Sublime Text keybindings plugin for Inkdrop

Provides Sublime Text-like keybindings for Inkdrop's editor.

The plugin is keymap-only — it ships a single keymaps/sublime.json and no code. Every binding points at a command the app already provides, so there is nothing to activate and nothing to keep in sync with the editor internals.

Install

You can install it from Preferences -> Plugins -> Install. See the documentation for more detail.

Install the plugin via CLI:

ipm install sublime

Keybindings

Sublime command	macOS	Linux / Windows	Inkdrop command
Delete line	shift-ctrl-k	shift-ctrl-k	editor:delete-line
Move by subword	ctrl-left / ctrl-right	alt-left / alt-right	editor:go-subword-left / -right
Split selection into lines	shift-cmd-l ‡	shift-ctrl-l ‡	editor:split-selection-by-line
Select next occurrence	cmd-d	ctrl-d	editor:select-next-occurrence
Skip and select next occurrence	cmd-k cmd-d	ctrl-k ctrl-d	editor:skip-and-select-next-occurrence
Select scope	shift-cmd-space	shift-ctrl-space	editor:select-parent-syntax
Select between brackets	ctrl-shift-m	shift-ctrl-m	editor:select-matching-bracket
Go to bracket	ctrl-m	ctrl-m	editor:go-matching-bracket
Swap line up / down	cmd-ctrl-up / cmd-ctrl-down	shift-ctrl-up / shift-ctrl-down	editor:move-line-up / -down
Add cursor above / below	—	ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down	editor:select-lines-upward / -downward
Toggle comment	cmd-/	ctrl-/	editor:toggle-comment
Join lines	cmd-shift-j	—	editor:join-lines
Duplicate line	shift-cmd-d	shift-ctrl-d	editor:copy-line-down
Delete to end of line	cmd-k cmd-k	ctrl-k ctrl-k	editor:delete-wrapped-line-right
Delete to start of line	cmd-k cmd-backspace	ctrl-k ctrl-backspace	editor:delete-wrapped-line-left
Upper case	cmd-k cmd-u	ctrl-k ctrl-u	editor:upcase-at-cursor
Lower case	cmd-k cmd-l	ctrl-k ctrl-l	editor:downcase-at-cursor
Show cursor in center	cmd-k cmd-c	ctrl-k ctrl-c	editor:show-in-center
Transpose characters	—	ctrl-t †	editor:transpose-chars
Replace	—	ctrl-h	editor:replace

A — means the plugin adds nothing on that platform, because Inkdrop already binds that key to the same command or Sublime doesn't use it there.

† Ctrl+T is Inkdrop's Choose Template shortcut, so this one binding is scoped to .mde:not(.is-empty) — it transposes only once the note has text. On an empty note the selector stops matching, so the keystroke falls through to core:choose-template on .editor-layout. Both keep working, and neither is listed as a conflict below.

‡ Likewise Shift+Cmd+L is Inkdrop's Toggle Bulleted List, so this binding is scoped to .mde.has-selection — the opposite way round. Splitting a selection into cursors needs a selection, so with none the keystroke falls through and still toggles a bulleted list.

That table is everything the plugin binds inside the editor. Sublime keys that Inkdrop already maps to the same command — escape, backspace, shift-tab, cmd-l / ctrl-l, shift-cmd-enter / shift-ctrl-enter, ctrl-shift-j and ctrl-enter on Windows and Linux, the f5 / f9 sort family and the f3 find-under family among them — are deliberately left out: restating them would change nothing except to shadow Inkdrop's mode-specific bindings for autocompletion and the table editor. Bindings apply while the editor has focus, and your own ~/.inkdrop/keymap.json still wins over them, so any single one can be changed or removed without forking the plugin.

App-wide bindings

Four bindings are scoped to body rather than to the editor, so they work anywhere in the app:

What	macOS	Linux / Windows	Inkdrop command
Command palette	shift-cmd-p	ctrl-shift-p	core:toggle-telescope
Editor action menu	cmd-alt-j	ctrl-alt-j	core:show-editor-action-menu
Toggle sidebar	cmd-k cmd-b	ctrl-k ctrl-b	view:toggle-sidebar
Toggle distraction free	cmd-ctrl-shift-f	shift-f11	view:toggle-distraction-free

Sublime opens its command palette with Cmd+Shift+P, so the plugin points that at Inkdrop's Telescope. Inkdrop's own Cmd+K / Ctrl+K keeps working alongside it.

The second is a spare key for the editor action menu. Inkdrop's own Cmd+J / Ctrl+J still opens it — this plugin puts joining lines on Cmd+Shift+J, as Sublime does, so it no longer takes that key. Cmd+Alt+J also shows up next to View → Editor Actions in the application menu, which reads its shortcuts from the live keymap.

The last two give the sidebar and distraction-free toggles their keys back, since the plugin takes Cmd+/ for commenting and Shift+Cmd+D for duplicating a line. Both use Sublime's own keystrokes for the same two features — Inkdrop and Sublime already agree on the neighbouring Cmd+Ctrl+F / F11 for full screen.

Conflicting keybindings

Sublime's keymap overlaps Inkdrop's defaults. Plugin keymaps are loaded after the built-in ones at the same priority, and a binding scoped to the editor beats one scoped to body, so every keystroke below runs the Sublime command while the editor has focus. Everywhere else — sidebar, note list, dialogs, search bars — the Inkdrop binding is untouched.

The cmd-k / ctrl-k chords

cmd-k (ctrl-k on Linux and Windows) opens the command palette Telescope by default, and seven of this plugin's bindings are chords starting with it. While the editor has focus the keymap can't tell the chord from the bare shortcut, so it waits out its partial-match timeout — one second — before opening Telescope.

Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P is the way out: nothing is chorded under it, so it opens Telescope immediately.

macOS

Keystroke	Runs	Instead of
ctrl-left / ctrl-right	editor:go-subword-left / -right	editor:go-syntax-left / -right
cmd-d	editor:select-next-occurrence	editor:delete-line (still on shift-ctrl-k)
cmd-shift-j	editor:join-lines	core:sidebar-select-next-item
cmd-/	editor:toggle-comment	view:toggle-sidebar (moved to cmd-k cmd-b)
shift-cmd-d	editor:copy-line-down	view:toggle-distraction-free (moved to cmd-ctrl-shift-f)

Linux / Windows

Keystroke	Runs	Instead of
alt-left / alt-right	editor:go-subword-left / -right	editor:go-line-start / -end
ctrl-d	editor:select-next-occurrence	editor:delete-line (still on shift-ctrl-k)
ctrl-/	editor:toggle-comment	view:toggle-sidebar (moved to ctrl-k ctrl-b)
shift-ctrl-d	editor:copy-line-down	view:toggle-distraction-free (moved to shift-f11)
shift-ctrl-k	editor:delete-line	core:sidebar-select-prev-item
shift-ctrl-up / shift-ctrl-down	editor:move-line-up / -down	editor:select-lines-upward / -downward, which Sublime puts on ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down

Inside the table editor (Linux / Windows)

The plugin's selector has the same specificity as Inkdrop's mode-scoped .cm-editor.table-editor-active .cm-scroller, and an equal-specificity tie goes to whichever keymap was added last — the plugin. So while the cursor is inside a table, these table commands are shadowed:

Keystroke	Runs	Instead of
ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down	editor:select-lines-upward / -downward	table-editor:align-center / align-none

macOS is unaffected — none of its Sublime bindings overlap the table editor, autocompletion or the AI edit suggestion.

Getting a binding back

~/.inkdrop/keymap.json is loaded at a higher priority than any plugin, so unset! on a single keystroke hands it back to Inkdrop without touching the rest of the plugin:

{
  ".platform-darwin .cm-editor .cm-scroller": {
    "cmd-j": "unset!"
  }
}

Changelog

See the releases page.