Custom theme: line number background color or border

[oryam]

• VSCode Version: 1.2.1
• OS Version: Win 7 x64

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a file
2. Show line numbers in vscode settings ("editor.lineNumbers": true)
3. Line numbers are shown with a background color same as the background color of the editor area
4. It makes confusion with indent. We do not know how well the code is indented due to the margin

Suggestion:

1. Be able to customize the background color of line number area
2. Make a thin left vertical border along the editor area

[alexdima]

@oryam We are aware of this problem, we will soon introduce indent guides which help things here, or otherwise I use editor.renderWhitespace which helps in seeing where the text begins.

[oryam]

Thank you for the tip editor.renderWhitespace.

[drinktee]

I have the same suggestion. I think the width of the line-numbers is a little wide and maybe a waste of space. As the pic shows.
What about /(how to) make it thinner?

[alexdima]

@drinktee The gap is so wide to accommodate both folding indicators and git indicators:

[bpasero]

@oryam how about "editorGutter.background" via workbench.colorCustomizations in settings?

Already available from our insiders release: You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[isidorn]

If I understand correctlhy @bpasero provided a solution to this, thus closing