Autocompletion for code block types

Plugins ideas
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Use case or problem

Many plugins implement code block handlers to inject specially formatted blocks into markdown documents (eg. Mermaid, ABC). If I rarely type out these code blocks, it’s easy to forget the proper keywords to activate them (e.g. mermaid or music-abc).

Proposed solution

When I open a code block using ``` (3 backticks), Obsidian could offer autocompletion for known keywords:

  • those registered by plugins using registerMarkdownCodeBlockProcessor(); and
  • those understood by the built-in PrismJS parser.

Ideally, the autocomplete list would visualize the distinction between plugins and languages. Maybe even allow filtering plugins/languages only.

Current workaround (optional)

Find another note where I used that particular code block, view the source.

Related feature requests (optional)

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There is already this plugin for custom codeblocks:

Its not in the Community plugins, maybe bug the author about that and put in a Feature Request for the languages supported by Prism.

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Thanks @joethei ! I had no idea this was possible to do from a plugin.