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this retreives the line number of the current line
but how to retreive column? [the pos of caret in the line]

Well, you have to be very careful with this because of the fact that, generally speaking, Scintilla does not really utilise character positions; it deals with byte-positions instead and this can be complicated by the use of, for example, the utf-8 codepage.

The #SCI_GETCOLUMN message does, however, deal with character positions, though of what use this might be when you are probably using a variable width font is unclear?

The #SCI_GETCURLINE message can be used to get the current caret position within the currently selected line, but it will return it as a byte position which, if using UTF-8, for example, will not always equate to a character position. You will need to add some additional code to convert this to a character position.

The following may or may not give you what you are after :

thx a lot........

you could add these to Goscintilla Library sometime?

Probably not because it would be of limited use in my opinion and it is very easy to send the messages directly as you are doing. I try to avoid just wrapping single message calls where possible.