Refine caret handling after replacement:

• If there is a `|` character in the text, the caret is ALWAYS placed here
• If an indent is found in the text, place the cursor at the FIRST occurrence of it

Author: Krazal

WebEdit/Main.cs

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ internal static void ReplaceTag()
         value = parser.Unescape(value);
         scintillaGateway.ReplaceSel(Tags.UserDefinedInsertionPoint().Replace(value, string.Empty));
 
-        if (parser.FindAndReplace(selStart) || !Tags.UserDefinedInsertionPoint().IsMatch(value))
+        if ((parser.FindAndReplace(selStart) && value.IndexOf('|') == -1) || !Tags.UserDefinedInsertionPoint().IsMatch(value))
           return;
 
         scintillaGateway.SetSelectionEnd(position + value.Substring(0, value.IndexOf('|')).Length - selectedText.Length);

WebEdit/Tags.cs

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ internal bool FindAndReplace(long startPos)
       ScintillaGateway sci = new(Utils.GetCurrentScintilla());
       bool didReplace = false, didIndent = false;
 
+      // track the caret position resulting from the FIRST '\i' replacement
+      long firstIndentCaret = -1;
+
       Dictionary<string, Action> replacements = new()
       {
         {"\\f", PasteFileContents},
@@ -82,14 +85,21 @@ internal bool FindAndReplace(long startPos)
           long selStart = sci.GetTargetStart() + seqStart;
           sci.SetSelection(selStart, selStart + sci.CodePage.GetByteCount(seq));
           replaceFunc();
+
+          // capture the caret position produced by the first '\i' replacement
+          if (seq == "\\i" && firstIndentCaret == -1)
+            firstIndentCaret = sci.GetSelectionEnd();
+
           sci.SetTargetRange(sci.GetSelectionEnd(), sci.GetTextLength());
           seqStart = sci.GetTargetText().IndexOf(seq);
         }
       }
 
       if (didIndent)
       {
-        sci.SetCurrentPos(sci.GetSelectionEnd());
+        // move caret to the position recorded for the first '\i' replacement;
+        // fall back to current selection end if something went wrong.
+        sci.SetCurrentPos(firstIndentCaret > -1 ? firstIndentCaret : sci.GetSelectionEnd());
         sci.ClearSelectionToCursor();
       }
 
@@ -150,7 +160,7 @@ private void PasteFileContents()
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Matches a single, unescaped '|'.
+    /// Matches a single, unescaped '|'
     /// </summary>
     [GeneratedRegex(@"(?<!\\)\|")]
     internal static partial Regex UserDefinedInsertionPoint();