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The status bar shows the current row and column. Ctrl+F1 shows total lines and total characters.

I need to know where my cursor is currently; I would prefer the current character position be on the status bar all the time (with the ability to hide it if you don't want it), but adding it to the Ctrl+F1 info would be enough that I could make it work.

If there's a way for me to do that myself, some help would be appreciated!

I don't think there's any way to do that in TextPad. You can click Search > Go To > Byte to jump to a specific byte offset, but TextPad doesn't show your current position.

You can get an approximate position by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Home and then clicking View > Document Properties > Document to see the number of characters selected, but this doesn't include newline (CR+LF) characters.