Re: unobstrusive way to show indentation

[Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>]

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Oops.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8836336/sublime-text-2-like-block-highlighting-in-emacs

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How difficult would it be to implement some way to show indentation levels
> in an unobstrusive way?  Sublime text and other modern editors do this by
> drawing a thin vertical line down from (back-to-indentation).  I find it
> really helpful when reading code.  This stackoverflow question clarifies
> what I'm after, although I didn't ask it.  I find this really helpful when
> reading a piece of code with many block levels, especially since the
> standard indentation level for ruby is 2 spaces.
>
> I guess it can be faked by changing the face of that column, but that
> would be more obstrusive than a thin line.  Maybe there is another solution
> I haven't thought of?
>
> --
> Le
>



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Le

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