1.5.4

Better Footnote 1.5.4

Critical data-safety fix, plus layout-stability improvements for the sidebar editor. If you use 1.5.2 or 1.5.3 with Render Markdown in sidebar enabled, please update.

Data safety (important)

• Fixed a rare but severe bug in 1.5.2/1.5.3: while a footnote card's embedded live preview editor was open, Obsidian could briefly treat that tiny single-footnote editor as the note's active editor. Any feature that then read "the active editor's content" and saved it — for example inserting a footnote from the editor right-click menu — could overwrite the entire note with just that one footnote's text (recoverable with Undo, but alarming).
• 1.5.4 removes the failure path: the embedded card editor no longer lingers in the workspace's active-editor role. It is unregistered immediately and re-checked on every editor update, on focus changes, by a patrol timer that runs only while a card editor is mounted, and once more at teardown; a torn-down editor is additionally neutered so stale references can no longer point at your file at all.
• The fix went through an independent line-by-line review of the full change set and a dedicated stress-test protocol (an active-editor watchdog plus a shrink-write tripwire, including a replay of the original incident) before release. None of this touches the typing path, so editor performance is unchanged.

Layout stability

• Clicking a card into edit mode (and leaving it) no longer changes line wrapping or card height. Both display states now share pinned font metrics, the edit state no longer reserves a scrollbar rail, and the expand arrow no longer appears for content that is already fully visible.
• Fixed a flicker where pressing Esc a few seconds into editing collapsed the card and then immediately re-expanded it.

Docs

• README: noted a known limitation of the embedded card editor — global editor hotkeys such as Ctrl/Cmd+B do not respond inside the card; type the Markdown syntax directly instead. Internal [[link]] autocompletion works as usual.

Release assets

This release includes the Obsidian plugin assets:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css