#49562·zed

Stage/Restore buttons in split diff cover the line under the mouse cursor

Author: tredondoCreated Feb 19, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
Labelsarea:design papercutarea:integrations/gitstate:reproduciblereach:all usersseverity:S3

Reproduction steps

  1. Display a split diff
  2. Mouse over a line in the left pane, ideally one that seems identical to the corresponding line in the right pane

Current vs. Expected behavior

  1. Notice the "Stage" / "Restore" buttons are displayed at the end of the line in the first pane. They may obscure exactly the difference you were looking for.

Ideally,

  • those buttons would be transparent, or otherwise not obscure the code on that line (WebStorm displays checkboxes:
)
  • or line wrapping could be a toggle, but this feature seemed hard enough to implement that it took BeyondCompare years

Zed version and system specs

Zed: v0.224.6+stable.165.db635d076cb2c20aedc6a980ccfde574d5f600f5 (Zed) OS: Linux Wayland Ubuntu 24.04