements
org-timer-set-timer
displays a countdown timer in the modeline.
From the agenda, `J' invokes org-agenda-clock-goto
.
Version 7.01
Incompatible Changes
Emacs 21 support has been dropped
Do not use Org mode 7.xx with Emacs 21, use version 6.36c instead.
XEmacs support requires the XEmacs development version
To use Org mode 7.xx with XEmacs, you need to run the developer version of XEmacs. I was about to drop XEmacs support entirely, but Michael Sperber stepped in and made changes to XEmacs that made it easier to keep the support. Thanks to Michael for this last-minute save. I had hoped to be able to remove xemacs/noutline.el from release 7 by moving it into XEmacs, but this is not yet done.
Org-babel configuration changes
Babel took the integration into Org mode as an opportunity to do some much needed house cleaning. Most importantly we have simplified the enabling of language support, and cleared out unnecessary configuration variables – which is great unless you already have a working configuration under the old model.
The most important changes regard the location and enabling of Babel (both core functionality and language specific support).
- Babel
Babel is now part of the core of Org mode, so it is now loaded along with the rest of Org mode. That means that there is no configuration required to enable the main Babel functionality. For current users, this means that statements like
(require 'org-babel)
or
(require 'org-babel-init)
that may by lying around in your configuration must now be removed.
- load path
- Babel (including all language specific files –
aside from those which are located in the
contrib/
directory for reasons of licencing) now lives in the base of the Org mode lisp directory, so no additional directories need to be added to your load path to use babel. For Babel users this means that statements adding babel-specific directories to your load-path should now be removed from your config. - language support
It is no longer necessary to require language specific support on a language-by-language basis. Specific language support should now be managed through the `org-babel-load-languages' variable. This variable can be customized using the Emacs customization interface, or through the addition of something like the following to your configuration (note: any language not mentioned will not be enabled, aside from
emacs-lisp
which is enabled by default)(org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((R . t) (ditaa . t) (dot . t) (emacs-lisp . t) (gnuplot . t) (haskell . nil) (ocaml . nil) (python . t) (ruby . t) (screen . nil) (sh . t) (sql . nil) (sqlite . t)))
Despite this change it is still possible to add language support through the use of
require
statements, however to conform to Emacs file-name regulations all Babel language files have changed prefix fromorg-babel-*
toob-*
, so the require lines must also change e.g.(require 'org-babel-R)
should be changed to
(require 'ob-R)
We have eliminated the org-babel-tangle-w-comments
variable as
well as the two main internal lists of languages, namely
org-babel-interpreters
andorg-babel-tangle-langs
so any config lines which mention those variables, can/should be
stripped out in their entirety. This includes any calls to the
org-babel-add-interpreter
function, whose sole purpose was to
add languages to the org-babel-interpreters
variable.
With those calls stripped out, we may still in some cases want to
associate a file name extension with certain languages, for
example we want all of our emacs-lisp files to end in a .el
, we
can do this will the org-babel-tangle-lang-exts
variable. In
general you shouldn't need to touch this as it already has
defaults for most common languages, and if a language is not
present in org-babel-tangle-langs, then babel will just use the
language name, so for example a file of c
code will have a .c
extension by default, shell-scripts (identified with sh
) will
have a .sh
extension etc…
The configuration of shebang lines now lives in header arguments. So the shebang for a single file can be set at the code block level, e.g.
#+begin_src clojure :shebang #!/usr/bin/env clj , (println "with a shebang line, I can be run as a script!") #+end_src
Note that whenever a file is tangled which includes a shebang line, Babel will make the file executable, so there is good reason to only add shebangs at the source-code block level. However if you're sure that you want all of your code in some language (say shell scripts) to tangle out with shebang lines, then you can customize the default header arguments for that language, e.g.
;; ensure this variable is defined defined (unless (boundp 'org-babel-default-header-args:sh) (setq org-babel-default-header-args:sh '())) ;; add a default shebang header argument (add-to-list 'org-babel-default-header-args:sh '(:shebang . "#!/bin/bash"))
The final important change included in this release is the addition of new security measures into Babel. These measures are in place to protect users from the accidental or uninformed execution of code. Along these lines every execution of a code block will now require an explicit confirmation from the user. These confirmations can be stifled through customization of the `org-confirm-babel-evaluate' variable, e.g.
;; I don't want to be prompted on every code block evaluation (setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
In addition, it is now possible to remove code block evaluation
form the C-c C-c
keybinding. This can be done by setting the
org-babel-no-eval-on-ctrl-c-ctrl-c
variable to a non-nil value,
e.g.
;; I don't want to execute code blocks with C-c C-c (setq org-babel-no-eval-on-ctrl-c-ctrl-c t)
An additional keybinding has been added for code block
evaluation, namely C-c C-v e
.
Whew! that seems like a lot of effort for a simplification of configuration.
New keys for TODO sparse trees
The key C-c C-v
is now reserved for Org Babel action. TODO
sparse trees can still be made with C-c / t
(all not-done
states) and C-c / T
(specific states).
Customizable variable changes for DocBook exporter
To make it more flexible for users to provide DocBook exporter related commands, we start to use format-spec to format the commands in this release. If you use DocBook exporter and use it to export Org files to PDF and/or FO format, the settings of the following two customizable variables need to be changed:
org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command
org-export-docbook-xsl-fo-proc-command
Instead of using %s
in the format control string for all
arguments, now we use three different format spec characters:
%i
: input file argument%o
: output file argument%s
: XSLT stylesheet argument
For example, if you set org-export-docbook-xslt-proc-command
to
java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o %s %s /path/to/docbook.xsl
in the past, now you need to change it to
java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o %o %i %s
and set a new customizable variable called
org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet
to /path/to/docbook.xsl
.
Please check the documentation of these two variables for more details and other examples.
Along with the introduction of variable
org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet
, we also added a new
in-buffer setting called #+XSLT:
. You can use this setting to
specify the XSLT stylesheet that you want to use on a per-file
basis. This setting overrides
org-export-docbook-xslt-stylesheet
.
Details
Org Babel is now part of the Org core
See Org-babel configuration changes for instructions on how to update your babel configuration.
The most significant result of this change is that Babel now has
documentation! It is part of Org mode's documentation, see
Chapter 14 Working With Source Code. The Babel keybindings
are now listed in the refcard, and can be viewed from any
Org mode buffer by pressing C-c C-v h
. In addition this
integration has included a number of bug fixes, and a significant
amount of internal code cleanup.
The default capture system for Org mode is now called org-capture
This replaces the earlier system org-remember. The manual only describes org-capture, but for people who prefer to continue to use org-remember, we keep a static copy of the former manual section chapter about remember.
The new system has a technically cleaner implementation and more possibilities for capturing different types of data. See Carsten's announcement for more details.
To switch over to the new system:
Run
M-x org-capture-import-remember-templates RET
to get a translated version of your remember templates into the new variable
org-capture-templates
. This will "mostly" work, but maybe not for all cases. At least it will give you a good place to modify your templates. After running this command, enter the customize buffer for this variable withM-x customize-variable RET org-capture-templates RET
and convince yourself that everything is OK. Then save the customization.
Bind the command
org-capture
to a key, similar to what you did with org-remember:(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
If your fingers prefer
C-c r
, you can also use this key once you have decided to move over completely to the new implementation. During a test time, there is nothing wrong with using both system in parallel.
Implement pretty display of entities, sub-, and superscripts.
The command C-c C-x \
toggles the display of Org's special
entities like \alpha
as pretty unicode characters. Also, sub
and superscripts are displayed in a pretty way (raised/lower
display, in a smaller font). If you want to exclude sub- and
superscripts, see the variable
org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts
.
Thanks to Eric Schulte and Ulf Stegeman for making this possible.
Help system for finding entities
The new command M-x org-entities-help
creates a structured
buffer that lists all entities available in Org. Thanks to Ulf
Stegeman for adding the necessary structure to the internal
entity list.
New module to create Gantt charts
Christian Egli's org-taskjuggler.el module is now part of Org. He also wrote a tutorial for it.
Refile targets can now be cached
You can turn on caching of refile targets by setting the variable
org-refile-use-cache
. This should speed up refiling if you
have many eligible targets in many files. If you need to update
the cache because Org misses a newly created entry or still
offers a deleted one, press C-0 C-c C-w
.
Enhanced functionality of the clock resolver
Here are the new options for the clock resolver:
i/q/C-g Ignore this question; the same as keeping all the idle time. k/K Keep X minutes of the idle time (default is all). If this amount is less than the default, you will be clocked out that many minutes after the time that idling began, and then clocked back in at the present time. g/G Indicate that you \"got back\" X minutes ago. This is quite different from 'k': it clocks you out from the beginning of the idle period and clock you back in X minutes ago. s/S Subtract the idle time from the current clock. This is the same as keeping 0 minutes. C Cancel the open timer altogether. It will be as though you never clocked in. j/J Jump to the current clock, to make manual adjustments.
For all these options, using uppercase makes your final state to be CLOCKED OUT. Thanks to John Wiegley for making these changes.
A property value of "nil" now means to unset a property
This can be useful in particular with property inheritance, if some upper level has the property, and some grandchild of it would like to have the default settings (i.e. not overruled by a property) back.
Thanks to Robert Goldman and Bernt Hansen for suggesting this change.
The problem with comment syntax has finally been fixed
Thanks to Leo who has been on a year-long quest to get this fixed and finally found the right way to do it.
Make it possible to protect hidden subtrees from being killed by C-k
This was a request by Scott Otterson.
See the new variable org-ctrl-k-protect-subtree
.
New module org-mac-link-grabber.el
This module allows to grab links to all kinds of applications on a mac. It is available in the contrib directory.
Thanks to Anthony Lander for this contribution.
LaTeX export: Implement table* environment for wide tables
Thanks to Chris Gray for a patch to this effect.
When cloning entries, remove or renew ID property
Thanks to David Maus for this change.
Version 6.36
:CUSTOMID: v6.36
Details
Inline display of linked images
Images can now be displayed inline. The key C-c C-x C-v does toggle the display of such images. Note that only image links that have no description part will be inlined.
Implement offsets for ordered lists
If you want to start an ordered plain list with a number different from 1, you can now do it like this:
1. [@start:12] will star a lit a number 12
Extensions to storing and opening links to Wanderlust messages
Remove filter conditions for messages in a filter folder
If customization variable `org-wl-link-remove-filter' is non-nil, filter conditions are stripped of the folder name.
Create web links for messages in a Shimbun folder
If customization variable `org-wl-shimbun-prefer-web-links' is non-nil, calling `org-store-link' on a Shimbun message creates a web link to the messages source, indicated in the Xref: header field.
Create web links for messages in a nntp folder
If customization variable `org-wl-nntp-prefer-web-links' is non-nil, calling `org-store-link' on a nntp message creates a web link either to gmane.org if the group can be read trough gmane or to googlegroups otherwise. In both cases the message-id is used as reference.
Open links in namazu search folder
If `org-wl-open' is called with one prefix, WL opens a namazu search folder for message's message-id using `org-wl-namazu-default-index' as search index. If this variable is nil or `org-wl-open' is called with two prefixes Org asks for the search index to use.
Thanks to David Maus for these changes.
Org-babel: code block body expansion for table and preview
In org-babel, code is "expanded" prior to evaluation. I.e. the code that is actually evaluated comprises the code block contents, augmented with the extra code which assigns the referenced data to variables. It is now possible to preview expanded contents, and also to expand code during during tangling. This expansion takes into account all header arguments, and variables.
A new key-binding C-c M-b p bound to `org-babel-expand-src-block' can be used from inside of a source code block to preview its expanded contents (which can be very useful for debugging). tangling
The expanded body can now be tangled, this includes variable values which may be the results of other source-code blocks, or stored in headline properties or tables. One possible use for this is to allow those using org-babel for their emacs initialization to store values (e.g. usernames, passwords, etc…) in headline properties or in tables.
Org-babel now supports three new header arguments, and new default behavior for handling horizontal lines in tables (hlines), column names, and rownames across all languages.
Version 6.35
Incompatible Changes
Changes to the intended use of org-export-latex-classes
So far this variable has been used to specify the complete header
of the LaTeX document, including all the \usepackage
calls
necessary for the document. This setup makes it difficult to
maintain the list of packages that Org itself would like to call,
for example for the special symbol support it needs. Each time I
have to add a package, I have to ask people to revise the
configuration of this variable. In this release, I have tried to
fix this.
First of all, you can opt out of this change in the following
way: You can say: I want to have full control over headers, and
I will take responsibility to include the packages Org needs.
If that is what you want, add this to your configuration and skip
the rest of this section (except maybe for the description of the
[EXTRA]
place holder):
(setq org-export-latex-default-packages-alist nil
org-export-latex-packages-alist nil)
Continue to read here if you want to go along with the modified setup.
There are now two variables that should be used to list the LaTeX
packages that need to be included in all classes. The header
definition in org-export-latex-classes
should then not contain
the corresponding \usepackage
calls (see below).
The two new variables are:
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
:: This is the variable where Org mode itself puts the packages it needs. Normally you should not change this variable. The only reason to change it anyway is when one of these packages causes a conflict with another package you want to use. Then you can remove that packages and hope that you are not using Org mode functionality that needs it.org-export-latex-packages-alist
:: This is the variable where you can put the packages that you'd like to use across all classes. For example, I am puttingamsmath
andtikz
here, because I always want to have them.
The sequence how these customizations will show up in the LaTeX document are:
- Header from
org-export-latex-classes
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
org-export-latex-packages-alist
- Buffer-specific things set with
#+LaTeX_HEADER:
If you want more control about which segment is placed where, or if you want, for a specific class, have full control over the header and exclude some of the automatic building blocks, you can put the following macro-like place holders into the header:
[DEFAULT-PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for default packages [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES] do not include any of the default packages [PACKAGES] \usepackage statements for packages [NO-PACKAGES] do not include the packages [EXTRA] the stuff from #+LaTeX_HEADER [NO-EXTRA] do not include #+LaTeX_HEADER stuff
If you have currently customized org-export-latex-classes
, you
should revise that customization and remove any package calls that
are covered by org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
. This
applies to the following packages:
- inputenc
- fontenc
- fixltx2e
- graphicx
- longtable
- float
- wrapfig
- soul
- t1enc
- textcomp
- marvosym
- wasysym
- latexsym
- amssymb
- hyperref
If one of these packages creates a conflict with another package
you are using, you can remove it from
org-export-latex-default-packages-alist
. But then you risk
that some of the advertised export features of Org will not work
properly.
You can also consider moving packages that you use in all classes
to org-export-latex-packages-alist
. If necessary, put the
place holders so that the packages get loaded in the right
sequence. As said above, for backward compatibility, if you omit
the place holders, all the variables will dump their content at
the end of the header.
Damn, this has become more complex than I wanted it to be. I hope that in practice, this will not be complicated at all.
The constant org-html-entities
is obsolete
Its content is now part of the new constant org-entities
, which
is defined in the file org-entities.el. org-html-entities
was
an internal variable, but it is possible that some users did
write code using it - this is why I am mentioning it here.
Editing Convenience and Appearance
New faces for title, date, author and email address lines.
The keywords in these lines are now dimmed out, and the title is displayed in a larger font, and a special font is also used for author, date, and email information. This is implemented by the following new faces:
org-document-title org-document-info org-document-info-keyword
In addition, the variable org-hidden-keywords
can be used to
make the corresponding keywords disappear.
Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
Simpler way to specify faces for tags and todo keywords
The variables org-todo-keyword-faces
, org-tag-faces
, and
org-priority-faces
now accept simple color names as
specifications. The colors will be used as either foreground or
background color for the corresponding keyword. See also the
variable org-faces-easy-properties
, which governs which face
property is affected by this setting.
This is really a great simplification for setting keyword faces. The change is based on an idea and patch by Ryan Thompson.
<N> in tables now means fixed width, not maximum width
Requested by Michael Brand.
Better level cycling function
TAB
in an empty headline cycles the level of that headline
through likely states. Ryan Thompson implemented an improved
version of this function, which does not depend upon when exactly
this command is used. Thanks to Ryan for this improvement.
Adaptive filling
For paragraph text, org-adaptive-fill-function
did not handle the
base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This is now
fixed. Among other things, it allows email-style ">" comments
to be filled correctly.
Thanks to Dan Hackney for this patch.
`org-reveal' (C-c C-r
) also decrypts encrypted entries (org-crypt.el)
Thanks to Richard Riley for triggering this change.
Better automatic letter selection for TODO keywords
When all first letters of keywords have been used, Org now assigns more meaningful characters based on the keywords.
Thanks to Mikael Fornius for this patch.
Export
Much better handling of entities for LaTeX export
Special entities like \therefore
and \alpha
now know if
they need to be in LaTeX math mode and are formatted accordingly.
Thanks to Ulf Stegemann for the tedious work to make this possible.
LaTeX export: Set coding system automatically
The coding system of the LaTeX class will now be set to the value
corresponding to the buffer's file coding system. This happens
if your setup sets up the file to have a line
\usepackage[AUTO]{inputenc}
(the default setup does this).
New exporters to Latin-1 and UTF-8
While Ulf Stegemann was going through the entities list to
improve the LaTeX export, he had the great idea to provide
representations for many of the entities in Latin-1, and for all
of them in UTF-8. This means that we can now export files rich
in special symbols to Latin-1 and to UTF-8 files. These new
exporters can be reached with the commands C-c C-e n
and C-c
C-e u
, respectively.
When there is no representation for a given symbol in the
targeted coding system, you can choose to keep the TeX-macro-like
representation, or to get an "explanatory" representation. For
example, \simeq
could be represented as "[approx. equal to]".
Please use the variable org-entities-ascii-explanatory
to state
your preference.
Full label/reference support in HTML, Docbook, and LaTeX backends
#+LABEL
definitions for tables and figures are now fully
implemented in the LaTeX, Docbook, and HTML interfaces.
\ref{xxx}
is expanded to a valid link in all backends.
BEAMER export: Title of the outline frame is now customizable
The new option org-outline-frame-title
allows to set the
title for outline frames in Beamer presentations.
Patch by Łukasz Stelmach.
BEAMER export: fragile frames are better recognized
A lstlisting
environment now also triggers the fragile option in
a beamer frame, just like verbatim
environments do.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for this patch.
BEAMER export: Protect <…> macro arguments
Macros for the BEAMER package can have arguments in angular brackets. These are now protected just like normal arguments.
Requested by Bill Jackson.
HTML export: Add class to outline containers using property
The HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS
property can now be used to add a
class name to the outline container of a node in HTML export.
New option org-export-email-info
to turn off export of the email address
Default is actually off now.
Throw an error when creating an image from a LaTeX snippet fails
This behavior can be configured with the new option variable
org-format-latex-signal-error
.
Index generation
Org mode can now produce a 2-level subject index spanning an entire publishing project. Write index entries in your files as
* What is org-mode?
where the first line will produce an index entry Org mode, while the second line will create Definitions with a sub-item Org mode. Three-level entries are not supported.
To produce the index, set
:makeindex t
in the project definition in org-publish-project-alist
. You
may have to force re-export of all files to get the index by
using a C-u
prefix to the publishing command:
C-u M-x org-publish-all
Whenever an Org file is published in this project, a new file with the extension "orgx" will be written. It contains the index entries and corresponding jump target names. When all project files are published, Org will produce a new file "theindex.inc" containing the index as a to-level tree. This file can be included into any project file using
Org mode will also create a file "theindex.org" with this include statement, and you can build a more complex structure (for example style definitions, top and home links, etc) around this statement. When this file already exists, it will not be overwritten by Org.
Thanks to Stefan Vollmar for initiating and driving this feature.
TODO Still need to do the LaTeX portion
MobileOrg
Encrypting stage files for MobileOrg
Since the use of (often pubic) servers is needed for MobileOrg, it is now possible to encrypt the files to be staged for MobileOrg. Version 1.2 of MobileOrg will be needed for this feature, and Richard Moreland will show instructions on his website once that is available. Basically, on the Org-side this will require the following settings:
(setq org-mobile-use-encryption t org-mobile-encryption-password "My_MobileOrg_Password")
So the password will be visible in your local setup, but since the encryption is only for the public server, this seems acceptable.
Agenda
Specify entry types as an option
Custom Agenda commands can now limit the sets of entry types
considered for this command by binding org-agenda-entry-types
temporarily in the options section of the command. This can lead to
significant speedups, because instead of laboriously finding entries
and then rejecting them, a whole search cycle is skipped. For more
information see this worg page.
Thanks to Matt Lundin for this feature.
Speed up multiple calls to org-diary by only doing buffer prep once
Also a patch by Matt Lundin.
Show and hide deadlines in the agenda
You can now hide all deadline entries in the agenda by pressing
!
.
Thanks to John Wiegley for this feature.
Agenda: Allow to suppress deadline warnings for entries also scheduled
The the docstring of the variable
org-agenda-skip-deadline-prewarning-if-scheduled
.
Expand file names in org-agenda-files (external file case)
If you are using a file to manage the list of agenda files, the names in this file can now contain environment variables and "~" to write them more compactly and portable.
Thanks to Mikael Fornius for a patch to this effect.
Agenda: Allow TODO conditions in the skip functions
The agenda skip function has now special support for skipping based on the TODO state. Here are just two examples, see the manual for more information.
(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'todo '(\"TODO\" \"WAITING\")) (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'nottodo 'done)
Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for this patch.
Extracting the time-of-day when adding diary entries
The time of day can now be extracted from new diary entries made
from the agenda with (for example) i d
. When
org-agenda-insert-diary-extract-time
is set, this is done, and
the time is moved into the time stamp.
Thanks to Stephen Eglen for this feature.
The customization group org-font-lock has been renamed
The new name is `org-appearance'.
Thanks to Dan Davison for a patch to this effect.
The TODO list: Allow skipping scheduled or deadlined entries
Skipping TODO entries in the global TODO list based on whether
they are scheduled or have a deadline can now be controlled in
more detail. Please see the docstrings of
org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled
and
org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadline
.
Thanks to Łukasz Stelmach for patches to this effect.
Hyperlinks
Make org-store-link
point to directory in a dired buffer
When, in a dired buffer, the cursor is not in a line listing a file, `org-store-link' will store a link to the directory.
Patch by Stephen Eglen.
Allow regexps in org-file-apps
to capture link parameters
The way extension regexps in org-file-apps
are handled has
changed. Instead of matching against the file name, the regexps
are now matched against the whole link, and you can use grouping
to extract link parameters which you can then use in a command
string to be executed.
For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
file:/doc.pdf::<page number>
, you can add the following entry to
org-file-apps:
Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\' Command: evince "%s" -p %1
Thanks to Jan Böcker for a patch to this effect.
Clocking
Show clock overruns in mode line
When clocking an item with a planned effort, overrunning the
planned time is now made visible in the mode line, for example
using the new face org-mode-line-clock-overrun
, or by adding an
extra string given by org-task-overrun-text
.
Thanks to Richard Riley for a patch to this effect.
Tables
Repair the broken support for table.el tables again.
Tables created with the table.el package now finally work again
in Org mode. While you cannot edit the table directly in the
buffer, you can use C-c '
to edit it nicely in a temporary
buffer.
Export of these tables to HTML seem to work without problems. Export to LaTeX is imperfect. If fails if the table contains special characters that will be replaced by the exporter before formatting the table. The replacement operation changes the length of some lines, breaking the alignment of the table fields. Unfortunately this is not easy to fix. It is also not an option to not do these replacements. The table.el LaTeX exporter will for example not escape "&" in table fields, causing the exported tables to be broken.
Misc
New logging support for refiling
Whenever you refile an item, a time stamp and even a note can be
added to this entry. For details, see the new option
org-log-refile
.
Thanks to Charles Cave for this idea.
New helper functions in org-table.el
There are new functions to access and write to a specific table field. This is for hackers, and maybe for the org-babel people.
org-table-get org-table-put org-table-current-line org-table-goto-line
Tables: Field coordinates for formulas, and improved docs
Calc and Emacs-Lisp formulas for tables can access the current
field coordinates with @#
and $#
for row and column,
respectively. These can be useful in some formulas. For
example, to sequentially number the fields in a column, use
=@#
as column equation.
One application is to copy a column from a different table. See the manual for details.
Thanks to Michael Brand for this feature.
Archiving: Allow to reverse order in target node
The new option org-archive-reversed-order
allows to have
archived entries inserted in a last-on-top fashion in the target
node.
Requested by Tom.
Better documentation on calc accuracy in tables
Thanks to Michael Brand for this fix.
Clock reports can now include the running, incomplete clock
If you have a clock running, and the entry being clocked falls
into the scope when creating a clock table, the time so far spent
can be added to the total. This behavior depends on the setting
of org-clock-report-include-clocking-task
. The default is
nil
.
Thanks to Bernt Hansen for this useful addition.
American-style dates are now understood by org-read-date
So when you are prompted for a date, you can now answer like this
2/5/3 --> 2003-02-05 2/5 --> <CURRENT-YEAR>-02-05
org-timer.el now allows just one timer
There is now only a single free timer supported by org-timer.el. Thanks to Bastien for cleaning this up, after a bug report in this area by Frédéric Couchet.
Remember: Allow to file as sibling of current clock
C-3 C-c C-c
will file the remember entry as a sibling of the
last filed entry.
Patch by Łukasz Stelmach.
Org-reveal: Double prefix arg shows the entire subtree of the parent
This can help to get out of an inconsistent state produced for example by viewing from the agenda.
This was a request by Matt Lundin.
Add org-secretary.el by Juan Reyero to the contrib directory
org-secretary.el is a possible setup for group work using Org mode.
Thanks to Juan Reyero for this contribution.
Babel
Eric and Dan have compiled the following list of changes in and around org-babel.
- Added support for Matlab and Octave.
- Added support for C and C++ code blocks.
- Added support for the Oz programming language. Thanks to Torsten Anders for this contribution
- Can now force literal interpretation of table cell contents with extra "$" in table formula. Thanks to Maurizio Vitale for this suggestion.
- Variable references which look like lisp forms are now evaluated.
- No longer adding extension during tangling when filename is provided. Thanks to Martin G. Skjæveland and Nicolas Girard for prompting this.
- Added `org-babel-execute-hook' which runs after code block execution.
Working directories and remote execution
This introduces a new header argument :dir. For the duration of source block execution, default-directory is set to the value of this header argument. Consequences include:
- external interpreter processes run in that directory
- new session processes run in that directory (but existing ones are unaffected)
- relative paths for file output are relative to that directory
The name of a directory on a remote machine may be specified with tramp syntax (/user@host:path), in which case the interpreter executable will be sought in tramp-remote-path, and if found will execute on the remote machine in the specified remote directory.
- Tramp syntax can be used to tangle to remote files. Thanks to Maurizio Vitale and Rémi Vanicat.
- org-R removed from contrib.
- gnuplot can now return it's string output – when session is set to "none".
- Now including source code block arguments w/source name on export.
- Now able to reference file links as results.
- Allow pdf/png generation directly from latex source blocks with :file header argument.
Version 6.34
Incompatible changes
Tags in org-agenda-auto-exclude-function must be lower case.
When defining an org-agenda-auto-exclude-function
, you need to
be aware that tag that is being passed into the function is
always lower case - even if it was defined in upper case
originally.
Details
Support for creating BEAMER presentations from Org mode documents
Org mode documents or subtrees can now be converted directly in to BEAMER presentation. Turning a tree into a simple presentations is straight forward, and there is also quite some support to make richer presentations as well. See the BEAMER section in the manual for more details.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion about BEAMER support and how it should work. This was a great example for how this community can achieve a much better result than any individual could.
Hyperlinks
- Add Paul Sexton's org-ctags.el
Targets like
<<my target>>
can now be found by Emacs' etag functionality, and Org mode links can be used to to link to etags, also in non-Org mode files. For details, see the file org-ctags.el.This feature uses a new hook
org-open-link-functions
which will call function to do something special with text links.Thanks to Paul Sexton for this contribution.
- Add Jan Böcker's org-docview.el
This new module allows links to various file types using docview, where Emacs displays images of document pages. Docview link types can point to a specific page in a document, for example to page 131 of the Org mode manual:
[[docview:~/.elisp/org/doc/org.pdf::131][Org mode Manual]]
Thanks to Jan Böcker for this contribution.
- New link types that force special ways of opening the file
file+sys:/path/to/file
will use the system to open the file, like double-clicking would.- file:///path/to/file will force opening the linked file with Emacs.
This was a request by John Wiegley.
- Open all links in a node
When using
C-c C-o
on a headline to get a list of links in the entry, pressingRET
will open all links. This allows something like projects to be defined, with a number of files that have to be opened by different applications.This was a request by John Wiegley.
Agenda Views
- Improve the logic of the search view.
The logic of search views is changed a bit. See the docstring of the function
or-search-view
.These changes resulted from a discussion with Matt Lundin.
- New face for entries from the Emacs diary
Entries that enter the Agenda through the Emacs diary now get the face
org-agenda-diary
.This was a request by Thierry Volpiatto.
- New function `org-diary-class' to schedule classes with skipped weeks.
This was a request by Daniel Martins.
- Empty matcher means prompt in agenda custom commands
When an agenda custom command has an empty string as MATCH element, so far this would lead to a meaningless search using an empty matcher. Now an empty (or white) string will be interpreted just like a nil matcher, i.e. the user will be prompted for the match.
- Agenda: Selectively remove some tags from agenda display
If you use tags very extensively, you might want to exclude some from being displayed in the agenda, in order to keep the display compact. See the new option
org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp
for details.This was largely a patch by Martin Pohlack.
Export
- Direct export of only the current subtree
Pressing
1
afterC-c C-e
and before the key that selects the export backend, only the current subtree will be exported, exactly as it you had selected it first withC-c @
. So for example,C-c C-e 1 b
will export the current subtree to HTML and open the result in the browser. - Direct export of enclosing node
Pressing
SPC
afterC-c C-e
and before the key that selects the export backend, the enclosing subree that is set up for subtree export will be exported, exactly as it you had selected it first withC-c @
. So for example,C-c C-e SPC d
will find the enclosing node with a LaTeXCLASS property or an EXPORTFILENAME property and export that. - Caching export images
Images that are created for example using LaTeX or ditaa for inclusion into exported files are now cached. This works by adding a hash to the image name, that reflects the source code and all relevant settings. So as long as the hash does not change, the image does not have to be made again. His can lead to a substantial reduction in export/publishing times.
Thanks to Eric Schulte for a patch to this effect.
- Preserving line breaks for export no longer works
ASCII export always preserves them - no other export format does. We had attempted to use
\obeylines
for this in LaTeX, but that does create too many problems. - New symbols
\EUR
and\checkmark
\EUR
symbols from Marvosym package, and\checkmark
are now supported symbols in Org mode, i.e. they will be exported properly to the various backends. - Allow LaTeXCLASSOPTIONS to set options, also from a property
You can set the options to the
\documentclass
command on a per-file basis, using#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [11pt]
or on a per-tree basis using the corresponding property. The defined string will replace the default options entirely.
- The encoding of LaTeX files is now handled property
Org now makes sure that the encoding used by the file created through the export mechanism is reflected correctly in the
\usepackage[CODINGSYSTEM]{inputenc}
command. So as long as the
org-export-latex-classes
definition contains an\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
statement, that statement will be modified so that the correct option is used.If you wan to use special encodings, for example
utf8x
instead ofutf8
, see the variableorg-export-latex-inputenc-alist
.This was a request by Francesco Pizzolante.
Property API enhancements
- Make a new special property BLOCKED, indicating if entry is blocked
A new special property BLOCKED returns "t" when the entry is blocked from switching the TODO state to a DONE state.
This was a request by John Wiegley.
- New hooks for external support for allowed property values
It is now possible to hook into Org in order to provide the allowed values for any property with a lisp function. See the docstring of the variable
org-property-allowed-value-functions
- Allow unrestricted completion on properties
When listing the allowed values for a property, for example with a
:name_ALL:
property, completion on these values enforces that one of the values will be chosen. Now, if you add ":ETC" to the list of allowed values, it will be interpreted as a switch, and the completion will be non-restrictive, so you can also choose to type a new value.
Changes to Org-babel
- The documentation for Org-babel has been drastically improved and is available on Worg at https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
- Source-code block names are now exported to HTML and LaTeX
- Org-babel functions are now bound to keys behind a common key prefix (see https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-source-code.html)
- Results are now foldable with TAB
- Header argument values can now be lisp forms
- Readable aliases for #+srcname: and #+resname:
- Sha1 hash based caching of results in buffer
- Can now index into variable values
- org-babel-clojure now supports multiple named sessions
Miscellaneous changes
- Make
C-c r C
customize remember templates
C-c r C
is now a shortcut forM-x customize-variable RET org-remember-templates RET
This was a proposal by Adam Spiers.
- Use John Gruber's regular expression for URL's
We now use a better regexp to spot plain links in text. This regexp is adopted from John Gruber's blogpost.
Thanks to William Henney for the pointer.
- Implement tag completion of all tags in all agenda files
The new option
org-complete-tags-always-offer-all-agenda-tags
makes Org complete all tags from all agenda files if non-nil. Usually, setting it locally to t in org-remember buffers is the most useful application of this new feature.Thanks to Tassilo Horn for a patch to this effect.
Version 6.33
Incompatible changes
Reorganize key bindings for archiving
The following keys now do archiving
- C-c C-x C-a
- archive using the command specified in
org-archive-default-command
. This variable is by default set toorg-archive-subtree
, which means arching to the archive file.
The three specific archiving commands are available through
- C-c C-x C-s
- archive to archive file
- C-c C-x a
- toggle the archive tag
- C-c C-x A
- move to archive sibling
These bindings work the same in an Org file, and in the agenda.
In addition:
- In the agenda you can also use
a
to call the default archiving command, but you need to confirm the command withy
so that this cannot easily happen by accident. - For backward compatibility,
C-c $
in an org-mode file, and$
in the agenda buffer continue to archive to archive file.
Details
Level indentation cycling new empty entries and plain list items
To speed up data entry, TAB now behaves special in an empty
headline, i.e. if the current line only contains the headline
starter stars, maybe a TOD keyword, but no further content. This
is usually the situation just after creating a new headline with
M-RET
or M-S-RET
.
Then, TAB will first make the current entry a child of the entry above, then a parent, then a grand parent etc until it reaches top level. Yet another TAB and you will be back at the initial level at which the headline was created.
New plain list items behave in just the same way.
Sounds strange? Try it, it is insanely fast when entering data.
If you still don't like it, turn it off by customizing
org-cycle-level-after-item/entry-creation
.
Thanks to Samuel Wales and John Wiegley for ideas that contributed to this new feature.
Speed commands at the start of a headline
If you set the variable org-use-speed-commands
, the cursor
position at the beginning of a headline (i.e. before the first
star) becomes special. Single keys execute special commands in
this place, for example outline navigation with f
, b
, n
,
and p
, equivalent to the corresponding C-c C-f
, C-c C-b
,
C-c C-n
, and C-c C-f
commands. The full list of commands can
be seen by pressing ?
at the special location. More commands
can be added and existing ones modified by configuring the
variable org-speed-commands-user
.
This was a request by John Wiegley, based on similar speed navigation in allout.el.
Logging changes in scheduling and deadline time stamps
Setting the variables org-log-reschedule
and
org-log-redeadline
to either time
or note
will arrange for
recording a logbook entry whenever a scheduling date or deadline
is changed.
This was a request by Rick Moynihan.
File remember notes into a date tree
Remember notes can now be filed to a location in a date tree. A date tree is an outline tree with years as top levels, months as level 2 headings, and days as level three headings. These are great for journals and for recording appointments and other loose dates because it will be easy to find all entries referencing a particular date, and it will be easy to archive all such entry from last year, for example.
To select date tree filing, set the HEADLINE part of the remember
template to the symbol date-tree
. The date tree will be build
in the file on top level. However, if the file contains an entry
with a non-nil DATE_TREE
property, then the tree will be build
under that headline.
New commands to create entries from agenda and calendar
If you make the variable org-agenda-diary-file
point to an
org-mode file, the i
key in both the agenda buffer and in the
Emacs calendar will be made to insert entries into that Org file.
The dates at the cursor and the mark are being used when making
entries for specific dates or blocks. In the new file,
anniversaries will be collected under a special headline, and
day/block entries will be filed into a date tree (see previous
section).
This was a request by Stephen Eglen.
A new freemind exporter has been integrated with Org mode
org-freemind.el has a number of entry points (for details, see
the source code), but you can also use Org's C-c C-e m
to
export a file or a selected subtree.
Thanks to Lennart Borgman for this contribution. An earlier version of this file was part of the nxhtml package, under the name freemind.el.
Drawers are now exported properly
Drawers are now exported when the configuration requires it, i.e. if the variable `org-export-with-drawers' is t or a list containing the drawers to export.
Min/Max/Mean age operators in Column View.
This lets you see how much time has passed since the specified
timestamp property each entry. The three operators (@min
,
@max
, @mean
) show either the age of the youngest or oldest
entry or the average age of the children.
Thanks to James TD Smith for a patch to this effect.
Allow source code block indentation to be preserved
If org-src-preserve-indentation
is non-nil, or if a block has a
-i
switch, then the behavior of org-exp-blocks is altered as
follows:
- Indentation is not removed before passing the block contents to the block-transforming plugin.
- The result returned by the plugin is not re-indented.
- Editing the source code block with
C-c '
preserves it's indentation.
Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
Frame/window control when switching to source code edit buffer.
When switching to a source code editing buffer with C-c '
, you
can now control the frame / window setup using the new variable
org-src-window-setup
.
Thanks to Dan Davison for this feature.
Refile an entry to the current clock
You can now quickly refile an entry to become a child of the
entry currently being clocked. The keys for doing this are
C-2 C-c C-w
.
This was a request by Bernt Hansen.
Make C-c C-o
open the attachment directory is there are no links
If there is no link in an entry, C-c C-o
will now open the
attachment directory instead.
This was a request/patch by John Wiegley.
org-mac-iCal.el: work with calendar "groups"
Some calendar systems (Google, Zimbra) handle subscriptions to multiple calendars (or to an account) by grouping them under a single caldav directory in the calendar tree. org-mac-iCal used to assumes there is only one ics file created per caldav directory, so while it creates all of the needed merged ics files, it only copies one of them to ~/Library/Calendar before importing the contents into the diary.
Thanks to Doug Hellmann for a patch to fix this.
New module org-learn.el in the contrib directory
The file implements the learning algorithm described at http://supermemo.com/english/ol/sm5.htm, which is a system for reading material according to "spaced repetition". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition for more details.
Thanks to John Wiegley for this contribution.
New contributed package org-git-link.el
org-git-link.el defines two new link types. The git
link type
is meant to be used in the typical scenario and mimics the file
link syntax as closely as possible. The gitbare
link type
exists mostly for debugging reasons, but also allows e.g.
linking to files in a bare git repository for the experts.
Thanks to Raimar Finken for this contribution.
org-annotation-helper.el and org-browser-url.e. have been removed
Please switch to org-protocol.el, into which contains the same functionality in a more general framework.
The contributed org-export-freemind package has been removed.
Org now contains a new freemind exporter, org-freemind.el.
Org-babel Changes
- Clojure is supported [Thanks to Joel Boehland]
- Perl is supported
- Ruby and Python now respond to the :file header argument
- Added :resultsswitches header argument for passing switches through to raw src blocks
- Preserve indentation in source blocks on export and tangle
- Possible to evaluate noweb reference on tangling or code block evaluation
- Allowing multiple noweb references on a single line
- Cleaned up the passing of parameter values from Org-babel to language specific functions
Older changes
For even older Changes, see older changes.