Linking highlighted text to an internal note

[michaelrfowler]

What I’m trying to do

Ultimately, I want a command (that I can hotkey to) that links the currently highlighted text as the display text for an internal note. I want to run the command, immediately be able to type-to-search for the name of the note I want to link the text to, press Enter, and voila, the link is created.

Things I have tried

I’ve tried making this work the way I want with the “Add internal link” command. I highlight some text, and run “Add internal link” via the command palette. The modal appears with a search box for me to select an existing note, and when I select a note, it replaces my highlighted text with the name of the note. I then need to type the original text again in order to use it as the link’s display text. This is feasible when I’m linking a handful of words, but irritating when I’m linking an entire sentence.

[Sunnaq445]

One click solution to convert 'alias' to '[[Alias|alias]]'

I already saw at least 2 threads where this was discussed. There is a solution…but… Due to limitations it is not easy to achieve this without javascript (which is what I am suggesting someone should help us out with – not the code, that is not that hard, but the exact workflow: how to target text selection and write back to the file). Simply because the regex flavours used throughout Obsidian plugins do not support the lowercase and uppercase switches \l, \L, \u and \U (not even regex101.com an…

I don’t remember the thead contained a solution involving picking a filename from the metadatacache but AlanG may have other alias related stuff if you search the forum.

But if you have ==string or two== in selection, you’ll need to trim the equal signs off, I reckon.