Re: Display current column in statusline

On 2014–01–25 Bee wrote:

> > This statusline uses %c which operates on bytes instead of
> > characters. In my example it displays "5" if the cursor is placed
> > on the digit "5", which is correct. But if you move the cursor
> > down one line (the column stays the same, it's still five) it
> > displays column "9" which is not what I want. The displayed
> > column should be "5" if positioned on the "µ".
>
> In your example it looks like you used a tab char and 'set ts=8'
> to move the '5' over. If 'set ts=8' then the '5' IS at column 9,
> as it would be if you used spaces.

I want to count a tab only once, since it is one character. This is
what the %c flag almost does. %c displays "5-9", five bytes, column
nine if tabs are being expanded.

I'd like to have a simple character count without dealing with tab
expansion, so the "µ" would be character five.

Marco

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