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[Feature Request] Diff Editor Treats All Modified Lines as only "Added" or "Deleted", not "Modified"
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Description
The monaco diff editor doesn't make any distinction between lines which have been modified from the original versus those which are entirely new. This creates an issue where the ability to style in the side-by-side view in order to make it more user-friendly is limited.
Ideally lines which have been modified could have a muted background color with a more prominent background color for the edited chars. Lines which have been added would entirely have a more prominent background color.
An example of how this could look exists on the "truehumandesign.se" website for the software Diffinity.
I modified the 'diffEditor.insertedLineBackground' and 'diffEditor.removedLineBackground' colors to match the background of the editor. This results in "modified lines" looking as I expect but truly added new lines do not have any special background color causing them to blend in visually with unchanged lines.
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