Enable/disable this plugin per-buffer (or per-window, or per-filetype)

[denilsonsa]

I'd like to have this plugin automatically enabled for any of my source-code files. However, I don't want it enabled for files that are not indentation-based. Currently, it is impossible.

I've tried adding this to my ~/.vimrc:

au FileType python  IndentGuidesEnable

I open a Python file and this plugin is automatically enabled, as it should! Great! Then I type :help indent_guides, and the help file gets indent-highlighted. No, it's not good. So I've added this:

au FileType *  IndentGuidesDisable

And now opening a help file disables the highlighting, but after going back to the Python source, it gets disabled there as well. Damn, this state is global, while it should be local to each buffer!

Once this issue is fixed, issue #20 will be fixed as well.

[nathanaelkane]

Good suggestion, indent guides showing up in help files annoys me too :)

[johnantoni]

any news on this, would love to see it fixed

[jgallen23]

+1

[johnantoni]

till this get's fixed i've got it switched off by default

"indent guides
let g:indent_guides_enable_on_vim_startup=0 "enable on startup
set ts=2 sw=2 et
let g:indent_guides_start_level=2
let g:indent_guides_guide_size=1

then i can toggle it with leader+ig

[nathanaelkane]

Sorry guys, haven't had much time lately. I'll definitely get onto this as soon as time allows. In the meantime, I'll happily accept a pull request if someones willing.

[cespare]

+1, this is the main missing feature from indent-guides.

[nathanaelkane]

The new g:indent_guides_exclude_filetypes option solves this with an exclude list, which should be the most common use-case. In future I also plan to implement a similar solution for whitelisted filetypes.

[Nemoden]

@nathanaelkane Any progress on this? :)