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2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift): Make it work at the
end of the buffer.
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-write-checksums): Specify coding
system.
(org-mobile-timestamp-buffer): Keep local variable/mode line at
beginning of buffer.
* org-latex.el (org-latex-entities-regexp): Fix typo in regexp.
* org.el (org-block-todo-from-children-or-siblings-or-parent)
(org-block-todo-from-checkboxes): Do not block changes to a nil
TODO state.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org-habit.el (org-habit-parse-todo): Indicate which habit is
wrongly set up in the error messages.
* org-colview.el (org-columns-display-here): Don't try to
calculate values if the underlying property is not set.
(org-columns-string-to-number): Convert age strings back into
fractional days.
(org-agenda-colview-summarize): Handle extended summary types
properly.
* org-colview-xemacs.el (org-columns-display-here): Don't try to
calculate values if the underlying property is not set.
(org-columns-string-to-number): Convert age strings back into
fractional days.
(org-agenda-colview-summarize): Handle extended summary types
properly.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-exp.el (org-export-format-drawer-function): New variable.
(org-export-format-drawer): New function.
(org-export-preprocess-string): Pass the backend as a parameter to
`org-export-remove-or-extract-drawers'.
(org-export-remove-or-extract-drawers): New parameter BACKEND.
* org-protocol.el (org-protocol-char-to-string): New defsubst.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file): Add error
message when no block is selected.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-links): Check for protectedness
in the last matched character, not after the match.
* org-datetree.el (org-datetree-find-date-create): Respect
restriction when KEEP-RESTRICTION is set.
(org-datetree-file-entry-under): New function.
(org-datetree-cleanup): New command.
2009-11-13 Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
* org-src.el (org-edit-src-code): New optional argument context
allows calling functions to avoid altering the saved window
configuration.
(org-edit-src-exit): Do not restore window configuration when this
function is used in the context of saving the edit buffer.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-out, org-clock-cancel): Revert to
instances to switching to with-current-buffer, because these seem
to cause problems - no idea why.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file):
Require diary-lib for (diary-date-display-form).
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-log-reschedule, org-log-redeadline): New options.
(org-log-note-headings): Add templates for rescheduling and
deadline changing.
(org-startup-options): Add in-buffer settings for logging changing
schedule and deadline time stamps.
(org-deadline, org-schedule): Check for existing date and arrange
for logging if the user requests it.
(org-add-log-note): Prepare proper note buffers for rescheduling
and deadline changes.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file)
(org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file)
(org-agenda-insert-diary-make-new-entry): New functions.
(org-agenda-diary-entry): Call
`org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file' when appropriate.
* org.el (org-calendar-insert-diary-entry-key): New option.
(org-agenda-diary-file): New option.
("calendar"): Install our insertion function in the calendar.
* org-remember.el (org-datetree): Require.
(org-remember-templates): Add new positioning option.
(org-remember-reference-date): New variable.
(org-remember-apply-template): Store the reference date in a local
variable.
(org-remember-handler): Implement date tree positioning of entries.
* org-datetree.el: New file.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-preprocess): Protect targets in
verbatim emphasis.
* org-html.el (org-export-as-html): Protect targets in verbatim
emphasis.
* org-docbook.el (org-export-as-docbook): Protect targets in
verbatim emphasis.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-show-notification): Handle messages that
contain a percent character.
* org-remember.el (org-remember-apply-template): Turn of partial
completion.
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-before-process-capture-hook): New hook.
(org-mobile-pull): Run `org-mobile-before-process-capture-hook'.
* org.el (org-indent-mode): Define variable already in org.el.
(org-unfontify-region): Remove line-prefix and wrap-prefix
properties only if org-indent-mode is active.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-icalendar.el (org-print-icalendar-entries): Save match data
around call to verify function.
(org-print-icalendar-entries): Add a call to the verification
function.
* org.el (org-speedbar-set-agenda-restriction): Remove unnecessary
save-restrivtion' form.
2009-11-13 Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
* org-exp.el (org-export-format-source-code-or-example): restrict
scope of preserve-indentp to the let binding.
(org-src): require org-src, since org-src-preserve-indentation is used.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-timer.el (org-timer-set-timer): Set variables
org-timer-timer[123] correctly.
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-files-alist): Make it work when
`agenda-archives' is included in
`org-agenda-text-search-extra-files'.
(org-mobile-push): Restore agenda after mobile push.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-resolve-clocks-if-idle): Another fix to the
way the amount of idle time is presented in the minibuffer.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-icalendar.el (org-print-icalendar-entries): Use
org-icalendar-verify-function only if non-nil.
* org.el (org-refile): Refile to clock only if the prefix arg is
2.
(org-sparse-tree): Fix docstring to be in line with prompt.
(org-update-parent-todo-statistics): Call
`org-after-todo-statistics-hook' on each level.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-remember.el (org-remember-apply-template): Make sure the
buffer exists.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-tab-ind-state): New variable.
(org-cycle-level): New function.
(org-cycle-level-after-item/entry-creation): New option.
(org-flag-subtree): New function.
(org-hide-archived-subtrees): Call `org-flag-subtree'.
(org-set-effort): Indexed access.
* org-list.el (org-cycle-item-indentation): New function.
* org.el (org-refile): Make prefix argument 2 refile to current
clock.
(org-priority): Interpret action `remove' as call to remove the
priority cookie.
* org-remember.el (org-remember-apply-template): Don't depend on
buffer name being like file name.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-play-sound): Expand file in
org-clock-sound, to allow ~ for home.
* org-remember.el (org-remember-handler): Set
text-before-node-creation even if this already looks like a node,
because the string might be needed on non-org-mode target files.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-open-link): Make this work in agenda
clocktables.
(org-agenda-switch-to): Follow a link at point if
org-return-follows-link' is set and there is nothing else to do in
this line.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org-colview-xemacs.el: Add in changes from org-colview.el
2009-11-13 Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
* org-exp-blocks.el: Modify split separator regexp to avoid empty
strings.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org-colview.el (org-columns-new): Make this work with the new
operators.
(org-columns-store-format): Make this work with the new operators.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-src.el (org-src-preserve-indentation): Document that this
variable is also used during export.
* org-exp.el (org-export-format-source-code-or-example): Preserve
indentation if a block has a -i option, or if
`org-src-preserve-indentation' is set.
* org-exp-blocks.el (org-export-blocks-preprocess): Preserve
indentation if a block has a -i option, or if
`org-src-preserve-indentation' is set.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-mode-map): Define the new archiving keys.
(org-speed-commands-default): Define an archiving key in the speed
command map.
(org-org-menu): Improve the menu structure concerning archiving.
* org-archive.el (org-archive-subtree-default-with-confirmation):
New command.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-mode-map): Define the new archiving keys.
(org-agenda-menu): Add the new archiving commands to the menu.
(org-agenda-archive-default)
(org-agenda-archive-default-with-confirmation): New commands.
(org-agenda-archive, org-agenda-archive-to-archive-sibling): Just
call `org-agenda-archive-with'.
(org-agenda-archive-with): New function.
* org-table.el (org-table-convert-region): Inert spaces around "|"
to avoid line beginnings like "|-1" which will be mistaken as
hlines.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-offer-links-in-entry): Return nil if there are no
links, t if a link has been selected.
(org-open-at-point): Open attachment directory when called in the
headline and there are no links in the entry body.
(org-speed-commands-default): Add "o" for open-at-point as a speed
command.
* org-attach.el (org-attach-reveal): Optional prefix arg
IF-EXISTS, which avoids creating the attachment directory if it
does not yet exist.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda, org-run-agenda-series): Evaluate
MATCH.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el ("abbrev"): Work with abbrev tables only after they have
been loaded.
* org-list.el (org-list-send-list): Fix bug related to match
data.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-fontify): Apply verbatim
emphasis.
(org-export-latex-make-header): Insert \obeylines if line breaks
should be preserved.
* org-exp.el (org-export-protect-verbatim): Add an
`org-verbatim-emph' property to such text.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-icalendar.el (org-icalendar-use-plain-timestamp): New option.
(org-print-icalendar-entries): Skip entries where the timestamp is
not a deadline and not scheduled, if the user requests that.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-quotation-marks): Allow a bracket
before an opening quote.
* org-archive.el (org-archive-subtree): Keep archive after
archiving something.
* org-id.el (org-id-update-id-locations): Add archive files if
that is required by `org-id-extra-files'.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-src.el (org-src-window-setup): New option.
(org-src-switch-to-buffer): New function.
(org-edit-src-exit): Add optional argument CONTEXT and use it to
restore window configuration.
(org-edit-src-code, org-edit-src-continue, org-edit-src-exit):
Call `org-src-switch-to-buffer'.
* org.el (org-default-properties): Add STYLE property.
(org-files-list): Use the function call to get the files.
(org-additional-option-like-keywords): Add SETUPFILE to completion
list.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-table.el (org-table-convert-region): Correctly interpret
quoting in csv import.
* org.el (org-icompleting-read): Make iswitchb completion work
with lists and tables.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-add-entry-text): Never add entry text
while pushing the mobile agenda.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el
(org-clock-auto-clock-resolution): Now takes three values: nil, t
and `when-no-clock-is-running'.
(org-clock-in): Use `org-clock-auto-clock-resolution' to determine
whether or not to resolve Org buffers on clock in.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org-colview.el (org-format-time-period): Function to format
times in fractional days for display.
(org-columns-display-here): Add support for showing a calculated
value in place of the property.
(org-columns): Set `org-columns-time' to the current time so time
difference calculations will work.
(org-columns-time): Use to store the current time when column view
is displayed, so all time differences will use the same reference
point.
(org-columns-compile-map): There is now an extra position in each
entry specifying the function to use to calculate the displayed
value for the non-calculated properties in the column,
(org-columns-compute-all): Set `org-columns-time' to the current
time so time difference calculations will work.
(org-columns-compute): Handle column operators where the values
used are calculated from the underlying property.
(org-columns-number-to-string): Handle the 'age' column format
(org-columns-string-to-number): Correct the function name (was
org-column...). Add support for the 'age' column format.
(org-columns-compile-format): Support the additional parameter in
org-columns-compile-map.
2009-11-13 Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
* org.el (org-mode-hook): Turn `org-mode-hook' into a customizable
variable.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-has-been-used): New variable.
(org-clock-in): Set `org-clock-has-been-used'.
(org-clock-save): Save only if clock data has been used or created
during this session.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-persist): New value, to store only the
clock history.
(org-clock-save): Don't save the clock if only the history should
be stored.
(org-clock-load): Turn off John Wiegley's auto resolving mechanism
when restoring a saved clock.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-display, org-clock-put-overlay): Use
`org-time-clock-use-fractional'.
* org.el (org-time-clocksum-use-fractional)
(org-time-clocksum-fractional-format): Two new customizable
variables which allow the user to select fractional times (1.25
instead of 1:25) in the `org-clock-display' report.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-ascii.el (org-export-ascii-table-keep-all-vertical-lines):
New option.
* org.el (org-tag-alist): Fix customization type.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-update-checksum-for-capture-file):
Make sure the regexp search can fail without throwing an error.
(org-mobile-apply): Save the inbox buffer after removing
successfully applied changes.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-resolve-clocks-if-idle): Fix to the way idle
time is reported after the user comes back (but before they
resolve time).
* org.el (org-get-repeat): Change so that this function can be
called with either `org-scheduled-string' or
`org-deadline-string'.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-auto-clock-resolution): Renamed
`org-clock-disable-clock-resolution', since negatives don't sound
good in customization variables.
(org-clock-in): Don't use the auto-resolution logic if the user is
clocking into a different task while an active clock is running.
This then allows the default behavior of clocking out of the open
task and then into the new task.
* org.el (org-modules): Made this variable more consistent, since
it was referring to Org, OrgMode and Org-mode, whereas the docs
for the variable always refer to Org-mode.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org.el (org-repeat-re): The changed org-repeat-re no longer
matched simple +2d type repeaters. Fix it so it does.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-preprocess): Protect the vspace
macro in the VERSE environment.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
* org-habit.el (org-habit-get-priority): A new function that
determines the relative priority of a habit, based on how long
past its scheduled date it is, and how near the deadline is.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-get-scheduled): Set habit priority
using `org-habit-get-priority'.
* org-habit.el (org-habit-build-graph): Start displaying colors
from the first scheduled date, if that date is earlier than the
first completion date.
* org-habit.el: Changed all "color" variables to faces, and made
them appropriate for light and dark backgrounds.
* org-habit.el (org-habit-duration-to-days): Made this function
more general.
(org-habit-parse-todo): Parse the new ".+N/N" style repeater.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-get-deadlines): Removed all mention of
habits, since they don't use DEADLINE anymore.
* org.el (org-repeat-re, org-display-custom-time)
(org-timestamp-change): Extended to support the new ".+N/N"
syntax, used for habits.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-resolve-clock): Fixed an incorrect
variable reference.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-set-mode-name): Show Habit in the
modeline when habits are being displayed (if that module is being
loaded).
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org-clock.el (org-x11-idle-seconds): Add a method to get the X11
idle time using the xscreensaver extension.
(org-user-idle-seconds): Use X11 idle time if available.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-next-line): New command.
(org-agenda-previous-line): New commands.
(org-agenda-show-and-scroll-up, org-agenda-show-scroll-down): New
commands.
(org-agenda-follow-mode): Do the follow immediately if the mode is
turned on here.
(previous-line, next-line): Replace keys with the corresponding
org functions.
(org-agenda-mode-map): Bind backspace and delete to the scrolling
command.
* org.el (org-icompleting-read): Turn off partial completion mode
for the duration of this completion round.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-fontify-headline): Protect TeX
macros in author lines and similar stuff.
* org.el (org-file-tags): Fix docstring.
(org-get-buffer-tags): Add the #+FILETAGS tags.
("ecb"): Maks ecb show context after jumping into an Org file.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-finalize-agenda): Draw habit consistency
graphs after everything else in the buffer has been setup.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-apply): Count success and failure.
* org.el (org-indent-line-function): Fix regexp replace problem.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-disable-clock-resolution): New
customization variable that disable automatic clock resolution on
clock in.
(org-clock-in): If `org-clock-disable-clock-resolution' is set, do
not automatically resolve anything. This is does not affect
idle-time resolution, however, if `org-clock-idle-time' is set.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org-habit.el: New file, which implements code to build a "habit
consistency graph".
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-get-deadlines)
(org-agenda-get-scheduled): Display consistency graphs when
outputting habits into the agenda. The graphs are always relative
to the current time.
(org-format-agenda-item): Added new parameter `habitp', which
indicates whether we are formatting a habit or not. Do not
display "extra" leading information if habitp is true.
* org.el (org-repeat-re): Improved regexp to include .+ and ++
leaders for repeat strings.
(org-get-repeat): Now takes a string parameter `tagline', so the
caller can obtain the SCHEDULED repeat, or the DEADLINE repeat.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-auto-exclude-function): New
customization variable for allowing the user to create an "auto
exclusion" filter for doing context-aware auto tag filtering.
(org-agenda-filter-by-tag): Changes to support the use of
`org-agenda-auto-exclude-function'. See the new manual addition,.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org.el (org-files-list): Don't attempt to return a file name for
Org buffers which have no associated file.
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-do-action): Fixed a typo.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-locate-entry): Interpret files
relative to org-directory.
(org-mobile-inbox-for-pull): Document the best location for this
file.
(org-mobile-check-setup): Verify `org-directory'.
(org-mobile-create-index-file): Sort the files to be listed in
index.org.
2009-11-13 James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>
* org.el (org-fast-tag-selection): Add a way to display a
description for a tag group. This is done by adding a string to
either the startgroup or endgroup cell.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-resolve, org-resolve-clocks)
(org-emacs-idle-seconds): Use `org-float-time' instead of
`time-to-seconds'
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-sorting-strategy): Fix customization
type.
* org.el (org-pre-cycle-hook): Document that `empty' can also be
the value of ARG when doing local cycling.
2009-11-13 John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
* org-clock.el (org-clock-resolve-clock): If keeping or
subtracting time results in a clock out at a time in the past, and
if the resolution occurred due to idleness or invoking `M-x
org-resolve-clocks', remember that past moment in time. On the
next clock in, the user will be prompted to see if they want to
back-date their new clock to then.
(org-clock-resolve): Do not jump the user to the location of a
dangling clock if the resolution is occuring due to an idle
timeout. In that case there is typically only one dangling clock,
the active one, and there is no value gained by shuffling their
windows around to show it to them. Being prompted to resolve an
idle clock should be as inobtrusive as possible.
(org-resolve-clocks-if-idle): New function that resolves only the
currently active clock if the user has exceeded the time returned
by `org-user-idle-seconds', based on the value of
`org-clock-idle-time'.
(org-clock-in): If, after resolving clocks,
(org-clock-out): Cancel the `org-clock-idle-timer' on clock out.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-resolve-clock): New function that
resolves a clock to a specific time, closing or resuming as need
be, and possibly even starting a new clock.
(org-clock-resolve): New function used by `org-resolve-clocks'
that sets up for the call to `org-clock-resolve-clock'. It
determines the time to resolve to based on a single-character
selection from the user to either keep time, subtract away time or
cancel the clock.
(org-resolve-clocks): New user command which resolves dangling
clocks -- that is, open but not active -- anywhere in the file
list returned by `org-files-list'.
(org-clock-in): Automatically resolve dangling clocks whenever a
user clocks in.
(org-clock-cancel): If the user cancels the solely clock in a
LOGBOOK, remove the empty drawer.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-idle-time): New user customizable option
for detecting whether the user has left a clock idle. Note: it is
only used in this commit to test whether it's worthwhile to check
OS X to get the Mac user's current idle time. If the Emacs idle
time is less than the value, the user hasn't been away long enough
to be worth checking (a more expensive test than just getting
Emacs idle time).
(org-user-idle-seconds, org-mac-idle-seconds)
(org-emacs-idle-seconds): This three functions, in conjunction
with the user customization variable `org-clock-idle-time', return
the number of seconds (as a floating point) that the user has been
away from their Emacs (or, if running on OS X, their computer).
* org-clock.el (org-find-open-clocks): New function that returns a
list of all open clocks in the given FILE. Note that each clock
it returns is a cons cell of the format (MARKER . START-TIME).
This "clock" value is used by several of the new clock module
utility functions.
(org-is-active-clock): New inline function which tests whether the
given clock value is the same as the currently active clock.
Returns non-nil if this is the case.
(org-with-clock-position): New macro that evaluates FORMS with
point in the buffer and at the position of the given clock.
Changes to the current clock are global.
(org-with-clock): New macro that evaluates FORMS with point in the
buffer and at the position of the given clock. However, changes
to the current clock are local and have no effect on the user's
active clock. This allows, for example, far any clock to be
cancelled without cancelling the active clock.
(org-clock-clock-in): New inline function that switches the active
clock to the given clock. If either the argument RESUME, or the
global `org-clock-in-resume', are non-nil, it will resume a clock
that was previously left open.
(org-clock-clock-out): New inline function that clocks out the
given clock value without affecting the currently active clock.
(org-clock-clock-cancel): New inline function that cancels the
given clock value without affecting the currently active clock.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-in): Before creating
`org-clock-mode-line-timer', check to make sure an older timer is
not currently running.
(org-clock-out): Accept new third parameter `at-time', which
permits a clock to be clocked out at a specific time. Note that
no attempt is made to verify that the clock out time is later than
the clock in time.
* org.el (org-files-list): New utility function for returning a
list of all open org-mode buffers, plus all files used to build
the agenda buffer. Note that not all the files will necessarily
be visited by a buffer at time of call.
(org-entry-beginning-position): Like the function
`line-beginning-position', this inline function returns the
beginning position of the current heading/entry.
(org-entry-end-position): Like the function `line-end-position',
this inline function returns the end position of the current
heading/entry.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-list): Mark the all-todo items line as
a header line.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-exp.el (org-inlinetask-remove-END-maybe): Declare function.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-agenda.el (org-agenda-filter-make-matcher): Allow to filter
entries that have no tags.
(org-agenda-search-view): New customize group.
(org-agenda-search-view-search-words-only): New option.
(org-search-view): Implement substring search.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-outline-level): Add doc string.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-inlinetask.el (org-inlinetask-export): Re-introduce
variable.
(org-inlinetask-export-handler): Only export inline task if the
user option calls for it.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-exp.el (org-export-handle-export-tags): Remove inlinetask
END if present.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-tables): Don't format in
protected regions.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-src.el (org-edit-src-code)
(org-edit-src-find-region-and-lang, org-edit-src-exit): Handle
macro editing.
* org-agenda.el (org-prefix-category-max-length): New variable.
(org-format-agenda-item): Use `org-prefix-category-max-length'.
(org-compile-prefix-format): Set `org-prefix-category-max-length'.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-mobile.el (org-mobile-create-index-file): Improve the
listing of tags and todo keywords.
* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-format-image): New function.
(org-export-latex-links): Use `org-export-latex-format-image'.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org-inlinetask.el (org-inlinetask-get-current-indentation)
(org-inlinetask-remove-terminator): New functions.
(org-inlinetask-export-handler): Terminate the description list.
* org-exp.el (org-export-select-backend-specific-text): Remove the
region markers.
* org-inlinetask.el (org-inlinetask-export-handler): fix bug for
tasks without content.
* org-clock.el: Make sure the clock-in target position does not
move to a different node by widening the buffer.
* org-html.el (org-export-html-format-image): Wrap image into
figure div only when there is a caption.
* org-archive.el (org-archive-mark-done): Change default value to
nil.
2009-11-13 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* org.el (org-context): Call `bobp', not `eobp'.
* org-clock.el (org-clock-cancel): Remove quotes from marker
variables.
* org.el (org-read-date-prefer-future): New allowed value `time'.
(org-read-date-analyze): Shift day to tomorrow depending on time
entered and value of `org-read-date-prefer-future'.
author | Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> |
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date | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:37:55 +0000 |
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Why Software Should Not Have Owners by Richard Stallman Digital information technology contributes to the world by making it easier to copy and modify information. Computers promise to make this easier for all of us. Not everyone wants it to be easier. The system of copyright gives software programs "owners", most of whom aim to withhold software's potential benefit from the rest of the public. They would like to be the only ones who can copy and modify the software that we use. The copyright system grew up with printing--a technology for mass production copying. Copyright fit in well with this technology because it restricted only the mass producers of copies. It did not take freedom away from readers of books. An ordinary reader, who did not own a printing press, could copy books only with pen and ink, and few readers were sued for that. Digital technology is more flexible than the printing press: when information has digital form, you can easily copy it to share it with others. This very flexibility makes a bad fit with a system like copyright. That's the reason for the increasingly nasty and draconian measures now used to enforce software copyright. Consider these four practices of the Software Publishers Association (SPA): * Massive propaganda saying it is wrong to disobey the owners to help your friend. * Solicitation for stool pigeons to inform on their coworkers and colleagues. * Raids (with police help) on offices and schools, in which people are told they must prove they are innocent of illegal copying. * Prosecution (by the US government, at the SPA's request) of people such as MIT's David LaMacchia, not for copying software (he is not accused of copying any), but merely for leaving copying facilities unguarded and failing to censor their use. All four practices resemble those used in the former Soviet Union, where every copying machine had a guard to prevent forbidden copying, and where individuals had to copy information secretly and pass it from hand to hand as "samizdat". There is of course a difference: the motive for information control in the Soviet Union was political; in the US the motive is profit. But it is the actions that affect us, not the motive. Any attempt to block the sharing of information, no matter why, leads to the same methods and the same harshness. Owners make several kinds of arguments for giving them the power to control how we use information: * Name calling. Owners use smear words such as "piracy" and "theft", as well as expert terminology such as "intellectual property" and "damage", to suggest a certain line of thinking to the public--a simplistic analogy between programs and physical objects. Our ideas and intuitions about property for material objects are about whether it is right to *take an object away* from someone else. They don't directly apply to *making a copy* of something. But the owners ask us to apply them anyway. * Exaggeration. Owners say that they suffer "harm" or "economic loss" when users copy programs themselves. But the copying has no direct effect on the owner, and it harms no one. The owner can lose only if the person who made the copy would otherwise have paid for one from the owner. A little thought shows that most such people would not have bought copies. Yet the owners compute their "losses" as if each and every one would have bought a copy. That is exaggeration--to put it kindly. * The law. Owners often describe the current state of the law, and the harsh penalties they can threaten us with. Implicit in this approach is the suggestion that today's law reflects an unquestionable view of morality--yet at the same time, we are urged to regard these penalties as facts of nature that can't be blamed on anyone. This line of persuasion isn't designed to stand up to critical thinking; it's intended to reinforce a habitual mental pathway. It's elemental that laws don't decide right and wrong. Every American should know that, forty years ago, it was against the law in many states for a black person to sit in the front of a bus; but only racists would say sitting there was wrong. * Natural rights. Authors often claim a special connection with programs they have written, and go on to assert that, as a result, their desires and interests concerning the program simply outweigh those of anyone else--or even those of the whole rest of the world. (Typically companies, not authors, hold the copyrights on software, but we are expected to ignore this discrepancy.) To those who propose this as an ethical axiom--the author is more important than you--I can only say that I, a notable software author myself, call it bunk. But people in general are only likely to feel any sympathy with the natural rights claims for two reasons. One reason is an overstretched analogy with material objects. When I cook spaghetti, I do object if someone else takes it and stops me from eating it. In this case, that person and I have the same material interests at stake, and it's a zero-sum game. The smallest distinction between us is enough to tip the ethical balance. But whether you run or change a program I wrote affects you directly and me only indirectly. Whether you give a copy to your friend affects you and your friend much more than it affects me. I shouldn't have the power to tell you not to do these things. No one should. The second reason is that people have been told that natural rights for authors is the accepted and unquestioned tradition of our society. As a matter of history, the opposite is true. The idea of natural rights of authors was proposed and decisively rejected when the US Constitution was drawn up. That's why the Constitution only *permits* a system of copyright and does not *require* one; that's why it says that copyright must be temporary. It also states that the purpose of copyright is to promote progress--not to reward authors. Copyright does reward authors somewhat, and publishers more, but that is intended as a means of modifying their behavior. The real established tradition of our society is that copyright cuts into the natural rights of the public--and that this can only be justified for the public's sake. * Economics. The final argument made for having owners of software is that this leads to production of more software. Unlike the others, this argument at least takes a legitimate approach to the subject. It is based on a valid goal--satisfying the users of software. And it is empirically clear that people will produce more of something if they are well paid for doing so. But the economic argument has a flaw: it is based on the assumption that the difference is only a matter of how much money we have to pay. It assumes that "production of software" is what we want, whether the software has owners or not. People readily accept this assumption because it accords with our experiences with material objects. Consider a sandwich, for instance. You might well be able to get an equivalent sandwich either free or for a price. If so, the amount you pay is the only difference. Whether or not you have to buy it, the sandwich has the same taste, the same nutritional value, and in either case you can only eat it once. Whether you get the sandwich from an owner or not cannot directly affect anything but the amount of money you have afterwards. This is true for any kind of material object--whether or not it has an owner does not directly affect what it *is*, or what you can do with it if you acquire it. But if a program has an owner, this very much affects what it is, and what you can do with a copy if you buy one. The difference is not just a matter of money. The system of owners of software encourages software owners to produce something--but not what society really needs. And it causes intangible ethical pollution that affects us all. What does society need? It needs information that is truly available to its citizens--for example, programs that people can read, fix, adapt, and improve, not just operate. But what software owners typically deliver is a black box that we can't study or change. Society also needs freedom. When a program has an owner, the users lose freedom to control part of their own lives. And above all society needs to encourage the spirit of voluntary cooperation in its citizens. When software owners tell us that helping our neighbors in a natural way is "piracy", they pollute our society's civic spirit. This is why we say that free software is a matter of freedom, not price. The economic argument for owners is erroneous, but the economic issue is real. Some people write useful software for the pleasure of writing it or for admiration and love; but if we want more software than those people write, we need to raise funds. For ten years now, free software developers have tried various methods of finding funds, with some success. There's no need to make anyone rich; the median US family income, around $35k, proves to be enough incentive for many jobs that are less satisfying than programming. For years, until a fellowship made it unnecessary, I made a living from custom enhancements of the free software I had written. Each enhancement was added to the standard released version and thus eventually became available to the general public. Clients paid me so that I would work on the enhancements they wanted, rather than on the features I would otherwise have considered highest priority. The Free Software Foundation, a tax-exempt charity for free software development, raises funds by selling CD-ROMs, tapes and manuals (all of which users are free to copy and change), as well as from donations. It now has a staff of five programmers, plus three employees who handle mail orders. Some free software developers make money by selling support services. Cygnus Support, with around 50 employees, estimates that about 15 per cent of its staff activity is free software development--a respectable percentage for a software company. Companies including Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments and Analog Devices have combined to fund the continued development of the free GNU compiler for the language C. Meanwhile, the GNU compiler for the Ada language is being funded by the US Air Force, which believes this is the most cost-effective way to get a high quality compiler. All these examples are small; the free software movement is still small, and still young. But the example of listener-supported radio in this country shows it's possible to support a large activity without forcing each user to pay. As a computer user today, you may find yourself using a proprietary program. If your friend asks to make a copy, it would be wrong to refuse. Cooperation is more important than copyright. But underground, closet cooperation does not make for a good society. A person should aspire to live an upright life openly with pride, and this means saying "No" to proprietary software. You deserve to be able to cooperate openly and freely with other people who use software. You deserve to be able to learn how the software works, and to teach your students with it. You deserve to be able to hire your favorite programmer to fix it when it breaks. You deserve free software. Copyright 1994 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty as long as this notice is preserved; alteration is not permitted.