Action "Toggle to-do lists" and "Toggle line to bulleted or numbered lists" don't move caret after bullet / checkbox

[hsandt]

I'm using the task / checkbox shortcuts a lot, in particular:

Ctrl + M: Toggle to-do lists (old name: "Toggle between checkmarks" in the README, btw should probably be updated)

to create a new task on a new line. But I noticed that the caret stays at the start of the line instead of jumping after the checkbox

So I need to press End each time to actually write the task content.

The same thing happens with:

Ctrl + Shift + M: Toggle line to bulleted or numbered lists (old name in README: "Toggle between ordered and unordered lists")

It would be nice if the caret jumped automatically after the list marker so that user can fill the line content immediately.

[lethefrost]

It used to correctly place the caret on the original place when the command/hotkey is executed, until some obsidian update broke this behavior last year. It now also sometimes toggles wrong list markers, for example when cycling through numbered/bullet/non list some items are toggled and some are not, and then the whole list becomes broken... I switched to obsidian's builtin list toggling hotkeys due to those bugs but they aren't as handy as the hotkeys++ ones... Really hope these can be fixed.

[Zetaniis]

@lethefrost
About the weird numbered/bullet cycling, I've made a fork that addresses it - https://github.com/Zetaniis/hotkeysplus-obsidian. It should properly preserve the toggling cycle for the lines.
You can quickly load it up with https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat.

[lethefrost]

@lethefrost About the weird numbered/bullet cycling, I've made a fork that addresses it - https://github.com/Zetaniis/hotkeysplus-obsidian. It should properly preserve the toggling cycle for the lines. You can quickly load it up with https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat.

@Zetaniis Hi! Thank you so much for the fix, it‘s really helpful! Just tested your fork and it seems to work well on cycling different lists, and when the cursor is at the end of a line on toggling, it will stay at the end after toggling. However, if the cursor isn't at the end (i.e., in the middle, or at the beginning), after toggling it will be moved to the very beginning of the line (even before the bullet marker and indentation, if any). Would it be possible to fix this as well? I'd really appreciate it!

[Zetaniis]

@lethefrost About the weird numbered/bullet cycling, I've made a fork that addresses it - Zetaniis/hotkeysplus-obsidian. It should properly preserve the toggling cycle for the lines. You can quickly load it up with TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat.

@Zetaniis Hi! Thank you so much for the fix, it‘s really helpful! Just tested your fork and it seems to work well on cycling different lists, and when the cursor is at the end of a line on toggling, it will stay at the end after toggling. However, if the cursor isn't at the end (i.e., in the middle, or at the beginning), after toggling it will be moved to the very beginning of the line (even before the bullet marker and indentation, if any). Would it be possible to fix this as well? I'd really appreciate it!

This plugin code works by replacing the whole lines with new ones and this seems to make the cursor lose its "original" position. This method doesn't use the provided obsidian commands, that's why the behaviour differs. I feel like fixing this would require big changes to this codebase which isn’t a priority for me (vim motions make this a non-issue to me). Sorry.

Btw, there is a Cycle bullet/checkbox command in basic Obsidian that you can use for the TODO lists that behaves similarly to this plugin, but preserves the cursor location.

[lethefrost]

@lethefrost About the weird numbered/bullet cycling, I've made a fork that addresses it - Zetaniis/hotkeysplus-obsidian. It should properly preserve the toggling cycle for the lines. You can quickly load it up with TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat.

@Zetaniis Hi! Thank you so much for the fix, it‘s really helpful! Just tested your fork and it seems to work well on cycling different lists, and when the cursor is at the end of a line on toggling, it will stay at the end after toggling. However, if the cursor isn't at the end (i.e., in the middle, or at the beginning), after toggling it will be moved to the very beginning of the line (even before the bullet marker and indentation, if any). Would it be possible to fix this as well? I'd really appreciate it!

This plugin code works by replacing the whole lines with new ones and this seems to make the cursor lose its "original" position. This method doesn't use the provided obsidian commands, that's why the behaviour differs. I feel like fixing this would require big changes to this codebase which isn’t a priority for me (vim motions make this a non-issue to me). Sorry.

Btw, there is a Cycle bullet/checkbox command in basic Obsidian that you can use for the TODO lists that behaves similarly to this plugin, but preserves the cursor location.

Thank you for the clarification! It makes sense. The builtin cycle bullet/checkbox command looks nice!

[hsandt]

@Zetaniis Thanks, I tried to install your fork via BRAT but it fails due to missing manifest.json. The file is obviously present, but looking at https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cant-make-a-plugin-to-work-on-brat/84369 it should be in release archives too (along with main.js, apparently, but not sure).

In the meantime I'll try to manually download the patched script and replace the old one...

EDIT: I copied the main.js directly but the cursor seems to stay at the start of the line...

Anyway, in the meantime I found the inconsistent cycling through numbered/bullet/non list that was mentioned which is even more problematic, and since this repo is unmaintained, I'll just switch back to the native commands.