Complete attributes on JavaScript objects with Plugin REPL

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Plugin REPL in Obsidian lets you script obsidian with JavaScript directly within Obsidian. A common thing to want to do is explore objects to work out how you can use this. Plugin REPL provides a dir and fuzzyDir method for this purpose:

dir(app)
fuzzyDir(app)

However, after a while I got bored to typing this. I could have added dot completion like an editor to Plugin REPL, but plugin REPL doesn’t quite “own” dot in Obsidian - because you can write and execute code anywhere with Plugin REPL.

Instead I quickly hacked up a couple of commands so that I could have a hotkey for looking up and inserting attributes.

newCommand(async function fuzzy_dir_line() {

let attr = await fuzzyDir(eval(lineAtPoint()))

endOfLine()

if (! isNaN(attr)) {

insert("[" + attr + "]")

} else {

insert(".")

insert(attr)

}

})

newCommand( function delete_back_to_dot () {

let end = point()

backwardRegexp(/\./)

kill(point(), end)

})

Then I bind some hotkeys to these.

Here’s a demo of this working.

This is part of a cookbook of cool things you can do with Obsidian and Plugin REPL.

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