I'm not sure this wish should go to the part and/or the app. I'm using kate to edit a type of file whose compiler only present error in terms of byte position inside the file. Kate only thinks in terms of line+col. I would be nice if the app could present the position in file and maybe a slot to go to an arbitrary position. In parallel, I'm opening a bug on such compiler so it presents messages in terms of lines + cols.
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last two years and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users. If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in a year again. We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. e.g. see the information at https://kate-editor.org/join-us/ for details Greetings Christoph Cullmann