Can I view the column number my cursor is on in MonoDevelop?

When I get errors in Unity, I get a line number and column number in parentheses as a reference. However, there’s nothing in the MonoDevelop GUI that tells me what column number I’m on, so I have to manually count the columns in a line as i move it with the right arrow key. Is there any way to have MonoDevelop show what column number my cursor is on, like how Notepad++ does?

Well, by googling it, it seems MonoDevelop used to show both the line number and column number in the bottom right corner, but for some reason the developers removed it because with the new design “there’s nowhere obvious to put the line/column numbers now we no longer have a status bar”. Here’s another 2, about it. I wish they’d bring it back. I think it’s a really useful indicator.

Hi @DragonautX and for anyone else coming across this post, I found by trial and error that (in MonoDevelop 5.9.6 at least) you can use Search>Goto Line (Ctrl+I) and enter line number followed by a comma and the column number, for example 147,40 will bring you to line 147 and place the cursor 40 chars in.
Note however this method considers tab characters as single spaces so the first character on a line with three tabs is in column 4.
I’m not sure how unity interprets the columns though as I often find when it tells me for example that it expected ‘}’ and found ‘=’ at column 43 that the nearest ‘=’ is at column 40 - 3 chars to the left…

Ideally there would be a plugin for this, might get around to that some time…