# Indentation lines/indication (modifying editor stuff)
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506
**Category:** Processing
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506 "2019-05-22T20:37:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@F53](https://discourse.processing.org/u/F53)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506/1 "2019-05-22T20:37:21Z")
I learned to program in an IDE with lines/bars indicating indentation depth similar to what visual studio does
Is there any way I can get these lines?
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### Author:  [@InferNova](https://discourse.processing.org/u/InferNova)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506/2 "2019-05-22T22:48:20Z")
Hey there!
Rather than having to transport these “lines” into processing you could always just import the processing core intro the editor/IDE your using.
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506/3 "2019-05-22T22:53:02Z")
In the Processing IDE itself You can have automatically indents by **ctrl-t**
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/indentation-lines-indication-modifying-editor-stuff/11506/4 "2019-05-25T14:04:26Z")
You could also open a feature request for those dotted lines in the Processing IDE: [https://github.com/processing/processing/issues](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues)
However, it may not be likely. PDE has syntax highlighting, auto-format, autocomplete with hints, and reference lookup – but there are thousands of common IDE features that it doesn’t have and may never have – for example, code folding has been a commonly repeated request over the years. For people wanting those aspects of full IDE experience, your best bet may be importing processing into a Java project in Eclipse, Visual Studio, Atom, or Sublime et cetera.