[chhoumann]

On Obsidian 1.13+, MetaEdit's native property prompts lost keyboard focus the moment they opened. A user who opened Edit Meta on a property, or "New YAML property", and started typing typed into nothing. Focus had landed on the type pill. In the edit prompt, Obsidian's value autocomplete stayed open and swallowed keys such as Enter on a list pill until Escape.

Cause

Obsidian 1.13's Modal.open() runs onOpen(), which focuses our value editor or key input. When the private hasInitialInputFocus flag is on, it then focuses the modal's first focusable element. In both prompts that is the type pill. A stack trace on focus() showed both calls, in that order. The autocomplete popover opened by the first focus is left orphaned, and its keymap scope catches Enter in the capture phase.

GenericPrompt and AutoPropertyValueModal are unaffected, since their input is their first focusable element.

Fix

NativePropertyPrompt and FluidPropertyCreatePrompt declare hasInitialInputFocus = false as a class field. This is the same opt-out Obsidian's own focus-managing modals use. It is undocumented, so the new E2E tests are what fail if a future Obsidian renames it. Those tests run locally only, because CI has no Obsidian.

Tests

• test(e2e): pin initial focus ... adds two live tests:
  • The edit prompt opens focused on the value editor and edits a pill in place. The test writes a sibling note that shares the key, so the autocomplete always renders.
  • The create modal opens with focus in the key input.
  • Both fail without the fix.
• test(e2e): scope the legacy-suggester probe ... narrows a probe in multi-value.test.ts. It matched any .suggestion-item, including Obsidian's own property-value autocomplete, so two tests failed on master. It now matches SuggestModal rows (.prompt-results .suggestion-item), and the existing legacy-flow tests prove it still sees a real GenericSuggester.
• There is no unit test. The jsdom-free stub's Modal.open() has no focus pass, so a unit test could only assert that the flag is set.

Verification

Obsidian 1.13.7 on Linux, isolated obsidian-e2e vault.

• Before. multi-value.test.ts gave 3 failed, 9 passed.
• After. That file passed 12 of 12 three times in a row.
• Full suite. Rebased on master after build(deps-dev): upgrade every dependency to its latest safe version #219, 2 runs. Each gave 109 passed and 1 skipped. The skip is the deliberate one from feat(editor): edit properties with Obsidian's native widgets; raise minAppVersion to 1.12.7 #168.
• Gates. pnpm run lint, pnpm run build and pnpm run test pass (359 tests) on this branch.

No settings, storage or API change.

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Note

Medium Risk
The fix depends on Obsidian’s private Modal focus flag; a rename or removal could regress focus behavior without compile-time signal.

Overview
Fixes keyboard focus in MetaEdit’s native property modals on Obsidian 1.13+, where Modal.open() was refocusing the type pill after onOpen() had already focused the intended field.

FluidPropertyCreatePrompt and NativePropertyPrompt now set Obsidian’s undocumented hasInitialInputFocus = false so focus stays on the key input (create) or value editor (edit) instead of jumping to the first focusable control. That avoids typing into nothing and prevents an orphaned value autocomplete popover from stealing Enter on list pills.

E2E: New tests assert initial focus on the key input and on the multi-value editor (with a sibling note to force autocomplete). multi-value.test.ts narrows the legacy GenericSuggester probe to .prompt-results .suggestion-item so native property autocomplete rows are not mistaken for the legacy suggester.

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Note

Fix keyboard focus loss in native property prompts on Obsidian 1.13+

• Adds the modal focus opt-out state to FluidPropertyCreatePrompt and NativePropertyPrompt, so the modal lifecycle no longer moves focus from the key input / value editor to the type pill after opening
• Adds E2E regression tests: one for fluid create focus in fluid-create.test.ts, and one covering focus plus in-place pill editing in native-properties.test.ts
• Scopes the legacy suggester selector to .prompt-results in multi-value.test.ts so it no longer matches native property autocomplete rows

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