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[Feature Request] Highlightr toolbar that appears when selecting text

Open pinetreemoonlight opened this issue 1 year ago โ€ข 1 comments

It would be amazing if we had the option to have a little Highlightr toolbar appear automatically above selected text, upon selecting it.

This way we would not need to right-click and use the context menu, which is a lot of steps.

I am aware that we can also use keyboard shortcuts, but I for one am not someone who keeps tons of shortcuts in their mind, and prefer a more "in your face" convenience.

Thanks for reading!

pinetreemoonlight avatar Oct 05 '23 01:10 pinetreemoonlight

I agree! That would be a very useful to have the color pallette at hand. ๐Ÿ‘ (but as for me, I don't think the popup / popover is a good mechanism, because in this case we cannot separate different types of user behaviour: for example, if we select the text and JUST want to make it bold (or copy; or, as I do permanently when reading - just select and deselect text without purpose ๐Ÿ˜) - the appearing of "little Highlightr toolbar" may be a little bit irritative). As a suggestion:

  • keep the toolbar "sticky" permanently (for example closer to the right border);
  • optionally. in plugin settings: set the padding-top (in px or % ะพf height of container (.view-content);
  • limit the quantity of showing colors at time (3-5-... ) โ€” and hide the rest of pallette under the small button (to prevent the extremely long toolbar if we choose a lot of colors to set)
  • AND if there will be a button on main toolbar or statusbar - to ON/OFF "highlightr toolbar" โ€” that will be great! (so, we can disable / enable highlighting toolbar for types of content we read / work with). A class of highly polymorphic tetranucleotide repeats for canine genetic mapping - MyObsidian_ - Obsidian v1 5 12

Thanks!

loolllool avatar May 15 '24 18:05 loolllool