Jumping to a byte offset, and displaying position as byte offset

Question

How can I move the cursor to the nth byte in the buffer?

How can I display the current cursor position in the ruler in terms of the byte offset, rather than lines and columns?  (Follow-up question: can it be displayed in both decimal and hexadecimal?)

romainl · Accepted Answer

:goto 2356

jumps to the 2356th byte in the buffer.

Use the %o field in 'statusline' or 'rulerformat' to display the byte number of the character under your cursor.

Use %O to display the value in hexadecimal format.

Reference:

:help :goto
:help 'statusline'
:help 'rulerformat'

Vivian De Smedt · Answer

To display the byte position you can use the following command
:echo line2byte(line("."))+col(".")-1

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Jumping to a byte offset, and displaying position as byte offset

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