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<p>Sorry, I was editing my big post above when you replied.</p>
<p>No need to elaborate on the tabs vs spaces here.<br>
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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>We should just rename it to not specialise it about tabs.</p>
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<p>I did find 2 related tickets, but they are about the selected character count, not the position of the caret:</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of selected characters <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="115971570" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/745" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/745/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/745">#745</a></li>
<li>Problem select char counting <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="254977751" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1599" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1599/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1599">#1599</a> (could be a duplicate of previous ticket)</li>
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