John Morton

It's probably not the newline then. The other indices returned from pylint seem to be accurate, but certain syntax errors in pylint (pylint 2.x at least) consistently give an index...

But overall, I don't think I see the utility in ignoring the column variable if it isn't a number or the value is less than zero but throwing an error...

One issue is for at least some E0001 syntax errors (and maybe others?), pylint is returning a column index of line length + 1, and based on its own [self...

It looks like someone has already submitted a [pull request](https://github.com/AtomLinter/linter-pylint/pull/302) for the E0001 issue, but it hasn't been merged yet. Considering the last merge was 2 years ago, I don't...