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jemiloii
jemiloii

Reputation: 25759

How to navigate to character location in WebStorm?

I'm wondering how can I can navigate to a character location? I have a script that will tell me the character location number, no line number.

INFO: log-process/3093 on local-machine: Some Log Message

The 3093 is the character location number.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 9778

Answers (5)

sufkop
sufkop

Reputation: 1

Install the IdeaVim plugin.

Then type:

:normal! 0go3093 "

Your cursor will move to character 3093.

You can make this into a simple command by typing:

:command! -nargs=1 GoToChar execute 'normal! 0go' . (<args>-1) . ' '

Now you only have to type:

:GoToChar 3093

To go to character 3093.

Upvotes: 0

Javaru
Javaru

Reputation: 32026

No such navigation action exists. You'll need to either 1) Search for a plug-in that will do this; 2) write your own plug-in to do it; or 3) Open a feature request to add such functionality.

UPDATE

The "Go to Line" dialog was enhanced to be "Go to Line:Column". You can open it by:

  • Ctrl+G / ⌘+L
  • Menu: Navigate > Line:Column
  • Click on the cursor position in the bottom right of the window. For example: cursor position indication

This will open the Go to Line:Column dialog:

Go to Line:Column Dialog

In the dialog, you can enter a value such as 10:15 to go to the 15th character on line 10. You can also enter just a line, 10 which will take you to the start of that line (line 10 in this example). Or you can enter just a character position, for example :15, which will take you to that character position on the current line.

However, I am still unaware of a way say "Navigate to the Nth character position in the file". And the original poster's feature for such a feature is still open.

Upvotes: 3

Justin Schwartzenberger
Justin Schwartzenberger

Reputation: 2704

In WebStorm, if you mouse click on the file line and char count in the bottom bar:

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it will open up a dialog where you can type in the line and char position:

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Upvotes: 6

David Hudec
David Hudec

Reputation: 490

I do this by selecting code from the start of the file. Then, total number of selected characters is displayed in the bottom right corner, so I can find the character that I only knew the number of.

Upvotes: 34

John
John

Reputation: 11439

I had the same situation today. I have a minifed and uglified javascript file, and I was simply searching manually for error (14, 4974). In the bottom right corner of Webstorm, you can see the line number and character position.

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Searching for lets say line 14 and position 18438 is not an easy task, but clicking inside the script file may help you to pin point the location.

Upvotes: 1

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