cursor-index README

Provides additional information about the current cursor position.

In the status bar there will be a new entry with the actual new line, byte and character index of the last index of any selected text.

The below example from [https://github.com/michaelficarra/everything.js] you can see that Javascript allows for 5 new lines (\r, \n, \r\n, \u{2028}, \u{2029}) but the vscode native line count has 2 fewer rendered lines while this extension reports the actual instances of all new lines. Vscode also natively provides a line column but not the file index, this extension provides both the character index and the byte index (accounting for multi-byte characters).

Currently supported languages:

• JavaScript/Typescript

Contributing

The best possible way to contribute is to provide additional languages that you would want this functionality for. To add this, you would simply update the CONFIGS definition in ./src/languages.ts with the valid new lines for that language. Once that is done, you will also need to update the activationEvents in the ./package.json to include this new language. For more information about language ids see the vscode documentation about it.