[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Goto column number (#1253)

[elextr]

There is not such a thing, probably because, as has been explained before, nobody can agree on what a "column" is, bytes, code points, glyphs, pixels?  The Scintilla definition used for the status bar is "code points, except for tabs. which can be multiple columns to reach a multiple of the tab width".

But that may not match the definition of "column" from another tool, so its only useful for ASCII or non-combining characters Unicode, and then only when the width of tabs is also agreed.

-- 
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1253#issuecomment-251565697
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.geany.org/pipermail/github-comments/attachments/20161004/9c8dc55b/attachment.html>