bluesilvercat / boundary-move

VScode Extension. move and jump cursors to boundary.

Boundary Move

Boundary Move improve cursor move like as cursorWordPartRight/cursorWordPartLeft commands.
The difference from cursorWordPartRight/cursorWordPartLeft commands is the stop position.
This extension sets stop positions in more detail.

Features

• move: Move cursors to the left/right boundary.
• select: Select from current position to the left/right boundary.
• jump: Jump cursors to the specified position.
  • jump
    Input destination directly.
  • jump line
    Input lineNumber then input destination.
• selectJump: Select from current position to the specified position.

Stop position

If text is as below.

function func1(){}

cursorWordPartRight/cursorWordPartLeft stop positions are as below.

‾function‾ ‾func1‾(){}‾

This extension stop positions are as below.

‾function‾ ‾func‾1‾(‾)‾{‾}‾

Capital letter

If text is as below.

CatLikeTuna

With the default settings, stop positions are as below.

‾Cat‾Like‾Tuna‾

If you want to stop between upper letter and lower letter, set boundary-move.capitalLetter to false.
Then stop positions are as below.

‾C‾at‾L‾ike‾T‾una‾

Special characters

If text is as below.

"Cat", "", "Dog",

cursorWordPartRight/cursorWordPartLeft stop positions are as below.
Cannot stop between double quotations.

‾"‾Cat‾",‾ ‾"",‾ ‾"‾Dog‾",‾

If you want to stop between double quotations.
Set " to boundary-move.specialCharacters.
Then stop positions are as below.

‾"‾Cat‾"‾,‾ ‾"‾"‾,‾ ‾"‾Dog‾"‾,‾

Special characters are always detect as boundary.

Japanese support

If text is as below.

猫は、マグロが大好きです。

cursorWordPartRight/cursorWordPartLeft stop positions are as below.

‾猫は、マグロが大好きです。‾

This extension(with default settings) stop positions are as below.

‾猫は‾、‾マグロが大好きです‾。‾

If you set boundary-move.japanese to true.
Then stop positions are as below.

‾猫‾は‾、‾マグロ‾が‾大好‾きです‾。‾

Commands and Keybinds

Caution: This extension replaces default cursor movement keys.

command	default keybind	description
BM.moveLeft	left	Move cursors to the left boundary.
BM.moveRight	right	Move cursors to the right boundary.
BM.selectLeft	shift + left	Select from current position to the left boundary.
BM.selectRight	shift + right	Select from current position to the right boundary.
BM.jump		Jump the cursor to specified position.
BM.jumpLine		Jump the cursor to specified position.
BM.selectJump		Select from current position to specified position.
BM.selectJumpLine		Select from current position to specified position.
BM.info		Output debug information to the OutputChannel.
cursorLeft	ctrl + left	Move cursors to left.
cursorRight	ctrl + right	Move cursors to right.
cursorLeftSelect	ctrl + shift + left	Select from current position to left.
cursorRightSelect	ctrl + shift + right	Select from current position to right.

Configuration

settings.json

  // Marker margin.
  "boundary-move.markerMargin": "0ex 0.3ex 0ex 0.7ex",

  // Detect capital letter
  "boundary-move.capitalLetter": true,

  // This characters always detect as boundary.
  "boundary-move.specialCharacters": "\"'`()[]{}",

  // Improve Japanese boundary.
  "boundary-move.japanese": false,

  // Zoom out before jump. 0 is no zoom out.
  "boundaryMove.jumpZoomOutLevel": 1,

  // Center cursor after move.
  "boundaryMove.alwaysCenter": false

  // Center cursor after jump.
  "boundaryMove.jumpToCenter": false

Marker Color

Default marker color.

[
  {
    "id": "boundaryMove.markerColor",
    "description": "MakerColor",
    "defaults": {
      "dark": "#222222",
      "light": "#dddddd",
      "highContrast": "#000000"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "boundaryMove.markerBackgroundColor",
    "description": "MarkerBackgroundColor",
    "defaults": {
      "dark": "#dddddd",
      "light": "#222222",
      "highContrast": "#ffffff"
    }
  }
]

If you want to customize marker color, edit settings.json as below.

  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "boundaryMove.markerColor": "#000000",
    "boundaryMove.markerBackgroundColor": "#ffffff"
  },