Screen Line/Character movement support

[rebornix]

We added screen line/character movement command in Visual Studio Code in July. The commands is like

cursroMove({to: 'lineStart', inSelectionMode: true});

More details are listed in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2771 . Leveraging thse commands, following Vim commands can be implemented real quick

• g0
• g^
• g$
• gm
• gj
• gk

[zolrath]

Would definitely like to see this added! :+1:

[karlhorky]

A workaround for now regarding gj and gk:

The keybindings below will make j and k behave like gj and gk for amVim normal mode for moving among displayed lines in word wrapping mode.

Ref: My pull request to VSCodeVim https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/pull/3623

  {
    "key": "up",
    "command": "cursorUp",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && amVim.mode == 'NORMAL' && !inDebugRepl && !suggestWidgetMultipleSuggestions && !suggestWidgetVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "down",
    "command": "cursorDown",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && amVim.mode == 'NORMAL' && !inDebugRepl && !suggestWidgetMultipleSuggestions && !suggestWidgetVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "k",
    "command": "cursorUp",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && amVim.mode == 'NORMAL' && !inDebugRepl &&!suggestWidgetMultipleSuggestions && !suggestWidgetVisible"
  },
  {
    "key": "j",
    "command": "cursorDown",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && amVim.mode == 'NORMAL' && !inDebugRepl && !suggestWidgetMultipleSuggestions && !suggestWidgetVisible"
  }

[karlhorky]

@aioutecism I will test this for a while and if it continues to work well, I would open a pull request documenting this in the readme, if you'd be open to that.

[aioutecism]

@karlhorky Thank you for this. I’m not sure this will work for commands such as ‘dj’. Have you get it to work as expected?

[karlhorky]

Yes, this is a caveat of this approach, motions like dj or 10j do not work. I would include this in the documentation.

[alisonatwork]

Support for gj, gk, g0, g^, g$ and gm has been merged and will be available in the next release. There are some unavoidable quirks around flashing/jumping cursor, and there remains some off-by-one strangeness in visual mode, but I think it's good enough to close this issue.