Move cursor in Sublime Text Python Plugin

Question

I wrote a simple plugin for Sublime Text which inserts tags at cursor position(s) or wraps them around selected text:

import sublime, sublime_plugin
class mySimpleCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
  def run(self, edit):
    sels = self.view.sel()
    for sel in sels:
      sel.start = sel.a if (sel.a < sel.b) else sel.b
      sel.end = sel.b if (sel.a < sel.b) else sel.a
      insert1Length = self.view.insert(edit, sel.start, '<tag>')
      self.view.insert(edit, sel.end + insert1Length, '</tag>')

But how can I move the cursor(s) after inserting the tags? I looked at the API documentation in https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html and at several example plugins but still fail to solve this silly problem. Can anybody help?

Answer 1

I've just had the same problem - moving the cursor to the end of a line in a plugin after appending text to it. I fixed it using sergioFC's hint of:

# Place cursor at the end of the line
self.view.run_command("move_to", {"to": "eol"})

Works for me.

Answer 2

Here's an example of how to move the cursor to the end of the line. It should be obvious how to generalize!

With reference to the API reference .

import sublime
import sublime_plugin


class MoveToEolCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        # get the current "selection"
        sel = self.view.sel()

        # get the first insertion point, i.e. the cursor
        cursor_point = sel[0].begin()

        # get the region of the line we're on
        line_region = self.view.line(cursor_point)

        # clear the current selection as we're moving the cursor
        sel.clear()

        # set the selection to an empty region at the end of the line
        # i.e. move the cursor to the end of the line
        sel.add(sublime.Region(line_region.end(), line_region.end()))