A trigger that changes the language to English when inside the $$.

[norderan]

Hi. When I write notes that are non English and I need to write some math codes it can be annoying switching languages every time I need to write in the $$ area. I think a good feature is to add a trigger that when entering the $$ it switches to English and when tabbing about it gets back to the original language.

[superle3]

What desktop os are you using? Windows,linux or macos. I dont think we can support this for mobile as we probably dont have access to change that.

[norderan]

I use Linux

[superle3]

hmmm, I found https://github.com/ktklin/macos-change-kbdlayout/blob/main/kbd.py for macos which uses
subprocess.run(["/usr/local/bin/keyboardSwitcher", "select", "ABC"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, check=False) in python to switch the keyboard.
Edit: that depends on https://github.com/Lutzifer/keyboardSwitcher ...
Which could be an option to require, but like that's stupid.

For windows there is the option of adding the win32-api but that would take unnecessary space for non-windows users or hope that powershell is in the system path and execute
powershell "Set-WinUserLanguageList" to change the keyboard layout/language.

For linux you have only x11 and wayland right? which of course need their own handeling because, why not...

For x11 its setxkbmap
And for wayland i am not so sure, I found localectl set-x11-keymap but thats x11? and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/689657/trying-to-set-keyboard-layout-to-us-intl-on-wayland says it doesn't always work? or maybe they meant only for the startup scripts or something.

You can already change the layout when going into math using a javascript function, but due to the stupid complexity of macos and linux, I am not so sure how much worth it is to implement it in this plugin. It would solve the IME issue in math mode but bring a lot of complexity with it.

I also can't test the macos function and I found this result by luck without any documentation on it, so it wouldn't be great.

[norderan]

Is there maybe a way to trigger the shortcut for changing languages (Super + space)?

[superle3]

I don't think so? at least controlling the global keyboard in nodejs without using c libraries or some other external library is impossible and the plugin has to be self-contained in main.js. Some workaround through child_process seems to be the only option, only wayland and macos are making that very annoying and that doesn't even cover the workarounds needed for flatpaks because they are sandboxed or different macos versions because they do major os changes every few years with breaking changes.

localectl set-x11-keymap didn't work for me on kde fedora.)

[superle3]

Okay, I found this plugin https://github.com/ALONELUR/vim-im-select-obsidian which is based off this https://github.com/daipeihust/im-select.
Why I didn't find these earlier, idk, but it is possible, it just requires some configuration which I don't like as its not beginner friendly/self-contained but IME is not gonna get fixed anytime soon so I'll try to design proper instructions and settings when I have the time. 1-2 months give or take. Still need to merge the current prs and making sure I don't introduce some bug with them.

(Also use nvim which is technical/manual heavy, so I overcorrect in terms of how technical the instructions can be and how much setup is required, ideally no setup)