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Indent Guides : A plugin for visually displaying indent levels in Vim.

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created by
Nate Kane
 
script type
syntax
 
description
Indent Guides is a plugin for visually displaying indent levels in Vim.

FEATURES:
- Can detect both tab and space indent styles.
- Automatically inspects your colorscheme and picks appropriate colors (gVim only).
- Will highlight indent levels with alternating colors.
- Full support for gVim and basic support for Terminal Vim.
- Seems to work on Windows gVim 7.3 (haven't done any extensive tests though).
- Customizable size for indent guides, eg. skinny guides (soft-tabs only).
- Customizable start indent level.
- NEW: Highlight support for files with a mixture of tab and space indent styles.

USAGE:
The default mapping to toggle the plugin is `<Leader>ig`

GVIM:
This plugin should work with gVim out of the box, no configuration needed. It will automatically inspect your colorscheme and pick appropriate colors.

SETTING CUSTOM INDENT COLORS:
Here's an example of how to define custom colors instead of using the ones the plugin automatically generates for you. Add this to your `.vimrc` file:
>
  let g:indent_guides_auto_colors = 0
  autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesOdd  guibg=red   ctermbg=3
  autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesEven guibg=green ctermbg=4
<

Alternatively you can add the following lines to your colorscheme file.
>
  hi IndentGuidesOdd  guibg=red   ctermbg=3
  hi IndentGuidesEven guibg=green ctermbg=4
<

TERMINAL VIM:
At the moment Terminal Vim only has basic support. This means is that colors won't be automatically calculated based on your colorscheme. Instead, some preset colors are used depending on whether `background` is set to `dark` or `light`.

When `set background=dark` is used, the following highlight colors will be defined:
>
  hi IndentGuidesEven ctermbg=darkgrey
  hi IndentGuidesOdd  ctermbg=black
<

Alternatively, when `set background=light` is used, the following highlight colors will be defined:
>
  hi IndentGuidesEven ctermbg=lightgrey
  hi IndentGuidesOdd  ctermbg=white
<

If for some reason it's incorrectly defining light highlight colors instead of dark ones or vice versa, the first thing you should check is that the `background` value is being set correctly for your colorscheme. Sometimes it's best to manually set the `background` value in your `.vimrc`, for example:
>
  colorscheme desert256
  set background=dark
<

Alternatively you can manually setup the highlight colors yourself, see `:help indent_guides_auto_colors` for an example.

GITHUB:
https://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides

SCREENSHOTS:
http://nathanaelkane.imgur.com/indent_guides
 
install details
To install the plugin just copy `autoload`, `plugin`, `doc` directories into your `.vim` directory.

Alternatively if you have Pathogen installed, just clone this repo into a subdirectory of your `.vim/bundle` directory like so:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides.git
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
indent-guides-1.7.tar.gz 1.7 2013-03-07 7.0 Nate Kane - Added way to override the default mapping (thanks xuhdev).
- Added option g:indent_guides_exclude_filetypes to specify a list of filetypes to disable the plugin for.
- Disable the plugin when in a diff.
- Various bug fixes.
indent-guides-1.6.tar.gz 1.6 2012-01-01 7.0 Nate Kane - Added option `g:indent_guides_space_guides` to control whether spaces are considered as indention (thanks scoz).
- Fixed E803 ID not found spam (thanks mutewinter).
- Fixed str2float issue with Vim 7.1 (thanks acx0).
indent-guides-1.5.tar.gz 1.5 2011-03-13 7.0 Nate Kane - Added highlight support for files with a mixture of tab and space indent styles (thanks graywh).
- Added -bar to all the :commands so they can chain with other :commands (thanks to graywh).
- No longer overriding pre-defined custom highlight colors (thanks graywh).
- Using str2float to work around a float bug in some versions of Vim 7.2 (thanks voidus).
indent-guides-1.4.tar.gz 1.4 2011-02-06 7.0 Nate Kane - Added the new plugin option `g:indent_guides_enable_on_vim_startup`.
- Improved Windows support.
indent-guides-1.3.tar.gz 1.3 2011-01-17 7.0 Nate Kane - Changed the default value of g:indent_guides_color_change_percent to 10.
- Added support for gVim themes that don't specify a `hi Normal guibg` color.
indent-guides-1.2.tar.gz 1.2 2011-01-10 7.0 Nate Kane - Customizable size for indent guides, eg. skinny guides (soft-tabs only).
- Customizable start indent level.
- Refactored some internal logic.
indent-guides-1.1.tar.gz 1.1 2010-12-29 7.0 Nate Kane - Added basic support for terminal vim. See `:help indent-guides-terminal-vim` for more information.
- Cut down on rgb to hex color conversions by adding a big dictionary of color names and hex codes.
- Various bug fixes.
indent-guides-1.0.tar.gz 1.0 2010-12-12 7.2 Nate Kane Initial upload
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