Indent Guides for Brackets
An extension for Brackets to show indent guides in the code editor.
How to Install
- Select Brackets > File > Extension Manager...
- Search for this extension.
- Click on the Install button.
How to Use Extension
Toggle the extension with View > Indent Guides.
Screenshots:
Life without Indent Guides:
Life with Indent Guides:
Works great in the dark as well:
Preferences let you control the style and color:
Extension Preferences
brackets-indent-guides.enabled (boolean)
Determines whether the indent guides will be shown or hidden.
brackets-indent-guides.hideFirst (boolean)
Determines whether the first Indent Guide will be hidden or shown.
brackets-indent-guides.guideColor (string)
The color of the indent guides. Can be any valid CSS Color value.
brackets-indent-guides.guideStyle (string)
This value determines the style of the guide: "solid" or "dotted".
For more information on setting preferences see How to Use Brackets - Preferences
Custom Key Bindings
If you would like to add a customized keyboard shortcut to toggle indent guides,
set your shortcut key to the following command id: lkcampbell.toggleIndentGuides.
For example, if you want the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-I to toggle the indent guides,
type the following entry into the overrides section of your keyboardmap.json
file:
"Ctrl-Shift-I": "lkcampbell.toggleIndentGuides"
For more information on setting Custom Key Bindings see User Key Bindings.
Code Challenges
Code challenges are closed issues and enhancement requests that I have attempted to resolve without success. Maybe you have an idea that will help?
Just look for the code challenge label in the closed issues list. Post a comment
on the issue and we can discuss your solution ideas. Here is a list of the current
code challenges for this extension:
- Empty lines do not display indent guides
- Show only one indent guide in hanging indent
- Indent guides make scrolling less performant
- Only show indent guides when text is present on line
License
MIT-licensed -- see main.js for details.