Text Snippets

Obsidian Text Snippets Plugin

This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).

It allows you to replace text templates for faster typing, create your own snippets almost like in many text editors and IDE.

Live Preview support: check the toggle in plugin settings before using and restart plugin in Options > Community plugins.

You can use the shortcut (default CTRL/CMD + Tab) or the command Run snippet replacement by command palette (CTRL/CMD + P). There is also an option to use Tab and/or Space as the shortcut instead. The cursor need to be on the word you want to replace. You can replace text with spaces by selecting all the text.

Demo

Features

• Use $end$ to place the cursor after replacement in specific position
• Use $nl$ to add line break in multiline snippet
• $nl$ ignores next line break in Snippets settings, if the snippet ends with $end$, add additional newline
• Use $tb$ to add a tabstop for the cursor to jump to (don`t use together with $end$)
• Trigger the snippet shortcut without any eligible expansion to jump to the next tabstop
• When enabling Tab as the shortcut, only if there are no eligilbe expansions nor jumps the, a normal Tab will be inserted

How to install

In Obsidian app

In Obsidian go to Settings > Third-party plugins > Community Plugins > Browse and search for Text Snippets.

Manually installing the plugin

• Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/text-snippets-obsidian/.