More Excellent Hotkeys (MEH)

small obsidian plugin for quick markdown formatting toggles.

• the main feature is that it selects up to the nearest word:
  • selecting something like: hello th[is is some sent]ence and hitting Toggle bold (from this plugin) will result in hello **this is some sentence**
  • similarly, hello **thi[s is some sen]tence** -> Toggle bold -> hello this is some sentence.
• cursor position is preserved where reasonable.

local installation

you can probably use BRAT (i haven't tested it).

download more-excellent-hotkeys.zip from the latest release.
unzip it, such that its contents are in <your vaullt>/.obsidian/plugins/more-excellent-hotkeys,
e.g. <your vaullt>/.obsidian/plugins/more-excellent-hotkeys/main.js

commands added

this plugin adds editor commands you can bind to your own hotkeys (no default bindings).

• Toggle bold
• Toggle highlight
• Toggle italics
• Toggle inline code
• Toggle comment
• Toggle strikethrough
• Toggle underscore
• Remove formatting
• Change checkbox type (opens fuzzy picker)

settings

• Use * for italics (default: off, _ is used)
• Promote regular bullet points (default: on) for Change checkbox type
• Extended checkboxes submenu for managing picker rows (- [x] description) with add/delete and reset-to-defaults controls

checkbox picker

To get the same icons as I have in the screenshot, see my snippets repo.

• Works on task lines like - [ ] item
• Can also promote regular bullet lines like - item (when enabled in settings)
• Supports configurable Obsidian extended checkbox markers
• Opens as a fuzzy picker modal
• Also available from the editor right-click menu when cursor is on a checkbox line

other

• thanks to Cawlin for the name
• thanks to obsidian-smarter-md-hotkeys for the idea and some code
• increase/decrease heading level commands were removed (out of scope) - use obsidian-heading-shifter

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