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Better guide options for less visual clutter

#1

With indent_guide_options set to draw both normal and active guides, Sublime Text will show a cascade of active guides from the outermost to innermost indentation level. This looks very cluttered and makes it not very useful for seeing the current indentation level.

My idea is to add two more options:

  1. to only draw the innermost active guide (without the cascade)
  2. to integrate the active guide into the gutter

Here is a rough sketch of what I have in mind:

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#2

By customizing your color scheme, you can accomplish “new option 1” right now. See http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/color_schemes.html#global_settings and search for stackGuide. This allows control of the guide colors for all of the parent scopes. You can reset them back to grey, and keep activeGuide as highlighted.

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