Implement the history navigation buttons

[tomlin7]

Feature

The history navigations are placed next to breadcrumbs

These shall navigate user's cursor positions

Notes

• Implementation of history navigation buttons: src/biscuit/editor/breadcrumbs/history_navigation
• Store the history for each editor within the TextEditor or TextEditor.text instance itself: src/biscuit/editor/text
• active editor instance is accessible within the history navigation class as self.base.editorsmanager.active_editor. Note that the active_editor.content will be the TextEditor instance and active_editor.content.text will be the Text widget instance.

[abhishek-singh0710]

Hi, I would like to work on this issue. Could this be assigned to me? Thanks.

[tomlin7]

Hi, welcome to the community! I hope you have used the cursor history navigation in Visual Studio Code, this issue is about achieving the same functionality. Please let me know in case you need further clarification.

[abhishek-singh0710]

Thanks, I'll try my best to implement this.

[abhishek-singh0710]

Hi, I am not sure if this is due to some error on my side but I cannot set up this project on my local machine. At first it was due to a version of python so I used the command poetry env use python313 to use python 3.13.0 Now when I move to the src and do poetry install it gives the following error- Please help me with this

[tomlin7]

@abhishek-singh0710 thanks for pointing this out, lock file needed updates for new python version. Now the error has been resolved in #407

[abhishek-singh0710]

I'm sorry if this is trivial but I am still facing issues for pywinpty

[abhishek-singh0710]

I've installed Rust and have put cargo in my path variables also

[tomlin7]

@abhishek-singh0710 this seems to be a common issue as it's listed in many times in the web. I was able to reproduce this issue with python 3.13, but this wasn't causing trouble in 3.12.x.

Since 3.13 is very new, pywinpty hasn't provide the wheels yet. See https://github.com/andfoy/pywinpty/issues/451 I suggest you roll back python to 3.12.x for now, as many libs have not updated yet.

I'm marking this project as unsupported for 3.13 until pywinpty issue gets resolved.

[shirsakm]

pywinpty hasn't provide the wheels yet

Just a heads up, this is the case for google-generativeai as well.

[tomlin7]

@abhishek-singh0710 issue has been resolved. pywinpty now supports python 3.13.

[tomlin7]

@abhishek-singh0710 Hello there, as the issue is still assigned to you, I would like to know if you are still working on this. Please open a pr if you have worked on this otherwise I can unassign the issue :)

[vyshnav-vinod]

is this still open? i would love to give it a try

[tomlin7]

@vyshnav-vinod Yes this is, I guess the assignee doesn't want to continue working on this anymore as they didn't respond to any of the comments. You can give it a try.

[vyshnav-vinod]

is this supposed to be the current editor instance only(so different history for each editor tab) or does it include maintaining a single history across the editor tabs (like in vs code)??

[tomlin7]

@vyshnav-vinod I think it would make sense to keep a single history across all the tabs, that would make it more usable. But also you may keep a max size to that history. Just clean up old chunks when it's full.

[vyshnav-vinod]

Just a heads up, theres two navigation buttons in the editor rn Is it redundant or ?

[tomlin7]

@vyshnav-vinod the idea were to have those lookalike buttons for two purposes:

1. tab shifting
2. history navigation

Although the former doesn't have a big use case, when you have many tabs open, it's just impossible to access them. Maybe implementing the ctrl+tab bindings will solve that for now.

You can use the right one to handle history navigation.

[vyshnav-vinod]

Hey so i tried to start this, how would you like to record the cursor postions.. i havent really used vscodes cursor navigation and thought to try it today, it seems they are only recording the first cursor position in a file or something? How would you like to record it? I was thinking of just recording the cursor positions when the user does a huge jump (like either tab switches or after n number of code lines from previous position?). Please let me know if i make no sense :).

[tomlin7]

@vyshnav-vinod I guess we can just directly store the cursor positions changes on mouse clicks and maybe tab switches for now, no need to check for any n number of lines. Key presses combined with a check for code lines sounds a bit overhead for tkinter, especially since those already require optimizations due to completions and syntax highlight updates.