Feature request: scripting methods for cusor operation

[davuses]

I've always wanted to write a script to regester custom actions for cursor movement. In the scripting document, I found two methods QOwnNotes provides with regards to cursor position or movement: noteTextEditSetCursorPosition(int position) and noteTextEditCursorPosition().

With these two methods, I can move cursor forward or backward by 1 (or a certain number) character like this:
script.noteTextEditSetCursorPosition(currentPosition + 1);

But I couldn't figure out how to move cursor to next line or previous line, just as the simple up arrow and down arrow keys do, probably an extra API for getting current line number is necessary. Or even more, how to move cursor to next/previous word or block.

I know the cursor moving keymap is available in Vim mode, but I'd like to just have some shortcuts for cursor moving without having to switch to full Vim mode.

I there a way to implement these cursor moving actions just with the API currently provided by QOwnNotes that I missed out? If so, could you give me some advises how to do that? If not, it would be very nice to have some extra scripting methods for cursor movement in QOwnNotes, I think this will offer a lot of flexibility for custom cursor operation.

Thank you in advance for your help:)

[pbek]

Since you have access to the note text you could calculate pretty any position by counting how many characters each line has, can't you?

[davuses]

Since you have access to the note text you could calculate pretty any position by counting how many characters each line has, can't you?

@pbek
I don't think I can do the character counting of each line with two methods above, any sugestions what methods can do the job?

Just find two methods that are probably related, I can select current line with noteTextEditSelectCurrentLine and get the start position and end position with noteTextEditSelectionStart()· and noteTextEditSelectionEnd()`. But how about other lines?

[pbek]

let lineList = noteText.split("\n");

// First line
lineList[0];

// Second line
lineList[1];

[pbek]

And then you could count the characters in each line...

[davuses]

let lineList = noteText.split("\n");

// First line
lineList[0];

// Second line
lineList[1];

@pbek Thank you, I did manage to achieve that. Is there a way to move cursor to next/previous word or block?

[pbek]

You could try to split the lines by word boundary \b with noteLine.split("\b"); and count how many words in a line your cursor currently is.

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