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feat: make move_vertically aware of tabs and wide characters #2620

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As the TODO in move_vertically previously noted, the current behaviour leads to jerky vertical movement on lines with wide characters and tabs. This pull request refactors a few of the related functions (and resolves some of their TODOs in the process) so that vertical movement is always smooth.

Since the parameters to pos_at_coords had to be modified to accept tab_width, quite a few tests had to be updated. Some of these tests also needed their expected values changed since pos_at_coords now operates based on visual row/column instead of graphemes, as the TODO called for. I'm not 100% sure if I updated a few of the tests correctly though, in particular, this assertion, and this block. If someone could offer a second opinion on those, I'd appreciate it!

@@ -109,10 +109,12 @@ pub fn visual_coords_at_pos(text: RopeSlice, pos: usize, tab_width: usize) -> Po
/// with left-side block-cursor positions, as this prevents the the block cursor
/// from jumping to the next line. Otherwise you typically want it to be `false`,
/// such as when dealing with raw anchor/head positions.
///
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This TODO seems wrong, pos_at_coords is intended for line, col calculation, and we already have pos_at_visual_coords for functions that need to deal with tab width and grapheme widths. The method should be kept unchanged, instead commands should use visual_ versions where necessary.

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Ok, I've refactored things in 33e8fa7 so pos_at_visual_coords is a separate function. I removed the limit_before_line_ending parameter because I figure when we're dealing with visual coords we'll always want the behaviour corresponding to a true value for that parameter, right?

Also, I noticed this comment that mentions pos_at_visual_coords; is it fine if I update the code there to use that function now that it exists? It looks like the code there does the same thing as my implementation (at least, it does now, I found a bug in my code with the handling of tabs that don't start at a multiple of tab_width from looking at it).

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Thanks, updated in 324a76b.

Comment on lines +159 to +161
if grapheme_width > cols_remaining {
break;
}
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Sure, added in 3c17265.

let mut cols_remaining = col;
for grapheme in RopeGraphemes::new(text.slice(line_start..line_end)) {
let grapheme_width = if grapheme == "\t" {
tab_width - ((col - cols_remaining) % tab_width)
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The logic here and in the conditional looks slightly different though

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Ah true, it is still slightly different. The other implementation keeps track of the current column, while mine keeps track of the columns remaining before we reach the target column, but I think the behaviour is still the same.

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mtoohey31 commented Jun 7, 2022

I just realized that copy_selection_on_line also doesn't respect wide characters, so 274746e updates things to fix that too.

Are there any other commands that I've missed that should also be modified?

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Sorry for the delay, this looks correct to me and I couldn't find any more spots that need fixing. Great work! 🎉

@archseer archseer merged commit 6a3f7f2 into helix-editor:master Jun 21, 2022
@mtoohey31 mtoohey31 deleted the feat/widechar-aware-vertical-move branch December 10, 2022 17:02
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