obsidian: type * for a bullet point, not ** bold

♠ Problem statement: in Obsidian, out-of-the-box, typing * at the start of a new line emits *|* (an empty bold pair, cursor in the middle) instead of starting a bullet point. The culprit is Settings → Editor → Auto pair Markdown syntax. With it on, every * auto-inserts its closing *, so a * followed by a space never gets the chance to become a list marker. In fact, we get a bullet point followed by a plain *, which we then have to delete. To turn this setting off: set Settings → Editor → Auto pair Markdown syntax to off. Now: * followed by a space at the start of a line converts it to a bullet1, exactly like - does. Surely inserting bullet points in Obsidian is a muscle memory artifact from migrating from LogSeq. ↩︎ — § —Reply via email#dev #pkm