[Feature Request]: Add customizable keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation (currently hardcoded to ⌥+Number)

[dylanchid]

Quick Switcher Plus currently displays keyboard shortcuts in the format ⌥ + [number] (Option + number on macOS) for quickly opening notes from the search results. These shortcuts appear to be hardcoded and cannot be customized in the plugin settings.

The ⌥ + number shortcut conflicts with existing system-level or application-level keyboard shortcuts that some users (including myself) have already configured. This makes the Quick Switcher Plus shortcuts unusable for users with conflicting keybindings.

Requested Feature:
Add a settings option to customize the modifier key(s) used for quick navigation shortcuts. This would allow users to:
Change from ⌥ (Option) to other modifiers like ⌘ (Command), ⌃ (Control), ⇧ (Shift), or combinations

[darlal]

I think you're referring to the Quick Selection keys, The shortcuts used to trigger Quick Selection are not modifiable via the app settings, but they are defined in the plugins data.json file. So by modifying the json file you could change the modifiers used. If you're comfortable editing a plain text json file, do the following:

1. Close Obsidian
2. Navigate to the Quick Switcher++ install directory, and make a backup copy of the data.json file
3. Open the data.json file in a text editor
4. Search for the key quickOpen, there should only be one match
5. Nested within the quickOpen key, you should see two other keys, modifiers and keyList. This defines the modifier combination for Quick Selection
6. You'll want to modify the value of the modifiers array to change the modifiers. Note: there are many instances of the word "modifiers" in the file, so make sure you're editing the correct one.

By default, it might look something like this:

  "quickOpen": {
    "isEnabled": true,
    "modifiers": [
      "Alt"
    ],
    "keyList": [
      "1",
      "2",
      "3",
      "4",
      "5",
      "6",
      "7",
      "8",
      "9"
    ]
  },

And when you're done, you want it to look like this:

  "quickOpen": {
    "isEnabled": true,
    "modifiers": [
      "Shift",
      "Ctrl",
      "Alt"
    ],
    "keyList": [
      "1",
      "2",
      "3",
      "4",
      "5",
      "6",
      "7",
      "8",
      "9"
    ]
  },

Save the data.json file, restart Obsidian, and the new modifier should be reflected in the Quick Selection hotkey list. That should get you the behavior that you want.