So I’ve been working on bringing some linting into org-roam, and I think it’s now in a state where things can be tested. The PR is here: https://github.com/jethrokuan/org-roam/pull/570. The linter currently helps you detect broken links, and auto-fix them.
To run it, simply run M-x org-roam-doctor. It’s a bit slow, because it works through all Org-roam files. C-u M-x org-roam-doctor runs the linter only on the current file. I have a couple of questions for anyone who’s testing it out:
What do you think of the flow, and what could be improved?
What if I am deleting a file and want that deletion to remove all org-links? Wouldn’t this proposed workflow cause a problem here? Sometimes To link, or not to link is subtle – you think a concept in a new domain might be work keeping around, but as notes progress you realize the concept is ubiquitous/fundamental and not worth keeping around.
If I understand you properly, you’re saying that you’d want the possibility to convert a link to a plain-word? For example, you’d want to delete foo.org in your org-roam-directory, and you’d want every link that points to foo.org to be change from [[file:foo.org][Foo] to just Foo?
If so, we could add an action for the linter that would ask you, when an invalid link is found, to either relocate it, or to only keep the label.
If you meant that you’d like to delete the links entirely, label included, then it’d break the sentences in which that link appeared.
It was the very first action added (; anyway, I don’t think this is the linter’s job, we should probably do something on a delete-file-advice now that we have the capability of easily finding links that will be broken on delete (this didn’t exist when Org-roam used hash-maps)
