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How to customize the ascii-styles

The ECB-option ecb-tree-buffer-style offers two different styles completely drawn with ascii-controls and -guides.

Ascii-style with guide-lines (value ascii-guides)¹:

[-] ECB
 |  [+] code-save
 `- [-] ecb-images
     |  [-] directories
     |   |  [-] height-15
     |   |   |  * close.xpm
     |   |   |  * empty.xpm
     |   |   |  * leaf.xpm
     |   |   `- * open.xpm
     |   |  [+] height-17
     |   |  [+] height-19
     |   `- [+] height-21
     |  [x] history
     |  [x] methods
     `- [x] sources

Ascii-style without guide-lines (value ascii-no-guides) - this is the style used by ECB <= 1.96:

[-] ECB
    [+] code-save
    [-] ecb-images
        [-] directories
            [-] height-15
                * close.xpm
                * empty.xpm
                * leaf.xpm
                * open.xpm
            [+] height-17
            [+] height-19
            [+] height-21
        [x] history
        [x] methods
        [x] sources

The tree-layout of both ascii-styles can be affected with the options ecb-tree-indent and ecb-tree-expand-symbol-before (the examples above have set 4 for the former and true for the latter one). For the guide-style the face and color of the guide- and handle-symbols can be customized with the option ecb-tree-guide-line-face (default is the equal-named face).

Footnotes

1. For a better look&feel of such a tree-buffer ECB displays only the last subnode of an opened node with a handle!