From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Org-mode version 5.02 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:25:58 +0200 Message-ID: <461b7cfdd4fe525f46444686c3af0388@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8A6j-0000Rw-MH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8A6i-0000Rc-JQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8A6i-0000RZ-EB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:00 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8A6i-0006Rg-13 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:26:00 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Hi, I am releasing version 5.02 of Org-mode. It is available as part of CVS emacs, and here: http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org-mode/ This release rounds off the new properties and column view features by polishing the interfaces and adding a few more details like summaries for columns. Enjoy! - Carsten Changes in Version 5.02 ----------------------- * Overview - The interfaces for properties and column view are finished now and work well. - Properties can be summaries, i.e. the parent nodes can compute their value from the children's values. - Headlines finally require a space ofter the star(s). The conflict with bold text at the beginning of the line is no longer there. * Incompatible Changes - Bad news. It looks like it is going to be really hard to make column view work on XEmacs and on Emacs 21. Emacs 22 is currently the only Emacs where this works. If you are using Emacs 21 or XEmacs, you can still use properties, but not column view. * Details - Improvements for properties: + There are interactive commands to insert and delete properties. Read the manual chapter 7 for details. + You can define /allowed values/ for a property. When these are defined, you can change the value of a property with S-left and S-right. And you may use completion when inserting the property. This goes a long way to prevent typos when entering properties. - Improvements for column view. + In column view, you may use the keys S-left/right (and also the keys `n' and `p') to switch from one allowed value to the next. + You can define summaries for columns. For example, parents can contain the sum of all children values of a property, or the parent node can have a check box property that is automatically checked when all children's boxes are checked. + There are interactive commands to add and remove columns, and to change the attributes of a column like the summary type. These additions lead to the exciting fact that the example from [omni outliner] posted by Scott Jaderholm can now be accurately [reproduced by Org-mode]. - The space after the stars is now required in a headline, in order to remove the conflict with bold words at the beginning of a line. So * This is a level 1 headline *this is bold text* - S-up and S-down to navigate plain item lists are now also available in orgstruct-mode.