Vaultex Preview

Vaultex is a dark Hexo theme built around the Obsidian.md UI paradigm — a two-sidebar app shell with a file explorer on the left, a table of contents and tag cloud on the right, and a clean content area in the middle. Zero external runtime dependencies.

Every knob and toggle in themes/vaultex/_config.yml, explained with examples and the default value for each option.

Vaultex ships with over 70 syntax highlighting themes via highlight.js, all bundled locally. The active theme is set in themes/vaultex/_config.yml under highlight. This post shows off code blocks across a variety of languages.

This post demonstrates Vaultex’s typographic system: Inter for UI and body text, Source Code Pro for monospace, and a consistent vertical rhythm throughout. Every heading level, paragraph style, and text decoration is covered here.

The right sidebar in Vaultex automatically generates a table of contents from the post’s headings. This post has an intentionally deep heading structure to demonstrate active tracking, collapsing behavior, and multi-level nesting in the TOC panel.

One of Vaultex’s most useful features is its full-text search — no external service, no API key, just a local search.xml generated at build time. This post walks through how the search works, how navigation is structured, and the keyboard shortcuts worth memorizing.

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