obsidian-auto-link-title

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Currently the auto-linking happens whenever a link is pasted anywhere in the note. It would be great if a setting could be added to disable auto-linking when pasting into the Frontmatter section of the note.

Thanks for your work on this plugin!

I came here to note this as well. Alternative, the plugin could have a "normal paste" command for when one just wants to paste a URL.

I haven't tried any of this. But figured it'd post it here. Maybe this can help get the feature implemented quicker:

GPT4's advice:

To avoid getting the plugin triggered when pasting inside a frontmatter section, you can add a new function isInFrontMatter to check if the current cursor position is inside a frontmatter section. This function should return true if the cursor is inside a frontmatter section and false otherwise.

The Obsidian editor doesn't provide a built-in function to check if a position is inside a frontmatter section. However, frontmatter sections are usually defined as being between two lines consisting of three hyphens (---). So you can add this function to your EditorExtensions class to check if a position is inside a frontmatter section:

class EditorExtensions {
  static isInFrontMatter(editor: Editor): boolean {
    const cursorLine = editor.getCursor().line;
    let lineContent;
    let frontMatterStart = -1;
    let frontMatterEnd = -1;

    for (let i = 0; i <= cursorLine; i++) {
      lineContent = editor.getLine(i);
      if (lineContent === '---') {
        if (frontMatterStart === -1) {
          frontMatterStart = i;
        } else if (i > frontMatterStart) {
          frontMatterEnd = i;
          break;
        }
      }
    }

    return frontMatterStart !== -1 && cursorLine > frontMatterStart && cursorLine < frontMatterEnd;
  }

  // Other methods...
}

Then in your pasteUrlWithTitle function and manualPasteUrlWithTitle function, you can check if the cursor is inside a frontmatter section before doing anything else:

async pasteUrlWithTitle(clipboard: ClipboardEvent, editor: Editor): Promise<void> {
  if (EditorExtensions.isInFrontMatter(editor)) {
    return;
  }

  // Rest of your code...
}

async manualPasteUrlWithTitle(editor: Editor): Promise<void> {
  if (EditorExtensions.isInFrontMatter(editor)) {
    editor.replaceSelection(await navigator.clipboard.readText());
    return;
  }

  // Rest of your code...
}

In the above code, if the cursor is inside a frontmatter section, the function simply pastes the text from the clipboard without any further processing and then returns immediately, preventing the rest of the code in the function from executing.