How to navigate to position in Notepad++

Question

I would like to navigate to position in text file.

Not line number, but character position. Absolute character position from the beginning of file.

How to do this in Notepad++?

Any other plain text editor is ok. I am editing JSON file.

Answer 1

There's an 'Offset' option you can use to directly go to the character you want.

Select the Search -> Go to... menu option (or press Ctrl+G) and change the radio button from Line to Offset then enter the character position you want to go to in the You want to go to field:

Answer 2

Not very elegant, but it works:

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: (?<=^.{55}).
• CHECK . matches newline

This will highlight the 56th character from the begining of the file.