[TxMt] feature request: show whitespace and indentation guides

Xavier Noria fxn at hashref.com
Mon Nov 7 16:44:42 UTC 2005


On Nov 7, 2005, at 17:40, Dudley Flanders wrote:

>
> On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Jonas Witt wrote:
>
>> On 07.11.2005, at 16:29, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
>>> one feature i miss from other text editors are white space  
>>> indicators and indentation guides. please see attached  
>>> screenshot. note the subtle dots which indicate spaces and the  
>>> vertical dotted lines which are usually called indentation  
>>> guides. i'd love if textmate had options to display these things.
>>
>> Spaces could probably be added to the 'Show Invisibles' feature  
>> easily, although an option to control which invisibles are meant  
>> would be nice. Maybe not all people like to see spaces.
>>
>> But these vertical lines seem to be very useful. I want them too!
>
> I'm not a big fan of indentation guides, but I'd like to have a  
> page boundary guide, e.g. a vertical line at 80 columns (or 132, or  
> 17, or whatever).

Is not what's available under View -> Wrap Column? If soft wrap is  
disabled it acts as a guide AFAICT.

-- fxn

PS: By the way, I love the way you set the width.



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