Feature: allow selecting content with markers

[danielgafni]

Specifying line numbers for selection is flaky and hard to maintain: you have to update all the numbers with every edit to the original source file.

A more robust approach is to use markers, typically injected into source code as comments. For example:

file.py:

# first_marker

def hello():
    print("hi!")

# second_marker

Obsidian code block:

```embed-python
PATH: "file.py"
MARKERS: first_marker,second_marker

This should embed the contents between first_marker and second_marker:

def hello():
    print("hi!")

[xwize]

+1 this is a dream feature, very tempted to fork and implement this unless anyone knows of good existing solutions?

[RachelAmbler]

I'm playing around with a private fork of this as a side project and this is one of the outstanding issues I'm looking at addressing. LMK if you're interested with my progression. If I do make headway I'll release it as a proper plugin.

[xwize]

@RachelAmbler check my fork I already added some functionality https://github.com/xwize/embed-code-tags

[RachelAmbler]

@xwize - I did a total rewrite to create a supercharged plugin - it's currently available using the BRAT plugin if you're interested in beta testing

https://github.com/RachelAmbler/ultra-code-fence

It's pretty much a total replacement for the standard Obsidian code fences that allows remote, vault files and inline code, with folding, zebra striping, scrolling and even supports the ability to create command output markdown when showing commands being executed.