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?

  • thephatmasterOPBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Commercial_Repeat_59BEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

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