buffer-local settings

[goerz]

Is there a way to disable gitgutter for a particular buffer? It appears that all the options (e.g. :gitgutter_enabled, which is set by GitGutterDisable) are global.

My problem is that gitgutter produces nonsense signs when the text in the buffer doesn't actually reflect the content of the file on disk, such as in the jupytext.vim plugin of which I'm the author. Thus, I'd like to turn off gitgutter for *.ipynb files only, respectively in jupytext.vim for the "current buffer".

Alternatively, if there was some way to communicate to gitgutter how to get the correct diff (compare against the baseline filtered through jupytext), that would be even better. But that would also be a buffer-local setting.

Version info:

• What is the latest commit SHA in your installed vim-gitgutter?

  1d422b9

• What vim/nvim version are you on?

  NVIM v0.3.2-dev

[goerz]

I realized that for the particular use case of disabling nonsensical signs, set signcolumn=no is probably a good workaround. But still, it seems like maybe it would be possible to get the correct diff by setting buffer-local versions of g:gitgutter_git_executable, g:gitgutter_git_args, etc.

[airblade]

I've just added GitGutterBufferDisable, GitGutterBufferEnable, and GitGutterBufferToggle in 2dce8e0.

I don't think there's a nice way to get the correct diff with your plugin. You'd have to pipe one side of the diff only (the file from the index) through your conversion command, which would complicate the code generally for this special case.

[lukelbd]

Thanks for the buffer-local commands! Just wanted to point out they are not currently mentioned in the documentation.

[airblade]

@lukelbd Oops, thanks for letting me know :) 18d1298