Eclipse visual indication of edited line

Question

I have used Eclipse for a very long time. It has its problems, but I always seem to come back to it.

I used IntelliJ a couple of years ago because the client required it. One of the small things I liked about IntelliJ is that it showed a visual indicator in the gutter if a line had been edited since the last commit. I would really like to see this in Eclipse.

Am I missing the obvious?

Answer 1

This feature is called Quick Diff in Eclipse.

Turn on and configure Quick Diff:

1. Click Window > Preferences.
2. In General > Editors > Text Editors > Quick Diff, check Enable quick diff.
3. You can also configure the reference source to be the filesystem or, if you have CVS or SVN integration, you can choose one of those as well.