Link search function for blocks

Problem description:

When creating a link, the search function is not working properly.

Searching for paragraphs works, but searching for blocks (using ^) does not identify any text.

I don’t know how to tell when the problem started because I ended up changing my way of creating links by opening the file, searching for the block within it, manually copying the block code and returning to the original file. But this has really disrupted my workflow because it adds countless steps to accomplish what was almost automatic.

Below are some images of what I tried to describe.

I would appreciate it if you could help me.

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It seems working on my end:

What’s your OS language and keyboard set to? Looking at this:

Screenshot 2024-05-11 at 11.33.21

it might be that Obsidian isn’t registering the ^ as a ^. The line under something tends to mean your input method is waiting for a secondary or additional characters.

Screenshot 2024-05-11 at 11.37.35

Screenshot 2024-05-11 at 11.39.10

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You should use ^ (Circumflex Accent) not ˆ (Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent)

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Yes. In fact, I noticed the difference in the characters. The problem is that, before this problem started, when typing Shift+6, the ˆ (Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent) was typed and, when pressing space, it “converted” to ^ (Circumflex Accent).

Outside the link brackets this continues to work normally, but when inside it deletes the link text and replaces everything with a pair of Circumflex Accent.

I tried looking for any settings that could be causing this on my Mac or in applications, but I couldn’t find anything. I also searched Obsidian several times and nothing.

This is what happens when I type ^ once.

When I type ^ followed by space, this is what happens.

And this is what happened when I typed ^ followed by space (when it was working normally for me).

My language is Portuguese (Brazil) and the keyboard is configured with the Brazilian layout only.

Yes. Obsidian waits for a letter to accent and, when you press the space key, it should automatically recognize that I just want to write just Circumflex Accent.

As I explained to WhiteNoise, outside of the link brackets this continues to work. But for some reason, specifically in the links, when I press space for the circumflex accent to be typed, it erases everything that is written inside the link brackets and types the circumflex accent twice.