Re: Org-mode version 5.05

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>]

Carsten Dominik schrieb:
> I am releasing version 5.05 of Org-mode.  As usual, it is
> in the Emacs CVS trunk, and at my website
> 
> http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/
> 
> Lots of changes again, make sure to carefully read the stuff below.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> Changes in Version 5.05
> -----------------------
> 
> * Overview
> 
>   - LaTeX export, finally, thanks to Bastien.
> 
>   - Extension mechanism for the hyperlink system.
> 
>   - Global access to commands the insert and follow links.
> 
>   - Individual lead-times for deadlines.
> 
>   - Option to show only the next instance of repeating timestamp.
> 
>   - Store remember notes with only 2 keys
> 
>   - Appointment reminders from Org-mode.
> 
>   - Global values for selected properties.
> 
>   - Bug fixes.
> 
> 
> * Details
> 
>   - Bastien's `org-export-latex.el' is now part of the org-mode
>     distribution.  You can export an Org-mode document to a
>     LaTeX file with `C-c C-e l'.  For more options, see the
>     manual, and the commentary in the Lisp file.  Kudos to
>     Bastien for contributing this frequently requested feature.
>     I am sure this has been tough because of the many different
>     ways I have been allowing LaTeX snippets and environments to
>     be incorporated in lazy free-format ways.
> 
>   - Org-mode has now an extension mechanism for the hyperlink
>     system.  This should clear the road for all those mairix and
>     other ideas that have been floating around.  Now it is on
>     *you* to write and share new link types for Org-mode.  The
>     interface for adding a new link type is described in the
>     appendix of the manual, section A2.  The unsolved problem is
>     currently how to handle the new link types for
>     export/publishing.
> 
>   - New *global* commands `org-open-at-point-global' and
>     `org-insert-link-global'.  You can bind these commands to
>     global keys and use them to insert and follow Org-mode-like
>     links anywhere in Emacs.  Thanks to Adam Spiers for this
>     excellent idea.
> 
>   - Each deadline timestamp may now specify its own interval of
>     lead-time display, given in days, weeks, months or years.
>     The syntax is like this
> 
>      DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon -5d>
> 
>     When combined with a repeater, the repeater has to come
>     first:
> 
>      DEADLINE: <2007-08-13 Mon +2w -5d>
> 
>     You may now also customize the faces that are used in the
>     agenda to indicate the distance of an approaching deadline.
>     See the new option `org-agenda-deadline-faces'.
> 
>     Thanks to Pavel Chalmoviansky and John Wiegley for
>     proposals in this direction.
> 
>   - New option `org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all'.  When
>     set to nil, repeating time stamps will only show up once in
>     the agenda, either today or in the near future.  Other
>     matches will be ignored.  Thanks to John Wiegley for this
>     proposal.
> 
>   - New variable `org-remember-store-without-prompt'.  When set,
>     exiting the remember buffer with C-c C-c will store the note
>     without further prompts to the default location, and `C-u
>     C-c C-c' will get the prompts for file and location.  So
>     this variable reverses the prefix-argument functionality for
>     storing remember notes.  This follows a request from John
>     Wiegley.
> 
>   - A new function `org-agenda-to-appt' activates all
>     appointments for the current day so that Emacs will display
>     reminders.  This uses appt.el.  Thanks to Bastien for this
>     function.
> 
>   - You can now set default values for properties that can be
>     inherited by all entries in a buffer, or by all entries
>     globally.  Global properties are set in the variable
>     `org-global-properties', like this:
> 
>       (setq org-global-properties '(("NAME" "This is the value")))
> 
>     Buffer-local values are set like this:
> 
>       #+PROPERTY: NAME This is the value
> 
>     When using org-entry-get to get the value of a property with
>     the `inherit' flag and the hierarchy above the entry does
>     not contain this property, the buffer-local and global lists
>     are checked as well.  This is mostly useful (I think) to set
>     the list of allowed values for a property.  Thanks to Bernt
>     Hansen and Bastien for these ideas.
> 
>   - Bug fixes.


Thank you Carsten for the excellent work.
I can confirm that the "r"-eload for custom agenda views now stays with 
the custom settings!

Rainer