From 30a899f729ff974a2dc55343c7d956cdd5ddfc91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: peter <peter@jetbrains.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:40:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add an explanatory comment to
 com.intellij.ide.macro.EditorMacro.getColumnNumber

---
 platform/lang-impl/src/com/intellij/ide/macro/EditorMacro.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/platform/lang-impl/src/com/intellij/ide/macro/EditorMacro.java b/platform/lang-impl/src/com/intellij/ide/macro/EditorMacro.java
index 357a99f1d345..5092eff72e94 100644
--- a/platform/lang-impl/src/com/intellij/ide/macro/EditorMacro.java
+++ b/platform/lang-impl/src/com/intellij/ide/macro/EditorMacro.java
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ public abstract class EditorMacro extends Macro {
     return null;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @return 1-based column index where tabs are treated as single characters. External tools don't know about IDEA's tab size.
+   */
   protected static String getColumnNumber(Editor editor, LogicalPosition pos) {
     if (EditorUtil.inVirtualSpace(editor, pos)) {
       return String.valueOf(pos.column + 1);