Only show line-break visualization if the surrounding lines are not also newly added/removed
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
With v0.24, a new feature was added where empty lines are always rendered as `¶`. When adding a new file or a big chunk of code, this doesn't add much value and is very distracting.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
When viewing a diff, only show the line-break visualization on lines that aren't in the middle of a diff chunk but instead only on lines where it wouldn't otherwise be clear that a newline was added/removed.
For example:
```diff
line 1
+line 1.5
+
line 2
```
This is currently shown as:
```diff
line 1
¶
+line 1.5
+¶
line 2
```
Instead, I'd prefer if this was shown like this:
```diff
line 1
+line 1.5
+¶
line 2
```
The `+` characters shown here are only for visualization purposes, because `diff` code blocks don't show color highlighting otherwise.
A larger example (note no `¶` between `line d` and `line e`):
```diff
line a1
line a2
line b
-line c1
-line c2
-
-line d
-¶
line e
+¶
+line f
```
This would mean that newly added or removed files would not contain any `¶` markers (unless on the very first or last line), which makes reading them a lot easir.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
PR #1904 allows disabling line-break visualizations altogether which restores the behavior from v0.23.
Alternatively, a single space with a red or green background could be shown on lines where whitespace or an empty line is added or remove.
**Additional context**
This is related to #1894 and PR #1904 which requests turning off the newline visualization alltogether.
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