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Let me point out that the Emacs minimap is way cooler than that of SublimeText. Check out the semantic overlays.

I'm not sure what "Animated sub-line scrolling" is but "smooth scrolling" returned a lot of hits:

Yes, trying to do fancy things in Elisp can be a bit kludgy.

You can add indent guides to Emacs. Look for the first result in google.

> you can't just implement in Emacs' scripting language.

you can't implement minimap in CLI. It's a GUI concept.

Now now, let's not be hasty. Here's a text-mode app with thumbnails across the bottom of the screen:

Yeah but that looks like caca now, doesn't it?