[Question] Show indent line ontop of whitespace character

[myzb]

Problem

I hope this is the right way to ask questions.

I would kind of like to set up my nvim indentation similarly to how it is done in some IDE's, where the vertical "|" separator does not "consume" a character slot.

In the below pictures I have vscode set up on the left with 4-space indentation. On the right side nvim with indent-blankline, also 4-space indentation. For nvim I have set up my whitespace characters as follow:

vim.opt.listchars = { space = '·', tab = '→ ' }

What I wanted to ask if it is possible to set up indent-blankline to also show the 4 dot characters (instead of 3) if I have indented with 4-spaces. If this could also be made to work if I indent with a tab (so the tab shows) it would also be great. Basically the "|" would kind of have to use the same character slot on screen as the "." for the first space.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

Cheers and regards

Expected behavior

Indent blankline showing indent "|" + X space characters for X space indentation. Instead of X-1.

[lukas-reineke]

Terminals are cell based, it is not possible to render anything in between two cells like it is in GUI applications.