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Obsidian plugin to add keyboard shortcuts commonly found in code editors such as Visual Studio Code (vscode) or Sublime Text

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Code Editor Shortcuts

Note

Due to personal circumstances, active development is paused on this project until approximately mid-2024. Please continue to use the existing features, submit issues and contribute pull requests, but expect a delayed response.

Feature requests won't be individually acknowledged but will still be tracked on the project board as before.

This Obsidian plugin adds keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) commonly found in code editors such as Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text.

Command Shortcut *
Insert line below Ctrl + Enter
Insert line above Ctrl + Shift + Enter
Delete line Ctrl + Shift + K
Duplicate line Ctrl + Shift + D
Copy line up Alt + Shift + Up
Copy line down Alt + Shift + Down
Join line below to current line Ctrl + J
Select line (repeat to keep expanding selection) Ctrl + L
Add cursors to selection ends Alt + Shift + I
Select word or next occurrence of selection Ctrl + D
Select all occurrences of selection Ctrl + Shift + L
Move cursor up Not set
Move cursor down Not set
Move cursor left Not set
Move cursor right Not set
Go to previous word Not set
Go to next word Not set
Go to start of line Not set
Go to end of line Not set
Go to previous line Not set
Go to next line Not set
Go to first line Not set
Go to last line Not set
Go to line number Not set
Delete to start of line Not set
Delete to end of line Not set
Transform selection to uppercase Not set
Transform selection to lowercase Not set
Transform selection to title case Not set
Toggle case of selection Not set
Expand selection to brackets Not set
Expand selection to quotes Not set
Expand selection to quotes or brackets Not set
Insert cursor above Not set
Insert cursor below Not set
Go to next heading Not set
Go to previous heading Not set
Toggle line numbers Not set
Indent using tabs Not set
Indent using spaces Not set
Undo Not set
Redo Not set

* On macOS, replace Ctrl with Cmd and Alt with Opt

Important notes

  • Ctrl + Enter for 'Insert line below' may conflict with the default shortcut for Open link under cursor in new tab; changing/removing one of the bindings is recommended.
  • Ctrl + L for 'Select line' may conflict with the default shortcut for Toggle checkbox status; changing/removing one of the bindings is recommended.
  • Ctrl + D for 'Select word or next occurrence of selection' will behave differently depending on how the initial selection was made. If it was also done via Ctrl + D, the command will only look for the entire word in subsequent matches. However, if the selection was done by hand, it will search within words as well.
  • 'Toggle case of selection' will cycle between uppercase, lowercase and title case.
  • If you are looking for the Alt + Up and Alt + Down shortcuts from VS Code, you can assign those hotkeys to Obsidian's built in actions "Move line up" and "Move line down".

Multiple Cursors

Most* of these shortcuts work with multiple cursors. However, undo and redo will not work intuitively in Live Preview – actions will be handled individually for each cursor, rather than grouped together. Work is underway to incrementally migrate them to the newer Obsidian editor API so they are grouped, and has been completed for the following:

  • Insert line above
  • Insert line below
  • Delete line

As a workaround, you can also switch back to the legacy editor in Settings as all actions will be grouped in that case.

* These shortcuts currently do not support multiple cursors:

  • Expand selection to quotes or brackets
  • Go to next/previous heading

Installing the plugin

Refer to the official installation instructions for third-party plugins here and search for the plugin Code Editor Shortcuts.

Configuring settings

Go to Settings → Hotkeys to customise the keyboard shortcut for each action.

The following behaviour can be configured via the settings tab for this plugin:

Setting Description
Auto insert list prefix Automatically insert list prefix when inserting a line above or below

Contributing

Contributions and suggestions are welcome – feel free to open an issue or raise a pull request.

To get started:

  • Switch to the specified Node version: nvm use
  • Install dependencies: yarn install
  • Run the extension: yarn start
  • Run tests: yarn test (use --watch for watch mode)

Support

This plugin is completely free to use, but if you'd like to say thanks, consider buying me a coffee! 😄

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