[Orgmode] Release 6.14

[Carsten Dominik]

                             Version 6.14
                             ============

Date: 2008-12-06 07:44:20 CET


Overview
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   - New relative timer to support timed notes
   - Special faces can be set for individual tags
   - The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
   - Exclude some tags from inheritance.
   - More special values for time comparisons in property searches
   - Control for exporting meta data
   - Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
   - LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
   - Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error

Incompatible Changes
=====================

Relative row references crossing hlines now throw an error
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    Relative row references in tables look like this: "@-4" which
    means the forth row above this one.  These row references are
    not allowed to cross horizontal separator lines (hlines).  So
    far, when a row reference violates this policy, Org would
    silently choose the field just next to the hline.

    Tassilo Horn pointed out that this kind of hidden magic is
    actually confusing and may cause incorrect formulas, and I do
    agree.  Therefore, trying to cross a hline with a relative
    reference will now throw an error.

    If you need the old behavior, customize the variable
    `org-table-error-on-row-ref-crossing-hline'.

Details
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New relative timer to support timed notes
------------------------------------------

    Org now supports taking timed notes, useful for example while
    watching a video, or during a meeting which is also recorded.

    - `C-c C-x .' ::
      Insert a relative time into the buffer.  The first time
      you use this, the timer will be started.  When called
      with a prefix argument, the timer is reset to 0.

    - `C-c C-x -' ::
      Insert a description list item with the current relative
      time.  With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.

    - `M-RET' ::
      Once the time list has been initiated, you can also use the
      normal item-creating command to insert the next timer item.

    - `C-c C-x 0' ::
      Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer.
      By default, the timer is reset to 0.  When called with a
      `C-u' prefix, reset the timer to specific starting
      offset.  The user is prompted for the offset, with a
      default taken from a timer string at point, if any, So this
      can be used to restart taking notes after a break in the
      process.  When called with a double prefix argument
      `C-c C-u', change all timer strings in the active
      region by a certain amount.  This can be used to fix timer
      strings if the timer was not started at exactly the right
      moment.

    Thanks to Alan Dove, Adam Spiers, and Alan Davis for
    contributions to this idea.

Special faces can be set for individual tags
---------------------------------------------

    You may now use the variable `org-tag-faces' to define the
    face used for specific tags, much in the same way as you can
    do for TODO keywords.

    Thanks to Samuel Wales for this proposal.

The agenda shows now all tags, including inherited ones.
---------------------------------------------------------

    This request has come up often, most recently it was
    formulated by Tassilo Horn.

    If you prefer the old behavior of only showing the local
    tags, customize the variable `org-agenda-show-inherited-tags'.

Exclude some tags from inheritance.
------------------------------------

    So far, the only way to select tags for inheritance was to
    allow it for all tags, or to do a positive selection using
    one of the more complex settings for
    `org-use-tag-inheritance'.  It may actually be better to
    allow inheritance for all but a few tags, which was difficult
    to achieve with this methodology.

    A new option, `org-tags-exclude-from-inheritance', allows to
    specify an exclusion list for inherited tags.

More special values for time comparisons in property searches
--------------------------------------------------------------

    In addition to `<now>', `<today>', `<yesterday>', and
    `<tomorrow>', there are more special values accepted now in
    time comparisons in property searches:  You may use strings
    like `<+3d>' or `<-2w>', with units d, w, m, and y for day,
    week, month, and year, respectively

    Thanks to Linday Todd for this proposal.

Control for exporting meta data
--------------------------------

    All the metadata in a headline, i.e. the TODO keyword, the
    priority cookie, and the tags, can now be excluded from
    export with appropriate options:

      Variable                        Publishing property   OPTIONS  
switch
     -------------------------------+--------------------- 
+----------------
      org-export-with-todo-keywords   :todo-keywords        todo:
      org-export-with-tags            :tags                 tags:
      org-export-with-priority        :priority             pri:

Cut and Paste with hot links from w3m to Org
---------------------------------------------

    You can now use the key `C-c C-x M-w' in a w3m buffer with
    HTML content to copy either the region or the entire file in
    a special way.  When you yank this text back into an Org-mode
    buffer, all links from the w3m buffer will continue to work
    under Org-mode.

    For this to work you need to load the new file /org-w3m.el./
    Please check your org-modules variable to make sure that this
    is turned on.

    Thanks for Richard Riley for the idea and to Andy Stewart for
    the implementation.

LOCATION can be inherited for iCalendar export
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    The LOCATION property can now be inherited during iCalendar
    export if you configure `org-use-property-inheritance' like
    this:

  (setq org-use-property-inheritance '("LOCATION"))