Show Indent Guide Lines In Xcode

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Coming from a background using Visual Studio and Notepad++ I'm used to the indent guides which help to visually enhance sections of code where the curly braces are used,

Xcode (No indent guides)

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Visual Studio (Nice tidy indent guides)

vs2010

As you can see from the images above sometimes there are sections of code where multiple levels of curly braces are open and it gets messy without any indent guides. Are there any options or plugins that will allow xcode to display the indent guides in between sections of code? Like the VS2010 sample?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '19 at 20:44

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In Xcode 10, if you press Command and hover over the structure it will show what is desired. It is not permanent but it helps.

answered Feb 10 '19 at 20:44

Juan Mireles II

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 06 '12 at 21:58

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Xcode doesn't have this feature (not that I'm aware of) , but it has a (kinda) similar one. If you look closely in a method with a few loops or if structures, each structure gets a black tint on the left side of the editing area (right next to the line numbers).

You can collapse or expand the functions as needed. enter image description here

answered Feb 06 '12 at 21:58

Dani Pralea

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Thank you. This will have to make do. – HGomez Feb 10 '12 at 15:22

Matthew Rodríguez · Answer 3 · 2020-05-09T19:12:19.057

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I've been searching the same but the most similar solution on Xcode 11 is shows invisibles

edited May 09 '20 at 19:12

answered May 09 '20 at 19:07

Matthew Rodríguez

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For me the Invisibles are not helping at all.Not even similar to Indentation guides. – Marina Apr 08 '22 at 21:04

Show Indent Guide Lines In Xcode

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