Smart vertical caret movement

When I started my career, ages ago, I had a text editor with a feature that I haven't really seen in many other products, let alone a recent one.

You move around a document as you wish. When you start typing, the editor remembers the column you were on. If you hit “Up” or “Down” keys, the caret moves to the corresponding line and gets back to the saved column (if line is long enough).

What is it good for? Well, for example, it makes it very easy to make similar (but different) changes in different lines:

$data[] = '|'; // Start typing here
$data[] = '';
$data[] = '';
$data[] = '';

$data[] = 'Veritus tortor cras|'; // Done with line. Now I'll hit "Down" key...
$data[] = '';
$data[] = '';
$data[] = '';

$data[] = 'Veritus tortor cras';
$data[] = '|'; // Voilà! I don't need to set cursor, I can continue typing
$data[] = '';
$data[] = '';

I don't think PhpStorm has it (I would expect it to be at "Settings/ Editor/ General/ Caret Movement"). Has this been requested in the issue tracker?