#1

This is one really tricky to reproduce sometimes so try it multiple times (sometimes “pasting” is not even needed). In the explanation below the vertical | bar represents the location of the cursor.

How to reproduce:

  1. Create a new note with this title - leave the cursor at the end of the line: “This is my new note |”
  2. Switch from obsidian to some other app (cmd+tab or alt+tab)
  3. Copy some text (like a word “blah”) into clipboard from somewhere: cmd+c
  4. Switch focus back to obsidian and paste the word “blah” at the end of the title: “This is my new note blah|”
  5. Switch focus away from obsidian again.
  6. Switch back to obsidian
  7. Focus now is at the beginning of the title line: “|This is my new note blah”

I type this:
Screen Shot 2020-11-07 at 5.57.51 PM
Add/paste word “blah”
Screen Shot 2020-11-07 at 5.58.07 PM
After switching to another app and then back to Obsidian, it magically moves the cursor:
Screen Shot 2020-11-07 at 5.58.11 PM

I am running Obsidian 0.9.10 on Mac, but this has happened for last 10 updates/versions of obsidian.

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#2

I can reproduce this as well on MacOS. It seems to happen if I paste a word with a space before it. So if I paste " blah" it will do it. If I paste “blah”, it won’t. At least so far, in my tests.

Also if there is a space at the end of the title, or if you have any double spaces, there is a form of auto-correct, which cleans the extra whitespace. When that triggers, then it also jumps back to the beginning of the line.

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#3

I can also reproduce this on MacOS (Obsidian 0.9.20).

Regarding my use case: I trigger this regularly because I’m using @nickmilo’s suggested format for sources (S- YYYY - Type - ShortenedTitle - AuthorYear) for which I copy-paste article titles and manually remove whitespaces between words.