Indent Guide?

[AndrejMitrovic]

Hi, I've just discovered this text editor. When I saw the words "The text editor you'll fall in love with", I rolled my eyes. But boy, I think I have a new crush!!

Anyways, is there an option to display the Indentation Guides? There's an option to display whitespace - drawWhiteSpace all -, that's pretty nice. But I'd only want the indentation whitespace to be shown, not necessarily _all_ of the whitespace (e.g. the 1-char wide whitespace between variables get's displayed in this mode as well)

Come to think of it, I might be able to do this in a python script. But maybe it's a hidden option somewhere. Here's hoping.

Cheers!

[Anomareh]

I asked about it earlier as well and there is indeed no option for it. If you do happen to write a plugin for it please share it! This is one of those little things I've missed swapping to Sublime as well.

[Xikeon]

Hey,

I've just finished this addon. It needs a few edits to work, but then it's fine for use. First of all edit the theme you use and add:

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      <dict>
         <key>name</key>
         <string>Whitespace</string>
         <key>scope</key>
         <string>whitespace</string>
         <key>settings</key>
         <dict>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#272822</string>
         </dict>
      </dict>

Change the hex color (#272822) to the one of the background (in settings, the main view background).

Now here's the addon:
http://pastebin.com/Gqjv4zVc

Here's Default.sublime-keymap:
http://pastebin.com/cNUakwkV

Name the folder and file HighlightWhitespace and it should work fine. I don't know how to make a sublime-package file, if anyone does please tell me how so I can make one. (:

If it doesn't highlight (after restart) try to press ctrl+shift+W and it should work.

Hope it helps.

Edit:
Managed to get the sublime-package. Here is the download: http://ckers.nl/sublime/HighlightWhites ... me-package
Just download the package and double click it and it will be installed. Remember: You still have to edit your theme with the code above!
Then restart Sublime and press ctrl+shift+w to activate.

[Anomareh]

Hrmm, can't get it to do anything for me.

I changed my theme as said to the background. I also tried just changing it to something obvious like white. Also nothing. I tried different settings with drawWhitespace, thought that might be an issue. Also had no effect.

[Xikeon]

Hmm, that's awkward. Are you getting errors in the console? (Ctrl+~). And in what position did you insert the theme code? I inserted it just below comment, and copied that <dict>. Maybe you could try that, not sure if it's different in other styles. Here's how mine looks:


Edit:
Just installed this at work and works fine. Are you using a different theme than default? (Monokai Bright)

[Anomareh]

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Unknown external include source.applescript included from source.shell

But I get that regardless if your plugin is installed or not.

Edited monokai bright exactly as said. Nothing happened.

Your image was removed, if you could reup it that'd be great.

[Xikeon]

Hmm, no idea why it got removed.. I've now uploaded it to my own server:

( http://ckers.nl/sublime/whitespace.png )

[Anomareh]

That is where I copied the style block.

Is the indent guide not active in that screenshot or am I misinterpreting what you mean by indent guide?

[Xikeon]

I don't use it myself, so it was turned off. What OS are you running and did you try to press ctrl+shift+W? I'm on Windows 7 at home and Windows XP Profesional at work and works on both here.

Maybe anyone else who can try it out to see if it works?

[AndrejMitrovic]

I got the following:



So it does work. But can I change the background of the displayed whitespace? Changing the <string> value doesn't seem to make any difference:

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        <dict>
         <key>name</key>
         <string>Whitespace</string>
         <key>scope</key>
         <string>Whitespace</string>
         <key>settings</key>
         <dict>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#000000</string>
         </dict>
      </dict>


Also, the script seems to highlight empty newlines. But great work so far, thanks!

Edit: Ah, a simple regex script. I've been sick the last few days so I haven't even touched Python unfortunately. Thanks for all your work.