Indent guides

[adolfojbarreto]

Hi, is there any chance we can get indent guides (the vertical lines that run down to matching indents). Could not find reference to them anywhere in VS code or the gallery. Thanks - Adolfo

[greybax]

Do you mean like it describes in this issue #1673 ?

[adolfojbarreto]

Hi greybax, No, but thanks for the response :) ...let me see if i can draw it out here:

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. . slkdfjkldsfaksdflkdasjf . .
. . alsdkfjieakegan;eikgie .

The guides are the dots that help align the tags above.

[adolfojbarreto]

ok that did not work...lol. Basically they are lines or dots that connect open and closing tags. they help you align the code.

[stkb]

I think you're wanting something like the Indent Guides extension for Visual Studio?

However, I find that if you turn on whitespace rendering by setting the "editor.renderWhitespace" setting to true, you get something that works almost just as well:

It shows arrows for tabs and small dots for spaces

[adolfojbarreto]

Hi yes...that's it. Thank You!

[sylvainlap]

+1

I really think that indent guide (vertical lines) would be useful.

[ianwesterfield]

👍

@stkb has it with his reference to the Visual Studio extension. Would love to see a similar extension for vscode.

Aside from the actual indent guide lines, a separate color for the lines in the currently active indent level (cursor line) really pluses the experience up.

I'm looking into the extension @JoeRobich is working on: vscode-indent-guides

[bgashler1]

This will also address #3803, where users have had trouble seeing where the left edge of the code editor is and where subsequent tabs are (especially with smaller tab sizes).