I want to bind the page preview / hover link hotkey from “Ctrl” to something else.
Searched all the various docs, forums etc. All discussion is requiring or not requiring the hot key to trigger the preview, but not about changing it.
+1 for this
I have the same question.
I use a lot of hot key combinations which start with ‘ctrl’.
I find it is almost not possible to make sure that at any time, the mouse point dose not hover over any the clickable link or embedded item, etc. And what make it worse, in most cases, when I press the hot key combination, I have to use two hands. This means my hand is not on the mouse and I am not able to move the mouse.
So when I try to press the hot key combination which starts with ‘ctrl’, the hover editor may pop-up, cover the screen. And I have to stop anything what I’am doing on the keybroad, use one hand to find the mouse and move the mouse point carefully to somewhere that is ‘empty’. The workflow is broken. And when if the screen scrolls when some new text is inputed, this may happen again!
The hover editor is very convenient. I love it. But I think it should be like any other features to have a normal hotkey, i.e. a hotkey combination, rather than a single ‘ctrl’ key.
i am also constantly running into the issue of accidentially opening files in the file browser or anywhere else while doing stuff and then (because i use hover editor) also changing stuff in these files (always breaking the yaml)
i would love to change the key to option/alt or control - these i rarely use
Yep. It would be one thing if “CTRL” was a rarely used key, but it is THE most commonly used modifier! I mean: cut & paste is not actually one of those once-in-a-lifetime things. The number of times I’ve hit Ctrl-X or Ctrl-V and messed up the frontmatter of some other document whose link just happened to be under the mouse cursor.
In the zone, working through the doc and then you hit one of the gazillion CTRL bindings bound to muscle memory and then …
You then either have the presence of mind to pause, carefully look around to find the mouse cursor, make sure it’s not hovering over any link in the document or the file explorer or a link on the sidebar etc., and then go ahead OR …
Wrapped up in the zone, you do not notice this and then, either you are lucky or you are not .
I’m now resigned to this being just an ugly wart in an otherwise superbly designed framework that I have to work with until a more keyboard flow-friendly Obsidian replacement comes along (maybe built around NeoVim?). I can only imagine a small minority of us find it as frustrating as we do based on the relative lack of complaints or responses. I wonder whether others have got used to it or there just are not that many people who work with the keyboard only that much (I imagine if you are one those one-hand-on-the-mouse-90%-of-the-time folks it’s not as much as an issue as you are always aware of where the mouse cursor is and usually have deliberately placed it somewhere).