vim-gitgutter

You can't configure diff-highlight to do that. It 'will find the common prefix and suffix of two lines, and consider everything in the middle to be "different".' [1] To highlight only the quotes as changing, you need something else. On (Neo)Vim, for example, vim-gitgutter does this [2] (I'm the author). [1] https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh... [2] https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter/blob/master/autolo...

For git in Vim I use the fugitive plugin[1] and I find it's really good. If you find it lacking in any way you can always combine it freely with other plugins. For instance gitgutter[2] that shows diffs in the sign column, giving you an easy view of which lines have been added, removed or changed. There are solutions for the others too. Neovim has for example support for the Language Server Protocol[3] that gives you code completion, jump to definition and the like. The only thing with Vim/Emacs at this point is that you have to do some configuration and find some plugins to get the IDE features you want. For me personally, as I use Vim for everything, it's not that big of a deal. [1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive [2]: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter [3]: https://nathansmith.io/posts/neovim-lsp/

Not sure about vim-fugitive, but vim-gitgutter's hunk previews have intra-line highlighting. I mention it because people often use the two plugins together (and I'm pleased with how vgg's highlighting turned out :) https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

Looking at the README of vim-gitgutter[1] (assuming that's the plugin you're referring to), it says the following: >> You cannot unstage a staged hunk. I'm not sure if that's a feature they plan to support, but something like this could easily be done by highlighting the hunk displayed when running git diff --cached in vim's linewise visual mode and filtering it through git apply -R --cached -. [1] https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

I've taken this approach halfway and only install plugins/config that I can easily do without. Things like git-gutter [0] and a line at the 80th column [1] are great, but I don't depend on them when I log into a remote machine. If I really want some features, I have them somewhat organized in my .vimrc [2]. It's a great compromise; I find that I haven't thought about major editor configuration in a couple of years. [0] https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter [1] set colorcolumn=80 textwidth=79 [2] https://github.com/stefco/dotfiles/blob/master/linkfiles/.vi... [edit] Just want to add that I 100% agree that erring towards vanilla vim is a great idea; I used to use emacs and switched to vim precisely because the starting point fit my use style far better than vanilla emacs.

I'll add one more suggestion: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter "A Vim plugin which shows a git diff in the gutter (sign column) and stages/undoes hunks."

For in-editor git commands, I use vim-gitgutter. It's seriously cleaned up my commit history by letting me stage individual hunks of code, while still letting me implement changes in a stream-of-consciousness order. https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

<vim plug>With the vim-gitgutter plugin installed, you can dynamically add/remove/undo hunks without even leaving the editor[0]. I use this instead of `git add -p` nowadays</vim plug> [0]: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter#getting-started

The same type of gutter integration can also be had in Vim and Sublime Text: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

I suggest this one: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter It's quite nice, but I would turn off live updating, as that slowed things down a bit for me. Updating on save works perfectly fine.

Managed with https://github.com/gmarik/vundle here are the plugins I'd say I use every day: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter show git change/deleted lines https://github.com/bling/vim-airline light weight, pure vimscript status line https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim fuzzy file finder that mostly works https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive very nice Git wrapper https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic generic in Vim syntax checker plugin https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim undo tree viewing

> Some IDE's and editors have this feature where if you change lines, it marks it with some color on the left, as well as colors in the scrollbar, to immediately see which parts of the file were changed compared to git and/or the last time you opened it. This does that: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter