Is there a way to use company/corfu with denote?

[maikol-solis]

One thing that I really miss from org-roam, it's the completion-at-point function. So, if I want to insert a link about “Clouds”, I just type the word, select my note and the capf insert the link.

With denote, I always need to pass for denote-insert-link which it is a little cumbersome after a while (even with keybindings).

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Best.

[protesilaos]

From: Maikol Solís ***@***.***> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 03:52:11 -0800 One thing that I really miss from org-roam, it's the completion-at-point function. So, if I want to insert a link about “Clouds”, I just type the word, select my note and the capf insert the link. With denote, I always need to pass for `denote-insert-link` which it is a little cumbersome after a while (even with keybindings). Any suggestion is appreciated.

This is something we can implement. Please tell me more about the workflow though. Does it require some kind of prefix to then perform completion? Or does it work with any word?

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-- Protesilaos Stavrou https://protesilaos.com

[maikol-solis]

Hi Prot,

My idea is simple: org-roam has an option called org-roam-completion-everywhere which triggers these functions

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/blob/2a630476b3d49d7106f582e7f62b515c62430714/org-roam-node.el#L799

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/blob/2a630476b3d49d7106f582e7f62b515c62430714/org-roam-node.el#L782

My idea is simply to have a nicer UI to insert links where the user only needs to type a few letters and a company/corfu completes the rest of the link.

Screen.Recording.2025-01-02.at.07.20.29.mov

In this example, I did this:

1. Have (setq org-roam-completion-everywhere t), corfu/cape installed, and this on my config

(after! org-roam-mode
  (defun cape-roam ()
    (cape-wrap-super #'cape-dict #'org-roam-complete-everywhere #'org-roam-complete-link-at-point))

  (add-hook!
   org-roam-mode
   (add-hook  'completion-at-point-functions #'cape-roam -50)))

2. I'm using doom with org-roam activated, so this is why the roam links are converted to regular links.
3. Inserted the word “Machine”.
4. I chose one of my notes.
5. The roam link became regular after I saved the buffer.

I hope this helps to understand better the feature.

Best.