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Hmm I tried using his tool on my Mac and it did not seem to work for any of the editors I tried (system vim in a terminal, TextEdit, MacVim).

Does anyone know if there is an existing tool for these kinds of measurements on a Mac?

Doing a few google searches mostly turns up this article. But maybe my googling skills are weak.

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I got it to work after a few tries. Used it with VSCode, terminal, iTerm, Hyper Terminal, and TextEdit.

It took a few trials, and I had to disable transparency. I think it also doesn't like blinking cursors, and if (...) is turned into it's own glyph, you should start the line with some dots of your own to prevent that.

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