[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Wrong column number: Tab counts as 4 characters (#2733)

[elextr]

In the file with `Tab a` go to the next line and type 5 `a`s , the last `a` lines up with the `a` in the line above, so clearly the `a` in the line above is in column 5.

You appear to have confused character count and column count, a column is a vertical strip of screen, a character is an entity in teh file, the file may only have two characters `Tab` and `a` but `Tab` occupies 4 columns and `a` one, total 5.

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