Smart Action inserts checkbox

[srackham]

If <CR> is pressed in normal mode on a non-blank line a checkbox is inserted at the start of the line i.e. the :ObsidianToggleCheckbox command creates checkbox which is surprising. Can this behaviour be disabled or is it a bug?

The documentation states: "If cursor is on a checkbox, toggle the checkbox"

[neo451]

I see, indeed an imprecise description.
The idea of smart_action is that it puts together many sensible actions. and toggle checkbox is the last fallback. Now to think of it, it is a bit conter-intuitive.

I will open a general issue surrounding existing complains about checkboxes first and think about this further. Welcome to give more thoughts.

[srackham]

In Vim's Normal mode, pressing <CR> (the Enter key) moves the cursor to the first non-blank character of the next line. This is the standard, out-of-the-box behavior. The current checkbox behaviour has resulted in checkboxes being added silently and unnoticed into some of my documents.

The solution would be to make the behaviour conform to the documentation i.e. toggle existing checkboxes but don't create new ones (use snippets instead).

In addition <CR> should revert to the default behaviour if the cursor is not over a smart_action target (as it does in non-Markdown files).

[marchyman]

I concur. Adding a checkbox is certainly not what I expected. I, too, have found unwanted check boxes in docs. Probably didn't notice when they got added.