Quick formatting options

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

Obsidian should format whole lines, if there are no characters selected and we apply formatting options:

  • highlight mark,
  • bold,
  • italic,
  • quote,
  • strikeout

Applicable to:
useful for short sentences and eventually headers

Proposed solution

Remove character selection as a strict requirement if users don’t select any characters

Current formatting

Currently, we are able to format headers in a very convenient way, (especially useful on mobile) if we put our cursor in a random spot of a line and activate the header formatting

I want this formatting feature applied to other formatting options too (bold, italic, etc.)

Desired formatting extended

  1. place your cursor in a random spot of a line to format,
  2. Press your shortcut for bold to format a whole line without any characters selected
  3. Obsidian will apply bold to the whole line

Note:
if we want to format sentences in paragraphs without line breaks or just some words in a short sentence instead, then we need to manually select words before we apply formatting, this is understandable and needs no further discussion.

Current workaround (optional)

None, to format a sentence we’ve to select first some words/characters manually

Related feature requests (optional)

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It sure would be useful to be able to format a list item without having to make sure that all but the - at the beginning of the line is selected first.

Thanks!

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Triple-click could be an option, but I have soft line breaks applied to most lines, and the result will be messed up.

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If you’re using spaces for the soft line break it might work after the recent update.

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I have 1.4.11 on Linux and 1.4.5 on Win. I’m on WIn.

EDIT. Now, on Linux, all good.

Thanks for the heads-up.

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Yeah, triple click is ok, still adding formatting in an easier way would be comfortable, also on mobile

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