How to change the gutter background colour in VS Code?
<p>All the VS Code default themes (and any others that I've seen) have a uniform background color between the main view and the gutter. This makes it really hard to tell if you're at the start of a line (or to click there). Is the cursor at the start of the line here?</p>

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<p>This is especially annoying with Python where indentation matters and you can't simply auto-indent a block once your indentation is messed up.</p>

<p>I often find myself pasting a block only to find that I was one space away from the start of the line and the pasted block therefore being offset.</p>

<p>Simply setting the gutter to a light grey background would fix this problem but looking at the default theme files I can't see any settings for the gutter. I've also looked at a theme from the store (Material) which has a few keys relating to gutter colours but changing them did not do anything.</p>

<p>Is there any way to modify the gutter background colour in VS Code?</p>

<p>Update: Version 1.8 of VS Code comes with a new setting to render the line highlight which can help with this when set to 'gutter':</p>

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