Jump to word when double-clicked on preview tab

[samuelpetroline]

I was wondering if there is any way to jump to a word when the respective word is double-clicked on the preview tab?

If not, is PR welcome?

Thanks for the extension, is amazing!

[yzhang-gh]

Thank you.

VSCode itself has an attempt that synchronizes the source editor and the preview pane, although it is problematic in practice 😔.

Actually I had the same idea as yours (double-click to sync, on both sides) this morning when I was editing the long README of this extension. But for me it doesn't have a high priority because I don't use the preview tab that often.

If not, is PR welcome?

Of course. And probably you can borrow some code from LaTeX Workshop which has the feature.

[samuelpetroline]

VSCode sync is good but could be more feature-rich. Guess is not the primary use for this.

I will be looking into this then. Thanks for the info and the example.

[rlnt]

I'd love to see this as well. :)

[Lemmingh]

Unfortunately, this cannot be solved on our side.

Please turn to microsoft/vscode#131639

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LaTeX Workshop makes it thanks to the precise source map provided by SyncTeX and the toolchain:

we ask TeX to report for each box the stored file name, the stored line number, the horizontal and vertical positions, and the dimensions as computed during typesetting.

we also ask TeX to store input records for glue items, because they are created in TeX’s mouth, when the current input record is still accurate.

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But markdown-it's is very rough:

End line in map is a line when the rule terminates itself

Very limited implementation, restricted by current architecture

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A solution might be fuzzy search in a range.