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There is a plugin in vim which shows you "dots" (or lines, etc.) where the indentation level is.

Example:

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Is there something similar for IntellIJ IDEA?

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Go to Settings/Editor/General/Appearance and select Show vertical indent guides to enable this feature in IntelliJ.

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    Enabling the guides also makes it popup a tooltip on the top if the cursor is on a column where the starting block is above the top displayed code line. That popup slows down the editor a lot. I set the keyboard repeat rate to pretty fast (60 cps), because that way I can scroll up and down quickly without having to resort to using the mouse. But if the caret is at a column where it wants to display those popups, moving the caret up and own becomes very chunky. Is there a way to keep the guides on, but to make it not popup those tooltips along the top? – Mike Oct 02 '15 at 18:05
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    Now, it is shown as "Show indent guides" in PyCharm Professional 2018.2 – Astitva Srivastava Oct 17 '18 at 09:31
  • Now it's "Show whitespaces", in the same location (for IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2.1) – haltabush Oct 11 '21 at 17:53
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I believe you were looking for General > Appearance > Show Whitespaces. I had to follow that with adjusting the "Whitespaces" color because of using a dark theme. Seeking these dots you are

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