CodeEditApp / CodeEditApp/CodeEditSourceEditor
✨ Allow configuring a vertical gutter separator
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Description
### Description
Please allow API consumers to configure an optional vertical separator between the line-number gutter and the editor content.
Some editor designs use a thin solid or dashed line beside the line numbers. The separator needs to be drawn by the gutter itself because the gutter width changes as the document's line-number digit count grows. There is currently no public configuration for this, so matching such a design requires maintaining a fork of `GutterView`.
A backward-compatible configuration could keep the separator disabled by default and allow consumers to specify its color and drawing style. The exact API is open to the maintainers' preference.
### Alternatives Considered
- Overlaying a line outside `SourceEditor`. This cannot reliably follow the gutter because its width is managed internally and changes with the number of line-number digits.
- Making internal gutter layout properties public. A configuration option would expose less implementation detail.
### Additional Context
Our current use case is a 1 pt separator using `NSColor.separatorColor` with a `[1, 1]` dash pattern.
No matching open or closed issue was found before filing this request. Observed on current `main` at revision `1fa4d3c`.
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