[FEATURE] - Cursor Placement Setting & Behavior When Bookmarking

[metal-gabe]

I've searched the issues and this one seems the mostly closely related. But it was closed with an incorrectly related feature/commit that was closed.

The feature that I'd like to implement (I have a PR in the works) would be to have a setting that always places the bookmark either at the currentPosition (this is the current behavior & would be the default), lineStart, contentStart, and contentEnd.

My use case is this:

I'm a VSCode Neovim user, and I like my bookmarks at the end of the line, but when navigating around with the keyboard it would be nice to not worry about the position of my cursor when I'm adding the bookmark.

With this setting, I can fly around jumping back and forth on words, lines, anything and when I add a bookmark, I know that it will always be at the end of the content.

Overall, this is a quality-of-life feature that I'd like to have, so I wanted to build it. :-)

[alefragnani]

Hi @metal-gabe ,

That closing was indeed accidental, and should be reverted. Good catch 👍

About the feature itself, I'm happy to see you are interested in contributing a PR. I did take a look in your approach, and I have a different opinion on where this setting would be. I mean, you took the approach on changing how the bookmarks are stored, but I think it would be better to change how the navigation works.

Pros:

• Changing the setting takes effect immediately for all bookmarks (existing and new)
• More flexible: you can change the setting and it applies everywhere
• The sticky engine doesn't need changes since it still tracks the real position
• Cleaner separation of concerns: "where was the bookmark placed" vs "where should the cursor go when jumping"
• Future-proof: if new column modes are added, no re-toggling needed

Cons:

• The position info in Side Bar and Command Palette should require changes since you're showing stored column but jumping to a different one.

Thanks in advance

[metal-gabe]

@alefragnani sorry for the delay in my response, things have been busy.

but thank you for the feedback and different perspective on how to approach this idea.

your suggestion makes sense and I will update the work to reflect this new direction.