Reset the move by lines target column

[canoeberry]

When moving up and down by lines, the editor maintains a target column. At least on Macs. This behavior, BTW, was invented by Emacs over 40 years ago, and it (and other emacs functionality) is built-in to the Mac text widget because a lot of developer at NeXT were emacs users.

If you move by characters or words, left or right on a line, the target column is reset, as you’d hope and expect.

I wrote a command that moves the cursor, too, but it doesn’t cause the target column to be reset as a result. The way I have worked around that in the past was by issuing a move by characters command left and then right. That seemed to do the trick. But that is causing me other problems at the moment and so I am hoping there might be a specific way to tell Sublime, “Please set the target column right now”.

Anyone know anything about this?

[kingkeith]

as has been mentioned before, you can try setting the xpos of the selection Region to the appropriate layout co-ordinates:

"Smart" horizontal cursor positioning

Bizoo, you may be able to implement this is a cleaner way using the xpos attribute of selection regions. If it's not -1 when the caret is moved down a row, then it specifies the column (in layout coords) for the caret to be placed in. You can see it in action by pressing end and then down: the caret will be maintained at EOL. Currently, it automatically set to -1 whenever the buffer is edited, so you'd need to find appropriate places to get and set the value.