# How to highlight one character by number of column and number of line?

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**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-highlight-one-character-by-number-of-column-and-number-of-line/959 "2020-04-16T04:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rezov](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/rezov/32/479_2.png) [@Rezov](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Rezov)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-highlight-one-character-by-number-of-column-and-number-of-line/959/1 "2020-04-16T04:42:49Z")

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how to highlight one character by number of column and number of line ?

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**Author:** ![prion](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/prion/32/404_2.png) [@prion](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/prion)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-highlight-one-character-by-number-of-column-and-number-of-line/959/2 "2020-04-16T05:09:39Z")

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To go to line 10, character 12  
`10g11l`  
or you can do  
`10g12lh`  
if you are writing a command and don’t want to automate the minus one.

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**Author:** ![Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/screwtapello/32/12_2.png) [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/how-to-highlight-one-character-by-number-of-column-and-number-of-line/959/3 "2020-04-16T06:59:16Z")

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If you are writing a command, you could also do:

```
select 10.12,10.12
```