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Obsidian plugin to automatically switch between view and edit mode

Obsidian AutoView Plugin

This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).

This plugin will auto-switch the active window to edit mode when a keystroke is detected, and then switch back to preview mode a delay after the last keystroke is detected. This quick switching allows for a kind of WYSIWYG.

Local Installation

The codebase is written in TypeScript and uses rollup / node for compilation; for a first time set up, all you should need to do is pull, install, and build:

foo@bar:~$ git clone https://github.com/mmhobi7/obsidian-autoview.git
foo@bar:~$ cd obsidian-autoview
foo@bar:~/obsidian-autoview$ npm install
foo@bar:~/obsidian-autoview$ npm run dev

Settings

  • Timeout Duration: The amount of time in seconds that the plugin waits after the last keystroke before swtiching over to preview mode.
  • Scroll back to previous editing location: Whether the editor should scroll back to it's previous location when switching from edit to preview mode (verus just auto scrolling to where editing is happening)