Indent guides will show you spaces and tabs nicely with different colors of bars, so that you can easily work with when you writing code like python which is indent specific.
To can add this feature
to your vim editor by installing a small plugin. Here is the procedure installing it. download the package to /tmp form github repository as below
this will around 4 directories,
we need only 3 directories, autoload, doc, plugin, and autoload. Copy these 3 directories to “.vim” dir under you home folder. If you don’t have a .vim dir under home dir, just create it one. Let’s assure we don’t have .vim, to make sure we do it from scratch
Now i’m copying 3 dirs.
we have installed the plugin, now add few commands to .vimrc file so to vim load commands to use this plugin automatically every time you use vim.
Your .vimrc might have few commands by default, make sure you don’t disturb them, carefully add these 4 lines to it and save.
Open any script which has indents, i mean if loops and for loops etc.. and you would see the coloured indent guides.
Depending on the colorscheme , you can change indent guide colors. Above setting “ctermbg=7” and “ctermbg=6” shows “grey” and “light skyblue” kind of color.
Try changing these number to 1, 2,3 etc ... to pick your selected color, other wise leave those settings as they are.
to your vim editor by installing a small plugin. Here is the procedure installing it. download the package to /tmp form github repository as below
ubuntu@ubuntu:~> git clone https://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides.git /tmp/vim-indent-guides.git
this will around 4 directories,
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/.vim> ls -l vim-indent-guides/ total 20 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ionos ionos 3252 Jun 6 15:38 README.markdown drwxrwxr-x 2 ionos ionos 4096 Jun 6 15:54 autoload drwxrwxr-x 2 ionos ionos 4096 Jun 6 15:54 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 ionos ionos 4096 Jun 6 15:54 plugin drwxrwxr-x 2 ionos ionos 4096 Jun 6 15:38 test-files ubuntu@ubuntu:~/.vim>
we need only 3 directories, autoload, doc, plugin, and autoload. Copy these 3 directories to “.vim” dir under you home folder. If you don’t have a .vim dir under home dir, just create it one. Let’s assure we don’t have .vim, to make sure we do it from scratch
ubuntu@ubuntu:~> mkdir /home/ubuntu/.vim
Now i’m copying 3 dirs.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~>cd /tmp/vim-indent-guides.git ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp/vim-indent-guides.git> cp -rvf auto load doc plugin /home/ubuntu/.vim
we have installed the plugin, now add few commands to .vimrc file so to vim load commands to use this plugin automatically every time you use vim.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~> vim /home/ubuntu/.vimrc let g:indent_guides_auto_colors = 0 autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesOdd guibg=red ctermbg=7 autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesEven guibg=green ctermbg=6 autocmd VimEnter * :IndentGuidesEnable
Your .vimrc might have few commands by default, make sure you don’t disturb them, carefully add these 4 lines to it and save.
Open any script which has indents, i mean if loops and for loops etc.. and you would see the coloured indent guides.
Depending on the colorscheme , you can change indent guide colors. Above setting “ctermbg=7” and “ctermbg=6” shows “grey” and “light skyblue” kind of color.
Try changing these number to 1, 2,3 etc ... to pick your selected color, other wise leave those settings as they are.
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My VIM Configuration for Python Development - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o9yiHO7gHM
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