Bug in column navigation (arrows)

[ShawnDigital]

Bug in column navigation (arrows)

[shriprem]

Shawn, the 'Hop' buttons are serving dual purposes, as has been documented here: https://github.com/shriprem/FWDataViz/blob/master/docs/field_navigation.md#hop-field

I have added emphasis to the key phrase in the following extract from that documentation page:

More frequently, there is a need to hop to the other edge of the current field or an adjacent field. For example, you may want to quickly toggle between the left and right alignment selections for Field Copy or Field Paste.

However, if the cursor is already at the extreme edge of the current field, it will move to the extreme edge of the next field in the direction of the hop button. Hence, initially, an extra click is needed to hop to the preceding or next field.

[ShawnDigital]

An edge is usually a boundary or outside limitation of something so given a field with width 10 and the cursor (^) being at the beginning of a line or position 1, a "hop to the other edge of the current field or an adjacent field." seems to describe jumping to the boundary of the field or...

Before
^1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 10

Expected After
1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 10^

Actual after is...
1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 ^10

So if that is the intended after state, then it works as expected.

If so I'm not sure edge is the best description of that behavior though so maybe using the numerical position of characters to describe it would be less ambiguous. Either way thank you for taking the time to respond and for sharing your work!

[shriprem]

If you imagine each character as a cell or a block, and disregard its left and right edges, the hop actions as they were initially implemented will make complete sense. It may also help if you visualize the caret as a block spanning the full character width instead of a thin vertical pipe at the left of the character.

Left hop would take you to the first character of the field, allowing you to paste some content into the field, left-justified with padding characters to the right. And the right hop would take you to the last character of the same field, allowing you to paste some content, right-justified with padding characters to the left.

That being said, the issue you have raised was also put forth by another user last year. See: #82. So, I have implemented a customizable setting for the right hop action.

Here is the Preferences screen, with the customizable option for 'Hop Right':

1. First, you will need the plugin DLL from the latest commit CI build. On the CI Builds page, click on the link for the top (recent) workflow run. Here is the current direct link. This page will have zipped DLLs for x64, x86 & ARM64. For more info on installing the DLL, see: Downloading FWDataViz.dll file from a commit to the Github repo.
2. For the hop behavior that you are looking to have, you will need to check the box for 'Hop Right...' For more details, see: Hop Right