It drives me nuts and it wont go away. If there was a way to disable it that would be great, but even better would be a time out after a second or two like any other normal editor.
Any suggestions for qlik sense desktop or browser view would be very helpful.
In the current version (2.2.4), the answer is a no this can't be disabled.
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