John Murray

See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/157185#issuecomment-1207288806

What is your `diffEditor.codeLens` setting?

Try setting it to true, then see if the familiar codelenses appear.

> Why the change to disable this by default? it's very useful to have the codelenses pinging @hediet

If focus is on the tree and you start typing, focus should already be moving to the first matching item. Aren't you seeing that happen?

@ppseprus yes, I am aware of that change. Let's see what @joaomoreno says about your request.

See also #157206

I think the hand cursor is intended as a hint that you can drag the activity bar icons, for example to reorder them or move them to the side panel.

By changing the pointer it's more obvious when the pointer is over an actionable menu item. When over a disabled one the pointer remains an arrow. This is consistent with...

VS Code's behaviour in this area is consistent with how the GitHub web UI behaves for me.