emacs magit diff highlighting

Question

I'm just getting started with magit. I really like it, except that the diff viewer is really annoying to me. The chunk highlighting makes no sense because as I scroll around the cursor moves with the screen, highlighting new regions. There is also no other syntax highlighting in the magit diff mode. Does anybody know how to disable the chunk highlighting and get better diff colours other than white on gray?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The zone highlighted correspond to the stash that would be staged when you hit "s".

Inside the hunk, the diff should be colored. You could test the development version (see https://github.com/magit/magit), and if this doesn't solve your issue, add comment in https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/133 about your configuration and exact problem.