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Using left/right arrow keys to jump between wrapped lines causes cursor to skip a character

See original GitHub issue

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

VS Code Version: 1.58.0-insider, 1.57.1 stable
OS Version: macOS 11.4

Steps to Reproduce:

Enable word wrapping
Create file with contents such as:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>This is an example of a simple HTML page with one paragraph.</p>
    </body>
</html>

Resize panes to force word wrapping (targeting the <p>...</p> line above).
Place cursor at the end of the first line that is word-wrapped (most likely after a whitespace).
Press right arrow key. Cursor skips to the second position of the next line.
Press left arrow key once. Cursor goes to first position of the next line.
Press left arrow key again. Cursor goes to second last position of the previous line.

Demo video:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9157833/122717474-82317d80-d220-11eb-9d9a-a78167c8a6a7.mov

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

hedietcommented, Oct 15, 2021

I think we should skip the cursor stop if there are multiple cursors, but don’t skip it in case of a single cursor. The same should happen for injected text.

1reaction

alexdimacommented, Jun 21, 2021

This behavior is intentional. When using word wrapping, the very last view position on a wrapped line and the very fist view position on a subsequent wrapped line map to the same model position. This can be seen by clicking at those positions and looking in the status bar for the cursor position. We did not find useful to introduce a cursor stop at the two view positions that point to the same model position.