Can I quote a block of text by keyboard shortcut or plugin?

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.5.12

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.5.12 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics
Client ID: 0eba133bf40e422fa62146c80df1b9b3
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 49
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: 449555c

AlertsPerfect: 1.0.1
Backup: 1.5.1
Better Code Blocks: 2.0.1
CodePerfect: 1.0.4
Csv Import: 1.0.1
Diff view: 0.3.1
Editor Themes: 1.0.2
Embedded Notes: 1.1.0
Extra Markdown editor settings: 1.11.0
Google Fonts Plugin: 1.0.0
Headings 4 to 6: 1.0.1
Hotstrings & Hotkeys: 1.1.0
Insert Date: 1.0.1
Markdown table calculations: 1.0.5
Markdown Table: Colorize: 1.2.0
Math Mode: 1.0.0
Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons: 1.1.0
Note Statistics: 1.0.4
Search & Replace: 2.2.0
Table Formatter Plugin: 1.2.1
Templates: 3.0.0
Text Colorize: 1.2.5

Sync target

OneDrive

Editor

Markdown Editor

What issue do you have?

I have a long dialog that I saved with me another person conversing. I want to use AlertsPerfect plugin to make my contribution light green (>[!tip me]) and the other person blue (>[!note them]).

Instead of adding > to the start of every line manually, is there a way to select several paragraphs and quote them all? I can add the AlertsPerfect tag at the start of each block using copy/paste.

But, I don't see quote on the markdown toolbar. I even installed "Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons" plugin, which is great but doesn't do what I need.

1 Like

That’s a kinda neat idea. A copy as quote for a block of paragraphs. I could use that occasionally.

1 Like

Have you tried the admonition markdown extension? It is very nice to format a certain block, including quotes.

I added this to my Markdown Alerts plugin, you can select some text and either convert it to a quote or an alert (or toggle the different alert types if selected text is already a quote or an alert)

Note: toggling alert types also works without having a text selection, as long as your cursor is anywhere in a block quote

I haven’t tried that yet. So many plugins. I’ll check it out.

Not sure if I’m using it wrong. I selected a series of paragraphs and pressed ctrl+shift+a and all of the selected text was replaced by “> [!NOTE]”. Also. if I ctrl+shift+a anywhere but the first position of a paragraph that “> [!NOTE]” appears in the middle of the paragraph and doesn’t make an alert.

If I ctrl+shift+a on individual paragraphs, each gets that ‘note’ header and that text “[!NOTE]” appears in the display pane.

I turned off AlertsPerfect to try this so the 2 plugins wouldn’t compete.

that's how it behaved before the 1.2.0 update that I released,

It looks like joplin plugin repo hasn't picked up 1.2.0 yet (so you're still on 1.1.3), you can download the 1.2.0 version here (or wait until the joplin plugin updates): Release v1.2.0 · bwat47/joplin-markdown-alerts · GitHub

I just downloaded the latest version. It does handle multiple paragraphs much better. Easy to change into a note then change the header for tip, etc! Thanks!!

1 Like