Can I control whether or not Obsidian is case-sensitive? This is not only creating issues when using the actual search function (which I understand can be toggled), but when I’m trying to link to one file from another, I have to either type it identically, case-wise, to the target link, or remember …

In my test vault I’ve got one file called Log. All of the following will link to that file: [[Log]], [[log]], [[lOg]], [[LOG]] I’ve also got two files called another and Another. They can be a little more finicky, but when I use [[ano it shows the file path in the auto completion list, so I can c…

I wonder if this is dependent on OS? holroy, are you on Windows, and a2jc4life are you on Mac/Linux by chance? Except I tested on MacOS, and I can also link with no case-sensitivity, exactly like @holroy says. @a2jc4life Also can you say a bit more about how you’re linking? Don’t you have auto-com…

[image] rigmarole: I wonder if this is dependent on OS? holroy, are you on Windows, I’m on macOs

I’m on Windows. I most often link by highlighting existing text and hitting [[ – which causes some problems because it doesn’t have all the same functionality as when you type a link from scratch. So I end up with… to use the same example, a file called Log. [[Log]] links to it. [[LOG]] and [[log]]…

I don’t have this problem, but like the others I’m on Mac. Do you see this behavior in the sandbox vault (found in the Help menu)?

Hmm. No. I can create a new note (manually) with the same name but different case, but linking existing text with a different case still knows to link to the original note. (Just for testing, I linked the word “apps” from the main note. Clicking on that, of course turns that into a note. I then cre…

Curioser and curioser. It’s actually doing what I expect today across the board. I’m not sure why it didn’t seem to be showing the same behavior the other day.

Ohhh. Okay, I figured out, I think, why I thought it was not linking these properly the other day. If you start to set it up like an alias because you aren’t sure which word is the title of the other note, it changes your case. e.g. right now I’m linking “church.” I couldn’t remember for sure if my…

[image] a2jc4life: So it changed my “church” to “Church.” So just making sure I read that correctly. Which part gets changed? The main link, or the alias? (Or both?) Or are you saying, the main link gets changed, but the alias stays the same, so they can become inconsistent from each other. …

Sorry; that was ambiguous. The text that I was linking gets changed to be consistent with the case of the actual target link title, instead of being treated as though it were an alias. I don’t think it’s a bug, because it’s consistent with how true aliases are treated. But it’s a little confusing b…

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CawlinTeffid January 17, 2023, 10:53pm 13

It is case-insensitive by default.