jelly-snippets

A simple text snippets plugin for Obsidian.md.

What does it do?

Pretty simple. You probably have run into snippets before.

1. Specify a mapping of snippet to replacement in the settings tab.

   snippet. |+| replacement!

2. If the cursor is at the end of a snippet...

   snippet.<cursor here>

3. ..then triggering the snippet conversion...

   snippet.<cursor here - TRIGGER!>

4. ..will replace the snippet with its replacement!

   replacement!<cursor here>

Why?

I wanted to make a generic snippets plugin that operated on text and worked as I needed. There is an existing snippets plugin already, Text Snippets by ArianaKhit, but not only is the plugin code somewhat outdated and a little complex, it seems to use an older API.

One of my goals writing this was to write a simple plugin that used the API exactly as described by the unofficial docs and by vanilla Typescript. I also wanted to make the core functionality of the plugin more flexible, though of course I have yet to add certain features that would truly provide that.

Another motivation was that I wanted to make a plugin by which I could type in my personal note-taking syntax (called JellyNote); I originally was going to write a whole editor extension, but I eventually realized that I could implement it with snippets. So, I'll be adding features to this plugin as long as I need them for JellyNote syntax.

Future Improvements

• Control characters in snippets (e.g. whitespace, particularly newlines? currently snippets are trimmed on both ends; should probably not trim spaces)
• Semantic symbols in snippets (e.g. where does cursor go afterwards?)
• Regex capabilities