Changed behavior around note search makes hotkey link much worse

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open up text editor and make two notes “Strawberry” and “Blueberry”.
  2. Type Strawberry in the Blueberry note in an attempt to link to that note.
  3. Highlight Strawberry and type either “[[” or whatever hotkey you defined to ‘link’.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Yes

Expected result

  1. Expected that after highlighting text for Strawberry, or Strawb, or similar, and hitting [[ or your link hotkey would immediately bring up the link search preview so all you need to do is hit “Enter”

Actual result

  1. Observe that no preview comes up and hitting enter will delete this text instead of linking to the note Strawberry (change from previous behavior).
  2. Delete the last letter of strawberry and see that now the preview to link comes up and hitting enter works
  3. Be very sad that it now requires many extra inputs to achieve the task of “Link to a note with a title for a word I already finished typing” when this is something you do all the time in Obsidian.
  4. Hope this is simple to fix ux bug and not a deliberate change :slight_smile: (Or there is an easy workaround I have failed to find)

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.4
Installer version: v1.5.3
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 10.0.22631
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none


Additional information

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I don’t think [[ has aver worked that way.

Regarding the hotkey

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