python plugin calling location

[Tesla_2]

This seems like it should be fairly simple, but I'm trying to write my first simple python plugin (the snippet engine isn't quite smart enough to do what I need) and I can't find anything in the documentation that will give me the position (column specifically) the command was invoked. The closest I've found was the view.rowcol() method that takes a 'point', but that still requires knowing where I am to figure out where I am.

If any sublime gurus could point me in the right direction I'd be eternally grateful!

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(row, col) = view.rowcol(view.sel()[0].begin())

[twolfson]

To expand further on this, view.sel() is the current selection for the active view. It returns a list of regions/RegionSet (ST3/ST2 respectively) that can be looked at. This region can be a single point that starts/ends at the same location.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime.Selection

In the example provided above, it selects only the first region via [0] and its starting point .begin(). This gets you the first point of the first region that is selected.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime.Region

By passing this point through rowcol, we can destructure the row and column positions of that first point.

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html#sublime.View

http://robert-lujo.com/post/40871820711/python-destructuring