That's a nice feature to have, and I've seen it in other text editors. Not sure if it'll be picked up, though.
In the meantime, if you're dealing with pure ASCII, then switching to the HEX-Editor view might work for you. Select a character, then View in HEX, and the highlighted byte is the character code of the selected character. You can edit (overwrite only) in HEX view, too.
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hi there,
Is it possible to see what is currently selected char code? Like in editplus on status bar, there is one position with this information.
That's a nice feature to have, and I've seen it in other text editors. Not sure if it'll be picked up, though.
In the meantime, if you're dealing with pure ASCII, then switching to the HEX-Editor view might work for you. Select a character, then View in HEX, and the highlighted byte is the character code of the selected character. You can edit (overwrite only) in HEX view, too.
I have this plugin, and I use this way, but I have this quickest accustom