https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150631

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a) Well, it's available in Microsoft Word (right-click status bar, check Line
Number and Column), which might suggest it's something appropriate to a word
processor.  When in a table, Word simply treats each row of the table as a new
line, so if the line number before the table is 15, and you have a table with 3
rows, those are displayed as lines 16, 17, and 18 on the status bar.  Each
column is treated as separate when it comes to column count, so for example the
first 3 characters in each cell of the table display as column 1, 2, 3.

b) This feature is available in Microsoft Word, Notepad++, EditPad, VS Code,
Visual Studio, Vi/Vim, Windows Notepad, and xed... off the top of my head.  In
fact, it's in virtually everything except Libreoffice Writer.

c) If I'm comparing two fixed-width text documents for alignment I might want
to quickly check the line/column of a particular character.  If I'm trying to
limit the line width I might want to know the column of a given character to
see how close I am to the width limit I want.  If I'm doing ASCII art it might
be useful.  I'm sure there are plenty of other use-cases.

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