What are those vertical lines in Notepad++ called? The ones that light up for matching brackets or tags, etc

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I'd like an actual term for them. Tab lines?

I can't find a reference to them on google because i don't know what to search for!

I wanna see if there's something like this for Gedit.

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score 89 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '12 at 01:43

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What you are probably looking for is called the "Indent Guide".

In Notepad++ 5.9.8 on Windows, it is found under View/Show Symbol/Show Indent Guide.

answered Jul 25 '12 at 01:43

eatcrayons

You saved my day, after some updating these got missing, and I got confused about them. THANK YOU – FibreFoX Feb 07 '17 at 14:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '10 at 09:00

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"Show vertical edge", found under Settings/Preferences/Editing

answered Oct 21 '10 at 09:00

sbi

This are not the tab lines the asker is talking about. [This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/11641560/8507) correctly points out that they're "Indent Guides". – phloopy Sep 24 '12 at 14:35
It seems the asker saw this summer different, since this answer got accepted. – sbi Sep 24 '12 at 15:01
Or maybe it was that the right answer wasn't available for almost two years. – phloopy Sep 24 '12 at 19:59
Indeed, "indent guides" is returning more than zero results in Google. Doesn't seem to be any such plugin yet though. I changed the best answer. – trusktr Sep 27 '12 at 07:18

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