Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap  SOLVED

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asocialis
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Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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I make bookmarks for lots of pdf documents. I use repeated combinations of steps to make them, so it became a habit, meaning I can do it almost without watching. But there is one difference. When I make some bookmarks, they are long, so word wrap is done on them. So when I use Home key to go to start of line for such bookmarks, I go to beginning of wrapped line instead of complete line. So I have to use Ctrl+Home or Press Home twice to go to start of complete line. So now I have to watch more if bookmark is too long, and decide should I press Home button once or twice, which is small interference with my habits. Can you make option so that I always go to beginning of complete line by just pressing home, so I do not have to react to line length of bookmark text? Either as default or as additional option. I know this is small issue, but still gets noticed when used in frequently. Reason why I go to home is to make add number, usually sorted, of the bookmark, as is case in laws. There is 1. some text, 2. some text, 3. some text...
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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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Hello, asocialis

Take a look at this topic:
viewtopic.php?p=162725#p162725
If you use the option menu in the bookmarks pane, you can change the default handling for bookmark creation, and set it up to inherit the current zoom, though from the sounds of it, you would want to choose the "use selected region as destination" option, instead.

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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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I am having the impression that the question of asocialis was not correctly understood, or am I wrong myself ?

In case of long bookmarks, they are wrapped in the Bookmarks pane (two or more lines) and so, when modifying/editing them, the Home key makes the cursor go to the beginning of the line, but not necessarily to the beginning of the first line of that wrapped bookmark.

As a work-around, what would you think of:
1) temporarily enlarging the width of the Bookmarks pane, so that long bookmark-names only take one line instead of two or more lines ? But, maybe the width for the page-content itself then becomes too small ?
2) docking the Bookmarks-pane to the top or the bottom, instead of to the left or the right ?
3) 'always' using Ctrl + Home to go to the start of whatever bookmark ?

In my opinion, the real question of asocialis is to have a feature that makes the cursor go to the beginning of the 'first' line of the (long) bookmark when pressing the Home key, while that bookmark is being modified/edited.

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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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Yes, I am finding having to use ctrl+home key, or home key twice, as more difficult than just using the home key, to go to beginning of bookmark name which takes more than one visible line. Meaning I would like Home key to immediately go to beginning of bookmark name, of whole line, whole name.
I have never been in situation where I have to go to beginning of bookmark name's current visible line only, but whole line.
I know that behavior is same as in Notepad++, but I did not find any use for it, except that it wastes my time a bit.
Of course, this is just tiny issue, tiny time waster. Actually in case of really long text, it takes more than two lines, e.g. 5 lines. Then only more productive choice becomes using ctrl+home, while I would have to press Home key 5 times. Temporarily disabling wrapping of long bookmarks is good solution for now.
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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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Hello, asocialis

My apologies, I was under the impression that your issue was with the destination of the bookmark after clicking on it, not within the bookmarks pane while editing. I will run this by the Dev team and see what we can do, but I reckon that this is unlikely to change.

As an aside, on top of ctrl+home you can also use Ctrl+up arrow to snap to the top of the current "paragraph" in most locations and applications.

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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap

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Hi asocialis,
asocialis wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:09 pm Reason why I go to home is to make add number, usually sorted, of the bookmark, as is case in laws. There is 1. some text, 2. some text, 3. some text...
As you might already know, if you have to modify so many bookmarks that the difference between "Ctrl+Home" and "Home" affects the efficiency of your work, the "Add Text To Bookmark Title" feature in the Bookmarks tab may perhaps help.

  • Add Text to Bookmark Titles
    https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/add-text-to-bookmark-titles_ed.html
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Re: Go to start of the line in bookmark regardless of word wrap  SOLVED

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Hello Everyone,

I wanted to come back and pass along an update about the request earlier in this thread. For the moment, I am afraid that this request has been rejected by the Dev team, and as such will not be seeing implementation for the forseeable future. My apologies for the inconvenience.

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