"Movements" a VSCode extension to cursor movements like word jumps and relative line goto

[NachoVazquez]

What is the project?

It is a VSCode extension that enables users to improve their keyboard usage by adding cursor movements that do not exist on VSCode by default.

Where did the idea come from?

The https://github.com/Enkel-Digital/relativity extension allows making relative line goto actions in VSCode. I use it every day but there were some limitations that I wanted to fix. After checking the GitHub repository I noticed that it had some of the fixes that I needed but those changes were never released. It has been 2 years since the last time it was updated so it is fair to consider it abandoned. My idea is to reuse what they had and continue working over that base.

How long will it take to build? What milestones exist (if applicable)?

Since most of the base features are already there, the next milestone would be to add tests to the existing code (it has none), fix some little issues that I observed, and create the word jump functionality.

I would estimate:

• 8 hours to migrate the code and get used to VSCode extensions development, I have no previous experience.
• 8 hours to add the unit tests for the previous functionality
• 6 hours to build and test the jump words feature (at this point I would have more knowledge on the topic)

[dustinsgoodman]

Discussed in slack but we are not going to pursue this idea.