Adding the cursor information bar
The cursor information bar is simply a small label at the bottom-right corner of the Text widget, which displays the current position of the cursor, as shown in the following screenshot:
The user can choose to show/hide this info bar from the View menu (refer to the code in 2.11.py in the code bundle). Begin by creating a Label widget within the Text widget and pack it in the bottom-right corner, as follows:
cursor_info_bar = Label(content_text, text='Line: 1 | Column: 1') cursor_info_bar.pack(expand=NO, fill=None, side=RIGHT, anchor='se')
In many ways, this is similar to displaying the line numbers. Here too, the ...
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