https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-A...

Obsidian is not open source so it's minified and hard to read. But I was able to find the relevant code and just set the delay to 0.

(I'm away from computer now, I'll see if I can find the code later.)

What also helped is that all Electron apps are just Chromium so you can run the dev tools and the debugger! I think the hotkey is F12, and/or Ctrl+Shift+J.

Alternatively, you could get near-zero delay and no spurious queries by requiring the user type Enter or click a button... but that design is much less common these days.

However, updating Obsidian actually made it slower for me, because 1.4.2 is only available to paid users. So it updated to 1.3.7 and removed my patch!