How to display alignment lines and spaces in kakoune?

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Hello, I’m new to kakoune and I have two questions:

  1. How to display alignment lines, such as a vertical line in units of 4 spaces?
  2. How to display spaces in the form of “.”?
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  1. Not sure what would be the best option for this. Can try using regex highlighter to color the nested spaces differently or if you want to draw say | character along the scope, use replace ranges and some custom script.

  2. Use show-whitespaces highlighter. For example, to render spaces as dots matching your default color:

add-highlighter global/ show-whitespaces -spc .
set-face global Whitespace Default
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In the latest version of Kakoune, the show-whitespaces highlighter also supports drawing a character every %opt{indentwidth} characters of whitespace at the beginning of the line. Amending cipharius’ example above:

add-highlighter global show-whitespaces -spc . -indent |