Inactive Regions coloring

[Kronuz]

VSCode Version 1.22.2
C/C++ extension Version 0.16.1

dimInactiveRegions option should use the same coloring as comments in the active theme, when using editor.renderWhitespace that also should maintain theme coloring.

Inactive regions look awkward otherwise:

[sean-mcmanus]

I think we're going to use opacity to dim the text: microsoft/vscode#43004 .

[Kronuz]

That sounds reasonable... but if you use opacity as it is now, whitespaces will look differently from indentation guides. In the example above both indentation guides and whitespaces have a custom color (same color both), however indentation guides are currently keeping the color as they should, but not whitespaces.

[bobbrow]

When we switch to opacity we won't change the original color anymore. But in that case I think the opacity would still affect those characters. I think the case could be made that VS Code shouldn't apply decorations to whitespace characters since they are not technically part of the file contents. I wonder if it's just something they overlooked. It would be a real nuisance if we had to break up all of our text decorations into words.

[sean-mcmanus]

This is fixed with 0.17.5-insiders at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/releases/tag/v0.17.5-insiders .

UPDATE: Fixed in 0.17.5.