#1

I know Obsidian isn’t a code editor, but I use it for code a lot, and commenting out a section of Markdown and prevent it from appearing in the output would be useful.

Command shortcuts can be shared with other editors: How to Comment in VS Code - The VSCode Comment Shortcut

  • On Windows, the shortcut is: CTRL + /
  • On Mac, the shortcut is: Command + /
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Meta Post - Hotkeys
#2

Hm. This syntax works as a comment in Obsidian for me:

<!-- some text -->

Or is this post asking for a shortcut to do such commenting?

#3

Heh, sorry about that, I added the tag for a shortcut but forgot to include it in the title!

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#4

Great idea. Revising the title to “hotkey” for consistency with other posts, and adding it to https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-post-hotkeys/87

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#5

There must be a simple fix that I can’t find, but when I type the close comment string, it’s converted into an arrow -->. I have Smart Quotes and Dashes turned off, which seems to fix it in some apps (like TextEdit), but not others. So annoying. Anyone know how to turn it off?

#6

Hm. Maybe this keyboard shortcut is in your OS? On macOS, System Preferences → Keyboard → Text Replacement tab.

I also have this happen, but I like it. I actually use text replacements to manually expand comments as well, so that I can have the best of both worlds…

#7

dvd, did you ever find a fix for this? I have the same problem, and I can’t figure out why it’s happening. It happens even if I type the closing tag incorrectly, like - - >, and remove the spaces.

#8

I find myself hitting Cmd + / all the time. Taking into account Obsidian Release v0.10.12 I would like to extend the request:

It would be great along with the shortcut to have an option to set which style of comment to use in Obsidian: either <!-- this --> or %% this %%. For example, Github isn’t aware of %% so one might consider using standard HTML.

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#9

It must be ligatures in the font. Try adding to your custom CSS:

.CodeMirror-line,
.markdown-preview-section {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures !important;
}
#10

If Obsidian for Mac were to support the menu bar better and put commands in its Edit & View menu items, then people could set up their own keyboard bindings*.

As it is, I heartily +1 a request for a Toggle Comment Block hotkey, defaulting to CTRL + / (Win) and Command + / (Mac). :slight_smile:

(* shortcuts, hotkeys, whatever you want to call them)

#11

will be implemented in 0.11.1

#12

I suggest allow user to choose <!-- --> or %% %%. The current implementation of %% %% is not compatible with other markdown editor.

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