Is it possible to show the exact position in Subli

Question

I've been learning Markdown, and using the Python Markdown package, which often returns the following when I try to convert text that has been pasted in from the web:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in 
position 1611: ordinal not in range(128)

At the bottom of my editor I currently see this:

COMMAND MODE, Line X, Column Y

Is there a setting in Sublime Text 2 that will show the full position (as in 1611 in the example above) at all times so I can quickly find the bad character?

Answer 1

You could make a simple python script to do this.

1. Save this code to your User folder as characterCounter.py (Preferences > Browse Packages > User):

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class PositionListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
  def on_selection_modified(self,view):
    text = "Position: "
    sels = view.sel()
    for s in sels:
        text += " " + str(s.begin())
        if not s.empty():
            text += "-" + str(s.end()) + " "
    view.set_status('exact_pos', text)

2. Then restart Sublime Text to have it loaded.