Question: On setting title for notes.

[MadFisa]

Hi,
I am a recently converted Vim user switching to doom emacs and a complete noob. I believe this wonderful plugin is part of the biblio module of doom and is trying to configure it to my needs.
In particular, I have been trying to set up a template for roam note title using

(setq citar-org-roam-note-title-template

but I am unable to do so. I want the title be of the format " Author et al year". I tried using
(setq citar-org-roam-note-title-template "${author:%etal} - ${year:4}")

But it did not work as expected, instead giving a blank for the author and sometimes giving a blank for year too. What is the required configuration to achieve this?

Similarly, I have tried setting up template using the example given in the readme for org-roam-capture-templates,
It prompts me citar-citekey,citar-date etc. I believe this is similar to #24 , at least to my limited understanding. How can I get this to work?

Also, what are the full range of variables available for this templates? I am unable to find the documentation for these, but it could just be that I am looking at the wrong places, being new to the emacs.

I am pretty much using a doom config that is close to default.

[bdarcus]

Just quickly responding, try prefacing the variable names with citar-, as in the README?

The variable names are defined in a defcustom, so you can confirm what they should be, or change them.

PS - I moved this to discussions.

[bdarcus]

How are you supposed to enable icons with doom if the PR goes through? by adding +icons to biblio module?

Yes.

[MadFisa]

I tried searching for citar-author in emacs find-variable, but couldn't find anything. Is this relevant?

Also would adding the lines from merged PR into config.el and trying again help?

[MadFisa]

Also the pinned version of citar-org-roam in doom emacs is an older version at 86e9861a4931a4a0a4a7fc6c2be153ceb937a869

[bdarcus]

Right; that's why I mentioned the yet-to-be-merged Doom PR.

[MadFisa]

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about doom emacs version. Let me try and unpin and see what happens.

[MadFisa]

Unpinning didn't change anything. Still gives blank on prefixing the variables with citar-.
Also was trying to get icons work with citar using instructions at https://github.com/emacs-citar/citar/wiki/Indicators, which gave me an error :
Error caused by user's config or system: /home/user/.config/doom/config.el, (void-function citar-indicator-create)

[bdarcus]

That can be caused by load order issues.

You might try just downloading the files in the PR to your local Doom modules dir?

Call it mybib and use that instead?

[MadFisa]

Didn't work. I am running out of ideas to try 😕

[bdarcus]

What does your config.el look like with that (it should really only set paths), and what error(s) do you get?

[MadFisa]

You can see my doom configs here
https://github.com/MadFisa/dotfiles/blob/master/doom/config.el

I do not get any errors except the one I mentioned above that I get when I try to add icons (i.e th void function one).

Do I have to run emacs with --debug-init flag to get more details?

[bdarcus]

Just to update, the doom biblio module PR was merged a few weeks ago. If you haven't already updated it, you should do so.