[BUG] Plugin fails to load properly when installing/enabling it the first time

[lifehaschanged]

When this Plugin is installed with BRAT (sandbox vault without any other plugins than BRAT):
https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat

It's causing many errors and showing me no sidebars and commands:

Do you plan to make this plugin available for BRAT / Community Plugin store inside Obsidian?

[lifehaschanged]

@Fevol

I have installed it manually by pasting the files main.js manifest.json styles.css into the obsidian plugins directory.
However, after activating the plugin inside Obsidian, no settings, no commands or sidebars where visible.

It would really be wonderful if you could test that in a fresh vault to see if it's just me or the current Obsidian versions.

The "field is not present in this state" error occurs on every range:

Addition: {++ ... ++}
Deletion: {-- ... --}
Comment: {>> ... <<}

[lifehaschanged]

Finally a restart of the whole vault after the plugin installation solved it.
Hence you can't test this plugin in a sandbox vault, because after restart it the sandbox vault would be gone.
@Fevol It would be really helpful to inform the users that they need to restart obsidian/vault to use the plugin.

[Fevol]

I'm reopening this issue as I definitely do not intend for users having to restart Obsidian in order to have this plugin to work, besides, it does seem like it is some kind of race condition between the plugin initalisation and the codemirror extensions - which only occurs if the plugin is not initialised with the loading of the app.

Many thank for the detailed issue report and checking the sandbox vault. I will try to fix this as soon as I have some time again (which should be a month from now)

[Fevol]

Addendum, potentially related to #16

[lifehaschanged]

Thank you for the feedback and reopening the topic. Please excuse me for closing it so quickly. Of course, modifying the plugin to make it available to all users without a restart is much better.

[javiavid]

I can't start the plugin either, I get the error message when trying to activate the plugin.
Fails to load plugin "commentator"

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.3
Installer version: v1.6.7
Operating system: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22631
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 4
Plugins enabled: 3
1: BRAT v1.0.2
2: Diarian v1.2.9
3: Banners v1.3.3