This is another big release with two exciting (I think...) new features. This is also the last big release before the summer, I expect to have one more bugfix release early in July.
On seeing this new release appear (and after undertaking a little exercise I'll describe in a moment) I feel impelled to offer a public word of gratitude to Carsten Dominik for the creation of org-mode, and by extension to all those who have contributed in any way to this remarkable software.
After over 25 years as a contented and loyal vi user, I finally took the plunge into emacs entirely because of org-mode's arrival on the scene. Better late than never -- I've never been so delighted with a major change of tools.
The little exercise I mentioned only takes a moment, and I heartily recommend it to anyone who hasn't tried it in a while. I simply opened up my TODO.org in an "ordinary" text editor. When I realized how seamlessly org-mode takes this tangled forest of stars and brackets and raw text, and transforms it into a supple and effortlessly navigable tool for keeping on top of so much -- so many things that would otherwise be lost or forgotten in the maelstrom of daily life -- I had to make some public offering of thanks in addition to the private one I expressed to him a couple of months ago (and a dozen and a half releases ago). Carsten could quite justifiably have replied "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" and it would have been a major understatement.
But he's way too modest for that; so once again, many thanks, Carsten! Mark Theodoropoulos Berkeley, California -- <mtheo> producer / classics without walls the anti-warhorse zone / www.amural.com kusf 90.3fm / san francisco _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
