Obsidian Kill and Yank

Obsidian plugin to enable kill and yank (like Emacs) in the editor.

Obsidian https://obsidian.md

Usage

Kill line

Cut from the cursor position to the end of the line.

default: Control + k

Kill region

Cut the selection.

default: Control + w

Yank

Paste kill ring.

default: Control + y

Set mark

Toggle the start position of the selection.

default: Control + Space

Note

This plugin enables kill and yank in the editor, but does not enable kill and yank in the title.

If you wish to continue to use kill and yank in the title, change the default key mappings.

Development

This project uses pnpm. The required version is pinned in the packageManager field of package.json and in mise.toml.

Setup

pnpm install

Format

pnpm format:check
pnpm format:fix

Lint

pnpm lint
pnpm lint:fix

Build

pnpm build

Release

main is protected and only accepts changes through a pull request, so the version bump goes through one as well. The release tag is created afterwards, on the merge commit.

Create a branch:

git switch --create bump-up-to-1.3.0

Bump the version:

pnpm version minor --no-git-tag-version

patch, minor, major and an explicit version number such as 1.3.0 are all accepted.

This runs version-bump.mjs through the version lifecycle script, which writes the new version into manifest.json and versions.json. --no-git-tag-version skips the commit and the tag that pnpm version would otherwise create, because the tag has to point at the merge commit on main.

Commit the change and open a pull request:

git add manifest.json versions.json package.json

git commit --message "1.3.0"

git push --set-upstream origin bump-up-to-1.3.0

gh pr create --title "1.3.0" --body "" --assignee "@me"

Merge the pull request with a merge commit once CI passes. Do not squash it, so that the history stays accurate.

Tag the merge commit on main and push the tag to trigger the release workflow:

git switch main

git pull

git tag --annotate 1.3.0 --message "1.3.0"

git push origin 1.3.0

The tag must match the version in manifest.json exactly, with no v prefix. Both the release workflow and the Obsidian community plugin flow rely on this.

The workflow publishes the release straight away, without a draft step. Anyone who installed the plugin from the community plugin list receives the update as soon as it is published.

Manually installing this plugin

Copy over main.js and manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/kill-and-yank/.