rainbow VS vim-indent-guides

Compare rainbow vs vim-indent-guides and see what are their differences.

rainbow

Rainbow Parentheses Improved, shorter code, no level limit, smooth and fast, powerful configuration. (by luochen1990)

vim-indent-guides

A Vim plugin for visually displaying indent levels in code (by preservim)
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rainbow vim-indent-guides
9 5
1,740 2,608
- 0.5%
0.0 0.8
7 months ago 11 months ago
Vim Script Vim Script
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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rainbow

Posts with mentions or reviews of rainbow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-21.

vim-indent-guides

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-indent-guides. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rainbow and vim-indent-guides you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-ts-rainbow - Rainbow parentheses for neovim using tree-sitter. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow instead

vim-move - Plugin to move lines and selections up and down

rainbow_parentheses.vim - :rainbow: Simpler Rainbow Parentheses

dotfiles - Dotfiles for macOS

vim-rooter - Changes Vim working directory to project root.

splitjoin.vim - Switch between single-line and multiline forms of code

symbols-outline.nvim - A tree like view for symbols in Neovim using the Language Server Protocol. Supports all your favourite languages.

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

vista.vim - :cactus: Viewer & Finder for LSP symbols and tags

syntastic - Syntax checking hacks for vim