tl;dr why do my org links not have a space before them (e.g. check out thisLINK)? I feel I’m missing something very basic here.
I was using org-roam today in doom emacs and forgot how irritating adding a new node is while writing.
It nestles nicely up to the text before it - with no space in between. After posting on r/orgroam a kind soul told me this might be a wider issue - at least related to org itself, and maybe doom.
Does anyone know how to get a leading space before the node name / link? For example; my nodes come out looking like:
something interesting is in thisNODENAME/LINK check it out
For the love of RMS I want a space between this and NODENAME
I’m clearly being dumb, but can’t figure this out. Surely enough people use emacs / doom emacs / org mode, and they are not all adding links everywhere with no leading space?
A suggestion on r/orgroam was put a double space before a link - is that it?
If I understood correctly, the problem turned out to be caused by evil but the post doesn’t mention evil anywhere! Always mention evil, and, more generally, explain how to reproduce the problem.
My apologies, I’ve edited the Op
This is link example with org-roam id:
something interesting is in this [[id:aaaa-aaa-aaa-aaaa-aaaa][A]] link. Check it out...This is link example with file location:
This is link example: something interesting is in this [[file:parent/b.org][B]] link. Check it out...And they gonna look like this.
I feel I haven’t explained properly. Typing links out manually works fine (like your example).
But I don’t get the preceeding space using
org-store-link(or usingorg-roam-node-insertororg-roam-node-find- presumably these callorg-store-link.My workflow is:
- In insert mode, type text, with a trailing space before where I want the link;
- Somehow when I exit insert mode, the trailing space after my text gets deleted; and
- In normal mode, call
org-store-link(or one of the roam ones).
What I end up with is the link nestled against the last non-space charachter of my text
Your problem is about the evil mode(or anything hooks with it) not the org-roam itself…
- Somehow when I exit insert mode, the trailing space after my text gets deleted
Have a look at the variable
evil-move-cursor-backandevil-move-beyond-eol. May be this could help you.evil-move-cursor-back
This was what I was after - thanks
Are you sure the space isn’t after the insert? What happens if you put 2 spaces?
I have been upset about this one too. But later on, I started to utilize
M-SPCmore and not leaving insert mode so often. It just fixed itself that way.Inserting stuff from normal mode ends up before the cursor, which is not what I want if I just typed text ending with a space character, I want it after. I’ve been using this for a bunch of insert functions:
(defmacro my/insert-after-space (&rest fs) `(progn ,@(mapcar (lambda (f) ;; If in evil normal mode and cursor is on a whitespace ;; character, then go into append mode first before inserting ;; the link. This is to put the link after the space rather ;; than before. `(defadvice ,f (around append-if-in-evil-normal-mode activate compile) (let ((is-in-evil-normal-mode (and (bound-and-true-p evil-mode) (not (bound-and-true-p evil-insert-state-minor-mode)) (looking-at "[[:blank:]]")))) (if (not is-in-evil-normal-mode) ad-do-it (evil-append 0) ad-do-it (evil-normal-state))))) fs))) (my/insert-after-space org-roam-node-insert emojify-insert-emoji org-web-tools-insert-link-for-url)This is really helpful thanks - I ended up changing a variable and now it works (for my purposes)
what did you change? i’ve tried using this for org-insert-link but it’s not working for me, unfortunately
Because I use evil mode, I changed evil-move-cursor-backward
You use
org-roam-node-insert? Can you copy-paste a result here?Oh, do your nodes have a
#+TITLEline? If there’s no#+TITLE, it defaults to using the filename.