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[korkota]

🐛 Describe the bug

Steps to reproduce:

1. Copy an image to your clipboard.
2. Paste the image into a note with the :ObsidianPasteImg command:

![Pasted image 20250505163333.png](assets%2Fimgs%2FPasted%20image%2020250505163333.png)

3. Open the note with the official Obsidian app and look at the image.

Actual result:

Expected result: The image is displayed in the opened note.

Config

return {
  "obsidian-nvim/obsidian.nvim",
  version = "*",
  lazy = true,

  event = {
    "BufReadPre " .. vim.fn.expand("~") .. "/syncthing/obsidian/korkota/*.md",
    "BufNewFile " .. vim.fn.expand("~") .. "/syncthing/obsidian/korkota/*.md",
  },

  dependencies = {
    "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
  },

  keys = {
    { "<localleader>Ob", ":ObsidianBacklinks<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [b]acklinks" },
    { "<localleader>Oc", ":ObsidianToggleCheckbox<cr>", desc = "Obsidian toggle [c]heckbox" },
    { "<leader>Od", ":ObsidianDailies<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [d]ailies" },
    { "<leader>Oe", ":ObsidianExtractNote<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [e]xtract note", mode = { "x" } },
    { "<localleader>Of", ":ObsidianFollowLink<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [f]ollow link" },
    { "<leader>Og", ":ObsidianTags<cr>", desc = "Obsidian ta[g]s" },
    { "<leader>Oi", ":ObsidianPasteImg<cr>", desc = "Obsidian paste [i]mage" },
    { "<localleader>Ol", ":ObsidianLinks<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [l]inks" },
    { "<leader>Om", ":ObsidianNewFromTemplate<cr>", desc = "Obsidian note from te[m]plate" },
    { "<leader>On", ":ObsidianNew<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [n]ew" },
    { "<leader>Oo", ":ObsidianQuickSwitch<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [o]pen quickswitch" },
    { "<leader>OO", ":ObsidianOpen<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [O]pen in app" },
    { "<leader>Op", ":ObsidianTemplate<cr>", desc = "Obsidian Tem[p]late" },
    { "<leader>Or", ":ObsidianRename<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [r]ename" },
    { "<leader>Os", ":ObsidianSearch<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [s]earch" },
    { "<localleader>Os", ":ObsidianLink ", desc = "Obsidian link [s]election to", mode = { "x" } },
    { "<localleader>OS", ":ObsidianLinkNew ", desc = "Obsidian link [S]election to new note", mode = { "x" } },
    { "<leader>Ot", ":ObsidianToday<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [t]oday" },
    { "<leader>OT", ":ObsidianTomorrow<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [T]omorrow" },
    { "<localleader>OT", ":ObsidianTOC<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [T]OC" },
    { "<leader>Ow", ":ObsidianWorkspace<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [w]orkspace" },
    { "<leader>Oy", ":ObsidianYesterday<cr>", desc = "Obsidian [y]esterday" },
  },

  opts = {
    completion = {
      nvim_cmp = false,
      blink = true,
    },

    daily_notes = {
      folder = "daily_notes",
      template = "daily.md",
    },

    templates = {
      folder = "templates",
    },

    note_id_func = function(title)
      if title ~= nil then
        return title
      else
        return "untitled"
      end
    end,

    new_notes_location = "notes_subdir",

    notes_subdir = "drafts",

    ui = {
      checkboxes = {
        -- NOTE: the 'char' value has to be a single character, and the highlight groups are defined below.
        [" "] = { char = "󰄱", hl_group = "ObsidianTodo" },
        ["x"] = { char = "", hl_group = "ObsidianDone" },
      },
    },

    workspaces = {
      {
        name = "personal",
        path = "~/syncthing/obsidian/korkota/",
      },
    },
  },
}

Environment

~ $ nvim --version
NVIM v0.11.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1741730670
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

[neo451]

to solve this for now, you can do something like:

{
      attachments = {
        img_text_func = function(client, path)
          path = client:vault_relative_path(path) or path
          local path_string = vim.uri_encode(vim.fs.basename(tostring(path)))
          return string.format("![%s](%s)", path.name, path_string)
        end,
      },
}

There's a dilemma here, I was optimizing for integration with snacks.image, where you need a full encoded path to get the preview in neovim, but obsidian app seems to ignore the path and just treats the path as a filename.

I guess for compatibility, the current behavior is not ideal, and I need to contribute some stuff to snacks.image so that it searches our attachments dir like the app.

Then we can make the above behavior the default.

[korkota]

to solve this for now, you can do something like

This fixes the official Obsidian app, but breaks the obsidian.nvim plugin. Can't open pasted images with <CR> from the Neovim's Normal mode.

[neo451]

to solve this for now, you can do something like

This fixes the official Obsidian app, but breaks the obsidian.nvim plugin. Can't open pasted images with <CR> from the Neovim's Normal mode.

ok that is a valid issue that I can fix later inside our repo first

[korkota]

It seems like a more general problem with links because I can't open a link with @ symbol in it. For example, when I press the Enter key on <https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship> the plugin
opens https://www.youtube.com/, not the Fireship channel.

[neo451]

It seems like a more general problem with links because I can't open a link with @ symbol in it. For example, when I press the Enter key on <https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship> the plugin opens https://www.youtube.com/, not the Fireship channel.

This is a know issue, there's a pull request in the old repo that fixed this: epwalsh/obsidian.nvim#783

Seemed quite a easy fix, would you like to PR an fix this?

[neo451]

Seemed quite a easy fix, would you like to PR an fix this?

I mean apply the change and do some proper tests against a range of different urls. if not I will just do this sometime in the future.

[neo451]

#188 fixed the @ issue, and a general idea for fixing link issue is here #189

[srackham]

to solve this for now, you can do something like:

{
attachments = {
img_text_func = function(client, path)
path = client:vault_relative_path(path) or path
local path_string = vim.uri_encode(vim.fs.basename(tostring(path)))
return string.format("", path.name, path_string)
end,
},
}

This worked for me I used vim.uri_from_fname to leave path separators in encoded paths`:

      -- FIX: Leave path separators in encoded paths (see https://github.com/obsidian-nvim/obsidian.nvim/issues/119)
      img_text_func = function(client, path)
        path = client:vault_relative_path(path) or path
        local caption = vim.fs.basename(tostring(path))
        caption = caption:match("^(.*)%.([^%.]*)$") or caption -- Strip file name extension
        local encoded_path = vim.uri_from_fname(tostring(path))
        encoded_path = encoded_path:match("^file://(.*)")      -- Strip leading 'file://'
        return string.format("![%s](%s)", caption, encoded_path)
      end,