Sublime Text supports displaying the column count instead of the character count via its selection_description_column_type setting (only useful when using tab i

Sublime Text supports displaying the column count instead of the character count via its selection_description_column_type setting (only useful when using tab indentation I suppose): "virtual": Shows columns as they visually appear on screen. A tab character that displays as 4 spaces wide will count as 4 columns. "real": Shows the actual number of characters. A tab is counted as 1 column regardless of its visual width.