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The Org-mode TODO list
- Introduction
- Tasks
- Structure
- Agenda issues
- Links
- Tables
- Compatibility issues
- Exporting
- Publishing
- Miscellaneous Stuff
- BUG Comments cannot be filled
- WISH Inlining of images in Org-mode files
- Fixup outline-magic.el, so that it can be used.
- Use the new argument of bibtex-url
- QUESTION Do we need a 43 folders implementation?
- Priorities
- INCONSISTENCY: items don't grow/shrink due to promotion.
- QUESTION grep on directory does not yet work.
- Archive
- COMMENT HTML style specifications
Introduction
This is a loose collection of ideas and TODO items for the future development of Org-mode. These ideas come from various sources, mostly from emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, from direct emails to me, or from my own day-dreaming. I don't always mention the source of an idea, out of laziness. However, when I implement a good idea, I try to mention the origin of this idea in the Acknowledgments section of the manual - let me know if I forgot to give you credit for something.
Nomenclature
On this page, I am using TODO keywords in the following way:
| Keyword | Intention |
| TODO | A development that is going to happen, once I have time or once I figure out how to do it. |
| IDEA | A new idea, I have not yet decided what if anything I will do about it. |
| WISH | A wish, probably voiced by someone on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org. This is less than a new idea, more a change in existing behavior. |
| QUESTION | A question someone asked, that needs some thinking before it can be answered |
| DECLINED | I have decided not to implement this feature, but I am keeping it in the list so that people can see it, complain, or still try to convince me. |
| INCONSISTENCY | Some behavior in Org-mode that is not as clean and consistent as I would like it to be. |
| BUG | This needs to be fixed, as soon as possible. |
| DONE | Well, done is done. |
| NEW | This is a tag, indicating recently added entries |
Tasks
Structure
TODO Get rid of all the \r instances, which were used only for XEmacs.
TODO proper visibility cycling for items
Make them not hide the text after the final list item. This is not trivial, we cannot usenormal outline stuff, needs a separate implementaiton.
WISH Inline TODO entries
A way to put a TODO entry without starting a new section.
Agenda issues
WISH Make more modes changeable from the agenda
These could be made available for toggling, just like follow-mode. Examples:
- org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels
- org-tags-match-list-sublevels
- org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled
Links
WISH Variable of standard links for completion with C-c C-l
Or something like that, to make standard links fast.
IDEA Find all links to a specific file
IDEA Make info HTML links work for links to Info files
Info links of course only work inside Emacs. However, many info documents are on the web, so the HTML exporter could try to be smart and convert an Info link into the corresponding link on the web. For example, we could use the GNU software site then Name.HTML. Here is the link to be used: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ Another question is, is this URL going to be stable so that it makes sense to actually put this into org.el?
TODO Remove irretrievable links from published HTML output
This is on David's table, and he will hopefully integrate a mechanism for this into org-publish.el. The discussion about this was started by Austin Frank
TODO Document the character protection in links
I don't think this is really covered anywhere. Maybe we also should protect characters in the visible part, to make sure thing will never be on two lines…?
WISH Radio targets across files
I guess each org file could write a .orgtargets.filename file, if it has any radio targets.
Tables
WISH Row formulas
@4=…..
WISH Make a variable that current line should be recomputed always
in each table, skipping headers of course.
BUG When computing in a narrowed column, aligning may go wrong.
Computing changes fields and does not yet see correctly if the column width has changed, in the case of a narrowed column.
Compatibility issues
Emacs 21 compatibility
This is being phased out. Almost everything works under Emacs 21, but in the future I will make little effort to support it.
XEmacs compatibility
Exporting
IDEA Convert links to footnotes for ASCII export.
But the question is: where should these footnotes be placed?
Publishing
We need to simplify the publishing options. Here are some of the options for publishing projects
Publishing options
:`:base-directory' Directory containing publishing source files
:`:publishing-directory' Directory (possibly remote) where output files
will be published.
:`:preparation-function' Function called before starting publishing
process, for example to run `make' for updating
files to be published.
:`:base-extension' Extension (without the dot!) of source files. This
actually is a regular expression.
:`:exclude' Regular expression to match file names that should
not be published, even though they have been selected
on the basis of their extension.
:`:include' List of files to be included regardless of
`:base-extension' and `:exclude'.
:`:publishing-function' Function executing the publication of a file.
This may also be a list of functions, which will
all be called in turn.
:`:link-validation-function' Function to validate links
:`:auto-index' When non-nil, publish an index during
org-publish-current-project or org-publish-all.
:`:index-filename' Filename for output of index. Defaults to `index.org'
(which becomes `index.html').
:`:index-title' Title of index page. Defaults to name of file.
:`:index-function' Plug-in function to use for generation of index.
Defaults to `org-publish-org-index', which generates
a plain list of links to all files in the project.
TODO Document the :recursive option
QUESTION Does anyone use the index related options
QUESTION Remove :base-extension and only use :include
WISH Simple interaction between :include :exclude :recursive
QUESTION Use an export-directory option per file?
For now we use publishing-directory but this is not consistent with the convention of using "publishing" when there is a project to publish.
Miscellaneous Stuff
BUG Comments cannot be filled
WISH Inlining of images in Org-mode files
TODO Fixup outline-magic.el, so that it can be used.
TODO Use the new argument of bibtex-url
Roland Winkler was kind enough to implement a new argument to the `bibtex-url' command that allows me to retrieve the corresponding URL, whether it is taken from a URL field or constructed in some clever way. Currently I am not using this, because too many people use an old Emacs version which does not have this. however, eventually I will implement this.
QUESTION Do we need a 43 folders implementation?
That could easily be done in an org-mode file. But then, maybe this should really be a paper thing.
Priorities
Here is some information about priorities, which is not yet documented. Actually, I am not sur if the list here is correct
QUOTE Priorities
TODO entries: 1 or 1,2,… DEADLINE is 10-ddays, i.e. it is 10 on the due day i.e. it goes above top todo stuff 7 days before due SCHEDULED is 5-ddays, i.e. it is 5 on the due date i.e. it goes above top todo on the due day TIMESTAMP is 0 i.e. always at bottom but as a deadline it is 100 but if scheduled it is 99 TIMERANGE is 0 i.e. always at bottom DIARY is 0 i.e. always at bottom
Priority * 1000
INCONSISTENCY: items don't grow/shrink due to promotion.
In plain lists, multiple demote/promote commands executed directly after each other don't change the scope of the command - the initially selected text continues to be selected. This is inconsistent with the behavior of outline sections, were the subtree for promotion/demotion is newly defined after each command. Which convention is better? Should this be consistent between trees and plain lists?
QUESTION grep on directory does not yet work.
I am actually not sure, I might have addressed this already, but my memory is failing me. Needs some checking.