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Bug 203545

Summary:	Add dotted line to show code tree depth in editor
Product:	editor	Reporter:	fernandojmartin
Component:	Formatting & Indentation	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bhaktimehta, geertjan, kalali, markiewb, pjiricka, rdelaplante
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	PLAN, USABILITY
Version:	-S1S-
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Screenshot of how IntelliJ IDEA 11 does it

Description fernandojmartin 2011-10-11 18:08:01 UTC

I'd love to have a dotted/dashed vertical line like in, for instance, Notepadd++ (http://17of26.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/notepad++.png) showing the tree depth of the code.

In the image (I Googled for it) there's HTML but the same happens with PHP and other languages.
Even brace highlighting is a great visual aid, havind the tree depth is fantastic to instantly recognize the depth or find the matching brace (sometimes wrongly indented accidentally).

Comment 1 Jiri Prox 2012-01-20 06:16:44 UTC

*** Bug 207528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 rdelaplante 2012-01-22 20:56:46 UTC

Created attachment 115150 [details]
Screenshot of how IntelliJ IDEA 11 does it

Comment 3 orobardet 2012-07-24 15:12:26 UTC

I second this.
I'm starting to use NetBeans in replacement of Komodo Edit, and I this is one of the feature I need (with block code folding in PHP, for which a ticket is already opened).

It's very usefull in languages with a lot of multi-line alignement is needed, like PHP and especially JS (where a lot of recursive declaration of code is often needed).

Thanks in advance to people who will be able to code and plan this enhancement.

Comment 4 markiewb 2012-09-22 23:25:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182513 ***