Indentation/whitespace

[Lee Harr]

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?