Title IDs

[srid]

[[Some note, with puctuation]] is now a valid link in neuron.

cf.

• https://neuron.zettel.page/id.html
• Allow title as Zettel IDs srid/neuron#399

[fiatjaf]

This affects gzo. Must change it to use yi] to select text inside [] and then use that to get match against the zettel cache.

[srid]

Also see neuron new CLI changes in https://github.com/ihsanturk/neuron.vim/issues/50#issuecomment-706554243

[flyinggrizzly]

I’m finding myself always renaming files with UID file names to something that reflects the note’s topic, usual skewer-cased. Realistically this means I don’t use gzN and instead just :vsp filename.md, but then I lose both the utility of the plugin and the guaranteed uniqueness provided by the UID.

Would a config option to use skewer-case suffixed with a UID be possible?

Something like “and then, an aeroplane” would generate and-then-an-aeroplane-97ghj76.md

[fiatjaf]

Yes, that is possible, but what happens if someone else comes here tomorrow and ask for a different algorithm? Maybe I should allow you to specify your own name function on your .vimrc?

[flyinggrizzly]

That would definitely work for me—it seems like a good balance for the project too.

[flyinggrizzly]

I’m happy to attempt this, but I haven’t worked with Vimscript before, so it may not be fast or the cleanest code.

Would you like me to try, or would you prefer to handle this yourself?

[fiatjaf]

I ended up doing it.

This was quite weird. I also have no experience with VimScript and had never seen any Vim plugin expose a function like that. Maybe there is something wrong with it but it seems to work fine.

I added a note here with some brief usage information: https://github.com/fiatjaf/neuron.vim#customization

Please let me know how that works for you.

[flyinggrizzly]

Thanks for that--I'm testing it out, and it's working great.

The only issue is that on loading vim, I get errors about duplicated bareword definitions, when I'm overriding the function. (I'm running Neovim 0.4.3 if it matters)

Would you be open to a PR that changed the GenerateNeuronID function to something like this?

function! g:GenerateNeuronID(title)
  if exists('*g:CustomNeuronIDGenerator')
    return g:CustomNeuronIDGenerator(title)
  else
    # existing default implementation
endfunction

(PR would also update documentation)

It seems like it'd be safer for the project if people aren't overriding a probably important function, and the plugin is in control of when (and whether, in case something big changes) the custom generator is called. It also makes things cleaner for users, without the errors.

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Edit:

Looking closer at the code, seems like we might be able to get away with just updating the assignment to g:NeuronGenerateID on line 27 of plugin/neuron.vim to target a different customization function name to avoid the clash.

[fiatjaf]

Yes, I think your suggested changes make sense.
If you want to open a PR please do it. Otherwise in some days I may take a look at it again.