Use case or problem
Obsidian use the open parens character as a shortcut for typing special characters. For example “(c” will be changed into a © symbol automatically. I rarely/never need to use special characters like © or ® when making notes. However, I frequently use parenthesis (like this) to enhance my notes. It is a daily occurrence that I end up with “©urrent)” instead of “(current)” when typing a note.
Proposed solution
Add an option in Obsidian Settings that would let users turn this behavior off.
Current workaround (optional)
- Try to remember to type a space after the parens like this “( current )”.
- Switch to using {} .
- Try to remember to press the esc key after typing the first letter after a parens.
All of these are unnatural and hard to remember.
Related feature requests (optional)
As an aside, these special character shortcuts dont appear to be documented anywhere that I could find. For people who do like this feature, it would be nice to have a list of the special characters that can be typed in this way. Through experimentation I found that you can type c, r, p and tm after a parens. I am sure that there are others, but I have no idea.