Well, this is not quite the same, but you can get indent-level highlighting in vim via these sorts of plugins: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=

Well, this is not quite the same, but you can get indent-level highlighting in vim via these sorts of plugins: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3361 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3361 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1800 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1800 Some screenshots: http://nathanaelkane.imgur.com/indent_guides http://nathanaelkane.imgur.com/indent_guides http://viming.blogspot.com/2007/02/indent-level-highlighting.html http://viming.blogspot.com/2007/02/indent-level-highlighting... Of course, you can also get rainbow parenthesis in vim via: :let g:lisp_rainbow = 1 There should also be some way to get background highlights based on sexpr's instead of just indent level, but I haven't personally seen it. Edit: actually, come to think of it, I seem to recall hearing that the slimv[1] plugin can do this. But I haven't really played with it myself. [1] - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531