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Indent-Rainbow

A simple extension to make indentation more readable

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This extension colorizes the indentation in front of your text, alternating four different colors on each step. Some may find it helpful in writing code for Python, Nim, Yaml, and probably even filetypes that are not indentation dependent.

Note: This will also work with vscode-web (github.dev) since version 8.0.0.

Get it here: Visual Studio Code Marketplace

It uses the current editor window tab size and can handle mixed tab + spaces (not recommended). In addition, it visibly marks lines where the indentation is not a multiple of the tab size. The visualization can help to find problems with the indentation in some situations.

Configuration

Although you can use it as it is, there is the possibility to configure some aspects of the extension:

*Notice: Defining both includedLanguages and excludedLanguages does not make much sense. Use one of both!*

You can configure your own colors by adding and tampering with the following code:

Notice: errorColor was renamed from error_color in earlier versions.

Light mode (new since v8.3.0)

There is a (new) alternate mode that uses lines (with a customizable width) instead of the background coloring of the whitespace. Here is an example configuration I like:

For this addition, a big thank you goes to Christian Hoock wk1. He also added the editor window reload on config changes.

Hiding error highlighting

Skip error highlighting for RegEx patterns. For example, you may want to turn off the indent errors for JSDoc's valid additional space (disabled by default), or comment lines beginning with //

Skip error highlighting for some or all languages. For example, you may want to turn off the indent errors for markdown and haskell (which is the default)

If error color is disabled, indent colors will be rendered until the length of rendered characters (white spaces, tabs, and other ones) is divisible by tabsize. Turn on this option to render white spaces and tabs only.

Build with:

Running npm run compile makes the compiler recompile on file change.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.