How to display indentation guides in Emacs?

Question

I'm trying to switch to Emacs as my primary source-code editor. I really miss one thing (common in even much simpler editors) - indentation guides (unobtrusive vertical lines which show the indentation level). Is Emacs able to display them?

Answer 1

Hi,

to my knowledge nobody has implemented indentation guides for Emacs so far. The closest thing you can get are visualization of TABs with the whitespace package, see Show tabs with a different character (Emacs).

Answer 2

Suppose you could bend ColumnMarker to your needs but it will highlight a column not givin you a single pixel.

I indent with 8 spaces so i have never thought about it ;P