When using RTE, switching to a note from go to anything search results with keyboard immediately updates note last modified date

[bwat47]

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.3.12

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.3.12 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Client ID: acf44d67875e4c478d29d7d4c738fc72
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 47
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: 4d790b6

Backup: 1.4.3
Copy Code Blocks: 2.0.0
Journal: 2.0.0
Note Tabs: 1.4.0
Rich Markdown: 0.16.0

Current behaviour

1. Switch to the rich text editor
2. Hit ctrl + p to launch go to anything search
3. search for a note
4. switch to the note from the results using mouse left click
5. observe that the note's last modified date does not update (as expected since you haven't made any changes)
6. Hit ctrl + p to launch go to anything search
7. search for the same note from step 3/4
8. Use your keyboard to switch to the note (arrow keys and then enter key to switch to the note)
9. Observe that the note's last modified date is immediately updated

NOTE: I can re-create this consistently- It only happens when the rich text editor is active, and only when switching to the note using the keyboard.

NOTE: Navigating through the note list with the keyboard does not update the modified date, so probably a different issue than #11810. I can only re-create this when switching to the note via the gotoanything search.

NOTE: Looking at a diff before and after, it doesn't appear that anything changed with the note's content

Expected behaviour

Note last modified date should not be updated, since no modifications were made to the note

[bwat47]

Potentially related to #11452, however, I suspect that it's a different issue because I can re-create this over and over again with the same note- if the problem was with carriage return characters being converted, I would expect that the issue couldn't be re-created multiple times in a row with the same note

I can also re-create the issue with a brand new note created within Joplin using the rich text editor (so nothing to do with imported notes). Create a new note and add some text. Wait a minute, switch to another note, and then use gotoanything to switch back to that note and the date will be updated.

[bwat47]

I also came across this variant of this issue:

1. Switch to rich text editor
2. navigate to a note
3. left click inside the note so that your cursor is inside the note (the issue only occurs if you do this step)
4. stay on the note for a bit to ensure that the date modified wasn't updated when you clicked inside it
5. hit ctrl + p to open go to anything
6. don't do anything- just wait a second and you'll see that the note's date modified gets updated after hitting ctrl + p

EDIT: This can also happen with other keyboard shortcuts. For example, at step 5, if you use a keyboard shortcut to activate "search in all notes" (the search box above the note list), the same issue occurs. This only happens when activating search in all notes via keyboard shortcut- if you focus the field with mouse left click instead, the note's date modified is not updated.