In terms of emacs ecosystem a year without commits means not too much.
Emacs git gutter.
Git gutter elprovides global minor mode global git gutter mode and minor mode git gutter mode.
But char width does not work for some full width characters.
You can use git gutter fringe even if you disable vc mode.
You could really care about state of a emacs package if you see 2014 year or even older.
Git gutter fringe does not use vc.
Emacs has char width function which returns character width.
Diff hl is based on emacs vc.
Emacs comes with a front end for git supporting a large subset of git s functionality.
Just try it because git gutter works fine in the recent stable emacs.
It supports git and many other version control system vcs.
In contrast git gutter fringe eldoes not work in tty frame emacs nw but git gutter elcan work in tty frame.
But char width does not work for some full width characters.
Add the following to your emacs file global git gutter mode t if you want to disable git gutter for some modes set the variable git gutter disabled modes.
Using emacs 42 git gutter and timemachine mike zamansky.
While diff hl benefits from vc.
Emacs has char width function which returns character width.
Git gutter el uses it for calculating character length of the signs.
Git gutter eldoes not work with linum modebut git gutter fringe elcan work with linum mode.
This is a good choice if you use other vcs besides git or have no desire to use features unique to git.
So you should explicitly specify window width if you use full width character.
For example if vc supports new vcs which is greater than git diff hl works with such vcs with no code modification.
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If you want to use git gutterfor files in git repository.
Run m x package install git gutter.
It contains patches that haven t yet been added to git gutter changelog.
You add following s exp in your configuration file emacs d init elor emacs.
Add melpa as a package source.
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Emacs comes with a generic version control front end called versioncontrol or vc.
You can not use both git gutter el and git gutter fringe el.
