Can I change Preview popup timing

Question

I'm editing markdown using CotEditor. When I save a file my Marked 2 Preview pops up with the first changes in view. That's exactly what I want to happen.

However, it stays open so briefly I can't always click on the preview to keep it open to more carefully check my edits. So I have to click on the Marked 2 icon in my dock or cmd-tab.

If I could make it stay in focus for even a second or two longer it would improve my workflow. Is there a setting that will do that?

I should mention it's not a problem if my editor and Marked 2 are both full screen.
It's only a problem when each is a half screen and I need to slide my cursor from the left half to the right half before tapping my trackpad.

Brett Terpstra · Answer

It shouldn't be disappearing, it orders to the front and then just returns focus to the app that was foreground. Are you saying your editor windows overlap it and you want it to take foreground and stay there for a while?

There's no user setting for this delay at this point. It's meant to just bring Marked to the foreground above other apps' windows, and in most cases it's able to reactivate the previous app without bringing that apps windows to the foreground, but that doesn't always work.

Monty Williams · Answer

I misstated it a bit. I have several editor panes open that fill the entire screen. I'm editing in the left pane, Marked 2 is in the background on the right. So when Marked goes to the foreground it is visible next to my editor by dint of being in the foreground.

Then my view switches back to the full screen of my editor a second or two later. That's perfect unless I want to look at the Marked rendering longer to think about how I need to change what I'm editing, but I'm not fast enough to do it.

I'm on an M4 MacBook Pro -- I don't know if it's just speedier.

If I make Marked occupy the whole window I can click on it before it disappears, then switch to my editor with cmd tab. But the half screen each with Marked in the foreground is the most useful.

Does that make more sense?

I quit using MarkDown because I dont want to use its editor and I was frequently switching between editor only and rendered view only.

Can I change Preview popup timing

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