Changing vim 'gutter' color

Question

See the screenshot of how I have vim configured below. The \'gutter\' i.e. where the \'+\' and \'~\' symbols appear show my git status using this amazing sublime text port for

Answer 1

Another option that hasn't been mentioned is to eliminate the sign column entirely and put the signs into the number column.

Adding this to your ~/.vimrc

set signcolumn=number

produces

(this is using custom symbols with the Ale plugin in iterm Vim).

This is available in "full" Vim versions 7.4.2201 or newer that include the +signs feature (I use the version installed by Homebrew on MacOS).