Let hugo server --navigateToChanged maintain the scroll position if possible

[yihui]

When I'm currently viewing a page of which the source Markdown file is being edited, I wish the scroll position of this page in the browser could be maintained when --navigateToChanged is enabled for hugo server. That is, if Hugo is about to navigate to the same page as the current page in the browser, location.reload() should be called instead of location.href = "NEW_LOCATION" in JS. I'm not sure if that is possible with Hugo, or it requires upstream support from LiveReload.

[bep]

location.reload()

I'm too lazy to look it up: Is this a standard JS method supported by all browsers?

If so, this should be possible to fix on the Hugo side.

[bep]

If someone wants to fix this, here is the location:

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/livereload/livereload.go#L117

[yihui]

Yes, location.reload() is fairly standard: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/reload

I just submitted the PR #3825. Thanks!

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