Vscode: Minimap enhancements

[ghost]

• Add an option to display minimap to the left
• Add an option to enable moving the cursor to the position by clicking inside the minimap
• Add an option for smooth scrolling in minimap or make it the default behavior

[fbnlsr]

I'd like to piggyback on that feature-request with this:

• Always draw the minimap's screen view position
• Add a keybind command to toggle it on/off

[ghost]

Speaking of drawing the position itself, I find the current way of highlighting the position quite inelegant. I think marking the position with a rectangular border with small round corners but without any highlighting inside would be a cleaner approach and then leaving it always on wouldn't be distracting. My guess is that constant display of a blob of highlight on screen isn't very clean.
Another option is to move the highlight UNDER the position in terms of z order.
But I much prefer an empty slightly rounded rectangle marking the position, and always on.

[letmaik]

Can this be split up into separate issues please with specific titles? Makes searching easier

[Oxicode]

+1

[544751779]

+1

[RMacfarlane]

Several of these have already been done:

Add an option to display minimap to the left

Can be controlled witheditor.minimap.side setting

Always draw the minimap's screen view position

Can be controlled with editor.minimap.showSlider

Add a keybind command to toggle it on/off

Not set by default, but you can add a custom keybinding for the View: Toggle Minimap command

For the two remaining suggestions, please open separate issues. This makes it much easier to track work, since each feature will likely be implemented independently of others, and allows people to find them through search more easily. Thank you!