Final newline insertion without wikilinks moves cursor

[SanderBeekhuis]

Describe the bug

When editing a markdown file and pausing for ~1sec with the cursor on the final position of the file the cursor jumps to a newly inserted newline.

This leads to the sentence to be broken into a new part when i continue typing.

I don't mind the insertion of newline that much (tough I don't like it either), but the movement of the cursor disturbs my flow.

If I can contribute in any way to solve this issue I would be willing to look into it and thanks for the hard work on the extension.

Small Reproducible Example

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Steps to Reproduce the Bug or Issue

When editing a markdown file, where | will indicate cursor position.

This is a markdown file I'm writing. 
Now I will pause to think how to continue this sentence|

Then after a brief pause (~1 sec) a newline is inserted and the cursor jumps to this new line.

Like this

This is a markdown file I'm writing. 
Now I will pause to think how to continue this sentence
|

This behavior does not happen when:

• You already have wikilinks
• You already have a trailing newline
• In general, when the cursor is not on the very final position in the file.

Expected behavior

1. As a user I expected the cursor position to stay the same, but I'm seeing it move down one line.

2. As a user I'm ambivalent about the insertion of a new trailing newline, but I would expect foam to not change files unnecessarily.

Screenshots or Videos

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Operating System Version

Seen this happen on both Linux and Windows (reporting for linux)

Visual Studio Code Version

Version: 1.89.1
Commit: dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685 Date: 2024-05-07T05:16:23.416Z
Electron: 28.2.8
ElectronBuildId: 27744544
Chromium: 120.0.6099.291
Node.js: 18.18.2
V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.1.52-valve16-1-neptune-61

Additional context

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[riccardoferretti]

Thanks for reporting this, super odd. A couple of questions:

• i imagine disabling the extension fixes the problem? (just want to be sure the issue is coming from Foam :) )
• do you have auto-save on? I was wondering if it's related to some sort of saving+document formatting (but that doesn't explain some of the scenarios you described)

[SanderBeekhuis]

Hi @riccardoferretti, thanks for your response.

1. I found that Foam was the issue with the "extension bisect" feature by VScode, and I just verified that disabling foam stops the issue from occuring.
2. I do run a combination of "files.autoSave": "afterDelay" and "editor.formatOnSave": true . If I turn the extension back on and change to "files.autoSave": "off" the issue only occurs when manually saving (i.e. with Ctrl+S)

This leads me to think that the issue is indeed in the formatter that runs on document save. If you by chanhe know where that is located in this code-base I could also look into that myself.

As an additional note (and to make the behaviour even more curious) :

The following has no issues

First line

Single line after newline | 

and the following has:

First line

Two lines
after newline | 

[pderaaij]

@SanderBeekhuis could you list the active extensions in your workspace?