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Bracket Jumper (fork)

Bracket Jumper (fork)

henrikvilhelmberglund

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Bracket-based editor navigation and text selection (fork)
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This is a fork of Bracket Jumper modified to jump into (to the right/left of) brackets instead of to (to the left/right of) them. Original readme below.

bracket-jumper

Navigate by jumping from bracket to bracket!

Features

Travel in an editor by bracket! Simply jump to the nearest bracket left or right, or "ascend" by jumping to the bracket enclosing the nearest or matching level of scope.

The following included commands jump simply to the nearest left or right bracket (system-specific keybindings are provided).

bracket-jumper.jumpLeft:    { Mac: ctrl+left, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+left }
bracket-jumper.jumpRight:   { Mac: ctrl+right, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+right }
bracket-jumper.selectLeft:  { Mac: ctrl+shift+left, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+shift+left }
bracket-jumper.selectRight: { Mac: ctrl+shift+right, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+shift+right }

Demo gif of simple bracket jumping

The following commands "ascend", by jumping to the nearest or matching scope-delimiting bracket (system specific keybindings are provided).

bracket-jumper.ascendLeft:        { Mac: ctrl+up, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+up }
bracket-jumper.ascendRight:       { Mac: ctrl+down, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+down }
bracket-jumper.selectAscendLeft:  { Mac: ctrl+shift+up, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+shift+up }
bracket-jumper.selectAscendRight: { Mac: ctrl+shift+down, Windows/Linux: ctrl+alt+shift+down }

Demo gif of scope ascending

By default, the characters { } [ ] ( ) are considered "brackets" - this list is configurable in Settings.

This extension replaces and extends functionality of VSCode's native editor.action.jumpToBracket.

Issues

Please let me know of any bugs or feature requests via the issues page!

Release Notes

See the CHANGELOG

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