editors-integration.md

Editors integration

There are several extensions available to integrate zk in your favorite editor:

• zk.nvim for Neovim 0.5+, maintained by Seth Messer
• zk-vscode for Visual Studio Code

Language Server Protocol

zk ships with a Language Server to provide basic support for any LSP-compatible editor. The currently supported features are:

• Auto-complete Markdown links with [[ (setup wiki-links in the note formats configuration)
• Auto-complete hashtags and colon-separated tags.
• Preview the content of a note when hovering a link.
• Navigate in your notes by following internal links.
• Create a new note using the current selection as title.
• Diagnostics for dead links and wiki-links titles.
• And more to come...

You can configure some of these features in your notebook's configuration file.

Editor LSP configurations

To start the Language Server, use the zk lsp command. Refer to the following sections for editor-specific examples. Feel free to share the configuration for your editor.

Vim and Neovim

Vim and Neovim 0.4

With coc.nvim, run :CocConfig and add the following in the settings file:

coc-settings.json

{
  // Important, otherwise link completion containing spaces and other special characters won't work.
  "suggest.invalidInsertCharacters": [],

  "languageserver": {
    "zk": {
      "command": "zk",
      "args": ["lsp"],
      "trace.server": "messages",
      "filetypes": ["markdown"]
    },
  }
}

Here are some additional useful key bindings and custom commands:

~/.config/nvim/init.vim

" User command to index the current notebook.
"
" zk.index expects a notebook path as first argument, so we provide the current
" buffer path with expand("%:p").
command! -nargs=0 ZkIndex :call CocAction("runCommand", "zk.index", expand("%:p"))
nnoremap <leader>zi :ZkIndex<CR>

" User command to create and open a new note, to be called like this:
" :ZkNew {"title": "An interesting subject", "dir": "inbox", ...}
"
" Note the concatenation with the "edit" command to open the note right away.
command! -nargs=? ZkNew :exec "edit ".CocAction("runCommand", "zk.new", expand("%:p"), <args>).path

" Create a new note after prompting for its title.
nnoremap <leader>zn :ZkNew {"title": input("Title: ")}<CR>
" Create a new note in the directory journal/daily.
nnoremap <leader>zj :ZkNew {"dir": "journal/daily"}<CR>

Neovim 0.5 built-in LSP client

Using nvim-lspconfig:

~/.config/nvim/init.lua

local lspconfig = require('lspconfig')
local configs = require('lspconfig/configs')

configs.zk = {
  default_config = {
    cmd = {'zk', 'lsp'},
    filetypes = {'markdown'},
    root_dir = function()
      return vim.loop.cwd()
    end,
    settings = {}
  };
}

lspconfig.zk.setup({ on_attach = function(client, buffer) 
  -- Add keybindings here, see https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig#keybindings-and-completion
end })

Sublime Text

Install the Sublime LSP package, then run the Preferences: LSP Settings command. Add the following to the settings file:

LSP.sublime-settings

{
  "clients": {
    "zk": {
      "enabled": true,
      "command": ["zk", "lsp"],
      "languageId": "markdown",
      "scopes": [ "source.markdown" ],
      "syntaxes": [ "Packages/MarkdownEditing/Markdown.sublime-syntax" ]
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

Install the zk-vscode extension from the Marketplace.

Custom commands

Using zk's LSP custom commands, you can call zk commands right from your editor. Please refer to your editor's documentation on how to bind keyboard shortcuts to custom LSP commands.

zk.index

This LSP command calls zk index to refresh your notebook's index. It can be useful to make sure that the auto-completion is up-to-date. zk.index takes two arguments:

1. A path to a file or directory in the notebook to index.

2. (Optional) A dictionary of additional options (click to expand)

   Key	Type	Description
   force	boolean	Reindexes all the notes when true

zk.index returns a dictionary of indexing statistics.

zk.new

This LSP command calls zk new to create a new note. It can be useful to quickly create a new note with a key binding. zk.new takes two arguments:

1. A path to any file or directory in the notebook, to locate it.

2. (Optional) A dictionary of additional options (click to expand)

   Key	Type	Description
   title	string	Title of the new note
   content	string	Initial content of the note
   dir	string	Parent directory, relative to the root of the notebook
   group	string	Note configuration group
   template	string	Custom template used to render the note
   extra	dictionary	A dictionary of extra variables to expand in the template
   date	string	A date of creation for the note in natural language, e.g. "tomorrow"
   edit	boolean	When true, the editor will open the newly created note (not supported by all editors)
   insertLinkAtLocation	location	A location in another note where a link to the new note will be inserted

   The location type is an LSP Location object, for example:

   {
       "uri":"file:///Users/mickael/notes/9se3.md",
       "range": {
           "end":{"line": 5, "character":149},
           "start":{"line": 5, "character":137}
       }
   }

zk.new returns a dictionary with the key path containing the absolute path to the newly created file.