#1

I humbly submit cmd + shift + D as a keyboard shortcut to duplicate the current line, or the currently selected lines. This is a code editor shortcut that comes in handy for me when taking notes.

Any other variant would work. I’d prefer cmd + D, but as I’ve discovered that’s a command to delete the current line.

Thanks to the Obsidian team!

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Hotkey for Line Duplication
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#2

If you have a macro software, you could just do this with a macro. E.g., with Keyboard Maestro on the Mac:

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#3

That’s great until I need to use Obsidian on another computer. It would be nice to know that, out of the box, wherever I want to use it, Obsidian has a keybinding for duplicating lines.

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#4

There’s already Vim keybinding built in, which would allow me to duplicate lines fairly easily. Being able to quickly toggle between using Vim and regular key bindings would be nice too.

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#5

@lizardmenfromspace Should probably add to your meta list!

#6

Not urgent, but I think Sublime Text has had a great line duplication feature (CTRL/Command + Shift + D) and duplicates by line or by selection. I’m sure its not the only editor to have the feature, but I hadn’t explored other editors as deeply.

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#7

This is actually the multi-selection that Sublime is renowned for. Yes, it’d be great to have even some of those

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#8

Most of the other major text editors and IDEs have this feature. I hope it becomes part of the core keybindings, not just in VIM, which not everyone uses.

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#9

The Hotkeys++ plugin now has this shortcut.

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#10

Chiming in here that I would very much like to see a “duplicate line” hotkey. Coming from a programming background, this is part of my muscle memory and it makes creating Markdown tables so much easier, for example, because I can just copy a table row and don’t have to type the | character manually (or copy the line manually).

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#11

+1 for having the ability to set a shortcut for duplicating the current line.

#12

I’d love to have this hotkey. I use this constantly while coding in VSCode and it would make my life way easier for things like lists and structured docs

#13

The Code Editor Shortcuts plugin also has this shortcut, as well as a few more common ones from VS Code and Sublime Text.