Option to turn off search-as-you-type

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

Search without loosing my place in a large document. I’m making a large update to a database and running a report at the end to see what I need to look at to fix issues. I’m using obsidian to document things that cannot be fixed to hand off to a person to investigate deeper. Since the report at the end changes after every update, I’m having to search to make sure I’m not documenting the same thing twice. If the thing doesn’t exist, then I’ve lost my place in the large document because of the partial matches it found while typing. It’s slowing down my work quite a bit. I’d like to be able to see all places the text appears in the document without loosing my place. I know Find All exists, but I still lose my place because of all the partial matches.

Proposed solution

Add an option to turn it off.

Current workaround (optional)

Have a duplicate of it open in another program and search in the duplicate.

Related feature requests (optional)

None that I can find

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(Or open in a split tab, side by side in Obsidian.)

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I tested Cursor Position History with

  1. ⌘F
  2. type search term
  3. press Esc
  4. run command Cursor Position History: Return to previous cursor position

and it seems to solve your problem. Pressing esc is needed and you need to be either in source or live preview mode. Cursor Position History also remembers cursor position when opening files so you get also this feature (which cannot be disabled). There might be other plugins that offer “go to the last cursor position” command.