Custom Diff- and Merge-Editor

[LordNorbi]

With the Custom Editor API you allow to write custom editors for specific files and use cases. That's really great.
But if using the build in SCM it seems like the feature was not thought to the end:
For diffs vscode just opens two editors side by side. (This might seems ok but a custom diff editor could provide so much more value).
For merges vscode even opens the text editor or the new 3 way merge editor. (Not even the configured custom editor is used. This makes absolutely no sense to me.)

I wrote a custom editor because text editors are not useful in my case and still vscode only provides me text editors and does not allow me to write my one editor for diff or merge.

Why is it not possible to define a custom diff- and merge-editor like it is possible for the default editor?
In my opinion these two aspects belongs to a custom editor.

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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[mjbvz]

Duplicate of #138525