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Feature request: Replace punctuation marks

Open QuickFastly opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Convert paired straight quotes ("" & '') to curly quotes (“” & ‘’), double dashes (--) to em dashes (), and three periods (...) to ellipses (). Having this functionality in the editor within longform projects would be nice, but I honestly don't know which would be more feasible, implementing it as an editor function or as a compile step.

Obsidian is not a word processor, and I don't want it to behave like one, but these changes would go a long way in saving editing time. I am aware of this plugin that makes these replacements (and a lot more) as you type, but I find using this plugin very disruptive since I prefer only to use these characters in my longform projects, and having to either enable and disable the plugin frequently or hit backspace every time I want a straight quote or apostrophe is more than a little cumbersome. Even more cumbersome is trying to type these things normally, because I have no way to easily do that on my keyboard.

QuickFastly avatar Nov 01 '22 17:11 QuickFastly