👣 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.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.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.

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.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.