Call external tool with byte offset from the beginning of a file

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Is it possible to call external tool with selection or cursor position specified as byte offset from file beginning instead of line and position?

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Andrey Dernov
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There is an $SelectedText$ macro (Text selected in the editor) available for the external tool which you can use in External tool's Paramaters field. To select text you can record an Editor Macros 

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Finding that selected text is nice, however how can one get the byte offset of the carat in the current file?

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Serge Baranov
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There is no macro for that. Request is welcome at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA.

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Thanks for the prompt reply. I was not aware of that issue tracker site. Looks like there already is a related issue. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-165314

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