Unexpected horizontal bumps on vertical cursor movement with not-narrow characters and combined characters
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Description
Describe the bug
Unexpected horizontal bumps on vertical cursor movement with not-narrow characters and combined characters
For the term "not-narrow", this issue mainly describes about CJK "Wide" characters and "Fullwidth variant" like Fullwidth Latin, etc.
But it seems that the tab characters also trigger this buggy behavior. #8108
To Reproduce
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Example text
The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. the quick brown fox The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. とりなくこゑす / ゆめさませ / みよあけわたる / ひんがしを / そらいろはえて / おきつへに / ほふねむれゐぬ / もやのうち Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. 정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 혼례 치른 날. เป็นมนุษย์สุดประเสริฐเลิศคุณค่า กว่าบรรดาฝูงสัตว์เดรัจฉาน จงฝ่าฟันพัฒนาวิชาการ อย่าล้างผลาญฤๅเข่นฆ่าบีฑาใคร ไม่ถือโทษโกรธแช่งซัดฮึดฮัดด่า 鉴于对人类家庭所有成员的固有尊严及其平等的和不移的权利的承认,乃是世界自由、正义与和平的基础。鉴于对人类家庭所有成员的固有尊严及其平等的 鑑於人類社會個成員儕有個固有尊嚴脫仔平等個脫仔勿移個權利承認,是世界自由、正義脫仔和平個基礎。鑑於人類社會個成員儕有個固有尊嚴脫仔平等個Each line of string is consist of characters used in
- English, with full-width latin characters
- English, with half-width latin characters
- Japanese
- German
- Korean, with Hangul Syllables Unicode block characters
- Korean, with Hangul Jamo Unicode block characters
- Thai
- Mandarin, simplified
- Mandarin, traditional
respectively.
Note that for Thai and Hangul Jamo characters, some groups of Unicode characters can be combined to compose single displayed character. -
Fonts used to create sample images
NeoDunggeunmo for latin and korean glyph
GNU Unifont for fallback.
Both are 8x16 grid bitmap based monospace-ish font, so glyphs are perfectly aligned.
(I think this will be reproducible just with Unifont.) -
Steps
- Click left side of the first occuring of full-width character
ato put cursor. - Press k/j or arrow up/down to move cursor up and down.
- Click left side of the first occuring of full-width character
Expected behavior
Cursor should move vertically, without horizontal movement, follwing marked line on image.
Recorded on VSCode with extensions disabled.
Note that VSCode also has problem with Hangul Jamo Characters. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/207794

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Environment (please complete the following information):
- Extension (VsCodeVim) version: 1.27.2
- VSCode version: 1.87.2
- OS: Windows 11 23H2 22631.3296
Additional context
Foldfix partially fix this bug, but as you know, there's side effects.
Also cursor drifts toward left on unaligned part unlike vanilla VSCode.
Contributor guide
First steps
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Research direction
No source file or test entry point is named. Start by reproducing the provided multilingual sample in VSCodeVim with the listed fonts, moving vertically with k/j and the arrow keys, and compare the behavior with vanilla VS Code. Done means vertical cursor movement no longer causes the reported horizontal bumps or drift for wide, tab, and combined characters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100