indentLine VS highlight-indent-guides

Before my emacs days, I used nvim with this package called indentLine. Basically it displays (maybe semi-transparent?) vertical lines for same indentation levels . It's visually helpful when I'm in python code.

If I understood your question and you don't mind adding a plugin, Yggdroot/indentLine might be what you're looking for.

I saw this on github: https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine but it's last bug fix was 2 years ago with 71 open issues.

(For example, in vim, I use https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine, but in nvim, I use https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim.)

If you use tabs for indentation check out :h 'list' and :h 'listchars'. If you use spaces there is the indentline plugin (or indent-blankline if you're using neovim).

If your file is saved as a particular language that supports indentation, it will automatically indent lines for you but it cannot be reliable. So, we need to IndentLine, and others as well.

Plug 'https://github.com/fatih/vim-go.git' Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar.git' Plug 'https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe' Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-eunuch' Plug 'https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim' Plug 'https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline' Plug 'https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' Plug 'sainnhe/sonokai' Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } } Plug 'https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine' Plug 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive' Plug 'yuki-yano/fzf-preview.vim', { 'branch': 'release/rpc' }

https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine works with Vim 8, I use it (occasionally).

This one looks close. Also at the end of the readme there's a table comparing it to other alternatives.

Here is the issue: https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides/issues/123

I meant to set it up but never wrote down what it was called and now I can't find it anymore. I'm not talking about this: https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides and results for this (and the 5+ other packages that do this same thing) is all I can find when googling different variations of "emacs syntax coloring by indentation level" etc.

While older than Highlight-Indentation-for-Emacs, you can see also https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides, the latter supports dynamic indent width detection (may not be important for JS, though).

I'm happy with https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides and Emacs 28 (with native comp) but my files are not huge, max 400 lines generally.

Also for seeing indentation more clearly you could try something like highlight-indent-guides.

highlight-indent-guides has a mode like the one in the screenshot, but by default it doesn't show up in org-mode. I haven't tried to see what it would take to enable it there.

Before LSP, it was always annoying getting things setup. You want to get serious with a new language, spend a day configuring Emacs first. Or, fix your 3 year old config. Now it all pretty much just works! With native-comp its even better. Plus I'm using lot of modern features that I never did earlier, eg. renaming, automatically remove imports, see the inferred type in minibuffer.

Flycheck still makes it a bit slow. I think, one big missing piece is lack of multiple threads, which often makes few things a bit laggy. For example, if I'm reading a big C++ source code with indentation guides[1], even with native-comp it can lag a bit.

[1] https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides

And there's also https://github.com/DarthFennec/highlight-indent-guides.