Statusbar Enhancement

Hi!

Is there a way to get more informations about the actual cursor position in the status bar?

What I need, is the number of the character my cursor is on.
For example: I have a text-file with 100 characters in it. And let's say my cursor is in line 5 at column position 8, or something like that. And this would be character position 79 in the whole document.
79 would be the number I need to see in status bar.

Besides that, if I would mark character number 79 until the end of the document, I need to see that in statusbar, too. For example: {79-100} or <79-100> something like that.

For this example the statusbar could look like this:
5:8 (12) [100] <79-100>
or maybe
5:8 (12) {79-100} [100]

It's possible for small documents, but for bigger one it will slow down cursor movement. For each movement must be position recalculated.

Sorry, i don't see any advantage. If you need count charactes, select block.

All you need to do to get the position is left-click on the position you want reported. Small price to pay for rapid screen response.