Key Combination for custom preview link

Feature requests
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Here is what Obsidian Help said:

To make the link display different text than its real note name in Preview, use the vertical pipe (shift+|) For example: [[Another Page Title Here|Custom Link Name in Preview!]]

Is any key combination to achieve this? Maybe similar to Internal Link combination?

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What would you expect the key combination to do? Obsidian doesn’t know what display text you want to use so I don’t understand what could be automated.

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Pressing CTRL+K on a selected word it automatically insert “()”.
It would be nice on a selected word with a key combination to insert
[[ | selected word]] and to move the cursor before vertical pipe

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Actually, a very good suggestion! Why don’t you update your original post and move it to the Features section?

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Done!

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Thanks @mafsi. That clears it up.

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I created a quick workaround for this in AutoHotkey and wanted to share in case someone finds it useful:

custom_link_video

Send, [[{Left}{Space}{Left}|{Left}{Space}{Left}
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put the script here.

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The single line of script is right after the little .gif in my previous comment. In addition to it, you need to define what hotkey to use, for example ^k:: for ctrl + k.

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It’s working! Thanks a lot!

I put it only for Obsidian

; Obsidian
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe Obsidian.exe
^k::
Send, [[{Left}{Space}{Left}|{Left}{Space}{Left}
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I would love to see this as a native feature; I’m on a mac so I can’t use AHK.

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Verily I say unto you, check out the magic that is Alfred or Textexpander.