👣 Footsteps 🐾

Keep your place when jumping between a different parts of your code. This is a VSCode extension that will highlight lines as you edit them, fading as you move away.

Jump between lines using ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right.

Extension Settings

This extension allows the following settings:

• footsteps.highlightColor

  Default: "rgb(153, 128, 250)"

  The color of the highlighted trail (in rgb format). I'd recommend keeping this subtle - black (rgb(0, 0, 0)) if you have a dark theme and white (rgb(255, 255, 255)) if you have a light theme.

• footsteps.highlightColorMaxOpacity

  Default: 0.4

  The maximum opacity for line highlights (0 - 1) - higher number means a more opaque highlight.

• footsteps.doHighlightChanges

  Default: true

  Whether or not to add line highlights. If this is false, it will still allow navigation between chunks.

• footsteps.doHighlightOnClick

  Default: false

  Whether or not to add highlights when you click on a line. This is useful if you want to store a place while navigating around the code.

• footsteps.doHighlightCurrentlyFocusedChunk

  Default: false

  Whether or not to highlight the actively focused chunk. It can be distracting to highlight the code you're actively working on, so this is off by default.

• footsteps.doHighlightEmptyLines

  Default: true

  Whether or not to highlight changed lines that are empty. Some may find this distracting.

• footsteps.doHighlightInactiveEditors

  Default: false

  Whether or not to highlight lines in inactive editors. For example, if you have two files open, and you're editing one, this will highlight the lines in the other file.

• footsteps.maxNumberOfChangesToRemember

  Default: 6

  The number of changes to save in history

• footsteps.maxNumberOfChangesToHighlight

  Default: 10

  The number of changes to highlight. A lower number drops off more quickly.

• footsteps.minDistanceFromCursorToHighlight

  Default: 3

  The minimum distance from the cursor to highlight a line. This is to prevent distracting highlights when you're actively working on a line.

• footsteps.clearChangesOnFileSave

  Default: false

  Whether or not to clear changes in a file when you save it.

Commands

This extension doesn't have any default commands, to prevent from clashing with your setup. Bind your own keybindings to these commands:

• footsteps.skipBack

  Skip back in footsteps. Default: ctrl+alt+left

• footsteps.skipForwards

  Skip forwards in footsteps. Default: ctrl+alt+right

• footsteps.skipBackSameFile

  Skip back in footsteps (stay in the same file)

• footsteps.skipForwardsSameFile

  Skip forwards in footsteps (stay in the same file)

• footsteps.skipBackDifferentFile

  Skip back in footsteps (skip between files)

• footsteps.skipForwardsDifferentFile

  Skip forwards in footsteps (skip between files)

• footsteps.clearChangesWithinFile

  Clear all changes within file (useful when you've edited the whole file)

• footsteps.onClearProjectChanges

  Clear all changes within project

• footsteps.toggleHighlightingLines

  Toggle the footsteps.doHighlightChanges setting: whether or not we are highlighting lines

🤝 How to Contribute

I'd love suggestions on how to improve the extension (feature requests) or code suggestions.

📝 License

Licensed under the MIT License.