Better highlighting for current selection in diff viewer

Question

I'm used to check all my changes before committing anything. Therefore I mainly use the keyboard this way:

• Open the files diff-viewer
• Use shortcut for command workbench.action.compareEditor.nextChange to navigate through all changes (Alt+Down in my case)

Unfortunately the currently "selected" change is very hard to distinguish from all others, which makes this workflow a little cumbersome:

I just realized that I could customize this by changing editor.lineHighlightBackground or editor.lineHighlightBorder but this would change the highlighting of the currently active line in all views which is not what I want.

Can I somehow customize editor.lineHighlightBorder only for the diff view?

Something like:

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "editorCursor.foreground": "#f9ae58",

    "[diff]": {
        "editor.lineHighlightBorder": "#fff",
    }
},

Answer 1

In your colorCustomizations just type "diff" (without the quotes) and you will see various options like:

"diffEditor.removedTextBorder": "#ff0000",
"diffEditor.removedTextBackground": "#ff0000",
"diffEditor.insertedTextBackground": "#ff0000",
"diffEditor.insertedTextBorder": "#ff0000",

So no I don't think you can change the currently selected line only in the diffEditor. There is no such option. Also, the colorCustomizations do not support the language-specific settings like the other settings do. But maybe playing with the four options above will help?