Needs ability to provide "user css"

[jsumners]

• VSCode Version: 1.10.0
• OS Version: macOS 10.12.3

PR #14237 added a style that I have been eagerly waiting for. However, now that it has been released, it's still unusable for me. I have a theme installed that I like except for the styling around the cursor (.monaco-editor .cursors-layer.cursor-block-outline-style > .cursor). So the reasonable assumption would be that I can override that style with my own styling. But that isn't the case; vscode doesn't provide any way to specify user styles., e.g. in Atom select "Stylesheet..." from the Atom menu.

[balupton]

I wish this was provided as it would solve these things:

1. Fixing font rendering for me: Provide an option to enable DirectWrite #1896 (comment)

2. Overriding theme values - such as a background colour.

3. Customising git gutter - FR: customise git gutter styling #21853

[hoovercj]

Duplicate of the still open #11556 and #459

Similar closed issues:
#13732
#3570
#9004

[isidorn]

Closing as duplicate
Thanks @hoovercj

[jsumners]

So for at least a year people have been saying this feature is needed and no one has bothered?

[shalldie]

So far, i want to custom my self css for a long long long time.

Man who agree with me? give me a 👍

[hoovercj]

@shalldie I believe the team has said elsewhere (and they'll correct me if I'm wrong) that they would prefer to avoid user css as it can prevent them from iterating on the underlying Dom structure to avoid breaking custom css. They want each api they release to be stable and long lived, and that doesn't work with custom css.

[jsumners]

That's a load of garbage. The issue at hand would allow overriding a theme's CSS with user preferences. If it works in a theme, what would the difference be in applying another stylesheet on top of it?

[hoovercj]

@jsumners Theme overrides are tracked in this issue #27894 and I have a PR for it here #29393