I am new to EMACS, so perhaps I am not using the best vocabulary here. Let’s start with an example to highlight what I mean:
Given the selection “Ava DuVernay”, I’m looking for a feature which:
Is there already such a feature builtin? And if not, is it easy to implement?
I believe this works as you’re expecting with org-roam-insert (C-c n i) when you have something highlighted. At least, it does for me.
Well, doesn’t work for me unfortunately… the selected text is not extracted to fill title when I launch org-roam-insert. Perhaps this is a bug caused by evil or doom emacs, I have no clue. I am using org-roam version 1.2.0.
Yes normally it should work with org-roam-insert.
Could you give some details about your configuration by putting here the concerned block in your config file?
Because doom-emacs handles emacs config on its own, I did a search in .emacs.d and found one file with references to org-roam-insert, in evil mode, see ./modules/config/default/+evil-bindings.el#L504
:desc "Insert" "i" #'org-roam-insert
:desc "Org Roam" "r" #'org-roam
(:prefix ("d" . "by date")
:desc "Arbitrary date" "d" #'org-roam-dailies-date
:desc "Today" "t" #'org-roam-dailies-today
:desc "Tomorrow" "m" #'org-roam-dailies-tomorrow
:desc "Yesterday" "y" #'org-roam-dailies-yesterday)))
My serparate doom config file (config.el) does declare custom templates as such:
;;; $DOOMDIR/config.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Place your private configuration here! Remember, you do not need to run 'doom
;; sync' after modifying this file!
;;
;; Doom exposes five (optional) variables for controlling fonts in Doom. Here
;; are the three important ones:
;;
;; + `doom-font'
;; + `doom-variable-pitch-font'
;; + `doom-big-font' -- used for `doom-big-font-mode'; use this for
;; presentations or streaming.
;;
;; They all accept either a font-spec, font string ("Input Mono-12"), or xlfd
;; font string. You generally only need these two:
;; (setq doom-font (font-spec :family "monospace" :size 12 :weight 'semi-light)
;; doom-variable-pitch-font (font-spec :family "sans" :size 13))
;; There are two ways to load a theme. Both assume the theme is installed and
;; available. You can either set `doom-theme' or manually load a theme with the
;; `load-theme' function. This is the default:
(setq doom-theme 'doom-dracula)
;; If you use `org' and don't want your org files in the default location below,
;; change `org-directory'. It must be set before org loads!
(setq org-directory "~/knowledge")
;; This determines the style of line numbers in effect. If set to `nil', line
;; numbers are disabled. For relative line numbers, set this to `relative'.
(setq display-line-numbers-type t)
;; Here are some additional functions/macros that could help you configure Doom:
;;
;; - `load!' for loading external *.el files relative to this one
;; - `use-package!' for configuring packages
;; - `after!' for running code after a package has loaded
;; - `add-load-path!' for adding directories to the `load-path', relative to
;; this file. Emacs searches the `load-path' when you load packages with
;; `require' or `use-package'.
;; - `map!' for binding new keys
;;
;; To get information about any of these functions/macros, move the cursor over
;; the highlighted symbol at press 'K' (non-evil users must press 'C-c c k').
;; This will open documentation for it, including demos of how they are used.
;;
;; You can also try 'gd' (or 'C-c c d') to jump to their definition and see how
;; they are implemented.
;; Auto hard-wrap lines in org-mode files
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
;; Display inline images in org-mode
(setq org-startup-with-inline-images t)
;; Auto scan folders to flag as projects
(setq projectile-project-search-path '("~/Programmation"))
;; Org-roam templates
(setq org-roam-capture-templates
'(("d" "default" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: "
:unnarrowed t)
("b" "book" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-book-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: book\n#+ROAM_KEY: "
:unnarrowed t)
("t" "topic" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-topic-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: topic\n#+ROAM_KEY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${slug}"
:unnarrowed t)
("i" "individual" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-individual-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: individual\n#+ROAM_KEY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${slug}"
:unnarrowed t)
("e" "entity" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-entity-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: entity\n#+ROAM_KEY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/${slug}"
:unnarrowed t)
("a" "article" plain (function org-roam--capture-get-point)
"%?"
:file-name "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-article-${slug}"
:head "#+TITLE: ${title}\n#+ROAM_TAGS: entity\n#+ROAM_KEY: "
:unnarrowed t)
)
)
;; Configure org-journal integration with Roam.
;; Journal entries are created for each week.
(use-package org-journal
:custom
(org-journal-dir "~/knowledge/roam")
(org-journal-file-header "#+TITLE: %Y-%m-%d\n#+ROAM_TAGS: journal\n\n[[file:journal.org][Journal]]\n\nWeek %V, %Y\n\n")
(org-journal-file-format "%Y%m%d-journal.org")
(org-journal-file-type 'weekly)
)
;; Configure org-journal integration with agenda.
(setq org-journal-enable-agenda-integration t)