feat: H/M/L Vim-like motion for moving cursor relative to viewport#3970
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This implementation looks wrong as it doesn't respect
Here's how Neovim behaves for JtAlVouL.mp4The same behavior can be reproduced in Vim too. |
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Ohhhh that makes sense, I never used scrolloff on (neo)vim, so it was off-putting for me and I worked around it for this change, sounds like I can simplify the patch then 👍 |
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Hope I got the behaviour correct now. |
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Introduce a new `vp` step unit, that allows you to move the
cursor to relative position based on the items currently rendered on
screen, similar as H/M/L ("high", "middle", "low") would do in Vim.
Not added to default keybinding config since there are some conflicts,
but you can put following to override:
```
{ on = "H", run = "arrow 0vp", desc = "High: Move cursor to visible viewport top" },
{ on = "M", run = "arrow 50vp", desc = "Middle: Move cursor to visible viewport center" },
{ on = "L", run = "arrow 100vp", desc = "Low: Move cursor to visible viewport bottom" },
```
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Introduce a new
vpstep unit, that allows you to move the cursor to relative position based on the items currently rendered on viewport, similar as H/M/L ("high", "middle", "low") would do in Vim.Not added to default keybinding config since there are some conflicts, but you can put following to override:
{ on = "H", run = "arrow 0vp", desc = "High: Move cursor to visible viewport top" }, { on = "M", run = "arrow 50vp", desc = "Middle: Move cursor to visible viewport center" }, { on = "L", run = "arrow 100vp", desc = "Low: Move cursor to visible viewport bottom" },Which issue does this PR resolve?
#3969
Rationale of this PR
I got used to moving my cursor with "H"/"M"/"L" key bindings in applications supporting Vim-like motions. Since switching to yazi recently it has been constantly tripping me, that it is not possible to do.
AI disclaimer
I did use AI to write this for me. This means while I did read the code, question some AI decisions and iterated on them, and of course tested this myself, it's fair to point out I'm not an expert in this codebase.