Bug 22283

Summary:	[PATCH] Move cursor up/down to equal indent
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Alan Prescott <alanjprescott>
Component:	scripting	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kate/4472f3846323aae42ea4f97ef9cfaf597853b38b	Version Fixed In:	4.10
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	A kate script to do it

Description Alan Prescott 2001-03-13 13:43:18 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kwrite
Version:           KDE 2.1.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

There used to be a freeware(?) editor in DOS called Edwin which had one feature I've not seen in other editors - a hot-key to move up and down to equally indented lines (I used to bind this to Ctrl Up/Down). This was a really neat feature for working with indented code - may I suggest this as a future feature for Kwrite please.
- Alan

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog. Fields Application KDE Version OS Compiler manually changed)

Comment 1 Magnus Bergmark 2008-06-15 22:45:31 UTC

Confirming this is missing from KDE4 trunk at the moment. Unsure about the future of this feature, though.

Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2010-11-07 21:20:47 UTC

You can implement this now in upcoming KDE 4.6 very easy as script yourself, see:
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdesdk/kate/advanced-editing-tools-scripting.html
(it's possible to bind actions already, the documentation in the link simply was not yet updated to reflect this).

In fact, I do not think this action belongs hard coded in C++ into KatePart.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-29 06:45:49 UTC

Provide a script like Dominik says, otherwise this won't get in ever, sorry.

Comment 4 Alan Prescott 2012-10-30 16:40:01 UTC

Created attachment 74884 [details]
A kate script to do it

Since I've just seen a kate script to do nearly what I want following a posting on Planet KDE I took the plunge and modified it to do what I wanted - here's the result.
Please excuse any poor quality javascript code - it's not a programming language I've used much before.

Comment 5 Dominik Haumann 2012-10-30 17:56:33 UTC

Reopen, until we commit this to the new scripting API.

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2012-10-30 19:16:30 UTC

Git commit 4472f3846323aae42ea4f97ef9cfaf597853b38b by Christoph Cullmann.
Committed on 30/10/2012 at 20:15.
Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'.

first scripting commands contribution since LONG ;)
thanks for patch to Alan Prescott
may more contributions arrive ;)

A  +88   -0    part/script/data/commands/jumpMatchingIndent.js

http://commits.kde.org/kate/4472f3846323aae42ea4f97ef9cfaf597853b38b