Changing vim 'gutter' color

To change the color in your ~/.vimrc so that your gutter is the same color as where your line numbers show up is the following:

highlight clear SignColumn

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The git-gutter docs have some other helpful suggestions.


This "gutter" is called the signs column. (See :help signs for more information.) The highlight group associated with this column is called SignColumn, and can be set like this (using the example from the help section):

:highlight SignColumn guibg=darkgrey

Another option that hasn't been mentioned is to eliminate the sign column entirely and put the signs into the number column.

Adding this to your ~/.vimrc

set signcolumn=number

produces

signs in number column

(this is using custom symbols with the Ale plugin in iterm Vim).

This is available in "full" Vim versions 7.4.2201 or newer that include the +signs feature (I use the version installed by Homebrew on MacOS).

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