Wrap without loosing cursor position

[Gustavo Gutiérrez]

It will be very nice when wrapping a paragraph to not loose the current cursor position. That is, after the operation the cursor should remain in the position were it was when the operation was invoked.

[Andi Albrecht]

For me it was enough to have the cursor at the end of the last paragraph (instead of below the last paragraph) so I helped myself by commenting line 595 in wrap_plus.py.

That's not really what you want, but for me the current cursor position is at the end of the last paragraph most of the time when I use wrap. Would be nice to see a config option for this too.

[Samuel John]

👍

[Nikolaus Demmel]

+1 on @andialbrecht's suggestion.

[Thomas Pötsch]

any progress on this issue? I also think the cursor should remain in the current position instead of jumping to the end of the paragraph.

[Gustavo Gutiérrez]

My workaround is simple. Create a new plugin with the following implementations:

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class MyWrapCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        pos = self.view.sel()[0].begin()
        self.view.run_command('wrap_lines_plus')
        self.view.sel().clear()
        self.view.sel().add(sublime.Region(pos))

Then add the following to your key bindings file:

  { "keys": ["alt+q"], "command": "my_wrap" },

replace the key binding for something tat suits your needs.

[Thomas Pötsch]

+1 @ggutierrez
thank you very much, that works perfectly fine

[evandrocoan]

I just fixed this on my fork. It took me a lot of work until get it working almost 99% correctly. There are just some rare edge cases: https://github.com/evandrocoan/WrapPlus

Just remember, it has a setting to control this behavior:

    // Control the cursor behavior while wrapping the text. It accepts the following:
    // "cursor_below", will move the cursor/caret to the end the the wrapped text
    // "cursor_stay", will `attempt` to keep the cursor/caret on its original position
    "WrapPlus.after_wrap": "cursor_stay",

[stephen147]

Thanks, @ggutierrez, I changed that py code to:

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class WrapPlusCursorFix(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
  def run(self, edit):
    pos = self.view.sel()[0].end()
    self.view.run_command('wrap_lines_plus')
    self.view.sel().clear()
    self.view.sel().add(sublime.Region(pos))

It places the cursor at the end of the selection instead of begin().