On 26 Apr 2019, at 19:28, Rob McBroom wrote:

On 13 Nov 2018, at 23:19, Allan Odgaard wrote:

The problem is that it stores a buffer offset as the “first character” but this may visually change due to delayed softwrap calculation.

It’s not a new issue: Once I get around to overhaul the text layout/rendering code, I expect to address this and other related issues.

The fix for this doesn’t sound like something you’re going to knock out in a few hours, but is there any progress or anything else we can do in the short term? This is driving me nuts.

I’ve been working on some code for a client with pretty long lines. Switching to a document scrolls more than a page, and it’s not obvious which direction it went. So I don’t know exactly how far away the current line is, and I don’t know which way to look.

I use ⌘J for “Jump to Selection” myself. Not that different from your current workaround, but it only centers the insertion point without moving it or changing selection.