diff style completely broken

[rockmandash]

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

latest

What subscription do you have?

pro plan 200usd

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

No response

What issue are you seeing?

yall seeing this? No RED LINE BG!!!!!

What steps can reproduce the bug?

make a diff and take a look

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• Codex Diff missing background highlights on Remote-SSH #17293
• VSCode Codex Extension bg is transparent #17307
• VSCode light mode black bg #15735
• VS Code extension regression: Codex sidebar/webview background becomes pure black in all themes #15787

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[virtushda]

This is such a huge regression, the diff is very hard to read now.

[alexchexes]

They just don't care about the extension. Each new version breaks something important, and nobody gives a damn:

• [regression] Any links (file references) in the VS Code extension chat are not working, regardless of their format. #17649
• "Ran X commands" label expansion is unstable and unpredictable (regression) #17334
• Codex chat font size visually resets after unrelated settings.json changes #16117
• and also this diff problem.

They don't have time for QA as it would slow them down in rolling out new products; they are trying to catch up with rivals and are afraid of losing market share.

Sad reality.

Only a severe outflow of customers will make them reconsider their approach and make them respect their products' users.

I think it's a good time to switch to Claude Code.

[virtushda]

Yeah, my colleague just tried Codex and noped out immediately after seeing this unreadable diff issue, and a number of other glitches.

[alexchexes]

and now also this #18218

[virtushda]

Codex devs may be unaware, but not all developers use Git (in game dev we use Plastic / Perforce!).
I rely heavily on this diff view and it's:

• Not color-coded properly (as per this topic, dramatically slows down reading the diff!)
• Not accurate at all (tons of additional unaffected lines are marked as changed in the diffs, which is incredibly confusing)
• Missing context ( x lines hidden, so you can't tell what's near it inside the diff view)

You guys have a great harness in Codex, but these issues make it extremely hard to use in actual production code where I need to be checking and vetting changes as I go.

[virtushda]

The color-coding is FIXED as of '26.422.20832'!