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Are links without spaces just a doom thing? They're driving me potty! (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by thephatmaster@alien.top to c/emacs
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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?

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[–] yigitemres@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thephatmaster@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 using org-roam-node-insert or org-roam-node-find - presumably these call org-store-link.

My workflow is:

  1. In insert mode, type text, with a trailing space before where I want the link;
  2. Somehow when I exit insert mode, the trailing space after my text gets deleted; and
  3. 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

[–] yigitemres@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Your problem is about the evil mode(or anything hooks with it) not the org-roam itself...

[–] olikn@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Somehow when I exit insert mode, the trailing space after my text gets deleted

Have a look at the variable evil-move-cursor-back and evil-move-beyond-eol. May be this could help you.

[–] thephatmaster@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

evil-move-cursor-back

This was what I was after - thanks

[–] Commercial_Repeat_59@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago

Are you sure the space isn’t after the insert? What happens if you put 2 spaces?