Brackets indent guide appears with dashed lines instead of straight

[frankny]

Any ideas how to fix this? Image attached displaying behavior. Thanks

[lkcampbell]

@frankny, I know @tweakimp has been looking at ways to dynamically size the guide segments for issue #34 but I haven't investigated his solution yet. Maybe he can tell us if it is applicable to this problem as well.

The only workaround I know of right now is to use different fonts or themes. The gaps are being caused by the extra space between the lines, probably a style of the theme.

[tweakimp]

Please tell us the theme and the settings fonts.fontSize and fonts.fontFamily you are using.
Maybe a theme could widen the space between lines while the font stays the same so that these gaps are created.

[frankny]

@lkcampbell @tweakimp Yes, depending on what themes I use the problem does go away. I'm using 'smart theme dark' and my font is 'Andale Mono'. I'm kind of a stickler for editor appearance and spent a decent amount of time getting it to look how I want, so changing the appearance so that the extension works wouldn't be an option for me. Either way, I appreciate the help!

[tweakimp]

In smart theme dark settings file theme.less you can set .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror-scroll { line-height: 15px; } which will fix the problem but obviously make each line height smaller.

[frankny]

@tweakimp thanks ill try it out.

[lkcampbell]

@tweakimp, thanks for your input.

@frankny, the Indent Guides extension is built on CodeMirror Overlay API. Unfortunately, I am limited by that API. It has constantly introduced problems with the overlap or spread of the indent guide segments, something I have struggled with for years.

Your request is reasonable, but it is beyond my ability to solve, so I am am going to close this bug as a Code Challenge. Maybe someday I will convince the creator of CodeMirror to create Native Indent Guides, but until that happens, this is the hack job you get from me :).

[frankny]

@lkcampbell no worries, thanks anyways.

[lkcampbell]

I have a couple of ideas on how to solve this problem, so I am reopening the issue to investigate.

[netoper]

problem solved ;)
no matter on the font size or line height.. i use line-height: 1.5px; on screenshot.

thank you, you made my day :)

[Michael-Luxus]

waw, thank you!

[lkcampbell]

@netoper I know I used that border solution some time in the past and ran into problems. Unfortunately, it was so long ago that I can't remember what the problems were. At any rate, I will be glad to take a look at it again and see if it will solve the problem now.