patch_obsidian_cm6_keybindings

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# NOTE: you will need node installed (for npx asar)

# NOTE: this works on MacOS.
# You'll need to modify MAIN_ASAR and CACHE_DIR for your platform

MAIN_ASAR=/Applications/Obsidian.app/Contents/Resources/obsidian.asar
CACHE_DIR="/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/obsidian"

TARGET_ASAR=$((ls -r "$CACHE_DIR"/obsidian-*.asar 2>/dev/null || echo "$MAIN_ASAR") | head -n 1)
TMP_ASAR=/tmp/obsidian.asar
UNPACKED_ASAR=/tmp/obsidian.asar.unpacked

# cleanup
rm -rf $TMP_ASAR $UNPACKED_ASAR

npx asar extract "$TARGET_ASAR" /tmp/obsidian.asar.unpacked

# Remove emacs keybindings and conflicting Mod-[ mapping
sed -i 's/{key:"Ctrl-b".*key:"Ctrl-v"[^}]*}//;s/{key:"Mod-\["[^}]*},//' "$UNPACKED_ASAR"/app.js

npx asar pack $UNPACKED_ASAR $TMP_ASAR

# replace with patched asar
pkill Obsidian
cp $TMP_ASAR "$TARGET_ASAR"

CM6 broke vim keybindings, see

• replit/codemirror-vim#16
• replit/codemirror-vim#17

This hack patches things for Obsidian.