Display text preview box when using pipe obscures content beneath

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create new note in an existing vault. Populate note with text content sufficient to cover more than one line (eg blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah).
  2. Reference previously existing note within text (eg blah blah blah [[previously existing note name]] blah blah blah etc).
  3. Edit display text by using pipe (eg [[previously existing note name|displayed name of previous note]]).

Display preview box appears over text, obscuring it.

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Expected result

Display name to appear without preview, or ability to switch off preview.

Actual result

Display text preview box appears (obscuring view of text beneath), seemingly not possible to turn off preview.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.3
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May 1 20:16:51 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 23.5.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 6
Plugins enabled: 1
1: Smart Second Brain v1.3.0

Additional information

This has only become an inconvenience since an update - I wonder if it is possible to turn off? I have tried switching “Page preview” off but that appears unconnected.

Screenshot 2024-07-04 at 15.41.57
Screenshot 2024-07-04 at 15.41.572048×1588 250 KB

2

Perhaps more of a feature request - or rather optional removal of a feature - than a bug per se.

3

I think that what your screenshot shows isn’t the page preview but the suggester to autocomplete (based on a potential alias stored in an aliases key in Properties) the internal link you’re currently editing (as your cursor is sitting within the internal link and it seems like you didn’t “accept” the display name you wanted for that link) … and I don’t think the suggester is tied to Page Preview in any way :thinking: …

You can close it by hitting esc on your keyboard though :blush:.

4

Thanks - is there a way of switching off the auto-complete suggestion preview box? It is merely displaying what I am typing, which is irritating as it obscures the text beneath (and in any case I can already see what I am typing) - it is unnecessary clutter.

5

I’m sorry but not that I know of :woman_shrugging: