Bug when "Tab"

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Steps to reproduce

When I place the cursor in the middle of a line of text and press the Tab key, I intend to increase the spacing between two parts of the content. However, the result is that the entire line gets indented by the Tab.

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Additional information

This is expected in a Markdown editor. Pressing <tab> at the start of a line or within a paragraph creates a code block: https://help.obsidian.md/syntax#Code+blocks

The same happens in iA Writer, for example. I’m pressing <tab> and shift + <tab> here. iA Writer’s version of the editor (left) and Reading view / rendered output (right)

CleanShot 2026-02-04 at 19.16.27