I'd like to get notified whenever the caret position changed in the active text view. The only thing EnvDTE seems to offer is the LineChanged event, which of-course does not get raised when moving the caret left or right within the same line.
I realize VS2010's Editor Extensibility lets you do this with no sweat, but I need a solution that is backwards compatible with VS2008.
I found a solution. The solution is to create an IOleCommandTarget and register it on the IVsTextView (See the last two bits of code in this blog post (in Herbrew)). Then, each time a command is fired, I check whether the caret position has changed. See also: this blog post - How to intercept key presses in the Visual Studio text editor