Issue or RFC Endorsed by Atom's Maintainers

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Description of the Change

Previously, a user could request to jump to a specific line of a file or within the current editor by entering a colon followed by the line number into the fuzzy finder. This pull request enhances this feature by adding functionality to jump to a specific column within that line using a second colon. For example, file.js:4:6 would open file.js and move the cursor to column six of line four. If the user has not specified a valid column number, Atom behaves in the same way as before the introduction of this enhancement and jumps to the first character within the specified line.

Important Note: I fixed a bug within the fuzzy finder status messages in pull request #359. These changes will need to be pulled into this pull request and adapted to the new functionality before merging.

Alternate Designs

N/A

Possible Drawbacks

As far as I'm aware, there are no drawbacks since this functionality is of a purely additional nature. If the user only wants to jump to a line like in the old version, they can simply omit the second colon and Atom will behave just like before.

Verification Process

I have tried out jumping to lines, both within an open editor and while jumping to another file. I did so both with and without additional column numbers, as well as invalid entries, in all possible combinations. I concluded that previous behaviour remains unchanged while the new functionality behaves as expected.

Furthermore, all existing regression tests ran successfully. These include test cases for a variety of different environment and input conditions. I recombined all of them with the ability of specifying column numbers, creating a set of new test cases for the newly added functionality. These run successfully as well.

Release Notes

Added a feature to jump to a column of a line using a second colon, e.g. file.js:4:6

atom / fuzzy-finder

Add feature to jump to columns within text lines #360