Adding a shortcut and a command to "Table of Contents"

General
1

Hi,

I’m trying to ass a command and a key to the Table of Contents widget without success.

Could someone help me figure out where I have the issue here?

Shouldn’t the following give Table of Contents a command and a shortcut?

 ---
description: Adds a Table of Contents to pages
tags: template
hooks.top:
  where: page !=~ /^Journal[^/]+$/
  command: "Toggle: Table of Contents"
  key: "Ctrl-Alt-t"
  # Show all the way at the top
  order: 0
---

Thanks

2

Hi,
I think there needs to be a seperate hooks.snippet and a slashCommand like this:

---
description: Adds a Table of Contents to pages
tags: template
hooks.top:
  where: page !=~ /^Journal[^/]+$/
  # Show all the way at the top
  order: 0
hooks.snippet:
  slashCommand: "toc-test"
  command: "Toggle: Table of Contents (Test)"
  key: "Ctrl-Alt-t"
---

Then it works (at least for me)

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3

Thanks @Valentin

I tried it and it works, somehow. I have 2 issues with this:

  • I need to define slashCommand in order for command and key to work, which I am not interested in.
    Maybe I need a different hooks option?

  • Also, the result is that the key shortcut doesn’t “toggle” the TOC but keeps adding more and more, for each key press.
    Did the toggle work for you?

4

Ah nevermind, you are right. My proposal does not really make sense for toggling the widget. Looks like the command attribute is not yet implemented for the widget hook.

5

Indeed, there is no such thing as a command nor key binding for live template widgets, because they are activated purely based on the where condition and there’s no real way to implement toggling with that, unless… I suppose you can set an attribute in a page’s frontmatter and hide/show based on that at a page by page basis. That’s a cool hack but probably not really what you are looking for:

In your page:

showTOC: false

In your TOC template where: 'showTOC != false'

What I could hypothetically introduce is a “toggleCommand” or something, which could be checked. That would be highly specific though. And would that toggle be global or per page? Something else?

6

I was just looking for a typical toggle, like the same one with have for Markdown Preview, but for the TOC.

I don’t mind if it is global or per page.
When i want to switch it off, as normally i have it on by default, I want it for the specific page I am in, maybe because I am working on that page, or rebuilding it entirely, I may need the screen real estate… or whatever it is. But it is due to the present moment where the TOC is bothering me.

If i can toggle with a shortcut, I can just turn it on/off at will regardless of whether it affects a single page or global.