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macOS Keyboard Navigation

ryanjamurphyryanjamurphy7k downloads

Enable alt+↑ and alt+↓ keyboard navigation.

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This plugin restores default macOS keyboard navigation—specifically alt+↑ and alt+↓, and alt+shift+↑ and alt+shift+↓—in Obsidian.

A quick demo

Manually installing the plugin

  • Copy over main.js and manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/macOS-keyboard-nav-obsidian/.
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Restore macOS keyboard navigation by re-enabling alt+↑ / alt+↓ and alt+shift+↑ / alt+shift+↓ in Obsidian. Preserve familiar macOS cursor and selection movement for smoother text editing across notes.
EditingHotkeysNavigation
Details
Current version
1.1.2
Last updated
5 years ago
Created
5 years ago
Updates
4 releases
Downloads
7k
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.9.12+
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Author
ryanjamurphyryanjamurphy
axle.design
GitHubryanjamurphy
  1. Community
  2. Plugins
  3. Editing
  4. macOS Keyboard Navigation

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