👣 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.

• footsteps.minFileLength

  Default: 100

  The minimum length (in lines) a file must be for line highlights to be enabled.

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.