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