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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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[–] wonko7@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

This is really helpful thanks - I ended up changing a variable and now it works (for my purposes)

[–] lwalker043@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what did you change? i've tried using this for org-insert-link but it's not working for me, unfortunately

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

Because I use evil mode, I changed evil-move-cursor-backward