Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons

tessus · 2021-05-17T01:21:24.466Z

GitHub

tessus/joplin-plugin-menu-shortcut-toolbar

Additional menu items, shortcuts, and toolbar icons, which are not part of Joplin core. - tessus/joplin-plugin-menu-shortcut-toolbar

Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons

This plugin creates menu items (in Edit), shortcuts (defaults can be changed), and toolbar icons for the following actions:

mark
strikethrough
underline
superscript
subscript

Default Shortcuts and Command Names

Action	Default Shortcut	command
mark	`CmdOrCtrl+Shift+Y`	textMark
strikethrough	`CmdOrCtrl+Shift+U`	textStrikethrough
underline	`CmdOrCtrl+U`	textUnderline
superscript		textSuperscript
subscript		textSubscript

The shortcuts can be changed in the shortcut editor (Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts) or in the keymap-desktop.json file.

CodeMirror Commands

This plugin also makes additional CodeMirror functionality available.

Default Shortcuts and Command Names

Action	Default Shortcut	command
joinLines	`CmdOrCtrl+J`	editor.joinLines
toggleOverwrite	`CmdOrCtrl+O`	editor.toggleOverwrite

The shortcuts can be changed in the shortcut editor (Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts) or in the keymap-desktop.json file.

Settings

Please note: All settings require a restart of Joplin.

Only activate, if enabled in Markdown Plugin settings: Only activate menu items, shortcuts, and toolbar icons for markdown plugins which are enabled in Joplin's settings.

Enable "join lines" in editor: The markdown editor (CodeMirror) provides a function to join lines. This option enables it.

Enable "toggle overwrite mode" in editor: The markdown editor (CodeMirror) provides a function to toggle overwrite mode. This option enables it.

Under Show Advanced Settings it is possible to remove toolbar icons for individual actions.

Misc

Changelog
Todo (I will get to it eventually)

lkiThakur · 2021-05-17T04:34:42.690Z

What a coincidence I too just finished coding my plugin for strikethrough toolbar icon
though yours is much better and feature rich ; I am still sharing link to my repository

lkiThakur · 2021-05-17T04:52:59.601Z

Will it be useful if we add option to generate custom toolbar buttons ?
e.g shortcut for underlining text issue#4940
I would like to work on adding pull request implementing this feature.

tessus · 2021-05-17T05:59:36.866Z

lkiThakur:

I would like to work on adding pull request implementing this feature.

Already did that 3 hours ago.

But I haven't committed and pushed it yet. Also, please note that this plugin was rather a quick hack. There are a bunch of things on the todo list that I want to finish up before this plugin will be version 1.0.0.
One of the major things is refactoring. As you can see most of the code is duplicated for mark and strikethrough, which is a very bad coding style.

I only made it available, because a few people on this forum wanted this functionality.

blank · 2021-05-22T04:19:25.857Z

I can't believe I missed this post. Thanks for this plugin !
I use striketrough and mark text dozens of times a day, and now it will be much much less tedious. Time saver !
(Sometimes I was switching to the Rich Text Editor, but some formating were lost when switching back)

huy · 2021-06-01T13:41:21.262Z

tessus:

strikethrough CmdOrCtrl+Shift+U

Maybe CmdOrCtrl+Shift+X would be a better default for strikethrough. Both Google Docs and Slack use that.

huy · 2021-06-01T13:47:26.157Z

tessus:

|mark|CmdOrCtrl+Shift+Y

May I also suggest CmdOrCtrl+Shift+H, as "Mark" is basically called "Highlight" in other apps and that's the shortcut used in Evernote?

tessus · 2021-06-01T17:15:41.909Z

I'm not so keen on changing the defaults. These combinations or some variation of them are usually associated with something else:

H - hide app, window
X - close, exit, cut

But that's why you can change them to your liking.

FYI: I picked them for a reason: Cmd+Shift+Y wasn't used yet, so it made sense at that time. And U for strikethrUUUUUUUU. Also Cmd+U is used for underline, thus if you use shift, you basically lift the line to the middle.

CWPfVTkNBMyfdFW · 2021-06-06T11:50:30.778Z

This plugin is fantastic, I needed this.

Would you consider adding support for quotes? I feel like this is the most cumbersome to do by hand, adding > to the beginning of every line in a quote with several paragraphs.

tessus · 2021-06-06T16:53:44.782Z

CWPfVTkNBMyfdFW:

support for quotes?

This sounds like a good idea. I can look into it, when I have a bit more time.

zblesk · 2021-06-06T20:48:49.672Z

How have I overlooked this plugin for this long?
Thanks!

Also seconding the > quote feature request; adding quotes multiple paragraphs long is my most frequent reason for launching my external editor (Typora).

omega3 · 2021-08-15T13:01:07.818Z

lkiThakur:

Will it be useful if we add option to generate custom toolbar buttons ?

How can I add buttons for custom text color and custom text backgroud or predefined, custom text separators? Can you add it to your plugin or create separate plugin for it?

Reference:

stackoverflow.com

How to apply color on text in Markdown

markdown

asked by Mahesha999 on 07:09PM - 17 Feb 16 UTC

bookdown.org

5.1 Font color | R Markdown Cookbook

This book showcases short, practical examples of lesser-known tips and tricks to helps users get the most out of these tools. After reading this book, you will understand how R Markdown documents are transformed from plain text and how you may...

https://www.programmersought.com/article/77384514692/

I want to use Joplin to create my own English grammar notebook and having more options to distinguish text is essential for me. Only basic options such as here on forum, or such as Joplin has would dramatically limit the ability to use Joplin for my purpose.

By writing this I want to emphasize that very basic features can determine whether a program can fulfill a certain purpose or not. Please, take it into consideration.

Cross-out feature, more text coloring and text background color options, upper index, strike-through, underline, etc. Whatever you add, someone will find it useful.

Actually, it would be nice to have such icons to color font as they are in for example LibreOffice Writer and with the same functionality. I believe it is a standard way of handling coloring text in many applications.

Also it would be nice to have plugins to create predefined, custom styles of formatting text, similar to text styles in MS Word and to create predefined, custom text separators, for example:
-------------------------
or
***
or whatever can be predefined. I imagine I could add an icon to editor with predefined style or separator.

I am perfectly aware that Joplin is not a text editor, like MS Word or LO Writer but anyway, options to distinguish text can greatly enhance usability of the program.

tessus · 2021-08-15T13:20:39.904Z

What you are looking for is already available.

Plugin: Quick HTML tags Plugins

Hello everyone! Since I am a bit lazy at writing html tags manually, I've decided to add a bit of a shortcut to it for myself, hopefully to make it more efficient, because I work with a lot of my own custom tags. Here's a preview of it: [example-quick-html-tags] I feel like this plugin has more potential to grow and upgrade, maybe with adding custom attributes to it as well. If anyone wants to work on it, here's a link to the repo: The general idea was to just make adding custom HTML tags…

GitHub

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Joplin plugin for creating HTML tags quickly. Contribute to martinkorelic/joplin-plugin-quick-html-tags development by creating an account on GitHub.

omega3 · 2021-08-15T17:08:05.627Z

Thank you for information. Of course I will use it. But being able to add custom buttons to editor would be more handy.

uroybd · 2021-08-30T19:51:20.615Z

This plugin is very useful.

However, don't you think the icons are little too bolder than the default icons? Thematically similar icons would have been more better.

tessus · 2021-08-30T20:09:01.489Z

I used the standard icons from fa. I did not make them bold. I think the default toolbar icons (from Joplin core) do use a different icon set. I do not know, if there are suitable icons in that set nor do I know if I can access them via a plugin. I have to check the code.

uroybd · 2021-08-30T20:11:35.389Z

I think, an alternative can be to generate an icon font/pack from flaticons with thematically similar ones.

tessus · 2021-09-02T06:39:31.911Z

The default toolbar is using icomoon, but the icons I'd need are not included.
Maybe I can add an option to use alternative icons instead, but it is not high on my priority list. I'd accept a PR though.

Saturo78 · 2022-06-30T07:01:07.367Z

For me ++underline++ did not work.
Neither in the editor nor in the rendered output.
What am i doing wrong?

Daeraxa · 2022-06-30T08:04:50.583Z

You need to have "Enable ++insert++ syntax" turned on in your Markdown options.