Empty lines are not highlighted

[smukkekim]

Empty lines are not highlighted, so there are "holes" in the highlighted line...
If this is intentional, would it be possible to provide an extra setting to toggle this behavior?

[SirTori]

Hi,
thanks for your feedback.
Sadly this is due to limitations in the extension api provided.
Whereas the buildin indent guides are rendered even on empty lines, as far as I know such is currently not possible with extensions.

This extension and any other I have seen with similiar functionality have to render the lines as a borders on the characters (whitespaces) within the line. Making it impossible to render it on empty lines (or lines that don't have enough whitespaces to reach the indent depth).

I will however keep an eye open for changes and additions to the extension api making this possible.

[dhruvdutt]

Why don't we open an issue on VSCode repo to support this in their API?

I personally find it a bit irritating. Sorry but I've kept the extension disabled for this particular reason.

Awesome work, anyway. @SirTori 🎉

[kanlukasz]

Hi, I see that the last post is from March 2018, so I would like to ask if anything has changed?

[DanTup]

I know this issue is quite old, but FWIW I have a need for similar APIs and opened an issue in VS Code here:

microsoft/vscode#73780

It has 300 👍 's, but there doesn't seem to have been any activity on it. Additional 👍 's to show that there's demand that might make it worth adding new APIs might help :-)