new neuron.vim plugin - Neuron

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fiatjaf

I found some things half-broken and other things I disagreed with in neuron.vim, so I forked it and made my own: https://github.com/fiatjaf/neuron.vim

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fiatjaf

there's a list of differences from the original plugin here: https://github.com/fiatjaf/neuron.vim#differences-from-ihsanturkneuronvim, maybe more will come as soon as I learn this vimscript thing better

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fiatjaf

Differences from ihsanturk/neuron.vim

  1. Recognize and insert links using the new [[[...]]] syntax instead of <...>;
  2. Replace : with - in zettel titles search view so vim/fzf don't break these;
  3. gzi/gzl insert at the cursor, not in their own line followed by a newline;
  4. gzl doesn't start a new zettel in insert mode, start in normal mode;
  5. gzu/gzl go back to the previously visited zettel instead of the previously edited zettel.
Sridhar Ratnakumar

Looks like ihsanturk is busy with something else. Perhaps he would be interested in a merge later? If not, it might be wise to rename your plugin.

In any case, I'll mention your fork in the official docs.

Sridhar Ratnakumar

@fiatjaf The plugin doesn't support custom zettelkasten directories (by finding neuron.dhall)?

Sridhar Ratnakumar

I suppose the original plugin never supported that either.

fiatjaf

no, it doesn't support custom directories, I didn't change that. I didn't even know it used a fixed directory, I thought it used the current directory. it worked for me automatically because my directory had the correct name by coincidence.

fiatjaf

would it be better if it used the current directory always?

fiatjaf

thank you for mentioning, I'll see if he is interested in merging

Sridhar Ratnakumar

the emacs neuron-mode plugin looks for neuron.dhall starting from the directory of the open .md file, and then uses that. that's the right approach. i think neuron.vim supports only the default zettelkasten.

Sridhar Ratnakumar

btw, while you are here - gzi inserts [[...]]? If so, can gzI (caps) be made to insert folgezettel link [[[..]]]?

Sridhar Ratnakumar

i generally think [[..]] should be the default.

fiatjaf

what if there's no neuron.dhall? I didn't have that file and my site worked fine, only much later I learned about it

fiatjaf

your second request is here: https://github.com/fiatjaf/neuron.vim/commit/d2fb9b387abcf279d0daf096254ca9230ad9b57a

plus some small refactorings. also I didn't bother to create new commands for the insert-as-folgezettel functions as their name would be so huge anyway, so I created just the shortcut directly...
Sridhar Ratnakumar

then you fallback to the default, ~/zettelkasten

fiatjaf

right, that makes sense

fiatjaf

ok, I'm implementing that, but there are two things:

  1. neuron new always creates a file in ~/zettelkasten, it doesn't matter in which directory I am or if it has a neuron.dhall file
  2. shouldn't we just use the directory in which the file being edited is located? there's no need for the recursion into higher directories. if the file being edited is in /home/whatever/super/zettel/page/, use that, if it is in /home/xyz/bananas/, use that -- a zettelkasten is never going to be on a different directory than where a zettel is -- or am I wrong?
Sridhar Ratnakumar

neuron -d /path/to/zk new ... until we do https://github.com/srid/neuron/issues/161

Following suggestions for the user-interface Switch program name from neuron to zk for faster typing Have a default Zettelkasten directory per project e.g. .zk/ Use per default the Zettelkasten (.z...
Sridhar Ratnakumar

i think it would be nice if gzz sorted zettels by date - so recently created zettels can be opened easily.

fiatjaf

sorting by date is here: https://github.com/fiatjaf/neuron.vim/commit/6e0ba21985f51a52dd1c30cec0c04039a778d5a1

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