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I enjoy using Vim and like it better than IDEs on most points. One common IDE feature that I miss, though, is inline diff highlighting:
In this example changed lines are highlighted in blue and entirely new lines in green. Red for removed lines and beige for lines with changed whitespace are also common colorings. I know of tools that can show a diff in two windows, but is there any feature or plug-in that can do it like this? Preferably compared to version control.
You can do this with the vim-gitgutter plugin. If you're not using git, then Signify has a similar feature.
After installing vim-gitgutter, you can switch the highlighting on and off with the following commands:
turn on with :GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable
turn off with :GitGutterLineHighlightsDisable
toggle with :GitGutterLineHighlightsToggle.
Or, to enable highlighting by default, add the following line to your .vimrc:
let g:gitgutter_highlight_lines = 1
You can also customize the colours used by specifying the highlighting for the following groups:
GitGutterAddLine " default: links to DiffAdd
GitGutterChangeLine " default: links to DiffChange
GitGutterDeleteLine " default: links to DiffDelete
GitGutterChangeDeleteLine
