Create Headline Link Keyboard Shortcut

[Lorcav]

What I’m trying to do

I’m working on a project to archive some interactive fiction games from old magazine scans. Is there a way to set a keyboard shotcut so that when I highlight the 88 in “go to 88” the shortcut creates a headline link within the document - [[#88]] - as currently I’m stuck typing the hash every time and then creating a link with the keyboard shortcut.

Things I have tried

I’ve checked the defaul hotkeys and searched for a custom shortcut option in the plugin library but no joy (AFAICS)

[hiijitesh]

You are trying to land at heading 88

[Lorcav]

I’m trying to setup a keyboard shortcut to automatically create a link to hadline within the note, rather than another note.

In this example that’s 88, but could be any bit of text of number.

[blue_emperor]

Numeric block ids are not usually allowed (see HTML - The id attribute). You want to create an inline template and set a keyboard shortcut to it—in this case producing this text: [[#. You can do this using Templater community plugin.

[holroy]

If the text is selected before you hit the key combo, you can make the entire link using a Template template assigned to a hotkey.

[Lorcav]

That just overrides the selected text?

[blue_emperor]

This is correct. The syntax is this:

[[#<cursor is here>|the display text for the link you want to create]]

The beautiful thing is that when you cursor is there, Obsidian will display interactive suggestions. I haven’t tested that template but I believe it should work fine.

[Lorcav]

Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but that overwrites the highlighted text?

[holroy]

The easiest version would be to have a template like:

[[#<% tp.file.selection() %>]]

Assign this template to a hotkey from Settings > Templater. Now when you select the header text, it’ll insert the brackets around your selection. Do note this require a full header to be selected for the link to work.

[Lorcav]

Thanks!