Quick move back to caret after using scrollbar
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Is there a way to quickly move the caret back into the user-viewed region of a file, after using the vertical (or I guess also the horizontal) scrollbar with the mouse to view another section of a large file?
Here’s a scenario in case that is unclear: Caret at line 100 of a 10000-line file. Use the scrollbar with the mouse to scroll so that line 8000 is visible. At this point I want to find the caret point, quickly (keypress to do this would be fine), putting the caret back in the user’s viewport. Is there a way?
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From a prior tip posted here, I thought of doing “undo” followed by “redo”. This will do what I want as long as there is something to undo. But if there isn’t then it does nothing. I’m seeking something that works under all conditions.
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Alan,
found out, recently, that scintilla has a function scrollCaret and
it is also available as SCI_SCROLLCARET messages
within shortcut mapper but hasn’t assigned a shortcut yet.So I guess this could be used if you assign a shortcut.
Cheers
Claudia
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Nice, Claudia. It doesn’t put the line of the caret in the CENTER of the viable region (which would be the BEST behavior for me), but it does make it viewable–I’ll take it! :)
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Then you need to write a little script and assign a shortcut.
Content of the scripteditor.verticalCentreCaret() editor.scrollCaret()Cheers
Claudia
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If I understand you correctly, what you are calling the caret, I call the cursor, but basically it is the insertion point if you type new text.
Here is how I do this:Press Right arrow, Left Arrow. This moves the caret forward one char, back one char, and the display window is moved back to line 100.
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this is a nice one - after reading your answer I remembered, oh yes - it’s that easy. :-)
Cheers
Claudia
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@Claudia-Frank and I feel so silly now; of course you are right… :-D Typing a character and then hitting “Undo” also works as an alternative, but could be bad if a selection is active at the caret location.
In Notepad++ -speak and Scintilla-speak, the cursor is 99% or more of the time referred to as the caret, so I try to stick with that nomenclature here.
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Hi, @joe-bonifazi, @alan-kilborn, @claudia-frank and All,
Oh yes, I’m feeling quite silly too ! Joe, it’s just a very simple and clever solution :-D
Reading the initial Alan’s post, I wanted to point him out to my reply to @yaron , six months ago about :
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2471#issuecomment-255602837
Now, you may, simply, read this reply just as an additional information on Scintilla commands about caret !!
Cheers,
guy038
