Structural Highlighting in Vim

Question

I have seem some cool Structural Highlighting in Visual Studio (might be using CodeKana). Can I achieve same type of Structural Highlighting in vim ? For any language. I am a python developer I would love to have it for Python.

Answer 1

You can almost emulate this via listchars by using hard tabstops instead of spaces for indentation.

Something like this should suffice:

set noexpandtab
set list
set listchars=tab:\| 

Note that there is a space after the | character.

You can pick a better character to get a connected line, but this is just an example. Also note that this will not continue the lines with no indentation, so you may end up with something like:

if foo:
|   bar

|   baz

...unless you add a tab on the blank line.