“narrow to block” menu item for file cards in Canvas creates unintentional text

Bug graveyard
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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a canvas note
  2. Add an existing note from your vault with a fairly amount of text content inside
  3. Right click on the card and choose "Narrow to block...":

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  1. Choose any random content inside your note:

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Actual result

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Now you have a weirdo metatext like info added at the end of the sentence inside your original note:

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Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.1.15
Installer version: v0.14.6
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19043
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 1
Plugins enabled: 0

Additional information

  • It should be noted that I subjectively consider this to be a bug.
  • I don’t think that any end user would want this behavior to happen to their notes just to index a specific portion of a note in a canvas card.
  • The "Narrow to heading..." approach that is a bit similar, works as expected with no behavior like this.
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That’s how linking to blocks works in Obsidian. It’s the same behaviour for links to blocks in markdown files.

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