Please consider giving this some urgency now that Properties is launched. Adding tags in live preview mode actually got worse, not better for me since 1.4.
I’ve used the Frontmatter Tag Suggest plugin for quite a long time now, which is not perfect but gives me the autocomplete function, and since no “button” was created for each list item until Obsidian version 1.3, it was easy enough for me to navigate the cursor back to the tag I just added and edit it without even touching the mouse. In case I needed to rename a tag, it was just as easy. That functionality is especially useful to me since I use nested tags which can go more than one level deep and thus I frequently use an existing tag to quickly derive another node from it. For example:
- Existing tag: Economics/Macroeconomics
- New tag: Economics/Macroeconomics/RBC
Now that the frontmatter has these new graphical elements (list items as “buttons”) in live preview mode, I have to switch to source mode in order to recover the pre-1.4 functionality of autocomplete + easy editing for tags.
Alt+Click or Shift+Click on an item seems like a good trigger for editing it. Additionally, a similar tab completion shortcut could be implemented that would insert the autocompleted item without commiting it rightaway into a “button”, allowing you to edit it first.