Maybe in Org buffers Hyperbole’s M-RET simply defers to org-open-at-point?

Isn’t VS Code less feature ful than Emacs, not the other way around? Does it have keyboard macros, can I extend the editor by writing a function in Javascript in a scratch buffer and bind it to a key without needing to package the whole thing as an extension? I confess I haven’t tried VS Code but from what I hear it sounds like it wouldn’t let me automate things to anywhere near the extent I can in Emacs.

It does do that. If you have embark-act bound to C-., then C-. i inserts the current minibuffer completion candidate into the buffer from which you ran the command that opened the minibuffer.

I would suggest using just org, it seems to me that it has everything you need for a personal wiki.

I imagine some people prefer vi because they think Vim is “bloatware”.

I bet that folks that prefer vi to Vim would prefer viper to evil.

Great! Looks like that command deserves a key binding in my configuration!

Also, I scrolled up a bit and was pleasantly surprised to see you mention the Embark support. :)

I think it is unrelated, except in that you can because Consult also works with completion UIs other than Vertico. I’m not sure why he or she mentioned it. 🤷

I think GP agrees with you and meant keeping Consult while dropping Vertico (which is possible due since Consult works with icomplete and with default completion).