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airblade / vim-gitgutter

A Vim plugin which shows git diff markers in the sign column and stages/previews/undoes hunks and partial hunks.
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Can we have gitgutter signs in a separate column? #863

Closed saveshodhan closed 1 year ago

saveshodhan commented 1 year ago

Hello,

Is it possible to have gitgutter signs on a separate and dedicated column? This is so that we can in parallel have syntastic signs as well. I know gitgutter does not overwrite other signs by default, but is it possible to have both?

Thanks

airblade commented 1 year ago

You can do this in Neovim but not Vim (it's not something gitgutter itself can do anything about). Here's :help signcolumn in Neovim:

'signcolumn' 'scl'  string  (default "auto")
            local to window
    When and how to draw the signcolumn. Valid values are:
       "auto"       only when there is a sign to display
       "auto:[1-9]" resize to accommodate multiple signs up to the
                    given number (maximum 9), e.g. "auto:4"
       "auto:[1-8]-[2-9]"
                    resize to accommodate multiple signs up to the
            given maximum number (maximum 9) while keeping
            at least the given minimum (maximum 8) fixed
            space. The minimum number should always be less
            than the maximum number, e.g. "auto:2-5"
       "no"         never
       "yes"        always
       "yes:[1-9]"  always, with fixed space for signs up to the given
                    number (maximum 9), e.g. "yes:3"
       "number" display signs in the 'number' column. If the number
            column is not present, then behaves like "auto".