Emit command to obsidian to switch to normal mode or emit escape key on mobile

[Kamholtz]

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Describe the question

Hi,

I've found Vim's normal/visual mode to be immensely useful on mobile (ios) for making text selections. My trouble is transitioning from insert mode back to normal mode on mobile is fiddly without a dedicated escape key.

The jk to escape mapping in vimrc is alright but still error prone on a mobile keyboard. Is is possible to emit a command from Vimrc to obsidian that I could add to the mobile toolbar that emits <escape>?

I've looked at a few macro plugins for obsidian but producing a series of keypress does not appear possible.

A similar unresolved request exists in the obsidian forums:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/escape-button-in-command-palette/42148