Code Emphasis

中文

Mark the important parts of code in your Obsidian notes, so they are easier to revisit.

Highlight text

1. Select text inside a code block.
2. Run Code Emphasis: Highlight selected text from the command palette.
3. Optionally assign a shortcut in Settings → Hotkeys.

You can also type the markers yourself:

^^// Initialize before starting^^
if (^^status^^ == READY) {
    ^^Start()^^;
}

Selecting multiple lines highlights each nonblank line. To remove a highlight, delete its two ^^ markers, or undo immediately after adding it.

Reading and editing

• Live Preview: markers stay hidden until you move the cursor into a highlight or select across it. Only that fragment opens for editing.
• Reading view: shows highlights without markers.
• Source mode: shows the original markers.
• Copy code: the Reading view button removes markers and keeps your comments, indentation and backslashes. Normal editor copy keeps the selected source.

Code and comments use the same style. Backslashes stay unchanged: \^^fff^^ displays and copies as \fff. Highlights cannot span line breaks or nest; unmatched markers stay visible. Paired literal ^^ are treated as markers.

Settings

• Language: Follow Obsidian (default), 中文, or English.
• Font color: red by default. Switch off to keep the original text colors.
• Background color: off by default. Enable to choose a color.

Both colors can be switched off independently. Restore defaults resets all settings.

Install

Requires Obsidian 1.13+.

BRAT: add elfmedy/code-emphasis and enable Code Emphasis.

Manual: download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release. Put them in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/code-emphasis/ folder, then enable the plugin.

The highlight command currently works in ordinary top-level fenced code blocks. Special blocks such as Mermaid are excluded.

Upgrading from the old HTML plugin · Development · MIT license