Difference between highlight and selection not apparent for editor focus. Is this from the theme or VScode?

[Santosh-Gupta]

the 'cache' at the top is selected, the one at the bottom is highlighted because all instances of 'cache' are highlighted when one is selected.

The difference between highlighted and selected if tricky to detect. If I click off the editor space, the difference gets a little better.

Here's another example where the cursor is at a word, and it's highlighted, but the word itself is Not selected

And the one below is with the cursor is at the word, And the word itself is selected

Again, it gets a little better when clicked off the editing space

At first I thought it was the Night Owl theme, but I tried different themes, and the difference between selection and highlight is still not very apparent in any of the themes. But I see screens/gifs of other vscode setups, and the differences seem to be stronger.

So I am wonder if this is from the theme, or something else going on in vscode.

Edit:

I did some googling in case this was a vscode issue. This seemed to be an issue in general back in 2017, I can't tell if these are still relevant

microsoft/vscode#34105

microsoft/vscode#24034

[Santosh-Gupta]

So far, I put this in my user setting, which is working decently.

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editor.selectionBackground": "#4d057b" //Current selected text
}

The color is from Amethyst's editor.selectionBackground color.

https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-amethyst-theme/blob/master/themes/amethyst-theme.json#L39

I tried to pick one that doesn't look 'dusty', which is what 99% of dark color themes look like to me.