benmatselby/obsidian-multi-cursor

🪁 An Obsidian plugin for multi-cursor support

Obsidian Multi-cursor

This plugin provides Multi-cursor support, in the same way as Visual Studio Code.

Installation

Release installation

1. Go to the lastest release
2. Download main.js and manifest.json
3. Close Obsidian
4. Browse to the root of your Obsidian Vault
5. Go to the .obsidian - It is a hidden folder, so check your operating system setting if you don't see it
6. Go to the plugins folder
7. Create a folder named obsidian-multi-cursor
8. Copy the two downloaded files main.js and manifest.json
9. Start Obsidian and activate the plug-in!

Manual installation

Install the plugin via cloning this repo to .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-multi-cursor, and then running npm install && npm run build. You will then need to select "Reload app without saving" from the command palette. After the plugin is loaded, you to enable it via the "Community Plugins" section of the settings.

Once you have done that, you can define the following hotkeys:

• Multi-cursor: Add a cursor above the current line.
• Multi-cursor: Add a cursor below the current line.
• Multi-cursor: Add cursors to the end of every line in the selection.
• Multi-cursor: Duplicate the current line to the line above.
• Multi-cursor: Duplicate the current line to the line below.

This will give you the following config in .obsidian/hotkeys.json for your vault.

  "obsidian-multi-cursor:add-cursor-above": [
    {
      "modifiers": [
        "Alt",
        "Mod"
      ],
      "key": "ArrowUp"
    }
  ],
  "obsidian-multi-cursor:add-cursor-below": [
    {
      "modifiers": [
        "Alt",
        "Mod"
      ],
      "key": "ArrowDown"
    }
  ],
  "obsidian-multi-cursor:add-cursors-to-selection": [
    {
      "modifiers": [
        "Alt",
        "Shift"
      ],
      "key": "I"
    }
  ],
  "obsidian-multi-cursor:duplicate-line-above": [
    {
      "modifiers": [
        "Alt",
        "Shift"
      ],
      "key": "ArrowUp"
    }
  ],
  "obsidian-multi-cursor:duplicate-line-below": [
    {
      "modifiers": [
        "Alt",
        "Shift"
      ],
      "key": "ArrowDown"
    }
  ]