I tried the plugin but it’s my understanding this doesn’t address the problem here. It enables searching relative to cursor position, when I do it highlights the text but I can’t start typing right away it might be a problem on my end but I had to click into the window before it even placed the cursor anywhere.
VSCode achieves the feature requested in this thread elegantly and I’d +1 if something like this was implemented. The cursor in VSCode move along with the search, highlighting and selecting the searched word with the cursor at the end enabling the user to start typing immediately.
It feels weird to tie the user to using mouse to click into the text just to place the cursor when Obsidian’s other features like are so hotkey-centric. I generally don’t touch my mouse when I interact with a text editor or try to limit it as it’s faster to move around with shortcuts.
Generally when I search for something it’s to jump to that portion of the text and add or edit something, I’d press ctrl+f, type the term, press enter until I find the target, press esc to close the search dialog, press the arrows to move one or two lines maybe and then start typing. This sounds like a long list but with both hands on the keyboard it’s way faster than moving from mice and back to the keys.
