Bug 231321 - [misc] Indentation lines for text editors
Summary: [misc] Indentation lines for text editors
Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 4 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2008-05-09 11:16 EDT by Nicholas Doyle CLA
Modified: 2017-11-22 10:19 EST (History)
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Description Nicholas Doyle CLA 2008-05-09 11:16:56 EDT 
Created attachment 99477 [details]
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One of the features that I have seen in other text editors that I have not seen in the Eclipse text editor is the ability to show indentation lines. All it is is a light line for each level of indentation of a line. It helps a lot for matching the beginning and ending of large blocks of code. Right now there is a 'Show whitespace characters' option that puts a '>>' for each tab but I find the result to be much too cluttered and I really don't want to see the rest of my whitespace.

I have attached an example screenshot of this functionality in 'KWrite".
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2008-05-13 03:04:57 EDT 
See also bug 84878.
Comment 2 Michal Niewrzal CLA 2015-12-03 06:58:25 EST 
There is external plugin for such functionality (https://github.com/sschaef/IndentGuide), but I believe such functionality should be available on platform level (like displaying whitespace characters).