diff --git a/plugins/supported/text_editor/views/text.js b/plugins/supported/text_editor/views/text.js
--- a/plugins/supported/text_editor/views/text.js
+++ b/plugins/supported/text_editor/views/text.js
@@ -175,21 +175,26 @@ exports.TextView = CanvasView.extend(Mul
 				if (hasVariableWidthChars && layoutManager.hasVariableWidthChars(snippet)) {console.log( "full", ">>>>" + snippet + "<<<<" );
 					var x = characterRect.x;
 					var snippetStartCol = 0;console.log( vwCharacters );
 					for (var i = iStart; i <= vwCharacters.length; i++) {//console.log( i, vwCharacters[i].index, colorRangeEnd, x );
 						var vwIndex = (undefined !== vwCharacters[i]) ? vwCharacters[i].index + 1 : snippet.length;//console.log( snippet.length, vwIndex );
 						var vwWidth = (undefined !== vwCharacters[i]) ? vwCharacters[i].width : 0;

 						var shortSnippet = snippet.substring(snippetStartCol, vwIndex);console.log( "short", ">>>>" + shortSnippet + "<<<<" );
-						context.fillText(shortSnippet, x,
+
+						characterRect = layoutManager.characterRectForPosition({
+                            row:    row,
+                            column: column + snippetStartCol
+                        });
+
+						context.fillText(shortSnippet, characterRect.x,
 							characterRect.y + lineAscent);
-
-						x = layoutManager.get('margin').left + (shortSnippet.length + vwWidth) * layoutManager.characterWidth;
-						snippetStartCol = shortSnippet.length + 1;
+
+						snippetStartCol += shortSnippet.length;

 						if ((undefined !== vwCharacters[i + 1]) && (vwCharacters[i + 1].index > colorRangeEnd)) {
 							iStart = i;
 							break;
 						}
 					}
 				} else
                 /*if (layoutManager.hasVariableWidthChar(snippet)) {