Vim: Feature request: Support Ctrl+O Ctrl+I in command mode to navigate cursor locations

Created on 28 Jan 2017 · 8Comments · Source: VSCodeVim/Vim

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I've just made the switch from Vim to VSCode and am missing this one dearly! Is it feasible? I guess a stack of cursor positions would have to be maintained.

I have no experience writing VSCode plugins but I'm open to tackling this.

What did you do?

Press either Ctrl+O or Ctrl+I in command mode.

What did you expect to happen?

Jump to previous/next cursor location.

What happened instead?

Nothing. Apparently this is unsupported.

Source

rhys-vdw

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Most helpful comment

@grncdr Amazingly it worked, thank you! In case someone needs it, this is my keybindings.json

[
    { "key": "ctrl+o",
      "command": "workbench.action.navigateBack"
    },
    { "key": "ctrl+i",
      "command": "workbench.action.navigateForward"
    }
]

searene on 1 Feb 2017

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All 8 comments

VSCode itself has support for this, with Ctrl+- and Ctrl+_ (Ctrl+Shift+-). I don't know if it's possible for the plugin to remap/add mappings for those, but you can definitely add your own mappings for them.

grncdr on 29 Jan 2017

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@grncdr cool! Well I can just remap them myself I guess.

rhys-vdw on 30 Jan 2017

@grncdr Could you give some more explanations? ctrl+- is used to zoom out here(I'm using linux), and I didn't find a workable shortcut to jump to the previous position, including alt+Left(which I found online).

searene on 1 Feb 2017

@searene if you open up your keybindings.json (not sure where this is located on Linux, but on Mac it's Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and search for "command": "workbench.action.navigateBack" that should tell you what the keybinding is. If there isn't a keybinding defined, you can add one in this file.

grncdr on 1 Feb 2017

@grncdr Amazingly it worked, thank you! In case someone needs it, this is my keybindings.json

[
    { "key": "ctrl+o",
      "command": "workbench.action.navigateBack"
    },
    { "key": "ctrl+i",
      "command": "workbench.action.navigateForward"
    }
]

searene on 1 Feb 2017

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@searene's suggestion works fairly well for me, can we look at making this default behavior when using the plugin?