[Issue] Cursor row/column

[amsmota]

Hello:

I want to know when I'm writing what is the current row/column of the cursor. I found no way to do such a simple thing.

Can anyonehelp?

Cheers.

[acknak]

It's not possible to show.

What are you trying to do that requires that information?

The feature has been requested: Issue 18004: Line Number of Cursor Position Should Be Shown in Status Bar
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[amsmota]

I don't want to do nothing funny, really. Just keep on writing until I reach column 80, then hit a return, then write again until column 80 and so on until row 24.

I'll vote on the issue.

Thanks for your quick reply.

[acknak]

What kind of document are you working on? That sounds like a very unusual sort of task for a word processor.

If you really want to do that, all you have to do is set up a template with a monospaced font, a right margin at 80 characters (you have to find that manually since it varies depending on the font size) and a bottom margin at 24 lines (set the line spacing to some fixed value).

Here's a template that does that:

[amsmota]

Thanks for that, it's useful to do some ascii-art (not my first intent, though).