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Multi-cursor colors barely visible

Open CmdQ opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

When using multi-cursors via ctrl+d to change multiple occurrences at once, you can barely tell which words are already selected and which aren't. You have to wait for the caret to flash because the color doesn't give it away. In all these images, the upper 3 “countTriplets” are selected:

barely-visible

Interestingly, if the VS Code window doesn't have focus, it becomes very slightly better:

inactive

But that's still much worse compared to the default dark theme. Here you can very easily sport what you'll be changing once you type:

good

That's very sad because I like the theme but I cannot do without multi-cursor anymore—they're just too awesome.

First remedy

It gets better if you disable editor.selectionHighlight. But that's a handy feature by itself many people will probably want to have.

CmdQ avatar Apr 02 '21 10:04 CmdQ