Howdy! I was recently working on some minor tweaks to my ST config and was surprised to find out that I couldn’t customize the line number/column number in the status bar.
Sifting through the forums, I discovered that I was not the first person to think about this:
- https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/2550
- https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/3377
- Hide line/column numbers in status bar
Have any changes been made on this front since 2020 that I’m somehow not turning up?
If not, here’s a quick summary of ideas I thought were really good!
- Put line/column number in a static, dedicated position farther rightwards (@deathaxe’s idea)
- Provide some kind of string template in settings for easily customizing (@jfcherng’s idea)
- Make it shorter! The
line:colsyntax is one short and sweet possibility! (eugenesvk’s idea)
I don’t always use an IDE, but when I do, I use IntelliJ, and they have a pretty nice little implementation:
Without selection:
With selection:
Food for thought! Sublime Text for life!