Using fuzzy links AKA wikilinks in org-roam
*Added in org-roam 1.2.2. These are my notes from when upgrading to that version.
In this release we support fuzzy links of the form
[[roam:Title]]
,[[roam:*Headline]]
and[[roam:Title*Headline]]
. Completion for these fuzzy links is supported via completion-at-point.
I think I might need to set up company-at-point. Do I have it out of the box? The double-bracket thing isn't working, anyway.
Hmm, it's because for my ngm-journal-mode
, my writing mode that I use for files in my org-roam wiki, I turn it off. I think because it annoyed me with word completions all the time when I was writing. Maybe there's a way to choose which completions company mode does. I'll come back to that… for now I'll just not turn it off.
From this post, How to to get {{Title of the target note}} working with inline autocomplete i…, I can see that
(smartparens-global-mode t) (setq company-minimum-prefix-length 2) (setq company-idle-delay 0.25) (setq company-backends '(company-capf))
works kind of.
The company settings are, well, for company, and the smartparens setting is for getting your double square brackets.
The org-manual used to specify a suggested way of getting your [[
autocompleted and then triggering completion-at-point.
To easily insert roam links, one may wish to use a package like key-chord.
It's gone now from the manual. It's how I still do it though.
I installed key-chord by adding to spacemacs extra packages.
dotspacemacs-additional-packages '(... key-chord)
Then add the recommended function from org-roam docs in to my config.
(key-chord-define org-mode-map "[[" #'ngm/insert-roam-link) (defun ngm/insert-roam-link () "Inserts an Org-roam link." (interactive) (insert "[[roam:]]") (backward-char 2))
OK, so that works OK too. If I type [[ quickly, I can then start typing the name of the note and get autocompletion.
I think both of those ways work. I'll stick with the one from the docs.
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