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Real Pin

by Greg Brown
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Confirms before closing a pinned tab via any close hotkey or command, so a stray Cmd+W can't lose your pinned tab. - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

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Real Pin

Makes a pinned tab's pin actually mean something for the keyboard.

Obsidian lets you pin a tab, but pinning doesn't stop the Close current tab command (Cmd+W / Ctrl+W by default) from closing it — one stray keystroke and the tab is gone. Real Pin intercepts that command: when the active tab is pinned, it pops a confirmation dialog instead of closing immediately. Confirm to close, cancel (or Esc) to keep it.

Because it hooks the command rather than a specific key, it works no matter which hotkey you've bound to Close current tab, and also covers running the command from the command palette.

Settings

Confirm before closing a pinned tab (default: on)

  • On — closing a pinned tab via a hotkey/command pops the confirmation dialog. Confirm to close, cancel (or Esc) to keep it.
  • Off — closing a pinned tab that way is blocked entirely: no dialog, the tab never closes. Unpin it first to close it by keyboard.

The toggle takes effect immediately — no reload needed.

Scope

  • ✅ Cmd+W / Ctrl+W and any custom hotkey bound to Close current tab
  • ✅ Running Close current tab from the command palette
  • ❌ Middle-click or right-click → Close on a tab (these bypass the command — by design)
  • ❌ Close others / Close tab group

Install (manual)

  1. Build or download main.js and manifest.json.
  2. Copy both into <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/real-pin/.
  3. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, reload plugins, and enable Real Pin.

Develop

npm install
npm run dev    # esbuild watch → main.js
npm run build  # typecheck + production bundle

How it works

The plugin wraps the workspace:close command's checkCallback using monkey-around. When the wrapped callback runs and the active leaf is pinned, it either shows a ConfirmCloseModal (and only calls the original close on confirmation) or blocks the close outright, depending on the setting — which is read live on each invocation. The wrapper is registered via this.register(...), so disabling the plugin restores Obsidian's original behavior cleanly.

License

MIT

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