Create new tag from the 'tag' properties field

Sorry @WhiteNoise @anon63144152 And @Pch I didn’t get a notification of your replies. I understand now how it works.

I expected that if I typed a string in the tag field that doesn’t match a tag exactly, that pressing ‘enter’ would then create that string as a new tag.
But if there are tags that somehow (fuzzy) match, it chooses the first ‘matching’ tag instead of creating a new one.
I discovered just now that, to accept the string as a new tag, I have to hold ‘shift’ when pressing enter.
This feels a bit odd to me, but I can imagine that most users prefer fuzzy matched tags to be selected instead of having to tap the arrow down key to select a tag.

Maybe this clarifies what I mean:
20230823 Obsidian v1.4.3 tag creation

‘ict’ matches no tag literally, so it selects the fuzzy matched tag.
I have to hold shift to create the ‘ict’ tag.

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