#1

Would be cool if Obsidian is somehow able to intelegently detect and modify a paste action. Currently if I have

- [ ] Ticket: PRD External Ingress

And I want to copy it and modify one sections, it looks like

- [ ] Ticket: PRD External Ingress
- [ ] - [ ] Ticket: PRD External Ingress

Would be nice if the - [ ] is excluded somehow if it is detected so it doesn’t duplicate.

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Copy & pasting a list item shouldn't result in extra dash
More intelligent behavior of editor during manipulation of lists
#2

Edited the title with more description. Thanks!

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#3

Steps to reproduce

I frequently find my self trying to cut/paste a list item from one place to another and I often end up with a duplicate dash. I wish Obsidian would be smarter upon paste in a scenario like this, like some other editors are.

Kapture 2020-11-12 at 9.53.23
Kapture 2020-11-12 at 9.53.231162×784 338 KB

Environment

  • Operating system: macOS
  • Obsidian version: 0.9.11

Additional information

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#4

Here’s another use case that I often hit with the same issue:

Kapture 2020-11-12 at 10.04.12

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#5

Automatically remove automatically added list-item prefix when appropriate

Use case or problem

  • place caret in line which starts by string "- " (dash, space), optionally preceded by indentation
  • Cut a line “1” using Ctrl+X
  • place cursor to end of another line “2” which also starts by "- " (optionally preceded by indentation)
  • press Enter. Now "- " is added to new line, that is OK.
  • press Ctrl+V to paste the line “1”. Now line starts by "- - "
  • I have to navigate to the line beginning and delete the automatically added "- "

Proposed solution

  • I would prefer automatically added "- " to be removed automatically when pasted content starts by "- " followed by standard text (e.g. alphanumeric character), i.e. pasted text matches markdown list item syntax.

  • Similar situation occurs when caret is at the end of line and delete is pressed. Fixing it by pressing Enter (immediately or later) leads again to "- - ".

    • When curent line starts by string "- " (dash, space), preceded by optional indentation and at the same time caret is followed by "- " and Enter is pressed, then editor should not add another "- " automatically.

Related Feature Requests

keywords: double, duplicate, hyphen, list item, minus, new line, paste

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#6

Glad to see this. Somehow I missed it when I made a similar request here: Automatic avoidance of extra bracket set in checkbox formatting

Thanks.

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