can't map <C-f> and <C-b> to :back and :forward respectively

[asherjacobson]

I added this to my obsidian vimrc:

exmap back obcommand app:go-back
nmap :back
exmap forward obcommand app:go-forward
nmap :forward

It doesn't work. Why not?

[esm7]

One thing that pops up is that the syntax of nmap is incorrect, you're missing a key you want to map.

[asherjacobson]

Thanks for the quick response. It looks like gitHub hid the <C-b> and <C-f> from my comment, because I didn't put it in a code block. Here is what I have in my obsidian vimrc.

exmap back obcommand app:go-back
nmap <C-b> :back
exmap forward obcommand app:go-forward
nmap <C-f> :forward

However the new behavior seems to treat ctrl b and ctrl f as previous page and next page buttons, i.e. they are now the equivalent of "alt + leftArrow" or "alt + rightArrow"; they do the same as clicking the tiny arrows in the top left corner of the obsidian app. Was this your intended behavior when you said go back and forward with [example remappings] at the top of the ReadMe? Obviously, it is different from the ctrl o and ctrl i behavior in vim.

[esm7]

Yeah, that was the intention. A more comprehensive implementation of a jumplist is surely something that many users will find beneficial, you can ask for it here.

[asherjacobson]

Thanks for the suggestion I'm confused though. Does Codemirror relate to/work with obsidian somehow?

[esm7]

CodeMirror is the editor component that Obsidian uses, and that's where the Vim support is implemented (not by Obsidian itself).

[asherjacobson]

Thanks for clarifying!

[asherjacobson]

It appears, FWIW, that ctrl o and ctrl i jumplist does work as expected if default ctrl o shortcut is removed...

[asherjacobson]

so should just be able to do nmap <C-b> <C-o> and same for F/I

[nesanakin]

@asherjacobson Does the and jumplist functionality still work for you in current Obsidian versions? I haven't been able to get it to work on the MacOS version. There are no existing shortcuts that conflict.