macOS (Emacs) style

On macOS, cursor shortcuts — Ctrl+P (up), Ctrl+N (down), Ctrl+B/F (left/right), Ctrl+A/E (home/end), and Page Down/Up — work natively in Obsidian. This plugin restores them inside tables too, giving you seamless navigation just as physical cursor keys would — and Shift+Ctrl+P/N/B/F/A/E extend the selection the same way.

Windows users can enable the full set of macOS-style cursor shortcuts throughout Obsidian. Hotkey settings assigns all recommended hotkeys in three clicks.

Kill & Yank (Ctrl+K / Ctrl+Y) and Kill Region (Ctrl+W) bring the full Emacs editing workflow to Obsidian — and all three work seamlessly inside table cells, automatically handling newlines and pipe characters. Recenter-top-bottom (Ctrl+L) rounds out the workflow.

No hotkeys are assigned by default.

Quick setup (recommended): Open Settings → Universal Cursor Hotkeys → macOS (Emacs) style and click Apply recommended for each of the three command groups — Cursor movement, Editing, and Other hotkeys. Three clicks and you're done.

Manual setup: Go to Settings → Hotkeys, search for "Universal Cursor Hotkeys", and assign keys individually.

See also: Command Reference, Settings, Limitations, Command Details, Behavior Options.