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Steps to reproduce
Put a character in front of the “—” to block properties from treating it like something special, say “x—”. Now, try to delete the ‘x’. There does not seem to be a way to make Obsidian go back to the previous behavior of treating frontmatter previous to 1.4 release. Even in source view, the frontmatter gets special treatment. I have to open files with vscode to fix them so Obsidian works correctly.
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Expected result
I tested in a restricted vault and it has the same behavior. You can’t “convert” or “promote” plain text to a frontmatter block anymore.
That Obsidian would delete the ‘x’ and convert the text to frontmatter.
Actual result
You cannot delete the x character, the line stops behaving like a text file becomes some weird locked thing.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.4.5
Installer version: v1.3.4
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 10.0.19045
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: light
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 1
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 23
Plugins enabled: 23
1: Calendar v1.5.10
2: Dataview v0.5.56
3: Natural Language Dates v0.6.1
4: Obsidian Charts v3.7.2
5: Periodic Notes v0.0.17
6: Advanced Tables v0.19.1
7: Regex Find/Replace v1.2.0
8: Better Word Count v0.10.0
9: Templater v1.16.0
10: Heatmap Calendar v0.6.0
11: Text Generator v0.3.20
12: Text Progress Bar v0.2.0
13: Pandoc Plugin v0.4.1
14: Obsidian Ghost Publish v1.3.0
15: Numerals v1.2.0
16: Readwise Official v2.0.1
17: Tidy Footnotes v0.1.1
18: Typewriter Scroll v0.2.2
19: ChatGPT MD v1.5.0
20: LanguageTool Integration v0.3.4
21: Style Settings v1.0.7
22: Excalidraw v1.9.19
23: MetaEdit v1.8.2
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