How to get vertical guides along with showing whitespaces characters like tabs?

[SimonBrandner]

In VS Code I can see vertical guides along with tabs:

And in Neovim I set list and listchars to see tabs similarly but it seems to conflict with ident-blankline, so this is what I end up with:

Is there any way to work around this? Can I get things looking like in VS Code

[lukas-reineke]

list and listchars do not conflict with IBL. IBL uses the values you have defined in them, see :help ibl.config.indent.tab_char.

You cannot render more than one character in the same cell in the terminal. So you cannot have the indentation line, and a different character for the tab at the same time.

As a workaround, you could use a unicode character that combines a line and an arrow, like 󰞘.

[SimonBrandner]

I haven't thought of that and it's a good idea but it's not working much better...

The tab has a width of 4, wouldn't it somehow be possible to use 1 char for the vertical line and the rest for the tab character?

[lukas-reineke]

The tab has a width of 4, wouldn't it somehow be possible to use 1 char for the vertical line and the rest for the tab character?

You can do that, it's documented in :help listchars

[SimonBrandner]

So far this is the best I've managed to do. I've managed to do that by setting vim.cmd("set listchars=tab:\\▏\\ →\\,space:·") but that has the arrow character a little too much to the right... Do you have any suggestions?