"Column 80 guide" and caret position inconsistency

Hi Oleg,

Ther column guide shows at 80 x average character size. But you are correct the variable-width font columns aren't being calculated correctly right now. At the moment they are being calculated based on number of characters and tabs, however it should be based on the x-location and average character size, meaning in variable-width fonts, sometimes a character may span more than one column (like for 'm') or more than one character could fit in a column (like for 'i').

We've done this correctly in the WPF version. We plan on updating it in the WinForms version for the next major version (which we hope to have based on the newer framework being prototyped in the WPF version) but as for now we can't change it since there are some other features that rely on the information being returned as-is. So in the meantime, column reporting will be in inaccurate with variable-width fonts.

You could possibly calculate a column on your own though if you get the bounds of the caret's character and divide the x-location that by SyntaxEditor.CharacterWidth property. Then report that result in the UI.