Hello, I just started using Org-roam V1 (simply installed from Debian GNU/Linux repo) without knowing V2 has been released… Since V2 is in active development, I switched to V2 (org-roam package including dependencies installed from MELPA).
In V1 the backlinks in the org-roam buffer were active links which navigate the user to the files which contain the forward links. Very convenient behavior. However, in my V2 setup, the backlinks are no active links, they are just text, i.e. filename in bold white characters followed by “(Top)”. I can’t imagine this is expected behavior in V2… Do I miss something?
Hmm… when I run org-roam-buffer-visit-thing in the org-roam buffer I always get “There is no thing at point that could be visited”, even though the point is on a node name that I can find just fine with “org-roam-node-find”.
I use Spacemacs, so RET is “evilified”, but C-RET has org-roam-buffer-visit-thing bound to it and should work but doesn’t. Just in case, I also tried to just invoke it M-x with the same results.
Hi nobiot, Enter key works perfectly indeed (navigates to node at point). I’m still struggling with getting the mouse to work. I followed the instructions you referred to, but get “There is no thing at point that could be visited” message in minibuffer when clicking the backlink in the org-roam buffer. My Emacs is also without framework. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
… So the quickest way would be to check C-h k RET and what command RET is remapped to. I don’t like the behaviour of mouse click (hovering over the region does not give you any clue) but see the following.
@jbotz You might like to try these in Spacemacs – it might be the sequence of when the remapping happens in your init and loading of org-roam that causes your issue.
The spacemacs issue is actually about more than just keymaps… the format of the org-roam backlink buffer is all screwed up, things appear out of sequence, the “Backlinks (n)” heading appears on the second-to-last line, etc. That might explain the missing keybindings since those depend on magit-section. I tried both a plain emacs and a fresh spacemacs install to confirm that it isn’t anything in my personal spacemacs config that’s screwing it up, and it isn’t, same thing happens in spacemacs out-of-the-box (well, at least on the devel branch of spacemacs, which is pre-configured for org-roam v2).
I haven’t yet figured out what’s going on because I still don’t understand the code in org-roam-mode.el (especially that magit-sections magic) but I’m getting there… Once I do, I’ll post here again.
There is a few threads on this very topic and a PR created. I can’t find links for you but a solution/workaround has been identified. I’d suggest to search. Probably “spacemacs” as a search term will help.
So in my case turning off global-page-break-lines-mode did resolve the org-roam buffer problems… both formatting and the keybindings now seem to work as intended. Spacemacs issue#14969 has more info.
Im trying to get my backlinks to work but so far without success… (I cannot click them but opening them with RET works)
If I put this in my .emacs file and evaluate it, it works fine. If I close emacs and open it again I get the error “Symbol’s value as variable is void: org-roam-node-map” and clicking the backlinks is again not possible.
It drives me a bit crazy to have org-roam but not beeing able to browse the backlinks with the mouse. I tried disabling global-page-break-lines-mode with the command
(global-page-break-lines-mode 0)
but that completely crashes my emacs with error: “void-function global-page-break-lines-mod)”
Once I do, I’ll post here again.