USER INTERFACE

Editor (experimental)

[!WARNING]

The editor is experimental and subject to change. It is built from scratch with limited capabilities. More features will be added incrementally.

To enable the experimental editor, add the following to your Configuration file:

experimental_editor = true

Views#

Basalt follows Obsidian's view model with a reading view and an edit view.

Reading view#

Renders the note without markdown syntax, similar to Obsidian's reading view.

Mapping	Description
`↑`	Move cursor up
`↓`	Move cursor down
`Ctrl+D`	Scroll down half page
`Ctrl+U`	Scroll up half page
`i`	Switch to edit view
`Ctrl+E`	Toggle to edit view

Edit view#

Displays the raw markdown source and allows editing.

[!WARNING]

Edit view key mappings cannot be modified at the moment.

Mapping	Description
`Backspace`	Delete one character before cursor
`Enter`	Insert newline
`→`	Move cursor forward
`←`	Move cursor backward
`↑`	Move cursor up
`↓`	Move cursor down
`Alt+→`	Move cursor forward by word
`Alt+←`	Move cursor backward by word
`Ctrl+X`	Save note
`Ctrl+E`	Toggle to read view
`Shift+R`	Switch to read view
`Esc`	Exit edit mode

Limitations#

The edit view edits the whole note line by line. With vim mode it also supports motions, operators (delete, change, yank, paste), visual (line and block) selection, undo/redo and jumps to the start and end of the line and document.

Pasting images from the clipboard is not supported