colored indent guides

[txtyash]

Indent guides should look smoother and highlighted depending on the currently focused paragraph.

[txtyash]

The default indent-guides look good enough. Can they be replaced with a little thicker line?

character = "▏"

This isn't too thick. It looks decent.

Other than that, just highlighting the indent-guide depending on the scope.

[the-mikedavis]

I prefer the default character; I think it looks better to be centered rather than left-aligned.

What were you thinking for highlighting? I remember a chat in the Matrix room about using rainbow colors like in #2857

[SoraTenshi]

What were you thinking for highlighting? I remember a chat in the Matrix room about using rainbow colors like in #2857

I believe something like i have in my neovim config:

[SoraTenshi]

Well since i actually also wanted that feature, i figured to quickly implement this.

[musjj]

Rainbow guides are great, but based on OP's wording I don't think that's what they were asking. I think OP is asking for an option to highlight the indent guide of the paragraph that the cursor is currently on.

An example screenshot:

[txtyash]

An example screenshot:

Yes, this is what I meant. Personally I think that rainbow indents look cool but these are simple, subtle and more practical.

[carlosvigil]

I see 5 options:
0. off

1. on (the current guides)
2. active/current highlight
3. rainbow
4. rainbow with current highlight

Active highlight seems the most practical as long as the dimmed characters are of sufficient contrast, so don't see the need for non-differentiated guides. It could be 3 options.

[palango]

I think those steps are required to highlight the current scope using the indent guides.

1. For each selection of a document, get the parent node via treesitter. Should be similar to
   

   helix/helix-core/src/object.rs

   Line 4 in cad0209

   pub fn expand_selection(syntax: &Syntax, text: RopeSlice, selection: Selection) -> Selection {

2. Pass the range information of the parent node to render_text.
3. Map the selection ranges to lines in the rendering code.
4. Pass those infos to draw_indent_guides and choose a different style there if inside the range and at the parents indention level.

I'd be happy to give this a try, but steps 2-4 are a bit unclear to me. Any hints are appreciated.