Hide indent guides in visual mode

[Unoqwy]

Hey! I've just switched from indent-guides.nvim to this plugin and one of the first thing I notice is the indent guides are displayed even in visual mode. Is there any way to hide them (lua branch)?

[lukas-reineke]

No it's not possible.

Neovim has virt_text_hide which should allow this, but it's currently not working https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/14050#issuecomment-801536916

[Unoqwy]

Hm, virt_text_hide=true works in the neovim test suite, but only because col is always greater than 0. The reason why it doesn't work here is because col is 0 (if set to 1 it does, but of course everything is shifted and empty lines don't render virttext). Now why is this happening? No clue. I couldn't find any mention of column 0 affecting virttext options in the neovim issues so either they don't know it or I have failed at searching.

[lukas-reineke]

You're right, it's only broken for col 0 You should comment that in the issue above, or make a new one

[Unoqwy]

Yeah, I created a new issue because it 's not really related to scrolling. See https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/14929. Also, I noticed you @mentioned bfredl in your issue after creating it, should we do the same here?

[lukas-reineke]

bfredl wrote all of this virtual text code. He knows best how to fix it. Up to you if you want to tag him, he'll probably see it anyway.

[FelipeLema]

hey, everyone... I'm seeing this problem with block-visual (:help CTRL-V) with v3 and current options:

{
    indent = {
      char = '┆',
      highlight = {"…"}
    },
    scope = {show_start = false}
}

[FelipeLema]

ended up using the following snippet to turn on/off indent-blanklines when exiting/entering visual mode

local saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline",
  {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged",
  {
    group = saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline,
    pattern = "[vV\x16]*:*", -- visual → cualquier cosa
    command = "IBLEnable",
    desc = "Habilita indent-blanklines al salir de modo visual"
  })
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged",
  {
    group = saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline,
    pattern = "*:[vV\x16]*", -- cualquier cosa → visual
    command = "IBLDisable",
    desc = "Deshabilita indent-blanklines al salir de modo visual"
  })

[akoerner1]

This is a related question. How can I configure the plugin to never hide indent guides?

[ArjunSahlot]

ended up using the following snippet to turn on/off indent-blanklines when exiting/entering visual mode

local saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline",
  {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged",
  {
    group = saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline,
    pattern = "[vV\x16]*:*", -- visual → cualquier cosa
    command = "IBLEnable",
    desc = "Habilita indent-blanklines al salir de modo visual"
  })
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged",
  {
    group = saca_de_enmedio_a_indent_blankline,
    pattern = "*:[vV\x16]*", -- cualquier cosa → visual
    command = "IBLDisable",
    desc = "Deshabilita indent-blanklines al salir de modo visual"
  })

This is perfect!

Here's an English version I made for myself 😅:

local indent_blankline_augroup = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("indent_blankline_augroup", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged", {
    group = indent_blankline_augroup,
    pattern = "[vV\x16]*:*",
    command = "IBLEnable",
    desc = "Enable indent-blankline when exiting visual mode"
})

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("ModeChanged", {
    group = indent_blankline_augroup,
    pattern = "*:[vV\x16]*",
    command = "IBLDisable",
    desc = "Disable indent-blankline when exiting visual mode"
})