The Pane Relief plugin enhances Obsidian's tab and pane management, offering persistent tab history, tab movement controls, and improved navigation. It introduces features like browser-style tab navigation with hover previews, draggable history lists, and tab movement using shortcuts. Users can maximize active tabs, toggle a 'simple sliding panes' mode for horizontal scrolling, and lock focus to prevent sidebar panes from stealing cursor focus. Additional commands allow users to move between tabs, swap tab positions, and jump to specific tabs or windows. The plugin also integrates well with other plugins like Style Settings for customization and Custom Page Headers for better tab navigation. Its aim is to provide a more browser-like experience for users working with multiple tabs and windows in Obsidian.
Older versions of Obsidian focused the search box directly from the search command, which allowed hotkey-based search to work with Pane Relief's Focus Lock active. Newer versions now do the focusing in a way that is subject to Focus Lock, so this release adds a workaround to emulate the old behavior.
Note: with the exception of taking focus away from popout windows, Obsidian has fixed most of the problems in its UI that Focus Lock was intended to prevent, so you may want to try turning off Focus Lock to see if you still need it. (The one other major use case for it is keeping the "Automatically reveal active file" plugin from constantly focusing the file explorer pane.)