Figma Instance Mode

About this plugin

Inspired by this post: Please add an "Instance Selection" mode - Share an idea - Figma Community Forum

🔶 Introducing Figma Instance Mode

- ⤴️ Select Instance

- ✅ Instance Mode On

- 🚫 Instance Mode Off

⤴️ Select Instance

check if there is a parent or ancestor instance with your selection, and then will redirect your selection to the instance

It is the same as the official feature named `select instance`, but with this plugin you can blind a hotkey to this feature.

✅ Instance Mode On

Once you run this command, every time when you change your selection in Figma will run the `⤴️ Select Instance` command automatically which means you will always select the instance if your selection is within a instance.

And there will be a inspect window to show the program running result, you can get information with it.

🚫 Instance Mode Off

This feature is to turn off the instance mode, and close the inspect window

🔶 How to add GLOBAL SHORTCUT in MacOS

Check the tutorial: Custom-shortcuts-in-figma by Jussi Virtanen

MacOS Global Shortcut Path: