obsidian-typewriter-mode

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This is a really weird issue but it only happens when Typewriter Mode plugin is enabled.

Effect

The typing cursor locks in place and cannot be moved with cursor keys. Then Obsidian will not accept typed input from the keyboard at all. The rest of Obsidian works as normal, including hotkeys and mouse movement and switching tabs.

Cause

I've been dealing with it off and on for months but I'm not sure how to replicate it simply.

Resolution

If the plugin has been enabled during a session, disabling it does not fix the problem on its own. Obsidian needs to be restarted.

Could you please try it in an empty vault without any other plugins installed and see if the issue occurs there as well? Or please provide a list of plugins you have installed in the vault where the issue occurs. Also, do you have VIM mode enabled?

Contents of my community-plugins.json:

[
  "auto-card-link",
  "calendar",
  "create-note-in-folder",
  "dataview",
  "dbfolder",
  "file-tree-alternative",
  "highlightr-plugin-enhanced",
  "obsidian-list-callouts",
  "longform",
  "numerals",
  "url-into-selection",
  "obsidian-outliner",
  "settings-management",
  "obsidian-minimal-settings",
  "obsidian-style-settings",
  "obsidian-git",
  "omnisearch",
  "obsidian-tasks-plugin",
  "text-extractor",
  "obsidian-file-info-plugin",
  "obsidian-focus-mode",
  "templater-obsidian",
  "obsidian-chartsview-plugin",
  "live-editor-syntax-highlight",
  "cmdr",
  "home-tab",
  "typewriter-mode"
]

I don't have VIM mode enabled.

I'll keep playing with different plugin combos to see where the conflict might be.

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• Tested without obsidian-outliner which was my bet guess for conflicts, but it still happened. Testing will continue. I noticed this time that it happened after copy and pasting a large block containing links from one file to another.

It's not any of these:

[
  "create-note-in-folder",
  "dataview",
  "file-tree-alternative",
  "obsidian-minimal-settings",
  "obsidian-style-settings",
  "obsidian-git",
  "omnisearch",
  "text-extractor",
  "templater-obsidian",
  "typewriter-mode",
  "auto-card-link",
  "calendar",
  "dbfolder",
  "obsidian-list-callouts",
  "home-tab",
  "lineage",
  "settings-management",
  "obsidian-file-info-plugin",
  "longform",
  "numerals",
  "url-into-selection",
  "obsidian-tasks-plugin"
]

I have the same Issue, I also test some combinations. If you find the reason for the issue please let me know. I ll also try to find the problem.

@Jo55Jo can you post the contents of your community-plugins.json like I did?

Sure! This is it: [ "obsidian-minimal-settings", "tag-wrangler", "obsidian-tagfolder", "dataview", "smart-random-note", "obsidian-plugin-toc", "highlightr-plugin", "obsidian-dictionary-plugin", "obsidian-footnotes", "periodic-notes", "journal-review", "cmdr", "obsidian-hotkeys-for-specific-files", "quickadd", "obsidian-sort-and-permute-lines", "obsidian-text-expander-js", "find-unlinked-files", "birthday-tracker", "obsidian-mind-map", "obsidian-reading-time", "colored-text", "recent-files-obsidian", "weekly-review", "calendar", "simple-canvasearch", "whisper", "canvas-presentation", "canvas-minimap", "obsidian-kanban", "obsidian-markmind", "typewriter-mode", "obsidian-stille", "table-editor-obsidian", "obsidian-annotator", "canvas-links" ] It also now bugs sometimes when the plugin is off..

This appear to be the similarities:

obsidian-minimal-settings dataview calendar typewriter-mode

Looks like cmdr is another one we share.

I am starting to suspect it might have something to do with load order. If Typewriter Mode is loaded early, issues may not appear. So tracking conflicts becomes more challenging.

Thank you for your plugin lists, I will investigate this and try to implement a fix.

FYI it is related to load order. So if you enable Typewriter Mode in at the end it is more likely to happen.