Find-Jump

Find-Jump is like AceJump for IntelliJ IDEs, which is in turn inspired by AceJump for Emacs.

Find-Jump is slightly different, however. While the other AceJump solutions can jump to a word given a single letter, Find-Jump works better when you type a sequence of characters so that it can narrow down the location to where you want to jump. I made it this way because I believe this provides a better overall experience.

How to use Find-Jump

First you need to bind the findJump.activate command to a keyboard shortcut. I bind it to ctrl+;.

When you activate Find-Jump, you'll see a blinking red light in the status bar indicating that Find-Jump is active and is receiving your input (see gif above). Now you can start typing the characters to where you want to jump. Usually 3 to 5 characters should be enough to narrow down the location, but your own workflow may vary.

A few things to note:

• The jump character is always a single letter. Sometimes the jump character needs to be pressed with the SHIFT key, which would be indicated on the jump location like ⇧z
• You cannot press ESC to exit Find-Jump (due to VS Code limitation)
• Pressing the arrow keys, backspace, or the enter key will exit Find-Jump
• You cannot edit what you've typed into the Find-Jump prompt (due to VS Code limitation)
• While Find-Jump is active, you can press the activation keybinding again to reset Find-Jump and start over. This somewhat makes up for the inability to edit

Find-Jump settings

Find-Jump adds these commands:

• findJump.activate: which activates Find-Jump
• findJump.activateWithSelection: like findJump.activate but will make a selection from the current cursor position to the new cursor position

Note No keybinding is provided by this extension. You have to create one yourself.

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