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! 😄

timhor / obsidian-editor-shortcuts