When taking notes for classes I sometimes put quotes inside a pair of parentheses. I’ve noticed that quotes don’t auto-pair within parentheses or brackets, which slows my note-taking somewhat. Parentheses and brackets auto-pair within quotes so I’m not sure why it doesn’t work in reverse.
Proposed solution
Allow quotes to auto-pair within maybe not brackets but parentheses at least? I realise this may be a coding situation but I’m not clear on how that affects quote pairing.
Current workaround (optional)
Honestly mostly just dealing with it (typing the second quotation mark myself) or shifting the quote to a tab-in instead? Still messes with my flow.
Quotation marks do auto-pair within parenthesis and brackets.
They don’t autopair when the cursor is beside a character, regardless of whether you’re typing inside parenthesis.
In the examples below, the 🚀 represents the location of the cursor. Obsidian automatically adds two quotation marks when you type " at these locations:
a 🚀
( 🚀
( 🚀 )
(a 🚀 )
(Note the spaces.) Obsidian does not auto-pair at these locations:
a🚀
🚀b
(🚀
🚀)
(a 🚀)
(Note the lack of spaces around the cursor.)
The way to use this in practice isn’t seamless but might help a little. While in parentheses or brackets, you could type a space, press the left arrow (to separate the cursor from the closing parenthesis character), and then type ". That will create the auto-pair. But of course, now you have an extra space you may or may not eventually want.