Indentation/whitespace

[André]

Lee Harr wrote:
> On 2005-12-23, Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com> wrote:
> > You've got the visible/invisible aspect of things
> > *exactly* backwards.
> > The point on a line of text where things change
> > from white space to
> > non-white space is *highly* visible. The several
> > pixels that represent a
> > { or } are nearly invisible within a line of text.
> > (So one usually
> > compensates by putting them alone on a line,
> > making them somewhat more
> > visible.)
> >
>
>
> Along these lines, I was wondering recently if it would be
> nice to have the editor put in some subtle gradation in the
> background color or maybe some faint gridlines at each
> indentation stop.
>
> Has anyone ever experimented with that?

Check spe  (Stani's Python Editor).  It does allow one to put
gridlines.

André