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

[jesus2099]

Sorry, I was editing my big post above when you replied.

No need to elaborate on the tabs vs spaces here.
IMO it's using space as tabulation that is ugly workaround bringing too many specific work-arounds (like this virtual column position: 1 character but 4 characters).

This ticket is already (thanks to your additional example) about displaying true character count position instead of (or additionally to, like vim does) virtual column.

We should just rename it to not specialise it about tabs.

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I did find 2 related tickets, but they are about the selected character count, not the position of the caret:

- Number of selected characters #745
- Problem select char counting #1599 (could be a duplicate of previous ticket)

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