Re: About column numbers

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> They also count columns from 1.
>>
>> At least GCC doesn’t. It counts bytes.
>
> It does.  Starting from 1.

So it’s mostly useless in a 0-based character-counting editor, and
slightly less useless in a 1-based character-counting editor, and much
more useless in a cell-counting editor if you happen to use tabs. All
in all, there is much more agreement about line numbers than column
numbers, which makes it possible for each editor/IDE to choose, or
even let users choose.