Use standard hotkey UI for "Paste as plain text" instead of hardcoded hotkey

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I want to paste text as plain text using my custom hotkey. There is a hardhoded Ctrl+Shift+V hotkey for that, but I use that hotkey for another puprose (namely, clipboard history) and don’t want to change it.

It’s odd that, unlike other hotkeys, this one is hardcoded:

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This is an antipattern that contradicts the principle of least astonishment.

Proposed solution

Allow to set the shortcut in the standard UI for hotkeys.

Current workaround (optional)

Disabling Ctrl+Shift+V just for one app.

Related feature requests (optional)

(I can’t post a link because “An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t include links in your posts”. This is silly that the form tells me to insert links and doesn’t allow to do that. Fix that as well.)

  • forum.obsidian.md/t/keyboard-shortcut-for-the-paste-as-plain-text-rmb-menu-option/48058 — that person didn’t realize there is a Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut
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Lol, why can’t I edit a topic I just created. What’s going on here? Is that because my account is new? So, you want to make the experience of new users worse? Why would you want that?

This is just terrible UX on all fronts.

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Pasting links and editing comments are disabled on new accounts to minimize spam from bots. I have upgraded your trust account though so you should be able to edit your post if you wish.

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As a side note, having “Paste as plan text” available as a command (as I imagine would be needed to assign a hotkey to it) would also make it more accessible on phones, where hotkeys aren’t so useful.

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Thanks, but I still don’t see any buttons to do that:
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UPD: Oh, I can edit this comment. Perhaps this is not retroactive.