How and where, exactly, is the "last position" stored?

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#1

How and where, exactly, is the position of last editing stored?
Or should it be the last position of the insertion cursor?
Or …

#2

I think, you should ask a Writer-developer about that, e.g. Michael Stahl.

I guess it is stored in settings.xml in the part ooo:view-settings in the properties ViewAreaTop or VisibleTop. At least when I save to flat format, change the cursor position and save again, these values are changed. The numbers there are in 1/100 mm. They might be the distance from start of the document. The file, that uses these values is view.cxx (revision 39b5a39b) - OpenGrok cross reference for /core/sw/source/uibase/uiview/view.cxx

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#3

Thanks!
For the understanding:

  1. I don’t need the feature actually myself. (No longer writing long texts needing editing again and again.)
  2. Only trying to support FLOSS by contributions to this site and to the forum.openoffice.org.
  3. Both mentioned sites contain lots of topics with complaints about “not opening at last position” (of cursor or of editing) or similar.
  4. There were related bug reports. Current leader: tdf# [140147](140147 – Position of cursor not saved correctly (see comment 46 for bibisect).
  5. I’m wondering for what reasons there never was a stable final solution.
  6. Also wondering for what reasons the feature seems to be not described in the Writer guide.
  7. Also wondering for what reason the feature’s implementation is not based on the reliably working bookmarking feature.
  8. I already published a (kind of) solution which is a “workarund” on the surface, but ptobably simply a better solution or a “new feature”. See Apache OpenOffice Community Forum - Automatically setting bookmarks with strictly formatted names; also concerning the "open-to-last-position-issue" - (View topic)
  9. Recent test:
    Worked correctly in 4.4.7 portable in the mode of “last-editing-position” depending on the profile.
    Depending on unknown circumstances there may occur correct working or an offset to the right of (e.g.) about 7.5 cm (limited by EOL) under V24.2.0.2.

I will now try to contact the named developer directly.

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