RE: unobstrusive way to show indentation

[Tim Connors]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Drew Adams wrote:

> > 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.
...
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8836336/sublime-text-2-like-block-highlightin
> g-in-emacs
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> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightCurrentColumn
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VlineMode
...

Thanks.  Found vline a bit slow though - slowed down cursor movement a lot
despite adjusting timer values (which seemed to be ignored - but maybe I
was meant to touch them before initialising the library).  But
col-highlight is neat enough.

Looks like sublime does it quite nicely.  I wonder if someone with more
elisp-fu than myself wants to go ahead and try to reproduce it :)

-- 
Tim Connors