[Feature Request] Jump to the next/previous same text patterns

[afeblot]

Hi, I'd love to see those functions added to your extension:

• textmarker.highlightAndJump.next
• textmarker.highlightAndJump.previous

They would highlight based on current settings (CaseSensitivity and WholeMatch), then jump to the next or previous highlighted occurrence. A second call to the function would not need to highlight anything more (it would be idempotent regarding highlighting) but would just jump to the 3rd occurrence, and so on.

[ryu1kn]

Hi @afeblot , jumping to the next or previous match sounds like a great idea to me! 👍

I wonder if highlight and jump should be separate commands so that you can jump to the regex patters as well.

[afeblot]

Well, you could indeed also add functions to just jump to the next/previous highlighted occurrence. But I'd be very sad if you did not implement the joined highlight+jump functions I proposed: That would force to always use 2 different keyboard shortcuts instead of one. When your usual workflow relies on this feature (as it used to be for me with my previous editor), it is a real pain.

[ryu1kn]

Ok, then I'm thinking to go like this.

• If you execute jump to next command on a highlight, you'll jump to the next same colour highlight.
• If you execute jump to next command not on a highlight, you'll highlight the text beneath your cursor and then jump to the next same colour highlight.
• Same goes for the jump to previous.

[afeblot]

That looks perfect, thanks a lot! I can't wait to see it implemented :-)

[ryu1kn]

Published as v1.4.0! 🎉

@afeblot Can you see if you're happy with it? Sorry it took me a while to work on it 😉

[afeblot]

Hi, yes, I'm totally happy, thanks a lot :-D

[ryu1kn]

Great to hear that! Thanks for confirming it 😉

[ryu1kn]

When the cursor jumps to a highlight that is outside of current visible area, the window should auto-scroll to the cursor position. I'll create a separate issue for it.