Inhibit automatic link address expansion

I navigate and edit as much as possible by keyboard, but in Obsidian, this is unusually messy, as Obsidian expands a link any time you put a cursor on it. When the suddenly-displayed link address is long, this can displace the cursor by several lines and many columns, which disrupts keyboard operation. I only want to see this address when I want to edit it, which is rarely.

This feature request would be to only expand links when asked to, and when asked, to make a popup or something like that. I’ve showed examples of how this is done by other popular programs in this help request: How to inhibit automatic link address expansion?

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