Remove traces of Hover Editor

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Background

I had installed the hover-editor plugin to check out the feature. However, it was not for me. I find opening the whole note much easier to edit instead of editing it in the pop-up.

So, I uninstalled the plugin.

Issue

Now, the plugin no longer shows in the community plugin list. However, whenever I hover over anything, even the headings in the outline, it opens a pop-up note and that pop-up is editable!

I have removed the plugin and I am only using the default / core page-preview plugin now. However, instead of showing the preview only on pressing CTRL, now the pop-up loads just on hover and also it is editable.

Expectation

After uninstalling the plugin, the default functionality of page-preview core plugin should be turned on.

That is:

  • Page preview pop-up should only be loaded on pressing CTRL and then hovering over a link as per settings.
  • Preview pop-up should NOT be editable.

How to do this?

I want to remove all traces of hover-editor. But I don’t know what all files did it modify through installation.

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If you Uninstall any community plugin in Settings and restart Obsidian, it will be fully gone and unloaded (with a restart). You can double double check by looking in the <VAULT>/.obsidian/plugins/ folder for the plugin folder.

Check your settings under Page Preview; they are opposite of what you think at first glance (toggled ON requires the Ctrl to activate Page Preview)

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The Page Preview popup is editable as of Obsidian v1.7.4
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-10-16-desktop-v1.7.4/

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Yeah, it turns out Obsidian now supports editable pop-ups by default for note preview core plugin. It is very annoying, but no way to go back. So, I have disabled the plugin for now, even though the pop-up was useful before.