I’m rather surprised that this feature does already exist (or maybe it does, I just can’t find documentation for it).
I’d like to move the cursor to a position in the file by byte offset. Anybody who has worked with text-based data files knows that this can be invaluable for debugging code (I’m knee deep in it now).
Not built in but you can get that behavior with a plugin.
[code]import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class GotoPositionCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
def run(self):
window = self.window
view = window.active_view()
self.original_cursors = ]
for cursor in view.sel():
self.original_cursors.append(cursor)
window.show_input_panel(“Byte Position”, “”, self.location_update, self.location_update, self.on_cancel)
def location_update(self, input_text):
print(input_text)
window = self.window
view = window.active_view()
try:
location = int(input_text)
except:
return
cursors = view.sel()
cursors.clear()
cursors.add(sublime.Region(location, location))
view.show_at_center(location)
def on_cancel(self):
window = self.window
view = window.active_view()
view.sel().clear()
view.sel().add_all(self.original_cursors)
view.show(view.sel())[/code]
Though with multibyte character this will likely have issues.