why reinvent the wheel?

ever tried SmartIndenter from Stephen Bullen?

you wont get the desired vert bars but you DO get
consistent indenting thoughout your project.

And you can "move on" :)

http://www.oaltd.co.uk/Indenter/IndentPage.asp


--
keepITcool
| www.XLsupport.com | keepITcool chello nl | amsterdam


Greg Wilson wrote :

I don't think there's a hope in hell but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I've added an option to an AutoIndent macro I wrote some time ago
that inserts vertical dashed lines at each indentation level in order
to assist analysis of code structure. The dashed lines are created by
inserting apostrophes on each line at each indentation level. If the
code structure is correct, then the parts of each block code
statement are aligned at the same indentation degree (as per the
AutoIndent macro) and are linked with the dashed lines. This should
(yet to be used in practice) be useful for analysis of code with a
lot of nesting that is also long.

The problem is that the apostrophes make the text in each line turn
green (since they are used to create comment block), and therefore,
the colouring for key words and statements is lost, hindering
analysis. It would be nice if there were a way to just freeze the IDE
so that it wouldn't change when I do this. I have another macro that
removes the dashed lines (apostrophes) which could then reenable the
IDE. Or possibly some other stragegy?

Confirmation that there's no realistic hope is also of value since I
can then move on.

Greg Wilson