Indent guides like in Sublime

[bzbug]

New feature: indent guides (orange for parent, red for ancestor)

[ninewise]

This may not be what you asked for, but you can get something similar by using visible tab characters (:set show-tabs on):

[erf]

It's limited how much graphics you can do in the terminal, only text front and back. Sublime does all rendering in opengl so it can do alot more. If vis starts supporting a new type of client / server architecture, you could perhaps make your own frontend in opengl etc and do more fancy graphics.

[bzbug]

Then, maybe, it would be possible to colorize background of tabs or spaces differently? Like that:

• Hightlight selected tabs in orange (selection is for clear demonstration only) when the cursor (yellow) is directly inside of the block:
• Hightlight selected tabs in red when the cursor is inside a descendant block:

And with spaces maybe it could be one space instead of the value in tabwidth:

orange	red

[erf]

Maybe you can use: https://github.com/erf/vis-highlight