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

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

tabstop-demo

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/.